Serverless Contract Job Trends

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 102 130
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,108 762 794
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.45% 2.61% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.65% 6.84% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 581 607
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £447 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £624
90th Percentile £700 £788 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,662 11,142 14,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.12% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,817 10,154
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £491
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.99% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 223 342
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.39 £35.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.00 £61.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -21.24%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the UK

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless

Serverless
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 April 2026. 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 -4 895 £513 -6.82% 350
London -8 534 £513 -10.87% 153
UK excluding London -11 390 £500 - 232
Work from Home -31 295 £525 -3.67% 184
North of England +3 173 £500 - 90
North West -17 81 £500 - 47
Yorkshire +9 79 £500 - 34
Midlands -26 68 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -15 54 £506 +5.20% 18
Scotland -5 52 £400 -23.81% 9
South East -50 52 £525 +5.00% 61
South West -18 32 £582 -5.02% 31
East of England -12 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -8 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -26 14 £460 +2.22% 4
Wales -12 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -4 2 - -

Serverless
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:

Application Platforms
1 52 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.79%) Apache
3 40 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.07%) Confluence
5 29 (2.62%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.44%) nginx
7 11 (0.99%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.90%) Mendix
9 9 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.090%) JBoss
12 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.090%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.090%) Shopify
4 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 816 (73.65%) AWS
2 649 (58.57%) AWS Lambda
3 426 (38.45%) Amazon S3
4 412 (37.18%) Azure
5 252 (22.74%) GitHub
6 235 (21.21%) Azure Functions
7 228 (20.58%) Amazon ECS
8 216 (19.49%) Amazon EC2
9 207 (18.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 207 (18.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 187 (16.88%) Amazon EKS
11 182 (16.43%) GitHub Actions
12 177 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
13 123 (11.10%) Power Platform
14 120 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 114 (10.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 106 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 91 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
18 89 (8.03%) Azure Service Bus
19 84 (7.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.15%) Firewall
2 38 (3.43%) DNS
3 29 (2.62%) VPN
4 13 (1.17%) Network Security
5 12 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.90%) HTTP
7 10 (0.90%) SSL
8 9 (0.81%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.81%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.63%) SMS
10 5 (0.45%) IPsec
11 4 (0.36%) WAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) FTP
12 2 (0.18%) LAN
13 1 (0.090%) 4G
13 1 (0.090%) BGP
13 1 (0.090%) CTI
13 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 150 (13.54%) DynamoDB
3 130 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (8.66%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.22%) Power BI
6 77 (6.95%) Amazon Athena
7 69 (6.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (5.96%) Data Lake
9 59 (5.32%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
11 52 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.25%) MongoDB
12 36 (3.25%) Tableau
13 35 (3.16%) SQL Server
14 34 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
15 32 (2.89%) Metadata
16 31 (2.80%) Redis
17 27 (2.44%) Big Data
18 26 (2.35%) MySQL
19 25 (2.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 194 (17.51%) Git
2 173 (15.61%) GitLab
3 165 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.87%) JIRA
5 31 (2.80%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.99%) JUnit
7 19 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.53%) Liquibase
8 17 (1.53%) Mockito
9 16 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.17%) MLflow
11 12 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.90%) Maven
12 10 (0.90%) Selenium
13 9 (0.81%) Postman
13 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.72%) NUnit
15 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.63%) Mocha
General
1 252 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 216 (19.49%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.26%) Finance
4 80 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.69%) Banking
6 34 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.26%) Marketing
9 10 (0.90%) Legal
10 9 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 7 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.63%) Retail
12 6 (0.54%) Billing
12 6 (0.54%) Military
13 5 (0.45%) Front Office
14 4 (0.36%) Aviation
14 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.36%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (25.99%) Developer
2 174 (15.70%) Architect
3 160 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
4 158 (14.26%) Senior
5 112 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.76%) Lead
8 73 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.05%) AWS Architect
11 52 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
14 46 (4.15%) AWS Developer
15 45 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 44 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.97%) Senior Developer
17 43 (3.88%) Java Developer
18 41 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
18 41 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (15.88%) Node.js
2 156 (14.08%) REST
3 150 (13.54%) React
4 132 (11.91%) RESTful
5 129 (11.64%) Kafka
6 128 (11.55%) .NET
7 93 (8.39%) Spring
8 91 (8.21%) Spring Boot
9 82 (7.40%) OAuth
10 63 (5.69%) PySpark
11 57 (5.14%) AngularJS
12 49 (4.42%) JSON
13 48 (4.33%) AWS CDK
14 47 (4.24%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (4.06%) .NET Core
17 43 (3.88%) FastAPI
18 41 (3.70%) GraphQL
19 37 (3.34%) JWT
20 35 (3.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 280 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.62%) NHS
5 28 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 25 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.72%) DataPower
15 8 (0.72%) IoT
15 8 (0.72%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.84%) Linux
2 18 (1.62%) Unix
3 12 (1.08%) Windows
4 5 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.27%) zOS
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.090%) Android
8 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (61.55%) CI/CD
2 573 (51.71%) DevOps
3 429 (38.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (33.21%) Agile
5 308 (27.80%) Microservices
6 279 (25.18%) Containerisation
7 183 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
8 180 (16.25%) AI
9 168 (15.16%) Event-Driven
10 162 (14.62%) Observability
11 161 (14.53%) Analytics
12 150 (13.54%) Software Engineering
13 148 (13.36%) Data Modelling
13 148 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
14 138 (12.45%) ETL
15 136 (12.27%) Test Automation
16 121 (10.92%) Migration
17 119 (10.74%) Data Engineering
18 106 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
19 104 (9.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 523 (47.20%) Python
2 311 (28.07%) SQL
3 180 (16.25%) Java
4 160 (14.44%) TypeScript
5 159 (14.35%) JavaScript
6 158 (14.26%) C#
7 75 (6.77%) Bash
8 58 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.51%) Bicep
10 48 (4.33%) Go
11 34 (3.07%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.53%) Ruby
13 13 (1.17%) Scala
14 11 (0.99%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.99%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.81%) Perl
16 8 (0.72%) C++
17 7 (0.63%) Groovy
17 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 293 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 229 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.77%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (4.15%) Degree
5 38 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.36%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.05%) QA
3 35 (3.16%) GDPR
4 32 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.71%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.62%) NIST
8 13 (1.17%) WCAG
9 10 (0.90%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.90%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.36%) HL7
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 314 (28.34%) Docker
2 34 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.90%) Squid
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.45%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 479 (43.23%) Terraform
2 297 (26.81%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.38%) Grafana
4 110 (9.93%) Prometheus
5 83 (7.49%) Ansible
6 27 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.08%) Puppet
9 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.63%) Consul
10 7 (0.63%) Kibana
11 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 5 (0.45%) linkerd
11 5 (0.45%) Rancher
12 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 180 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.57%) Databricks
3 44 (3.97%) Oracle
4 43 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 39 (3.52%) Splunk
6 27 (2.44%) Google
7 19 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.53%) Foundry
10 11 (0.99%) Lotus
10 11 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.90%) Brio
11 10 (0.90%) Kofax
11 10 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.81%) Palantir
12 9 (0.81%) SAP
13 8 (0.72%) Confluent
13 8 (0.72%) IBM
13 8 (0.72%) Sybase