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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 97 124
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,034 753 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.58% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 6.87% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 574 588
10th Percentile £375 £400 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £625
90th Percentile £725 £767 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% -2.86%
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 17,053 10,966 13,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.55% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,507 7,533 9,862
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 249 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.81 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -31.49%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -9 832 £525 -4.11% 302
London -12 502 £525 -4.55% 138
UK excluding London -30 356 £500 -0.10% 191
Work from Home -40 285 £523 -0.48% 159
North of England -16 149 £500 - 74
North West -11 87 £500 - 43
Midlands -31 60 £495 -2.17% 21
South East -41 51 £575 +15.00% 46
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 - 23
West Midlands -27 48 £488 -4.83% 14
Scotland -25 45 £450 -14.29% 7
South West -16 30 £591 +7.43% 29
East of England -12 23 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -17 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 7
Wales -8 6 £475 -17.43% 5
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 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 51 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.35%) Confluence
3 38 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.90%) Apache
5 27 (2.61%) 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
12 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) CMS
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
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.45%) 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
1 776 (75.05%) AWS
2 607 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
3 409 (39.56%) Amazon S3
4 380 (36.75%) Azure
5 231 (22.34%) GitHub
6 207 (20.02%) Azure Functions
7 189 (18.28%) Amazon EC2
7 189 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
8 171 (16.54%) Amazon EKS
9 170 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
10 164 (15.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 157 (15.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 140 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
13 118 (11.41%) Power Platform
14 116 (11.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 113 (10.93%) Amazon SQS
16 98 (9.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 95 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 88 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (6.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.29%) DNS
2 27 (2.61%) Firewall
3 18 (1.74%) VPN
4 14 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.16%) HTTP
7 9 (0.87%) Network Security
7 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.68%) SMS
8 7 (0.68%) SSL
9 6 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) WAN
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.097%) BGP
13 1 (0.097%) Internet
13 1 (0.097%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.12%) DynamoDB
2 130 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.41%) Amazon Athena
5 78 (7.54%) NoSQL
6 76 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (7.35%) Power BI
7 60 (5.80%) Data Lake
8 49 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (4.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 46 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 46 (4.45%) SQL Server
10 45 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.09%) Metadata
11 32 (3.09%) MongoDB
12 31 (3.00%) MySQL
13 29 (2.80%) Big Data
13 29 (2.80%) Tableau
14 27 (2.61%) Delta Lake
15 26 (2.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (15.28%) Git
2 141 (13.64%) GitLab
3 117 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.71%) JIRA
5 26 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.16%) MLflow
9 10 (0.97%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.97%) JUnit
10 8 (0.77%) NUnit
11 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
11 7 (0.68%) Maven
11 7 (0.68%) Mocha
11 7 (0.68%) MSTest
11 7 (0.68%) Vite
12 6 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 221 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 134 (12.96%) Finance
4 63 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.90%) Banking
6 28 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.45%) 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 7 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.58%) Law
12 6 (0.58%) Police
13 5 (0.48%) Billing
13 5 (0.48%) Front Office
13 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (25.92%) Developer
2 181 (17.50%) Architect
3 153 (14.80%) Senior
4 140 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
5 107 (10.35%) Data Engineer
6 95 (9.19%) Lead
7 69 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.22%) AWS Architect
10 52 (5.03%) AWS Developer
11 51 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 43 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
15 42 (4.06%) Python Engineer
16 41 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
17 39 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 39 (3.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.54%) React
2 139 (13.44%) Node.js
3 134 (12.96%) REST
4 130 (12.57%) .NET
5 125 (12.09%) Kafka
6 92 (8.90%) RESTful
7 81 (7.83%) Spring
8 80 (7.74%) Spring Boot
9 76 (7.35%) OAuth
10 69 (6.67%) PySpark
11 61 (5.90%) AWS CDK
12 57 (5.51%) AngularJS
13 49 (4.74%) JSON
14 47 (4.55%) OAuth2
15 44 (4.26%) .NET Core
15 44 (4.26%) FastAPI
16 43 (4.16%) GraphQL
17 41 (3.97%) OpenID
18 38 (3.68%) Next.js
19 32 (3.09%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 280 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.32%) NHS
7 16 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.68%) IoT
16 7 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.38%) Linux
2 23 (2.22%) Unix
3 9 (0.87%) 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
1 622 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 485 (46.91%) DevOps
3 385 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (32.30%) Agile
5 254 (24.56%) Microservices
6 237 (22.92%) Containerisation
7 184 (17.79%) AI
8 182 (17.60%) Event-Driven
9 166 (16.05%) Observability
10 148 (14.31%) Data Modelling
11 146 (14.12%) Analytics
12 143 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
13 137 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
14 135 (13.06%) Software Engineering
15 131 (12.67%) ETL
16 125 (12.09%) Test Automation
17 109 (10.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 109 (10.54%) Migration
18 108 (10.44%) Data Engineering
19 107 (10.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 450 (43.52%) Python
2 287 (27.76%) SQL
3 170 (16.44%) C#
4 162 (15.67%) TypeScript
5 150 (14.51%) JavaScript
6 148 (14.31%) Java
7 57 (5.51%) Bash
8 44 (4.26%) Bicep
9 41 (3.97%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.22%) Go
12 19 (1.84%) 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%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) Groovy
18 5 (0.48%) C++
19 4 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 266 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 209 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.42%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.51%) Degree
9 16 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.26%) QA
3 26 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.22%) GDPR
5 19 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.45%) NIST
7 11 (1.06%) WCAG
8 7 (0.68%) PMO
9 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.58%) NCSC
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.39%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) HL7
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.097%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 264 (25.53%) Docker
2 28 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.97%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
6 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 412 (39.85%) Terraform
2 237 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 100 (9.67%) Grafana
4 84 (8.12%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.64%) Ansible
6 29 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.26%) Puppet
8 10 (0.97%) 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%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.39%) Podman
12 4 (0.39%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 158 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.45%) Databricks
3 47 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.35%) Oracle
5 26 (2.51%) Splunk
6 20 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.35%) Google
8 13 (1.26%) Foundry
9 12 (1.16%) Informatica
10 11 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.97%) Brio
11 10 (0.97%) Confluent
11 10 (0.97%) Kofax
11 10 (0.97%) Lotus
11 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.87%) SAP
13 8 (0.77%) Tenable
14 6 (0.58%) Palantir