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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 83 73
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 56 42 63
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.52% 2.01% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 4.74% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 39
10th Percentile £328 £437 £405
25th Percentile £363 £494 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £631
90th Percentile £673 £812 £740
London median daily rate £513 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.62% -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 923 886 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.54% 42.39% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 576 719
10th Percentile £341 £375 £344
25th Percentile £436 £463 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +1.35% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.50
% change year-on-year +20.40% -4.69% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -3 51 £507 -11.91% 40
West End of London +9 1 £400 -23.08% 1
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 4 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 2 (3.57%) CICS
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (82.14%) AWS
2 42 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (44.64%) Amazon S3
4 20 (35.71%) Azure
5 18 (32.14%) GitHub
6 14 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (19.64%) Azure Functions
8 10 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (12.50%) Power Platform
11 6 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (8.93%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
13 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (7.14%) Apigee
13 4 (7.14%) GCP
14 3 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.14%) CockroachDB
4 4 (7.14%) Metadata
5 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.36%) DB2
5 3 (5.36%) Tableau
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Git
2 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.71%) GitLab
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) JUnit
5 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.57%) Mockito
5 2 (3.57%) Postman
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (17.86%) Banking
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Front Office
4 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Node.js
2 7 (12.50%) boto
3 6 (10.71%) Kafka
3 6 (10.71%) OAuth
3 6 (10.71%) PySpark
3 6 (10.71%) React
4 5 (8.93%) NumPy
4 5 (8.93%) Pandas
5 4 (7.14%) .NET
5 4 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.14%) JWT
5 4 (7.14%) REST
5 4 (7.14%) RESTful
5 4 (7.14%) SOAP
5 4 (7.14%) Spring
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.36%) HTML
6 3 (5.36%) JSON
6 3 (5.36%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.36%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) Derivative
4 3 (5.36%) Equities
4 3 (5.36%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.57%) DataPower
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) zOS
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 31 (55.36%) DevOps
3 22 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (26.79%) Analytics
5 10 (17.86%) AI
5 10 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (17.86%) ETL
5 10 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (16.07%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) Observability
7 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 7 (12.50%) Data Engineering
8 7 (12.50%) Microservices
8 7 (12.50%) Migration
8 7 (12.50%) Workflow
9 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (8.93%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) Python
2 24 (42.86%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) C#
3 8 (14.29%) Java
3 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.36%) Bicep
5 3 (5.36%) C++
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) JCL
7 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) PHP
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
7 1 (1.79%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
1 17 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.36%) PhD
4 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (37.50%) Terraform
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Grafana
6 1 (1.79%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Kibana
6 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.79%) linkerd
6 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) Foundry
3 3 (5.36%) Palantir
4 2 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Sybase