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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 113 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 941 759 916
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.62% 2.08% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.83% 5.89% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 525 670
10th Percentile £379 £374 £400
25th Percentile £416 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,781 12,889 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.42% 35.33% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,489 11,658
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 179 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.88 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.36% +15.30%

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 November 2025.

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
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 November 2025. 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 +13 759 £505 -8.18% 666
London -1 412 £525 -4.55% 349
UK excluding London +10 383 £476 -9.43% 374
Work from Home +2 306 £525 +0.57% 381
North of England +22 148 £500 - 149
Yorkshire +20 88 £500 -6.67% 44
Midlands +12 72 £500 - 31
Scotland -8 64 £450 -4.66% 30
West Midlands +12 54 £525 - 17
North West 0 54 £450 -0.61% 97
South East -45 46 £430 -31.20% 97
East of England +15 36 £521 -8.55% 23
South West -11 33 £575 -10.51% 35
East Midlands -6 18 £411 -8.61% 14
North East -7 7 £466 -23.61% 8
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 6
Wales -7 1 £488 -2.50% 9

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 46 (4.89%) Apache
2 33 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.40%) Confluence
4 27 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.38%) CMS
6 12 (1.28%) nginx
7 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.74%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.32%) Documentum
10 3 (0.32%) FileNet
11 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 701 (74.50%) AWS
2 573 (60.89%) AWS Lambda
3 365 (38.79%) Amazon S3
4 288 (30.61%) Azure
5 198 (21.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 191 (20.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 178 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
7 178 (18.92%) GitHub
8 174 (18.49%) Amazon ECS
9 159 (16.90%) Azure Functions
10 117 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
11 112 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
12 109 (11.58%) Amazon EKS
13 94 (9.99%) GCP
14 89 (9.46%) Amazon SQS
14 89 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 79 (8.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 66 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
17 59 (6.27%) Power Platform
18 56 (5.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.29%) Firewall
2 26 (2.76%) VPN
3 20 (2.13%) DNS
4 10 (1.06%) Network Security
5 9 (0.96%) SSL
6 7 (0.74%) HTTP
7 6 (0.64%) DHCP
7 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.21%) SSH
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.17%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (14.77%) DynamoDB
3 136 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (9.46%) NoSQL
5 63 (6.70%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 54 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (4.25%) Power BI
11 35 (3.72%) Data Lake
12 34 (3.61%) Big Data
13 31 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.08%) Redis
15 28 (2.98%) MySQL
16 27 (2.87%) MongoDB
17 24 (2.55%) SQL Server
18 20 (2.13%) RDBMS
19 19 (2.02%) Tableau
20 16 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (17.43%) Jenkins
2 162 (17.22%) Git
3 129 (13.71%) GitLab
4 86 (9.14%) JIRA
5 39 (4.14%) Liquibase
6 27 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.55%) JUnit
8 23 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.91%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.70%) Mockito
11 15 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.59%) Postman
12 14 (1.49%) Maven
12 14 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (1.28%) MLflow
14 11 (1.17%) Selenium
15 9 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.74%) Gradle
17 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
17 5 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 248 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 161 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 121 (12.86%) Finance
4 77 (8.18%) Banking
5 61 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.98%) Financial Institution
7 17 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.49%) Marketing
9 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.96%) Retail
11 7 (0.74%) Front Office
11 7 (0.74%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.53%) Military
13 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Publishing
15 3 (0.32%) Aviation
15 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 251 (26.67%) Developer
2 148 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
3 146 (15.52%) Senior
4 132 (14.03%) Architect
5 109 (11.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (9.56%) Software Engineer
7 76 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 68 (7.23%) Lead
9 46 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 44 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.36%) AWS Architect
12 39 (4.14%) AWS Developer
12 39 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 37 (3.93%) Java Developer
14 36 (3.83%) Python Engineer
15 35 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (17.00%) Node.js
2 150 (15.94%) RESTful
3 134 (14.24%) React
4 133 (14.13%) REST
5 101 (10.73%) .NET
6 91 (9.67%) Kafka
7 61 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
8 59 (6.27%) AWS CDK
9 52 (5.53%) OAuth
10 46 (4.89%) Spring Boot
11 45 (4.78%) GraphQL
11 45 (4.78%) Spring
12 40 (4.25%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.25%) FastAPI
13 38 (4.04%) PyTorch
14 36 (3.83%) HTML
15 34 (3.61%) JSON
16 31 (3.29%) Next.js
16 31 (3.29%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 224 (23.80%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.81%) NHS
8 17 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.38%) Replication
11 11 (1.17%) IVR
11 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 110 (11.69%) Linux
2 12 (1.28%) Windows
3 10 (1.06%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.53%) VMS
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (53.67%) CI/CD
2 470 (49.95%) DevOps
3 380 (40.38%) Agile
4 323 (34.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 278 (29.54%) Microservices
6 236 (25.08%) Containerisation
7 189 (20.09%) Software Engineering
8 175 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (14.88%) AI
10 130 (13.82%) Test Automation
11 123 (13.07%) Analytics
12 115 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
13 112 (11.90%) Event-Driven
14 111 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 104 (11.05%) Mentoring
16 94 (9.99%) Data Modelling
16 94 (9.99%) ETL
17 92 (9.78%) Machine Learning
18 87 (9.25%) Migration
19 86 (9.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 481 (51.12%) Python
2 228 (24.23%) SQL
3 169 (17.96%) Java
4 149 (15.83%) JavaScript
4 149 (15.83%) TypeScript
5 93 (9.88%) C#
6 70 (7.44%) Go
7 61 (6.48%) Bash
8 42 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.76%) Bicep
10 20 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.91%) Ruby
12 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.17%) C++
14 10 (1.06%) Perl
14 10 (1.06%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.64%) JSX
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 210 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 170 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.99%) AWS Certification
4 71 (7.55%) Degree
5 64 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 38 (4.04%) Master's Degree
9 28 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) MCP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.74%) QA
2 39 (4.14%) GDPR
3 33 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.49%) WCAG
6 12 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.28%) NIST
7 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.43%) MiFID
9 4 (0.43%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 268 (28.48%) Docker
2 37 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 367 (39.00%) Terraform
2 263 (27.95%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.48%) Grafana
4 104 (11.05%) Prometheus
5 91 (9.67%) Ansible
6 16 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.96%) Puppet
9 7 (0.74%) Packer
10 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.21%) SELinux
14 1 (0.11%) Consul
14 1 (0.11%) linkerd
Vendors
1 149 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.31%) Google
3 47 (4.99%) Splunk
4 44 (4.68%) Databricks
5 29 (3.08%) Oracle
6 25 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.13%) Foundry
8 18 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.38%) Cloudera
9 13 (1.38%) IBM
9 13 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.28%) Pega
11 11 (1.17%) Palantir
12 10 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.06%) Cisco
13 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.74%) Confluent
13 7 (0.74%) Genesys
14 6 (0.64%) Greenplum