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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 91 130
Rank change year-on-year -26 +39 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,063 763 758
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.64% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.08% 6.96% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 575 576
10th Percentile £372 £400 £378
25th Percentile £436 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +1.25% -5.73%
75th Percentile £632 £600 £625
90th Percentile £730 £733 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £46.45 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 17,474 10,963 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.58% 37.89% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,712 7,435 9,865
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £619 £634
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 262 347
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.40 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.44% +13.68% -35.27%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -20 840 £525 - 350
London -13 508 £525 -4.55% 186
UK excluding London -29 361 £500 - 209
Work from Home -26 318 £510 -2.86% 246
North of England -23 141 £500 - 73
North West -15 79 £518 +3.50% 44
Midlands -19 60 £488 -2.01% 25
South East -46 54 £575 +15.00% 51
Scotland -16 48 £444 -15.48% 6
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 - 17
West Midlands -25 47 £488 -4.79% 16
South West -19 31 £575 +4.55% 30
East of England -17 26 £550 -2.22% 9
North East -22 15 £475 - 12
East Midlands -20 13 £498 +3.86% 9
Wales -13 7 £488 -15.25% 11
Northern Ireland +9 5 £190 -62.00% 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 52 (4.89%) Confluence
2 46 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 44 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 27 (2.54%) Apache
6 16 (1.51%) nginx
7 8 (0.75%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.75%) Mendix
8 6 (0.56%) CICS
8 6 (0.56%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 815 (76.67%) AWS
2 642 (60.40%) AWS Lambda
3 434 (40.83%) Amazon S3
4 379 (35.65%) Azure
5 237 (22.30%) GitHub
6 202 (19.00%) Amazon EC2
7 197 (18.53%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 185 (17.40%) Amazon EKS
10 178 (16.75%) Amazon ECS
11 167 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
12 150 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 132 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (11.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 117 (11.01%) Amazon SQS
16 116 (10.91%) Power Platform
17 111 (10.44%) AWS Step Functions
18 89 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
19 88 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
20 75 (7.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.82%) DNS
1 30 (2.82%) Firewall
2 23 (2.16%) VPN
3 16 (1.51%) Network Security
4 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.94%) HTTP
6 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.85%) SSL
7 7 (0.66%) SMS
8 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) CTI
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) MQTT
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
12 1 (0.094%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (14.86%) DynamoDB
2 149 (14.02%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
5 83 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 77 (7.24%) Power BI
7 67 (6.30%) NoSQL
8 55 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 53 (4.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 48 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
11 48 (4.52%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.29%) Relational Database
13 32 (3.01%) MySQL
14 31 (2.92%) Metadata
15 29 (2.73%) Tableau
16 27 (2.54%) Big Data
17 26 (2.45%) MongoDB
18 22 (2.07%) Delta Lake
19 21 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 159 (14.96%) Git
2 146 (13.73%) GitLab
3 133 (12.51%) Jenkins
4 72 (6.77%) JIRA
5 26 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.41%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.94%) JUnit
11 9 (0.85%) Mocha
11 9 (0.85%) Vite
12 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.75%) MSTest
12 8 (0.75%) Postman
13 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 6 (0.56%) MLflow
14 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.56%) Snyk
14 6 (0.56%) tSQLt
General
1 240 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.99%) Public Sector
3 136 (12.79%) Finance
4 56 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.35%) Banking
7 15 (1.41%) Legal
8 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.85%) Law
12 8 (0.75%) Marketing
12 8 (0.75%) Retail
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Billing
15 5 (0.47%) Police
16 4 (0.38%) Back Office
16 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (24.08%) Developer
2 202 (19.00%) Architect
3 158 (14.86%) Senior
4 155 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (10.82%) Data Engineer
6 99 (9.31%) Lead
7 73 (6.87%) AWS Architect
7 73 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 70 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 58 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.99%) AWS Developer
11 52 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (4.70%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.23%) Python Engineer
14 45 (4.23%) Senior Developer
15 44 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
16 43 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
17 41 (3.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.17%) React
2 137 (12.89%) REST
3 130 (12.23%) Node.js
4 122 (11.48%) Kafka
5 121 (11.38%) .NET
6 105 (9.88%) RESTful
7 74 (6.96%) OAuth
8 73 (6.87%) PySpark
9 72 (6.77%) Spring Boot
10 71 (6.68%) Spring
11 65 (6.11%) AWS CDK
12 53 (4.99%) GraphQL
13 50 (4.70%) AngularJS
14 47 (4.42%) FastAPI
15 45 (4.23%) OAuth2
16 43 (4.05%) JSON
16 43 (4.05%) OpenID
17 37 (3.48%) .NET Core
18 36 (3.39%) Next.js
19 30 (2.82%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 318 (29.92%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.71%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.07%) NHS
7 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.41%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.75%) IoT
14 8 (0.75%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.46%) Linux
2 22 (2.07%) Unix
3 11 (1.03%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) zOS
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (60.40%) CI/CD
2 479 (45.06%) DevOps
3 399 (37.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 352 (33.11%) Agile
5 259 (24.37%) Microservices
6 228 (21.45%) Containerisation
7 205 (19.29%) Event-Driven
8 195 (18.34%) AI
9 176 (16.56%) Observability
10 149 (14.02%) Analytics
10 149 (14.02%) Data Modelling
11 144 (13.55%) Software Engineering
12 143 (13.45%) ETL
13 142 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
13 142 (13.36%) Test Automation
14 134 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
15 123 (11.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 119 (11.19%) Migration
17 111 (10.44%) Mentoring
18 109 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 454 (42.71%) Python
2 293 (27.56%) SQL
3 167 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 155 (14.58%) C#
5 145 (13.64%) Java
6 144 (13.55%) JavaScript
7 58 (5.46%) Bash
8 42 (3.95%) Bicep
8 42 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.98%) Go
11 20 (1.88%) Scala
12 11 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.94%) Ruby
14 8 (0.75%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.75%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.66%) Groovy
16 6 (0.56%) JCL
17 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 274 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 219 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 62 (5.83%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.63%) Degree
7 28 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.42%) QA
3 27 (2.54%) GDPR
3 27 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.51%) NIST
7 12 (1.13%) WCAG
8 7 (0.66%) NCSC
8 7 (0.66%) PMO
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 268 (25.21%) Docker
2 31 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.13%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 1 (0.094%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 428 (40.26%) Terraform
2 242 (22.77%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.50%) Grafana
4 90 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.80%) Ansible
6 28 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.60%) Puppet
8 10 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 7 (0.66%) Istio
12 6 (0.56%) Kibana
12 6 (0.56%) linkerd
13 5 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.47%) Podman
13 5 (0.47%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 148 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.49%) Databricks
3 47 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.57%) Oracle
5 23 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.07%) Splunk
7 18 (1.69%) Google
8 17 (1.60%) Informatica
9 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.13%) Foundry
10 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.03%) Confluent
12 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.85%) Brio
14 8 (0.75%) Kofax
14 8 (0.75%) Lotus
15 7 (0.66%) Sybase