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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 106 132
Rank change year-on-year -34 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,044 813 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.47% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 6.66% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 593 512
10th Percentile £400 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £745 £688 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,783 12,214 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.16% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,148 9,109
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 316 251
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.80 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%

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 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -34 848 £525 - 178
London -21 488 £550 - 79
UK excluding London -29 395 £500 +2.04% 146
Work from Home -26 328 £525 +3.45% 119
North of England -50 139 £500 +5.26% 48
Midlands -4 83 £475 +11.76% 11
North West -30 72 £575 +21.05% 24
West Midlands -3 66 £477 +12.24% 7
Scotland -8 51 £469 -6.25% 4
South West -24 48 £542 +5.97% 26
South East -65 48 £600 +37.93% 32
Yorkshire -43 45 £500 +3.90% 15
East of England -21 24 £525 - 8
North East -25 22 £463 +0.54% 9
East Midlands -12 17 £449 +8.01% 4
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 15
Wales -16 4 £481 -16.34% 5

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 53 (5.08%) Confluence
2 45 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.87%) Apache
5 20 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.77%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Camunda
11 1 (0.096%) Mendix
11 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 816 (78.16%) AWS
2 651 (62.36%) AWS Lambda
3 437 (41.86%) Amazon S3
4 352 (33.72%) Azure
5 212 (20.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 210 (20.11%) GitHub
7 187 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
8 174 (16.67%) Azure Functions
9 168 (16.09%) Amazon EC2
10 166 (15.90%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (14.37%) GitHub Actions
13 128 (12.26%) Amazon SQS
14 117 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
15 112 (10.73%) Power Platform
16 111 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
17 109 (10.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 83 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
19 78 (7.47%) GCP
20 75 (7.18%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.64%) Firewall
2 27 (2.59%) DNS
3 26 (2.49%) Network Security
4 18 (1.72%) VPN
5 13 (1.25%) HTTP
5 13 (1.25%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.71%) DynamoDB
2 154 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.95%) Power BI
7 81 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
8 70 (6.70%) NoSQL
9 53 (5.08%) Data Lake
10 52 (4.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.31%) SQL Server
12 41 (3.93%) MySQL
13 35 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.16%) MongoDB
15 31 (2.97%) Metadata
16 30 (2.87%) Relational Database
17 22 (2.11%) Tableau
18 20 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (1.92%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (17.62%) Git
2 141 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 140 (13.41%) GitLab
4 75 (7.18%) JIRA
5 31 (2.97%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.68%) Claude Code
7 27 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.34%) JUnit
11 13 (1.25%) Postman
11 13 (1.25%) Selenium
12 10 (0.96%) Mockito
13 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.67%) Gatling
14 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.67%) Vite
15 6 (0.57%) MSTest
15 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 225 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 179 (17.15%) Public Sector
3 147 (14.08%) Finance
4 65 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.54%) Banking
6 29 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.15%) Law
8 12 (1.15%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.96%) Marketing
11 9 (0.86%) Back Office
11 9 (0.86%) Billing
12 7 (0.67%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.57%) Military
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 244 (23.37%) Developer
2 201 (19.25%) Architect
3 194 (18.58%) Senior
4 174 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 112 (10.73%) Lead
7 73 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.32%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.13%) Software Engineer
10 57 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 53 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.50%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.50%) Python Developer
14 43 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.12%) Senior Developer
14 43 (4.12%) Technical Architect
15 40 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
15 40 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
16 39 (3.74%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.27%) REST
2 131 (12.55%) React
3 120 (11.49%) Node.js
4 113 (10.82%) .NET
5 107 (10.25%) Kafka
5 107 (10.25%) RESTful
6 77 (7.38%) AWS CDK
7 71 (6.80%) PySpark
8 62 (5.94%) Spring
8 62 (5.94%) Spring Boot
9 58 (5.56%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.60%) OAuth
11 46 (4.41%) FastAPI
12 40 (3.83%) AngularJS
13 38 (3.64%) CSS
13 38 (3.64%) Flask
13 38 (3.64%) JSON
14 36 (3.45%) HTML
15 35 (3.35%) OpenID
16 31 (2.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 329 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.52%) Product Ownership
3 73 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (5.84%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.68%) NHS
6 27 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.44%) IVR
11 13 (1.25%) Mainframe
11 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.05%) IoT
14 10 (0.96%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.03%) Linux
2 23 (2.20%) Unix
3 18 (1.72%) Windows
4 16 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.096%) AIX
8 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (60.54%) CI/CD
2 445 (42.62%) DevOps
3 404 (38.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 392 (37.55%) Agile
5 258 (24.71%) Microservices
6 236 (22.61%) AI
7 228 (21.84%) Event-Driven
8 219 (20.98%) Containerisation
9 180 (17.24%) Observability
10 166 (15.90%) Test Automation
11 158 (15.13%) Analytics
12 155 (14.85%) Data Modelling
13 153 (14.66%) Software Engineering
14 140 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
15 136 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
16 135 (12.93%) ETL
17 133 (12.74%) Migration
18 131 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 130 (12.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 123 (11.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 453 (43.39%) Python
2 300 (28.74%) SQL
3 172 (16.48%) TypeScript
4 150 (14.37%) JavaScript
5 133 (12.74%) Java
6 128 (12.26%) C#
7 74 (7.09%) Bash
8 41 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 40 (3.83%) Bicep
10 31 (2.97%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.53%) Scala
12 14 (1.34%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 8 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.77%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.48%) Rust
16 5 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 279 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 231 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.57%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.69%) Degree
6 38 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.17%) QA
3 38 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.26%) GDPR
5 28 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.01%) WCAG
7 16 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.25%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 268 (25.67%) Docker
2 38 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Squid
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 416 (39.85%) Terraform
2 241 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.72%) Grafana
4 72 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.60%) Ansible
6 16 (1.53%) Puppet
7 14 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.05%) Istio
9 8 (0.77%) Argo
9 8 (0.77%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.67%) Kibana
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Control-M
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 165 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.36%) Databricks
3 42 (4.02%) Oracle
4 32 (3.07%) OpenAI
5 31 (2.97%) Informatica
6 28 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.49%) Splunk
8 25 (2.39%) Google
9 24 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.15%) SAP
12 10 (0.96%) Tenable
13 9 (0.86%) Brio
14 7 (0.67%) Confluent
14 7 (0.67%) New Relic
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
15 5 (0.48%) Foundry
15 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.48%) Workday