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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,071 822 742
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.49% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.64% 6.65% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 595 523
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £678 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £535
% change year-on-year +0.50% -7.01% +1.90%
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 18,997 12,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.79% 37.43% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,598 8,222 8,954
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 307 208
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.80 £54.38 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.67 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £29.25
% change year-on-year +48.15% -30.77% +8.33%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -28 877 £525 - 487
London -17 517 £550 - 321
UK excluding London -41 404 £500 +0.50% 246
Work from Home -33 346 £525 +1.94% 245
North of England -45 135 £500 +5.26% 62
Midlands -11 90 £440 -8.09% 28
West Midlands -12 70 £461 -7.29% 15
North West -24 68 £600 +26.32% 42
Scotland -10 55 £463 -8.42% 32
South East -52 51 £600 +39.53% 48
Yorkshire -47 46 £500 +5.04% 12
South West -33 45 £520 -0.95% 37
East of England -36 22 £525 +1.94% 20
North East -31 21 £463 +4.52% 8
East Midlands -6 20 £413 -0.66% 13
Northern Ireland +2 4 £283 -43.50% 13
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 8

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 62 (5.79%) Confluence
2 48 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.17%) Apache
5 33 (3.08%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.84%) CMS
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
10 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 836 (78.06%) AWS
2 675 (63.03%) AWS Lambda
3 449 (41.92%) Amazon S3
4 380 (35.48%) Azure
5 237 (22.13%) GitHub
6 230 (21.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 195 (18.21%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.74%) Amazon ECS
9 169 (15.78%) Amazon EC2
10 163 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 162 (15.13%) Amazon EKS
11 162 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
12 146 (13.63%) Amazon SQS
13 129 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
14 128 (11.95%) Power Platform
15 118 (11.02%) AWS Step Functions
16 108 (10.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 100 (9.34%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.28%) Azure Logic Apps
19 75 (7.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.36%) Firewall
2 28 (2.61%) Network Security
3 27 (2.52%) DNS
4 16 (1.49%) VPN
5 13 (1.21%) HTTP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.37%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.06%) DynamoDB
2 165 (15.41%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (10.92%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (8.03%) Power BI
8 71 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 57 (5.32%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 56 (5.23%) MySQL
11 53 (4.95%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.27%) Metadata
13 34 (3.17%) MongoDB
14 32 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (2.24%) Relational Database
16 23 (2.15%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.96%) Tableau
18 20 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 196 (18.30%) Git
2 143 (13.35%) GitLab
3 140 (13.07%) Jenkins
4 80 (7.47%) JIRA
5 32 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.89%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.49%) Selenium
11 14 (1.31%) JUnit
12 13 (1.21%) Postman
13 12 (1.12%) Mockito
14 9 (0.84%) RStudio
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.65%) Gatling
16 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
17 6 (0.56%) Mocha
General
1 245 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.57%) Finance
4 76 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (3.45%) Banking
7 19 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.31%) Legal
9 13 (1.21%) Law
9 13 (1.21%) Military
10 12 (1.12%) Billing
10 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.12%) Marketing
11 11 (1.03%) Back Office
12 10 (0.93%) Retail
13 8 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (22.88%) Developer
2 208 (19.42%) Senior
3 204 (19.05%) Architect
4 174 (16.25%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.23%) Data Engineer
6 121 (11.30%) Lead
7 83 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.07%) AWS Architect
9 60 (5.60%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.39%) Technical Architect
14 45 (4.20%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (4.11%) Senior Developer
16 42 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
16 42 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
17 41 (3.83%) Python Developer
17 41 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (40.34%) Terraform
2 184 (17.18%) REST
3 133 (12.42%) React
4 131 (12.23%) .NET
5 121 (11.30%) Node.js
6 104 (9.71%) RESTful
7 102 (9.52%) Kafka
8 81 (7.56%) AWS CDK
9 77 (7.19%) PySpark
10 66 (6.16%) Spring Boot
11 65 (6.07%) Spring
12 61 (5.70%) GraphQL
13 55 (5.14%) OAuth
14 53 (4.95%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.83%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.83%) JSON
16 39 (3.64%) CSS
17 37 (3.45%) Flask
17 37 (3.45%) OAuth2
18 36 (3.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 328 (30.63%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.87%) Product Ownership
3 75 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (5.98%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.61%) NHS
6 28 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.59%) IVR
11 16 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 10 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.63%) Linux
2 28 (2.61%) Unix
3 17 (1.59%) Windows
4 16 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) AIX
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 469 (43.79%) DevOps
3 424 (39.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 405 (37.82%) Agile
5 256 (23.90%) AI
6 252 (23.53%) Event-Driven
7 247 (23.06%) Microservices
8 219 (20.45%) Containerisation
9 192 (17.93%) Observability
10 177 (16.53%) Test Automation
11 170 (15.87%) Analytics
12 169 (15.78%) Data Modelling
13 166 (15.50%) Software Engineering
14 157 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 157 (14.66%) Technical Leadership
15 152 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
16 151 (14.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 143 (13.35%) Migration
18 141 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
19 138 (12.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 492 (45.94%) Python
2 312 (29.13%) SQL
3 184 (17.18%) TypeScript
4 160 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 143 (13.35%) C#
6 139 (12.98%) Java
7 81 (7.56%) Bash
8 48 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.11%) Bicep
10 33 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.49%) Scala
12 13 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.03%) Go
14 10 (0.93%) Groovy
15 8 (0.75%) R
16 6 (0.56%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 244 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 58 (5.42%) Degree
5 52 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.56%) CISSP
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.91%) QA
3 44 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.55%) GDPR
5 27 (2.52%) WCAG
6 24 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.21%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) 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%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.093%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 278 (25.96%) Docker
2 37 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.12%) Grafana
3 67 (6.26%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.23%) Ansible
5 14 (1.31%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 194 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.63%) Databricks
3 46 (4.30%) Oracle
4 39 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.80%) Informatica
6 29 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.52%) Google
7 27 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.52%) Splunk
8 16 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.93%) Brio
10 10 (0.93%) SAP
10 10 (0.93%) Tenable
11 9 (0.84%) Foundry
12 8 (0.75%) Confluent
13 5 (0.47%) Denodo
13 5 (0.47%) New Relic
13 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.47%) Workday