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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 95 134
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,046 753 749
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.64% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 6.99% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 575 570
10th Percentile £371 £400 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £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 1 0
10th Percentile £42.95 - -
25th Percentile £59.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +111.43% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £89.40 - -
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 17,337 10,775 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.57% 37.71% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,387 9,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 238 344
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.10 £72.50 £66.63
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -23 834 £525 -2.78% 269
London -16 507 £525 -4.55% 145
UK excluding London -39 354 £500 - 160
Work from Home -31 298 £525 - 132
North of England -19 144 £500 - 54
North West -15 83 £508 +1.50% 30
Midlands -40 57 £491 -1.75% 22
South East -39 53 £575 +15.00% 39
Yorkshire -24 47 £500 - 19
Scotland -23 45 £450 -14.29% 11
West Midlands -33 45 £488 -4.79% 13
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 23
East of England -18 25 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -20 15 £475 - 5
East Midlands -27 12 £500 - 9
Wales -13 6 £475 -17.43% 5
Northern Ireland +6 5 £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 48 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.21%) Confluence
3 43 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.68%) Apache
5 27 (2.58%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.63%) nginx
7 10 (0.96%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.96%) Mendix
8 6 (0.57%) CICS
9 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.096%) JBoss
12 1 (0.096%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 794 (75.91%) AWS
2 621 (59.37%) AWS Lambda
3 414 (39.58%) Amazon S3
4 377 (36.04%) Azure
5 236 (22.56%) GitHub
6 204 (19.50%) Azure Functions
7 190 (18.16%) Amazon EC2
8 175 (16.73%) Amazon ECS
8 175 (16.73%) Amazon EKS
9 173 (16.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 165 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
11 149 (14.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 133 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
13 114 (10.90%) Amazon SQS
14 113 (10.80%) Power Platform
15 110 (10.52%) AWS Step Functions
16 105 (10.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 93 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
18 90 (8.60%) Azure Service Bus
19 72 (6.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.15%) DNS
2 28 (2.68%) Firewall
3 20 (1.91%) VPN
4 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 11 (1.05%) HTTP
6 11 (1.05%) Network Security
7 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.86%) SSL
8 7 (0.67%) SMS
9 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
10 5 (0.48%) WAN
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) MQTT
13 1 (0.096%) 5G
13 1 (0.096%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (15.01%) DynamoDB
2 136 (13.00%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 74 (7.07%) NoSQL
7 71 (6.79%) Power BI
8 61 (5.83%) Data Lake
9 53 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.30%) SQL Server
12 44 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (3.54%) Relational Database
14 31 (2.96%) Metadata
14 31 (2.96%) MySQL
15 29 (2.77%) MongoDB
15 29 (2.77%) Tableau
16 27 (2.58%) Big Data
17 25 (2.39%) Delta Lake
18 23 (2.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (15.01%) Git
2 137 (13.10%) GitLab
3 126 (12.05%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.02%) JIRA
5 25 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.43%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.05%) JUnit
11 9 (0.86%) Vite
12 8 (0.76%) MLflow
12 8 (0.76%) Postman
13 7 (0.67%) Mocha
13 7 (0.67%) MSTest
14 6 (0.57%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.57%) Gatling
14 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
14 6 (0.57%) Snyk
14 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 232 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.97%) Public Sector
3 137 (13.10%) Finance
4 58 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.68%) Banking
7 15 (1.43%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.76%) Marketing
10 8 (0.76%) Military
10 8 (0.76%) Retail
11 7 (0.67%) Law
12 6 (0.57%) Police
12 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.48%) Billing
14 4 (0.38%) Front Office
14 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (24.86%) Developer
2 194 (18.55%) Architect
3 150 (14.34%) Senior
4 145 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 97 (9.27%) Lead
7 70 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.21%) AWS Architect
10 53 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.97%) AWS Developer
12 49 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
14 46 (4.40%) Senior Developer
15 45 (4.30%) Python Engineer
15 45 (4.30%) Technical Architect
16 43 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
17 41 (3.92%) Python Developer
18 38 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (13.29%) React
2 135 (12.91%) REST
3 129 (12.33%) Node.js
4 126 (12.05%) Kafka
5 120 (11.47%) .NET
6 104 (9.94%) RESTful
7 74 (7.07%) Spring
7 74 (7.07%) Spring Boot
8 72 (6.88%) OAuth
9 70 (6.69%) PySpark
10 60 (5.74%) AWS CDK
11 53 (5.07%) GraphQL
12 50 (4.78%) AngularJS
13 46 (4.40%) JSON
14 45 (4.30%) FastAPI
15 43 (4.11%) OAuth2
16 41 (3.92%) OpenID
17 39 (3.73%) .NET Core
18 36 (3.44%) Next.js
19 30 (2.87%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 301 (28.78%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 53 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.06%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.10%) NHS
7 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.74%) Linux
2 23 (2.20%) Unix
3 11 (1.05%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) VMS
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (59.94%) CI/CD
2 470 (44.93%) DevOps
3 385 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (32.50%) Agile
5 260 (24.86%) Microservices
6 224 (21.41%) Containerisation
7 191 (18.26%) Event-Driven
8 186 (17.78%) AI
9 170 (16.25%) Observability
10 146 (13.96%) Analytics
10 146 (13.96%) Data Modelling
11 138 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (13.10%) ETL
13 135 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (12.91%) Software Engineering
14 132 (12.62%) Test Automation
15 115 (10.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 114 (10.90%) Migration
17 107 (10.23%) Data Engineering
17 107 (10.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 449 (42.93%) Python
2 289 (27.63%) SQL
3 162 (15.49%) TypeScript
4 159 (15.20%) C#
5 145 (13.86%) Java
6 143 (13.67%) JavaScript
7 54 (5.16%) Bash
8 44 (4.21%) Bicep
9 40 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.91%) Go
11 20 (1.91%) Scala
12 15 (1.43%) Ruby
13 10 (0.96%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.96%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.67%) Groovy
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 258 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 208 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 41 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (2.58%) Degree
8 25 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.96%) 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 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.21%) QA
3 27 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.39%) GDPR
4 25 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.82%) 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%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) HL7
14 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
System Software
1 261 (24.95%) Docker
2 29 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.15%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 411 (39.29%) Terraform
2 241 (23.04%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.46%) Grafana
4 86 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.59%) Ansible
6 29 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.43%) Puppet
8 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
9 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Kibana
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.48%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.29%) Packer
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.88%) Databricks
3 47 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 41 (3.92%) Oracle
5 24 (2.29%) Splunk
6 20 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.53%) Google
8 12 (1.15%) Foundry
8 12 (1.15%) Informatica
8 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.96%) Confluent
9 10 (0.96%) Kofax
9 10 (0.96%) Lotus
9 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.96%) Tenable
10 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.86%) Brio
10 9 (0.86%) SAP
11 6 (0.57%) Sybase