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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 96 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 764 789
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.48% 2.63% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.70% 6.88% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 577 602
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
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 16,302 11,104 14,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.07% 38.21% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,791 10,229
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £490
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.19% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 212 355
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £41.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -6 877 £513 -6.82% 350
London -6 524 £513 -8.07% 153
UK excluding London -17 382 £500 - 232
Work from Home -32 293 £525 -2.96% 184
North of England +9 168 £500 - 90
North West -15 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Yorkshire +9 76 £500 - 34
Midlands -18 69 £513 +14.00% 22
West Midlands -22 54 £525 +16.67% 18
Scotland -8 51 £400 -20.00% 9
South East -66 50 £525 -8.70% 61
South West -20 31 £600 -2.10% 31
East of England -5 27 £573 -21.09% 20
East Midlands -27 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -5 14 £475 -23.91% 11
Wales -12 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -4 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 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.75%) Apache
3 40 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.21%) Confluence
5 29 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.37%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) 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%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.092%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 798 (73.08%) AWS
2 628 (57.51%) AWS Lambda
3 415 (38.00%) Azure
4 409 (37.45%) Amazon S3
5 253 (23.17%) GitHub
6 244 (22.34%) Azure Functions
7 226 (20.70%) Amazon ECS
8 218 (19.96%) Amazon EC2
9 200 (18.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 199 (18.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 190 (17.40%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
13 174 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
14 120 (10.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 119 (10.90%) Power Platform
16 111 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 103 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
18 92 (8.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 84 (7.69%) GCP
20 76 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.03%) Firewall
2 36 (3.30%) DNS
3 29 (2.66%) VPN
4 13 (1.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (0.82%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) WAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) BGP
12 1 (0.092%) CTI
12 1 (0.092%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.02%) Amazon RDS
2 135 (12.36%) DynamoDB
3 133 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.87%) Power BI
6 66 (6.04%) Data Lake
7 65 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 59 (5.40%) Relational Database
9 55 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (3.57%) MongoDB
11 35 (3.21%) SQL Server
12 34 (3.11%) Redis
13 30 (2.75%) Metadata
13 30 (2.75%) Tableau
14 27 (2.47%) Delta Lake
15 26 (2.38%) MySQL
16 24 (2.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 185 (16.94%) Git
2 173 (15.84%) GitLab
3 165 (15.11%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.77%) JIRA
5 31 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.11%) JUnit
7 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.65%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.56%) Mockito
10 16 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.28%) MLflow
12 12 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.92%) Maven
13 10 (0.92%) 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
1 251 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 214 (19.60%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.47%) Finance
4 76 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.77%) Banking
6 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 10 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
11 8 (0.73%) Military
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.46%) Front Office
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 282 (25.82%) Developer
2 169 (15.48%) Architect
3 163 (14.93%) Senior
4 153 (14.01%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.35%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 81 (7.42%) Lead
8 72 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 44 (4.03%) Senior Developer
16 42 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.85%) Java Developer
17 40 (3.66%) AWS Developer
17 40 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (3.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (15.11%) Node.js
2 155 (14.19%) REST
3 143 (13.10%) React
4 133 (12.18%) RESTful
5 132 (12.09%) .NET
6 129 (11.81%) Kafka
7 88 (8.06%) Spring
8 86 (7.88%) Spring Boot
9 80 (7.33%) OAuth
10 57 (5.22%) AngularJS
10 57 (5.22%) PySpark
11 50 (4.58%) AWS CDK
12 49 (4.49%) JSON
13 48 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (4.30%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.21%) .NET Core
16 45 (4.12%) FastAPI
17 43 (3.94%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.30%) JWT
19 35 (3.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 286 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.66%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 23 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.92%) Replication
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.73%) IoT
15 8 (0.73%) IVR
15 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.07%) Linux
2 15 (1.37%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) zOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 565 (51.74%) DevOps
3 423 (38.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (32.97%) Agile
5 307 (28.11%) Microservices
6 279 (25.55%) Containerisation
7 192 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
8 185 (16.94%) AI
9 165 (15.11%) Observability
10 164 (15.02%) Analytics
11 160 (14.65%) Event-Driven
12 149 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 148 (13.55%) Software Engineering
14 144 (13.19%) Data Modelling
15 140 (12.82%) Test Automation
16 133 (12.18%) ETL
17 122 (11.17%) Data Engineering
18 113 (10.35%) Migration
19 106 (9.71%) Mentoring
20 102 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 519 (47.53%) Python
2 311 (28.48%) SQL
3 169 (15.48%) Java
4 155 (14.19%) JavaScript
4 155 (14.19%) TypeScript
5 154 (14.10%) C#
6 74 (6.78%) Bash
7 56 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.58%) Bicep
9 48 (4.40%) Go
10 34 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.38%) Ruby
12 12 (1.10%) Scala
13 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.82%) Perl
15 8 (0.73%) C++
15 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 284 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 220 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.40%) Degree
5 45 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.11%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.02%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.55%) 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 70 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.49%) QA
3 36 (3.30%) GDPR
4 33 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.83%) NIST
8 14 (1.28%) WCAG
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.92%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.27%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 315 (28.85%) Docker
2 35 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) 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
1 473 (43.32%) Terraform
2 290 (26.56%) Kubernetes
3 116 (10.62%) Grafana
4 115 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 87 (7.97%) 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%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 183 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.52%) Databricks
3 42 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.66%) Oracle
4 40 (3.66%) Splunk
5 28 (2.56%) Google
6 20 (1.83%) Foundry
6 20 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.01%) Lotus
8 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.92%) Kofax
9 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.82%) Confluent
10 9 (0.82%) IBM
10 9 (0.82%) Palantir
11 8 (0.73%) Brio
11 8 (0.73%) SAP
11 8 (0.73%) Sybase