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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 104 135
Rank change year-on-year +3 +31 -37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,103 771 801
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.58% 2.52% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.89% 6.64% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 569 602
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -2.33%
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 16,017 11,619 14,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.50% 37.91% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,958 7,942 10,484
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £635
90th Percentile £700 £726 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £495
% change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 187 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.15 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.45 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +76.53% +34.33% -18.18%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +7 873 £506 -8.00% 376
London +3 515 £513 -9.29% 179
UK excluding London -14 397 £500 -2.39% 262
Work from Home -26 303 £525 -1.87% 243
North of England +10 174 £500 - 87
North West -6 81 £450 -9.09% 45
Yorkshire +1 79 £500 - 34
Midlands -24 68 £525 +16.67% 29
Scotland +5 64 £403 -19.50% 12
West Midlands -18 51 £525 +9.15% 17
South East -56 51 £513 -10.87% 71
South West -27 30 £625 -1.96% 44
East of England -2 28 £560 -12.16% 22
East Midlands -25 17 £479 +5.39% 12
North East -5 15 £500 -18.03% 10
Wales -6 5 £481 -3.75% 1
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 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 52 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.90%) Apache
2 43 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 26 (2.36%) Confluence
5 14 (1.27%) nginx
6 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.91%) Mendix
7 10 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.091%) JBoss
10 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 803 (72.80%) AWS
2 634 (57.48%) AWS Lambda
3 407 (36.90%) Amazon S3
4 406 (36.81%) Azure
5 244 (22.12%) Azure Functions
6 243 (22.03%) GitHub
7 224 (20.31%) Amazon ECS
8 209 (18.95%) Amazon EC2
8 209 (18.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 193 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 189 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
11 176 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
12 175 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
13 117 (10.61%) Power Platform
14 113 (10.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 108 (9.79%) Azure Logic Apps
16 93 (8.43%) AWS Step Functions
17 88 (7.98%) Azure Service Bus
17 88 (7.98%) GCP
18 82 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.54%) Firewall
2 32 (2.90%) DNS
3 28 (2.54%) VPN
4 11 (1.00%) HTTP
4 11 (1.00%) Network Security
4 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 10 (0.91%) SSL
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.54%) SMS
9 5 (0.45%) IPsec
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
10 3 (0.27%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.091%) 4G
12 1 (0.091%) BGP
12 1 (0.091%) Internet
12 1 (0.091%) MQTT
12 1 (0.091%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.69%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (12.51%) PostgreSQL
3 134 (12.15%) DynamoDB
4 97 (8.79%) NoSQL
5 77 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (6.44%) Power BI
7 68 (6.17%) Data Lake
8 65 (5.89%) Amazon Athena
9 62 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 53 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
11 50 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (3.54%) MongoDB
13 38 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 34 (3.08%) Redis
15 30 (2.72%) SQL Server
15 30 (2.72%) Tableau
16 27 (2.45%) MySQL
17 26 (2.36%) Big Data
18 25 (2.27%) Metadata
19 23 (2.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (16.68%) Git
2 171 (15.50%) GitLab
3 168 (15.23%) Jenkins
4 55 (4.99%) JIRA
5 30 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.99%) JUnit
6 22 (1.99%) Liquibase
7 19 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.72%) MLflow
8 16 (1.45%) Mockito
9 15 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 13 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Mocha
14 8 (0.73%) Postman
14 8 (0.73%) Selenium
15 7 (0.63%) NUnit
16 6 (0.54%) Jasmine
General
1 258 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 208 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 155 (14.05%) Finance
4 75 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.44%) Banking
6 28 (2.54%) Financial Institution
7 26 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Military
11 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.63%) Legal
11 7 (0.63%) Retail
12 6 (0.54%) Front Office
13 4 (0.36%) Aviation
13 4 (0.36%) Billing
13 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 285 (25.84%) Developer
2 163 (14.78%) Senior
3 158 (14.32%) Architect
4 154 (13.96%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.24%) Data Engineer
6 97 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.80%) Lead
8 75 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 71 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.99%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 49 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
14 46 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.90%) Java Developer
15 43 (3.90%) Python Engineer
16 42 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.72%) AWS Developer
17 41 (3.72%) Senior Developer
18 36 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (16.23%) Node.js
2 154 (13.96%) REST
3 137 (12.42%) .NET
3 137 (12.42%) React
4 133 (12.06%) RESTful
5 126 (11.42%) Kafka
6 83 (7.52%) Spring
7 81 (7.34%) Spring Boot
8 80 (7.25%) OAuth
9 58 (5.26%) AWS CDK
10 54 (4.90%) AngularJS
11 52 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
11 52 (4.71%) FastAPI
12 51 (4.62%) PySpark
13 47 (4.26%) GraphQL
14 46 (4.17%) .NET Core
14 46 (4.17%) OAuth2
15 44 (3.99%) JSON
16 39 (3.54%) JWT
17 34 (3.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 284 (25.75%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.81%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 23 (2.09%) NHS
8 20 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.54%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 7 (0.63%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.16%) Linux
2 13 (1.18%) Unix
3 10 (0.91%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Android
7 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (59.93%) CI/CD
2 563 (51.04%) DevOps
3 423 (38.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 364 (33.00%) Agile
5 311 (28.20%) Microservices
6 280 (25.39%) Containerisation
7 199 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
8 196 (17.77%) AI
9 161 (14.60%) Analytics
10 160 (14.51%) Data Pipeline
10 160 (14.51%) Software Engineering
11 156 (14.14%) Observability
12 151 (13.69%) Data Modelling
13 145 (13.15%) Event-Driven
14 132 (11.97%) Test Automation
15 128 (11.60%) ETL
16 121 (10.97%) Data Engineering
17 116 (10.52%) Migration
18 112 (10.15%) Machine Learning
18 112 (10.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 547 (49.59%) Python
2 306 (27.74%) SQL
3 171 (15.50%) Java
4 156 (14.14%) C#
5 154 (13.96%) JavaScript
6 149 (13.51%) TypeScript
7 70 (6.35%) Bash
8 56 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 54 (4.90%) Go
10 48 (4.35%) Bicep
11 31 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.36%) Ruby
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
13 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.91%) Scala
15 8 (0.73%) C++
15 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 271 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.07%) AWS Certification
4 54 (4.90%) Degree
5 44 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 30 (2.72%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.27%) PhD
16 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.091%) CCSP
17 1 (0.091%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 55 (4.99%) QA
3 36 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.90%) GDPR
5 21 (1.90%) NIST
5 21 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.09%) WCAG
8 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.82%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.63%) PMO
11 5 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.36%) HL7
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.36%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 308 (27.92%) Docker
2 32 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) Squid
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.45%) RACF
6 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 466 (42.25%) Terraform
2 297 (26.93%) Kubernetes
3 121 (10.97%) Grafana
4 115 (10.43%) Prometheus
5 94 (8.52%) Ansible
6 22 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.27%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.63%) Consul
9 7 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.36%) linkerd
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
12 3 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 191 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.89%) Databricks
3 46 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 39 (3.54%) Splunk
5 37 (3.35%) Google
6 36 (3.26%) Oracle
7 26 (2.36%) Foundry
8 16 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) IBM
11 11 (1.00%) Lotus
12 10 (0.91%) Confluent
12 10 (0.91%) Kofax
12 10 (0.91%) Palantir
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 9 (0.82%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.73%) Cisco