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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 75 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 47 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.45% 2.48% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.35% 5.77% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 34
10th Percentile £366 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £482 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +14.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £665 £700 £563
90th Percentile £749 £800 £696
London median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -14.58%

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 960 815 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.60% 42.96% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 520 696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £353
25th Percentile £453 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -66.67%
75th Percentile £63.54 £46.25 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £100.00 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -7 58 £575 -4.17% 16
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
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (81.97%) AWS
2 44 (72.13%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (45.90%) Amazon S3
4 17 (27.87%) Azure
5 16 (26.23%) GitHub
6 14 (22.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (16.39%) Azure Functions
8 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (9.84%) Amazon Bedrock
10 6 (9.84%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
11 5 (8.20%) SaaS
12 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
12 4 (6.56%) GCP
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 18 (29.51%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.84%) Metadata
5 5 (8.20%) DB2
6 4 (6.56%) CockroachDB
6 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.56%) Power BI
7 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.92%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
8 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.28%) Tableau
9 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.64%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) GitLab
3 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (13.11%) JIRA
5 5 (8.20%) JUnit
6 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.56%) Mockito
6 4 (6.56%) Postman
7 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Banking
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Front Office
6 1 (1.64%) Billing
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Architect
2 9 (14.75%) Data Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 4 (6.56%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Architect
4 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 3 (4.92%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Platform Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) Kafka
1 9 (14.75%) PySpark
1 9 (14.75%) SOAP
2 7 (11.48%) boto
2 7 (11.48%) React
2 7 (11.48%) Spring
2 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.84%) RESTful
4 5 (8.20%) JSON
4 5 (8.20%) REST
5 4 (6.56%) .NET
5 4 (6.56%) Gherkin
5 4 (6.56%) Node.js
5 4 (6.56%) NumPy
5 4 (6.56%) Pandas
5 4 (6.56%) Web Services
5 4 (6.56%) WireMock
5 4 (6.56%) WSDL
5 4 (6.56%) YAML
6 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) DataPower
2 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
3 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Equities
4 2 (3.28%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) zOS
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 27 (44.26%) DevOps
3 24 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.87%) AI
5 15 (24.59%) Analytics
6 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
7 12 (19.67%) Agile
8 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
8 11 (18.03%) Observability
9 10 (16.39%) ETL
9 10 (16.39%) Event-Driven
9 10 (16.39%) LLM
9 10 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (14.75%) Migration
10 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
11 8 (13.11%) Generative AI
11 8 (13.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 7 (11.48%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.84%) Bicep
6 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.56%) JCL
7 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.28%) 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 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.28%) PhD
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 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.28%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) NCSC
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) Terraform
2 17 (27.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.92%) Grafana
5 2 (3.28%) Ansible
5 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
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
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Databricks
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.92%) Foundry
3 3 (4.92%) Palantir
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Sybase