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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -45 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,051 843 732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.54% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 6.69% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 603 507
10th Percentile £400 £385 £369
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.50% -9.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 19,011 12,605 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 38.03% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 8,423 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 295 189
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -34 852 £525 +2.44% 1,088
London -12 507 £550 +1.85% 513
UK excluding London -67 393 £500 +0.50% 967
Work from Home -35 338 £545 +7.92% 930
North of England -56 130 £500 +5.04% 216
Midlands -26 85 £430 -14.00% 101
North West -36 67 £538 +13.16% 125
West Midlands -19 65 £460 -10.24% 52
Scotland -26 55 £444 -11.25% 208
South East -50 54 £600 +41.18% 125
South West -21 47 £520 -5.45% 98
Yorkshire -55 43 £500 +5.04% 60
East Midlands -14 20 £425 -4.01% 49
North East -33 20 £463 -11.14% 32
East of England -41 16 £525 - 53
Northern Ireland +6 5 £375 - 91
Wales -9 5 £425 -26.12% 81

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 55 (5.23%) Confluence
2 49 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.71%) Apache
5 36 (3.43%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.95%) CMS
7 9 (0.86%) SAS
8 8 (0.76%) nginx
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.29%) CICS
12 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 808 (76.88%) AWS
2 651 (61.94%) AWS Lambda
3 427 (40.63%) Amazon S3
4 378 (35.97%) Azure
5 240 (22.84%) GitHub
6 230 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 205 (19.51%) Azure Functions
8 196 (18.65%) Amazon ECS
9 170 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.51%) Amazon EC2
11 162 (15.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 158 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
13 147 (13.99%) Amazon SQS
14 131 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
15 124 (11.80%) Power Platform
16 107 (10.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 106 (10.09%) AWS Step Functions
18 100 (9.51%) Amazon EventBridge
19 82 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
20 74 (7.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.95%) Firewall
1 31 (2.95%) Network Security
2 25 (2.38%) DNS
3 13 (1.24%) HTTP
3 13 (1.24%) VPN
4 11 (1.05%) WAN
5 7 (0.67%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.70%) DynamoDB
2 164 (15.60%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (10.66%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
5 89 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (6.85%) Power BI
8 63 (5.99%) NoSQL
9 62 (5.90%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.33%) SQL Server
11 54 (5.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 51 (4.85%) MySQL
13 41 (3.90%) MongoDB
14 32 (3.04%) Metadata
15 29 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.47%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.19%) Relational Database
18 21 (2.00%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
20 17 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 198 (18.84%) Git
2 146 (13.89%) GitLab
3 143 (13.61%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.04%) JIRA
5 32 (3.04%) Claude Code
5 32 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.95%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.90%) Selenium
9 18 (1.71%) JUnit
10 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.43%) Postman
12 14 (1.33%) Mockito
13 12 (1.14%) Maven
14 11 (1.05%) RStudio
15 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.86%) JMeter
16 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 244 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 164 (15.60%) Finance
4 81 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.09%) Banking
7 16 (1.52%) Marketing
8 15 (1.43%) Back Office
9 14 (1.33%) Military
10 13 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.24%) Law
10 13 (1.24%) Legal
11 12 (1.14%) Billing
11 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.86%) Front Office
12 9 (0.86%) Retail
13 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 245 (23.31%) Developer
2 213 (20.27%) Senior
3 185 (17.60%) Architect
4 170 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
5 132 (12.56%) Data Engineer
6 121 (11.51%) Lead
7 90 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (5.80%) AWS Architect
9 58 (5.52%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
14 43 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
16 40 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
16 40 (3.81%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.71%) AWS Developer
17 39 (3.71%) Technical Architect
18 38 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (39.77%) Terraform
2 192 (18.27%) REST
3 135 (12.84%) .NET
4 118 (11.23%) React
5 110 (10.47%) Node.js
6 108 (10.28%) Kafka
7 104 (9.90%) RESTful
8 83 (7.90%) AWS CDK
9 67 (6.37%) PySpark
10 66 (6.28%) Spring Boot
11 65 (6.18%) Spring
12 63 (5.99%) GraphQL
13 55 (5.23%) OAuth
14 54 (5.14%) FastAPI
15 44 (4.19%) AngularJS
16 39 (3.71%) OAuth2
17 38 (3.62%) JSON
18 36 (3.43%) CSS
19 35 (3.33%) OpenID
20 33 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 343 (32.64%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 81 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (7.04%) AI Agents
5 40 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.28%) NHS
10 18 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.62%) IVR
12 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.24%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.24%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.05%) Mainframe
16 11 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.95%) Linux
2 28 (2.66%) Unix
3 17 (1.62%) Windows
4 16 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.29%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Android
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (63.75%) CI/CD
2 471 (44.81%) DevOps
3 423 (40.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 401 (38.15%) Agile
5 278 (26.45%) AI
6 252 (23.98%) Event-Driven
7 238 (22.65%) Microservices
8 210 (19.98%) Containerisation
9 208 (19.79%) Observability
10 184 (17.51%) Test Automation
11 171 (16.27%) Analytics
12 170 (16.18%) Software Engineering
13 168 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 163 (15.51%) Data Modelling
15 158 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
16 154 (14.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 149 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
18 146 (13.89%) Data Engineering
19 141 (13.42%) Migration
20 139 (13.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 480 (45.67%) Python
2 299 (28.45%) SQL
3 179 (17.03%) TypeScript
4 158 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 153 (14.56%) C#
6 136 (12.94%) Java
7 78 (7.42%) Bash
8 45 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.00%) Bicep
10 32 (3.04%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.33%) Scala
12 12 (1.14%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.67%) R
15 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.48%) Cypher
16 5 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 277 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 238 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.28%) AWS Certification
4 62 (5.90%) Degree
5 58 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 12 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.67%) CISSP
16 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.42%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.80%) QA
3 49 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.62%) GDPR
5 30 (2.85%) WCAG
6 16 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) NIST
9 8 (0.76%) NCSC
9 8 (0.76%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.095%) GLBA
14 1 (0.095%) GRC
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 274 (26.07%) Docker
2 35 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 251 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.28%) Grafana
3 72 (6.85%) Prometheus
4 61 (5.80%) Ansible
5 14 (1.33%) Puppet
6 12 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.86%) Packer
9 7 (0.67%) Argo
9 7 (0.67%) Kibana
9 7 (0.67%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Control-M
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 206 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.14%) Databricks
3 48 (4.57%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.28%) Oracle
5 31 (2.95%) Google
6 29 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.47%) Informatica
8 26 (2.47%) Splunk
9 16 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.43%) Foundry
11 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.05%) Brio
13 10 (0.95%) Tenable
14 9 (0.86%) Confluent
15 6 (0.57%) SAP
16 5 (0.48%) Denodo
17 4 (0.38%) IBM
17 4 (0.38%) New Relic
17 4 (0.38%) UiPath