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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 87 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 56 48 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.16% 2.34% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 5.72% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 32
10th Percentile £451 £425 £417
25th Percentile £473 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £697 £751 £614
90th Percentile £819 £800 £778
London median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -10.87%
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 1,029 839 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.67% 40.99% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 541 671
10th Percentile £338 £359 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £651
90th Percentile £750 £760 £750
London median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 4
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £17.03
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £23.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £43.38
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £72.85
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -3 55 £588 -6.00% 15
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 (7.14%) CICS
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (78.57%) AWS
2 39 (69.64%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 16 (28.57%) Azure
5 14 (25.00%) GitHub
6 13 (23.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (17.86%) Azure Functions
7 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
8 9 (16.07%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (10.71%) SaaS
12 5 (8.93%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (8.93%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
2 1 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) DynamoDB
2 14 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (19.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (14.29%) Power BI
6 5 (8.93%) Db2
7 4 (7.14%) Metadata
8 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.57%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.57%) Tableau
10 1 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) GitLab
2 12 (21.43%) Git
3 10 (17.86%) JIRA
4 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.71%) JUnit
6 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.14%) Mockito
6 4 (7.14%) Postman
7 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.79%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (39.29%) Finance
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Banking
3 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Back Office
4 2 (3.57%) Marketing
4 2 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Billing
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
5 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Architect
2 10 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Senior
3 9 (16.07%) Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Platform Architect
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) SOAP
2 8 (14.29%) RESTful
3 7 (12.50%) .NET
3 7 (12.50%) Kafka
3 7 (12.50%) Spring
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.71%) PySpark
5 5 (8.93%) React
6 4 (7.14%) Gherkin
6 4 (7.14%) JSON
6 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 4 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) Web Services
6 4 (7.14%) WireMock
6 4 (7.14%) WSDL
6 4 (7.14%) YAML
7 3 (5.36%) OAuth
8 2 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.57%) CSS
8 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) DataPower
2 4 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.14%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) zOS
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (51.79%) CI/CD
2 23 (41.07%) DevOps
3 20 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) AI
6 14 (25.00%) Analytics
7 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
7 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
8 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (17.86%) Migration
9 9 (16.07%) Data Modelling
9 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning
11 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.71%) ETL
12 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) Python
2 20 (35.71%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) C#
4 8 (14.29%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.14%) JCL
7 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.36%) Bicep
9 2 (3.57%) Bash
10 1 (1.79%) Korn
10 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (35.71%) Terraform
2 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Ansible
6 1 (1.79%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.79%) linkerd
6 1 (1.79%) Puppet
6 1 (1.79%) Salt
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.79%) Foundry
4 1 (1.79%) Informatica
4 1 (1.79%) Palantir
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Sybase