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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 83 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 47 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.57% 2.37% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.28% 5.51% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 35 33
10th Percentile £343 £425 £413
25th Percentile £400 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +9.52% -13.15%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £575
90th Percentile £672 £810 £748
London median daily rate £513 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -10.87% +12.20% -14.62%

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 972 853 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 42.95% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 556 687
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 10 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 10 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 +1 56 £507 -18.96% 51
West End of London +4 1 £400 -23.08%
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 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.92%) CICS
2 3 (4.92%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
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 16 (26.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (21.31%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (18.03%) Azure Functions
8 11 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (9.84%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
13 5 (8.20%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (6.56%) Amazon Bedrock
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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.15%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.75%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.56%) CockroachDB
4 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.56%) DB2
4 4 (6.56%) Metadata
4 4 (6.56%) Power BI
5 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.28%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.28%) Tableau
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.64%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) GitLab
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.84%) JIRA
4 4 (6.56%) JUnit
5 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.92%) Mockito
5 3 (4.92%) Postman
6 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (21.31%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.48%) 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%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Architect
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Node.js
2 7 (11.48%) boto
2 7 (11.48%) Kafka
2 7 (11.48%) PySpark
2 7 (11.48%) React
3 6 (9.84%) OAuth
3 6 (9.84%) SOAP
3 6 (9.84%) Spring
3 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.20%) NumPy
4 5 (8.20%) Pandas
4 5 (8.20%) RESTful
5 4 (6.56%) JSON
5 4 (6.56%) JWT
5 4 (6.56%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
6 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
6 3 (4.92%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (4.92%) WSDL
6 3 (4.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.92%) DataPower
3 3 (4.92%) Derivative
3 3 (4.92%) Equities
3 3 (4.92%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.92%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
1 3 (4.92%) zOS
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 34 (55.74%) DevOps
3 27 (44.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.87%) Analytics
5 14 (22.95%) AI
6 11 (18.03%) Agile
6 11 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
7 10 (16.39%) ETL
7 10 (16.39%) Observability
8 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
9 8 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (13.11%) LLM
9 8 (13.11%) Microservices
9 8 (13.11%) Migration
10 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 7 (11.48%) Workflow
11 6 (9.84%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 37 (60.66%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) SQL
3 8 (13.11%) Java
3 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.48%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.20%) Bicep
7 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.92%) C++
8 3 (4.92%) JCL
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 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) PhD
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.28%) QA
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 1 (1.64%) Istio
6 1 (1.64%) Kibana
6 1 (1.64%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.64%) linkerd
6 1 (1.64%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) Salt
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Databricks
3 3 (4.92%) Foundry
3 3 (4.92%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.92%) Palantir
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Sybase