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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 169 115
Rank change year-on-year +33 -54 +25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 252 258 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.93% 1.25% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.04% 4.84% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 206 433
10th Percentile £400 £411 £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 £638 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -3.42%
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 £45.00 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -37.93%

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 4,170 5,328 7,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.99% 25.71% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 3,769 5,494
10th Percentile £250 £213 £248
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £573 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 262 224
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.22 £16.79
Median hourly rate £20.50 £17.80 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -34.92% +36.75%
75th Percentile £34.46 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.88 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

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 31 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 31 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 +16 85 £500 -4.08% 204
Scotland +8 66 £525 +13.51% 36
North West +11 57 £500 -1.96% 126
South East +28 37 £500 -20.00% 67
Midlands +17 29 £495 +7.03% 46
South West +48 21 £550 - 55
West Midlands +12 18 £504 +6.00% 33
Yorkshire +8 18 £500 -14.86% 58
East of England +32 15 £563 -10.00% 22
North East +7 11 £475 -26.92% 20
East Midlands +12 9 £480 +6.56% 13
Wales - 3 £575 - 5
Northern Ireland -19 1 £500 -16.67% 15
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 15 (5.95%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.19%) CMS
3 3 (1.19%) Documentum
3 3 (1.19%) FileNet
3 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.79%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.79%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) InfoPath
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.79%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 199 (78.97%) AWS
2 152 (60.32%) AWS Lambda
3 105 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 51 (20.24%) Azure
5 44 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 44 (17.46%) GitHub
6 39 (15.48%) Amazon EC2
7 36 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
10 25 (9.92%) Azure Functions
11 24 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
12 23 (9.13%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (7.14%) SaaS
15 15 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (5.95%) PaaS
16 14 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
17 13 (5.16%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Firewall
2 7 (2.78%) DNS
3 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.59%) SSL
4 4 (1.59%) VPN
5 3 (1.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.79%) SMS
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) FTP
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (15.87%) DynamoDB
3 34 (13.49%) Relational Database
4 32 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (9.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 22 (8.73%) MongoDB
6 22 (8.73%) NoSQL
7 19 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (5.95%) RDBMS
8 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
9 14 (5.56%) Oracle Database
10 13 (5.16%) MySQL
11 9 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (3.17%) GIS
12 8 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.38%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.73%) JIRA
3 21 (8.33%) Git
3 21 (8.33%) GitLab
4 13 (5.16%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.97%) Cypress.io
5 10 (3.97%) Storybook
6 6 (2.38%) Mockito
6 6 (2.38%) Selenium
7 5 (1.98%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.98%) JUnit
8 3 (1.19%) JMeter
8 3 (1.19%) Postman
8 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.19%) webpack
9 2 (0.79%) Ant
9 2 (0.79%) Appium
9 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 63 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.24%) Public Sector
3 23 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.94%) Finance
5 15 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Banking
7 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.79%) Aviation
9 2 (0.79%) Back Office
9 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 85 (33.73%) Developer
2 52 (20.63%) Architect
3 33 (13.10%) Senior
4 29 (11.51%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (7.54%) Lead
8 18 (7.14%) AWS Developer
9 16 (6.35%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Software Developer
9 16 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.95%) AWS Architect
11 13 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) React Developer
13 9 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.57%) Java Developer
14 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (17.06%) Node.js
2 41 (16.27%) AWS CDK
3 39 (15.48%) React
4 31 (12.30%) Kafka
5 27 (10.71%) .NET
6 26 (10.32%) JSON
6 26 (10.32%) RESTful
7 16 (6.35%) REST
7 16 (6.35%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.95%) CSS
9 14 (5.56%) Spring
10 13 (5.16%) XML
11 11 (4.37%) Jest
12 10 (3.97%) .NET Framework
12 10 (3.97%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.57%) HTML
13 9 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.78%) Next.js
14 7 (2.78%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.19%) NHS
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
10 2 (0.79%) SCADA
11 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.40%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.59%) Windows
4 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 99 (39.29%) DevOps
3 92 (36.51%) Agile
4 58 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (20.63%) Containerisation
7 46 (18.25%) Microservices
8 37 (14.68%) Software Engineering
9 31 (12.30%) ETL
9 31 (12.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (11.90%) Scrum
11 29 (11.51%) Event-Driven
11 29 (11.51%) Migration
12 28 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 27 (10.71%) Computer Science
13 27 (10.71%) Mentoring
14 23 (9.13%) Data Integration
14 23 (9.13%) TDD
15 22 (8.73%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (8.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (46.83%) Python
2 58 (23.02%) SQL
3 56 (22.22%) Java
4 47 (18.65%) JavaScript
5 40 (15.87%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.73%) C#
7 18 (7.14%) Bash
8 8 (3.17%) Scala
9 7 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.98%) Groovy
12 4 (1.59%) Bicep
12 4 (1.59%) Ruby
13 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.19%) Rust
14 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.79%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Go
15 1 (0.40%) Natural
15 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.49%) AWS Certification
1 34 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (7.94%) Degree
5 8 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) OCP
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.17%) QA
3 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (2.78%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.79%) WCAG
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (24.60%) Terraform
2 47 (18.65%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.94%) Ansible
4 16 (6.35%) Grafana
5 6 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.98%) Kibana
7 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.79%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.40%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (14.29%) Oracle
2 17 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.78%) Virgin Media
4 6 (2.38%) Databricks
4 6 (2.38%) Splunk
5 5 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.19%) Google
7 3 (1.19%) Informatica
7 3 (1.19%) SAP
7 3 (1.19%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.79%) Brio
8 2 (0.79%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.79%) Imperva
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.79%) Spotify
9 1 (0.40%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.40%) Ubiquiti