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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 106 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,074 809 758
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 2.49% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.78% 6.66% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 600 554
10th Percentile £385 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.59%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £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 18,581 12,147 14,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.39% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,328 8,132 9,923
10th Percentile £328 £313 £310
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £726 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 315 350
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.31 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -21 859 £528 +0.57% 197
London -11 508 £550 - 81
UK excluding London -28 387 £505 +1.00% 155
Work from Home -27 350 £525 - 100
North of England -37 141 £500 - 50
North West -32 79 £550 +10.00% 27
Midlands -22 74 £482 +7.05% 21
West Midlands -18 60 £476 +5.78% 12
Scotland +1 59 £444 -13.41% 4
Yorkshire -33 48 £500 +2.30% 9
South East -55 46 £575 +16.87% 32
South West -14 42 £575 +6.98% 27
East of England -17 27 £550 +3.53% 8
North East -31 15 £463 +0.54% 14
East Midlands -10 14 £497 +9.18% 9
Northern Ireland +4 5 £283 -43.50% 8
Wales -6 4 £400 -30.47% 7

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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 48 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.10%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.89%) Apache
5 18 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.21%) nginx
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 851 (79.24%) AWS
2 671 (62.48%) AWS Lambda
3 474 (44.13%) Amazon S3
4 357 (33.24%) Azure
5 211 (19.65%) GitHub
6 203 (18.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 200 (18.62%) Amazon EC2
8 193 (17.97%) Amazon ECS
9 174 (16.20%) Amazon EKS
10 168 (15.64%) Azure Functions
11 158 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (13.69%) GitHub Actions
13 124 (11.55%) Amazon SQS
14 119 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (10.80%) Power Platform
16 112 (10.43%) AWS Step Functions
17 108 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
18 79 (7.36%) GCP
19 75 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
20 70 (6.52%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.54%) Firewall
2 29 (2.70%) DNS
3 24 (2.23%) Network Security
4 23 (2.14%) VPN
5 13 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 11 (1.02%) HTTP
7 10 (0.93%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.74%) SSL
9 5 (0.47%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
12 2 (0.19%) SMS
13 1 (0.093%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.27%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.52%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (8.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 96 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.82%) Power BI
6 77 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
7 68 (6.33%) NoSQL
8 59 (5.49%) Data Lake
9 48 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.28%) SQL Server
11 37 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (3.45%) Relational Database
12 36 (3.35%) MySQL
13 32 (2.98%) Metadata
14 29 (2.70%) MongoDB
15 25 (2.33%) Tableau
16 21 (1.96%) Big Data
16 21 (1.96%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (16.67%) Git
2 147 (13.69%) GitLab
3 143 (13.31%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.54%) JIRA
5 29 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 26 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.05%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.02%) JUnit
10 11 (1.02%) Postman
11 10 (0.93%) Vite
12 9 (0.84%) Mocha
13 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.74%) MSTest
13 8 (0.74%) Selenium
14 7 (0.65%) MLflow
15 6 (0.56%) Gatling
15 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 237 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.32%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.22%) Finance
4 66 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.79%) Banking
5 30 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.68%) Legal
8 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.12%) Law
9 10 (0.93%) Billing
10 8 (0.74%) Marketing
10 8 (0.74%) Retail
11 7 (0.65%) Back Office
11 7 (0.65%) Military
12 6 (0.56%) Front Office
12 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.47%) Police
13 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (22.72%) Developer
2 200 (18.62%) Architect
3 193 (17.97%) Senior
4 175 (16.29%) AWS Engineer
5 127 (11.82%) Data Engineer
6 110 (10.24%) Lead
7 77 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 67 (6.24%) AWS Architect
10 64 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (4.93%) Technical Architect
12 51 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.38%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 45 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
15 44 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.10%) Python Engineer
16 43 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
17 41 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (12.48%) Node.js
1 134 (12.48%) REST
2 131 (12.20%) React
3 110 (10.24%) .NET
4 107 (9.96%) RESTful
5 104 (9.68%) Kafka
6 79 (7.36%) PySpark
7 75 (6.98%) AWS CDK
8 68 (6.33%) GraphQL
9 67 (6.24%) Spring Boot
10 64 (5.96%) Spring
11 62 (5.77%) OAuth
12 48 (4.47%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.10%) JSON
14 43 (4.00%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.72%) OpenID
16 37 (3.45%) OAuth2
17 30 (2.79%) .NET Core
18 28 (2.61%) Flask
18 28 (2.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 322 (29.98%) Cloud Native
2 86 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (4.38%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.51%) NHS
7 20 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.02%) IVR
13 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.93%) Fixed Income
14 10 (0.93%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.49%) Linux
2 21 (1.96%) Unix
3 15 (1.40%) Windows
4 13 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.56%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 473 (44.04%) DevOps
3 388 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (35.94%) Agile
5 269 (25.05%) Microservices
6 237 (22.07%) AI
7 230 (21.42%) Containerisation
8 213 (19.83%) Event-Driven
9 166 (15.46%) Analytics
10 164 (15.27%) Observability
11 159 (14.80%) Data Modelling
12 157 (14.62%) Test Automation
13 153 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
14 151 (14.06%) Software Engineering
15 144 (13.41%) ETL
16 137 (12.76%) Data Engineering
17 134 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
18 130 (12.10%) Migration
19 128 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
20 127 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 488 (45.44%) Python
2 311 (28.96%) SQL
3 172 (16.01%) TypeScript
4 141 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 140 (13.04%) Java
6 136 (12.66%) C#
7 69 (6.42%) Bash
8 41 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.17%) Bicep
10 32 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.86%) Go
12 17 (1.58%) Scala
13 10 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.74%) Groovy
14 8 (0.74%) Ruby
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
15 6 (0.56%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.47%) Gremlin
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 5 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 278 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 224 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.17%) AWS Certification
4 51 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.82%) Degree
6 36 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 35 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.28%) CCSP
16 3 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.00%) QA
3 29 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.61%) GDPR
5 25 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.30%) WCAG
7 13 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.12%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) PMO
10 6 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.56%) NCSC
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.093%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 278 (25.88%) Docker
2 32 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.12%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 417 (38.83%) Terraform
2 250 (23.28%) Kubernetes
3 97 (9.03%) Grafana
4 86 (8.01%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.28%) Ansible
6 26 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.49%) Puppet
8 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.74%) Consul
9 8 (0.74%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.65%) Istio
10 7 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
11 6 (0.56%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 147 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.05%) Databricks
3 44 (4.10%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.07%) Oracle
5 26 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 26 (2.42%) Informatica
6 25 (2.33%) Google
7 23 (2.14%) Splunk
8 18 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.93%) Foundry
11 10 (0.93%) SAP
12 8 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.74%) Brio
12 8 (0.74%) Tenable
13 5 (0.47%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.47%) Confluent
13 5 (0.47%) Sybase
13 5 (0.47%) Workday