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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 106 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,066 745 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.54% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 6.73% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 572 595
10th Percentile £358 £400 £384
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.93% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -6 867 £513 -6.82% 295
London -10 517 £513 -8.07% 134
UK excluding London +1 381 £500 - 199
Work from Home -33 288 £500 -4.76% 164
North of England -7 156 £500 - 69
North West -5 85 £500 - 48
Midlands -23 62 £498 +9.57% 23
Yorkshire -17 55 £500 - 17
South East -46 55 £525 +5.00% 54
Scotland -13 53 £402 -23.43% 4
West Midlands -23 49 £488 +1.35% 12
South West -21 34 £578 +5.16% 25
East of England -13 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -11 17 £475 - 4
East Midlands -29 13 £499 +8.71% 11
Wales -9 6 £475 -5.09% 6
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 6

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 59 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.66%) Apache
4 38 (3.56%) Confluence
5 28 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.59%) nginx
7 11 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.94%) Mendix
9 7 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.28%) SAS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) CMS
13 1 (0.094%) FileNet
13 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 788 (73.92%) AWS
2 624 (58.54%) AWS Lambda
3 419 (39.31%) Amazon S3
4 405 (37.99%) Azure
5 244 (22.89%) GitHub
6 223 (20.92%) Azure Functions
7 216 (20.26%) Amazon ECS
8 194 (18.20%) Amazon EC2
9 190 (17.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 184 (17.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 177 (16.60%) Amazon EKS
12 171 (16.04%) GitHub Actions
13 165 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.54%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 116 (10.88%) AWS Step Functions
17 102 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
18 94 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
19 90 (8.44%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.75%) Firewall
2 38 (3.56%) DNS
3 22 (2.06%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.13%) HTTP
6 12 (1.13%) Network Security
7 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.84%) SSL
8 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.66%) SMS
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
11 4 (0.38%) WAN
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.094%) 4G
14 1 (0.094%) 5G
14 1 (0.094%) MQTT
14 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (14.26%) DynamoDB
2 134 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
3 109 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 81 (7.60%) NoSQL
5 81 (7.60%) Power BI
6 80 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 63 (5.91%) Data Lake
8 52 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (3.66%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 36 (3.38%) MongoDB
14 33 (3.10%) Tableau
15 32 (3.00%) Big Data
15 32 (3.00%) Metadata
16 28 (2.63%) Redis
17 27 (2.53%) MySQL
18 26 (2.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (16.32%) Git
2 154 (14.45%) GitLab
3 135 (12.66%) Jenkins
4 61 (5.72%) JIRA
5 31 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 16 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.50%) JUnit
8 14 (1.31%) MLflow
9 11 (1.03%) Mockito
10 10 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.84%) Maven
12 8 (0.75%) NUnit
12 8 (0.75%) Selenium
13 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.66%) Liquibase
13 7 (0.66%) Mocha
13 7 (0.66%) Postman
14 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 230 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 205 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.70%) Finance
4 73 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.94%) Banking
6 32 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.13%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.13%) Legal
7 12 (1.13%) Marketing
8 10 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
9 9 (0.84%) Retail
10 8 (0.75%) Military
11 6 (0.56%) Billing
11 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.56%) Police
12 5 (0.47%) Front Office
12 5 (0.47%) Law
12 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (25.80%) Developer
2 184 (17.26%) Architect
3 146 (13.70%) Senior
4 145 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.32%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.72%) Lead
7 87 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.25%) AWS Architect
10 53 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 50 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.50%) AWS Developer
12 48 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
13 45 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 43 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 42 (3.94%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
16 40 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (3.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.04%) Node.js
2 144 (13.51%) React
3 133 (12.48%) REST
4 123 (11.54%) .NET
5 122 (11.44%) Kafka
6 107 (10.04%) RESTful
7 90 (8.44%) OAuth
8 88 (8.26%) Spring
9 87 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 67 (6.29%) PySpark
11 57 (5.35%) AngularJS
12 52 (4.88%) AWS CDK
13 51 (4.78%) OAuth2
14 49 (4.60%) JSON
15 45 (4.22%) .NET Core
16 43 (4.03%) FastAPI
17 42 (3.94%) OpenID
18 41 (3.85%) GraphQL
19 40 (3.75%) JWT
20 36 (3.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 273 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.72%) NHS
5 25 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.84%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.75%) Replication
15 7 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.41%) Linux
2 21 (1.97%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 533 (50.00%) DevOps
3 405 (37.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 350 (32.83%) Agile
5 279 (26.17%) Microservices
6 254 (23.83%) Containerisation
7 179 (16.79%) AI
8 169 (15.85%) Analytics
9 166 (15.57%) Event-Driven
10 163 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (15.20%) Observability
12 149 (13.98%) Data Pipeline
13 148 (13.88%) Data Modelling
14 144 (13.51%) Software Engineering
15 139 (13.04%) Test Automation
16 137 (12.85%) ETL
17 116 (10.88%) Data Engineering
18 113 (10.60%) Migration
19 109 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
20 105 (9.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 495 (46.44%) Python
2 300 (28.14%) SQL
3 170 (15.95%) Java
4 162 (15.20%) C#
5 159 (14.92%) JavaScript
6 157 (14.73%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.19%) Bash
8 50 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.60%) Bicep
10 36 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.35%) Go
11 25 (2.35%) Ruby
12 17 (1.59%) Scala
13 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) Perl
15 6 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 297 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.23%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.57%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.63%) Degree
8 21 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
14 4 (0.38%) PhD
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.88%) QA
3 32 (3.00%) GDPR
4 31 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.72%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.50%) NIST
8 10 (0.94%) PMO
8 10 (0.94%) WCAG
9 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.38%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 291 (27.30%) Docker
2 33 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.94%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 447 (41.93%) Terraform
2 260 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.57%) Grafana
4 90 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 63 (5.91%) Ansible
6 29 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) Kibana
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Packer
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 174 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.26%) Databricks
3 48 (4.50%) Oracle
4 45 (4.22%) OpenAI
5 31 (2.91%) Splunk
6 19 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.59%) Google
8 14 (1.31%) Foundry
8 14 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.03%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Brio
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Informatica
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Palantir