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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 101 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 787 759
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.57% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.01% 6.82% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 586 566
10th Percentile £382 £400 £378
25th Percentile £447 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £625
90th Percentile £738 £720 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
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 18,181 11,543 14,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.72% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,737 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 292 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -19.73%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -17 879 £525 - 211
London -16 528 £550 - 106
UK excluding London -36 378 £505 +1.00% 157
Work from Home -24 348 £525 - 100
North of England -22 145 £500 - 48
North West -23 83 £525 +5.00% 24
Midlands -27 64 £488 -2.01% 22
South East -49 53 £575 +15.00% 48
Scotland -17 50 £450 -13.88% 9
West Midlands -24 50 £482 -4.22% 14
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 15
South West -18 40 £575 +8.24% 21
East of England -22 26 £550 +3.53% 6
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +3.55% 8
North East -29 14 £463 -1.07% 9
Wales -9 6 £500 -13.08% 6
Northern Ireland +5 5 £283 -43.50% 2

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 57 (5.22%) Confluence
2 47 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.03%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.56%) Apache
5 23 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.37%) Mendix
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 848 (77.66%) AWS
2 669 (61.26%) AWS Lambda
3 469 (42.95%) Amazon S3
4 382 (34.98%) Azure
5 225 (20.60%) GitHub
6 201 (18.41%) Amazon EC2
7 200 (18.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 190 (17.40%) Amazon ECS
9 189 (17.31%) Azure Functions
10 177 (16.21%) Amazon EKS
11 157 (14.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 156 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
13 123 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.17%) Power Platform
14 122 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 120 (10.99%) Amazon SQS
16 111 (10.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 85 (7.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 79 (7.23%) GCP
19 77 (7.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) Firewall
2 32 (2.93%) DNS
3 24 (2.20%) VPN
4 23 (2.11%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.37%) IPsec
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.37%) MQTT
10 4 (0.37%) SMS
11 3 (0.27%) CTI
11 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
13 1 (0.092%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.02%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (9.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 100 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (7.88%) Power BI
6 72 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (6.41%) NoSQL
8 60 (5.49%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.21%) SQL Server
11 45 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (3.48%) MySQL
13 35 (3.21%) Relational Database
14 31 (2.84%) Metadata
15 28 (2.56%) MongoDB
16 27 (2.47%) Tableau
17 23 (2.11%) Big Data
18 22 (2.01%) Redis
19 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 181 (16.58%) Git
2 149 (13.64%) GitLab
3 139 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 82 (7.51%) JIRA
5 27 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 21 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.83%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.19%) JUnit
10 10 (0.92%) Postman
10 10 (0.92%) Vite
11 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.82%) Mocha
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
13 7 (0.64%) Selenium
14 6 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
14 6 (0.55%) Mockito
14 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
14 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 243 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 188 (17.22%) Public Sector
3 145 (13.28%) Finance
4 64 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.56%) Banking
7 17 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.47%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 9 (0.82%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.64%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) Games
15 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 251 (22.99%) Developer
2 209 (19.14%) Architect
3 181 (16.58%) Senior
4 172 (15.75%) AWS Engineer
5 124 (11.36%) Data Engineer
6 104 (9.52%) Lead
7 76 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.50%) AWS Architect
9 70 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 51 (4.67%) Technical Architect
14 48 (4.40%) AWS Developer
15 47 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
16 46 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
16 46 (4.21%) Senior Developer
17 44 (4.03%) Python Engineer
18 43 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
19 41 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.73%) REST
2 135 (12.36%) React
3 126 (11.54%) Node.js
4 120 (10.99%) .NET
4 120 (10.99%) Kafka
5 116 (10.62%) RESTful
6 77 (7.05%) PySpark
7 73 (6.68%) Spring Boot
8 71 (6.50%) Spring
9 70 (6.41%) OAuth
10 68 (6.23%) AWS CDK
11 64 (5.86%) GraphQL
12 47 (4.30%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.12%) AngularJS
13 45 (4.12%) JSON
13 45 (4.12%) OpenID
14 43 (3.94%) OAuth2
15 33 (3.02%) .NET Core
16 32 (2.93%) Next.js
17 27 (2.47%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 327 (29.95%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.94%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.38%) NHS
7 18 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.82%) IVR
12 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.04%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 9 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (60.53%) CI/CD
2 488 (44.69%) DevOps
3 395 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 377 (34.52%) Agile
5 272 (24.91%) Microservices
6 238 (21.79%) Containerisation
7 228 (20.88%) AI
8 212 (19.41%) Event-Driven
9 172 (15.75%) Observability
10 162 (14.84%) Analytics
11 152 (13.92%) Data Modelling
11 152 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
11 152 (13.92%) Test Automation
12 150 (13.74%) Software Engineering
13 142 (13.00%) ETL
14 138 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (11.63%) Data Engineering
16 126 (11.54%) Migration
17 120 (10.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 118 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 484 (44.32%) Python
2 311 (28.48%) SQL
3 173 (15.84%) TypeScript
4 150 (13.74%) C#
5 144 (13.19%) Java
5 144 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.04%) Bash
7 42 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 36 (3.30%) Bicep
9 34 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.83%) Go
11 18 (1.65%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
15 6 (0.55%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 284 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 228 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.50%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (3.66%) Degree
6 37 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.30%) QA
3 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.56%) GDPR
5 27 (2.47%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.56%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
9 7 (0.64%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 280 (25.64%) Docker
2 33 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 434 (39.74%) Terraform
2 258 (23.63%) Kubernetes
3 96 (8.79%) Grafana
4 87 (7.97%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.58%) Ansible
6 26 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.83%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 157 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.95%) Databricks
3 48 (4.40%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.02%) Oracle
5 25 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.29%) Informatica
6 23 (2.11%) Google
6 23 (2.11%) Splunk
7 17 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.92%) Foundry
11 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.82%) Tenable
12 8 (0.73%) Brio
12 8 (0.73%) Confluent
12 8 (0.73%) SAP
13 7 (0.64%) Sybase
14 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.46%) Teradata