Serverless Contract Job Trends in Central London

Serverless Computing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 85 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -19 +17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 46 42 81
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.29% 1.80% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 4.55% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 48
10th Percentile £351 £458 £404
25th Percentile £410 £510 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £693 £838 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -17.45%

All Cloud Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 820 924 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.90% 39.50% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 602 808
10th Percentile £328 £388 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £19.07 - £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £34.44
90th Percentile £46.94 £69.50 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +20.97%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Central London

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Central London

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
City of London 0 42 £550 -4.35% 16
West End of London +9 1 £400 -23.08% 1
Camden - 1 £400 -
Serverless
London

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (84.78%) AWS
1 39 (84.78%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (54.35%) Amazon S3
3 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 14 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (28.26%) GitHub
6 10 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (15.22%) Azure Functions
8 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.87%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
10 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.70%) Apigee
10 4 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) DKIM
2 1 (2.17%) NAS
2 1 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) Airbyte
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) Tableau
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (17.39%) Banking
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Front Office
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Integration Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) Node.js
2 7 (15.22%) .NET
2 7 (15.22%) React
3 6 (13.04%) OAuth
4 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 4 (8.70%) JWT
4 4 (8.70%) REST
4 4 (8.70%) RESTful
5 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
5 3 (6.52%) NumPy
5 3 (6.52%) Pandas
5 3 (6.52%) SciPy
6 2 (4.35%) boto
6 2 (4.35%) CSS
6 2 (4.35%) Flask
6 2 (4.35%) HTML
6 2 (4.35%) Kafka
6 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Derivative
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Equities
4 3 (6.52%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) AIX
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Solaris
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) DevOps
3 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.26%) Agile
4 13 (28.26%) Analytics
5 10 (21.74%) Microservices
6 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Observability
9 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (10.87%) Workflow
10 4 (8.70%) API Design
10 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.70%) Data Transformation
10 4 (8.70%) ETL
10 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 7 (15.22%) C#
5 3 (6.52%) C++
5 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) Bash
6 2 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.17%) COBOL
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.52%) PhD
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) MiFID
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.17%) NetApp
3 1 (2.17%) Portware
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce