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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 109 132
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,064 806 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.45% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.58% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 594 525
10th Percentile £387 £400 £365
25th Percentile £450 £441 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -4.13%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £535
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.57% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £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 18,822 12,256 13,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.30% 37.26% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,428 8,209 9,287
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 312 280
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.70 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%
75th Percentile £69.67 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -27 857 £525 - 358
London -15 502 £550 - 194
UK excluding London -26 396 £500 +1.11% 208
Work from Home -25 340 £525 - 177
North of England -32 137 £500 +2.30% 79
Midlands -10 80 £479 +6.39% 24
North West -36 69 £550 +10.00% 40
West Midlands -18 64 £476 +5.78% 17
Scotland -4 58 £428 -14.50% 14
South West -16 49 £538 +8.86% 31
Yorkshire -27 48 £500 +3.90% 22
South East -58 45 £600 +27.39% 38
East of England -14 25 £550 +4.76% 13
North East -26 21 £463 +0.54% 17
East Midlands -13 16 £488 +8.32% 7
Northern Ireland +1 4 £283 -43.50% 6
Wales -8 4 £400 -30.47% 5

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 44 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.82%) Apache
5 18 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.75%) nginx
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 839 (78.85%) AWS
2 663 (62.31%) AWS Lambda
3 449 (42.20%) Amazon S3
4 356 (33.46%) Azure
5 213 (20.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 204 (19.17%) GitHub
7 196 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
8 183 (17.20%) Amazon EC2
9 172 (16.17%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (15.88%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (13.35%) GitHub Actions
13 123 (11.56%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
16 111 (10.43%) Power Platform
17 104 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
18 80 (7.52%) GCP
19 75 (7.05%) Amazon EventBridge
20 72 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.48%) Firewall
2 27 (2.54%) DNS
3 24 (2.26%) Network Security
4 19 (1.79%) VPN
5 13 (1.22%) WAN
6 10 (0.94%) HTTP
7 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.66%) SSL
9 5 (0.47%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.38%) IPsec
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) SMS
12 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.07%) DynamoDB
2 151 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (10.90%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (9.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 84 (7.89%) Power BI
7 76 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.77%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.45%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.32%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.57%) MySQL
13 36 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (3.20%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.10%) Metadata
15 33 (3.10%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.26%) Tableau
17 19 (1.79%) Big Data
17 19 (1.79%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 181 (17.01%) Git
2 138 (12.97%) Jenkins
3 137 (12.88%) GitLab
4 74 (6.95%) JIRA
5 31 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.35%) Claude Code
8 22 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.41%) JUnit
9 15 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.22%) Postman
11 11 (1.03%) Selenium
12 9 (0.85%) Mockito
13 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.75%) MSTest
13 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.75%) Vite
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) Mocha
14 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 234 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.35%) Finance
4 72 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.20%) Banking
6 26 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.41%) Legal
9 12 (1.13%) Law
10 11 (1.03%) Retail
11 10 (0.94%) Billing
11 10 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.94%) Marketing
12 8 (0.75%) Back Office
13 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 252 (23.68%) Developer
2 199 (18.70%) Senior
3 198 (18.61%) Architect
4 177 (16.64%) AWS Engineer
5 118 (11.09%) Data Engineer
6 112 (10.53%) Lead
7 69 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.30%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 63 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.61%) AWS Developer
14 48 (4.51%) Technical Architect
15 47 (4.42%) Senior Developer
16 44 (4.14%) Python Developer
17 42 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
18 40 (3.76%) AWS Data Engineer
18 40 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
18 40 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.25%) REST
2 131 (12.31%) React
3 127 (11.94%) Node.js
4 113 (10.62%) .NET
5 110 (10.34%) RESTful
6 105 (9.87%) Kafka
7 74 (6.95%) AWS CDK
7 74 (6.95%) PySpark
8 67 (6.30%) Spring Boot
9 65 (6.11%) Spring
10 63 (5.92%) GraphQL
11 59 (5.55%) OAuth
12 46 (4.32%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.32%) FastAPI
13 41 (3.85%) OAuth2
14 40 (3.76%) JSON
15 38 (3.57%) OpenID
16 35 (3.29%) CSS
17 34 (3.20%) HTML
18 33 (3.10%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 322 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 71 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (5.08%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.63%) NHS
6 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.22%) IVR
10 13 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.94%) IoT
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.36%) Linux
2 24 (2.26%) Unix
3 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.41%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (60.53%) CI/CD
2 454 (42.67%) DevOps
3 403 (37.88%) Agile
4 393 (36.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 276 (25.94%) Microservices
6 236 (22.18%) AI
7 219 (20.58%) Event-Driven
8 218 (20.49%) Containerisation
9 182 (17.11%) Observability
10 164 (15.41%) Test Automation
11 163 (15.32%) Data Modelling
12 161 (15.13%) Analytics
13 148 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
14 144 (13.53%) Software Engineering
15 142 (13.35%) ETL
16 135 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 132 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
18 131 (12.31%) Data Engineering
18 131 (12.31%) Migration
18 131 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 468 (43.98%) Python
2 309 (29.04%) SQL
3 178 (16.73%) TypeScript
4 152 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 141 (13.25%) Java
6 131 (12.31%) C#
7 73 (6.86%) Bash
8 38 (3.57%) Bicep
8 38 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.60%) Scala
11 14 (1.32%) Go
12 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.75%) Groovy
13 8 (0.75%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.56%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
15 6 (0.56%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 287 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 236 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 50 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.23%) Degree
6 37 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.56%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.89%) QA
3 39 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.10%) GDPR
5 25 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.07%) WCAG
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.13%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.47%) HL7
10 5 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.094%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 267 (25.09%) Docker
2 34 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.28%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 402 (37.78%) Terraform
2 240 (22.56%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.55%) Grafana
4 78 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.32%) Ansible
6 20 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.50%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) Istio
9 8 (0.75%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
11 6 (0.56%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.38%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.26%) Databricks
3 35 (3.29%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.10%) Oracle
5 27 (2.54%) Informatica
6 26 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.35%) Google
8 24 (2.26%) Splunk
9 22 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.94%) Brio
11 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Confluent
13 7 (0.66%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Sybase
14 5 (0.47%) Workday