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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 94 128
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,053 760 758
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.65% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 7.02% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 580 579
10th Percentile £373 £400 £380
25th Percentile £431 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £44.13 - -
25th Percentile £60.44 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +111.43% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
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 17,393 10,826 13,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.79% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 7,404 9,904
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.25 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -33.08%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -18 837 £525 -2.78% 239
London -15 512 £525 -4.55% 140
UK excluding London -22 353 £500 - 143
Work from Home -32 304 £525 - 126
North of England -23 142 £500 - 44
North West -15 81 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -34 56 £495 -0.50% 21
South East -37 52 £575 +15.00% 37
Scotland -23 47 £450 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire -29 47 £500 - 16
West Midlands -33 44 £488 -4.79% 13
South West -14 31 £575 +4.55% 21
East of England -18 25 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -24 15 £475 - 5
East Midlands -23 12 £500 +4.28% 8
Wales -12 6 £475 -17.43% 4
Northern Ireland +7 5 £190 -62.00% 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 47 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.18%) Confluence
3 42 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 27 (2.56%) Apache
6 17 (1.61%) nginx
7 10 (0.95%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.95%) Mendix
8 6 (0.57%) CICS
9 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 800 (75.97%) AWS
2 626 (59.45%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (39.60%) Amazon S3
4 380 (36.09%) Azure
5 238 (22.60%) GitHub
6 205 (19.47%) Azure Functions
7 193 (18.33%) Amazon EC2
8 177 (16.81%) Amazon ECS
8 177 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
9 176 (16.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 167 (15.86%) GitHub Actions
11 151 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 135 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
13 113 (10.73%) Amazon SQS
13 113 (10.73%) Power Platform
14 110 (10.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 107 (10.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 95 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 91 (8.64%) Azure Service Bus
18 71 (6.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.13%) DNS
2 28 (2.66%) Firewall
3 22 (2.09%) VPN
4 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.14%) Network Security
5 12 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.85%) SSL
8 7 (0.66%) SMS
9 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
10 5 (0.47%) WAN
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) MQTT
13 1 (0.095%) 4G
13 1 (0.095%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (15.19%) DynamoDB
2 142 (13.49%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (7.98%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 72 (6.84%) NoSQL
7 71 (6.74%) Power BI
8 60 (5.70%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 52 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (4.27%) SQL Server
11 43 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (3.32%) Relational Database
13 31 (2.94%) Metadata
13 31 (2.94%) MySQL
14 29 (2.75%) Tableau
15 27 (2.56%) Big Data
15 27 (2.56%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.28%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 155 (14.72%) Git
2 135 (12.82%) GitLab
3 128 (12.16%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.98%) JIRA
5 25 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.42%) Claude Code
7 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.95%) JUnit
9 9 (0.85%) Vite
10 8 (0.76%) Mocha
10 8 (0.76%) Postman
11 7 (0.66%) Gatling
11 7 (0.66%) MLflow
11 7 (0.66%) MSTest
12 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.57%) Snyk
12 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 236 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 169 (16.05%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.20%) Finance
4 57 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.66%) Banking
7 15 (1.42%) Legal
8 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.76%) Marketing
10 8 (0.76%) Retail
11 7 (0.66%) Law
11 7 (0.66%) Military
12 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.47%) Billing
13 5 (0.47%) Police
14 4 (0.38%) Front Office
14 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (24.50%) Developer
2 200 (18.99%) Architect
3 151 (14.34%) Senior
4 147 (13.96%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 98 (9.31%) Lead
7 69 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.46%) AWS Architect
9 67 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 56 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.94%) AWS Developer
12 50 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (4.56%) Technical Architect
15 46 (4.37%) Senior Developer
16 45 (4.27%) Python Engineer
17 43 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
18 41 (3.89%) Python Developer
19 38 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.30%) React
2 134 (12.73%) REST
3 130 (12.35%) Node.js
4 122 (11.59%) Kafka
5 121 (11.49%) .NET
6 105 (9.97%) RESTful
7 73 (6.93%) Spring
7 73 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 72 (6.84%) OAuth
9 69 (6.55%) PySpark
10 60 (5.70%) AWS CDK
11 53 (5.03%) GraphQL
12 50 (4.75%) AngularJS
13 46 (4.37%) FastAPI
14 43 (4.08%) JSON
14 43 (4.08%) OAuth2
15 41 (3.89%) OpenID
16 39 (3.70%) .NET Core
17 37 (3.51%) Next.js
18 30 (2.85%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 307 (29.15%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 53 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.09%) NHS
7 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.89%) Linux
2 23 (2.18%) Unix
3 11 (1.04%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Android
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (60.11%) CI/CD
2 472 (44.82%) DevOps
3 390 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 342 (32.48%) Agile
5 258 (24.50%) Microservices
6 222 (21.08%) Containerisation
7 194 (18.42%) Event-Driven
8 188 (17.85%) AI
9 174 (16.52%) Observability
10 148 (14.06%) Analytics
11 146 (13.87%) Data Modelling
12 139 (13.20%) Software Engineering
13 137 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
13 137 (13.01%) ETL
14 135 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
15 134 (12.73%) Test Automation
16 117 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 114 (10.83%) Migration
18 109 (10.35%) Mentoring
19 106 (10.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 453 (43.02%) Python
2 290 (27.54%) SQL
3 164 (15.57%) TypeScript
4 159 (15.10%) C#
5 147 (13.96%) Java
6 143 (13.58%) JavaScript
7 55 (5.22%) Bash
8 44 (4.18%) Bicep
9 41 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 36 (3.42%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.99%) Go
11 21 (1.99%) Scala
12 15 (1.42%) Ruby
13 10 (0.95%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.95%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.66%) Groovy
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
17 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 262 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 208 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.60%) AWS Certification
4 40 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (2.56%) Degree
8 25 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.18%) QA
3 27 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.56%) GDPR
3 27 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 17 (1.61%) NIST
6 12 (1.14%) WCAG
7 7 (0.66%) PMO
8 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) NCSC
9 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 263 (24.98%) Docker
2 31 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.14%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 416 (39.51%) Terraform
2 243 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 100 (9.50%) Grafana
4 87 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.56%) Ansible
6 29 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.33%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Kibana
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.38%) Podman
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.28%) Packer
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 156 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.74%) Databricks
3 48 (4.56%) OpenAI
4 39 (3.70%) Oracle
5 24 (2.28%) Splunk
6 20 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.71%) Google
8 12 (1.14%) Foundry
8 12 (1.14%) Informatica
8 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.95%) Confluent
10 10 (0.95%) Kofax
10 10 (0.95%) Lotus
10 10 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) Brio
11 9 (0.85%) SAP
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 6 (0.57%) Sybase