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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 102 132
Rank change year-on-year +3 +30 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,085 752 795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.57% 2.50% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.84% 6.61% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 555 596
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £713
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 15,854 11,372 14,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 37.85% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,873 7,763 10,354
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 £634
90th Percentile £700 £733 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £495
% change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 178 348
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.83 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.49% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.56 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.28 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -16.88%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 860 £508 -7.76% 548
London -3 505 £513 -10.09% 188
UK excluding London -13 394 £500 -2.39% 433
Work from Home -26 299 £525 - 338
North of England +18 172 £500 -0.15% 116
North West -7 81 £450 -10.13% 58
Yorkshire -1 78 £500 - 46
Midlands -23 68 £525 +16.67% 42
Scotland -5 64 £403 -19.50% 13
West Midlands -19 51 £525 +9.15% 20
South East -54 50 £500 -13.04% 125
South West -30 29 £650 +1.96% 78
East of England -4 28 £560 -12.16% 51
East Midlands -25 17 £479 +5.39% 22
North East -7 14 £525 -13.93% 13
Wales -9 5 £481 -3.75% 9
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 7

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 50 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.78%) Apache
4 27 (2.49%) Confluence
4 27 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.29%) nginx
6 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.83%) Mendix
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.092%) JBoss
10 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 787 (72.53%) AWS
2 627 (57.79%) AWS Lambda
3 403 (37.14%) Amazon S3
4 400 (36.87%) Azure
5 243 (22.40%) Azure Functions
6 239 (22.03%) GitHub
7 223 (20.55%) Amazon ECS
8 208 (19.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 207 (19.08%) Amazon EC2
10 195 (17.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 185 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
12 172 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
14 117 (10.78%) Power Platform
15 111 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 107 (9.86%) Azure Logic Apps
17 89 (8.20%) Azure Service Bus
18 88 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
18 88 (8.11%) GCP
19 81 (7.47%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.50%) Firewall
2 32 (2.95%) DNS
3 28 (2.58%) VPN
4 11 (1.01%) HTTP
4 11 (1.01%) Network Security
4 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
5 10 (0.92%) SSL
6 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) BGP
12 1 (0.092%) Internet
12 1 (0.092%) MQTT
12 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.84%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (12.17%) DynamoDB
2 132 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (8.76%) NoSQL
4 75 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 72 (6.64%) Power BI
6 66 (6.08%) Data Lake
7 63 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
8 58 (5.35%) Relational Database
9 54 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 38 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 38 (3.50%) MongoDB
12 31 (2.86%) Redis
13 30 (2.76%) Tableau
14 28 (2.58%) SQL Server
15 27 (2.49%) MySQL
16 26 (2.40%) Big Data
17 25 (2.30%) Metadata
18 21 (1.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 177 (16.31%) Git
2 168 (15.48%) GitLab
3 162 (14.93%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.25%) JIRA
5 30 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.12%) Liquibase
7 22 (2.03%) JUnit
8 19 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.75%) MLflow
9 16 (1.47%) Mockito
9 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.92%) Maven
12 10 (0.92%) Postman
12 10 (0.92%) Selenium
13 9 (0.83%) Mocha
14 7 (0.65%) NUnit
15 6 (0.55%) Jasmine
General
1 253 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 205 (18.89%) Public Sector
3 151 (13.92%) Finance
4 74 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.54%) Banking
6 27 (2.49%) Financial Institution
7 26 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.29%) Marketing
9 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.83%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.65%) Legal
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
13 6 (0.55%) Retail
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
15 3 (0.28%) Billing
15 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Police
15 3 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (25.53%) Developer
2 163 (15.02%) Senior
3 153 (14.10%) Architect
4 149 (13.73%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 96 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 87 (8.02%) Lead
8 76 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (4.79%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 50 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.87%) Python Engineer
15 41 (3.78%) AWS Developer
15 41 (3.78%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.69%) Java Developer
17 36 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (16.04%) Node.js
2 154 (14.19%) REST
3 135 (12.44%) .NET
4 133 (12.26%) React
5 131 (12.07%) RESTful
6 125 (11.52%) Kafka
7 79 (7.28%) OAuth
8 78 (7.19%) Spring
9 77 (7.10%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.35%) AWS CDK
11 53 (4.88%) AngularJS
12 52 (4.79%) FastAPI
13 51 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (4.61%) PySpark
15 46 (4.24%) .NET Core
15 46 (4.24%) GraphQL
16 45 (4.15%) OAuth2
17 44 (4.06%) JSON
18 39 (3.59%) JWT
19 34 (3.13%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 277 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.76%) Public Cloud
5 28 (2.58%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 24 (2.21%) NHS
8 19 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.74%) Replication
16 7 (0.65%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.49%) Linux
2 14 (1.29%) Unix
3 9 (0.83%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (59.72%) CI/CD
2 556 (51.24%) DevOps
3 415 (38.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 356 (32.81%) Agile
5 305 (28.11%) Microservices
6 275 (25.35%) Containerisation
7 194 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.60%) AI
9 163 (15.02%) Software Engineering
10 158 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (14.47%) Analytics
12 152 (14.01%) Observability
13 150 (13.82%) Data Modelling
14 144 (13.27%) Event-Driven
15 131 (12.07%) Test Automation
16 124 (11.43%) ETL
17 117 (10.78%) Data Engineering
18 114 (10.51%) Migration
19 109 (10.05%) Machine Learning
19 109 (10.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 540 (49.77%) Python
2 303 (27.93%) SQL
3 166 (15.30%) Java
4 154 (14.19%) C#
5 152 (14.01%) JavaScript
6 146 (13.46%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.08%) Bash
8 54 (4.98%) Go
9 53 (4.88%) PowerShell
10 46 (4.24%) Bicep
11 32 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.30%) Ruby
13 11 (1.01%) Perl
13 11 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.74%) C++
15 8 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.74%) Scala
16 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 268 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 210 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.74%) AWS Certification
4 53 (4.88%) Degree
5 43 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.95%) Azure Certification
10 30 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
17 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.98%) QA
3 35 (3.23%) GDPR
4 34 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.94%) NIST
6 20 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.01%) WCAG
9 9 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) GxP
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 301 (27.74%) Docker
2 30 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.74%) Squid
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 459 (42.30%) Terraform
2 289 (26.64%) Kubernetes
3 121 (11.15%) Grafana
4 116 (10.69%) Prometheus
5 94 (8.66%) Ansible
6 22 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.29%) Puppet
8 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.65%) Consul
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
10 4 (0.37%) Istio
10 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.28%) Argo
11 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.28%) linkerd
11 3 (0.28%) Packer
11 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 190 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.02%) Databricks
3 42 (3.87%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.69%) Splunk
5 37 (3.41%) Google
6 35 (3.23%) Oracle
7 26 (2.40%) Foundry
8 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.11%) IBM
12 11 (1.01%) Confluent
13 10 (0.92%) Lotus
13 10 (0.92%) Palantir
14 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.83%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.83%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.83%) Kofax
14 9 (0.83%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.74%) Brio