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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 87 86
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 44 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.38% 2.20% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.91% 5.44% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 31
10th Percentile £419 £425 £456
25th Percentile £464 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +16.28% -12.60%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £619
90th Percentile £774 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
London median hourly rate £51.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -

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 1,016 809 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.32% 40.47% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 535 648
10th Percentile £363 £336 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £750
London median daily rate £540 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +1.65% -3.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -46.19%

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 August 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 August 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 +2 59 £588 -6.00% 25
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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) CICS
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (73.33%) AWS
2 38 (63.33%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (46.67%) Amazon S3
4 19 (31.67%) Azure
5 14 (23.33%) Azure Functions
5 14 (23.33%) GitHub
6 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 11 (18.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (11.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (11.67%) SaaS
12 6 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (10.00%) Power Automate
12 6 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 11 (18.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.33%) Power BI
6 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.67%) Metadata
7 3 (5.00%) Db2
7 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Git
1 12 (20.00%) GitLab
2 10 (16.67%) JIRA
3 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.67%) JUnit
6 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.00%) Mockito
6 3 (5.00%) Postman
7 2 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.67%) JMeter
8 1 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (36.67%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
5 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Marketing
7 3 (5.00%) Back Office
8 2 (3.33%) Military
9 1 (1.67%) Billing
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.67%) Law
9 1 (1.67%) Legal
9 1 (1.67%) Police
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Architect
2 12 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Senior
5 8 (13.33%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) AWS Architect
7 5 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Lead
8 4 (6.67%) Platform Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) Terraform
2 9 (15.00%) .NET
3 7 (11.67%) REST
3 7 (11.67%) SOAP
4 6 (10.00%) React
4 6 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (8.33%) Kafka
5 5 (8.33%) Node.js
5 5 (8.33%) PySpark
5 5 (8.33%) Spring
5 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.67%) JSON
7 3 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.00%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.00%) OAuth
7 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.00%) Web Services
7 3 (5.00%) WSDL
7 3 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.00%) DataPower
3 3 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.00%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.33%) IoT
4 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.67%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
1 3 (5.00%) zOS
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 28 (46.67%) DevOps
3 23 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (31.67%) Agile
5 16 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.00%) Analytics
7 14 (23.33%) AI
7 14 (23.33%) Test Automation
8 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
8 13 (21.67%) Data Modelling
9 11 (18.33%) Migration
10 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (11.67%) LLM
13 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) C#
4 11 (18.33%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.00%) Java
7 4 (6.67%) Bicep
8 3 (5.00%) JCL
8 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.67%) Korn
10 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.67%) GDPR
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.67%) linkerd
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) Salt
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (3.33%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) New Relic
4 1 (1.67%) SAP