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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 75 83
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 51 54
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.50% 2.53% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.29% 5.90% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 39 35
10th Percentile £343 £425 £394
25th Percentile £400 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £569
90th Percentile £676 £805 £698
London median daily rate £513 £558 £515
% change year-on-year -8.07% +8.31% -14.21%

All Cloud Computing 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 970 864 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.72% 42.88% 39.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 558 687
10th Percentile £350 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 10
10th Percentile £19.56 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £52.16 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £71.94 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%

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 28 April 2026.

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 28 April 2026. 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 -4 57 £507 -15.58% 34
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 4 (6.56%) CICS
2 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.92%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (81.97%) AWS
2 45 (73.77%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (49.18%) Amazon S3
4 22 (36.07%) Azure
5 20 (32.79%) GitHub
6 17 (27.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (21.31%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (16.39%) Azure Functions
10 9 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (9.84%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (8.20%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (8.20%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
14 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (6.56%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) FTP
2 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (32.79%) DynamoDB
2 7 (11.48%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (8.20%) DB2
3 5 (8.20%) Metadata
4 4 (6.56%) CockroachDB
4 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.56%) Power BI
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.28%) Tableau
6 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) GitLab
3 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.84%) JIRA
5 4 (6.56%) JUnit
6 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.92%) Mockito
6 3 (4.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Front Office
7 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Architect
1 10 (16.39%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
5 5 (8.20%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Architect
6 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Node.js
2 8 (13.11%) SOAP
3 7 (11.48%) boto
3 7 (11.48%) Kafka
3 7 (11.48%) PySpark
3 7 (11.48%) React
4 6 (9.84%) OAuth
4 6 (9.84%) RESTful
4 6 (9.84%) Spring
4 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.20%) JSON
5 5 (8.20%) NumPy
5 5 (8.20%) Pandas
5 5 (8.20%) REST
6 4 (6.56%) JWT
6 4 (6.56%) Web Services
6 4 (6.56%) WSDL
7 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
7 3 (4.92%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (4.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.56%) DataPower
3 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Derivative
4 3 (4.92%) Equities
4 3 (4.92%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) NHS
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) zOS
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 35 (57.38%) DevOps
3 27 (44.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (29.51%) Analytics
5 16 (26.23%) AI
6 12 (19.67%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (18.03%) Agile
7 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.03%) Observability
8 10 (16.39%) Data Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) ETL
9 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
9 9 (14.75%) LLM
10 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (13.11%) Microservices
10 8 (13.11%) Migration
10 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (11.48%) Generative AI
11 7 (11.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 37 (60.66%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) Bicep
5 6 (9.84%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.56%) JCL
8 3 (4.92%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.92%) PhD
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.28%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (42.62%) Terraform
2 17 (27.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.92%) Grafana
6 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.64%) Istio
7 1 (1.64%) Kibana
7 1 (1.64%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.64%) linkerd
7 1 (1.64%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.64%) Puppet
7 1 (1.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.92%) Foundry
4 3 (4.92%) Palantir
4 3 (4.92%) SAP
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Sybase