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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 104 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,022 731 809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.71% 2.32% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.13% 6.34% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 522 613
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £445 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,341 11,539 14,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.65% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,890 7,673 10,491
10th Percentile £306 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 170 288
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%
75th Percentile £57.75 £43.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £79.75 £68.75 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%

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 21 January 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
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 21 January 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 +10 817 £500 -9.09% 544
London +8 481 £511 -8.71% 115
UK excluding London -6 380 £500 - 493
Work from Home -7 293 £525 +2.44% 371
North of England +33 166 £500 +3.63% 119
Yorkshire +13 85 £500 - 49
North West +4 71 £450 +0.45% 56
Midlands -11 66 £513 +15.54% 50
Scotland -13 61 £450 -8.91% 23
West Midlands -4 53 £525 +5.00% 24
South East -50 49 £475 -23.39% 140
South West -21 28 £650 - 58
East of England -4 24 £550 -3.51% 72
East Midlands -25 13 £434 -2.31% 23
North East -9 11 £525 -12.13% 14
Wales -6 4 £488 -2.50% 29
Northern Ireland -1 3 - - 14

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 42 (4.11%) Apache
2 35 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 23 (2.25%) Confluence
6 14 (1.37%) nginx
7 10 (0.98%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.88%) Mendix
9 5 (0.49%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.098%) FileNet
11 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.098%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 731 (71.53%) AWS
2 589 (57.63%) AWS Lambda
3 376 (36.79%) Azure
4 363 (35.52%) Amazon S3
5 238 (23.29%) GitHub
6 225 (22.02%) Azure Functions
7 206 (20.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 202 (19.77%) Amazon ECS
9 189 (18.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 173 (16.93%) Amazon EC2
11 172 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
12 171 (16.73%) GitHub Actions
13 144 (14.09%) Amazon EKS
14 106 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (9.78%) GCP
16 95 (9.30%) Power Platform
17 86 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
18 85 (8.32%) AWS Step Functions
19 84 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 80 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.74%) Firewall
2 27 (2.64%) DNS
3 21 (2.05%) VPN
4 13 (1.27%) Network Security
5 10 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.88%) HTTP
7 8 (0.78%) SSL
8 6 (0.59%) SMS
9 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.29%) LAN
10 3 (0.29%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.098%) AMQP
12 1 (0.098%) BGP
12 1 (0.098%) DKIM
12 1 (0.098%) Internet
12 1 (0.098%) IPsec
12 1 (0.098%) MQTT
12 1 (0.098%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.098%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (16.34%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
3 128 (12.52%) DynamoDB
4 99 (9.69%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 66 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
7 63 (6.16%) Power BI
8 62 (6.07%) Relational Database
9 59 (5.77%) Data Lake
10 57 (5.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 49 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (3.72%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.52%) Redis
15 33 (3.23%) MySQL
16 28 (2.74%) Big Data
17 25 (2.45%) SQL Server
18 24 (2.35%) Tableau
19 20 (1.96%) DocumentDB
20 19 (1.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 176 (17.22%) Git
2 173 (16.93%) Jenkins
3 154 (15.07%) GitLab
4 61 (5.97%) JIRA
5 32 (3.13%) Liquibase
6 20 (1.96%) JUnit
7 19 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 17 (1.66%) Mockito
10 16 (1.57%) MLflow
11 15 (1.47%) Postman
12 14 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (1.27%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.08%) Maven
15 11 (1.08%) Selenium
16 8 (0.78%) Gradle
17 7 (0.68%) Storybook
18 5 (0.49%) SonarLint
General
1 242 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 197 (19.28%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.60%) Finance
4 75 (7.34%) Banking
5 59 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.86%) Marketing
8 16 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 8 (0.78%) Military
13 7 (0.68%) Retail
14 6 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.39%) Aviation
16 3 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Law
