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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 88 85
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 48 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.32% 2.34% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 5.70% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 32
10th Percentile £418 £425 £417
25th Percentile £466 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £706 £738 £614
90th Percentile £785 £800 £778
London median daily rate £550 £550 £515
% change year-on-year - +6.80% -10.43%
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 1,034 842 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.94% 40.97% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 547 669
10th Percentile £353 £358 £375
25th Percentile £463 £439 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £656
90th Percentile £750 £761 £751
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%

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 4 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 4 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 +8 59 £575 -8.00% 35
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%) CICS
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) AWS
2 40 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (48.33%) Amazon S3
4 18 (30.00%) Azure
5 15 (25.00%) GitHub
6 14 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (20.00%) Azure Functions
8 11 (18.33%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
9 9 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (11.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (11.67%) SaaS
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 11 (18.33%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (18.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (13.33%) Power BI
4 5 (8.33%) Db2
5 4 (6.67%) Metadata
6 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.33%) Tableau
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) GitLab
2 13 (21.67%) Git
3 10 (16.67%) JIRA
4 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.00%) JUnit
6 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.67%) Mockito
6 4 (6.67%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.67%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Banking
3 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Back Office
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Police
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
1 12 (20.00%) Senior
2 11 (18.33%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Platform Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) SOAP
2 8 (13.33%) .NET
2 8 (13.33%) RESTful
3 7 (11.67%) Kafka
3 7 (11.67%) Spring
3 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.00%) PySpark
4 6 (10.00%) React
4 6 (10.00%) REST
5 5 (8.33%) JSON
5 5 (8.33%) Node.js
6 4 (6.67%) Gherkin
6 4 (6.67%) Web Services
6 4 (6.67%) WireMock
6 4 (6.67%) WSDL
6 4 (6.67%) YAML
7 3 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.00%) OAuth
7 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) DataPower
2 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.67%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.33%) IoT
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) zOS
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 25 (41.67%) DevOps
3 22 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.33%) Agile
4 17 (28.33%) Data Engineering
5 15 (25.00%) AI
6 14 (23.33%) Analytics
7 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
8 11 (18.33%) Migration
9 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) C#
4 9 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.33%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) Bicep
6 4 (6.67%) JCL
6 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) Korn
8 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
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
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (35.00%) Terraform
2 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.67%) Istio
6 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.67%) linkerd
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
6 1 (1.67%) Salt
6 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) 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%) Foundry
4 1 (1.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) New Relic
4 1 (1.67%) Palantir
4 1 (1.67%) SAP
4 1 (1.67%) Sybase