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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -41 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,069 827 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.51% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 6.68% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 597 508
10th Percentile £400 £394 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £751 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 19,042 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,638 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 293 195
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -35.77% +15.38%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -28 874 £525 +1.45% 905
London -13 524 £550 - 550
UK excluding London -52 397 £500 - 457
Work from Home -33 344 £537 +4.27% 437
North of England -58 131 £500 +5.26% 141
Midlands -19 86 £428 -13.64% 52
West Midlands -21 67 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -40 65 £588 +23.68% 96
Scotland -14 57 £450 -11.76% 51
South East -51 51 £600 +41.18% 77
South West -19 46 £500 -8.05% 68
Yorkshire -46 46 £500 +5.04% 28
East of England -33 20 £515 - 23
North East -36 20 £463 +4.52% 17
East Midlands -11 19 £419 -5.42% 26
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 31
Wales -9 4 £481 -16.34% 15

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 55 (5.14%) Confluence
2 51 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.65%) Apache
5 35 (3.27%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.84%) SAS
8 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 8 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.56%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.37%) CICS
11 4 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.094%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 835 (78.11%) AWS
2 675 (63.14%) AWS Lambda
3 448 (41.91%) Amazon S3
4 376 (35.17%) Azure
5 237 (22.17%) GitHub
6 227 (21.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 195 (18.24%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.77%) Amazon ECS
9 165 (15.43%) Amazon EC2
10 164 (15.34%) Amazon EKS
11 163 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 158 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
13 153 (14.31%) Amazon SQS
14 131 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
15 128 (11.97%) Power Platform
16 119 (11.13%) AWS Step Functions
17 107 (10.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 104 (9.73%) Amazon EventBridge
19 82 (7.67%) Azure Logic Apps
20 76 (7.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.27%) Firewall
2 28 (2.62%) Network Security
3 27 (2.53%) DNS
4 16 (1.50%) VPN
5 13 (1.22%) HTTP
6 12 (1.12%) WAN
7 8 (0.75%) SSL
8 6 (0.56%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.37%) SMS
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.19%) DHCP
12 2 (0.19%) Internet
12 2 (0.19%) SAN
12 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (16.37%) DynamoDB
2 169 (15.81%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.13%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 90 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (7.67%) Power BI
7 68 (6.36%) NoSQL
8 60 (5.61%) Data Lake
9 57 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 56 (5.24%) MySQL
11 54 (5.05%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.37%) MongoDB
13 35 (3.27%) Metadata
14 28 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (2.34%) Delta Lake
16 24 (2.25%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
18 19 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
18 19 (1.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 201 (18.80%) Git
2 141 (13.19%) GitLab
3 138 (12.91%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.02%) JIRA
5 33 (3.09%) Cypress.io
6 32 (2.99%) Claude Code
7 28 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.34%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.78%) Selenium
10 17 (1.59%) JUnit
10 17 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.31%) Mockito
11 14 (1.31%) Postman
12 11 (1.03%) Maven
13 10 (0.94%) RStudio
14 9 (0.84%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 251 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 182 (17.03%) Public Sector
3 159 (14.87%) Finance
4 81 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (3.84%) Banking
7 17 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.31%) Marketing
8 14 (1.31%) Military
9 13 (1.22%) Back Office
9 13 (1.22%) Legal
10 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.12%) Law
11 11 (1.03%) Billing
12 9 (0.84%) Front Office
13 8 (0.75%) Retail
14 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (23.01%) Developer
2 210 (19.64%) Senior
3 197 (18.43%) Architect
4 175 (16.37%) AWS Engineer
5 136 (12.72%) Data Engineer
6 121 (11.32%) Lead
7 85 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (5.99%) AWS Architect
9 60 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.40%) Technical Architect
13 46 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
14 44 (4.12%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
15 42 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.93%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
17 39 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (39.76%) Terraform
2 190 (17.77%) REST
3 130 (12.16%) .NET
4 127 (11.88%) React
5 120 (11.23%) Node.js
6 103 (9.64%) Kafka
7 102 (9.54%) RESTful
8 81 (7.58%) AWS CDK
9 76 (7.11%) PySpark
10 69 (6.45%) Spring Boot
11 68 (6.36%) Spring
12 63 (5.89%) GraphQL
13 54 (5.05%) OAuth
14 53 (4.96%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.84%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.84%) JSON
16 37 (3.46%) CSS
16 37 (3.46%) OAuth2
17 34 (3.18%) Flask
17 34 (3.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 330 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 77 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (6.27%) AI Agents
5 35 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.62%) NHS
8 25 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.68%) IVR
12 17 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
16 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
16 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.83%) Linux
2 28 (2.62%) Unix
3 16 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.40%) Windows
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Android
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (61.46%) CI/CD
2 469 (43.87%) DevOps
3 415 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 403 (37.70%) Agile
5 261 (24.42%) AI
6 252 (23.57%) Event-Driven
7 242 (22.64%) Microservices
8 212 (19.83%) Containerisation
9 198 (18.52%) Observability
10 176 (16.46%) Test Automation
11 175 (16.37%) Data Modelling
12 173 (16.18%) Analytics
13 169 (15.81%) Software Engineering
14 163 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 160 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
16 157 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
17 152 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 146 (13.66%) Data Engineering
19 144 (13.47%) Migration
20 142 (13.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 494 (46.21%) Python
2 312 (29.19%) SQL
3 185 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 164 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 149 (13.94%) C#
6 145 (13.56%) Java
7 80 (7.48%) Bash
8 47 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.02%) Bicep
10 35 (3.27%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.50%) Scala
12 14 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.03%) Go
13 11 (1.03%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) R
15 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.56%) Ruby
15 6 (0.56%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 282 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 241 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.71%) Degree
5 51 (4.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.65%) CISSP
17 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.13%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.58%) QA
3 49 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.84%) GDPR
5 30 (2.81%) WCAG
6 18 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) PMO
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 275 (25.72%) Docker
2 38 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 251 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.14%) Grafana
3 68 (6.36%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.24%) Ansible
5 14 (1.31%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
10 6 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 201 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.11%) Databricks
3 49 (4.58%) Oracle
4 44 (4.12%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.81%) Google
6 29 (2.71%) Dynatrace
6 29 (2.71%) Informatica
7 27 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.53%) Splunk
8 16 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.12%) Foundry
11 11 (1.03%) Brio
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 9 (0.84%) SAP
14 8 (0.75%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday
16 4 (0.37%) New Relic