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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 99 124
Rank change year-on-year -54 +25 -2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,058 877 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.64% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.51% 6.86% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 639 512
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £775 £676 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 19,195 12,780 13,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.41% 34.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,755 8,545 8,658
10th Percentile £325 £309 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 294 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.14 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.87 £22.83
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.18 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.93
% change year-on-year +55.68% -43.21% +50.73%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -41 862 £525 +2.44% 159
London -16 517 £550 +2.61% 73
UK excluding London -76 389 £500 - 114
Work from Home -39 344 £550 +4.76% 95
North of England -63 129 £500 +2.30% 41
Midlands -37 84 £430 -14.85% 10
North West -32 66 £525 +9.38% 25
West Midlands -34 64 £460 -10.90% 8
South East -44 57 £600 +41.18% 28
Scotland -32 53 £438 -12.50% 3
South West -21 46 £538 -4.44% 18
Yorkshire -63 44 £500 +2.04% 13
East Midlands -4 20 £419 -3.74% 2
North East -27 19 £444 -14.75% 3
East of England -52 13 £538 +2.38% 9
Northern Ireland +6 5 £375 - 3
Wales -10 5 £419 -16.33% 4

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 56 (5.29%) Confluence
2 47 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.97%) SharePoint
4 38 (3.59%) Apache
5 34 (3.21%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.95%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.47%) nginx
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.28%) CICS
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 804 (75.99%) AWS
2 650 (61.44%) AWS Lambda
3 416 (39.32%) Amazon S3
4 383 (36.20%) Azure
5 251 (23.72%) GitHub
6 237 (22.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 217 (20.51%) Azure Functions
8 210 (19.85%) Amazon ECS
9 173 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 162 (15.31%) Amazon EC2
11 162 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
12 155 (14.65%) Amazon SQS
13 138 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
14 130 (12.29%) Power Platform
15 107 (10.11%) Amazon EventBridge
16 104 (9.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 102 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 88 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.31%) Network Security
2 31 (2.93%) Firewall
3 25 (2.36%) DNS
4 13 (1.23%) HTTP
4 13 (1.23%) VPN
5 11 (1.04%) WAN
6 7 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 3 (0.28%) AMQP
8 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.28%) IPv4
8 3 (0.28%) SMS
8 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (16.45%) Amazon RDS
2 168 (15.88%) DynamoDB
3 100 (9.45%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 87 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
6 80 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (6.71%) Power BI
8 66 (6.24%) Data Lake
9 61 (5.77%) NoSQL
10 57 (5.39%) SQL Server
11 52 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 49 (4.63%) MySQL
13 44 (4.16%) MongoDB
14 35 (3.31%) Metadata
15 32 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (2.55%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.27%) Relational Database
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (1.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 199 (18.81%) Git
2 146 (13.80%) Jenkins
3 141 (13.33%) GitLab
4 77 (7.28%) JIRA
5 33 (3.12%) Cucumber
6 32 (3.02%) Claude Code
7 31 (2.93%) Cypress.io
8 26 (2.46%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.80%) JUnit
10 18 (1.70%) Selenium
11 16 (1.51%) Mockito
12 15 (1.42%) Postman
13 13 (1.23%) Maven
14 12 (1.13%) SonarQube
15 11 (1.04%) RStudio
16 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.85%) JMeter
17 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
18 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
18 8 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 248 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.92%) Public Sector
3 166 (15.69%) Finance
4 83 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.25%) Banking
7 17 (1.61%) Marketing
8 15 (1.42%) Back Office
9 14 (1.32%) Legal
10 13 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.13%) Billing
11 12 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.13%) Retail
12 11 (1.04%) Law
12 11 (1.04%) Military
13 8 (0.76%) Front Office
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (22.59%) Developer
2 221 (20.89%) Senior
3 181 (17.11%) Architect
4 171 (16.16%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.38%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.34%) Lead
7 91 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (5.95%) AWS Architect
9 59 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
12 49 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
15 43 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (4.06%) Senior Developer
16 42 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.88%) Python Engineer
18 38 (3.59%) AWS Data Engineer
18 38 (3.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (39.98%) Terraform
2 207 (19.57%) REST
3 141 (13.33%) .NET
4 110 (10.40%) Node.js
4 110 (10.40%) React
5 108 (10.21%) RESTful
6 106 (10.02%) Kafka
7 90 (8.51%) AWS CDK
8 75 (7.09%) Spring Boot
9 74 (6.99%) Spring
10 70 (6.62%) PySpark
11 66 (6.24%) GraphQL
12 63 (5.95%) OAuth
13 56 (5.29%) FastAPI
14 42 (3.97%) AngularJS
14 42 (3.97%) OAuth2
15 40 (3.78%) JSON
16 39 (3.69%) OpenID
17 34 (3.21%) CSS
18 32 (3.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 349 (32.99%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 88 (8.32%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (7.28%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 32 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.08%) NHS
10 19 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
12 17 (1.61%) IVR
13 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.23%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.71%) Linux
2 25 (2.36%) Unix
3 20 (1.89%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) AIX
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (64.46%) CI/CD
2 490 (46.31%) DevOps
3 433 (40.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (37.43%) Agile
5 284 (26.84%) AI
6 263 (24.86%) Event-Driven
7 248 (23.44%) Microservices
8 216 (20.42%) Observability
9 205 (19.38%) Containerisation
10 183 (17.30%) Test Automation
11 181 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 177 (16.73%) Software Engineering
13 162 (15.31%) Data Modelling
14 161 (15.22%) Analytics
15 160 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
16 159 (15.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 151 (14.27%) Migration
18 147 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
19 144 (13.61%) Data Engineering
19 144 (13.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 472 (44.61%) Python
2 297 (28.07%) SQL
3 193 (18.24%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.93%) C#
5 157 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 145 (13.71%) Java
7 74 (6.99%) Bash
8 45 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.16%) Bicep
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
13 9 (0.85%) Scala
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.66%) Rust
14 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 272 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 234 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 93 (8.79%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.77%) Degree
5 58 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (1.04%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.95%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
17 7 (0.66%) CISSP
18 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.72%) Data Quality
2 84 (7.94%) QA
3 50 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.40%) GDPR
5 31 (2.93%) WCAG
6 18 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) NIST
9 8 (0.76%) SLA
10 7 (0.66%) NCSC
11 6 (0.57%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.095%) GLBA
14 1 (0.095%) GRC
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 274 (25.90%) Docker
2 35 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 82 (7.75%) Grafana
3 65 (6.14%) Prometheus
4 59 (5.58%) Ansible
5 13 (1.23%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.85%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.47%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kibana
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
14 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 215 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.28%) Databricks
3 51 (4.82%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.25%) Oracle
5 33 (3.12%) Dynatrace
6 31 (2.93%) Google
7 27 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.46%) Informatica
9 21 (1.98%) Splunk
10 17 (1.61%) Foundry
11 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.32%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.95%) Brio
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
14 7 (0.66%) Tenable
15 6 (0.57%) SAP
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
16 5 (0.47%) UiPath
17 4 (0.38%) Adyen
17 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA