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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,077 746 816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.43% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.96% 6.45% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 546 619
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +4.29% -10.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £696 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,481 11,563 14,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.80% 37.62% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 7,801 10,592
10th Percentile £311 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 178 335
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.93 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.58 £50.13
90th Percentile £80.18 £76.01 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.80% +22.10% -4.76%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +3 852 £503 -12.61% 307
London +3 502 £513 -10.87% 142
UK excluding London -14 397 £500 -4.76% 218
Work from Home -21 303 £525 -3.14% 178
North of England +22 170 £500 -6.89% 81
Yorkshire +4 83 £500 - 32
North West -4 75 £450 -16.20% 44
Scotland -1 68 £428 -13.98% 13
Midlands -14 68 £505 +12.22% 20
West Midlands -13 55 £525 +9.15% 15
South East -55 50 £500 -13.04% 58
East of England 0 29 £550 -13.73% 5
South West -28 29 £600 -7.69% 40
North East -14 13 £500 -18.03% 5
East Midlands -23 13 £435 -4.29% 5
Wales -7 5 £481 -3.75% 2
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 1

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 48 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.90%) Apache
3 39 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.41%) Confluence
4 26 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.21%) nginx
6 10 (0.93%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.84%) Mendix
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.093%) FileNet
10 1 (0.093%) JBoss
10 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 788 (73.17%) AWS
2 626 (58.12%) AWS Lambda
3 406 (37.70%) Amazon S3
4 390 (36.21%) Azure
5 238 (22.10%) GitHub
6 233 (21.63%) Azure Functions
7 221 (20.52%) Amazon ECS
8 215 (19.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 201 (18.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 201 (18.66%) Amazon EC2
10 178 (16.53%) Amazon EKS
11 175 (16.25%) GitHub Actions
12 169 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
13 111 (10.31%) Power Platform
14 107 (9.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 106 (9.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 97 (9.01%) GCP
17 86 (7.99%) AWS Step Functions
17 86 (7.99%) Azure Service Bus
18 79 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.34%) Firewall
2 32 (2.97%) DNS
3 28 (2.60%) VPN
4 14 (1.30%) Network Security
5 12 (1.11%) SSL
6 11 (1.02%) HTTP
7 10 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.84%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.65%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.56%) SMS
12 5 (0.46%) IPsec
13 3 (0.28%) LAN
13 3 (0.28%) WAN
14 2 (0.19%) MPLS
15 1 (0.093%) 4G
15 1 (0.093%) AMQP
15 1 (0.093%) BGP
15 1 (0.093%) Internet
15 1 (0.093%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.32%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (11.70%) DynamoDB
4 96 (8.91%) NoSQL
5 76 (7.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (6.59%) Power BI
7 66 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (6.13%) Data Lake
8 57 (5.29%) Relational Database
9 53 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 34 (3.16%) MongoDB
13 30 (2.79%) Redis
14 29 (2.69%) Big Data
14 29 (2.69%) MySQL
14 29 (2.69%) Tableau
15 27 (2.51%) SQL Server
16 23 (2.14%) Metadata
17 21 (1.95%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 171 (15.88%) Git
1 171 (15.88%) Jenkins
2 166 (15.41%) GitLab
3 54 (5.01%) JIRA
4 28 (2.60%) Liquibase
5 27 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.86%) JUnit
7 19 (1.76%) MLflow
8 16 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.39%) Mockito
9 15 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (1.21%) Postman
11 13 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.93%) Maven
12 10 (0.93%) Selenium
13 8 (0.74%) Mocha
14 6 (0.56%) Gradle
14 6 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 252 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 208 (19.31%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.56%) Finance
4 74 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.78%) Banking
6 30 (2.79%) Financial Institution
7 24 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.49%) Marketing
9 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.74%) Legal
12 7 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.46%) Retail
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.37%) Law
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 283 (26.28%) Developer
2 168 (15.60%) Senior
3 154 (14.30%) Architect
4 149 (13.83%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 83 (7.71%) Lead
8 80 (7.43%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (4.64%) AWS Architect
11 49 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 48 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (4.09%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 42 (3.90%) Java Developer
15 42 (3.90%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.71%) AWS Developer
17 34 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (16.16%) Node.js
2 158 (14.67%) REST
3 136 (12.63%) .NET
3 136 (12.63%) React
4 134 (12.44%) RESTful
5 130 (12.07%) Kafka
6 76 (7.06%) Spring
7 75 (6.96%) OAuth
7 75 (6.96%) Spring Boot
8 61 (5.66%) AWS CDK
9 57 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (4.64%) AngularJS
10 50 (4.64%) FastAPI
11 48 (4.46%) PySpark
12 47 (4.36%) .NET Core
13 43 (3.99%) GraphQL
14 42 (3.90%) OAuth2
15 40 (3.71%) JSON
16 38 (3.53%) JWT
17 37 (3.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 94 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.25%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.41%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 24 (2.23%) NHS
7 19 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.93%) Replication
14 9 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.74%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.65%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 115 (10.68%) Linux
2 17 (1.58%) Unix
3 11 (1.02%) Windows
4 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
6 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.093%) Android
7 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (60.07%) CI/CD
2 549 (50.97%) DevOps
3 424 (39.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (33.52%) Agile
5 305 (28.32%) Microservices
6 276 (25.63%) Containerisation
7 192 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (17.08%) AI
9 169 (15.69%) Software Engineering
10 166 (15.41%) Data Pipeline
11 161 (14.95%) Analytics
12 146 (13.56%) Event-Driven
13 145 (13.46%) Data Modelling
14 143 (13.28%) Observability
15 127 (11.79%) ETL
15 127 (11.79%) Test Automation
16 115 (10.68%) Data Engineering
17 113 (10.49%) Machine Learning
18 109 (10.12%) Migration
19 106 (9.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 544 (50.51%) Python
2 300 (27.86%) SQL
3 171 (15.88%) Java
4 155 (14.39%) C#
5 151 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 146 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.13%) Bash
8 57 (5.29%) Go
9 55 (5.11%) PowerShell
10 44 (4.09%) Bicep
11 32 (2.97%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.32%) Ruby
13 11 (1.02%) Perl
14 10 (0.93%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.93%) LotusScript
14 10 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.84%) C++
16 8 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.74%) Scala
17 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 212 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.80%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.57%) Degree
5 50 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 37 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (3.25%) Master's Degree
9 31 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PhD
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.093%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.92%) QA
3 38 (3.53%) GDPR
4 34 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.95%) NIST
6 19 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.02%) WCAG
9 9 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 298 (27.67%) Docker
2 29 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.65%) Squid
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 461 (42.80%) Terraform
2 301 (27.95%) Kubernetes
3 120 (11.14%) Grafana
4 113 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 97 (9.01%) Ansible
6 21 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.11%) Puppet
9 7 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
10 6 (0.56%) Consul
11 3 (0.28%) Argo
11 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.28%) Packer
11 3 (0.28%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) Control-M
12 2 (0.19%) Knative
Vendors
1 187 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.89%) Databricks
3 46 (4.27%) Google
4 42 (3.90%) OpenAI
4 42 (3.90%) Splunk
5 31 (2.88%) Oracle
6 26 (2.41%) Foundry
7 16 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.39%) IBM
9 14 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.21%) Confluent
11 10 (0.93%) Cisco
11 10 (0.93%) Cloudera
11 10 (0.93%) Lotus
11 10 (0.93%) Palantir
12 9 (0.84%) Greenplum
12 9 (0.84%) Kofax
13 8 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.74%) Brio