16 3 (0.29%) Legal
16 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 283 (27.69%) Developer
2 149 (14.58%) Senior
3 147 (14.38%) AWS Engineer
4 137 (13.41%) Architect
5 107 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 100 (9.78%) Data Engineer
7 85 (8.32%) Software Engineer
8 77 (7.53%) Lead
9 56 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
11 47 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 40 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 39 (3.82%) AWS Architect
14 39 (3.82%) AWS Developer
14 39 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 38 (3.72%) Senior Developer
16 36 (3.52%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.61%) Node.js
2 162 (15.85%) REST
3 152 (14.87%) RESTful
4 149 (14.58%) React
5 140 (13.70%) .NET
6 124 (12.13%) Kafka
7 67 (6.56%) OAuth
7 67 (6.56%) Spring Boot
8 63 (6.16%) Spring
9 59 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
10 57 (5.58%) AWS CDK
11 50 (4.89%) .NET Core
12 49 (4.79%) FastAPI
13 47 (4.60%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.91%) JSON
14 40 (3.91%) OAuth2
14 40 (3.91%) PySpark
15 39 (3.82%) GraphQL
16 38 (3.72%) JWT
17 37 (3.62%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.15%) NHS
8 20 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.17%) Replication
14 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.76%) Linux
2 12 (1.17%) Unix
3 8 (0.78%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) VMS
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (60.57%) CI/CD
2 529 (51.76%) DevOps
3 405 (39.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (35.23%) Agile
5 305 (29.84%) Microservices
6 273 (26.71%) Containerisation
7 185 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
8 174 (17.03%) Software Engineering
9 172 (16.83%) AI
10 149 (14.58%) Analytics
11 147 (14.38%) Event-Driven
12 146 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
13 126 (12.33%) Test Automation
14 124 (12.13%) Observability
15 119 (11.64%) Data Modelling
16 112 (10.96%) ETL
17 107 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
18 99 (9.69%) Machine Learning
19 98 (9.59%) Mentoring
20 94 (9.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 516 (50.49%) Python
2 270 (26.42%) SQL
3 167 (16.34%) Java
4 156 (15.26%) JavaScript
5 154 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 146 (14.29%) C#
7 68 (6.65%) Bash
8 57 (5.58%) Go
9 50 (4.89%) PowerShell
10 43 (4.21%) Bicep
11 28 (2.74%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.35%) Ruby
13 11 (1.08%) Perl
14 10 (0.98%) C++
14 10 (0.98%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.98%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Korn
16 7 (0.68%) PHP
16 7 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 248 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 201 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.44%) AWS Certification
4 66 (6.46%) Degree
5 56 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 31 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.54%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.15%) MCP
11 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.29%) PhD
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.098%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.28%) QA
2 42 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.11%) GDPR
3 33 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.86%) NIST
5 17 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.27%) WCAG
8 12 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.88%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.49%) HL7
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
13 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 303 (29.65%) Docker
2 29 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.098%) RACF
Systems Management
1 449 (43.93%) Terraform
2 295 (28.86%) Kubernetes
3 116 (11.35%) Grafana
4 104 (10.18%) Ansible
4 104 (10.18%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.86%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.37%) Puppet
7 9 (0.88%) Kibana
7 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.39%) Rancher
9 3 (0.29%) Argo
9 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.29%) Packer
10 2 (0.20%) Control-M
10 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.20%) Knative
10 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 188 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.75%) Databricks
3 45 (4.40%) Google
4 44 (4.31%) Splunk
5 34 (3.33%) Oracle
6 32 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.05%) Foundry
7 21 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.37%) Confluent
10 12 (1.17%) IBM
11 11 (1.08%) Cloudera
12 10 (0.98%) Cisco
12 10 (0.98%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.98%) Lotus
12 10 (0.98%) Palantir
13 9 (0.88%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.88%) Kofax
13 9 (0.88%) Pega
14 7 (0.68%) Genesys