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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,043 754 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.57% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 6.84% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 582 588
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £422 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.99% -6.41%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £709 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.13% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 17,046 11,024 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.80% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,541 7,640 9,911
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 253 342
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.00 £34.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -16 842 £525 -4.55% 311
London -9 503 £525 -4.55% 140
UK excluding London -12 373 £500 - 193
Work from Home -42 278 £500 -5.66% 158
North of England -7 148 £500 - 75
North West -16 84 £500 - 43
Midlands -30 64 £500 - 21
Scotland -14 54 £402 -23.43% 10
West Midlands -19 52 £494 -3.56% 10
South East -35 52 £550 +10.00% 48
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 18
South West -20 33 £578 +5.16% 28
East of England -14 24 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -14 16 £475 - 14
East Midlands -25 12 £500 - 11
Wales -12 6 £475 +5.50% 3
Northern Ireland +2 2 - -

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 57 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.03%) Confluence
3 39 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (3.55%) Apache
5 27 (2.59%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.63%) nginx
7 11 (1.05%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.96%) Mendix
9 7 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.48%) SAS
11 4 (0.38%) CICS
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.096%) FileNet
14 1 (0.096%) JBoss
14 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 773 (74.11%) AWS
2 608 (58.29%) AWS Lambda
3 406 (38.93%) Amazon S3
4 394 (37.78%) Azure
5 227 (21.76%) GitHub
6 213 (20.42%) Azure Functions
7 202 (19.37%) Amazon ECS
8 188 (18.02%) Amazon EC2
9 177 (16.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 175 (16.78%) Amazon EKS
11 173 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 163 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
13 150 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.79%) Power Platform
15 116 (11.12%) AWS Step Functions
16 112 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 101 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
18 98 (9.40%) Amazon SQS
19 92 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 66 (6.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.26%) DNS
1 34 (3.26%) Firewall
2 20 (1.92%) VPN
3 14 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
4 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) HTTP
6 11 (1.05%) Network Security
7 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.67%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.67%) SMS
8 7 (0.67%) SSL
9 5 (0.48%) IPsec
10 4 (0.38%) WAN
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 1 (0.096%) BGP
13 1 (0.096%) CTI
13 1 (0.096%) Internet
13 1 (0.096%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (13.90%) DynamoDB
2 128 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (8.92%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 79 (7.57%) Power BI
7 78 (7.48%) NoSQL
8 62 (5.94%) Data Lake
9 51 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (4.41%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.03%) SQL Server
12 40 (3.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (3.26%) MongoDB
14 33 (3.16%) Metadata
15 31 (2.97%) Big Data
16 30 (2.88%) Tableau
17 28 (2.68%) Delta Lake
18 27 (2.59%) MySQL
18 27 (2.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (15.63%) Git
2 152 (14.57%) GitLab
3 124 (11.89%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.75%) JIRA
5 30 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 17 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.34%) MLflow
9 13 (1.25%) JUnit
10 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.86%) Mocha
12 8 (0.77%) Maven
12 8 (0.77%) NUnit
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.67%) Mockito
13 7 (0.67%) MSTest
13 7 (0.67%) Postman
13 7 (0.67%) Selenium
13 7 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 224 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 194 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 147 (14.09%) Finance
4 67 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.64%) Banking
6 27 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.34%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.96%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
10 8 (0.77%) Military
10 8 (0.77%) Retail
11 6 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.48%) Front Office
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.38%) Billing
13 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (25.60%) Developer
2 187 (17.93%) Architect
3 148 (14.19%) Senior
4 138 (13.23%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 96 (9.20%) Lead
7 76 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.37%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (4.70%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 46 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 42 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 41 (3.93%) Python Engineer
19 40 (3.84%) Cloud Architect
19 40 (3.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (15.05%) Node.js
2 142 (13.61%) React
3 129 (12.37%) REST
4 123 (11.79%) .NET
5 120 (11.51%) Kafka
6 99 (9.49%) RESTful
7 85 (8.15%) Spring
8 84 (8.05%) Spring Boot
9 78 (7.48%) OAuth
10 70 (6.71%) PySpark
11 57 (5.47%) AngularJS
12 52 (4.99%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.51%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.31%) FastAPI
15 44 (4.22%) JSON
16 43 (4.12%) .NET Core
17 40 (3.84%) OpenID
18 37 (3.55%) GraphQL
19 36 (3.45%) Next.js
20 33 (3.16%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 277 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (2.68%) NHS
5 26 (2.49%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.77%) Replication
12 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.90%) Linux
2 22 (2.11%) Unix
3 10 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (60.88%) CI/CD
2 510 (48.90%) DevOps
3 395 (37.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (32.60%) Agile
5 269 (25.79%) Microservices
6 251 (24.07%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.55%) AI
8 169 (16.20%) Event-Driven
9 166 (15.92%) Observability
10 161 (15.44%) Analytics
11 152 (14.57%) Data Modelling
12 151 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
13 146 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
14 142 (13.61%) Software Engineering
15 138 (13.23%) Test Automation
16 135 (12.94%) ETL
17 115 (11.03%) Data Engineering
17 115 (11.03%) Migration
18 108 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 106 (10.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 476 (45.64%) Python
2 289 (27.71%) SQL
3 164 (15.72%) C#
4 163 (15.63%) Java
5 159 (15.24%) TypeScript
6 148 (14.19%) JavaScript
7 63 (6.04%) Bash
8 49 (4.70%) Bicep
9 43 (4.12%) PowerShell
10 36 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.40%) Go
12 22 (2.11%) Ruby
13 17 (1.63%) Scala
14 11 (1.05%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.05%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.67%) Groovy
16 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) C++
18 4 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 281 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 223 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.23%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 34 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.59%) Degree
9 19 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.38%) PhD
15 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.60%) QA
3 30 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (2.78%) GDPR
5 24 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.44%) NIST
7 10 (0.96%) PMO
7 10 (0.96%) WCAG
8 7 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 275 (26.37%) Docker
2 31 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.96%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 427 (40.94%) Terraform
2 249 (23.87%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.78%) Grafana
4 88 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 53 (5.08%) Ansible
6 29 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.25%) Puppet
8 11 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.77%) Consul
11 6 (0.58%) Istio
11 6 (0.58%) Kibana
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 167 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.34%) Databricks
3 49 (4.70%) Oracle
4 47 (4.51%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.59%) Splunk
6 22 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.53%) Google
8 15 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.34%) Foundry
10 12 (1.15%) Informatica
11 11 (1.05%) Lotus
12 10 (0.96%) Confluent
12 10 (0.96%) Kofax
12 10 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.86%) Brio
13 9 (0.86%) SAP
14 8 (0.77%) Tenable
15 7 (0.67%) Palantir