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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 106 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,085 762 808
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 2.49% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.89% 6.61% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 563 611
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,739 11,536 14,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 37.70% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,797 7,823 10,482
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 181 342
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.75 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% +30.70% -11.90%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +6 859 £503 -12.61% 299
London +1 501 £513 -10.87% 143
UK excluding London -22 399 £500 -3.38% 198
Work from Home -22 304 £525 -3.14% 175
North of England +18 175 £500 -0.30% 72
North West -3 82 £450 -10.27% 42
Yorkshire -3 80 £500 - 27
Midlands -14 70 £525 +16.67% 17
Scotland -8 64 £404 -18.27% 7
West Midlands -11 53 £525 +9.15% 12
South East -61 50 £500 -13.04% 49
South West -34 29 £650 - 45
East of England -3 28 £560 -12.16% 8
East Midlands -16 17 £460 +1.21% 5
North East -7 14 £525 -13.93% 4
Wales -11 5 £481 -3.75% 1
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 1

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 49 (4.52%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.96%) Apache
3 39 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.58%) Confluence
5 27 (2.49%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.29%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.92%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.83%) Mendix
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.092%) FileNet
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 788 (72.63%) AWS
2 622 (57.33%) AWS Lambda
3 400 (36.87%) Amazon S3
3 400 (36.87%) Azure
4 240 (22.12%) Azure Functions
5 239 (22.03%) GitHub
6 223 (20.55%) Amazon ECS
7 210 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 205 (18.89%) Amazon EC2
9 195 (17.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 183 (16.87%) Amazon EKS
11 173 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
12 171 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
13 116 (10.69%) Power Platform
14 109 (10.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 108 (9.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 90 (8.29%) GCP
17 89 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
17 89 (8.20%) Azure Service Bus
18 81 (7.47%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.50%) Firewall
2 32 (2.95%) DNS
3 28 (2.58%) VPN
4 11 (1.01%) HTTP
4 11 (1.01%) Network Security
4 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
5 10 (0.92%) SSL
6 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) BGP
12 1 (0.092%) Internet
12 1 (0.092%) MQTT
12 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.93%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (12.17%) DynamoDB
3 130 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
4 99 (9.12%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (6.54%) Power BI
7 66 (6.08%) Data Lake
8 64 (5.90%) Amazon Athena
9 58 (5.35%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
11 50 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (3.59%) MongoDB
13 38 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
14 31 (2.86%) Redis
15 29 (2.67%) Tableau
16 28 (2.58%) Big Data
16 28 (2.58%) SQL Server
17 26 (2.40%) MySQL
18 24 (2.21%) Metadata
19 21 (1.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 177 (16.31%) Git
2 168 (15.48%) GitLab
3 163 (15.02%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.25%) JIRA
5 30 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.49%) Liquibase
7 21 (1.94%) JUnit
8 19 (1.75%) MLflow
9 18 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.47%) Mockito
10 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.20%) Postman
11 13 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.92%) Maven
12 10 (0.92%) Selenium
13 9 (0.83%) Mocha
14 7 (0.65%) NUnit
15 6 (0.55%) Gradle
General
1 254 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 208 (19.17%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.38%) Finance
4 75 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.82%) Banking
6 30 (2.76%) Financial Institution
7 26 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.29%) Marketing
9 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.83%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.65%) Legal
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
13 6 (0.55%) Retail
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Police
15 3 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (25.62%) Developer
2 166 (15.30%) Senior
3 154 (14.19%) Architect
4 150 (13.82%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 98 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.93%) Lead
8 80 (7.37%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 51 (4.70%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 49 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
14 46 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 43 (3.96%) Python Engineer
16 42 (3.87%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.78%) Java Developer
18 40 (3.69%) AWS Developer
19 34 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (16.04%) Node.js
2 160 (14.75%) REST
3 135 (12.44%) .NET
3 135 (12.44%) RESTful
4 134 (12.35%) React
5 127 (11.71%) Kafka
6 76 (7.00%) OAuth
6 76 (7.00%) Spring
7 75 (6.91%) Spring Boot
8 57 (5.25%) AWS CDK
9 56 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
10 53 (4.88%) AngularJS
10 53 (4.88%) FastAPI
11 49 (4.52%) PySpark
12 46 (4.24%) .NET Core
12 46 (4.24%) JSON
13 45 (4.15%) GraphQL
14 41 (3.78%) OAuth2
15 38 (3.50%) JWT
16 34 (3.13%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 275 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 27 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 24 (2.21%) NHS
8 19 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.74%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.74%) Replication
14 7 (0.65%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 108 (9.95%) Linux
2 14 (1.29%) Unix
3 8 (0.74%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (59.91%) CI/CD
2 559 (51.52%) DevOps
3 418 (38.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (33.46%) Agile
5 309 (28.48%) Microservices
6 276 (25.44%) Containerisation
7 192 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.60%) AI
9 169 (15.58%) Software Engineering
10 161 (14.84%) Analytics
11 159 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
12 149 (13.73%) Data Modelling
13 147 (13.55%) Event-Driven
14 146 (13.46%) Observability
15 130 (11.98%) Test Automation
16 126 (11.61%) ETL
17 117 (10.78%) Data Engineering
18 111 (10.23%) Machine Learning
19 110 (10.14%) Mentoring
20 109 (10.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 543 (50.05%) Python
2 302 (27.83%) SQL
3 165 (15.21%) Java
4 156 (14.38%) C#
5 152 (14.01%) JavaScript
6 147 (13.55%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.18%) Bash
8 58 (5.35%) Go
9 55 (5.07%) PowerShell
10 46 (4.24%) Bicep
11 32 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.30%) Ruby
13 11 (1.01%) Perl
13 11 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.92%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.92%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.83%) C++
16 8 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.74%) Scala
17 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 268 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 210 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.93%) AWS Certification
4 57 (5.25%) Degree
5 47 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (3.69%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.04%) Master's Degree
10 32 (2.95%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PhD
16 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.98%) QA
3 36 (3.32%) GDPR
4 34 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.94%) NIST
6 19 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.01%) WCAG
9 9 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GxP
13 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 298 (27.47%) Docker
2 30 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.74%) Squid
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 459 (42.30%) Terraform
2 294 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 120 (11.06%) Grafana
4 115 (10.60%) Prometheus
5 98 (9.03%) Ansible
6 22 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.29%) Puppet
8 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.65%) Consul
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Argo
10 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.28%) Packer
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.18%) Control-M
11 2 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 190 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.02%) Databricks
3 42 (3.87%) OpenAI
4 41 (3.78%) Splunk
5 39 (3.59%) Google
6 35 (3.23%) Oracle
7 27 (2.49%) Foundry
8 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.11%) IBM
12 11 (1.01%) Confluent
12 11 (1.01%) Palantir
13 10 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 10 (0.92%) Lotus
14 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.83%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.83%) Kofax
14 9 (0.83%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.74%) Cisco