Serverless Contract Job Trends

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Serverless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 127 112
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 827 734 1,105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.51% 1.91% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.68% 5.55% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 508 826
10th Percentile £394 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -9.28%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £36.50 - £40.25
25th Percentile £38.75 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £66.25
75th Percentile £51.25 - £78.75
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Cloud 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 12,372 13,215 17,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 34.30% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,253 8,897 12,770
10th Percentile £312 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 194 337
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £14.97
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.28 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -36.67% +15.38% +35.06%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +12 665 £518 -5.91% 380
London +12 373 £550 +4.76% 210
UK excluding London +18 317 £500 -6.54% 266
Work from Home +15 306 £515 +3.00% 224
North of England +9 111 £475 -9.52% 85
Yorkshire +12 57 £476 -11.03% 27
Midlands +19 56 £495 -1.00% 21
Scotland -19 52 £510 +7.14% 30
North West +4 50 £475 -4.52% 48
South East -12 43 £425 -32.00% 81
West Midlands +17 39 £500 -2.44% 11
South West +11 30 £544 -9.38% 22
East of England +16 28 £515 -12.34% 13
East Midlands +3 16 £443 +10.69% 5
North East -4 6 £443 -27.46% 11
Northern Ireland -1 4 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales +1 2 £575 +15.05% 11

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (4.47%) Confluence
2 28 (3.39%) Apache
3 23 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.06%) CMS
5 13 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.45%) nginx
7 10 (1.21%) Documentum
7 10 (1.21%) FileNet
8 8 (0.97%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.48%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.24%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 626 (75.70%) AWS
2 491 (59.37%) AWS Lambda
3 317 (38.33%) Amazon S3
4 236 (28.54%) Azure
5 154 (18.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 138 (16.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 132 (15.96%) Amazon EC2
8 127 (15.36%) GitHub
9 120 (14.51%) Azure Functions
10 117 (14.15%) Amazon SQS
11 105 (12.70%) Amazon ECS
12 87 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
13 84 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
14 79 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
15 73 (8.83%) GCP
16 69 (8.34%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (7.62%) Azure Logic Apps
18 51 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 44 (5.32%) Amazon EventBridge
19 44 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.51%) Firewall
1 29 (3.51%) VPN
2 19 (2.30%) DNS
3 11 (1.33%) SSL
4 9 (1.09%) HTTP
4 9 (1.09%) Network Security
5 7 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.73%) DHCP
7 5 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.36%) DKIM
8 3 (0.36%) VLAN
8 3 (0.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.24%) SSH
9 2 (0.24%) Wireless
10 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (16.57%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (16.44%) DynamoDB
3 91 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 58 (7.01%) Relational Database
6 48 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
8 39 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (3.87%) Big Data
9 32 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.51%) SQL Server
11 28 (3.39%) MySQL
12 27 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (3.14%) Power BI
14 25 (3.02%) Redis
15 23 (2.78%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.66%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (2.30%) RDBMS
18 13 (1.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 121 (14.63%) Git
2 117 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 75 (9.07%) GitLab
4 73 (8.83%) JIRA
5 34 (4.11%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.90%) SonarQube
7 22 (2.66%) Liquibase
8 18 (2.18%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.93%) Storybook
10 14 (1.69%) Postman
11 13 (1.57%) JUnit
12 11 (1.33%) Maven
12 11 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.21%) Selenium
14 7 (0.85%) Gradle
14 7 (0.85%) JMeter
15 6 (0.73%) Mockito
16 5 (0.60%) MLflow
16 5 (0.60%) SonarLint
General
1 205 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 129 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 80 (9.67%) Finance
4 60 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.20%) Banking
6 17 (2.06%) Marketing
7 15 (1.81%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (0.97%) Retail
10 6 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
10 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.60%) Front Office
12 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.48%) Publishing
13 3 (0.36%) Aviation
13 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.24%) Legal
14 2 (0.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 253 (30.59%) Developer
2 140 (16.93%) Architect
3 119 (14.39%) Senior
4 107 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
5 84 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 77 (9.31%) Software Engineer
7 51 (6.17%) Lead
8 50 (6.05%) AWS Architect
9 47 (5.68%) Data Engineer
9 47 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.32%) AWS Developer
11 41 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 39 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 36 (4.35%) Python Engineer
14 33 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
15 30 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
18 23 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (15.72%) Node.js
2 129 (15.60%) React
3 120 (14.51%) RESTful
4 96 (11.61%) REST
5 87 (10.52%) Kafka
6 74 (8.95%) .NET
7 70 (8.46%) AWS CDK
8 54 (6.53%) GraphQL
9 40 (4.84%) OAuth
10 39 (4.72%) Spring Boot
11 37 (4.47%) HTML
12 36 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
12 36 (4.35%) Spring
13 35 (4.23%) AngularJS
13 35 (4.23%) Next.js
14 34 (4.11%) CSS
15 28 (3.39%) JSON
16 27 (3.26%) .NET Core
17 26 (3.14%) PyTorch
18 24 (2.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 168 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 19 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.97%) Replication
14 7 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.85%) N-Tier
15 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 5 (0.60%) Low-Code
17 4 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.22%) Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Windows
3 10 (1.21%) Unix
4 7 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) SUSE
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (48.61%) CI/CD
2 364 (44.01%) DevOps
3 348 (42.08%) Agile
4 240 (29.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 221 (26.72%) Microservices
6 181 (21.89%) Containerisation
7 157 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (18.50%) Software Engineering
9 118 (14.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 105 (12.70%) Event-Driven
11 101 (12.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 97 (11.73%) Test Automation
13 90 (10.88%) Mentoring
14 88 (10.64%) ETL
15 83 (10.04%) Analytics
16 82 (9.92%) Scrum
17 78 (9.43%) Clean Code
18 71 (8.59%) High Availability
18 71 (8.59%) Machine Learning
19 68 (8.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 352 (42.56%) Python
2 159 (19.23%) SQL
3 156 (18.86%) JavaScript
4 151 (18.26%) TypeScript
5 150 (18.14%) Java
6 75 (9.07%) C#
7 43 (5.20%) Bash
7 43 (5.20%) Go
8 29 (3.51%) Bicep
9 22 (2.66%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.33%) Rust
11 11 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.21%) Scala
13 7 (0.85%) C++
14 6 (0.73%) Ruby
15 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.60%) VBA
16 4 (0.48%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 176 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 154 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.09%) AWS Certification
4 51 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 50 (6.05%) Degree
6 42 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 23 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.06%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.24%) CCIE
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.24%) MCP
15 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.68%) QA
2 27 (3.26%) GDPR
3 25 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) NIST
6 11 (1.33%) WCAG
7 8 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.48%) MiFID
8 4 (0.48%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.24%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 190 (22.97%) Docker
2 32 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 273 (33.01%) Terraform
2 204 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.59%) Grafana
4 68 (8.22%) Ansible
4 68 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.33%) Kibana
8 9 (1.09%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.24%) Control-M
11 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) linkerd
11 2 (0.24%) SELinux
12 1 (0.12%) Argo
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 111 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.84%) Google
3 35 (4.23%) Oracle
4 34 (4.11%) Splunk
5 18 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.93%) Databricks
6 16 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.45%) Foundry
9 10 (1.21%) Cloudera
9 10 (1.21%) Palantir
10 9 (1.09%) IBM
10 9 (1.09%) Pega
11 8 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
11 8 (0.97%) StreamSets
12 7 (0.85%) Cisco
13 6 (0.73%) Confluent
13 6 (0.73%) Gigya
14 5 (0.60%) OpenAI