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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 105 124
Rank change year-on-year -49 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,040 831 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.53% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 6.66% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 593 504
10th Percentile £400 £385 £366
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £544
% change year-on-year +0.50% -8.55% +3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £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 18,915 12,482 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 38.04% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,538 8,334 8,575
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £409 £420
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 637 293 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -32 844 £525 +2.44% 1,160
London -15 504 £550 +1.85% 575
UK excluding London -69 387 £500 +0.50% 772
Work from Home -36 341 £545 +7.39% 751
North of England -54 129 £500 +5.04% 210
Midlands -18 85 £430 -14.00% 91
North West -30 67 £538 +13.16% 123
West Midlands -24 65 £460 -10.24% 48
Scotland -25 54 £438 -12.50% 92
South East -48 51 £600 +41.18% 133
South West -20 46 £510 -7.27% 106
Yorkshire -54 42 £500 +5.04% 61
East Midlands -5 20 £425 -4.01% 43
North East -25 20 £463 -11.14% 27
East of England -42 16 £525 - 71
Northern Ireland +8 5 £375 - 27
Wales -11 5 £425 -26.12% 47

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 55 (5.29%) Confluence
2 49 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.75%) Apache
5 36 (3.46%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.96%) CMS
7 9 (0.87%) SAS
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.67%) nginx
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.29%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.096%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 801 (77.02%) AWS
2 642 (61.73%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (40.10%) Amazon S3
4 374 (35.96%) Azure
5 241 (23.17%) GitHub
6 226 (21.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 206 (19.81%) Azure Functions
8 197 (18.94%) Amazon ECS
9 170 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (15.77%) Amazon EC2
11 158 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
13 147 (14.13%) Amazon SQS
14 132 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
15 125 (12.02%) Power Platform
16 106 (10.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 104 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
18 99 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
19 82 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
20 73 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.98%) Firewall
1 31 (2.98%) Network Security
2 25 (2.40%) DNS
3 13 (1.25%) HTTP
3 13 (1.25%) VPN
4 11 (1.06%) WAN
5 7 (0.67%) SSL
6 6 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.77%) Amazon RDS
2 163 (15.67%) DynamoDB
3 108 (10.38%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 85 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (6.83%) Power BI
8 61 (5.87%) Data Lake
8 61 (5.87%) NoSQL
9 57 (5.48%) SQL Server
10 54 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 51 (4.90%) MySQL
12 42 (4.04%) MongoDB
13 33 (3.17%) Metadata
14 31 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (2.50%) Delta Lake
16 23 (2.21%) Relational Database
17 21 (2.02%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
19 17 (1.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 198 (19.04%) Git
2 147 (14.13%) GitLab
3 143 (13.75%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.12%) JIRA
5 32 (3.08%) Claude Code
6 31 (2.98%) Cucumber
6 31 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.83%) Selenium
9 18 (1.73%) JUnit
10 16 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.44%) Postman
12 14 (1.35%) Mockito
13 12 (1.15%) Maven
14 11 (1.06%) RStudio
15 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.87%) JMeter
16 9 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 242 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 183 (17.60%) Public Sector
3 162 (15.58%) Finance
4 80 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.04%) Banking
7 16 (1.54%) Marketing
8 15 (1.44%) Back Office
9 14 (1.35%) Military
10 13 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.25%) Law
11 12 (1.15%) Billing
11 12 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.06%) Legal
13 9 (0.87%) Retail
14 8 (0.77%) Front Office
15 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.58%) Police
17 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 239 (22.98%) Developer
2 213 (20.48%) Senior
3 186 (17.88%) Architect
4 169 (16.25%) AWS Engineer
5 128 (12.31%) Data Engineer
6 119 (11.44%) Lead
7 90 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.06%) AWS Architect
9 57 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 39 (3.75%) Technical Architect
16 38 (3.65%) AWS Developer
16 38 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 38 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (40.00%) Terraform
2 194 (18.65%) REST
3 134 (12.88%) .NET
4 117 (11.25%) React
5 110 (10.58%) Node.js
6 106 (10.19%) Kafka
7 103 (9.90%) RESTful
8 84 (8.08%) AWS CDK
9 65 (6.25%) PySpark
9 65 (6.25%) Spring Boot
10 64 (6.15%) Spring
11 63 (6.06%) GraphQL
12 57 (5.48%) OAuth
13 54 (5.19%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.23%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.85%) OAuth2
16 39 (3.75%) JSON
17 36 (3.46%) CSS
17 36 (3.46%) OpenID
18 33 (3.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 340 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 91 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 84 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (7.12%) AI Agents
5 41 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 29 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.31%) NHS
10 19 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.63%) IVR
12 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.25%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.06%) Mainframe
17 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.92%) Linux
2 25 (2.40%) Unix
3 17 (1.63%) Windows
4 16 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.29%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 469 (45.10%) DevOps
3 422 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (37.79%) Agile
5 275 (26.44%) AI
6 254 (24.42%) Event-Driven
7 240 (23.08%) Microservices
8 209 (20.10%) Observability
9 207 (19.90%) Containerisation
10 183 (17.60%) Test Automation
11 171 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 170 (16.35%) Software Engineering
13 167 (16.06%) Analytics
14 160 (15.38%) Data Modelling
15 157 (15.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 157 (15.10%) Technical Leadership
16 147 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
17 143 (13.75%) Data Engineering
18 141 (13.56%) Migration
19 138 (13.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 471 (45.29%) Python
2 295 (28.37%) SQL
3 183 (17.60%) TypeScript
4 157 (15.10%) JavaScript
5 150 (14.42%) C#
6 135 (12.98%) Java
7 77 (7.40%) Bash
8 44 (4.23%) Bicep
8 44 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.35%) Scala
11 11 (1.06%) Go
12 9 (0.87%) Groovy
13 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.67%) R
14 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 276 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.27%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.87%) Degree
5 57 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.67%) CISSP
16 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.88%) QA
3 50 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.46%) GDPR
5 30 (2.88%) WCAG
6 16 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.96%) NIST
9 8 (0.77%) NCSC
9 8 (0.77%) SLA
10 6 (0.58%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.096%) GLBA
14 1 (0.096%) GRC
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 273 (26.25%) Docker
2 35 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.75%) Kubernetes
2 89 (8.56%) Grafana
3 71 (6.83%) Prometheus
4 60 (5.77%) Ansible
5 14 (1.35%) Puppet
6 10 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.87%) Packer
8 7 (0.67%) Argo
8 7 (0.67%) Kibana
8 7 (0.67%) Podman
9 6 (0.58%) Istio
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.38%) Rancher
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.29%) Control-M
12 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 206 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.12%) Databricks
3 47 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.33%) Oracle
5 32 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 31 (2.98%) Google
7 27 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.50%) Informatica
8 26 (2.50%) Splunk
9 16 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.44%) Foundry
11 13 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.96%) Brio
12 10 (0.96%) Tenable
13 9 (0.87%) Confluent
14 6 (0.58%) SAP
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
15 5 (0.48%) UiPath
16 4 (0.38%) Adyen
16 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA