Serverless Framework Contracts

Serverless Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Serverless Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless Framework 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 513 581 698
Rank change year-on-year +68 +117 +119
Contract jobs citing Serverless Framework 7 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.002% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.011% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £506 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £523 £575 -
90th Percentile £532 - £724
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -22.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Serverless Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Serverless Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless Framework in the UK

Serverless Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless Framework in the UK

Serverless Framework
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless Framework within the UK 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
England +60 4 £525 -4.55% 1
London - 2 - - 1
UK excluding London +63 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 £525 - 3
South East - 1 - -

Serverless Framework
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 5 (71.43%) CloudFront
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Datadog
5 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Lead
5 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Express.js
1 4 (57.14%) hapi
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) Nunjucks
1 4 (57.14%) React
1 4 (57.14%) Sass
1 4 (57.14%) Svelte
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) TypeORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (57.14%) Progressive Enhancement
2 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) New Relic
1 1 (14.29%) Rollbar