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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 100 134
Rank change year-on-year 0 +34 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,099 751 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.53% 2.57% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 6.75% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 565 597
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £522
% change year-on-year - -4.26% -0.52%
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 16,201 11,126 14,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.24% 38.03% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,068 7,739 10,251
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £488
% change year-on-year -1.25% -1.33% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 204 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -17.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.62 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.35 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.73%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +8 881 £513 -6.82% 357
London -2 521 £513 -6.82% 155
UK excluding London -2 395 £500 - 250
Work from Home -29 293 £525 -3.14% 193
North of England +11 174 £500 - 98
North West -7 81 £453 -7.18% 46
Yorkshire +1 76 £500 - 40
Midlands -18 70 £520 +15.56% 23
Scotland +1 58 £401 -19.80% 12
West Midlands -23 55 £525 +9.15% 20
South East -74 50 £525 -8.70% 64
South West -22 31 £600 -2.10% 33
East of England +3 27 £570 -21.43% 20
North East -3 18 £475 -23.91% 14
East Midlands -30 15 £460 +2.22% 3
Wales -10 5 £481 +1.32% 2
Northern Ireland -4 2 - -

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 54 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.73%) Apache
3 39 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (3.00%) Confluence
5 30 (2.73%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.36%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 801 (72.88%) AWS
2 630 (57.32%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (37.94%) Azure
4 405 (36.85%) Amazon S3
5 251 (22.84%) GitHub
6 246 (22.38%) Azure Functions
7 223 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
8 217 (19.75%) Amazon EC2
9 208 (18.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (17.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 192 (17.47%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (16.74%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
14 120 (10.92%) Power Platform
15 119 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 111 (10.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 100 (9.10%) AWS Step Functions
18 90 (8.19%) Azure Service Bus
19 84 (7.64%) GCP
20 78 (7.10%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.00%) Firewall
2 33 (3.00%) DNS
3 28 (2.55%) VPN
4 12 (1.09%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 10 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.82%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.45%) IPsec
10 4 (0.36%) WAN
11 3 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
13 1 (0.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.83%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (11.92%) DynamoDB
4 93 (8.46%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.82%) Power BI
6 69 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (6.01%) Data Lake
8 65 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
9 58 (5.28%) Relational Database
10 56 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 55 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.37%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.28%) Redis
14 36 (3.28%) SQL Server
15 30 (2.73%) Tableau
16 27 (2.46%) Delta Lake
17 26 (2.37%) Metadata
18 25 (2.27%) Big Data
19 24 (2.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 192 (17.47%) Git
2 172 (15.65%) GitLab
3 168 (15.29%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.73%) JIRA
5 33 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.09%) JUnit
7 20 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.64%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.55%) MLflow
9 17 (1.55%) Mockito
10 16 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
13 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.73%) NUnit
14 8 (0.73%) Selenium
15 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 246 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 218 (19.84%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.38%) Finance
4 77 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.19%) Banking
6 30 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
11 9 (0.82%) Retail
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.55%) Billing
14 6 (0.55%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Aviation
15 4 (0.36%) Law
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 286 (26.02%) Developer
2 167 (15.20%) Architect
3 161 (14.65%) Senior
4 154 (14.01%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.19%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 85 (7.73%) Lead
8 74 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.10%) AWS Architect
11 49 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 42 (3.82%) Java Developer
14 42 (3.82%) Senior Developer
15 41 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.64%) AWS Developer
16 40 (3.64%) Python Engineer
17 38 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (15.83%) Node.js
2 155 (14.10%) REST
3 143 (13.01%) React
4 137 (12.47%) .NET
5 132 (12.01%) RESTful
6 128 (11.65%) Kafka
7 86 (7.83%) Spring
8 84 (7.64%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.37%) OAuth
10 58 (5.28%) AngularJS
11 53 (4.82%) PySpark
12 49 (4.46%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
13 48 (4.37%) OAuth2
14 47 (4.28%) .NET Core
14 47 (4.28%) GraphQL
15 46 (4.19%) JSON
16 44 (4.00%) FastAPI
17 36 (3.28%) JWT
17 36 (3.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 290 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.27%) NHS
7 21 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.91%) Replication
12 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.92%) Linux
2 14 (1.27%) Unix
3 12 (1.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (61.33%) CI/CD
2 566 (51.50%) DevOps
3 424 (38.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 356 (32.39%) Agile
5 313 (28.48%) Microservices
6 283 (25.75%) Containerisation
7 194 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 188 (17.11%) AI
9 164 (14.92%) Observability
10 163 (14.83%) Analytics
11 157 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 151 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
13 148 (13.47%) Software Engineering
14 146 (13.28%) Data Modelling
15 141 (12.83%) Test Automation
16 129 (11.74%) ETL
17 122 (11.10%) Data Engineering
18 116 (10.56%) Migration
19 106 (9.65%) Mentoring
20 103 (9.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 524 (47.68%) Python
2 309 (28.12%) SQL
3 170 (15.47%) Java
4 156 (14.19%) C#
5 155 (14.10%) JavaScript
6 153 (13.92%) TypeScript
7 71 (6.46%) Bash
8 56 (5.10%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.55%) Bicep
10 49 (4.46%) Go
11 31 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.46%) Ruby
13 12 (1.09%) Scala
14 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
14 11 (1.00%) Perl
15 8 (0.73%) C++
15 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 281 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 218 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.64%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.46%) Degree
5 46 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.18%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.00%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.36%) PhD
17 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.28%) QA
3 34 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.09%) GDPR
4 28 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 20 (1.82%) NIST
7 13 (1.18%) WCAG
8 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.82%) PMO
10 5 (0.45%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.36%) HL7
11 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.36%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 316 (28.75%) Docker
2 32 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) Squid
5 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.45%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 474 (43.13%) Terraform
2 290 (26.39%) Kubernetes
3 116 (10.56%) Grafana
4 114 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 86 (7.83%) Ansible
6 25 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.09%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.64%) Consul
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Istio
10 5 (0.45%) Rancher
11 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.36%) linkerd
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 187 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.28%) Databricks
3 44 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.46%) Oracle
5 37 (3.37%) Splunk
6 30 (2.73%) Google
7 21 (1.91%) Foundry
8 20 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.00%) Lotus
10 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) Kofax
11 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) IBM
12 9 (0.82%) Palantir
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.73%) Confluent
13 8 (0.73%) Sybase