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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 86 | 92 | 94 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +6 | +2 | -29 |
| Contract jobs citing Serverless | 67 | 35 | 40 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Central London | 2.82% | 1.88% | 1.71% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 6.67% | 4.66% | 4.29% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 52 | 25 | 29 |
| 10th Percentile | £413 | £413 | £426 |
| 25th Percentile | £461 | £500 | £510 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £576 | £650 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -11.38% | +13.04% | -4.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £738 | £700 | £688 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £800 | £795 |
| London median daily rate | £550 | £530 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.77% | -3.64% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | £35.00 | - | - |
| London median hourly rate | £35.00 | £50.00 | - |
| % change year-on-year | -30.00% | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 1,005 | 751 | 933 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London | 42.35% | 40.25% | 39.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 705 | 543 | 617 |
| 10th Percentile | £341 | £328 | £391 |
| 25th Percentile | £456 | £435 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | £563 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -2.22% | +2.27% |
| 75th Percentile | £660 | £663 | £675 |
| 90th Percentile | £763 | £750 | £750 |
| London median daily rate | £550 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -4.55% | -1.79% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 12 | 10 | 4 |
| 10th Percentile | £19.28 | £18.63 | £29.40 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.75 | £24.50 | £33.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £27.00 | £34.00 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -20.59% | -2.86% | +68.67% |
| 75th Percentile | £46.88 | £55.60 | £49.38 |
| 90th Percentile | £64.88 | £67.89 | £75.25 |
| London median hourly rate | £28.40 | £26.30 | £32.50 |
| % change year-on-year | +7.97% | -19.08% | -19.75% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in Central London
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 20 October 2026.
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 20 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 | +11 | 63 | £572 | -13.66% | 36 |
| West End of London | -10 | 2 | £528 | +31.88% | |
| City of Westminster | - | 1 | £475 | - | 8 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | - | 1 | £750 | - | |
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Serverless Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 65.7% | 44 |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 53.7% | 36 |
| 3 | Azure | 41.8% | 28 |
| 4 | Amazon S3 | 38.8% | 26 |
| 5 | Azure Functions | 32.8% | 22 |
| 6 | GitHub | 29.9% | 20 |
| 7 | Azure DevOps | 25.4% | 17 |
| 8 | Power Platform | 20.9% | 14 |
| 9 | Azure Logic Apps | 16.4% | 11 |
| 10 | Amazon CloudWatch | 14.9% | 10 |
| 10 | Amazon EC2 | 14.9% | 10 |
| 10 | Amazon EventBridge | 14.9% | 10 |
| 13 | AWS CloudFormation | 13.4% | 9 |
| 13 | Azure Service Bus | 13.4% | 9 |
| 13 | GitHub Actions | 13.4% | 9 |
| 16 | Amazon EKS | 11.9% | 8 |
| 16 | Amazon SQS | 11.9% | 8 |
| 18 | Amazon ECS | 10.4% | 7 |
| 18 | Amazon Kinesis | 10.4% | 7 |
| 18 | AWS Step Functions | 10.4% | 7 |