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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 101 130
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,034 744 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.56% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 6.80% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 570 584
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £424 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +0.53% -5.05%
75th Percentile £625 £624 £625
90th Percentile £713 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.13% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 16,972 10,936 13,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.58% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,497 7,556 9,907
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 251 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.70%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -3 835 £525 -4.55% 301
London -14 501 £525 -4.55% 138
UK excluding London -7 365 £500 - 185
Work from Home -39 279 £511 -3.99% 162
North of England -10 146 £500 - 75
North West -14 84 £500 - 46
Midlands -32 62 £499 -0.20% 19
South East -47 52 £550 +10.00% 39
Scotland -20 50 £404 -23.14% 11
West Midlands -22 50 £488 -4.79% 7
Yorkshire -15 47 £500 - 23
South West -23 33 £578 +5.16% 30
East of England -11 24 £550 -18.52% 10
North East -10 16 £475 +1.60% 6
East Midlands -24 12 £500 - 12
Wales -6 6 £475 +5.50% 2
Northern Ireland +5 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 55 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.06%) Confluence
3 38 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.38%) Apache
5 26 (2.51%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.64%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.97%) Mendix
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.48%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.097%) FileNet
13 1 (0.097%) JBoss
13 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 770 (74.47%) AWS
2 605 (58.51%) AWS Lambda
3 408 (39.46%) Amazon S3
4 387 (37.43%) Azure
5 232 (22.44%) GitHub
6 208 (20.12%) Azure Functions
7 200 (19.34%) Amazon ECS
8 191 (18.47%) Amazon EC2
9 174 (16.83%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (16.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 168 (16.25%) GitHub Actions
12 166 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 147 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (11.41%) Power Platform
15 117 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
16 109 (10.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 103 (9.96%) Amazon SQS
18 99 (9.57%) Azure Logic Apps
19 92 (8.90%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.29%) DNS
1 34 (3.29%) Firewall
2 20 (1.93%) VPN
3 14 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.16%) HTTP
6 11 (1.06%) Network Security
7 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.68%) SMS
8 7 (0.68%) SSL
9 5 (0.48%) IPsec
10 4 (0.39%) WAN
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 1 (0.097%) BGP
13 1 (0.097%) CTI
13 1 (0.097%) Internet
13 1 (0.097%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.12%) DynamoDB
2 130 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (8.80%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 77 (7.45%) NoSQL
6 76 (7.35%) Power BI
7 61 (5.90%) Data Lake
8 50 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.45%) Relational Database
10 43 (4.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 42 (4.06%) SQL Server
12 33 (3.19%) MongoDB
13 31 (3.00%) Big Data
13 31 (3.00%) Metadata
14 29 (2.80%) Delta Lake
14 29 (2.80%) MySQL
14 29 (2.80%) Tableau
15 27 (2.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (15.76%) Git
2 154 (14.89%) GitLab
3 125 (12.09%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.71%) JIRA
5 30 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.93%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.35%) MLflow
9 12 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.06%) JUnit
11 9 (0.87%) Mocha
12 8 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.77%) Maven
12 8 (0.77%) NUnit
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.68%) MSTest
13 7 (0.68%) Vite
14 6 (0.58%) Selenium
14 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 188 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 143 (13.83%) Finance
4 65 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.58%) Banking
6 27 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.35%) Legal
8 12 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.97%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Military
10 8 (0.77%) Retail
11 6 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.48%) Front Office
12 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.39%) Billing
13 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (25.82%) Developer
2 182 (17.60%) Architect
3 150 (14.51%) Senior
4 140 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
5 108 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 94 (9.09%) Lead
7 77 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.09%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.22%) AWS Architect
10 53 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (4.84%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
14 47 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 42 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 41 (3.97%) Senior Developer
19 40 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
19 40 (3.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (14.80%) Node.js
2 140 (13.54%) React
3 125 (12.09%) REST
4 124 (11.99%) .NET
5 119 (11.51%) Kafka
6 95 (9.19%) RESTful
7 84 (8.12%) Spring
8 83 (8.03%) Spring Boot
9 78 (7.54%) OAuth
10 71 (6.87%) PySpark
11 57 (5.51%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.13%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.55%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.35%) JSON
15 44 (4.26%) FastAPI
16 42 (4.06%) .NET Core
17 40 (3.87%) OpenID
18 36 (3.48%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.48%) Next.js
19 33 (3.19%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 278 (26.89%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.51%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.32%) NHS
6 17 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.97%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.77%) Replication
12 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.06%) Linux
2 23 (2.22%) Unix
3 10 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (61.03%) CI/CD
2 504 (48.74%) DevOps
3 393 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 333 (32.21%) Agile
5 265 (25.63%) Microservices
6 249 (24.08%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.70%) AI
8 170 (16.44%) Event-Driven
9 166 (16.05%) Observability
10 154 (14.89%) Analytics
11 149 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (14.31%) Data Modelling
13 146 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
14 138 (13.35%) Software Engineering
15 134 (12.96%) Test Automation
16 133 (12.86%) ETL
17 115 (11.12%) Data Engineering
18 110 (10.64%) Migration
19 106 (10.25%) Mentoring
20 105 (10.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 472 (45.65%) Python
2 287 (27.76%) SQL
3 165 (15.96%) C#
4 158 (15.28%) Java
5 157 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 150 (14.51%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.90%) Bash
8 49 (4.74%) Bicep
9 43 (4.16%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.42%) Go
12 22 (2.13%) Ruby
13 17 (1.64%) Scala
14 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 276 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 218 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 34 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.61%) Degree
9 19 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.39%) PhD
16 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.55%) QA
3 28 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.32%) GDPR
6 20 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.45%) NIST
8 10 (0.97%) WCAG
9 7 (0.68%) PMO
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.39%) SLA
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 273 (26.40%) Docker
2 31 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.97%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 423 (40.91%) Terraform
2 248 (23.98%) Kubernetes
3 103 (9.96%) Grafana
4 87 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 53 (5.13%) Ansible
6 29 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.26%) Puppet
8 11 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.77%) Consul
11 6 (0.58%) Istio
11 6 (0.58%) Kibana
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.39%) Podman
13 4 (0.39%) Rancher
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 162 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.12%) Databricks
3 48 (4.64%) Oracle
4 46 (4.45%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.61%) Splunk
6 22 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.55%) Google
8 13 (1.26%) Foundry
9 12 (1.16%) Informatica
10 11 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.97%) Confluent
11 10 (0.97%) Kofax
11 10 (0.97%) Lotus
11 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.87%) SAP
13 8 (0.77%) Tenable
14 7 (0.68%) Brio
15 6 (0.58%) IBM
15 6 (0.58%) Salesforce