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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 83 86
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 45 49
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.28% 2.31% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.95% 5.45% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 35
10th Percentile £410 £425 £413
25th Percentile £459 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.83% -15.04%
75th Percentile £678 £738 £596
90th Percentile £775 £800 £668
London median daily rate £550 £550 £524
% change year-on-year - +5.01% -8.91%

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 1,009 825 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.41% 42.35% 41.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 527 687
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 6
10th Percentile £23.16 £24.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £31.38 £26.45 £14.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% +40.00% -52.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £93.25 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.97
% change year-on-year +10.08% +19.58% -50.96%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -5 59 £563 -6.25% 14
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%) CICS
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (78.33%) AWS
2 40 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (43.33%) Amazon S3
4 20 (33.33%) Azure
5 16 (26.67%) GitHub
6 13 (21.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (20.00%) Azure Functions
8 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (16.67%) Power Platform
9 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (11.67%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
12 5 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.67%) DynamoDB
2 12 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (18.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.33%) Power BI
6 5 (8.33%) Db2
7 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.67%) Metadata
8 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.33%) Pinecone
9 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.33%) Tableau
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 18 (30.00%) Git
2 12 (20.00%) GitLab
3 11 (18.33%) JIRA
4 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (11.67%) JUnit
6 5 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.33%) Mockito
6 5 (8.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Banking
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (1.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Developer
2 8 (13.33%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Platform Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) SOAP
2 9 (15.00%) Kafka
3 8 (13.33%) PySpark
3 8 (13.33%) RESTful
3 8 (13.33%) Spring
3 8 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 7 (11.67%) .NET
5 6 (10.00%) React
6 5 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 5 (8.33%) WireMock
6 5 (8.33%) YAML
7 4 (6.67%) JSON
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js
7 4 (6.67%) REST
7 4 (6.67%) Web Services
7 4 (6.67%) WSDL
8 3 (5.00%) boto
8 3 (5.00%) OAuth
9 2 (3.33%) CSS
9 2 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) DataPower
2 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.67%) Online Banking
3 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) NHS
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) zOS
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.00%) DevOps
3 23 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.33%) Agile
4 17 (28.33%) AI
5 16 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.00%) Analytics
7 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.33%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) LLM
9 9 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (13.33%) Event-Driven
10 8 (13.33%) Generative AI
10 8 (13.33%) Observability
11 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Python
2 21 (35.00%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) C#
4 9 (15.00%) Java
5 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.33%) Bicep
8 4 (6.67%) JCL
8 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.67%) Korn
10 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (38.33%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) Grafana
3 4 (6.67%) 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 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) Foundry
3 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.00%) Palantir
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Sybase