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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,044 750 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.56% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.13% 6.81% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 578 588
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £417 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.48% -6.41%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £707 £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 17,025 11,015 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.81% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,531 7,643 9,909
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 493 251 343
10th Percentile £15.68 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.95
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.30 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -12 843 £525 -4.55% 306
London -12 501 £525 -4.55% 152
UK excluding London -13 375 £500 - 167
Work from Home -41 280 £500 -4.76% 159
North of England -4 150 £500 - 64
North West -11 84 £500 - 40
Midlands -28 63 £500 +4.28% 18
Scotland -21 54 £402 -23.43% 7
South East -42 52 £550 +10.00% 41
West Midlands -19 51 £494 +2.65% 6
Yorkshire -12 50 £500 - 18
South West -23 34 £578 +5.16% 28
East of England -24 24 £550 -18.52% 8
North East -12 17 £475 - 6
East Midlands -29 12 £500 - 12
Wales -9 6 £475 +5.50% 2
Northern Ireland 0 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 (5.46%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.93%) Confluence
3 39 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (3.54%) Apache
5 28 (2.68%) 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%) CMS
14 1 (0.096%) FileNet
14 1 (0.096%) JBoss
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 (74.04%) AWS
2 608 (58.24%) AWS Lambda
3 406 (38.89%) Amazon S3
4 394 (37.74%) Azure
5 228 (21.84%) GitHub
6 215 (20.59%) Azure Functions
7 204 (19.54%) Amazon ECS
8 188 (18.01%) Amazon EC2
9 180 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 174 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 173 (16.57%) Amazon EKS
12 164 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
13 150 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.78%) Power Platform
15 116 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 111 (10.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 102 (9.77%) Azure Logic Apps
18 98 (9.39%) Amazon SQS
19 92 (8.81%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.35%) Firewall
2 34 (3.26%) DNS
3 20 (1.92%) VPN
4 14 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.15%) HTTP
7 11 (1.05%) Network Security
8 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.67%) SMS
9 7 (0.67%) SSL
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
11 4 (0.38%) WAN
12 3 (0.29%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.096%) BGP
14 1 (0.096%) CTI
14 1 (0.096%) Internet
14 1 (0.096%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.18%) DynamoDB
2 128 (12.26%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (7.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 79 (7.57%) NoSQL
6 79 (7.57%) Power BI
7 61 (5.84%) Data Lake
8 51 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (4.60%) Relational Database
10 46 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (3.93%) SQL Server
12 40 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 35 (3.35%) MongoDB
14 34 (3.26%) Metadata
15 31 (2.97%) Big Data
16 30 (2.87%) Tableau
17 28 (2.68%) Delta Lake
17 28 (2.68%) MySQL
18 27 (2.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (15.61%) Git
2 152 (14.56%) GitLab
3 125 (11.97%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.65%) JIRA
5 29 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 18 (1.72%) 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%) Mockito
12 8 (0.77%) NUnit
12 8 (0.77%) Selenium
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.67%) MSTest
13 7 (0.67%) Postman
13 7 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 223 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 197 (18.87%) Public Sector
3 147 (14.08%) Finance
4 67 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.64%) Banking
6 28 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.25%) 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 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.57%) 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
1 268 (25.67%) Developer
2 187 (17.91%) Architect
3 149 (14.27%) Senior
4 139 (13.31%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 95 (9.10%) Lead
7 77 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.36%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 50 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (4.69%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 45 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.93%) Python Engineer
18 40 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
18 40 (3.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.13%) Node.js
2 143 (13.70%) React
3 129 (12.36%) REST
4 123 (11.78%) .NET
5 121 (11.59%) Kafka
6 100 (9.58%) RESTful
7 86 (8.24%) Spring
8 85 (8.14%) Spring Boot
9 80 (7.66%) OAuth
10 69 (6.61%) PySpark
11 58 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.08%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.50%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.31%) FastAPI
14 45 (4.31%) JSON
15 43 (4.12%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.83%) OpenID
17 37 (3.54%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.45%) Next.js
19 34 (3.26%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 276 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.78%) NHS
5 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.77%) Replication
15 7 (0.67%) IoT
15 7 (0.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.99%) 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%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
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
1 632 (60.54%) CI/CD
2 509 (48.75%) DevOps
3 395 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (32.47%) Agile
5 270 (25.86%) Microservices
6 250 (23.95%) Containerisation
7 182 (17.43%) AI
8 169 (16.19%) Event-Driven
9 166 (15.90%) Observability
10 162 (15.52%) Analytics
11 152 (14.56%) Data Modelling
11 152 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
12 145 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
13 142 (13.60%) Software Engineering
14 139 (13.31%) Test Automation
15 134 (12.84%) ETL
16 115 (11.02%) Data Engineering
16 115 (11.02%) Migration
17 110 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
18 107 (10.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 478 (45.79%) Python
2 288 (27.59%) SQL
3 165 (15.80%) C#
4 164 (15.71%) Java
5 159 (15.23%) TypeScript
6 149 (14.27%) JavaScript
7 63 (6.03%) Bash
8 49 (4.69%) Bicep
9 44 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 36 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.39%) 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 (0.57%) C++
18 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 284 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 225 (21.55%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.49%) Degree
8 19 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.57%) 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 67 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.69%) QA
3 31 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.87%) GDPR
4 30 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.44%) NIST
7 11 (1.05%) WCAG
8 10 (0.96%) PMO
9 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 4 (0.38%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 277 (26.53%) Docker
2 31 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.72%) 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
1 428 (41.00%) Terraform
2 249 (23.85%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.77%) Grafana
4 88 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.17%) 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 (0.57%) Istio
11 6 (0.57%) Kibana
11 6 (0.57%) 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
1 168 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.33%) Databricks
3 48 (4.60%) Oracle
4 46 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.68%) 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