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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -30 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 809 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.49% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 6.68% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 588 511
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% +5.77%
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 - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,752 12,112 13,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.97% 37.26% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,464 8,065 8,932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 312 222
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -28 867 £525 +1.94% 678
London -13 515 £550 - 443
UK excluding London -41 397 £500 +1.63% 349
Work from Home -26 343 £525 +1.94% 348
North of England -33 133 £505 +6.32% 109
Midlands -12 87 £447 -0.78% 39
West Midlands -16 67 £463 - 17
North West -29 67 £610 +28.42% 71
Scotland -16 55 £463 -7.50% 42
South East -60 48 £600 +37.93% 52
South West -23 46 £530 +2.42% 51
Yorkshire -46 45 £500 +5.15% 24
East of England -21 23 £525 +1.94% 18
North East -27 21 £463 +4.52% 14
East Midlands -12 20 £413 -0.66% 22
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 34
Wales -13 4 £481 -16.34% 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 62 (5.84%) Confluence
2 49 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.20%) Apache
5 29 (2.73%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) CMS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.094%) Drupal
12 1 (0.094%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.094%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 828 (77.97%) AWS
2 667 (62.81%) AWS Lambda
3 443 (41.71%) Amazon S3
4 376 (35.40%) Azure
5 231 (21.75%) GitHub
6 222 (20.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 187 (17.61%) Azure Functions
8 186 (17.51%) Amazon ECS
9 164 (15.44%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
11 159 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 158 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
13 142 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
14 125 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
15 122 (11.49%) Power Platform
16 119 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
17 108 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 95 (8.95%) Amazon EventBridge
19 80 (7.53%) Azure Logic Apps
20 76 (7.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.67%) Firewall
2 28 (2.64%) Network Security
3 27 (2.54%) DNS
4 16 (1.51%) VPN
5 13 (1.22%) HTTP
5 13 (1.22%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.82%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.78%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (8.19%) Power BI
7 67 (6.31%) NoSQL
8 56 (5.27%) Data Lake
9 55 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 54 (5.08%) MySQL
11 51 (4.80%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.39%) Metadata
13 35 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (2.92%) MongoDB
15 26 (2.45%) Delta Lake
16 24 (2.26%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.98%) Tableau
18 20 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 193 (18.17%) Git
2 139 (13.09%) GitLab
2 139 (13.09%) Jenkins
3 81 (7.63%) JIRA
4 33 (3.11%) Cypress.io
5 29 (2.73%) Claude Code
6 25 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.51%) Selenium
10 13 (1.22%) Postman
11 12 (1.13%) JUnit
12 11 (1.04%) Mockito
13 9 (0.85%) RStudio
14 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.66%) Gatling
15 7 (0.66%) JMeter
15 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.56%) Vite
General
1 242 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 188 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 155 (14.60%) Finance
4 76 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.67%) Banking
6 36 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.22%) Billing
8 13 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.22%) Law
8 13 (1.22%) Legal
9 12 (1.13%) Marketing
9 12 (1.13%) Military
10 10 (0.94%) Back Office
11 8 (0.75%) Front Office
11 8 (0.75%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.47%) Publishing
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 247 (23.26%) Developer
2 206 (19.40%) Architect
3 201 (18.93%) Senior
4 173 (16.29%) AWS Engineer
5 130 (12.24%) Data Engineer
6 117 (11.02%) Lead
7 82 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.03%) AWS Architect
9 61 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.24%) Technical Architect
15 44 (4.14%) AWS Developer
16 43 (4.05%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
17 41 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
17 41 (3.86%) Python Developer
18 40 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (40.87%) Terraform
2 174 (16.38%) REST
3 132 (12.43%) React
4 129 (12.15%) .NET
5 118 (11.11%) Node.js
6 103 (9.70%) RESTful
7 101 (9.51%) Kafka
8 80 (7.53%) AWS CDK
9 78 (7.34%) PySpark
10 63 (5.93%) Spring Boot
11 62 (5.84%) Spring
12 58 (5.46%) GraphQL
13 53 (4.99%) FastAPI
13 53 (4.99%) OAuth
14 41 (3.86%) CSS
15 40 (3.77%) AngularJS
16 38 (3.58%) Flask
17 37 (3.48%) JSON
18 36 (3.39%) HTML
19 35 (3.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 335 (31.54%) Cloud Native
2 94 (8.85%) Product Ownership
3 73 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.93%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.73%) NHS
7 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.60%) IVR
10 17 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 67 (6.31%) Linux
2 25 (2.35%) Unix
3 17 (1.60%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (61.68%) CI/CD
2 456 (42.94%) DevOps
3 420 (39.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 401 (37.76%) Agile
5 256 (24.11%) AI
6 247 (23.26%) Microservices
7 243 (22.88%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.43%) Containerisation
9 185 (17.42%) Observability
10 177 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 171 (16.10%) Analytics
12 166 (15.63%) Data Modelling
13 161 (15.16%) Software Engineering
14 153 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
15 150 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 148 (13.94%) Technical Leadership
17 145 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 142 (13.37%) Migration
19 140 (13.18%) ETL
19 140 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 491 (46.23%) Python
2 313 (29.47%) SQL
3 183 (17.23%) TypeScript
4 157 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 141 (13.28%) C#
6 134 (12.62%) Java
7 82 (7.72%) Bash
8 47 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 45 (4.24%) Bicep
10 33 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.41%) Scala
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) Groovy
14 9 (0.85%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.75%) R
15 8 (0.75%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 283 (26.65%) Security Cleared
2 236 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 56 (5.27%) Degree
5 53 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.92%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.56%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 69 (6.50%) QA
3 41 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.58%) GDPR
5 27 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.35%) WCAG
7 15 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.22%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 275 (25.89%) Docker
2 40 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.19%) Grafana
3 67 (6.31%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.27%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
13 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 188 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.87%) Databricks
3 43 (4.05%) Oracle
4 39 (3.67%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.01%) Informatica
6 28 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.54%) Google
8 26 (2.45%) Splunk
9 25 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.13%) SAP
12 10 (0.94%) Brio
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Confluent
13 7 (0.66%) Foundry
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday