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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 88 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 62 41 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.52% 2.14% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 5.37% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 31 32
10th Percentile £426 £425 £458
25th Percentile £463 £488 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £628
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
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 1,017 763 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.34% 39.80% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 528 628
10th Percentile £339 £332 £387
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
London median daily rate £545 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.11 £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 £55.60 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
% change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -21.56%

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 22 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 22 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 -4 59 £600 -4.00% 36
West End of London - 2 £528 - 2
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 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) CICS
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
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 43 (69.35%) AWS
2 37 (59.68%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (45.16%) Amazon S3
4 26 (41.94%) Azure
5 19 (30.65%) Azure Functions
6 18 (29.03%) GitHub
7 14 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (19.35%) Power Platform
9 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (14.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (14.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (14.52%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (12.90%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (11.29%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (11.29%) Power Automate
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 10 (16.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (11.29%) DynamoDB
4 7 (11.29%) Power BI
5 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.06%) Delta Lake
5 5 (8.06%) Metadata
6 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.23%) Db2
7 2 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.61%) MySQL
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) GitLab
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 8 (12.90%) Bitbucket
4 7 (11.29%) JIRA
5 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.84%) JUnit
7 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.23%) Mockito
7 2 (3.23%) Postman
7 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.61%) JMeter
8 1 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (37.10%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (14.52%) Banking
6 7 (11.29%) Back Office
7 4 (6.45%) Marketing
8 3 (4.84%) Front Office
9 2 (3.23%) Military
9 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.61%) Billing
10 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.61%) Law
10 1 (1.61%) Legal
10 1 (1.61%) Police
10 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Senior
2 15 (24.19%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (22.58%) Data Engineer
4 13 (20.97%) Architect
5 10 (16.13%) Developer
6 8 (12.90%) AWS Data Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Platform Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) .NET
3 8 (12.90%) REST
4 7 (11.29%) PySpark
5 6 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (8.06%) SOAP
7 4 (6.45%) Node.js
7 4 (6.45%) React
7 4 (6.45%) RESTful
7 4 (6.45%) Spring
7 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (4.84%) JSON
8 3 (4.84%) Kafka
8 3 (4.84%) Middleware
9 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
9 2 (3.23%) OAuth
9 2 (3.23%) Web Services
9 2 (3.23%) YAML
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%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) DataPower
5 2 (3.23%) IoT
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.23%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) PropTech
5 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.61%) Smart Meter
6 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 40 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 28 (45.16%) DevOps
3 25 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (33.87%) Data Engineering
5 20 (32.26%) Agile
6 18 (29.03%) Data Modelling
6 18 (29.03%) Event-Driven
7 17 (27.42%) Analytics
8 15 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (22.58%) AI
10 13 (20.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.35%) Integration Patterns
12 11 (17.74%) Containerisation
12 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
13 10 (16.13%) Migration
13 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) Python
2 22 (35.48%) SQL
3 15 (24.19%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.45%) Bicep
5 4 (6.45%) Java
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) JCL
6 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) Korn
7 1 (1.61%) Scala
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%) Azure 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%) 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 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 9 (14.52%) 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 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Adyen
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) New Relic
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Teradata
5 1 (1.61%) UiPath