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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 63 47 52
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.43% 2.46% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.36% 5.75% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 35
10th Percentile £363 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.83% -13.56%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £569
90th Percentile £750 £800 £718
London median daily rate £527 £550 £523
% change year-on-year -4.27% +5.26% -11.44%

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 991 818 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.16% 42.76% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 528 687
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.32%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 6
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £28.46 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £57.77 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.71% +29.20% -66.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.46 £26.19
90th Percentile £76.75 £95.50 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%

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 15 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 15 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 +4 62 £563 -8.16% 22
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 (6.35%) CICS
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (82.54%) AWS
2 45 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (46.03%) Amazon S3
4 18 (28.57%) Azure
5 15 (23.81%) GitHub
6 12 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (15.87%) Azure Functions
8 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (12.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 8 (12.70%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
10 6 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (7.94%) SaaS
12 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) FTP
2 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 12 (19.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (17.46%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.11%) Power BI
6 6 (9.52%) Metadata
7 5 (7.94%) Db2
8 4 (6.35%) CockroachDB
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.76%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.17%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.17%) Tableau
11 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 11 (17.46%) GitLab
3 9 (14.29%) JIRA
4 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.94%) JUnit
6 4 (6.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.35%) Mockito
6 4 (6.35%) Postman
7 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
3 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Billing
5 1 (1.59%) Law
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Architect
2 9 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) Platform Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) Kafka
1 9 (14.29%) PySpark
1 9 (14.29%) React
1 9 (14.29%) SOAP
2 7 (11.11%) Spring
2 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.52%) boto
3 6 (9.52%) REST
3 6 (9.52%) RESTful
4 5 (7.94%) .NET
4 5 (7.94%) JSON
4 5 (7.94%) Node.js
5 4 (6.35%) Gherkin
5 4 (6.35%) Web Services
5 4 (6.35%) WireMock
5 4 (6.35%) WSDL
5 4 (6.35%) YAML
6 3 (4.76%) Flask
6 3 (4.76%) LangGraph
6 3 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) DataPower
2 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.35%) Online Banking
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) NHS
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) zOS
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.97%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.86%) DevOps
3 24 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (31.75%) AI
5 15 (23.81%) Data Engineering
6 14 (22.22%) Analytics
7 13 (20.63%) Agile
7 13 (20.63%) Containerisation
8 11 (17.46%) Event-Driven
8 11 (17.46%) LLM
8 11 (17.46%) Migration
8 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.87%) ETL
9 10 (15.87%) Observability
9 10 (15.87%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (14.29%) Generative AI
10 9 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Python
2 24 (38.10%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) C#
4 8 (12.70%) Java
5 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.52%) Bicep
7 4 (6.35%) JCL
7 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.17%) Bash
9 1 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) Korn
9 1 (1.59%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.35%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (36.51%) Terraform
2 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.35%) Grafana
3 4 (6.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.59%) Istio
5 1 (1.59%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.59%) linkerd
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
5 1 (1.59%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Databricks
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.76%) Foundry
4 3 (4.76%) Palantir
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) Informatica
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Sybase