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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 110 129
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,069 738 809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.41% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.95% 6.43% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 542 613
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -10.41%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,384 11,479 14,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 37.42% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 7,701 10,517
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
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 £631 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 331
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.93 £45.00 £52.29
90th Percentile £78.83 £76.85 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £20.25
% change year-on-year +65.43% +19.41% -1.89%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +2 847 £506 -12.00% 318
London +2 505 £513 -10.87% 146
UK excluding London -14 390 £500 -4.76% 221
Work from Home -18 305 £525 -1.87% 182
North of England +18 164 £500 -6.89% 88
Yorkshire +13 81 £500 - 42
North West -6 71 £450 -17.20% 43
Scotland -2 68 £428 -13.98% 10
Midlands -16 68 £506 +12.44% 23
West Midlands -10 55 £525 +9.15% 17
South East -52 51 £500 -13.04% 53
East of England -5 28 £550 -13.73% 7
South West -31 27 £650 - 37
North East -6 13 £500 -16.32% 3
East Midlands -22 13 £435 -4.29% 6
Wales -8 5 £481 -3.75% 2
Northern Ireland -1 3 - - 3

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 47 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.93%) Apache
3 39 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.62%) Confluence
5 26 (2.43%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.22%) nginx
7 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.84%) Mendix
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.094%) FileNet
11 1 (0.094%) JBoss
11 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.094%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 782 (73.15%) AWS
2 625 (58.47%) AWS Lambda
3 398 (37.23%) Amazon S3
4 384 (35.92%) Azure
5 234 (21.89%) GitHub
6 231 (21.61%) Azure Functions
7 217 (20.30%) Amazon ECS
8 212 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 198 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 197 (18.43%) Amazon EC2
11 172 (16.09%) Amazon EKS
11 172 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
12 169 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
13 109 (10.20%) Power Platform
14 108 (10.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 104 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 96 (8.98%) GCP
17 88 (8.23%) AWS Step Functions
18 85 (7.95%) Azure Service Bus
19 78 (7.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.37%) Firewall
2 32 (2.99%) DNS
3 28 (2.62%) VPN
4 14 (1.31%) Network Security
5 12 (1.12%) SSL
6 11 (1.03%) HTTP
7 10 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.84%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.65%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.56%) SMS
12 5 (0.47%) IPsec
13 3 (0.28%) LAN
13 3 (0.28%) WAN
14 2 (0.19%) MPLS
15 1 (0.094%) 4G
15 1 (0.094%) AMQP
15 1 (0.094%) BGP
15 1 (0.094%) Internet
15 1 (0.094%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.43%) Amazon RDS
2 135 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (11.69%) DynamoDB
4 92 (8.61%) NoSQL
5 76 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (6.45%) Power BI
7 66 (6.17%) Data Lake
8 65 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
9 56 (5.24%) Relational Database
10 52 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (3.18%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.90%) Redis
15 29 (2.71%) MySQL
16 28 (2.62%) Big Data
16 28 (2.62%) SQL Server
16 28 (2.62%) Tableau
17 22 (2.06%) Metadata
18 21 (1.96%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 172 (16.09%) Git
2 169 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 164 (15.34%) GitLab
4 56 (5.24%) JIRA
5 28 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 28 (2.62%) Liquibase
6 19 (1.78%) MLflow
7 18 (1.68%) JUnit
8 16 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.50%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.40%) Mockito
10 14 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (1.22%) Postman
11 13 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.94%) Maven
12 10 (0.94%) Selenium
13 8 (0.75%) Mocha
14 6 (0.56%) Gradle
14 6 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 252 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 206 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 145 (13.56%) Finance
4 74 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.92%) Banking
5 30 (2.81%) Financial Institution
6 24 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.68%) Marketing
8 11 (1.03%) Health Technology
8 11 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.84%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.84%) Military
10 8 (0.75%) Front Office
10 8 (0.75%) Legal
11 4 (0.37%) Aviation
11 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.37%) Law
11 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.37%) Retail
12 3 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 280 (26.19%) Developer
2 162 (15.15%) Senior
3 151 (14.13%) Architect
4 150 (14.03%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (10.76%) Data Engineer
6 103 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 83 (7.76%) Lead
7 83 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 63 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (4.58%) AWS Architect
9 49 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
10 48 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 48 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 43 (4.02%) Python Engineer
13 40 (3.74%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.65%) AWS Developer
14 39 (3.65%) Java Developer
15 34 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (16.09%) Node.js
2 155 (14.50%) REST
3 138 (12.91%) React
4 136 (12.72%) .NET
5 132 (12.35%) RESTful
6 125 (11.69%) Kafka
7 75 (7.02%) OAuth
8 72 (6.74%) Spring
9 71 (6.64%) Spring Boot
10 60 (5.61%) AWS CDK
11 57 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
12 51 (4.77%) AngularJS
12 51 (4.77%) FastAPI
13 47 (4.40%) .NET Core
14 46 (4.30%) PySpark
15 43 (4.02%) GraphQL
16 41 (3.84%) OAuth2
17 40 (3.74%) JSON
18 38 (3.55%) JWT
19 37 (3.46%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 263 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 24 (2.25%) NHS
7 22 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.68%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.94%) Replication
15 9 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.75%) Mobile App
17 7 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 114 (10.66%) Linux
2 15 (1.40%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 5 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (59.78%) CI/CD
2 545 (50.98%) DevOps
3 416 (38.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 353 (33.02%) Agile
5 298 (27.88%) Microservices
6 268 (25.07%) Containerisation
7 191 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.56%) AI
9 173 (16.18%) Software Engineering
10 168 (15.72%) Data Pipeline
11 158 (14.78%) Analytics
12 140 (13.10%) Data Modelling
13 138 (12.91%) Event-Driven
13 138 (12.91%) Observability
14 129 (12.07%) ETL
15 125 (11.69%) Test Automation
16 112 (10.48%) Data Engineering
17 110 (10.29%) Machine Learning
18 108 (10.10%) Migration
19 103 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 543 (50.80%) Python
2 296 (27.69%) SQL
3 163 (15.25%) Java
4 155 (14.50%) C#
5 153 (14.31%) JavaScript
6 147 (13.75%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.17%) Bash
8 58 (5.43%) Go
9 54 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 42 (3.93%) Bicep
11 33 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.34%) Ruby
13 11 (1.03%) Perl
13 11 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.84%) C++
16 8 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.75%) Scala
17 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 264 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 212 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.52%) Degree
5 49 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 37 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (3.27%) Master's Degree
9 33 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.81%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.96%) QA
3 38 (3.55%) GDPR
4 34 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.87%) NIST
6 18 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.03%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.03%) WCAG
9 9 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 295 (27.60%) Docker
2 28 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.65%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 458 (42.84%) Terraform
2 299 (27.97%) Kubernetes
3 119 (11.13%) Grafana
4 113 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 97 (9.07%) Ansible
6 21 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.12%) Puppet
9 8 (0.75%) Kibana
10 7 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.56%) Consul
12 3 (0.28%) Argo
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.28%) Packer
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) Control-M
13 2 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 185 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.58%) Databricks
3 46 (4.30%) Google
4 42 (3.93%) OpenAI
5 40 (3.74%) Splunk
6 31 (2.90%) Oracle
7 26 (2.43%) Foundry
8 14 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.22%) Confluent
9 13 (1.22%) IBM
10 10 (0.94%) Cisco
10 10 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 10 (0.94%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Palantir
11 9 (0.84%) Greenplum
11 9 (0.84%) Kofax
12 8 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.75%) Red Hat