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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 109 135
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,067 818 730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.50% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.69% 6.69% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 605 529
10th Percentile £386 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £36.95 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,750 12,222 13,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 37.35% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,376 8,174 9,529
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 314 305
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -10.14% -20.00%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -23 857 £530 +0.95% 265
London -17 495 £550 - 140
UK excluding London -24 405 £500 - 158
Work from Home -23 344 £525 - 118
North of England -35 145 £500 - 57
Midlands -9 80 £475 +5.50% 22
North West -33 78 £538 +7.50% 28
West Midlands -10 64 £469 +4.22% 15
Scotland -5 61 £438 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire -35 49 £500 +2.56% 14
South East -65 47 £600 +21.95% 35
South West -11 46 £548 +6.93% 26
East of England -13 28 £550 +3.53% 7
North East -31 19 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -12 16 £488 +8.32% 7
Northern Ireland +5 4 £283 -43.50% 1
Wales -13 4 £400 -30.47% 5

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 52 (4.87%) Confluence
2 47 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.91%) Apache
5 17 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.75%) nginx
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.094%) Camunda
12 1 (0.094%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 847 (79.38%) AWS
2 670 (62.79%) AWS Lambda
3 458 (42.92%) Amazon S3
4 355 (33.27%) Azure
5 210 (19.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 203 (19.03%) GitHub
7 202 (18.93%) Amazon ECS
8 186 (17.43%) Amazon EC2
9 175 (16.40%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (15.56%) Azure Functions
11 162 (15.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 143 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
13 127 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
14 118 (11.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (10.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 112 (10.50%) Power Platform
17 101 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
18 82 (7.69%) GCP
19 75 (7.03%) Azure Logic Apps
20 72 (6.75%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.37%) Firewall
2 26 (2.44%) DNS
3 25 (2.34%) Network Security
4 18 (1.69%) VPN
5 13 (1.22%) HTTP
5 13 (1.22%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
6 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) IPsec
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 1 (0.094%) 4G
11 1 (0.094%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.93%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.68%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (7.69%) Power BI
7 77 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.75%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.44%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (4.12%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.56%) MySQL
13 35 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 34 (3.19%) Metadata
15 30 (2.81%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.34%) Tableau
17 22 (2.06%) Big Data
18 19 (1.78%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 182 (17.06%) Git
2 138 (12.93%) GitLab
3 137 (12.84%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.03%) JIRA
5 29 (2.72%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.25%) Claude Code
8 22 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.22%) JUnit
11 12 (1.12%) Postman
12 10 (0.94%) Selenium
13 9 (0.84%) Vite
14 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.75%) MLflow
14 8 (0.75%) Mocha
14 8 (0.75%) Mockito
14 8 (0.75%) MSTest
14 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.56%) Jasmine
General
1 239 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 185 (17.34%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.03%) Finance
4 69 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.81%) Banking
6 24 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.59%) Legal
9 12 (1.12%) Law
10 10 (0.94%) Billing
10 10 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.84%) Retail
12 8 (0.75%) Back Office
12 8 (0.75%) Marketing
13 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Police
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (23.06%) Developer
2 201 (18.84%) Senior
3 196 (18.37%) Architect
4 175 (16.40%) AWS Engineer
5 120 (11.25%) Data Engineer
6 111 (10.40%) Lead
7 72 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.37%) AWS Architect
9 67 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 64 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.59%) Technical Architect
14 48 (4.50%) Senior Developer
15 47 (4.40%) AWS Developer
16 43 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
17 42 (3.94%) Python Developer
18 41 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
18 41 (3.84%) Python Engineer
19 40 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.12%) REST
2 133 (12.46%) React
3 132 (12.37%) Node.js
4 110 (10.31%) .NET
4 110 (10.31%) RESTful
5 104 (9.75%) Kafka
6 76 (7.12%) AWS CDK
7 74 (6.94%) PySpark
8 70 (6.56%) Spring Boot
9 68 (6.37%) GraphQL
9 68 (6.37%) Spring
10 62 (5.81%) OAuth
11 50 (4.69%) FastAPI
12 45 (4.22%) JSON
13 43 (4.03%) AngularJS
14 41 (3.84%) OAuth2
15 38 (3.56%) OpenID
16 32 (3.00%) CSS
17 31 (2.91%) Flask
17 31 (2.91%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 319 (29.90%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 70 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (4.87%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.81%) NHS
6 29 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.03%) IoT
11 11 (1.03%) IVR
11 11 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.62%) Linux
2 24 (2.25%) Unix
3 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.41%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (60.64%) CI/CD
2 456 (42.74%) DevOps
3 396 (37.11%) Agile
4 392 (36.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 272 (25.49%) Microservices
6 243 (22.77%) AI
7 226 (21.18%) Containerisation
8 213 (19.96%) Event-Driven
9 177 (16.59%) Observability
10 164 (15.37%) Analytics
11 163 (15.28%) Test Automation
12 161 (15.09%) Data Modelling
13 153 (14.34%) Software Engineering
14 150 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
15 144 (13.50%) ETL
16 135 (12.65%) Data Engineering
17 133 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
18 131 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 131 (12.28%) Migration
19 128 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 480 (44.99%) Python
2 309 (28.96%) SQL
3 176 (16.49%) TypeScript
4 144 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 142 (13.31%) Java
6 134 (12.56%) C#
7 74 (6.94%) Bash
8 39 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 35 (3.28%) Bicep
10 34 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.59%) Scala
12 16 (1.50%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.75%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.56%) JCL
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 276 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 224 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 50 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.22%) Degree
6 37 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.59%) QA
3 37 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.00%) GDPR
5 25 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.78%) WCAG
7 13 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.12%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.094%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 271 (25.40%) Docker
2 33 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 404 (37.86%) Terraform
2 245 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 94 (8.81%) Grafana
4 81 (7.59%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.40%) Ansible
6 21 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.50%) Puppet
8 9 (0.84%) Istio
9 8 (0.75%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
11 6 (0.56%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.28%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 151 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.34%) Databricks
3 41 (3.84%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.09%) Oracle
5 27 (2.53%) Informatica
6 25 (2.34%) Splunk
7 24 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.25%) Google
8 19 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 9 (0.84%) Brio
12 9 (0.84%) Foundry
13 8 (0.75%) Tenable
14 6 (0.56%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday