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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 68
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 +20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 52 40 70
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.43% 1.92% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 4.62% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 42
10th Percentile £321 £440 £401
25th Percentile £363 £506 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £702 £679
90th Percentile £675 £803 £736
London median daily rate £513 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -16.00%

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 888 866 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.48% 41.65% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 567 710
10th Percentile £338 £375 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £20.59 £29.50 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £46.11 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.92 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%

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 February 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 21 February 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 -1 47 £488 -15.22% 36
West End of London +7 1 £400 -23.08%
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 3 (5.77%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (82.69%) AWS
2 41 (78.85%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 19 (36.54%) Azure
5 17 (32.69%) GitHub
6 14 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (21.15%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (19.23%) Azure Functions
8 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (17.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
11 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.69%) Apigee
13 3 (5.77%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (5.77%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.62%) Power BI
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (7.69%) CockroachDB
4 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.77%) Metadata
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.92%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.92%) GIS
6 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) JUnit
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.92%) Mockito
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
5 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (17.31%) Banking
2 6 (11.54%) Front Office
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) Data Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Python Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Apigee Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Node.js
2 8 (15.38%) React
3 6 (11.54%) .NET
3 6 (11.54%) boto
4 5 (9.62%) Kafka
4 5 (9.62%) NumPy
4 5 (9.62%) OAuth
4 5 (9.62%) Pandas
4 5 (9.62%) PySpark
5 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.69%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.69%) JWT
5 4 (7.69%) REST
6 3 (5.77%) Flask
6 3 (5.77%) HTML
6 3 (5.77%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.77%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.77%) SciPy
6 3 (5.77%) Spring
6 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.77%) Derivative
4 3 (5.77%) Equities
4 3 (5.77%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) DevOps
3 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (30.77%) Analytics
5 12 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (23.08%) Event-Driven
6 10 (19.23%) Agile
7 9 (17.31%) ETL
7 9 (17.31%) Microservices
8 8 (15.38%) AI
8 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (15.38%) Observability
8 8 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (13.46%) Workflow
10 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.54%) Data Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
11 5 (9.62%) Design Patterns
11 5 (9.62%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) Python
2 23 (44.23%) SQL
3 10 (19.23%) Java
3 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.46%) C#
5 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.77%) Bicep
6 3 (5.77%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
7 1 (1.92%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 16 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.77%) PhD
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Terraform
2 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Ansible
4 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) Kibana
5 1 (1.92%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Databricks
3 3 (5.77%) Foundry
3 3 (5.77%) Palantir
4 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.92%) Sybase