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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 100 130
Rank change year-on-year -22 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,089 789 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.61% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 6.89% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 588 568
10th Percentile £385 £400 £379
25th Percentile £447 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £625
90th Percentile £737 £715 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,048 11,456 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.87% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,047 7,701 10,004
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 286 363
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -19 877 £525 - 241
London -10 528 £545 -0.91% 130
UK excluding London -31 375 £500 - 171
Work from Home -24 346 £518 -1.43% 113
North of England -14 144 £500 - 50
North West -22 82 £525 +5.00% 27
Midlands -29 64 £488 -2.50% 22
South East -44 51 £575 +15.00% 49
Scotland -15 50 £450 -13.88% 7
West Midlands -26 50 £482 -5.81% 13
Yorkshire -16 49 £500 - 15
South West -22 40 £575 +8.24% 31
East of England -25 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -6 14 £497 +3.55% 9
North East -26 14 £463 -1.07% 8
Wales -9 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +6 5 £283 -43.50% 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 57 (5.23%) Confluence
2 47 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.57%) Apache
5 23 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.37%) Mendix
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 843 (77.41%) AWS
2 666 (61.16%) AWS Lambda
3 467 (42.88%) Amazon S3
4 384 (35.26%) Azure
5 223 (20.48%) GitHub
6 201 (18.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 199 (18.27%) Amazon EC2
8 191 (17.54%) Azure Functions
9 186 (17.08%) Amazon ECS
10 177 (16.25%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (14.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 155 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
13 123 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.20%) Power Platform
15 121 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 117 (10.74%) Amazon SQS
17 110 (10.10%) AWS Step Functions
18 86 (7.90%) Azure Logic Apps
19 79 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
20 76 (6.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) Firewall
2 32 (2.94%) DNS
3 24 (2.20%) VPN
4 21 (1.93%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.37%) IPsec
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.37%) MQTT
10 4 (0.37%) SMS
11 3 (0.28%) CTI
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
13 1 (0.092%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.88%) DynamoDB
2 153 (14.05%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
6 86 (7.90%) Power BI
7 72 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
8 69 (6.34%) NoSQL
9 60 (5.51%) Data Lake
10 51 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.13%) SQL Server
12 44 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (3.31%) MySQL
14 35 (3.21%) Relational Database
15 31 (2.85%) Metadata
16 28 (2.57%) MongoDB
17 27 (2.48%) Tableau
18 23 (2.11%) Big Data
19 22 (2.02%) Redis
20 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (16.44%) Git
2 150 (13.77%) GitLab
3 139 (12.76%) Jenkins
4 82 (7.53%) JIRA
5 27 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 21 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.74%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.10%) JUnit
10 10 (0.92%) Postman
10 10 (0.92%) Vite
11 9 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.83%) Mocha
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
13 7 (0.64%) Selenium
14 6 (0.55%) MLflow
14 6 (0.55%) Mockito
14 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
14 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 242 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.41%) Finance
4 65 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.57%) Banking
7 17 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.47%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 9 (0.83%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.64%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 250 (22.96%) Developer
2 207 (19.01%) Architect
3 176 (16.16%) Senior
4 170 (15.61%) AWS Engineer
5 125 (11.48%) Data Engineer
6 104 (9.55%) Lead
7 77 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.52%) AWS Architect
9 69 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.68%) Technical Architect
13 48 (4.41%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
14 47 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.04%) Python Engineer
15 44 (4.04%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
16 41 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.58%) REST
2 134 (12.30%) React
3 124 (11.39%) Node.js
4 119 (10.93%) .NET
4 119 (10.93%) Kafka
5 116 (10.65%) RESTful
6 77 (7.07%) PySpark
7 71 (6.52%) Spring Boot
8 70 (6.43%) OAuth
9 69 (6.34%) Spring
10 67 (6.15%) AWS CDK
11 63 (5.79%) GraphQL
12 47 (4.32%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.13%) JSON
13 45 (4.13%) OpenID
14 44 (4.04%) AngularJS
15 43 (3.95%) OAuth2
16 32 (2.94%) Next.js
17 31 (2.85%) .NET Core
18 27 (2.48%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 326 (29.94%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (3.86%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.39%) NHS
7 18 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.83%) IVR
11 9 (0.83%) Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.05%) Linux
2 22 (2.02%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 8 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (60.51%) CI/CD
2 486 (44.63%) DevOps
3 393 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (34.53%) Agile
5 265 (24.33%) Microservices
6 238 (21.85%) Containerisation
7 228 (20.94%) AI
8 209 (19.19%) Event-Driven
9 172 (15.79%) Observability
10 161 (14.78%) Analytics
11 154 (14.14%) Data Modelling
12 153 (14.05%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 149 (13.68%) Software Engineering
15 143 (13.13%) ETL
16 139 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
17 128 (11.75%) Data Engineering
18 125 (11.48%) Migration
19 118 (10.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 117 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 483 (44.35%) Python
2 311 (28.56%) SQL
3 172 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 151 (13.87%) C#
5 144 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 142 (13.04%) Java
7 63 (5.79%) Bash
8 39 (3.58%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.31%) Bicep
10 35 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.84%) Go
12 18 (1.65%) Scala
13 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 6 (0.55%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.46%) Gremlin
17 5 (0.46%) Rust
17 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 286 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 229 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.43%) AWS Certification
4 50 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.49%) Degree
6 37 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.48%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.22%) QA
3 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.57%) GDPR
5 27 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.38%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
9 7 (0.64%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.092%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 278 (25.53%) Docker
2 33 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 434 (39.85%) Terraform
2 256 (23.51%) Kubernetes
3 97 (8.91%) Grafana
4 88 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.50%) Ansible
6 26 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.84%) Puppet
8 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 156 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.97%) Databricks
3 48 (4.41%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.03%) Oracle
5 25 (2.30%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.30%) Informatica
6 23 (2.11%) Splunk
7 20 (1.84%) Google
8 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.01%) Foundry
12 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.83%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) Confluent
13 8 (0.73%) SAP
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
16 5 (0.46%) Teradata