Serverless Contracts in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 165 127
Rank change year-on-year +20 -38 +28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 229 264 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.79% 1.27% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 4.85% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 205 419
10th Percentile £400 £402 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £665 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +2.51% -6.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +18 78 £500 -4.76% 148
Scotland +9 68 £525 +10.53% 31
North West +16 57 £500 -1.96% 97
South East +33 39 £500 -16.67% 147
Midlands +16 21 £480 +6.56% 46
South West +44 19 £550 - 40
West Midlands +5 12 £481 +6.89% 28
Yorkshire +3 12 £500 -16.67% 39
North East +5 9 £475 -26.92% 17
East Midlands +12 8 £500 +11.11% 13
East of England +24 4 £675 +3.85% 19
Wales - 4 £501 - 12
Northern Ireland -15 1 £500 -16.67% 7
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (7.42%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Documentum
5 1 (0.44%) FileNet
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (2.18%) InfoPath
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 170 (74.24%) AWS
2 127 (55.46%) AWS Lambda
3 89 (38.86%) Amazon S3
4 53 (23.14%) Azure
5 34 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (14.41%) Azure Functions
7 32 (13.97%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (13.97%) GitHub
8 29 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (9.61%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (8.73%) AWS CodePipeline
11 19 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (7.86%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (7.86%) SaaS
13 17 (7.42%) PaaS
14 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (5.68%) Amazon Cognito
16 13 (5.68%) AWS CodeBuild
16 13 (5.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.62%) Firewall
2 4 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) SMS
3 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.87%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.44%) DHCP
4 1 (0.44%) FTP
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.34%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (14.41%) DynamoDB
3 27 (11.79%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (11.79%) Relational Database
4 26 (11.35%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.17%) MongoDB
6 17 (7.42%) RDBMS
7 16 (6.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (5.68%) MySQL
10 12 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (5.24%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.37%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (3.93%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.49%) Power BI
14 6 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.62%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.62%) Metadata
14 6 (2.62%) Parquet
14 6 (2.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.61%) JIRA
3 19 (8.30%) Git
3 19 (8.30%) GitLab
4 15 (6.55%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.93%) Selenium
6 7 (3.06%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.62%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.62%) Mockito
7 6 (2.62%) Storybook
8 5 (2.18%) JUnit
9 4 (1.75%) JMeter
9 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.31%) Postman
10 3 (1.31%) webpack
11 2 (0.87%) Ant
11 2 (0.87%) Appium
11 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.09%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.30%) Finance
4 17 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.93%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.87%) Aviation
8 2 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Electronics
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (32.75%) Developer
2 40 (17.47%) Architect
3 27 (11.79%) Senior
4 25 (10.92%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (7.42%) AWS Developer
5 17 (7.42%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.42%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.99%) Lead
7 15 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) Software Developer
9 12 (5.24%) Azure Developer
9 12 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (5.24%) Python Developer
10 10 (4.37%) DBA
10 10 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.37%) React Developer
11 9 (3.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.47%) AWS CDK
2 38 (16.59%) Node.js
3 35 (15.28%) React
4 29 (12.66%) JSON
5 27 (11.79%) Kafka
6 21 (9.17%) .NET
7 20 (8.73%) RESTful
8 15 (6.55%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.11%) REST
10 13 (5.68%) Spring
10 13 (5.68%) XML
11 12 (5.24%) CSS
12 11 (4.80%) .NET Framework
13 10 (4.37%) HTML
14 8 (3.49%) AngularJS
15 7 (3.06%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (3.06%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.06%) Jest
15 7 (3.06%) Lambda Expressions
16 6 (2.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.93%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.44%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.44%) NHS
11 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.37%) Linux
2 5 (2.18%) Windows
3 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (44.98%) CI/CD
2 98 (42.79%) DevOps
3 85 (37.12%) Agile
4 54 (23.58%) Microservices
5 53 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (20.96%) Containerisation
7 40 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 32 (13.97%) Event-Driven
10 30 (13.10%) Migration
11 28 (12.23%) Scrum
12 27 (11.79%) Test Automation
13 25 (10.92%) Computer Science
14 21 (9.17%) Mentoring
15 20 (8.73%) ETL
15 20 (8.73%) TDD
16 19 (8.30%) Data Pipeline
17 18 (7.86%) Analytics
17 18 (7.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (47.16%) Python
2 53 (23.14%) SQL
3 47 (20.52%) Java
4 37 (16.16%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.16%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.86%) C#
6 17 (7.42%) Bash
7 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.18%) Groovy
8 5 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.75%) Scala
10 3 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.31%) R
11 2 (0.87%) Perl
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) Natural
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
12 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 33 (14.41%) AWS Certification
2 32 (13.97%) Security Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.99%) Degree
6 10 (4.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) OCP
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.49%) QA
2 7 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (24.89%) Docker
2 11 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 51 (22.27%) Terraform
2 39 (17.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.68%) Ansible
4 12 (5.24%) Grafana
5 5 (2.18%) Kibana
5 5 (2.18%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.87%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 31 (13.54%) Oracle
2 20 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.06%) Databricks
3 7 (3.06%) Virgin Media
4 5 (2.18%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.75%) Google
5 4 (1.75%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.31%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) Brio
7 2 (0.87%) Imperva
7 2 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.87%) Spotify
7 2 (0.87%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco
8 1 (0.44%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) Okta
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.44%) VMware