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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 110 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,061 732 816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.40% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.96% 6.43% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 537 619
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -10.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £691 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,255 11,388 14,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 37.38% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,474 7,638 10,614
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 170 331
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.58 £52.29
90th Percentile £78.90 £75.67 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.42 £20.64
% change year-on-year +63.80% +18.34% +3.18%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +8 840 £506 -12.09% 322
London +9 501 £513 -10.87% 152
UK excluding London -20 388 £500 -4.76% 222
Work from Home -26 303 £525 -0.94% 180
North of England +17 164 £500 -6.37% 86
Yorkshire +11 81 £500 - 38
North West -2 71 £450 -14.41% 45
Scotland -2 68 £428 -13.98% 9
Midlands -18 66 £506 +12.44% 21
West Midlands -10 54 £525 +9.15% 15
South East -50 51 £500 -13.04% 54
East of England -3 28 £550 -13.73% 7
South West -32 27 £650 - 41
North East -6 13 £500 -16.32% 3
East Midlands -23 12 £434 -4.57% 6
Wales -9 5 £481 -3.75% 3
Northern Ireland -1 3 - - 3

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 45 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.77%) Apache
3 38 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.64%) Confluence
5 26 (2.45%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.23%) nginx
7 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.85%) Mendix
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.094%) FileNet
11 1 (0.094%) JBoss
11 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.094%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 774 (72.95%) AWS
2 618 (58.25%) AWS Lambda
3 394 (37.13%) Amazon S3
4 383 (36.10%) Azure
5 233 (21.96%) GitHub
6 230 (21.68%) Azure Functions
7 217 (20.45%) Amazon ECS
8 212 (19.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 198 (18.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 195 (18.38%) Amazon EC2
11 171 (16.12%) Amazon EKS
11 171 (16.12%) GitHub Actions
12 168 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
13 109 (10.27%) Power Platform
14 108 (10.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 104 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 96 (9.05%) GCP
17 86 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
18 85 (8.01%) Azure Service Bus
19 78 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.39%) Firewall
2 32 (3.02%) DNS
3 28 (2.64%) VPN
4 14 (1.32%) Network Security
5 12 (1.13%) SSL
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 10 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.66%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.57%) SMS
12 5 (0.47%) IPsec
13 3 (0.28%) LAN
13 3 (0.28%) WAN
14 2 (0.19%) MPLS
15 1 (0.094%) 4G
15 1 (0.094%) BGP
15 1 (0.094%) Internet
15 1 (0.094%) MQTT
15 1 (0.094%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (15.36%) Amazon RDS
2 134 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (11.69%) DynamoDB
4 92 (8.67%) NoSQL
5 76 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (6.50%) Power BI
7 65 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (6.13%) Data Lake
8 55 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (3.20%) MongoDB
12 30 (2.83%) Redis
13 29 (2.73%) MySQL
14 28 (2.64%) Big Data
14 28 (2.64%) SQL Server
14 28 (2.64%) Tableau
15 21 (1.98%) DocumentDB
15 21 (1.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 172 (16.21%) Git
2 169 (15.93%) Jenkins
3 164 (15.46%) GitLab
4 56 (5.28%) JIRA
5 28 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 28 (2.64%) Liquibase
6 19 (1.79%) MLflow
7 18 (1.70%) JUnit
8 16 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.41%) Mockito
10 14 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
11 13 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.94%) Maven
12 10 (0.94%) Selenium
13 8 (0.75%) Mocha
14 6 (0.57%) Gradle
14 6 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 251 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 205 (19.32%) Public Sector
3 143 (13.48%) Finance
4 74 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.97%) Banking
5 30 (2.83%) Financial Institution
6 24 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.70%) Marketing
8 11 (1.04%) Health Technology
8 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.85%) Military
10 8 (0.75%) Front Office
10 8 (0.75%) Legal
11 4 (0.38%) Aviation
11 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.38%) Law
11 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.38%) Retail
12 3 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 277 (26.11%) Developer
2 162 (15.27%) Senior
3 151 (14.23%) Architect
4 146 (13.76%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 102 (9.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 83 (7.82%) Software Engineer
8 81 (7.63%) Lead
9 63 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (4.62%) AWS Architect
11 48 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 48 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
11 48 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 42 (3.96%) Python Engineer
14 40 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 38 (3.58%) AWS Developer
15 38 (3.58%) Java Developer
16 34 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.12%) Node.js
2 155 (14.61%) REST
3 137 (12.91%) React
4 136 (12.82%) .NET
5 130 (12.25%) RESTful
6 125 (11.78%) Kafka
7 74 (6.97%) OAuth
8 71 (6.69%) Spring
9 70 (6.60%) Spring Boot
10 59 (5.56%) AWS CDK
11 57 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.81%) AngularJS
13 50 (4.71%) FastAPI
14 47 (4.43%) .NET Core
15 46 (4.34%) PySpark
16 42 (3.96%) GraphQL
17 41 (3.86%) OAuth2
18 40 (3.77%) JSON
19 38 (3.58%) JWT
20 37 (3.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 263 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 24 (2.26%) NHS
7 22 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.94%) Replication
15 9 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.75%) Mobile App
17 7 (0.66%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 114 (10.74%) Linux
2 15 (1.41%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 5 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 542 (51.08%) DevOps
3 416 (39.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (32.80%) Agile
5 296 (27.90%) Microservices
6 268 (25.26%) Containerisation
7 190 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.68%) AI
9 171 (16.12%) Software Engineering
10 166 (15.65%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (14.80%) Analytics
12 138 (13.01%) Data Modelling
12 138 (13.01%) Event-Driven
13 137 (12.91%) Observability
14 129 (12.16%) ETL
15 125 (11.78%) Test Automation
16 110 (10.37%) Data Engineering
16 110 (10.37%) Machine Learning
17 108 (10.18%) Migration
18 102 (9.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 539 (50.80%) Python
2 294 (27.71%) SQL
3 159 (14.99%) Java
4 155 (14.61%) C#
5 152 (14.33%) JavaScript
6 146 (13.76%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.13%) Bash
8 58 (5.47%) Go
9 54 (5.09%) PowerShell
10 42 (3.96%) Bicep
11 33 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.36%) Ruby
13 11 (1.04%) Perl
13 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.85%) C++
16 8 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.75%) Scala
17 7 (0.66%) Korn
Qualifications
1 261 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.63%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.56%) Degree
5 49 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 33 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.83%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PhD
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.094%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.00%) QA
3 38 (3.58%) GDPR
4 34 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.89%) NIST
6 18 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.04%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.04%) WCAG
9 9 (0.85%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.66%) PMO
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 293 (27.62%) Docker
2 28 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 457 (43.07%) Terraform
2 298 (28.09%) Kubernetes
3 119 (11.22%) Grafana
4 113 (10.65%) Prometheus
5 97 (9.14%) Ansible
6 21 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.13%) Puppet
9 8 (0.75%) Kibana
10 7 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.57%) Consul
12 3 (0.28%) Argo
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.28%) Packer
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) Control-M
13 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 185 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.63%) Databricks
3 46 (4.34%) Google
4 42 (3.96%) OpenAI
5 40 (3.77%) Splunk
6 31 (2.92%) Oracle
7 26 (2.45%) Foundry
8 14 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Confluent
9 13 (1.23%) IBM
10 10 (0.94%) Cisco
10 10 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 10 (0.94%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Palantir
11 9 (0.85%) Greenplum
11 9 (0.85%) Kofax
12 8 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.75%) Red Hat