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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -5 +34 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,094 763 793
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.44% 2.63% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.62% 6.89% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 580 607
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £445 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +2.92% -7.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £624
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 16,535 11,076 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.94% 38.11% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,267 7,767 10,194
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -3.99% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 347
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.74 £35.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -11 881 £513 -6.82% 350
London -8 524 £513 -10.87% 153
UK excluding London -17 385 £500 - 232
Work from Home -28 294 £525 -4.55% 184
North of England +6 172 £500 +2.56% 90
North West -8 81 £500 +5.26% 47
Yorkshire +9 78 £500 - 34
Midlands -19 68 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -22 54 £506 +12.44% 18
Scotland -5 51 £400 -23.81% 9
South East -59 50 £525 +5.00% 61
South West -20 31 £591 -3.53% 31
East of England -12 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -8 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -29 14 £460 +2.22% 4
Wales -11 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland 0 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 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.84%) Apache
3 40 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.11%) Confluence
5 29 (2.65%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.37%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) 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%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
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%) Red Hat Fuse
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 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
3 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 806 (73.67%) AWS
2 640 (58.50%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (38.12%) Amazon S3
4 407 (37.20%) Azure
5 251 (22.94%) GitHub
6 235 (21.48%) Azure Functions
7 227 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
8 217 (19.84%) Amazon EC2
9 203 (18.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 203 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 187 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
11 182 (16.64%) GitHub Actions
12 175 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
13 124 (11.33%) Power Platform
14 118 (10.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 113 (10.33%) AWS Step Functions
16 108 (9.87%) Azure Logic Apps
17 91 (8.32%) Amazon SQS
18 89 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
19 82 (7.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.20%) Firewall
2 38 (3.47%) DNS
3 29 (2.65%) VPN
4 13 (1.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.91%) HTTP
7 10 (0.91%) SSL
8 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.64%) SMS
10 5 (0.46%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) WAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) LAN
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) CTI
13 1 (0.091%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 145 (13.25%) DynamoDB
3 129 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (8.59%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.31%) Power BI
6 74 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
7 67 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (5.94%) Data Lake
9 58 (5.30%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 53 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (3.29%) MongoDB
13 34 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (3.11%) SQL Server
14 33 (3.02%) Tableau
15 31 (2.83%) Metadata
15 31 (2.83%) Redis
16 26 (2.38%) MySQL
17 25 (2.29%) Big Data
17 25 (2.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 194 (17.73%) Git
2 174 (15.90%) GitLab
3 165 (15.08%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.94%) JIRA
5 31 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.01%) JUnit
7 19 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.55%) Liquibase
8 17 (1.55%) Mockito
9 16 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.19%) MLflow
12 12 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
14 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 9 (0.82%) Selenium
14 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 247 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.47%) Public Sector
3 154 (14.08%) Finance
4 78 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (5.67%) Banking
6 34 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 9 (0.82%) Health Technology
10 8 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.73%) Legal
11 7 (0.64%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.55%) Military
13 4 (0.37%) Aviation
13 4 (0.37%) Front Office
13 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (25.96%) Developer
2 171 (15.63%) Architect
3 158 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
4 157 (14.35%) Senior
5 109 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.68%) Lead
8 72 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 57 (5.21%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 45 (4.11%) AWS Developer
15 44 (4.02%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 42 (3.84%) Java Developer
18 41 (3.75%) Python Engineer
19 40 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (15.81%) Node.js
2 154 (14.08%) REST
3 148 (13.53%) React
4 131 (11.97%) RESTful
5 127 (11.61%) Kafka
6 126 (11.52%) .NET
7 90 (8.23%) Spring
8 88 (8.04%) Spring Boot
9 82 (7.50%) OAuth
10 61 (5.58%) PySpark
11 56 (5.12%) AngularJS
12 49 (4.48%) JSON
13 47 (4.30%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (4.30%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.11%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.93%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.75%) GraphQL
17 37 (3.38%) JWT
18 35 (3.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 274 (25.05%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.65%) NHS
5 28 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 25 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.19%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.73%) DataPower
16 8 (0.73%) IoT
16 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
16 8 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.96%) Linux
2 15 (1.37%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.27%) zOS
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.091%) Android
8 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (61.52%) CI/CD
2 565 (51.65%) DevOps
3 423 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (33.18%) Agile
5 306 (27.97%) Microservices
6 275 (25.14%) Containerisation
7 183 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
8 175 (16.00%) AI
9 165 (15.08%) Event-Driven
10 160 (14.63%) Observability
11 157 (14.35%) Analytics
12 147 (13.44%) Software Engineering
13 146 (13.35%) Data Modelling
13 146 (13.35%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (12.43%) ETL
15 133 (12.16%) Test Automation
16 117 (10.69%) Data Engineering
17 116 (10.60%) Migration
18 107 (9.78%) Mentoring
19 104 (9.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 516 (47.17%) Python
2 308 (28.15%) SQL
3 176 (16.09%) Java
4 159 (14.53%) TypeScript
5 157 (14.35%) JavaScript
6 155 (14.17%) C#
7 74 (6.76%) Bash
8 57 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.48%) Bicep
10 47 (4.30%) Go
11 35 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.56%) Ruby
13 13 (1.19%) Scala
14 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.82%) Perl
16 8 (0.73%) C++
17 7 (0.64%) Groovy
17 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 292 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 228 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 45 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (4.11%) Degree
5 37 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 33 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) 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 69 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.21%) QA
3 33 (3.02%) GDPR
4 32 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.29%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.65%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.91%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) NCSC
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 311 (28.43%) Docker
2 34 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 472 (43.14%) Terraform
2 292 (26.69%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.51%) Grafana
4 110 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 82 (7.50%) Ansible
6 25 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.37%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 178 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.59%) Databricks
3 42 (3.84%) OpenAI
3 42 (3.84%) Oracle
4 39 (3.56%) Splunk
5 27 (2.47%) Google
6 19 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.55%) Foundry
9 11 (1.01%) Lotus
9 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.91%) Kofax
10 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.82%) Brio
11 9 (0.82%) Palantir
11 9 (0.82%) SAP
12 8 (0.73%) Confluent
12 8 (0.73%) IBM
12 8 (0.73%) Sybase