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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,053 826 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.51% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 6.74% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 610 515
10th Percentile £388 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £632
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £538
% change year-on-year +1.21% -8.09% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £34.08 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,767 12,254 13,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.21% 37.23% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,215 9,213
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 310 274
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £52.73
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -28 848 £525 - 454
London -20 495 £550 - 288
UK excluding London -33 392 £500 +1.21% 221
Work from Home -25 340 £518 -0.48% 203
North of England -37 135 £500 +4.17% 72
Midlands -10 81 £481 +9.94% 25
North West -38 69 £550 +15.79% 37
West Midlands -12 66 £477 +12.24% 16
Scotland +2 57 £428 -14.50% 18
South West -28 48 £542 +5.71% 36
South East -51 46 £600 +33.33% 47
Yorkshire -41 45 £500 +2.56% 21
East of England -17 24 £525 - 9
North East -27 21 £463 +0.54% 14
East Midlands -6 15 £488 +8.32% 9
Northern Ireland +5 4 £283 -43.50% 7
Wales -9 3 £550 -4.39% 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 52 (4.94%) Confluence
2 45 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.13%) Apache
5 19 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 826 (78.44%) AWS
2 662 (62.87%) AWS Lambda
3 449 (42.64%) Amazon S3
4 348 (33.05%) Azure
5 217 (20.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 206 (19.56%) GitHub
7 195 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
8 186 (17.66%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (16.05%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
13 124 (11.78%) Amazon SQS
14 117 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 117 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 107 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
15 107 (10.16%) Power Platform
16 81 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
17 78 (7.41%) GCP
18 73 (6.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.42%) Firewall
2 28 (2.66%) DNS
3 24 (2.28%) Network Security
4 19 (1.80%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 12 (1.14%) HTTP
7 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.47%) SSL
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) SMS
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.095%) IPsec
11 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.24%) DynamoDB
2 155 (14.72%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.88%) Power BI
7 74 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.84%) NoSQL
9 54 (5.13%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 43 (4.08%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (3.61%) MySQL
13 34 (3.23%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.13%) MongoDB
15 32 (3.04%) Metadata
16 24 (2.28%) Tableau
17 21 (1.99%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
18 17 (1.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 179 (17.00%) Git
2 137 (13.01%) Jenkins
3 136 (12.92%) GitLab
4 74 (7.03%) JIRA
5 31 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 27 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 26 (2.47%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.33%) JUnit
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
12 11 (1.04%) Selenium
13 9 (0.85%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.76%) Vite
15 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.66%) Gatling
15 7 (0.66%) MSTest
15 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 232 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.87%) Finance
4 72 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.23%) Banking
6 27 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.42%) Legal
9 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Law
9 11 (1.04%) Retail
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
10 10 (0.95%) Marketing
11 9 (0.85%) Back Office
12 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (24.03%) Developer
2 196 (18.61%) Architect
3 191 (18.14%) Senior
4 176 (16.71%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (10.92%) Data Engineer
6 108 (10.26%) Lead
7 70 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.27%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 60 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 54 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.27%) Senior Developer
15 44 (4.18%) Python Developer
16 43 (4.08%) Technical Architect
17 41 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
17 41 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
18 40 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
19 39 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (13.77%) REST
2 130 (12.35%) React
3 127 (12.06%) Node.js
4 113 (10.73%) .NET
5 110 (10.45%) RESTful
6 104 (9.88%) Kafka
7 78 (7.41%) AWS CDK
8 72 (6.84%) PySpark
9 64 (6.08%) Spring
9 64 (6.08%) Spring Boot
10 62 (5.89%) GraphQL
11 54 (5.13%) OAuth
12 46 (4.37%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.18%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.80%) JSON
15 36 (3.42%) OAuth2
16 35 (3.32%) OpenID
17 34 (3.23%) CSS
18 33 (3.13%) Flask
18 33 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 321 (30.48%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 69 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.32%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.66%) NHS
6 26 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.42%) IVR
10 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.04%) IoT
13 11 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.41%) Linux
2 25 (2.37%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 14 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (60.21%) CI/CD
2 445 (42.26%) DevOps
3 396 (37.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 394 (37.42%) Agile
5 266 (25.26%) Microservices
6 234 (22.22%) AI
7 221 (20.99%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.61%) Containerisation
9 183 (17.38%) Observability
10 166 (15.76%) Test Automation
11 161 (15.29%) Data Modelling
12 158 (15.00%) Analytics
13 146 (13.87%) Software Engineering
14 145 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
15 138 (13.11%) ETL
16 135 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 133 (12.63%) Migration
18 129 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
18 129 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
19 124 (11.78%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 460 (43.68%) Python
2 304 (28.87%) SQL
3 179 (17.00%) TypeScript
4 151 (14.34%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.92%) Java
6 129 (12.25%) C#
7 74 (7.03%) Bash
8 40 (3.80%) Bicep
9 37 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 15 (1.42%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 288 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 235 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (4.18%) Degree
6 37 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 51 (4.84%) QA
3 39 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.13%) GDPR
5 26 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.09%) WCAG
7 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.04%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) SLA
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 267 (25.36%) Docker
2 33 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 406 (38.56%) Terraform
2 239 (22.70%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.64%) Grafana
4 76 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.37%) Ansible
6 16 (1.52%) Puppet
6 16 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.66%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Packer
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.47%) Salt
12 4 (0.38%) Consul
12 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.38%) Kibana
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 150 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.32%) Databricks
3 36 (3.42%) Oracle
4 32 (3.04%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.66%) Dynatrace
5 28 (2.66%) Informatica
6 25 (2.37%) Google
6 25 (2.37%) Splunk
7 23 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.14%) SAP
10 10 (0.95%) Brio
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 7 (0.66%) Confluent
12 7 (0.66%) New Relic
13 5 (0.47%) Denodo
13 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.47%) Workday
14 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA