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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,003 732 815
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.31% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.11% 6.30% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 520 619
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £626
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,116 11,615 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.59% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,715 7,724 10,493
10th Percentile £305 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 176 271
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £66.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +10.06%

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 January 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
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 January 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 +8 805 £500 -9.09% 614
London +15 478 £513 -8.48% 115
UK excluding London -4 372 £500 - 567
Work from Home -8 288 £525 +2.44% 370
North of England +29 163 £480 -2.04% 135
Yorkshire +14 84 £500 - 58
North West +8 69 £450 -0.61% 61
Midlands -9 64 £513 +14.77% 61
Scotland -11 61 £450 -8.77% 25
West Midlands -3 51 £525 +5.00% 24
South East -53 47 £475 -24.00% 158
South West -13 27 £650 - 71
East of England +2 23 £550 -3.51% 83
East Midlands -16 13 £434 -2.96% 34
North East -9 11 £525 -12.13% 16
Wales -5 4 £488 -2.50% 33
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 14

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 41 (4.09%) Apache
2 34 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.89%) Confluence
5 24 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.40%) nginx
7 11 (1.10%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.00%) Mendix
9 5 (0.50%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.100%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.100%) FileNet
11 1 (0.100%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.100%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.100%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 721 (71.88%) AWS
2 580 (57.83%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (36.59%) Azure
4 355 (35.39%) Amazon S3
5 234 (23.33%) GitHub
6 219 (21.83%) Azure Functions
7 201 (20.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (19.54%) Amazon ECS
9 189 (18.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 171 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
10 171 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
11 165 (16.45%) Azure DevOps
12 138 (13.76%) Amazon EKS
13 105 (10.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 99 (9.87%) GCP
15 93 (9.27%) Power Platform
16 83 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (8.18%) AWS Step Functions
18 81 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 79 (7.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.79%) Firewall
2 27 (2.69%) DNS
3 21 (2.09%) VPN
4 13 (1.30%) Network Security
5 10 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.90%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.60%) SMS
9 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) LAN
10 3 (0.30%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.100%) BGP
12 1 (0.100%) DKIM
12 1 (0.100%) Internet
12 1 (0.100%) IPsec
12 1 (0.100%) MQTT
12 1 (0.100%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.100%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.15%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (12.66%) DynamoDB
4 99 (9.87%) NoSQL
5 68 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 64 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
7 61 (6.08%) Power BI
7 61 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 58 (5.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 54 (5.38%) Data Lake
10 48 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 44 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (3.69%) MongoDB
13 35 (3.49%) Redis
14 33 (3.29%) MySQL
15 28 (2.79%) Big Data
16 25 (2.49%) SQL Server
17 24 (2.39%) Tableau
18 18 (1.79%) DocumentDB
18 18 (1.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 175 (17.45%) Git
2 166 (16.55%) Jenkins
3 153 (15.25%) GitLab
4 66 (6.58%) JIRA
5 32 (3.19%) Liquibase
6 19 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 19 (1.89%) JUnit
7 18 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.60%) MLflow
8 16 (1.60%) Mockito
9 14 (1.40%) Postman
10 13 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (1.10%) Maven
12 11 (1.10%) Selenium
13 8 (0.80%) Gradle
14 7 (0.70%) Storybook
15 5 (0.50%) SonarLint
General
1 237 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 191 (19.04%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.86%) Finance
4 74 (7.38%) Banking
5 58 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.19%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.89%) Marketing
8 16 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.10%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.80%) Front Office
12 8 (0.80%) Military
13 7 (0.70%) Retail
14 6 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.40%) Aviation
16 3 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Billing
17 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 279 (27.82%) Developer
2 148 (14.76%) Senior
3 142 (14.16%) AWS Engineer
4 135 (13.46%) Architect
5 105 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 94 (9.37%) Data Engineer
7 82 (8.18%) Software Engineer
8 73 (7.28%) Lead
9 52 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 41 (4.09%) Python Engineer
13 40 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.89%) AWS Architect
14 39 (3.89%) AWS Developer
15 38 (3.79%) Java Developer
15 38 (3.79%) Senior Developer
16 36 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (3.59%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.65%) Node.js
2 163 (16.25%) REST
3 151 (15.05%) RESTful
4 148 (14.76%) React
5 139 (13.86%) .NET
6 121 (12.06%) Kafka
7 65 (6.48%) OAuth
8 64 (6.38%) Spring Boot
9 60 (5.98%) Spring
10 58 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
11 57 (5.68%) AWS CDK
12 48 (4.79%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.79%) FastAPI
13 47 (4.69%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.99%) JSON
15 39 (3.89%) OAuth2
16 37 (3.69%) GraphQL
16 37 (3.69%) HTML
16 37 (3.69%) Next.js
16 37 (3.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 260 (25.92%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.19%) NHS
8 20 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.40%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.20%) Replication
15 11 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.80%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.80%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.67%) Linux
2 12 (1.20%) Unix
3 7 (0.70%) Windows
4 5 (0.50%) VMS
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.100%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (60.32%) CI/CD
2 517 (51.55%) DevOps
3 390 (38.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 354 (35.29%) Agile
5 304 (30.31%) Microservices
6 263 (26.22%) Containerisation
7 180 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (16.95%) Software Engineering
9 169 (16.85%) AI
10 146 (14.56%) Event-Driven
11 143 (14.26%) Data Pipeline
12 142 (14.16%) Analytics
13 122 (12.16%) Observability
13 122 (12.16%) Test Automation
14 116 (11.57%) Data Modelling
15 107 (10.67%) ETL
15 107 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 95 (9.47%) Machine Learning
17 94 (9.37%) Mentoring
18 93 (9.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 508 (50.65%) Python
2 265 (26.42%) SQL
3 163 (16.25%) Java
4 154 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 151 (15.05%) TypeScript
6 143 (14.26%) C#
7 67 (6.68%) Bash
8 61 (6.08%) Go
9 46 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.09%) Bicep
11 27 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.49%) Ruby
13 11 (1.10%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.10%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.10%) Perl
14 10 (1.00%) C++
15 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.70%) Korn
16 7 (0.70%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 243 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 197 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 64 (6.38%) Degree
5 55 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.99%) DV Cleared
7 37 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (3.29%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 22 (2.19%) MCP
12 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.30%) PhD
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
18 1 (0.100%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.98%) QA
2 42 (4.19%) GDPR
3 41 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.89%) NIST
6 17 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.30%) WCAG
9 12 (1.20%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.90%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.50%) HL7
12 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.30%) PMO
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.20%) GxP
14 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.20%) NCSC
14 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 289 (28.81%) Docker
2 34 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.100%) RACF
Systems Management
1 433 (43.17%) Terraform
2 293 (29.21%) Kubernetes
3 113 (11.27%) Grafana
4 103 (10.27%) Ansible
5 99 (9.87%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.40%) Puppet
8 9 (0.90%) Kibana
8 9 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.40%) Rancher
10 3 (0.30%) Argo
10 3 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.30%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.30%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Control-M
11 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Knative
11 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 185 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.48%) Databricks
3 44 (4.39%) Google
4 43 (4.29%) Splunk
5 35 (3.49%) Oracle
6 30 (2.99%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.99%) Foundry
9 15 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.40%) Confluent
11 12 (1.20%) IBM
12 11 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 11 (1.10%) Lotus
13 10 (1.00%) Cisco
13 10 (1.00%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.00%) Kofax
14 9 (0.90%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.90%) Palantir
14 9 (0.90%) Pega
15 7 (0.70%) Genesys