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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 92 68
Rank change year-on-year +5 -24 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 40 40 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.05% 1.67% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.96% 4.24% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 48
10th Percentile £343 £455 £411
25th Percentile £372 £520 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £684 £738 £691
90th Percentile £708 £844 £741
London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -14.29%

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 807 944 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.36% 39.42% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 617 844
10th Percentile £343 £388 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £20.85 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.93 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +23.77%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +2 37 £550 -7.17% 24
West End of London - 1 £400 -
Camden - 1 £400 -
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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) CICS
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.50%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (85.00%) AWS
1 34 (85.00%) AWS Lambda
2 23 (57.50%) Amazon S3
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (32.50%) Azure
4 12 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (25.00%) GitHub
6 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (10.00%) Apigee
9 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) DKIM
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) Airbyte
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) Tableau
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Parquet
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (17.50%) Banking
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Front Office
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Architect
5 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Integration Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Architect
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Node.js
2 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 7 (17.50%) OAuth
3 6 (15.00%) React
4 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.00%) JWT
4 4 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
5 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
5 3 (7.50%) REST
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) Flask
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) NumPy
6 2 (5.00%) Pandas
6 2 (5.00%) SciPy
6 2 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) Derivative
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Equities
5 2 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.50%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) AIX
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.50%) Solaris
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (27.50%) Analytics
6 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (17.50%) Microservices
8 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) Observability
10 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (10.00%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (10.00%) User Experience
10 4 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.50%) COBOL
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) SC Cleared
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) NetApp
3 1 (2.50%) Portware
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce