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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 107 134
Rank change year-on-year -32 +27 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,056 812 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.48% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 6.67% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 596 508
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.55%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £683 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +2.04% -8.84% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £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 18,790 12,183 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.17% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,435 8,132 9,072
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 321 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -15.52%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -33 860 £525 - 197
London -18 500 £550 - 82
UK excluding London -26 396 £500 +2.04% 148
Work from Home -36 336 £525 +3.45% 110
North of England -50 136 £500 +5.26% 54
Midlands +1 90 £463 +5.71% 19
North West -28 70 £563 +18.42% 27
West Midlands -10 66 £482 +10.23% 13
Scotland -14 51 £469 -6.25% 3
South East -55 48 £600 +35.59% 30
South West -32 46 £542 +5.97% 27
Yorkshire -44 43 £500 +5.26% 16
East Midlands -5 24 £425 +2.35% 6
East of England -13 23 £525 - 9
North East -20 23 £463 +4.52% 11
Northern Ireland +2 4 £283 -43.50% 5
Wales -14 4 £481 -16.34% 4

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 57 (5.40%) Confluence
2 49 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 32 (3.03%) Apache
5 20 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
6 8 (0.76%) SAS
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.095%) Drupal
12 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 823 (77.94%) AWS
2 660 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
3 438 (41.48%) Amazon S3
4 362 (34.28%) Azure
5 217 (20.55%) GitHub
6 214 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 183 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
8 176 (16.67%) Azure Functions
9 167 (15.81%) Amazon EC2
10 160 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 135 (12.78%) Amazon SQS
14 115 (10.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 115 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
14 115 (10.89%) Power Platform
15 108 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
17 78 (7.39%) GCP
18 75 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.60%) Firewall
2 27 (2.56%) DNS
3 26 (2.46%) Network Security
4 18 (1.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.81%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.77%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.08%) Amazon Athena
4 105 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (8.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 84 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (7.95%) Power BI
7 67 (6.34%) NoSQL
8 52 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (4.92%) Data Lake
9 46 (4.36%) MySQL
10 45 (4.26%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.41%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (2.94%) Metadata
14 29 (2.75%) Relational Database
15 24 (2.27%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.08%) Tableau
17 21 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 191 (18.09%) Git
2 145 (13.73%) GitLab
3 141 (13.35%) Jenkins
4 79 (7.48%) JIRA
5 32 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.65%) Claude Code
7 22 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.42%) Selenium
10 14 (1.33%) Postman
11 13 (1.23%) JUnit
12 10 (0.95%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 232 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 150 (14.20%) Finance
4 70 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.60%) Banking
6 30 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.14%) Billing
8 12 (1.14%) Law
8 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Marketing
10 10 (0.95%) Retail
11 9 (0.85%) Back Office
12 7 (0.66%) Front Office
12 7 (0.66%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.47%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (22.92%) Developer
2 207 (19.60%) Architect
3 191 (18.09%) Senior
4 174 (16.48%) AWS Engineer
5 118 (11.17%) Data Engineer
6 114 (10.80%) Lead
7 79 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.16%) AWS Architect
10 55 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.36%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.26%) Python Developer
15 44 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (4.17%) Technical Architect
16 40 (3.79%) AWS Data Engineer
16 40 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
16 40 (3.79%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (40.15%) Terraform
2 157 (14.87%) REST
3 132 (12.50%) React
4 121 (11.46%) Node.js
5 115 (10.89%) .NET
6 108 (10.23%) RESTful
7 104 (9.85%) Kafka
8 77 (7.29%) AWS CDK
9 76 (7.20%) PySpark
10 61 (5.78%) Spring
10 61 (5.78%) Spring Boot
11 58 (5.49%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.83%) FastAPI
13 49 (4.64%) OAuth
14 39 (3.69%) AngularJS
15 38 (3.60%) CSS
15 38 (3.60%) Flask
15 38 (3.60%) JSON
16 35 (3.31%) HTML
16 35 (3.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 329 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (5.49%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.75%) NHS
6 28 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.61%) IVR
10 13 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.87%) Linux
2 23 (2.18%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 4 (0.38%) VMS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.095%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (60.89%) CI/CD
2 457 (43.28%) DevOps
3 408 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (37.41%) Agile
5 255 (24.15%) Microservices
6 243 (23.01%) AI
7 225 (21.31%) Event-Driven
8 218 (20.64%) Containerisation
9 180 (17.05%) Observability
10 175 (16.57%) Test Automation
11 164 (15.53%) Analytics
12 159 (15.06%) Software Engineering
13 156 (14.77%) Data Modelling
14 145 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
15 139 (13.16%) Migration
15 139 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
16 136 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (12.78%) ETL
18 129 (12.22%) Data Engineering
18 129 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (44.03%) Python
2 306 (28.98%) SQL
3 175 (16.57%) TypeScript
4 153 (14.49%) JavaScript
5 129 (12.22%) Java
6 128 (12.12%) C#
7 76 (7.20%) Bash
8 43 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 42 (3.98%) Bicep
10 33 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 14 (1.33%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) R
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 280 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 233 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 55 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.64%) Degree
6 39 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.49%) QA
3 38 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.22%) GDPR
5 27 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.99%) WCAG
7 16 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 8 (0.76%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 277 (26.23%) Docker
2 38 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Squid
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 241 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 92 (8.71%) Grafana
3 71 (6.72%) Prometheus
4 53 (5.02%) Ansible
5 16 (1.52%) Puppet
6 14 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.47%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Consul
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 171 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.68%) Databricks
3 45 (4.26%) Oracle
4 34 (3.22%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.03%) Informatica
6 28 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.37%) Google
8 24 (2.27%) Splunk
9 23 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.14%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Tenable
13 8 (0.76%) Brio
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday