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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 118 125
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 928 755 927
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.61% 2.06% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.81% 5.82% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 522 679
10th Percentile £379 £378 £405
25th Percentile £414 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £773 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.43% - -
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 13,623 12,970 16,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.32% 35.45% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,224 8,536 11,662
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 189 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.74 £30.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% +14.35% +22.28%
75th Percentile £51.13 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.79%

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 24 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 24 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 +12 745 £505 -8.22% 264
London +8 407 £525 -4.55% 100
UK excluding London +5 377 £476 -9.43% 219
Work from Home +10 298 £525 +0.24% 201
North of England +26 148 £500 - 62
Yorkshire +24 88 £500 -6.67% 20
Midlands +12 72 £500 - 30
Scotland +2 66 £450 -5.26% 21
West Midlands +18 54 £525 - 15
North West -4 54 £450 -0.61% 39
South East -48 46 £425 -32.00% 66
South West -5 32 £600 -6.61% 26
East of England +7 29 £505 -11.40% 11
East Midlands -4 18 £411 -8.61% 15
North East -5 7 £466 -23.61% 3
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 1
Wales -8 1 £488 -2.50% 7

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 (5.17%) Apache
2 33 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.23%) Confluence
4 13 (1.40%) CMS
5 12 (1.29%) nginx
6 8 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) FileNet
10 2 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.29%) 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
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 687 (74.03%) AWS
2 561 (60.45%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (38.04%) Amazon S3
4 292 (31.47%) Azure
5 191 (20.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 190 (20.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 178 (19.18%) GitHub
8 176 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
9 171 (18.43%) Amazon ECS
10 162 (17.46%) Azure Functions
11 119 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
12 116 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
13 108 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (10.13%) GCP
15 88 (9.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 87 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
18 64 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
19 61 (6.57%) Power Platform
20 58 (6.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.45%) Firewall
2 26 (2.80%) VPN
3 20 (2.16%) DNS
4 10 (1.08%) Network Security
5 9 (0.97%) SSL
6 7 (0.75%) HTTP
7 6 (0.65%) DHCP
7 6 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.22%) DKIM
11 2 (0.22%) MPLS
11 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.22%) SSH
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) VLAN
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.43%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (13.90%) DynamoDB
4 87 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 63 (6.79%) Relational Database
6 58 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 55 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
8 48 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (4.53%) Power BI
11 35 (3.77%) Data Lake
12 33 (3.56%) Big Data
13 31 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.13%) Redis
15 28 (3.02%) MySQL
16 27 (2.91%) MongoDB
17 23 (2.48%) SQL Server
18 20 (2.16%) RDBMS
19 19 (2.05%) Tableau
20 14 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 163 (17.56%) Git
2 162 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 131 (14.12%) GitLab
4 84 (9.05%) JIRA
5 39 (4.20%) Liquibase
6 27 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.59%) JUnit
8 23 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.94%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.72%) Mockito
11 15 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.62%) Maven
11 15 (1.62%) Postman
12 13 (1.40%) MLflow
13 12 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.19%) Selenium
15 9 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.86%) Gradle
17 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
17 5 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 240 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 163 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 123 (13.25%) Finance
4 77 (8.30%) Banking
5 56 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.02%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.51%) Marketing
9 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.97%) Retail
11 8 (0.86%) Front Office
12 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.54%) Military
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Aviation
16 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.32%) Local Government
17 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 251 (27.05%) Developer
2 147 (15.84%) AWS Engineer
2 147 (15.84%) Senior
3 120 (12.93%) Architect
4 111 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (9.59%) Software Engineer
6 74 (7.97%) Data Engineer
7 65 (7.00%) Lead
8 46 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.20%) AWS Developer
11 39 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 36 (3.88%) Python Engineer
14 35 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (3.23%) AWS Architect
18 28 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (17.03%) Node.js
2 151 (16.27%) RESTful
3 136 (14.66%) REST
4 133 (14.33%) React
5 104 (11.21%) .NET
6 87 (9.38%) Kafka
7 62 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
8 59 (6.36%) AWS CDK
9 52 (5.60%) OAuth
10 47 (5.06%) Spring Boot
11 46 (4.96%) GraphQL
11 46 (4.96%) Spring
12 41 (4.42%) AngularJS
13 40 (4.31%) FastAPI
14 38 (4.09%) PyTorch
15 36 (3.88%) HTML
16 34 (3.66%) JSON
17 31 (3.34%) .NET Core
17 31 (3.34%) OAuth2
18 30 (3.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 220 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.09%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.83%) NHS
8 17 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.40%) Replication
11 10 (1.08%) IVR
11 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.64%) Linux
2 12 (1.29%) Windows
3 10 (1.08%) Unix
4 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.54%) VMS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
1 507 (54.63%) CI/CD
2 467 (50.32%) DevOps
3 381 (41.06%) Agile
4 324 (34.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 278 (29.96%) Microservices
6 235 (25.32%) Containerisation
7 187 (20.15%) Software Engineering
8 165 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (15.09%) AI
10 130 (14.01%) Test Automation
11 122 (13.15%) Analytics
12 114 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
13 111 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 110 (11.85%) Event-Driven
15 99 (10.67%) Mentoring
16 92 (9.91%) Data Modelling
17 91 (9.81%) ETL
18 90 (9.70%) Machine Learning
19 88 (9.48%) Migration
20 86 (9.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 469 (50.54%) Python
2 227 (24.46%) SQL
3 166 (17.89%) Java
4 147 (15.84%) TypeScript
5 140 (15.09%) JavaScript
6 97 (10.45%) C#
7 69 (7.44%) Go
8 62 (6.68%) Bash
9 44 (4.74%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.69%) Bicep
11 19 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.94%) Ruby
13 12 (1.29%) C++
13 12 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.08%) Perl
15 7 (0.75%) Scala
16 6 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.65%) JSX
16 6 (0.65%) Korn
16 6 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 170 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.54%) Degree
5 62 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.20%) Master's Degree
7 38 (4.09%) DV Cleared
8 37 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.40%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.97%) MCP
14 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.11%) CISM
16 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.71%) QA
2 39 (4.20%) GDPR
3 32 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.51%) WCAG
6 12 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.29%) 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
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.22%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 267 (28.77%) Docker
2 36 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 367 (39.55%) Terraform
2 261 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.75%) Grafana
4 104 (11.21%) Prometheus
5 93 (10.02%) Ansible
6 16 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.08%) Kibana
8 9 (0.97%) Puppet
9 7 (0.75%) Packer
10 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.22%) Argo
13 2 (0.22%) Control-M
13 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.22%) SELinux
14 1 (0.11%) Consul
14 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 150 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.39%) Google
3 47 (5.06%) Splunk
4 46 (4.96%) Databricks
5 29 (3.13%) Oracle
6 26 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.05%) Foundry
8 18 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.40%) IBM
9 13 (1.40%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.29%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.29%) Pega
11 10 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.08%) Cisco
11 10 (1.08%) Palantir
12 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.75%) Confluent
12 7 (0.75%) Genesys
13 6 (0.65%) Greenplum