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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 91 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 62 37 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.59% 1.94% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.24% 4.89% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 29 32
10th Percentile £419 £425 £458
25th Percentile £463 £488 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £530
% change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% -3.64%
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 994 756 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.49% 39.73% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 537 611
10th Percentile £331 £330 £396
25th Percentile £456 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £754 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%

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 October 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 October 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 58 £586 -6.24% 44
West End of London - 2 £528 -
City of Westminster - 1 £475 - 7
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
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) CMS
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.61%) CICS
4 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 36 (58.06%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (43.55%) Amazon S3
4 25 (40.32%) Azure
5 19 (30.65%) Azure Functions
5 19 (30.65%) GitHub
6 15 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
8 10 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (14.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (12.90%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (12.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (12.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (11.29%) Power Automate
11 7 (11.29%) PowerApps
12 6 (9.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) FTP
1 1 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (14.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (11.29%) Power BI
5 6 (9.68%) DynamoDB
6 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.06%) Delta Lake
7 4 (6.45%) Metadata
8 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.23%) Parquet
9 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) GitLab
3 8 (12.90%) Bitbucket
3 8 (12.90%) JIRA
4 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.84%) JUnit
6 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.23%) Mockito
6 2 (3.23%) Postman
6 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Gradle
7 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.61%) JMeter
7 1 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.61%) Maven
7 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (37.10%) Finance
2 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.90%) Back Office
6 4 (6.45%) Marketing
7 3 (4.84%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.23%) Military
8 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.61%) Billing
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Police
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Senior
2 15 (24.19%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) Developer
4 11 (17.74%) Architect
5 8 (12.90%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
8 3 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Platform Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.65%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) .NET
3 8 (12.90%) PySpark
3 8 (12.90%) REST
4 6 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.06%) Node.js
5 5 (8.06%) RESTful
6 4 (6.45%) Kafka
6 4 (6.45%) React
6 4 (6.45%) SOAP
6 4 (6.45%) Spring
6 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (4.84%) JSON
7 3 (4.84%) Middleware
8 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.23%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (35.48%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) PropTech
5 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) DataPower
6 1 (1.61%) Derivative
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) IoT
6 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.61%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (62.90%) CI/CD
2 28 (45.16%) DevOps
3 25 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (35.48%) Agile
5 20 (32.26%) Data Engineering
6 17 (27.42%) Data Modelling
6 17 (27.42%) Event-Driven
7 16 (25.81%) Analytics
8 15 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (20.97%) AI
10 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
11 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.35%) Test Automation
12 11 (17.74%) Migration
13 10 (16.13%) Integration Patterns
13 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (12.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) Python
2 23 (37.10%) SQL
3 15 (24.19%) C#
4 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.52%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.45%) Java
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) JCL
7 1 (1.61%) Korn
7 1 (1.61%) Scala
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) CISA
5 1 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) GSEC
5 1 (1.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.97%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.68%) QA
3 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.61%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) 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 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Adyen
3 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.61%) Foundry
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) IBM
4 1 (1.61%) Informatica
4 1 (1.61%) New Relic
4 1 (1.61%) Teradata
4 1 (1.61%) UiPath