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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -42 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,035 834 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.53% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 6.65% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 595 506
10th Percentile £400 £385 £368
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £648 £588 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £541
% change year-on-year +0.50% -8.00% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 18,808 12,548 13,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 38.02% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,469 8,378 8,657
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 295 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +40.88%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -36 838 £525 +2.44% 1,094
London -15 497 £550 +1.85% 518
UK excluding London -55 388 £500 +0.50% 739
Work from Home -32 336 £543 +6.90% 722
North of England -49 129 £500 +5.04% 202
Midlands -19 85 £430 -14.00% 92
North West -29 67 £538 +13.16% 117
West Midlands -26 65 £460 -10.24% 41
Scotland -18 54 £438 -12.50% 87
South East -48 52 £600 +41.18% 136
South West -22 46 £510 -7.27% 105
Yorkshire -51 42 £500 +5.04% 61
East Midlands -7 20 £425 -4.01% 51
North East -26 20 £463 -11.14% 26
East of England -40 16 £525 - 62
Northern Ireland +6 5 £375 - 23
Wales -10 5 £425 -26.12% 40

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 55 (5.31%) Confluence
2 49 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.77%) Apache
5 36 (3.48%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.97%) CMS
7 9 (0.87%) SAS
8 7 (0.68%) nginx
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.39%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.29%) CICS
12 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.097%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.097%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 798 (77.10%) AWS
2 641 (61.93%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (40.29%) Amazon S3
4 371 (35.85%) Azure
5 238 (23.00%) GitHub
6 225 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 203 (19.61%) Azure Functions
8 195 (18.84%) Amazon ECS
9 169 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.75%) Amazon EC2
11 157 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 157 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
12 147 (14.20%) Amazon SQS
13 129 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.88%) Power Platform
15 105 (10.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 105 (10.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 99 (9.57%) Amazon EventBridge
17 82 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
18 72 (6.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.00%) Firewall
1 31 (3.00%) Network Security
2 25 (2.42%) DNS
3 13 (1.26%) HTTP
3 13 (1.26%) VPN
4 11 (1.06%) WAN
5 7 (0.68%) SSL
6 6 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (15.75%) Amazon RDS
2 161 (15.56%) DynamoDB
3 109 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
5 87 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 85 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (6.86%) Power BI
8 61 (5.89%) Data Lake
8 61 (5.89%) NoSQL
9 55 (5.31%) SQL Server
10 53 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 51 (4.93%) MySQL
12 41 (3.96%) MongoDB
13 31 (3.00%) Metadata
14 29 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (2.51%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.03%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.03%) Relational Database
17 20 (1.93%) Apache Iceberg
18 15 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 198 (19.13%) Git
2 146 (14.11%) GitLab
3 143 (13.82%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.15%) JIRA
5 32 (3.09%) Claude Code
6 31 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 31 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.84%) Selenium
9 18 (1.74%) JUnit
10 16 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.45%) Postman
12 14 (1.35%) Mockito
13 12 (1.16%) Maven
14 11 (1.06%) RStudio
15 10 (0.97%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.87%) JMeter
16 9 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 239 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 159 (15.36%) Finance
4 79 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.06%) Banking
7 16 (1.55%) Marketing
8 15 (1.45%) Back Office
9 14 (1.35%) Military
10 13 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.26%) Law
11 12 (1.16%) Billing
11 12 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.06%) Legal
13 9 (0.87%) Retail
14 8 (0.77%) Front Office
15 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 239 (23.09%) Developer
2 211 (20.39%) Senior
3 182 (17.58%) Architect
4 169 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
5 129 (12.46%) Data Engineer
6 119 (11.50%) Lead
7 90 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (5.99%) AWS Architect
9 57 (5.51%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
15 39 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 39 (3.77%) Technical Architect
16 38 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
16 38 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (39.71%) Terraform
2 190 (18.36%) REST
3 133 (12.85%) .NET
4 116 (11.21%) React
5 107 (10.34%) Node.js
6 106 (10.24%) Kafka
7 103 (9.95%) RESTful
8 83 (8.02%) AWS CDK
9 65 (6.28%) PySpark
10 64 (6.18%) Spring Boot
11 63 (6.09%) GraphQL
11 63 (6.09%) Spring
12 55 (5.31%) OAuth
13 54 (5.22%) FastAPI
14 43 (4.15%) AngularJS
15 39 (3.77%) OAuth2
16 38 (3.67%) JSON
17 36 (3.48%) CSS
18 35 (3.38%) OpenID
19 33 (3.19%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 338 (32.66%) Cloud Native
2 91 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 81 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (7.15%) AI Agents
5 40 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.32%) NHS
10 18 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.64%) IVR
12 15 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.26%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.06%) Mainframe
17 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.96%) Linux
2 25 (2.42%) Unix
3 17 (1.64%) Windows
4 16 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.29%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (63.77%) CI/CD
2 464 (44.83%) DevOps
3 417 (40.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (37.97%) Agile
5 273 (26.38%) AI
6 250 (24.15%) Event-Driven
7 237 (22.90%) Microservices
8 206 (19.90%) Observability
9 205 (19.81%) Containerisation
10 181 (17.49%) Test Automation
11 167 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 167 (16.14%) Software Engineering
12 165 (15.94%) Analytics
13 158 (15.27%) Data Modelling
14 155 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
15 153 (14.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 147 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
17 143 (13.82%) Data Engineering
18 137 (13.24%) Mentoring
18 137 (13.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 472 (45.60%) Python
2 294 (28.41%) SQL
3 180 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 156 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 150 (14.49%) C#
6 133 (12.85%) Java
7 77 (7.44%) Bash
8 44 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.96%) Bicep
10 32 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.35%) Scala
12 11 (1.06%) Go
13 9 (0.87%) Groovy
14 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.68%) R
15 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 273 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 234 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.31%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.89%) Degree
5 57 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.09%) Azure Certification
9 31 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 12 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.97%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.68%) CISSP
17 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
19 4 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.92%) QA
3 49 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.48%) GDPR
5 30 (2.90%) WCAG
6 16 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.97%) NIST
9 8 (0.77%) NCSC
9 8 (0.77%) SLA
10 6 (0.58%) HL7
11 4 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.097%) GLBA
14 1 (0.097%) GRC
14 1 (0.097%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.097%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 270 (26.09%) Docker
2 35 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 245 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.31%) Grafana
3 71 (6.86%) Prometheus
4 60 (5.80%) Ansible
5 14 (1.35%) Puppet
6 10 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.87%) Packer
8 7 (0.68%) Argo
8 7 (0.68%) Kibana
8 7 (0.68%) Podman
9 6 (0.58%) Istio
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.39%) Rancher
11 4 (0.39%) Salt
12 3 (0.29%) Control-M
12 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 203 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.15%) Databricks
3 47 (4.54%) OpenAI
4 43 (4.15%) Oracle
5 31 (3.00%) Google
6 29 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.51%) Informatica
8 26 (2.51%) Splunk
9 16 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.45%) Foundry
11 13 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.97%) Brio
12 10 (0.97%) Tenable
13 9 (0.87%) Confluent
14 6 (0.58%) SAP
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
16 4 (0.39%) IBM
16 4 (0.39%) NVIDIA
16 4 (0.39%) UiPath