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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 93 69
Rank change year-on-year +1 -24 +13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 40 40 86
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.03% 1.70% 2.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.87% 4.32% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 50
10th Percentile £343 £427 £412
25th Percentile £403 £520 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +0.85% +6.82%
75th Percentile £688 £729 £679
90th Percentile £800 £826 £725
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -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 821 925 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.65% 39.40% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 600 830
10th Percentile £341 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 10
10th Percentile £18.69 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £48.67 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £61.16 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +40.91%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +7 39 £575 -2.95% 120
West End of London +9 1 £400 -5.88% 5
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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) CICS
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.50%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (82.50%) AWS
1 33 (82.50%) AWS Lambda
2 23 (57.50%) Amazon S3
3 15 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (35.00%) Azure
5 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (25.00%) GitHub
6 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (10.00%) Apigee
9 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) DKIM
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) Airbyte
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) Tableau
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Parquet
5 1 (2.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (12.50%) Banking
1 5 (12.50%) Finance
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.50%) Front Office
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Integration Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Node.js
2 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 7 (17.50%) OAuth
3 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (15.00%) React
4 4 (10.00%) JWT
4 4 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
5 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
5 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
5 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (7.50%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) WebSockets
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) Flask
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.50%) Derivative
5 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.50%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) AIX
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.50%) Solaris
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) DevOps
3 13 (32.50%) Agile
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 9 (22.50%) Analytics
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (17.50%) Microservices
6 7 (17.50%) Observability
7 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (15.00%) User Experience
8 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.00%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.50%) COBOL
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) NetApp
3 1 (2.50%) Portware
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce