Serverless Engineer Contract Job Trends

Serverless Engineer
UK

The median Serverless Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 552 627
Rank change year-on-year -14 +75 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Serverless Engineer 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.003% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.67%
75th Percentile £438 - £468
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily 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 30,564 34,233 44,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.88% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,313 20,627 30,523
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 1,333 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +60.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.51 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +90.25%

Serverless Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Serverless Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Serverless Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Serverless Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Serverless Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Serverless Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Serverless Engineer
Top 2 Contract Job 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 26 October 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 - 5 £425 - 5
England - 5 £425 - 11

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, Serverless Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Serverless Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Apigee
3 2 (40.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Datadog
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) SQL

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Apigee
3 2 (40.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) API Management
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Kanban
1 2 (40.00%) Observability
1 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) SDLC
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk