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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 104 130
Rank change year-on-year -32 +26 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,058 809 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.48% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.69% 6.64% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 599 543
10th Percentile £386 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £447 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £602 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
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 18,592 12,186 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.27% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,293 8,155 9,692
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.13% -1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 314 319
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £83.35 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -23 849 £528 +0.57% 294
London -16 501 £550 - 146
UK excluding London -28 386 £500 - 181
Work from Home -25 345 £525 - 141
North of England -34 139 £500 - 58
North West -30 76 £550 +10.00% 32
Midlands -7 75 £479 +6.33% 30
West Midlands -14 60 £475 +5.56% 17
Scotland -2 59 £444 -11.25% 9
Yorkshire -36 47 £500 +2.30% 14
South West -20 44 £550 +4.76% 34
South East -68 43 £575 +16.87% 37
East of England -18 27 £550 +3.53% 6
North East -33 17 £463 +0.54% 12
East Midlands -10 15 £495 +8.85% 13
Northern Ireland +5 5 £283 -43.50% 1
Wales -13 4 £400 -30.47% 7

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 (5.29%) Confluence
2 49 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.16%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.93%) Apache
5 17 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.23%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 844 (79.77%) AWS
2 667 (63.04%) AWS Lambda
3 466 (44.05%) Amazon S3
4 352 (33.27%) Azure
5 202 (19.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 201 (19.00%) GitHub
7 195 (18.43%) Amazon ECS
8 193 (18.24%) Amazon EC2
9 173 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
10 161 (15.22%) Azure Functions
11 157 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 141 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.91%) Amazon SQS
14 121 (11.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 112 (10.59%) AWS Step Functions
16 110 (10.40%) Power Platform
17 98 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
18 80 (7.56%) GCP
19 72 (6.81%) Amazon EventBridge
20 71 (6.71%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.69%) Firewall
2 29 (2.74%) DNS
3 25 (2.36%) Network Security
4 23 (2.17%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 10 (0.95%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.76%) SSL
9 5 (0.47%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 1 (0.095%) 4G
13 1 (0.095%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.60%) DynamoDB
2 153 (14.46%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (10.59%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (7.56%) Power BI
7 77 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (6.43%) NoSQL
9 55 (5.20%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.25%) SQL Server
12 37 (3.50%) MySQL
13 36 (3.40%) Relational Database
14 35 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (3.12%) Metadata
16 29 (2.74%) MongoDB
17 25 (2.36%) Tableau
18 21 (1.98%) Big Data
19 18 (1.70%) Delta Lake
19 18 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (16.92%) Git
2 141 (13.33%) GitLab
3 135 (12.76%) Jenkins
4 79 (7.47%) JIRA
5 29 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.55%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.27%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.89%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.04%) Postman
11 10 (0.95%) JUnit
12 9 (0.85%) Selenium
12 9 (0.85%) Vite
13 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.76%) Mocha
13 8 (0.76%) MSTest
14 7 (0.66%) MLflow
14 7 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.57%) Gatling
15 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 238 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.33%) Finance
4 66 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.93%) Banking
6 30 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.61%) Legal
9 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Law
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
11 9 (0.85%) Retail
12 7 (0.66%) Back Office
12 7 (0.66%) Marketing
12 7 (0.66%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 240 (22.68%) Developer
2 199 (18.81%) Architect
3 196 (18.53%) Senior
4 173 (16.35%) AWS Engineer
5 122 (11.53%) Data Engineer
6 108 (10.21%) Lead
7 73 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.24%) AWS Architect
9 65 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.01%) Technical Architect
12 52 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.44%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.44%) Senior Developer
14 43 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
15 41 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
15 41 (3.88%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
17 39 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (12.57%) REST
2 132 (12.48%) Node.js
3 131 (12.38%) React
4 109 (10.30%) .NET
5 107 (10.11%) RESTful
6 103 (9.74%) Kafka
7 76 (7.18%) AWS CDK
8 74 (6.99%) PySpark
9 67 (6.33%) GraphQL
10 66 (6.24%) Spring Boot
11 63 (5.95%) Spring
12 61 (5.77%) OAuth
13 49 (4.63%) FastAPI
14 45 (4.25%) JSON
15 44 (4.16%) AngularJS
16 41 (3.88%) OpenID
17 37 (3.50%) OAuth2
18 31 (2.93%) .NET Core
19 28 (2.65%) CSS
19 28 (2.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 315 (29.77%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 65 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (4.73%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.55%) NHS
7 21 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.04%) IVR
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.95%) IoT
12 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.67%) Linux
2 23 (2.17%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (59.92%) CI/CD
2 455 (43.01%) DevOps
3 388 (36.67%) Agile
4 379 (35.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (25.24%) Microservices
6 239 (22.59%) AI
7 223 (21.08%) Containerisation
8 212 (20.04%) Event-Driven
9 165 (15.60%) Observability
10 161 (15.22%) Analytics
11 157 (14.84%) Data Modelling
12 156 (14.74%) Test Automation
13 152 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
14 148 (13.99%) Software Engineering
15 142 (13.42%) ETL
16 135 (12.76%) Data Engineering
17 129 (12.19%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
18 128 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
19 127 (12.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 477 (45.09%) Python
2 304 (28.73%) SQL
3 172 (16.26%) TypeScript
4 139 (13.14%) Java
5 138 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 133 (12.57%) C#
7 72 (6.81%) Bash
8 39 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.12%) Bicep
9 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.70%) Go
11 17 (1.61%) Scala
12 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.76%) Groovy
13 8 (0.76%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 273 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 220 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.37%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.88%) Degree
6 34 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
17 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.44%) QA
3 34 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.74%) GDPR
5 25 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.51%) WCAG
7 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.13%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.57%) NCSC
11 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 270 (25.52%) Docker
2 33 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.13%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.38%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 406 (38.37%) Terraform
2 248 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 95 (8.98%) Grafana
4 82 (7.75%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.44%) Ansible
6 26 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.51%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Istio
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Argo
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 146 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.48%) Databricks
3 42 (3.97%) OpenAI
4 32 (3.02%) Oracle
5 27 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 26 (2.46%) Informatica
7 25 (2.36%) Google
8 22 (2.08%) Splunk
9 19 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.70%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.04%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.95%) SAP
13 9 (0.85%) Brio
14 8 (0.76%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.76%) Foundry
14 8 (0.76%) Tenable
15 6 (0.57%) Confluent
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
16 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.47%) Workday