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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 103 124
Rank change year-on-year -51 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,045 849 735
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.57% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 6.73% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 602 506
10th Percentile £400 £385 £368
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -1.90% -3.05%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £547
% change year-on-year - -8.59% +4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -35 847 £525 +1.94% 934
London -19 504 £550 +2.09% 546
UK excluding London -63 389 £500 - 529
Work from Home -36 344 £550 +8.37% 494
North of England -55 129 £500 +2.30% 164
Midlands -30 85 £430 -16.10% 59
North West -29 66 £525 +10.53% 106
West Midlands -28 64 £460 -11.96% 32
Scotland -20 54 £438 -12.50% 51
South East -51 54 £600 +41.18% 96
South West -24 46 £530 -3.64% 63
Yorkshire -58 43 £500 +1.01% 43
East Midlands -8 21 £425 -4.01% 27
North East -27 20 £463 -11.14% 15
East of England -52 15 £515 -1.90% 32
Northern Ireland +11 5 £375 - 48
Wales -4 5 £425 -26.12% 19

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 55 (5.26%) Confluence
2 50 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.92%) Apache
4 40 (3.83%) Apache Spark
5 37 (3.54%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.96%) CMS
7 9 (0.86%) SAS
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.67%) nginx
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.29%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.096%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 801 (76.65%) AWS
2 649 (62.11%) AWS Lambda
3 421 (40.29%) Amazon S3
4 375 (35.89%) Azure
5 244 (23.35%) GitHub
6 230 (22.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 210 (20.10%) Azure Functions
8 201 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
9 171 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.60%) Amazon EC2
11 160 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
12 158 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 150 (14.35%) Amazon SQS
14 132 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
15 126 (12.06%) Power Platform
16 108 (10.33%) AWS Step Functions
17 105 (10.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 104 (9.95%) Amazon EventBridge
19 83 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
20 73 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.06%) Firewall
1 32 (3.06%) Network Security
2 25 (2.39%) DNS
3 13 (1.24%) HTTP
3 13 (1.24%) VPN
4 11 (1.05%) WAN
5 7 (0.67%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.08%) Amazon RDS
2 167 (15.98%) DynamoDB
3 109 (10.43%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (6.89%) Power BI
8 63 (6.03%) Data Lake
9 62 (5.93%) NoSQL
10 56 (5.36%) SQL Server
11 54 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 50 (4.78%) MySQL
13 42 (4.02%) MongoDB
14 34 (3.25%) Metadata
15 32 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.49%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.20%) Relational Database
18 22 (2.11%) Apache Iceberg
19 21 (2.01%) BigQuery
20 17 (1.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (19.33%) Git
2 147 (14.07%) GitLab
3 144 (13.78%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.08%) JIRA
5 31 (2.97%) Claude Code
5 31 (2.97%) Cucumber
5 31 (2.97%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.39%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.82%) Selenium
8 18 (1.72%) JUnit
9 15 (1.44%) Postman
9 15 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.34%) Mockito
11 12 (1.15%) Maven
12 11 (1.05%) RStudio
13 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.86%) JMeter
14 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 247 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 183 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 160 (15.31%) Finance
4 82 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.02%) Banking
7 17 (1.63%) Marketing
8 15 (1.44%) Back Office
9 14 (1.34%) Military
10 13 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.24%) Law
11 12 (1.15%) Billing
12 11 (1.05%) Legal
13 10 (0.96%) Retail
14 8 (0.77%) Front Office
15 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.57%) Police
17 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 239 (22.87%) Developer
2 216 (20.67%) Senior
3 186 (17.80%) Architect
4 172 (16.46%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.54%) Data Engineer
6 119 (11.39%) Lead
7 91 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.12%) AWS Architect
9 57 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 52 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
12 47 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
13 41 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
14 40 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 40 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
14 40 (3.83%) Senior Developer
15 39 (3.73%) Python Engineer
16 38 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (40.10%) Terraform
2 198 (18.95%) REST
3 136 (13.01%) .NET
4 114 (10.91%) React
5 108 (10.33%) Node.js
6 105 (10.05%) Kafka
7 103 (9.86%) RESTful
8 85 (8.13%) AWS CDK
9 68 (6.51%) PySpark
10 65 (6.22%) Spring Boot
11 64 (6.12%) GraphQL
11 64 (6.12%) Spring
12 58 (5.55%) OAuth
13 54 (5.17%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.21%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.83%) OAuth2
16 39 (3.73%) JSON
17 37 (3.54%) OpenID
18 36 (3.44%) CSS
19 33 (3.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 339 (32.44%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.80%) Product Ownership
3 85 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (7.08%) AI Agents
5 42 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.87%) Management Information System
8 29 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.30%) NHS
10 19 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.63%) IVR
12 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (1.24%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 12 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.05%) Mainframe
15 11 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.79%) Linux
2 24 (2.30%) Unix
3 18 (1.72%) Windows
4 16 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.29%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (64.11%) CI/CD
2 477 (45.65%) DevOps
3 426 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 399 (38.18%) Agile
5 277 (26.51%) AI
6 258 (24.69%) Event-Driven
7 240 (22.97%) Microservices
8 210 (20.10%) Observability
9 206 (19.71%) Containerisation
10 184 (17.61%) Test Automation
11 175 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 169 (16.17%) Software Engineering
13 167 (15.98%) Analytics
14 162 (15.50%) Data Modelling
15 160 (15.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 158 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
18 145 (13.88%) Data Engineering
19 143 (13.68%) Migration
20 138 (13.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 474 (45.36%) Python
2 298 (28.52%) SQL
3 187 (17.89%) TypeScript
4 157 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 152 (14.55%) C#
6 136 (13.01%) Java
7 77 (7.37%) Bash
8 47 (4.50%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.21%) Bicep
10 31 (2.97%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.34%) Scala
12 12 (1.15%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.67%) Rust
15 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.57%) R
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 278 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 239 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 62 (5.93%) Degree
5 59 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.16%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.67%) CISSP
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.77%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.85%) QA
3 49 (4.69%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.44%) GDPR
5 30 (2.87%) WCAG
6 16 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.96%) NIST
9 8 (0.77%) NCSC
9 8 (0.77%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.096%) GLBA
14 1 (0.096%) GRC
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 271 (25.93%) Docker
2 37 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.096%) HDFS
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 246 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.33%) Grafana
3 69 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 61 (5.84%) Ansible
5 15 (1.44%) Puppet
6 11 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.86%) Packer
9 7 (0.67%) Argo
9 7 (0.67%) Kibana
9 7 (0.67%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.48%) Istio
11 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Control-M
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 210 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.18%) Databricks
3 47 (4.50%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.31%) Oracle
5 32 (3.06%) Dynatrace
5 32 (3.06%) Google
6 27 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.49%) Informatica
8 25 (2.39%) Splunk
9 16 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.44%) Foundry
11 13 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.96%) Brio
13 9 (0.86%) Confluent
13 9 (0.86%) Tenable
14 6 (0.57%) SAP
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
15 5 (0.48%) UiPath
16 4 (0.38%) Adyen
16 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA