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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 62 44 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.49% 2.25% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.04% 5.66% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 33
10th Percentile £419 £425 £460
25th Percentile £467 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £625
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
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 1,026 778 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.27% 39.75% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 524 636
10th Percentile £350 £327 £392
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £750
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +2 60 £572 -8.48% 19
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £750 -
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 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) CICS
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (67.74%) AWS
2 38 (61.29%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (48.39%) Amazon S3
4 23 (37.10%) Azure
5 18 (29.03%) Azure Functions
6 15 (24.19%) GitHub
7 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
8 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (14.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (14.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (14.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (11.29%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (11.29%) Power Automate
12 7 (11.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) FTP
2 1 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (17.74%) DynamoDB
4 10 (16.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (11.29%) Power BI
6 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.06%) Metadata
7 4 (6.45%) Delta Lake
8 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.23%) Db2
9 2 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) GitLab
3 10 (16.13%) JIRA
4 6 (9.68%) Bitbucket
5 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
6 4 (6.45%) JUnit
7 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.84%) Mockito
7 3 (4.84%) Postman
8 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.61%) JMeter
9 1 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (38.71%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (14.52%) Banking
6 5 (8.06%) Back Office
7 4 (6.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.23%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Military
9 1 (1.61%) Billing
9 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.61%) Police
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Architect
2 13 (20.97%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) AWS Data Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Platform Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) .NET
3 8 (12.90%) REST
4 6 (9.68%) PySpark
4 6 (9.68%) React
4 6 (9.68%) SOAP
5 5 (8.06%) Node.js
5 5 (8.06%) Spring
5 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (6.45%) Kafka
6 4 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.45%) RESTful
7 3 (4.84%) Gherkin
7 3 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (4.84%) JSON
7 3 (4.84%) WireMock
7 3 (4.84%) YAML
8 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.23%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.23%) DataPower
4 2 (3.23%) IoT
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) PropTech
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.61%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) zOS
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 27 (43.55%) DevOps
3 26 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (35.48%) Agile
5 19 (30.65%) Data Engineering
6 17 (27.42%) Analytics
7 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
7 15 (24.19%) Event-Driven
8 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
9 13 (20.97%) AI
10 12 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (17.74%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
12 10 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (16.13%) Migration
13 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (14.52%) Data Governance
13 9 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Python
2 20 (32.26%) SQL
3 16 (25.81%) C#
4 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.68%) Java
7 4 (6.45%) Bicep
8 2 (3.23%) Bash
8 2 (3.23%) JCL
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.61%) Korn
9 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.29%) QA
3 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) Puppet
3 1 (1.61%) Salt
3 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Adyen
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) New Relic
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Teradata