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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 109 130
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,053 817 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.50% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 6.70% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 603 534
10th Percentile £386 £400 £371
25th Percentile £450 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £626
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £36.63 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,607 12,201 13,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,161 9,644
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 313 316
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.87%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -26 845 £528 +0.57% 289
London -22 492 £550 - 143
UK excluding London -24 392 £500 - 177
Work from Home -27 340 £525 - 135
North of England -31 143 £500 - 54
North West -26 78 £550 +10.00% 28
Midlands -13 76 £477 +5.88% 33
West Midlands -19 60 £475 +5.56% 19
Scotland +7 59 £444 -11.25% 9
Yorkshire -35 47 £500 +2.56% 14
South West -20 44 £550 +6.02% 33
South East -66 44 £588 +19.41% 38
East of England -21 28 £550 +3.53% 9
North East -27 19 £463 +0.54% 12
East Midlands -9 16 £488 +7.31% 14
Northern Ireland +8 4 £283 -43.50% 1
Wales -14 4 £400 -30.47% 3

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 (4.94%) Confluence
2 49 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.18%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.94%) Apache
5 17 (1.61%) 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 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 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.095%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 837 (79.49%) AWS
2 662 (62.87%) AWS Lambda
3 458 (43.49%) Amazon S3
4 349 (33.14%) Azure
5 206 (19.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 200 (18.99%) GitHub
7 199 (18.90%) Amazon ECS
8 185 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.48%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 140 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
13 125 (11.87%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 113 (10.73%) AWS Step Functions
16 111 (10.54%) Power Platform
17 99 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
18 80 (7.60%) GCP
19 73 (6.93%) Azure Logic Apps
20 70 (6.65%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.23%) Firewall
2 25 (2.37%) Network Security
3 24 (2.28%) DNS
4 18 (1.71%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 1 (0.095%) 4G
12 1 (0.095%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.86%) DynamoDB
2 153 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.73%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (9.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (7.69%) Power BI
7 80 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.84%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.51%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (4.18%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.61%) MySQL
13 35 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (3.32%) Relational Database
14 34 (3.23%) Metadata
15 29 (2.75%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.37%) Tableau
17 22 (2.09%) Big Data
18 18 (1.71%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 183 (17.38%) Git
2 139 (13.20%) GitLab
3 135 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.12%) JIRA
5 27 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 24 (2.28%) Claude Code
7 21 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.14%) JUnit
10 11 (1.04%) Postman
11 9 (0.85%) Selenium
11 9 (0.85%) Vite
12 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.76%) Mocha
12 8 (0.76%) MSTest
12 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.66%) MLflow
13 7 (0.66%) Mockito
14 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 235 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.20%) Finance
4 67 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.85%) Banking
6 25 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.61%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
10 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.85%) Retail
12 8 (0.76%) Marketing
13 7 (0.66%) Back Office
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Front Office
14 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Police
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (22.89%) Developer
2 197 (18.71%) Senior
3 193 (18.33%) Architect
4 174 (16.52%) AWS Engineer
5 121 (11.49%) Data Engineer
6 108 (10.26%) Lead
7 73 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.08%) AWS Architect
10 61 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.65%) Technical Architect
14 48 (4.56%) Senior Developer
15 47 (4.46%) AWS Developer
16 43 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
17 42 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
18 41 (3.89%) Python Engineer
19 39 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
19 39 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (13.20%) REST
2 130 (12.35%) React
3 129 (12.25%) Node.js
4 109 (10.35%) RESTful
5 108 (10.26%) .NET
6 105 (9.97%) Kafka
7 76 (7.22%) AWS CDK
8 74 (7.03%) PySpark
9 68 (6.46%) GraphQL
9 68 (6.46%) Spring Boot
10 66 (6.27%) Spring
11 58 (5.51%) OAuth
12 49 (4.65%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.27%) JSON
14 43 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 37 (3.51%) OAuth2
16 33 (3.13%) OpenID
17 31 (2.94%) .NET Core
18 28 (2.66%) Next.js
18 28 (2.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 317 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 67 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (4.75%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.66%) NHS
7 22 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.04%) IoT
11 11 (1.04%) IVR
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.79%) Linux
2 24 (2.28%) 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 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (60.59%) CI/CD
2 455 (43.21%) DevOps
3 388 (36.85%) Agile
4 383 (36.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 269 (25.55%) Microservices
6 239 (22.70%) AI
7 222 (21.08%) Containerisation
8 213 (20.23%) Event-Driven
9 170 (16.14%) Observability
10 163 (15.48%) Analytics
11 162 (15.38%) Data Modelling
12 158 (15.00%) Test Automation
13 152 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
14 148 (14.06%) Software Engineering
15 146 (13.87%) ETL
16 137 (13.01%) Data Engineering
17 130 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 130 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
18 129 (12.25%) Migration
19 125 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 477 (45.30%) Python
2 305 (28.96%) SQL
3 171 (16.24%) TypeScript
4 141 (13.39%) Java
5 138 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 131 (12.44%) C#
7 72 (6.84%) Bash
8 39 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.23%) Bicep
9 34 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.61%) Scala
11 15 (1.42%) Go
12 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.76%) Groovy
13 8 (0.76%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 267 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 216 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.22%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.99%) Degree
6 36 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.85%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.38%) CISSP
16 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.46%) QA
3 35 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.94%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.61%) WCAG
7 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 268 (25.45%) Docker
2 33 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.38%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 399 (37.89%) Terraform
2 243 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.64%) Grafana
4 79 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.46%) Ansible
6 21 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.52%) Puppet
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.66%) Istio
9 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.47%) Packer
11 5 (0.47%) Salt
12 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.28%) Argo
13 3 (0.28%) Consul
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 148 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.41%) Databricks
3 41 (3.89%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.13%) Oracle
5 27 (2.56%) Informatica
6 23 (2.18%) Google
7 22 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.09%) Splunk
8 19 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.95%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Brio
13 8 (0.76%) Foundry
13 8 (0.76%) Tenable
14 6 (0.57%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday