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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 110 130
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,064 822 717
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.51% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.74% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 600 515
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -32 871 £525 +1.94% 691
London -16 518 £550 - 446
UK excluding London -32 398 £500 +1.63% 344
Work from Home -21 339 £525 +1.94% 357
North of England -36 135 £500 +5.26% 108
Midlands -16 86 £447 -0.72% 42
North West -39 67 £605 +27.37% 65
West Midlands -15 66 £469 +2.79% 21
Scotland -12 54 £463 -7.50% 38
South East -55 49 £600 +33.33% 53
South West -21 47 £534 +3.14% 51
Yorkshire -40 46 £500 +5.15% 24
East of England -22 23 £525 +1.94% 19
North East -30 22 £463 +4.52% 19
East Midlands -7 20 £413 -0.66% 21
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 29
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 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 56 (5.26%) Confluence
2 47 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.20%) Apache
5 27 (2.54%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 7 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Mendix
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.094%) Drupal
13 1 (0.094%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 831 (78.10%) AWS
2 663 (62.31%) AWS Lambda
3 443 (41.64%) Amazon S3
4 376 (35.34%) Azure
5 231 (21.71%) GitHub
6 220 (20.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 187 (17.58%) Amazon ECS
8 186 (17.48%) Azure Functions
9 163 (15.32%) Amazon EC2
9 163 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
10 161 (15.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 159 (14.94%) Amazon EKS
12 139 (13.06%) Amazon SQS
13 126 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 118 (11.09%) Power Platform
16 109 (10.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 90 (8.46%) Amazon EventBridge
18 83 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.57%) Firewall
2 27 (2.54%) DNS
2 27 (2.54%) Network Security
3 16 (1.50%) VPN
4 13 (1.22%) HTTP
4 13 (1.22%) WAN
5 8 (0.75%) SSL
6 5 (0.47%) CTI
6 5 (0.47%) MQTT
6 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.38%) SMS
8 3 (0.28%) FTP
8 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.28%) IPv4
8 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.60%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.66%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.18%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (8.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (8.18%) Power BI
7 70 (6.58%) NoSQL
8 58 (5.45%) Data Lake
9 54 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (5.08%) MySQL
10 51 (4.79%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (3.10%) Metadata
13 32 (3.01%) MongoDB
14 28 (2.63%) Relational Database
15 27 (2.54%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (1.97%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 192 (18.05%) Git
2 142 (13.35%) Jenkins
3 138 (12.97%) GitLab
4 75 (7.05%) JIRA
5 33 (3.10%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.73%) Claude Code
7 25 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.50%) Selenium
11 13 (1.22%) Postman
12 11 (1.03%) JUnit
13 10 (0.94%) Mockito
14 9 (0.85%) RStudio
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.66%) Gatling
16 7 (0.66%) JMeter
16 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 243 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.66%) Finance
4 76 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.67%) Banking
6 32 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Billing
9 13 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Law
10 12 (1.13%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Marketing
10 12 (1.13%) Military
11 10 (0.94%) Back Office
12 9 (0.85%) Retail
13 8 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 247 (23.21%) Developer
2 210 (19.74%) Architect
3 202 (18.98%) Senior
4 175 (16.45%) AWS Engineer
5 126 (11.84%) Data Engineer
6 116 (10.90%) Lead
7 80 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.30%) AWS Architect
9 63 (5.92%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
12 47 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.32%) Technical Architect
14 44 (4.14%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
15 42 (3.95%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.85%) Python Developer
17 40 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (41.17%) Terraform
2 169 (15.88%) REST
3 136 (12.78%) React
4 131 (12.31%) .NET
5 122 (11.47%) Node.js
6 105 (9.87%) RESTful
7 101 (9.49%) Kafka
8 80 (7.52%) AWS CDK
9 78 (7.33%) PySpark
10 64 (6.02%) Spring
10 64 (6.02%) Spring Boot
11 58 (5.45%) GraphQL
12 53 (4.98%) FastAPI
13 52 (4.89%) OAuth
14 42 (3.95%) CSS
15 41 (3.85%) AngularJS
16 38 (3.57%) Flask
17 36 (3.38%) HTML
18 35 (3.29%) OAuth2
18 35 (3.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 337 (31.67%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.65%) Product Ownership
3 78 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (6.02%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.73%) NHS
7 22 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.60%) IVR
10 14 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.03%) IoT
12 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.11%) Linux
2 24 (2.26%) Unix
3 17 (1.60%) Windows
4 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (61.84%) CI/CD
2 456 (42.86%) DevOps
3 426 (40.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 401 (37.69%) Agile
5 252 (23.68%) AI
6 251 (23.59%) Microservices
7 239 (22.46%) Event-Driven
8 220 (20.68%) Containerisation
9 185 (17.39%) Observability
10 176 (16.54%) Test Automation
11 174 (16.35%) Analytics
12 163 (15.32%) Data Modelling
13 161 (15.13%) Software Engineering
14 151 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
15 148 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 147 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
17 142 (13.35%) ETL
17 142 (13.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 139 (13.06%) Migration
18 139 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 485 (45.58%) Python
2 316 (29.70%) SQL
3 181 (17.01%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 140 (13.16%) C#
6 136 (12.78%) Java
7 81 (7.61%) Bash
8 48 (4.51%) PowerShell
9 46 (4.32%) Bicep
10 33 (3.10%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.50%) Scala
12 11 (1.03%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.75%) R
14 8 (0.75%) Ruby
15 6 (0.56%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 277 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 229 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.52%) AWS Certification
4 54 (5.08%) Degree
5 53 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.20%) QA
3 41 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.38%) GDPR
5 28 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.26%) WCAG
7 16 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.22%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 277 (26.03%) Docker
2 38 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 249 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.08%) Grafana
3 66 (6.20%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.26%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.75%) Argo
7 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.66%) Istio
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Packer
8 7 (0.66%) Podman
9 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.38%) linkerd
10 4 (0.38%) Salt
11 3 (0.28%) Control-M
11 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.28%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 185 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.77%) Databricks
3 42 (3.95%) Oracle
4 38 (3.57%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.01%) Informatica
6 27 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.44%) Google
7 26 (2.44%) Splunk
8 24 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) SAP
11 11 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.94%) Brio
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Confluent
14 6 (0.56%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday