Serverless Engineer Contracts

Serverless Engineer
UK

The median Serverless Engineer daily rate in the UK is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 575 652
Rank change year-on-year +55 +77 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Serverless Engineer 2 1 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.003% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £420 - £620
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £429 - -
90th Percentile £431 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,186 39,489 53,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,686 25,686 37,660
10th Percentile £293 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,047 2,662 1,503
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.82 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%
75th Percentile £61.38 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%

Serverless Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Serverless Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless Engineer in the UK

Serverless Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Serverless Engineer in the UK

Serverless Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
London - 2 £424 -
England - 2 £424 -

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Serverless Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Serverless Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk