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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 115 122
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 962 766 905
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.66% 2.09% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 5.87% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 529 665
10th Percentile £380 £377 £400
25th Percentile £416 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +3.38% -11.33%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £43.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £45.63 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,854 13,039 16,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.35% 35.54% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,375 8,581 11,462
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £703 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 194 301
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%
75th Percentile £51.83 £54.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.09%

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 November 2025.

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
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 November 2025. 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 +16 771 £500 -9.09% 299
London +5 419 £525 -4.55% 135
UK excluding London +10 393 £480 -8.57% 237
Work from Home +6 308 £525 - 193
North of England +37 159 £490 -2.00% 66
Yorkshire +26 92 £500 -6.67% 21
Midlands +13 72 £500 - 28
Scotland 0 68 £450 -5.26% 22
North West -1 59 £450 -0.61% 40
West Midlands +3 54 £525 - 18
South East -51 46 £430 -31.20% 80
South West -11 34 £625 -2.72% 26
East of England +6 30 £521 -8.55% 12
East Midlands -4 18 £411 -8.61% 10
North East -3 9 £475 -22.13% 5
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 1
Wales -9 1 £488 -2.50% 6

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 (4.99%) Apache
2 33 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.12%) Confluence
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 12 (1.25%) nginx
6 8 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.73%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.42%) FileNet
8 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.31%) Documentum
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) JBoss
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 713 (74.12%) AWS
2 580 (60.29%) AWS Lambda
3 365 (37.94%) Amazon S3
4 304 (31.60%) Azure
5 200 (20.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 199 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 193 (20.06%) GitHub
8 185 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
9 180 (18.71%) Amazon EC2
10 168 (17.46%) Azure Functions
11 133 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
12 122 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
13 116 (12.06%) Amazon EKS
14 96 (9.98%) GCP
15 94 (9.77%) Amazon SQS
16 90 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 82 (8.52%) Azure Logic Apps
18 74 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
19 63 (6.55%) Power Platform
20 62 (6.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.33%) Firewall
2 26 (2.70%) VPN
3 22 (2.29%) DNS
4 11 (1.14%) Network Security
5 9 (0.94%) SSL
6 8 (0.83%) HTTP
7 6 (0.62%) DHCP
7 6 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.31%) LAN
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) SSH
12 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.10%) MQTT
12 1 (0.10%) NAS
12 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (18.09%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (13.83%) DynamoDB
4 94 (9.77%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.07%) Relational Database
6 60 (6.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (4.57%) Power BI
11 35 (3.64%) Data Lake
12 33 (3.43%) Big Data
13 31 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (3.22%) MongoDB
13 31 (3.22%) Redis
14 30 (3.12%) MySQL
15 25 (2.60%) SQL Server
16 22 (2.29%) RDBMS
17 19 (1.98%) Tableau
18 14 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 173 (17.98%) Git
2 167 (17.36%) Jenkins
3 140 (14.55%) GitLab
4 84 (8.73%) JIRA
5 39 (4.05%) Liquibase
6 29 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.49%) JUnit
8 23 (2.39%) Bitbucket
9 21 (2.18%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.77%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.77%) Maven
11 16 (1.66%) Mockito
12 15 (1.56%) Postman
13 14 (1.46%) MLflow
14 13 (1.35%) Selenium
15 12 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
17 8 (0.83%) Gradle
18 5 (0.52%) JMeter
18 5 (0.52%) SonarLint
General
1 246 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 175 (18.19%) Public Sector
3 126 (13.10%) Finance
4 79 (8.21%) Banking
5 58 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.56%) Marketing
9 11 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.94%) Retail
12 8 (0.83%) Front Office
12 8 (0.83%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.52%) Military
15 4 (0.42%) Publishing
16 3 (0.31%) Aviation
16 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Local Government
