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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 117 127
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 934 763 922
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.08% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.83% 5.89% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 527 666
10th Percentile £380 £375 £405
25th Percentile £419 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.50% -10.04%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -6.61% -0.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,679 12,946 16,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.49% 35.28% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,258 8,540 11,784
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 172 314
10th Percentile £15.23 £18.58 £14.53
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.59 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +46.14%
75th Percentile £47.03 £60.15 £61.41
90th Percentile £72.35 £70.00 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.86% +41.11% +18.42%

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 14 November 2025.

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
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 14 November 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 +14 750 £508 -7.73% 657
London +10 405 £525 -4.55% 338
UK excluding London +1 379 £488 -6.61% 362
Work from Home +12 311 £525 +2.44% 424
North of England +20 149 £500 -1.38% 144
Yorkshire +18 89 £500 -4.31% 39
Midlands +10 69 £500 - 36
Scotland -14 61 £450 -5.26% 27
North West -3 54 £475 +4.91% 98
West Midlands +1 51 £523 -0.48% 22
South East -47 44 £425 -32.00% 93
East of England +11 37 £525 -7.89% 16
South West -12 34 £575 -10.51% 36
East Midlands -6 18 £411 -8.61% 14
North East -9 7 £466 -23.61% 7
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 5
Wales -6 2 £569 +8.33% 9

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 42 (4.50%) Apache
2 32 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.32%) Confluence
4 24 (2.57%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.39%) CMS
6 12 (1.28%) nginx
7 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) FileNet
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 695 (74.41%) AWS
2 559 (59.85%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (37.79%) Amazon S3
4 284 (30.41%) Azure
5 191 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 185 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 180 (19.27%) GitHub
8 173 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
9 165 (17.67%) Amazon ECS
10 160 (17.13%) Azure Functions
11 119 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
12 114 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (11.35%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (9.96%) Amazon SQS
14 93 (9.96%) GCP
15 83 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 78 (8.35%) Azure Logic Apps
17 69 (7.39%) AWS Step Functions
18 60 (6.42%) Power Platform
19 57 (6.10%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.32%) Firewall
2 27 (2.89%) VPN
3 23 (2.46%) DNS
4 12 (1.28%) Network Security
4 12 (1.28%) SSL
5 6 (0.64%) DHCP
5 6 (0.64%) HTTP
5 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.32%) DKIM
7 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.21%) SSH
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.11%) Internet
9 1 (0.11%) MPLS
9 1 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (17.88%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (14.67%) DynamoDB
3 135 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (9.74%) NoSQL
5 64 (6.85%) Relational Database
6 60 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
8 49 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 41 (4.39%) Power BI
11 31 (3.32%) Data Lake
12 30 (3.21%) Big Data
13 29 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.10%) MySQL
14 27 (2.89%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.89%) Redis
15 26 (2.78%) SQL Server
16 20 (2.14%) RDBMS
16 20 (2.14%) Tableau
17 16 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 166 (17.77%) Jenkins
2 165 (17.67%) Git
3 122 (13.06%) GitLab
4 85 (9.10%) JIRA
5 39 (4.18%) Liquibase
6 28 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.57%) JUnit
8 21 (2.25%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.71%) Mockito
9 16 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.50%) Postman
11 14 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.39%) Maven
13 11 (1.18%) MLflow
14 10 (1.07%) Selenium
14 10 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.75%) Gradle
16 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
16 5 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 244 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 155 (16.60%) Public Sector
3 120 (12.85%) Finance
4 74 (7.92%) Banking
5 61 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.71%) Marketing
9 9 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.75%) Front Office
10 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (0.64%) Military
11 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Publishing
13 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Local Government
13 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 253 (27.09%) Developer
2 147 (15.74%) AWS Engineer
3 144 (15.42%) Senior
4 134 (14.35%) Architect
5 111 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.31%) Software Engineer
7 75 (8.03%) Data Engineer
8 65 (6.96%) Lead
9 45 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
9 45 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.60%) AWS Architect
12 40 (4.28%) AWS Developer
12 40 (4.28%) Java Developer
13 38 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 38 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (3.96%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.75%) Python Engineer
16 31 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (16.92%) Node.js
2 148 (15.85%) RESTful
3 135 (14.45%) REST
4 133 (14.24%) React
5 99 (10.60%) .NET
6 90 (9.64%) Kafka
7 63 (6.75%) Elastic Stack
8 60 (6.42%) AWS CDK
9 49 (5.25%) OAuth
10 46 (4.93%) GraphQL
11 45 (4.82%) Spring Boot
12 44 (4.71%) Spring
13 39 (4.18%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.18%) FastAPI
14 38 (4.07%) PyTorch
15 36 (3.85%) HTML
16 32 (3.43%) JSON
16 32 (3.43%) Next.js
17 31 (3.32%) CSS
18 30 (3.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 221 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.61%) NHS
10 14 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.28%) Replication
12 12 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.07%) IVR
14 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
16 7 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 104 (11.13%) Linux
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Unix
4 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.54%) VMS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (53.00%) CI/CD
2 465 (49.79%) DevOps
3 385 (41.22%) Agile
4 314 (33.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (28.59%) Microservices
6 233 (24.95%) Containerisation
7 184 (19.70%) Software Engineering
8 172 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 142 (15.20%) AI
10 123 (13.17%) Test Automation
11 118 (12.63%) Analytics
12 111 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 110 (11.78%) Data Pipeline
14 108 (11.56%) Event-Driven
15 103 (11.03%) Mentoring
16 96 (10.28%) ETL
17 92 (9.85%) Data Modelling
18 91 (9.74%) Machine Learning
19 87 (9.31%) Scrum
20 85 (9.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 468 (50.11%) Python
2 222 (23.77%) SQL
3 163 (17.45%) Java
4 148 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 145 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 90 (9.64%) C#
7 67 (7.17%) Go
8 59 (6.32%) Bash
9 42 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.68%) Bicep
11 17 (1.82%) Ruby
11 17 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.07%) Perl
13 10 (1.07%) Scala
14 9 (0.96%) C++
15 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.64%) JSX
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 201 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 165 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.96%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.49%) Degree
5 61 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.85%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 27 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) MCP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.57%) QA
2 40 (4.28%) GDPR
3 33 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.71%) NIST
6 15 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.50%) WCAG
8 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 265 (28.37%) Docker
2 37 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 355 (38.01%) Terraform
2 262 (28.05%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.67%) Grafana
4 104 (11.13%) Prometheus
5 91 (9.74%) Ansible
6 14 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.18%) Kibana
8 10 (1.07%) Puppet
9 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.75%) Packer
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.32%) Rancher
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 148 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.35%) Google
2 50 (5.35%) Splunk
3 39 (4.18%) Databricks
4 31 (3.32%) Oracle
5 26 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.03%) Foundry
6 19 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.28%) Pega
10 11 (1.18%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.07%) IBM
11 10 (1.07%) Palantir
12 9 (0.96%) Cisco
13 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.75%) Confluent
14 6 (0.64%) Gigya
14 6 (0.64%) Greenplum