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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 109 137
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,047 808 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.45% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.59% 6.60% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 594 511
10th Percentile £400 £390 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £539
% change year-on-year +1.83% -8.86% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,735 12,238 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.11% 37.16% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,373 8,183 9,139
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 318 262
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.41 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -29 851 £525 - 440
London -22 493 £550 - 271
UK excluding London -35 391 £500 +1.83% 220
Work from Home -25 334 £525 +2.19% 203
North of England -33 138 £500 +5.26% 66
Midlands -7 82 £479 +16.12% 25
North West -29 71 £563 +18.42% 32
West Midlands +1 66 £477 +12.24% 15
Scotland -8 51 £469 -6.25% 20
South West -21 48 £538 +5.13% 36
South East -52 47 £600 +39.53% 49
Yorkshire -36 45 £500 +3.90% 22
East of England -18 24 £525 - 11
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 12
East Midlands -12 16 £481 +26.58% 10
Northern Ireland +8 4 £283 -43.50% 6
Wales -11 3 £550 -4.39% 10

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 53 (5.06%) Confluence
2 46 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.15%) Apache
5 20 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.096%) Mendix
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 822 (78.51%) AWS
2 657 (62.75%) AWS Lambda
3 442 (42.22%) Amazon S3
4 345 (32.95%) Azure
5 211 (20.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 207 (19.77%) GitHub
7 190 (18.15%) Amazon ECS
8 173 (16.52%) Amazon EC2
9 171 (16.33%) Azure Functions
10 169 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
11 157 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 149 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
13 128 (12.23%) Amazon SQS
14 115 (10.98%) AWS Step Functions
15 111 (10.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 109 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
17 107 (10.22%) Power Platform
18 83 (7.93%) Amazon EventBridge
19 76 (7.26%) GCP
20 75 (7.16%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.44%) Firewall
2 26 (2.48%) DNS
3 25 (2.39%) Network Security
4 17 (1.62%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) HTTP
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.096%) IPsec
10 1 (0.096%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.47%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.90%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 79 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
6 79 (7.55%) Power BI
7 71 (6.78%) NoSQL
8 56 (5.35%) Data Lake
9 51 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (4.20%) SQL Server
11 40 (3.82%) MySQL
12 35 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (3.06%) Metadata
13 32 (3.06%) MongoDB
13 32 (3.06%) Relational Database
14 22 (2.10%) Tableau
15 21 (2.01%) Delta Lake
16 17 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
16 17 (1.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 181 (17.29%) Git
2 140 (13.37%) Jenkins
3 138 (13.18%) GitLab
4 75 (7.16%) JIRA
5 31 (2.96%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 27 (2.58%) Claude Code
8 21 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.34%) JUnit
11 13 (1.24%) Postman
12 12 (1.15%) Selenium
13 10 (0.96%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.67%) Gatling
15 7 (0.67%) MSTest
15 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.67%) Vite
16 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 228 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 177 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.94%) Finance
4 68 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.44%) Banking
6 27 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.15%) Law
8 12 (1.15%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.96%) Billing
10 10 (0.96%) Marketing
11 9 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.67%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.57%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (23.59%) Developer
2 197 (18.82%) Senior
3 194 (18.53%) Architect
4 177 (16.91%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (11.08%) Data Engineer
6 110 (10.51%) Lead
7 74 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.30%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.11%) AWS Architect
10 55 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (4.58%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.49%) Python Developer
14 44 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 43 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
16 42 (4.01%) Technical Architect
17 41 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
18 40 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
18 40 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.23%) REST
2 132 (12.61%) React
3 123 (11.75%) Node.js
4 112 (10.70%) .NET
5 109 (10.41%) RESTful
6 106 (10.12%) Kafka
7 78 (7.45%) AWS CDK
8 69 (6.59%) PySpark
9 63 (6.02%) Spring
9 63 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 61 (5.83%) GraphQL
11 48 (4.58%) OAuth
12 47 (4.49%) FastAPI
13 41 (3.92%) AngularJS
14 39 (3.72%) JSON
15 36 (3.44%) CSS
15 36 (3.44%) Flask
16 35 (3.34%) HTML
17 34 (3.25%) OpenID
18 31 (2.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 321 (30.66%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 72 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (5.73%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.67%) NHS
6 27 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.43%) IVR
12 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.05%) IoT
14 11 (1.05%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.96%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
16 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.92%) Linux
2 21 (2.01%) Unix
3 15 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.34%) Windows
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (60.08%) CI/CD
2 446 (42.60%) DevOps
3 397 (37.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (37.73%) Agile
5 259 (24.74%) Microservices
6 239 (22.83%) AI
7 226 (21.59%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.73%) Containerisation
9 179 (17.10%) Observability
10 165 (15.76%) Test Automation
11 159 (15.19%) Analytics
12 158 (15.09%) Data Modelling
13 154 (14.71%) Software Engineering
14 144 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
15 135 (12.89%) ETL
16 134 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 132 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (12.23%) Migration
19 127 (12.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 124 (11.84%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 455 (43.46%) Python
2 301 (28.75%) SQL
3 177 (16.91%) TypeScript
4 149 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 135 (12.89%) Java
6 127 (12.13%) C#
7 74 (7.07%) Bash
8 40 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 39 (3.72%) Bicep
10 32 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.53%) Scala
12 14 (1.34%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.67%) Ruby
14 7 (0.67%) SPARQL
14 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 283 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 232 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 51 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (4.49%) Degree
6 40 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.07%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.16%) QA
3 39 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.25%) GDPR
5 26 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.10%) WCAG
7 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.24%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) PMO
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 269 (25.69%) Docker
2 34 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Squid
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 413 (39.45%) Terraform
2 243 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.69%) Grafana
4 73 (6.97%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.49%) Ansible
6 16 (1.53%) Puppet
7 13 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.05%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.67%) Kibana
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 158 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.06%) Databricks
3 37 (3.53%) Oracle
4 31 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.58%) Dynatrace
5 27 (2.58%) Informatica
6 26 (2.48%) Splunk
7 24 (2.29%) Google
7 24 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.15%) SAP
10 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.86%) Brio
11 9 (0.86%) Tenable
12 7 (0.67%) Confluent
12 7 (0.67%) New Relic
13 5 (0.48%) Denodo
13 5 (0.48%) Foundry
13 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.48%) Workday