Serverless Contracts in London

Serverless Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 99 93
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 390 437 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.13% 2.47% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.38% 6.43% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 325 499
10th Percentile £405 £363 £450
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £700 £626 £700
90th Percentile £838 £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Cloud Skills
London

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,285 6,795 10,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.37% 38.43% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 5,005 7,493
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 67 84
10th Percentile £22.58 £17.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £31.35 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -48.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £60.25 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in London

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in London.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in London

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -2 47 £545 +4.06% 41
West London +24 12 £565 +5.12% 5
South London +1 12 £489 -3.46% 6
East London +17 1 £575 -23.33% 6
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (11.79%) Apache Spark
2 40 (10.26%) Apache
3 36 (9.23%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.56%) Confluence
6 6 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 303 (77.69%) AWS
2 256 (65.64%) AWS Lambda
3 136 (34.87%) Amazon S3
4 110 (28.21%) Azure
5 80 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (17.69%) Azure Functions
7 60 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (14.62%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 39 (10.00%) OpenShift
13 38 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (9.74%) GitHub
14 37 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (8.97%) dbt
15 35 (8.97%) Power Platform
16 34 (8.72%) AWS Step Functions
17 32 (8.21%) PaaS
18 28 (7.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.95%) Firewall
2 18 (4.62%) VPN
3 9 (2.31%) HTTP
4 5 (1.28%) DNS
4 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.03%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) DHCP
7 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.51%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.51%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Broadband
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.26%) IPsec
8 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.26%) SMS
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.44%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (13.59%) DynamoDB
4 42 (10.77%) NoSQL
5 34 (8.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
8 28 (7.18%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (7.18%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (7.18%) Dremio
9 22 (5.64%) Power BI
10 20 (5.13%) Tableau
11 18 (4.62%) Big Data
11 18 (4.62%) Data Lake
12 17 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (4.10%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (3.08%) SQL Server
16 11 (2.82%) MongoDB
17 10 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (9.49%) Jenkins
2 36 (9.23%) Artifactory
3 32 (8.21%) Git
4 18 (4.62%) GitLab
5 12 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.56%) JIRA
7 7 (1.79%) git-flow
7 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.03%) Gradle
11 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.77%) Mocha
11 3 (0.77%) Mockito
11 3 (0.77%) Postman
12 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.51%) JMeter
12 2 (0.51%) JUnit
13 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (20.00%) Finance
2 69 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 65 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 40 (10.26%) Front Office
5 34 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.38%) Banking
7 10 (2.56%) Marketing
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.77%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Publishing
12 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Billing
13 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (25.38%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (22.05%) Developer
3 77 (19.74%) Architect
4 73 (18.72%) Data Engineer
5 65 (16.67%) Senior
6 62 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
7 52 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 40 (10.26%) Python Engineer
9 25 (6.41%) AWS Architect
10 24 (6.15%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.64%) Azure Architect
11 22 (5.64%) Software Engineer
12 21 (5.38%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (5.38%) AWS Developer
12 21 (5.38%) Lead
13 20 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (4.10%) Java Developer
16 14 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.13%) Kafka
2 57 (14.62%) Node.js
3 50 (12.82%) React
4 38 (9.74%) .NET
5 37 (9.49%) PySpark
6 32 (8.21%) J2EE
7 23 (5.90%) AWS CDK
7 23 (5.90%) GraphQL
8 19 (4.87%) REST
9 18 (4.62%) JSON
10 17 (4.36%) HTML
11 16 (4.10%) RESTful
12 15 (3.85%) CSS
13 14 (3.59%) .NET Core
13 14 (3.59%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.59%) Spring Boot
14 13 (3.33%) ARM Templates
14 13 (3.33%) Spring
15 11 (2.82%) PyTorch
15 11 (2.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.03%) TWAP
7 4 (1.03%) VWAP
8 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.77%) Tandem
8 3 (0.77%) Vector Graphics
8 3 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.13%) Linux
2 9 (2.31%) Unix
2 9 (2.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.51%) Android
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (47.69%) DevOps
2 178 (45.64%) CI/CD
3 129 (33.08%) Agile
4 99 (25.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (20.00%) Microservices
6 72 (18.46%) Software Engineering
7 61 (15.64%) Containerisation
8 56 (14.36%) Data Engineering
8 56 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (12.82%) Open Source
10 44 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 41 (10.51%) Asset Management
12 40 (10.26%) High Availability
13 38 (9.74%) ETL
14 35 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 30 (7.69%) Event-Driven
18 29 (7.44%) Analytics
18 29 (7.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 178 (45.64%) Python
2 91 (23.33%) SQL
3 85 (21.79%) JavaScript
4 78 (20.00%) Java
5 70 (17.95%) TypeScript
6 43 (11.03%) Go
7 31 (7.95%) C#
8 27 (6.92%) PowerShell
9 25 (6.41%) Bicep
10 17 (4.36%) Bash
11 11 (2.82%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.56%) Scala
13 8 (2.05%) C++
14 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.03%) Perl
17 3 (0.77%) PHP
18 2 (0.51%) Lua
18 2 (0.51%) R
18 2 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 62 (15.90%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.62%) Degree
6 12 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.77%) OCP
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.51%) CCIE
11 2 (0.51%) CCNP
11 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CISSP
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.08%) GDPR
2 10 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.31%) QA
4 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.54%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.28%) NIST
6 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (24.62%) Docker
2 16 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
5 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 163 (41.79%) Terraform
2 135 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.38%) Ansible
4 14 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.79%) Grafana
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.26%) Packer
8 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.64%) Oracle
3 21 (5.38%) Splunk
4 9 (2.31%) Google
5 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.79%) Databricks
7 6 (1.54%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco
8 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.77%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.77%) Qualys
8 3 (0.77%) SAP
8 3 (0.77%) Tenable
9 2 (0.51%) IBM
9 2 (0.51%) Informatica
9 2 (0.51%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.51%) VMware