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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 95 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,048 756 749
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.64% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.08% 7.01% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 576 570
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £620
90th Percentile £725 £750 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 0
10th Percentile £42.95 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £59.88 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +179.25% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 17,224 10,782 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.70% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,578 7,386 9,881
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 241 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.37 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%
75th Percentile £66.25 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.08 £72.50 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -19 836 £525 -2.23% 269
London -17 507 £525 -4.55% 146
UK excluding London -35 355 £500 - 160
Work from Home -26 297 £525 - 131
North of England -18 146 £500 - 54
North West -8 85 £505 +1.00% 32
Midlands -33 57 £491 -1.75% 22
South East -41 53 £588 +17.50% 37
Yorkshire -26 48 £500 - 18
West Midlands -34 45 £488 -4.79% 13
Scotland -25 44 £444 -15.48% 11
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 26
East of England -24 26 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -19 14 £475 - 5
East Midlands -25 12 £500 - 9
Wales -8 6 £475 -17.43% 5
Northern Ireland +5 4 £190 -62.00% 1

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 46 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.20%) Confluence
3 41 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 26 (2.48%) Apache
6 17 (1.62%) nginx
7 10 (0.95%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.95%) Mendix
8 6 (0.57%) CICS
9 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.48%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.095%) JBoss
11 1 (0.095%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 791 (75.48%) AWS
2 616 (58.78%) AWS Lambda
3 408 (38.93%) Amazon S3
4 381 (36.35%) Azure
5 237 (22.61%) GitHub
6 208 (19.85%) Azure Functions
7 192 (18.32%) Amazon EC2
8 177 (16.89%) Amazon ECS
9 175 (16.70%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 167 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
12 147 (14.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 136 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
14 117 (11.16%) Amazon SQS
15 114 (10.88%) Power Platform
16 109 (10.40%) AWS Step Functions
17 105 (10.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 96 (9.16%) Azure Logic Apps
19 91 (8.68%) Azure Service Bus
20 72 (6.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.05%) DNS
2 27 (2.58%) Firewall
3 19 (1.81%) VPN
4 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) HTTP
5 12 (1.15%) Network Security
5 12 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.76%) SSL
8 7 (0.67%) SMS
9 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
11 4 (0.38%) WAN
12 3 (0.29%) FTP
12 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.29%) MQTT
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) CTI
14 1 (0.095%) BGP
14 1 (0.095%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (14.69%) DynamoDB
2 137 (13.07%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
5 78 (7.44%) NoSQL
6 75 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (6.87%) Power BI
8 60 (5.73%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (4.29%) SQL Server
12 39 (3.72%) Relational Database
13 33 (3.15%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.96%) Metadata
14 31 (2.96%) MySQL
15 29 (2.77%) Tableau
16 27 (2.58%) Big Data
17 24 (2.29%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 159 (15.17%) Git
2 140 (13.36%) GitLab
3 125 (11.93%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.01%) JIRA
5 25 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.62%) Cucumber
6 17 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.43%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.05%) JUnit
10 9 (0.86%) Vite
11 8 (0.76%) MLflow
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
12 7 (0.67%) Mocha
12 7 (0.67%) MSTest
13 6 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.57%) Gatling
13 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.57%) Snyk
13 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 168 (16.03%) Public Sector
3 137 (13.07%) Finance
4 58 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.96%) Banking
6 30 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.43%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.86%) Marketing
11 8 (0.76%) Military
11 8 (0.76%) Retail
12 7 (0.67%) Law
13 6 (0.57%) Police
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.48%) Billing
14 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.38%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (25.10%) Developer
2 192 (18.32%) Architect
3 151 (14.41%) Senior
4 144 (13.74%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 96 (9.16%) Lead
7 69 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.30%) Software Engineer
9 63 (6.01%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.06%) AWS Developer
12 49 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (4.48%) Senior Developer
14 47 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.29%) Python Engineer
16 44 (4.20%) Technical Architect
17 43 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
18 41 (3.91%) Python Developer
19 38 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.45%) React
2 136 (12.98%) Node.js
2 136 (12.98%) REST
3 129 (12.31%) Kafka
4 124 (11.83%) .NET
5 104 (9.92%) RESTful
6 75 (7.16%) Spring
7 74 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 73 (6.97%) OAuth
9 68 (6.49%) PySpark
10 60 (5.73%) AWS CDK
11 52 (4.96%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.87%) AngularJS
13 49 (4.68%) JSON
14 45 (4.29%) FastAPI
15 44 (4.20%) OAuth2
16 42 (4.01%) .NET Core
17 41 (3.91%) OpenID
18 37 (3.53%) Next.js
19 30 (2.86%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 297 (28.34%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.19%) NHS
7 17 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.76%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.73%) Linux
2 23 (2.19%) Unix
3 10 (0.95%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Android
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (60.11%) CI/CD
2 477 (45.52%) DevOps
3 386 (36.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 343 (32.73%) Agile
5 260 (24.81%) Microservices
6 228 (21.76%) Containerisation
7 189 (18.03%) AI
7 189 (18.03%) Event-Driven
8 169 (16.13%) Observability
9 148 (14.12%) Data Modelling
10 147 (14.03%) Analytics
11 138 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (12.98%) ETL
14 134 (12.79%) Software Engineering
15 132 (12.60%) Test Automation
16 114 (10.88%) Migration
17 112 (10.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 107 (10.21%) Data Engineering
18 107 (10.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 449 (42.84%) Python
2 290 (27.67%) SQL
3 163 (15.55%) C#
4 162 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 147 (14.03%) Java
5 147 (14.03%) JavaScript
6 53 (5.06%) Bash
7 45 (4.29%) Bicep
8 38 (3.63%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.44%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.00%) Go
11 20 (1.91%) Scala
12 15 (1.43%) Ruby
13 10 (0.95%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.95%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) Groovy
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 257 (24.52%) Security Cleared
2 207 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.44%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.67%) Degree
8 26 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.29%) QA
3 26 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.29%) GDPR
5 19 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.43%) NIST
7 12 (1.15%) WCAG
8 7 (0.67%) PMO
9 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.57%) NCSC
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.38%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) HL7
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.095%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.095%) NIST 800
System Software
1 262 (25.00%) Docker
2 29 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.05%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 414 (39.50%) Terraform
2 240 (22.90%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.73%) Grafana
4 89 (8.49%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.68%) Ansible
6 29 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.34%) Puppet
8 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Istio
11 6 (0.57%) Kibana
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 157 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.87%) Databricks
3 47 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.20%) Oracle
5 25 (2.39%) Splunk
6 20 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.34%) Google
8 12 (1.15%) Foundry
8 12 (1.15%) Informatica
9 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.95%) Brio
10 10 (0.95%) Confluent
10 10 (0.95%) Kofax
10 10 (0.95%) Lotus
10 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.95%) SAP
10 10 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.95%) Tenable
11 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.57%) Qualys