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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 107 133
Rank change year-on-year -31 +26 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 819 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.49% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 6.70% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 606 508
10th Percentile £390 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £538
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.47% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £34.08 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,899 12,233 13,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.26% 37.19% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,480 8,192 9,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 312 274
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £52.73
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.38 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +82.17% -11.70% -20.11%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -32 854 £525 - 425
London -23 497 £550 - 267
UK excluding London -20 396 £500 +1.63% 210
Work from Home -26 340 £513 -0.49% 201
North of England -44 137 £500 +4.17% 63
Midlands -5 81 £481 +13.18% 23
North West -33 69 £550 +15.79% 33
West Midlands -8 66 £477 +12.24% 13
Scotland -1 58 £428 -14.50% 19
South West -25 49 £546 +6.80% 32
Yorkshire -33 46 £500 +2.56% 18
South East -53 46 £600 +39.53% 49
East of England -14 24 £525 - 9
North East -29 22 £463 +0.54% 12
East Midlands -8 15 £488 +17.52% 10
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 7
Wales -12 3 £550 -4.39% 11

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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 46 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.21%) Apache
5 19 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.094%) Camunda
11 1 (0.094%) Mendix
11 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.98%) 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
1 830 (78.38%) AWS
2 665 (62.80%) AWS Lambda
3 450 (42.49%) Amazon S3
4 349 (32.96%) Azure
5 216 (20.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 208 (19.64%) GitHub
7 194 (18.32%) Amazon ECS
8 184 (17.37%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
9 170 (16.05%) Azure Functions
10 162 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 147 (13.88%) GitHub Actions
12 126 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
13 118 (11.14%) AWS Step Functions
14 115 (10.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 107 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
15 107 (10.10%) Power Platform
16 82 (7.74%) Amazon EventBridge
17 78 (7.37%) GCP
18 74 (6.99%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.40%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
3 24 (2.27%) Network Security
4 18 (1.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 7 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) SSL
8 4 (0.38%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) SMS
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.094%) 5G
11 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.24%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.73%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.05%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.84%) Power BI
7 77 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
8 73 (6.89%) NoSQL
9 55 (5.19%) Data Lake
10 50 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (4.15%) SQL Server
12 39 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (3.68%) MySQL
13 34 (3.21%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.12%) Metadata
14 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.27%) Tableau
16 21 (1.98%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.70%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 182 (17.19%) Git
2 139 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 136 (12.84%) GitLab
4 74 (6.99%) JIRA
5 31 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 27 (2.55%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.32%) JUnit
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
12 12 (1.13%) Selenium
13 9 (0.85%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.76%) Vite
15 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.66%) Gatling
15 7 (0.66%) MSTest
15 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 235 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 147 (13.88%) Finance
4 72 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.31%) Banking
6 27 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Legal
9 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Law
9 11 (1.04%) Retail
10 10 (0.94%) Billing
10 10 (0.94%) Marketing
11 9 (0.85%) Back Office
12 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 254 (23.98%) Developer
2 195 (18.41%) Architect
3 193 (18.22%) Senior
4 178 (16.81%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 111 (10.48%) Lead
7 70 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.14%) AWS Architect
8 65 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 60 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 58 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 53 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (4.53%) AWS Developer
13 46 (4.34%) Python Developer
14 44 (4.15%) Senior Developer
15 43 (4.06%) Technical Architect
16 41 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (13.79%) REST
2 133 (12.56%) React
3 128 (12.09%) Node.js
4 115 (10.86%) .NET
5 110 (10.39%) RESTful
6 107 (10.10%) Kafka
7 79 (7.46%) AWS CDK
8 72 (6.80%) PySpark
9 64 (6.04%) Spring
9 64 (6.04%) Spring Boot
10 62 (5.85%) GraphQL
11 55 (5.19%) OAuth
12 46 (4.34%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.15%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.78%) JSON
15 37 (3.49%) OAuth2
16 35 (3.31%) CSS
16 35 (3.31%) OpenID
17 34 (3.21%) Flask
17 34 (3.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 324 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 71 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (5.38%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.64%) NHS
6 26 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.42%) IVR
10 14 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.04%) IoT
13 11 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.67%) Linux
2 25 (2.36%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) 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
1 640 (60.43%) CI/CD
2 447 (42.21%) DevOps
3 401 (37.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 398 (37.58%) Agile
5 266 (25.12%) Microservices
6 236 (22.29%) AI
7 223 (21.06%) Event-Driven
8 219 (20.68%) Containerisation
9 184 (17.37%) Observability
10 166 (15.68%) Test Automation
11 164 (15.49%) Data Modelling
12 160 (15.11%) Analytics
13 149 (14.07%) Software Engineering
14 146 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
15 141 (13.31%) ETL
16 138 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (12.75%) Migration
18 131 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (11.99%) Data Engineering
20 126 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (43.91%) Python
2 309 (29.18%) SQL
3 180 (17.00%) TypeScript
4 153 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 135 (12.75%) Java
6 130 (12.28%) C#
7 74 (6.99%) Bash
8 39 (3.68%) Bicep
9 37 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.51%) Scala
12 15 (1.42%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 287 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 234 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 50 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.25%) Degree
6 38 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.91%) QA
3 39 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.21%) GDPR
5 27 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.08%) WCAG
7 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.13%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) SLA
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 270 (25.50%) Docker
2 34 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 411 (38.81%) Terraform
2 241 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.69%) Grafana
4 77 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.44%) Ansible
6 16 (1.51%) Puppet
7 15 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.94%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) linkerd
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Kibana
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 152 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.38%) Databricks
3 36 (3.40%) Oracle
4 31 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.64%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.55%) Informatica
7 26 (2.46%) Splunk
8 25 (2.36%) Google
9 23 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.13%) SAP
12 10 (0.94%) Brio
13 9 (0.85%) Tenable
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
14 7 (0.66%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday