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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,103 762 792
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.48% 2.60% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.70% 6.82% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 576 605
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £445 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.35% -7.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,471 11,165 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.97% 38.13% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,836 10,201
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 221 349
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.92% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £66.56 £41.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.10% +36.46% -20.04%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -7 886 £513 -6.82% 350
London -1 524 £513 -9.29% 153
UK excluding London -11 389 £500 - 232
Work from Home -25 296 £525 -4.55% 184
North of England +10 171 £500 +5.26% 90
Yorkshire +5 79 £500 - 34
North West -17 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Midlands -23 69 £513 +14.00% 22
West Midlands -15 54 £525 +16.67% 18
South East -56 52 £525 -8.70% 61
Scotland -4 51 £400 -20.00% 9
South West -21 31 £600 -4.00% 31
East of England -6 29 £570 -18.57% 20
East Midlands -24 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -6 14 £475 - 11
Wales -11 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -3 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 50 (4.53%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.72%) Apache
3 40 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.17%) Confluence
5 29 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.36%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) FileNet
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
3 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 806 (73.07%) AWS
2 636 (57.66%) AWS Lambda
3 418 (37.90%) Azure
4 411 (37.26%) Amazon S3
5 257 (23.30%) GitHub
6 244 (22.12%) Azure Functions
7 226 (20.49%) Amazon ECS
8 219 (19.85%) Amazon EC2
9 203 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 201 (18.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 190 (17.23%) Amazon EKS
12 186 (16.86%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
14 124 (11.24%) Power Platform
15 123 (11.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 111 (10.06%) Azure Logic Apps
17 107 (9.70%) AWS Step Functions
18 92 (8.34%) Azure Service Bus
19 85 (7.71%) GCP
20 83 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.08%) Firewall
2 37 (3.35%) DNS
3 29 (2.63%) VPN
4 13 (1.18%) Network Security
5 12 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.91%) SSL
8 9 (0.82%) HTTP
8 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.54%) SMS
10 5 (0.45%) IPsec
10 5 (0.45%) WAN
11 3 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
13 1 (0.091%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.091%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.96%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (12.78%) DynamoDB
3 136 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (8.79%) NoSQL
5 79 (7.16%) Power BI
6 68 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (5.98%) Data Lake
8 61 (5.53%) Relational Database
9 55 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 39 (3.54%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.17%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.08%) Redis
14 30 (2.72%) Metadata
15 29 (2.63%) Tableau
16 28 (2.54%) MySQL
17 27 (2.45%) Delta Lake
18 24 (2.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 188 (17.04%) Git
2 175 (15.87%) GitLab
3 166 (15.05%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.89%) JIRA
5 31 (2.81%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.09%) JUnit
7 20 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.63%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.54%) Mockito
10 16 (1.45%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.27%) MLflow
13 12 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.91%) Maven
15 9 (0.82%) Postman
15 9 (0.82%) Selenium
15 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.73%) NUnit
17 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 7 (0.63%) Mocha
General
1 253 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 214 (19.40%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.14%) Finance
4 76 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.71%) Banking
6 34 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 10 (0.91%) Health Technology
9 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 7 (0.63%) Military
13 6 (0.54%) Billing
13 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.36%) Aviation
14 4 (0.36%) Front Office
14 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.36%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (25.84%) Developer
2 172 (15.59%) Architect
3 163 (14.78%) Senior
4 155 (14.05%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.15%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.62%) Lead
8 75 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 64 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.08%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 44 (3.99%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.90%) Java Developer
17 42 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 41 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
19 40 (3.63%) AWS Developer
20 38 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (15.23%) Node.js
2 156 (14.14%) REST
3 147 (13.33%) React
4 134 (12.15%) RESTful
5 131 (11.88%) .NET
5 131 (11.88%) Kafka
6 89 (8.07%) Spring
7 87 (7.89%) Spring Boot
8 81 (7.34%) OAuth
9 58 (5.26%) PySpark
10 57 (5.17%) AngularJS
11 51 (4.62%) JSON
12 50 (4.53%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (4.26%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.17%) .NET Core
16 45 (4.08%) FastAPI
17 42 (3.81%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.26%) JWT
19 35 (3.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 285 (25.84%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.36%) NHS
7 22 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.91%) Replication
12 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.73%) IVR
14 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 99 (8.98%) Linux
2 15 (1.36%) Unix
3 12 (1.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) zOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.091%) Android
7 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (61.65%) CI/CD
2 569 (51.59%) DevOps
3 424 (38.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 367 (33.27%) Agile
5 310 (28.11%) Microservices
6 281 (25.48%) Containerisation
7 191 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (16.68%) AI
9 168 (15.23%) Observability
10 164 (14.87%) Analytics
10 164 (14.87%) Event-Driven
11 153 (13.87%) Software Engineering
12 149 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
13 146 (13.24%) Data Modelling
14 140 (12.69%) Test Automation
15 133 (12.06%) ETL
16 121 (10.97%) Data Engineering
17 113 (10.24%) Migration
18 107 (9.70%) Mentoring
19 105 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 524 (47.51%) Python
2 313 (28.38%) SQL
3 173 (15.68%) Java
4 160 (14.51%) TypeScript
5 159 (14.42%) JavaScript
6 154 (13.96%) C#
7 76 (6.89%) Bash
8 58 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.44%) Bicep
10 48 (4.35%) Go
11 34 (3.08%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.54%) Ruby
13 13 (1.18%) Scala
14 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.82%) Perl
16 8 (0.73%) C++
16 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 289 (26.20%) Security Cleared
2 223 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.16%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.44%) Degree
5 45 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 25 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.36%) PhD
16 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 59 (5.35%) QA
3 37 (3.35%) GDPR
4 32 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.81%) NIST
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.91%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.36%) HL7
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.27%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 316 (28.65%) Docker
2 36 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) Squid
5 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.45%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 480 (43.52%) Terraform
2 291 (26.38%) Kubernetes
3 117 (10.61%) Grafana
4 115 (10.43%) Prometheus
5 87 (7.89%) Ansible
6 25 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.09%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.63%) Consul
10 7 (0.63%) Kibana
11 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 5 (0.45%) Rancher
12 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.36%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 186 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.61%) Databricks
3 42 (3.81%) OpenAI
3 42 (3.81%) Oracle
4 40 (3.63%) Splunk
5 28 (2.54%) Google
6 20 (1.81%) Foundry
6 20 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.00%) Lotus
8 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.91%) Kofax
9 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.82%) Brio
10 9 (0.82%) Confluent
10 9 (0.82%) IBM
10 9 (0.82%) Palantir
11 8 (0.73%) SAP
11 8 (0.73%) Sybase