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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 85 73
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 42 45 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.15% 1.94% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 4.78% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 50
10th Percentile £425 £460 £424
25th Percentile £488 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £625 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £743
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -12.00%

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 773 941 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 637 930
10th Percentile £333 £388 £325
25th Percentile £425 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +9 42 £625 +11.11% 35
Serverless
London

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) CICS
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.38%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (78.57%) AWS
2 31 (73.81%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (26.19%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (21.43%) Azure
7 7 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (11.90%) Datadog
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
11 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
12 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (4.76%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) DKIM
2 1 (2.38%) NAS
2 1 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.90%) DocumentDB
3 5 (11.90%) Redis
4 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Airbyte
5 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.76%) Parquet
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) Pinecone
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (16.67%) Finance
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.76%) NoSQL Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) Node.js
2 13 (30.95%) React
3 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 6 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 6 (14.29%) RESTful
5 5 (11.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (11.90%) WebSockets
6 4 (9.52%) .NET
7 3 (7.14%) FastAPI
7 3 (7.14%) OAuth
7 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.76%) CSS
8 2 (4.76%) Flask
8 2 (4.76%) HTML
8 2 (4.76%) REST
8 2 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (2.38%) Fastify
9 1 (2.38%) Flake8
9 1 (2.38%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) AIX
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Solaris
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) Microservices
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
5 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
5 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Observability
7 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (19.05%) User Experience
8 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (14.29%) Clean Code
9 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 8 (19.05%) SQL
5 4 (9.52%) Java
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) C#
7 2 (4.76%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.38%) COBOL
8 1 (2.38%) Rust
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) MiFID
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Terraform
2 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) NetApp
3 1 (2.38%) Okta
3 1 (2.38%) Portware