17 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 263 (27.34%) Developer
2 151 (15.70%) Senior
3 149 (15.49%) AWS Engineer
4 123 (12.79%) Architect
5 114 (11.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 70 (7.28%) Lead
9 48 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
10 45 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 42 (4.37%) AWS Developer
13 41 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.05%) Java Developer
15 36 (3.74%) Python Engineer
16 35 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 34 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (3.22%) Technical Architect
20 30 (3.12%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (17.57%) Node.js
2 156 (16.22%) RESTful
3 141 (14.66%) REST
4 136 (14.14%) React
5 114 (11.85%) .NET
6 90 (9.36%) Kafka
7 65 (6.76%) AWS CDK
8 63 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
9 56 (5.82%) OAuth
10 53 (5.51%) Spring Boot
11 52 (5.41%) Spring
12 46 (4.78%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.78%) GraphQL
13 41 (4.26%) FastAPI
14 40 (4.16%) PyTorch
15 39 (4.05%) HTML
16 38 (3.95%) .NET Core
16 38 (3.95%) JSON
17 35 (3.64%) OAuth2
18 32 (3.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 232 (24.12%) Cloud Native
2 93 (9.67%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.98%) NHS
8 18 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.35%) Replication
11 11 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.04%) IVR
12 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (0.83%) Data Fabric
15 6 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.95%) Linux
2 12 (1.25%) Windows
3 10 (1.04%) Unix
4 5 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.52%) VMS
4 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.21%) Android
5 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.10%) Solaris
6 1 (0.10%) SUSE
6 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (55.20%) CI/CD
2 487 (50.62%) DevOps
3 391 (40.64%) Agile
4 343 (35.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 293 (30.46%) Microservices
6 250 (25.99%) Containerisation
7 191 (19.85%) Software Engineering
8 175 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (15.28%) AI
10 134 (13.93%) Test Automation
11 125 (12.99%) Analytics
12 116 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
12 116 (12.06%) Event-Driven
13 114 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 106 (11.02%) Mentoring
15 99 (10.29%) Data Modelling
16 94 (9.77%) Machine Learning
17 93 (9.67%) ETL
18 89 (9.25%) Migration
19 88 (9.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 486 (50.52%) Python
2 234 (24.32%) SQL
3 175 (18.19%) Java
4 156 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 145 (15.07%) JavaScript
6 107 (11.12%) C#
7 71 (7.38%) Go
8 66 (6.86%) Bash
9 46 (4.78%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.70%) Bicep
11 20 (2.08%) Ruby
11 20 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.25%) C++
12 12 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.04%) Perl
14 7 (0.73%) Scala
15 6 (0.62%) Groovy
15 6 (0.62%) JSX
15 6 (0.62%) Korn
15 6 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 222 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 178 (18.50%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.25%) AWS Certification
4 71 (7.38%) Degree
5 63 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 37 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.94%) MCP
14 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.10%) CISM
16 1 (0.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.13%) QA
2 39 (4.05%) GDPR
3 34 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.56%) WCAG
6 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.35%) NIST
7 10 (1.04%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.94%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.42%) HL7
10 4 (0.42%) MiFID
10 4 (0.42%) NCSC
11 3 (0.31%) PMO
11 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
13 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 281 (29.21%) Docker
2 37 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.10%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 387 (40.23%) Terraform
2 271 (28.17%) Kubernetes
3 118 (12.27%) Grafana
4 109 (11.33%) Prometheus
5 98 (10.19%) Ansible
6 17 (1.77%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.14%) Puppet
8 10 (1.04%) Kibana
9 7 (0.73%) Packer
10 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.42%) Rancher
12 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.21%) SELinux
14 1 (0.10%) linkerd
Vendors
1 155 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.30%) Google
3 50 (5.20%) Splunk
4 48 (4.99%) Databricks
5 32 (3.33%) Oracle
6 26 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.98%) Foundry
8 18 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.66%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.35%) IBM
11 12 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.25%) Pega
12 10 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.04%) Cisco
12 10 (1.04%) Palantir
13 7 (0.73%) Confluent
13 7 (0.73%) Genesys
13 7 (0.73%) Greenplum
14 6 (0.62%) Atlassian