Serverless Contracts with Work from Home Options

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 81 77
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 271 688 1,396
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.80% 2.74% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.01% 6.93% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 521 1,037
10th Percentile £413 £438 £425
25th Percentile £458 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% +27.27%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +31.58% +38.18%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,409 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.01% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £16.91 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.87 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Serverless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serverless trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless.

Serverless daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Serverless over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Serverless daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless.

Serverless hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.11%) CMS
4 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.74%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.11%) Endur
2 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (64.21%) AWS
2 148 (54.61%) AWS Lambda
3 109 (40.22%) Azure
4 91 (33.58%) Amazon S3
5 71 (26.20%) Azure Functions
6 53 (19.56%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (19.56%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (16.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (13.65%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (9.59%) Power Platform
11 25 (9.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (8.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 22 (8.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (8.12%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (7.38%) PaaS
15 18 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (6.64%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (6.27%) OpenShift
16 17 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.80%) Firewall
2 8 (2.95%) HTTP
3 4 (1.48%) Network Security
4 3 (1.11%) DHCP
4 3 (1.11%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) FTP
4 3 (1.11%) LAN
4 3 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.11%) WLAN
5 2 (0.74%) Internet
5 2 (0.74%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (21.77%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (14.76%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (12.18%) SQL Server
4 32 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (11.07%) DynamoDB
5 30 (11.07%) MongoDB
6 25 (9.23%) NoSQL
7 20 (7.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (7.38%) Relational Database
8 18 (6.64%) Data Lake
9 17 (6.27%) RDBMS
10 13 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (4.80%) Power BI
11 12 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (3.69%) Big Data
12 10 (3.69%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (2.58%) MySQL
13 7 (2.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (14.39%) Git
2 27 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.12%) GitLab
4 14 (5.17%) JIRA
5 10 (3.69%) Visual Studio
6 9 (3.32%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.95%) Maven
8 6 (2.21%) Protractor
8 6 (2.21%) Selenium
9 5 (1.85%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.85%) Visual Studio Team System
10 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.11%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.11%) git-flow
11 3 (1.11%) JMeter
11 3 (1.11%) Postman
11 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.11%) webpack
12 2 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 50 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.34%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.33%) Finance
4 14 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.32%) Marketing
6 7 (2.58%) Retail
7 6 (2.21%) Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.11%) Electronics
9 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (34.69%) Developer
2 46 (16.97%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (14.39%) Senior
4 32 (11.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (11.44%) Data Engineer
6 26 (9.59%) AWS DevOps
7 25 (9.23%) Architect
7 25 (9.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (9.23%) Lead
8 16 (5.90%) Azure Developer
8 16 (5.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.69%) AWS Developer
12 10 (3.69%) DBA
12 10 (3.69%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.39%) Node.js
2 35 (12.92%) AWS CDK
3 34 (12.55%) .NET
4 32 (11.81%) React
5 25 (9.23%) JSON
6 21 (7.75%) Kafka
6 21 (7.75%) REST
7 19 (7.01%) XML
8 17 (6.27%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.90%) OAuth
10 14 (5.17%) .NET Core
10 14 (5.17%) RESTful
11 13 (4.80%) ARM Templates
11 13 (4.80%) Swagger
12 12 (4.43%) .NET Framework
12 12 (4.43%) PySpark
13 10 (3.69%) HTML
13 10 (3.69%) SOAP
14 9 (3.32%) CSS
14 9 (3.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.95%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.21%) Replication
6 5 (1.85%) IoT
7 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.74%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.74%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.81%) Linux
2 11 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.95%) Unix
3 8 (2.95%) Windows
4 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (46.13%) DevOps
2 119 (43.91%) CI/CD
3 107 (39.48%) Agile
4 68 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (17.71%) Microservices
6 38 (14.02%) Test Automation
7 37 (13.65%) Scrum
8 33 (12.18%) ETL
8 33 (12.18%) Full Stack Development
9 32 (11.81%) Mentoring
10 31 (11.44%) Analytics
11 27 (9.96%) TDD
12 26 (9.59%) Kanban
12 26 (9.59%) Software Engineering
13 24 (8.86%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (8.49%) Containerisation
14 23 (8.49%) Migration
14 23 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (6.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (40.59%) Python
2 64 (23.62%) SQL
3 54 (19.93%) TypeScript
4 51 (18.82%) JavaScript
5 39 (14.39%) Java
6 38 (14.02%) C#
7 24 (8.86%) Bash
8 16 (5.90%) PowerShell
9 15 (5.54%) Go
10 7 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (2.21%) Groovy
12 4 (1.48%) Bicep
12 4 (1.48%) Scala
13 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.74%) C++
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.74%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.95%) Degree
5 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.85%) QA
3 3 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.11%) WCAG
4 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (18.08%) Docker
2 7 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (25.83%) Terraform
2 52 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.59%) Ansible
3 26 (9.59%) Grafana
4 9 (3.32%) Kibana
5 7 (2.58%) Puppet
6 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Consul
8 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.74%) Salt
8 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) CASB
9 1 (0.37%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.37%) Knative
9 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.96%) Oracle
3 11 (4.06%) Databricks
4 6 (2.21%) Google
4 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.21%) Splunk
4 6 (2.21%) VMware
5 5 (1.85%) SAP
6 4 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.11%) IBM
7 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.74%) Commvault
8 2 (0.74%) Confluent
8 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.74%) Informatica
8 2 (0.74%) Qualys
8 2 (0.74%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.74%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.74%) StreamSets