Serverless Contract Job Trends in South London

Serverless Computing
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 12 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.88% 2.17% 4.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.00% 6.25% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile - £438 £565
25th Percentile £500 £458 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -18.37% +10.86%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £658
90th Percentile £634 £674 £696
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -17.65%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 100 80 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 49.02% 34.78% 49.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 59 106
10th Percentile £271 £315 £231
25th Percentile £463 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -7.02% -2.23%
75th Percentile £552 £563 £634
90th Percentile £646 £703 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile £54.55 - £17.29
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £19.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
% change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Serverless job vacancy trend in South London

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Croydon +2 8 £533 +12.11% 2
Serverless
London

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure App Service
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Functions
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) .NET Core
1 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
1 5 (41.67%) Node.js
1 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
1 5 (41.67%) React
1 5 (41.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) boto
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Microservices
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) AI
5 5 (41.67%) Analytics
5 5 (41.67%) API Management
5 5 (41.67%) Compliance Management
5 5 (41.67%) Data Encryption
5 5 (41.67%) Data Science
5 5 (41.67%) Deep Learning
5 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) RBAC
5 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Bicep
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 5 (41.67%) OpenAI