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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 101 126
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,098 761 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.51% 2.61% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.75% 6.85% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 577 597
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.35% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
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 16,264 11,111 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.12% 38.14% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,103 7,776 10,234
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
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 £477 £488
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.15% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 208 359
10th Percentile £15.70 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +23.81% -18.69%
75th Percentile £62.00 £42.23 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +81.64% +32.62% -19.45%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -7 880 £513 -6.82% 356
London 0 527 £513 -6.82% 150
UK excluding London -16 386 £500 - 247
Work from Home -36 294 £525 -2.96% 182
North of England +10 169 £500 - 95
North West -11 80 £455 -4.21% 47
Yorkshire 0 76 £500 - 41
Midlands -21 70 £513 +14.00% 23
Scotland -5 55 £400 -20.00% 9
West Midlands -19 55 £525 +16.67% 19
South East -65 50 £525 -8.70% 67
South West -23 31 £600 -2.10% 32
East of England -6 25 £573 -21.09% 22
East Midlands -26 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -10 14 £475 -23.91% 9
Wales -9 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 54 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.73%) Apache
3 39 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.10%) Confluence
5 29 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.37%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) CMS
12 1 (0.091%) FileNet
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 801 (72.95%) AWS
2 632 (57.56%) AWS Lambda
3 416 (37.89%) Azure
4 412 (37.52%) Amazon S3
5 254 (23.13%) GitHub
6 245 (22.31%) Azure Functions
7 227 (20.67%) Amazon ECS
8 220 (20.04%) Amazon EC2
9 204 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (17.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 190 (17.30%) Amazon EKS
12 185 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (11.02%) Power Platform
14 121 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 112 (10.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 103 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
17 92 (8.38%) Azure Service Bus
18 84 (7.65%) GCP
19 76 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.01%) Firewall
2 34 (3.10%) DNS
3 28 (2.55%) VPN
4 13 (1.18%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 11 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.82%) SSL
7 6 (0.55%) SMS
8 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 4 (0.36%) WAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.091%) 4G
12 1 (0.091%) MQTT
12 1 (0.091%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.091%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.03%) Amazon RDS
2 133 (12.11%) DynamoDB
2 133 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (8.38%) NoSQL
4 76 (6.92%) Power BI
5 66 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 66 (6.01%) Data Lake
6 65 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
7 59 (5.37%) Relational Database
8 56 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
9 55 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (3.37%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.19%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.10%) Redis
14 31 (2.82%) Tableau
15 30 (2.73%) Metadata
16 27 (2.46%) Delta Lake
17 25 (2.28%) Big Data
18 24 (2.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 191 (17.40%) Git
2 173 (15.76%) GitLab
3 168 (15.30%) Jenkins
4 64 (5.83%) JIRA
5 33 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.09%) JUnit
7 20 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.64%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.55%) MLflow
9 17 (1.55%) Mockito
10 16 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.37%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
14 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 8 (0.73%) Selenium
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 247 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 215 (19.58%) Public Sector
3 161 (14.66%) Finance
4 78 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.19%) Banking
6 32 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
11 9 (0.82%) Retail
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.55%) Billing
14 6 (0.55%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Aviation
15 4 (0.36%) Law
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (25.87%) Developer
2 167 (15.21%) Architect
3 162 (14.75%) Senior
4 155 (14.12%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.65%) Lead
8 74 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.01%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 44 (4.01%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.83%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.83%) Java Developer
16 41 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 40 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
18 39 (3.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (15.39%) Node.js
2 153 (13.93%) REST
3 143 (13.02%) React
4 136 (12.39%) .NET
5 132 (12.02%) RESTful
6 128 (11.66%) Kafka
7 86 (7.83%) Spring
8 84 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 80 (7.29%) OAuth
10 58 (5.28%) AngularJS
11 56 (5.10%) PySpark
12 52 (4.74%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (4.28%) .NET Core
14 47 (4.28%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.19%) JSON
16 45 (4.10%) FastAPI
17 43 (3.92%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.28%) JWT
19 35 (3.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 286 (26.05%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.64%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.28%) NHS
7 22 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.91%) Replication
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.73%) IoT
16 8 (0.73%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.11%) Linux
2 15 (1.37%) Unix
3 12 (1.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (61.57%) CI/CD
2 566 (51.55%) DevOps
3 425 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (32.60%) Agile
5 306 (27.87%) Microservices
6 277 (25.23%) Containerisation
7 192 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (16.76%) AI
9 166 (15.12%) Analytics
10 164 (14.94%) Observability
11 159 (14.48%) Event-Driven
12 153 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
13 150 (13.66%) Software Engineering
14 147 (13.39%) Data Modelling
15 139 (12.66%) Test Automation
16 132 (12.02%) ETL
17 124 (11.29%) Data Engineering
18 114 (10.38%) Migration
19 104 (9.47%) Mentoring
20 102 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 525 (47.81%) Python
2 312 (28.42%) SQL
3 170 (15.48%) Java
4 156 (14.21%) C#
4 156 (14.21%) TypeScript
5 155 (14.12%) JavaScript
6 72 (6.56%) Bash
7 56 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.55%) Bicep
9 48 (4.37%) Go
10 33 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.46%) Ruby
12 12 (1.09%) Scala
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
14 8 (0.73%) C++
14 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 284 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 220 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.46%) Degree
5 45 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 33 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) 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 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.28%) QA
3 34 (3.10%) GDPR
4 33 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.73%) NIST
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.91%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.36%) HL7
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.27%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 313 (28.51%) Docker
2 34 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) Squid
5 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 473 (43.08%) Terraform
2 287 (26.14%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.47%) Grafana
4 114 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 86 (7.83%) Ansible
6 25 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.09%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Rancher
12 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.36%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 186 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.56%) Databricks
3 42 (3.83%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.64%) Splunk
5 39 (3.55%) Oracle
6 29 (2.64%) Google
7 20 (1.82%) Foundry
7 20 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.00%) Lotus
9 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.91%) Kofax
10 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.82%) IBM
11 9 (0.82%) Palantir
12 8 (0.73%) Brio
12 8 (0.73%) Confluent
12 8 (0.73%) SAP
12 8 (0.73%) Sybase