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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 95 131
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 -37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,089 782 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.63% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 6.95% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 584 572
10th Percentile £379 £400 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
75th Percentile £630 £606 £625
90th Percentile £735 £724 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.00 -
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 17,870 11,252 14,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,937 7,591 10,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £634
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.74% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 279 364
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.39
% change year-on-year +98.73% -7.43% -24.50%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -16 877 £525 - 208
London -10 526 £533 -3.18% 106
UK excluding London -21 375 £500 - 167
Work from Home -24 339 £510 -2.86% 120
North of England -25 141 £500 - 49
North West -18 78 £525 +5.00% 26
Midlands -20 64 £488 -2.50% 14
South East -38 54 £588 +17.50% 43
West Midlands -19 50 £488 -4.79% 9
Yorkshire -31 50 £500 - 14
Scotland -14 49 £444 -15.48% 5
South West -12 41 £575 +8.24% 25
East of England -18 27 £550 +2.33% 6
East Midlands -19 14 £497 +3.55% 5
North East -31 14 £463 -1.07% 9
Wales -9 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +4 4 £190 -62.00% 22

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 (5.14%) Confluence
2 46 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.39%) Apache
4 26 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.10%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) CICS
6 6 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.55%) Mendix
6 6 (0.55%) SAS
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.092%) JBoss
11 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 837 (76.86%) AWS
2 663 (60.88%) AWS Lambda
3 465 (42.70%) Amazon S3
4 389 (35.72%) Azure
5 226 (20.75%) GitHub
6 202 (18.55%) Amazon EC2
7 201 (18.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 197 (18.09%) Azure Functions
9 183 (16.80%) Amazon ECS
10 179 (16.44%) Amazon EKS
11 158 (14.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 156 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.29%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 114 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
17 112 (10.28%) AWS Step Functions
18 87 (7.99%) Azure Logic Apps
19 81 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
20 77 (7.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.12%) Firewall
2 32 (2.94%) DNS
3 25 (2.30%) VPN
4 21 (1.93%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.10%) WAN
7 10 (0.92%) HTTP
8 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.83%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.55%) SMS
10 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 3 (0.28%) CTI
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
12 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.28%) IPv4
13 2 (0.18%) AMQP
13 2 (0.18%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.69%) DynamoDB
2 150 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (10.28%) Amazon Athena
4 103 (9.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 101 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.71%) Power BI
7 69 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
8 66 (6.06%) NoSQL
9 64 (5.88%) Data Lake
10 52 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (4.04%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.03%) MySQL
13 33 (3.03%) Relational Database
14 32 (2.94%) Metadata
15 27 (2.48%) Tableau
16 26 (2.39%) MongoDB
17 23 (2.11%) Big Data
18 21 (1.93%) Redis
19 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (15.79%) Git
2 150 (13.77%) GitLab
3 137 (12.58%) Jenkins
4 78 (7.16%) JIRA
5 27 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.47%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.92%) JUnit
11 9 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.83%) Mocha
11 9 (0.83%) Vite
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
12 8 (0.73%) Postman
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.36%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.22%) Finance
4 65 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.39%) Banking
7 16 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.38%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 10 (0.92%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.73%) Marketing
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Back Office
14 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (23.42%) Developer
2 204 (18.73%) Architect
3 173 (15.89%) Senior
4 168 (15.43%) AWS Engineer
5 127 (11.66%) Data Engineer
6 99 (9.09%) Lead
7 77 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.52%) AWS Architect
8 71 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.68%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.50%) AWS Developer
13 49 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
14 48 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
15 47 (4.32%) Python Engineer
16 45 (4.13%) Senior Developer
17 43 (3.95%) Python Developer
18 42 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (12.86%) React
2 139 (12.76%) REST
3 121 (11.11%) Kafka
4 118 (10.84%) Node.js
5 115 (10.56%) .NET
6 109 (10.01%) RESTful
7 76 (6.98%) PySpark
8 72 (6.61%) OAuth
9 71 (6.52%) Spring Boot
10 70 (6.43%) Spring
11 64 (5.88%) AWS CDK
12 58 (5.33%) GraphQL
13 52 (4.78%) FastAPI
14 47 (4.32%) AngularJS
15 44 (4.04%) JSON
15 44 (4.04%) OpenID
16 43 (3.95%) OAuth2
17 37 (3.40%) Next.js
18 32 (2.94%) Flask
19 28 (2.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 320 (29.38%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (3.67%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.11%) NHS
7 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.73%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.96%) Linux
2 22 (2.02%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.55%) zOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 482 (44.26%) DevOps
3 398 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (33.79%) Agile
5 259 (23.78%) Microservices
6 237 (21.76%) Containerisation
7 227 (20.84%) AI
8 205 (18.82%) Event-Driven
9 175 (16.07%) Observability
10 161 (14.78%) Analytics
11 157 (14.42%) Data Modelling
12 154 (14.14%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 148 (13.59%) Software Engineering
15 143 (13.13%) ETL
16 138 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
17 123 (11.29%) Data Engineering
18 121 (11.11%) Migration
19 118 (10.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 117 (10.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 487 (44.72%) Python
2 318 (29.20%) SQL
3 166 (15.24%) TypeScript
4 151 (13.87%) C#
5 147 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 141 (12.95%) Java
7 59 (5.42%) Bash
8 39 (3.58%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.40%) Bicep
10 35 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.74%) Go
11 19 (1.74%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
15 6 (0.55%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 281 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 225 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.24%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (3.21%) Degree
7 33 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.04%) QA
3 28 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.48%) GDPR
5 26 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.38%) NIST
8 12 (1.10%) WCAG
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
9 7 (0.64%) PMO
10 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.18%) HL7
14 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 277 (25.44%) Docker
2 33 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 437 (40.13%) Terraform
2 252 (23.14%) Kubernetes
3 98 (9.00%) Grafana
4 89 (8.17%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.22%) Ansible
6 28 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.74%) Puppet
8 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.83%) 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 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.37%) Packer
13 3 (0.28%) Argo
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
14 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 154 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.15%) Databricks
3 50 (4.59%) OpenAI
4 36 (3.31%) Oracle
5 25 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.11%) Informatica
6 23 (2.11%) Splunk
7 20 (1.84%) Google
8 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.01%) Foundry
10 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.92%) Confluent
11 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.83%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Kofax
15 6 (0.55%) Lotus