Serverless Contracts in Central London

Serverless Computing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 87 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 49 50 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.44% 2.11% 3.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 5.08% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 55
10th Percentile £425 £413 £468
25th Percentile £482 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £511 £615
Median % change year-on-year +17.36% -16.87% -5.38%
75th Percentile £713 £598 £750
90th Percentile £800 £673 £825
London median daily rate £550 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.13% -4.17%

All Cloud 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 845 985 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.04% 41.49% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 696 1,017
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £653 £695
90th Percentile £750 £757 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
% change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +30.36%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Central London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Central London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +8 49 £600 +14.83% 166
Serverless
London

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.04%) Endur
1 1 (2.04%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.04%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 27 (55.10%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (36.73%) Azure
4 13 (26.53%) Amazon S3
5 11 (22.45%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 8 (16.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub
7 6 (12.24%) PaaS
8 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (10.20%) Datadog
9 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (8.16%) SaaS
10 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) DynamoDB
2 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (10.20%) DocumentDB
4 5 (10.20%) Redis
5 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.08%) Airbyte
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.08%) Parquet
6 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.08%) Tableau
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Azure Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.20%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.12%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Node.js
2 10 (20.41%) React
3 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.20%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (10.20%) WebSockets
5 4 (8.16%) RESTful
6 3 (6.12%) .NET
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.12%) Kafka
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.08%) Jest
8 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.04%) JWT
8 1 (2.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) DevOps
2 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (34.69%) Microservices
4 15 (30.61%) Agile
5 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.24%) Clean Code
8 6 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
8 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (10.20%) Observability
9 5 (10.20%) User Experience
10 4 (8.16%) Analytics
10 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) Python
2 15 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.37%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) Bicep
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) C#
6 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.08%) Go
7 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 2 (4.08%) Rust
8 1 (2.04%) Bash
8 1 (2.04%) Java
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) MiFID
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Okta
2 1 (2.04%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.04%) Portware
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.04%) Splunk