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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 99 128
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,085 755 790
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.43% 2.60% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.58% 6.82% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 573 604
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £445 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £522
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.92% -7.16%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
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 16,478 11,063 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.88% 38.10% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,241 7,764 10,218
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
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 460 217 352
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £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 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -7 873 £513 -6.82% 350
London -14 518 £513 -10.87% 153
UK excluding London -12 381 £500 - 232
Work from Home -29 292 £525 -4.11% 184
North of England +6 169 £500 +5.26% 90
North West -17 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Yorkshire +7 77 £500 - 34
Midlands -27 68 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -19 53 £516 +14.56% 18
South East -58 50 £525 +5.00% 61
Scotland -6 49 £400 -21.95% 9
South West -19 31 £591 -3.53% 31
East of England -7 26 £575 -17.86% 20
East Midlands -26 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -7 14 £475 - 11
Wales -11 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland +1 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 51 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.78%) Apache
2 41 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.13%) Confluence
4 29 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.38%) nginx
6 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.92%) Mendix
8 9 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
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%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
3 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 795 (73.27%) AWS
2 628 (57.88%) AWS Lambda
3 408 (37.60%) Amazon S3
4 407 (37.51%) Azure
5 253 (23.32%) GitHub
6 240 (22.12%) Azure Functions
7 223 (20.55%) Amazon ECS
8 216 (19.91%) Amazon EC2
9 200 (18.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (18.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 184 (16.96%) Amazon EKS
12 183 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
13 174 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
14 125 (11.52%) Power Platform
15 118 (10.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 110 (10.14%) AWS Step Functions
17 109 (10.05%) Azure Logic Apps
18 90 (8.29%) Azure Service Bus
19 85 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
20 82 (7.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.15%) Firewall
2 37 (3.41%) DNS
3 28 (2.58%) VPN
4 13 (1.20%) Network Security
5 12 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.92%) SSL
8 9 (0.83%) HTTP
8 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.55%) SMS
10 5 (0.46%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) WAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) LAN
13 1 (0.092%) 4G
13 1 (0.092%) 5G
13 1 (0.092%) MQTT
13 1 (0.092%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.84%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (13.00%) DynamoDB
3 130 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.48%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.37%) Power BI
6 70 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
7 66 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (6.08%) Data Lake
8 60 (5.53%) Relational Database
9 55 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (3.32%) MongoDB
12 34 (3.13%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 33 (3.04%) Redis
14 30 (2.76%) Metadata
14 30 (2.76%) Tableau
15 27 (2.49%) Delta Lake
16 26 (2.40%) MySQL
17 25 (2.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 192 (17.70%) Git
2 173 (15.94%) GitLab
3 165 (15.21%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.99%) JIRA
5 31 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.03%) JUnit
7 19 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.57%) Liquibase
8 17 (1.57%) Mockito
9 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.29%) MLflow
12 12 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.92%) Maven
14 9 (0.83%) Postman
14 9 (0.83%) Selenium
14 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.74%) NUnit
16 7 (0.65%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.65%) Mocha
General
1 246 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.63%) Public Sector
3 153 (14.10%) Finance
4 76 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (5.71%) Banking
6 34 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.29%) Marketing
9 9 (0.83%) Health Technology
9 9 (0.83%) Retail
10 8 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.74%) Legal
11 6 (0.55%) Billing
11 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.55%) Military
12 4 (0.37%) Aviation
12 4 (0.37%) Front Office
12 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (26.18%) Developer
2 165 (15.21%) Architect
3 160 (14.75%) Senior
4 156 (14.38%) AWS Engineer
5 109 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.74%) Lead
8 73 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.07%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 45 (4.15%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.96%) Java Developer
17 42 (3.87%) AWS Developer
17 42 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 40 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
19 39 (3.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (15.76%) Node.js
2 154 (14.19%) REST
3 148 (13.64%) React
4 131 (12.07%) RESTful
5 128 (11.80%) Kafka
6 125 (11.52%) .NET
7 89 (8.20%) Spring
8 87 (8.02%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.47%) OAuth
10 59 (5.44%) PySpark
11 56 (5.16%) AngularJS
12 50 (4.61%) JSON
13 47 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (4.33%) OAuth2
14 46 (4.24%) AWS CDK
15 45 (4.15%) .NET Core
16 44 (4.06%) FastAPI
17 41 (3.78%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.32%) JWT
19 35 (3.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 271 (24.98%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.58%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.49%) NHS
6 25 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.74%) DataPower
15 8 (0.74%) IoT
15 8 (0.74%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.03%) Linux
2 15 (1.38%) Unix
3 11 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (61.75%) CI/CD
2 559 (51.52%) DevOps
3 419 (38.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (33.27%) Agile
5 302 (27.83%) Microservices
6 272 (25.07%) Containerisation
7 184 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
8 178 (16.41%) AI
9 164 (15.12%) Event-Driven
10 162 (14.93%) Observability
11 160 (14.75%) Analytics
12 148 (13.64%) Software Engineering
13 146 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
14 144 (13.27%) Data Modelling
15 135 (12.44%) ETL
15 135 (12.44%) Test Automation
16 118 (10.88%) Data Engineering
17 113 (10.41%) Migration
18 105 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
19 104 (9.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 514 (47.37%) Python
2 311 (28.66%) SQL
3 173 (15.94%) Java
4 160 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 158 (14.56%) JavaScript
6 154 (14.19%) C#
7 76 (7.00%) Bash
8 57 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.52%) Bicep
10 46 (4.24%) Go
11 35 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.58%) Ruby
13 13 (1.20%) Scala
14 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.83%) Perl
16 8 (0.74%) C++
16 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 290 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 225 (20.74%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 45 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (4.15%) Degree
5 37 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 33 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.21%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.25%) QA
3 33 (3.04%) GDPR
4 31 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.75%) NIST
7 13 (1.20%) WCAG
8 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.92%) PMO
9 4 (0.37%) HL7
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.37%) NCSC
9 4 (0.37%) SLA
10 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 311 (28.66%) Docker
2 33 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.92%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 470 (43.32%) Terraform
2 289 (26.64%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.60%) Grafana
4 110 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 82 (7.56%) Ansible
6 25 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.11%) Puppet
9 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.65%) Consul
10 7 (0.65%) 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 (0.28%) Argo
13 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 179 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.66%) Databricks
3 42 (3.87%) OpenAI
3 42 (3.87%) Oracle
4 39 (3.59%) Splunk
5 27 (2.49%) Google
6 19 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.66%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.66%) Foundry
8 11 (1.01%) Lotus
8 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.92%) Kofax
9 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.83%) Brio
10 9 (0.83%) Palantir
10 9 (0.83%) SAP
11 8 (0.74%) Confluent
11 8 (0.74%) IBM
11 8 (0.74%) Sybase