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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 105 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,094 824 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.07% 2.52% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 6.72% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 614 566
10th Percentile £385 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.25% -5.30%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
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 18,749 12,266 14,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 37.55% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,439 8,215 9,998
10th Percentile £326 £313 £307
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 312 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.78 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.63 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% +23.90% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.27 £47.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.72%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -18 875 £525 - 229
London -15 520 £550 - 112
UK excluding London -39 389 £505 +1.00% 158
Work from Home -19 355 £525 - 123
North of England -28 144 £500 - 49
North West -26 80 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -10 72 £488 +7.20% 29
West Midlands -25 58 £477 +0.95% 16
Scotland -13 56 £450 -13.88% 7
Yorkshire -27 50 £500 +1.01% 14
South East -59 48 £575 +15.93% 30
South West -22 42 £575 +8.24% 26
East of England -18 27 £550 +3.53% 4
North East -29 15 £463 -1.07% 12
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +9.18% 13
Wales -11 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +8 5 £283 -43.50% 8

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 57 (5.21%) Confluence
2 49 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.65%) Apache
5 19 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 862 (78.79%) AWS
2 678 (61.97%) AWS Lambda
3 476 (43.51%) Amazon S3
4 371 (33.91%) Azure
5 215 (19.65%) GitHub
6 204 (18.65%) Amazon EC2
7 202 (18.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 194 (17.73%) Amazon ECS
9 176 (16.09%) Azure Functions
10 175 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
11 158 (14.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 152 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
13 121 (11.06%) Amazon SQS
14 120 (10.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 117 (10.69%) Power Platform
16 113 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
17 110 (10.05%) AWS Step Functions
18 83 (7.59%) GCP
19 81 (7.40%) Azure Logic Apps
20 68 (6.22%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.38%) Firewall
2 28 (2.56%) DNS
3 26 (2.38%) VPN
4 23 (2.10%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.91%) HTTP
6 10 (0.91%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.73%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) CTI
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) MQTT
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.27%) AMQP
11 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) SMS
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (14.99%) DynamoDB
2 159 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.51%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.68%) Power BI
7 75 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
8 70 (6.40%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.30%) Data Lake
10 48 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.20%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (3.29%) Relational Database
14 35 (3.20%) MySQL
15 32 (2.93%) Metadata
16 28 (2.56%) MongoDB
17 26 (2.38%) Tableau
18 23 (2.10%) Big Data
19 22 (2.01%) Delta Lake
20 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 182 (16.64%) Git
2 147 (13.44%) GitLab
3 139 (12.71%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.40%) JIRA
5 29 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 24 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 21 (1.92%) Claude Code
7 21 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.19%) JUnit
10 11 (1.01%) Postman
11 10 (0.91%) Vite
12 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 8 (0.73%) MSTest
13 8 (0.73%) Selenium
14 7 (0.64%) MLflow
15 6 (0.55%) Gatling
15 6 (0.55%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 249 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.55%) Public Sector
3 147 (13.44%) Finance
4 65 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (2.74%) Banking
7 19 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.65%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 9 (0.82%) Billing
10 9 (0.82%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Back Office
12 7 (0.64%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 244 (22.30%) Developer
2 209 (19.10%) Architect
3 192 (17.55%) Senior
4 177 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
5 130 (11.88%) Data Engineer
6 111 (10.15%) Lead
7 79 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.22%) AWS Architect
9 66 (6.03%) Software Engineer
10 65 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
12 54 (4.94%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (4.39%) Senior Developer
15 46 (4.20%) AWS Developer
15 46 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (3.93%) Python Engineer
16 43 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
17 41 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (12.07%) Node.js
2 130 (11.88%) React
2 130 (11.88%) REST
3 114 (10.42%) Kafka
4 112 (10.24%) .NET
4 112 (10.24%) RESTful
5 78 (7.13%) PySpark
6 72 (6.58%) AWS CDK
7 70 (6.40%) Spring Boot
8 68 (6.22%) Spring
9 66 (6.03%) GraphQL
10 62 (5.67%) OAuth
11 46 (4.20%) FastAPI
12 45 (4.11%) JSON
13 42 (3.84%) AngularJS
14 41 (3.75%) OpenID
15 37 (3.38%) OAuth2
16 31 (2.83%) .NET Core
17 28 (2.56%) Next.js
17 28 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 333 (30.44%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.11%) AI Agents
5 31 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.47%) NHS
7 22 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.01%) IVR
11 11 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.91%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.91%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.21%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 12 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (60.51%) CI/CD
2 486 (44.42%) DevOps
3 394 (36.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 389 (35.56%) Agile
5 274 (25.05%) Microservices
6 235 (21.48%) Containerisation
7 234 (21.39%) AI
8 219 (20.02%) Event-Driven
9 167 (15.27%) Analytics
10 166 (15.17%) Observability
11 161 (14.72%) Data Modelling
12 157 (14.35%) Test Automation
13 155 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
14 149 (13.62%) Software Engineering
15 146 (13.35%) ETL
16 138 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
17 136 (12.43%) Data Engineering
18 129 (11.79%) Migration
19 126 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
20 125 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 487 (44.52%) Python
2 312 (28.52%) SQL
3 172 (15.72%) TypeScript
4 143 (13.07%) Java
5 140 (12.80%) C#
6 139 (12.71%) JavaScript
7 68 (6.22%) Bash
8 41 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.29%) Bicep
10 32 (2.93%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.83%) Go
12 18 (1.65%) Scala
13 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 6 (0.55%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.46%) Rust
17 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 284 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 228 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.84%) Degree
6 39 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.27%) CCSP
17 3 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.20%) QA
3 29 (2.65%) GDPR
4 28 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.28%) WCAG
8 13 (1.19%) NIST
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
9 7 (0.64%) PMO
10 6 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 276 (25.23%) Docker
2 32 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 428 (39.12%) Terraform
2 257 (23.49%) Kubernetes
3 96 (8.78%) Grafana
4 87 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.66%) Ansible
6 26 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.83%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 152 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.03%) Databricks
3 44 (4.02%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.02%) Oracle
5 26 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 26 (2.38%) Informatica
6 24 (2.19%) Google
7 23 (2.10%) Splunk
8 18 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) Foundry
11 10 (0.91%) SAP
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
15 6 (0.55%) Confluent
16 5 (0.46%) Workday