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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 116 125
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 930 745 923
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.07% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.84% 5.86% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 517 671
10th Percentile £375 £370 £405
25th Percentile £418 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -0.94% -11.67%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,594 12,721 16,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 35.29% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 8,376 11,811
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 168 308
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%
75th Percentile £47.12 £59.66 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%

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 18 November 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
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 18 November 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 +11 748 £505 -8.18% 667
London +9 405 £525 -4.55% 338
UK excluding London +12 377 £476 -9.33% 374
Work from Home +8 308 £525 +1.69% 524
North of England +27 147 £500 - 150
Yorkshire +25 88 £500 -6.67% 44
Midlands +5 70 £500 - 37
Scotland -1 62 £450 -4.05% 33
North West -5 53 £463 +2.15% 102
West Midlands +4 52 £523 -0.48% 21
South East -42 45 £425 -32.00% 75
East of England +9 36 £521 -8.55% 22
South West -12 33 £575 -10.51% 46
East Midlands -9 18 £411 -8.61% 16
North East -5 7 £466 -23.61% 4
Northern Ireland -9 3 - - 7
Wales -6 1 £488 -2.50% 11

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 42 (4.52%) Apache
2 31 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.33%) Confluence
3 25 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.40%) CMS
5 12 (1.29%) nginx
6 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.32%) Documentum
8 3 (0.32%) FileNet
9 2 (0.22%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 692 (74.41%) AWS
2 560 (60.22%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (38.39%) Amazon S3
4 285 (30.65%) Azure
5 196 (21.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 186 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 178 (19.14%) GitHub
8 175 (18.82%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
10 159 (17.10%) Azure Functions
11 116 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
12 113 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
13 108 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (10.11%) GCP
15 89 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
16 86 (9.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 79 (8.49%) Azure Logic Apps
18 66 (7.10%) AWS Step Functions
19 59 (6.34%) Power Platform
20 56 (6.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.55%) Firewall
2 27 (2.90%) VPN
3 20 (2.15%) DNS
4 10 (1.08%) SSL
5 9 (0.97%) Network Security
6 6 (0.65%) DHCP
6 6 (0.65%) HTTP
6 6 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.32%) LAN
8 3 (0.32%) WAN
9 2 (0.22%) DKIM
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.22%) SSH
10 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (17.96%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (14.84%) DynamoDB
3 134 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (9.57%) NoSQL
5 61 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 61 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (4.30%) Power BI
10 32 (3.44%) Data Lake
11 31 (3.33%) Big Data
12 30 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.01%) MySQL
14 27 (2.90%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.90%) Redis
15 25 (2.69%) SQL Server
16 20 (2.15%) RDBMS
17 19 (2.04%) Tableau
18 15 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 160 (17.20%) Git
3 124 (13.33%) GitLab
4 85 (9.14%) JIRA
5 39 (4.19%) Liquibase
6 27 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.58%) JUnit
8 23 (2.47%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.72%) Mockito
11 15 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.61%) Postman
12 14 (1.51%) Maven
12 14 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.18%) Selenium
14 10 (1.08%) MLflow
15 9 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.75%) Gradle
17 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
17 5 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 245 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 154 (16.56%) Public Sector
3 120 (12.90%) Finance
4 77 (8.28%) Banking
5 61 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.61%) Marketing
9 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.97%) Retail
11 7 (0.75%) Front Office
11 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.54%) Military
13 5 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Publishing
15 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
16 2 (0.22%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 248 (26.67%) Developer
2 147 (15.81%) AWS Engineer
3 142 (15.27%) Senior
4 135 (14.52%) Architect
5 109 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.35%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.96%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.20%) Lead
9 46 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
10 45 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.62%) AWS Architect
11 43 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (4.19%) AWS Developer
12 39 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 39 (4.19%) Java Developer
13 37 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (3.87%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.76%) Python Engineer
16 31 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (16.88%) Node.js
2 150 (16.13%) RESTful
3 133 (14.30%) REST
4 130 (13.98%) React
5 98 (10.54%) .NET
6 88 (9.46%) Kafka
7 61 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
8 59 (6.34%) AWS CDK
9 51 (5.48%) OAuth
10 46 (4.95%) Spring Boot
11 45 (4.84%) GraphQL
11 45 (4.84%) Spring
12 40 (4.30%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.19%) FastAPI
14 38 (4.09%) PyTorch
15 35 (3.76%) HTML
16 32 (3.44%) JSON
17 30 (3.23%) CSS
17 30 (3.23%) Next.js
17 30 (3.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 224 (24.09%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.09%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.72%) NHS
9 14 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.29%) Replication
12 11 (1.18%) IVR
12 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.51%) Linux
2 12 (1.29%) Windows
3 10 (1.08%) Unix
4 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.22%) Android
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (53.55%) CI/CD
2 468 (50.32%) DevOps
3 377 (40.54%) Agile
4 318 (34.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 274 (29.46%) Microservices
6 237 (25.48%) Containerisation
7 183 (19.68%) Software Engineering
8 174 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (14.95%) AI
10 127 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 124 (13.33%) Analytics
12 111 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
13 110 (11.83%) Event-Driven
14 109 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 103 (11.08%) Mentoring
16 95 (10.22%) ETL
17 93 (10.00%) Data Modelling
18 90 (9.68%) Machine Learning
19 87 (9.35%) Migration
20 84 (9.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 468 (50.32%) Python
2 223 (23.98%) SQL
3 168 (18.06%) Java
4 146 (15.70%) TypeScript
5 143 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 91 (9.78%) C#
7 68 (7.31%) Go
8 60 (6.45%) Bash
9 42 (4.52%) PowerShell
10 27 (2.90%) Bicep
11 17 (1.83%) Ruby
11 17 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.08%) C++
13 10 (1.08%) Perl
13 10 (1.08%) Scala
14 6 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.65%) JSX
14 6 (0.65%) Korn
14 6 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 199 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 163 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 95 (10.22%) AWS Certification
4 71 (7.63%) Degree
5 63 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.09%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 27 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.40%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.97%) MCP
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.81%) QA
2 40 (4.30%) GDPR
3 33 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.51%) WCAG
6 13 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.40%) NIST
7 9 (0.97%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.43%) MiFID
9 4 (0.43%) NCSC
9 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.22%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 266 (28.60%) Docker
2 38 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 359 (38.60%) Terraform
2 260 (27.96%) Kubernetes
3 106 (11.40%) Grafana
4 102 (10.97%) Prometheus
5 90 (9.68%) Ansible
6 14 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.18%) Kibana
8 9 (0.97%) Puppet
9 7 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Control-M
11 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.22%) SELinux
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 147 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.38%) Google
3 48 (5.16%) Splunk
4 41 (4.41%) Databricks
5 29 (3.12%) Oracle
6 25 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.04%) Foundry
8 18 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.29%) Pega
12 11 (1.18%) Cloudera
12 11 (1.18%) IBM
13 10 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
13 10 (1.08%) Cisco
13 10 (1.08%) Palantir
14 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.75%) Confluent
14 7 (0.75%) Genesys
15 6 (0.65%) Greenplum