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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 88 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 47 39 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.33% 1.76% 3.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.58% 4.47% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 46
10th Percentile £343 £455 £403
25th Percentile £363 £510 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +6.98% -3.37%
75th Percentile £669 £738 £686
90th Percentile £688 £844 £725
London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -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 842 872 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.66% 39.46% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 570 761
10th Percentile £341 £386 £353
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £739 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +34.85%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 0 43 £520 -9.57% 33
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 2 (4.26%) Apache
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (87.23%) AWS
1 41 (87.23%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (57.45%) Amazon S3
3 14 (29.79%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 14 (29.79%) GitHub
4 13 (27.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (14.89%) Azure Functions
8 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.51%) Apigee
9 4 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
10 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) DKIM
2 1 (2.13%) NAS
2 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.38%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.38%) Metadata
4 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.26%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) Tableau
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (14.89%) Banking
2 6 (12.77%) Front Office
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Python Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Node.js
2 10 (21.28%) React
3 6 (12.77%) .NET
4 5 (10.64%) boto
4 5 (10.64%) NumPy
4 5 (10.64%) OAuth
4 5 (10.64%) Pandas
4 5 (10.64%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.51%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.51%) Flask
5 4 (8.51%) HTML
5 4 (8.51%) JWT
6 3 (6.38%) CSS
6 3 (6.38%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.38%) Next.js
6 3 (6.38%) SciPy
7 2 (4.26%) Django
7 2 (4.26%) Kafka
7 2 (4.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.38%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.38%) Derivative
4 3 (6.38%) Equities
4 3 (6.38%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) AIX
2 1 (2.13%) Android
2 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.13%) Solaris
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) CI/CD
2 23 (48.94%) DevOps
3 16 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (29.79%) Analytics
5 10 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (21.28%) Event-Driven
6 9 (19.15%) Agile
6 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (19.15%) Microservices
6 9 (19.15%) Observability
7 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.89%) ETL
7 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.77%) AI
8 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (10.64%) Workflow
10 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) Python
2 18 (38.30%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.02%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) C#
5 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.38%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Go
8 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.13%) COBOL
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) SC Cleared
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.38%) PhD
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) MCP
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) Terraform
2 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.51%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.13%) NetApp
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce