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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 109 133
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,031 742 812
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.66% 2.40% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.02% 6.48% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 532 617
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
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 14,677 11,449 15,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.09% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,102 7,587 10,774
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 172 323
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £33.73 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £59.69 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.10 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.96 £24.66 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.80% +17.51% +4.93%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +6 827 £506 -8.09% 307
London +11 481 £513 -7.66% 144
UK excluding London -18 385 £500 -3.38% 206
Work from Home -18 289 £525 +0.96% 180
North of England +26 174 £500 - 64
Yorkshire +15 85 £500 - 24
North West 0 77 £450 -6.74% 37
Midlands -19 66 £506 +12.33% 31
Scotland -7 59 £450 -10.00% 6
West Midlands 0 55 £525 +2.54% 19
South East -52 49 £500 -14.53% 54
East of England -1 27 £550 -3.93% 8
South West -30 27 £650 - 37
North East -8 12 £500 -16.32% 3
East Midlands -25 11 £434 -3.61% 12
Wales -3 4 £488 -2.50% 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 3

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 39 (3.78%) Apache
2 38 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.62%) Confluence
3 27 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.26%) nginx
5 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
6 9 (0.87%) Mendix
6 9 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.097%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.097%) FileNet
10 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.097%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 738 (71.58%) AWS
2 594 (57.61%) AWS Lambda
3 385 (37.34%) Azure
4 372 (36.08%) Amazon S3
5 236 (22.89%) GitHub
6 231 (22.41%) Azure Functions
7 206 (19.98%) Amazon ECS
8 203 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 190 (18.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 182 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
11 172 (16.68%) GitHub Actions
12 171 (16.59%) Azure DevOps
13 158 (15.32%) Amazon EKS
14 111 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 102 (9.89%) Power Platform
16 101 (9.80%) GCP
17 90 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 87 (8.44%) Amazon SQS
19 81 (7.86%) AWS Step Functions
19 81 (7.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.20%) Firewall
2 29 (2.81%) DNS
3 26 (2.52%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) Network Security
5 11 (1.07%) HTTP
5 11 (1.07%) SSL
6 10 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
7 8 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.58%) SMS
9 5 (0.48%) OpenVPN
9 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.39%) IPsec
11 3 (0.29%) LAN
11 3 (0.29%) WAN
12 2 (0.19%) MPLS
13 1 (0.097%) BGP
13 1 (0.097%) DKIM
13 1 (0.097%) MQTT
13 1 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.29%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (11.83%) DynamoDB
4 98 (9.51%) NoSQL
5 71 (6.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 64 (6.21%) Power BI
7 62 (6.01%) Data Lake
8 60 (5.82%) Amazon Athena
9 59 (5.72%) Relational Database
10 51 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (3.69%) MongoDB
13 36 (3.49%) Redis
14 34 (3.30%) MySQL
15 29 (2.81%) Big Data
16 25 (2.42%) SQL Server
16 25 (2.42%) Tableau
17 21 (2.04%) DocumentDB
18 19 (1.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 180 (17.46%) Git
2 174 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 159 (15.42%) GitLab
4 56 (5.43%) JIRA
5 28 (2.72%) Liquibase
6 24 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 18 (1.75%) JUnit
8 18 (1.75%) MLflow
9 17 (1.65%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.45%) Maven
10 15 (1.45%) Mockito
11 14 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.36%) Postman
11 14 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 12 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.07%) Gradle
14 10 (0.97%) Selenium
15 6 (0.58%) Mocha
15 6 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 244 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 196 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.68%) Finance
4 78 (7.57%) Banking
5 64 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (1.84%) Marketing
9 11 (1.07%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.87%) Military
11 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 7 (0.68%) Retail
13 5 (0.48%) Legal
14 4 (0.39%) Aviation
14 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.29%) Law
15 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 273 (26.48%) Developer
2 152 (14.74%) Senior
3 149 (14.45%) Architect
4 141 (13.68%) AWS Engineer
5 109 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (8.15%) Software Engineer
8 76 (7.37%) Lead
9 55 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 47 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 47 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
12 46 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (4.17%) AWS Architect
14 41 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 41 (3.98%) Python Engineer
15 37 (3.59%) AWS Developer
15 37 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 34 (3.30%) Data Architect
17 33 (3.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (17.85%) Node.js
2 153 (14.84%) REST
3 145 (14.06%) React
4 140 (13.58%) .NET
4 140 (13.58%) RESTful
5 123 (11.93%) Kafka
6 70 (6.79%) Spring Boot
7 69 (6.69%) OAuth
8 66 (6.40%) Spring
9 58 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
10 56 (5.43%) AWS CDK
11 50 (4.85%) .NET Core
11 50 (4.85%) FastAPI
12 47 (4.56%) AngularJS
13 42 (4.07%) JSON
14 41 (3.98%) GraphQL
14 41 (3.98%) JWT
14 41 (3.98%) PySpark
15 37 (3.59%) OAuth2
15 37 (3.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 262 (25.41%) Cloud Native
2 94 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.33%) NHS
6 22 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 20 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.07%) Replication
11 11 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
13 8 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.67%) Linux
2 11 (1.07%) Unix
3 9 (0.87%) Windows
4 5 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.39%) VMS
6 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (59.75%) CI/CD
2 524 (50.82%) DevOps
3 395 (38.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 343 (33.27%) Agile
5 291 (28.23%) Microservices
6 266 (25.80%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 175 (16.97%) AI
9 173 (16.78%) Software Engineering
10 154 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
11 152 (14.74%) Analytics
12 147 (14.26%) Event-Driven
13 127 (12.32%) Test Automation
14 123 (11.93%) Data Modelling
15 122 (11.83%) Observability
16 117 (11.35%) ETL
17 108 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
18 104 (10.09%) Mentoring
19 102 (9.89%) Machine Learning
20 100 (9.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 516 (50.05%) Python
2 275 (26.67%) SQL
3 159 (15.42%) Java
4 154 (14.94%) C#
5 148 (14.35%) JavaScript
6 146 (14.16%) TypeScript
7 64 (6.21%) Bash
8 57 (5.53%) Go
9 51 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 40 (3.88%) Bicep
11 29 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.33%) Ruby
13 11 (1.07%) Perl
14 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.87%) C++
16 8 (0.78%) Scala
17 7 (0.68%) Korn
17 7 (0.68%) PHP
17 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 201 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.72%) Degree
5 49 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.39%) Master's Degree
8 34 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (2.81%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PhD
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.95%) QA
2 50 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.98%) GDPR
4 33 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.84%) NIST
6 17 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.16%) WCAG
9 9 (0.87%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.39%) HL7
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.29%) PMO
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
12 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 296 (28.71%) Docker
2 27 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.48%) Squid
6 4 (0.39%) RACF
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 449 (43.55%) Terraform
2 297 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 116 (11.25%) Grafana
4 105 (10.18%) Prometheus
5 97 (9.41%) Ansible
6 15 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 15 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.16%) Puppet
8 8 (0.78%) Kibana
9 5 (0.48%) Consul
9 5 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.39%) Rancher
11 3 (0.29%) Argo
11 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.29%) Packer
12 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 190 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.18%) Databricks
3 46 (4.46%) Google
4 42 (4.07%) OpenAI
5 41 (3.98%) Splunk
6 32 (3.10%) Oracle
7 25 (2.42%) Foundry
8 19 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.36%) Confluent
11 13 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.26%) IBM
12 10 (0.97%) Cisco
12 10 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 10 (0.97%) Lotus
13 9 (0.87%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.87%) Kofax
13 9 (0.87%) Palantir
14 7 (0.68%) Genesys
15 6 (0.58%) Brio