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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 100 129
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,066 760 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.29% 2.57% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.32% 6.81% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 581 603
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £619
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,863 11,160 14,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.78% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,770 10,006
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £702 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 251 348
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -26.19%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -7 873 £514 -6.59% 234
London -11 525 £514 -7.85% 102
UK excluding London -4 373 £500 - 159
Work from Home -36 285 £503 -4.29% 142
North of England -4 157 £500 - 60
North West -11 84 £500 +2.56% 41
Midlands -20 58 £500 +11.86% 16
Yorkshire -6 57 £500 - 15
South East -41 55 £525 +5.00% 42
Scotland -3 49 £401 -23.62% 7
West Midlands -24 45 £500 +3.95% 7
South West -19 35 £578 -5.57% 17
East of England -15 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -7 17 £475 - 4
East Midlands -29 13 £499 +12.39% 9
Wales -12 5 £475 -5.09% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 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 60 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.75%) Apache
4 32 (3.00%) Confluence
5 28 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.59%) nginx
7 11 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.94%) Mendix
9 7 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) CMS
13 1 (0.094%) FileNet
13 1 (0.094%) JBoss
13 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 788 (73.92%) AWS
2 622 (58.35%) AWS Lambda
3 414 (38.84%) Amazon S3
4 406 (38.09%) Azure
5 244 (22.89%) GitHub
6 224 (21.01%) Azure Functions
7 213 (19.98%) Amazon ECS
8 193 (18.11%) Amazon EC2
9 184 (17.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 182 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 175 (16.42%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
13 166 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (11.35%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.98%) AWS Step Functions
16 115 (10.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 103 (9.66%) Azure Logic Apps
18 92 (8.63%) Amazon SQS
19 91 (8.54%) Azure Service Bus
20 66 (6.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.75%) Firewall
2 38 (3.56%) DNS
3 22 (2.06%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.22%) Network Security
5 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.03%) HTTP
7 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.84%) SSL
8 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.66%) SMS
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
11 4 (0.38%) WAN
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.094%) 4G
14 1 (0.094%) BGP
14 1 (0.094%) CTI
14 1 (0.094%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.98%) DynamoDB
2 132 (12.38%) Amazon RDS
3 111 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 79 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 79 (7.41%) Power BI
7 61 (5.72%) Data Lake
8 54 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 39 (3.66%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.38%) MongoDB
13 34 (3.19%) Tableau
14 32 (3.00%) Big Data
14 32 (3.00%) Metadata
15 29 (2.72%) Redis
16 28 (2.63%) MySQL
17 26 (2.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 177 (16.60%) Git
2 152 (14.26%) GitLab
3 135 (12.66%) Jenkins
4 56 (5.25%) JIRA
5 29 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 17 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.22%) MLflow
10 12 (1.13%) Mockito
11 10 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.84%) Maven
12 9 (0.84%) Selenium
13 8 (0.75%) Liquibase
13 8 (0.75%) NUnit
13 8 (0.75%) Postman
14 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.66%) Mocha
15 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 230 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 207 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.70%) Finance
4 73 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.13%) Banking
6 32 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.13%) Marketing
9 11 (1.03%) Legal
10 10 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 9 (0.84%) Military
12 8 (0.75%) Retail
13 6 (0.56%) Billing
13 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Front Office
14 5 (0.47%) Law
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (25.98%) Developer
2 184 (17.26%) Architect
3 148 (13.88%) Senior
4 143 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
5 109 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.72%) Lead
7 88 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.25%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
13 49 (4.60%) AWS Developer
14 48 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 44 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.85%) Technical Architect
18 40 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
18 40 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
19 39 (3.66%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (16.23%) Node.js
2 146 (13.70%) React
3 133 (12.48%) REST
4 123 (11.54%) .NET
4 123 (11.54%) Kafka
5 108 (10.13%) RESTful
6 89 (8.35%) OAuth
7 88 (8.26%) Spring
8 87 (8.16%) Spring Boot
9 67 (6.29%) PySpark
10 58 (5.44%) AngularJS
11 51 (4.78%) OAuth2
12 50 (4.69%) AWS CDK
13 49 (4.60%) JSON
14 46 (4.32%) .NET Core
15 42 (3.94%) OpenID
16 41 (3.85%) GraphQL
17 39 (3.66%) FastAPI
18 38 (3.56%) JWT
19 36 (3.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.72%) NHS
5 26 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.84%) Replication
15 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.75%) DataPower
16 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.50%) Linux
2 21 (1.97%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (60.88%) CI/CD
2 533 (50.00%) DevOps
3 405 (37.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 347 (32.55%) Agile
5 282 (26.45%) Microservices
6 255 (23.92%) Containerisation
7 176 (16.51%) AI
8 168 (15.76%) Analytics
9 166 (15.57%) Event-Driven
10 165 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
11 158 (14.82%) Observability
12 151 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
13 147 (13.79%) Data Modelling
14 142 (13.32%) Software Engineering
15 138 (12.95%) Test Automation
16 135 (12.66%) ETL
17 116 (10.88%) Data Engineering
18 111 (10.41%) Migration
19 109 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
20 105 (9.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 497 (46.62%) Python
2 302 (28.33%) SQL
3 170 (15.95%) Java
4 163 (15.29%) C#
5 160 (15.01%) JavaScript
6 157 (14.73%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.29%) Bash
8 50 (4.69%) Bicep
8 50 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.47%) Shell Script
10 26 (2.44%) Go
11 25 (2.35%) Ruby
12 18 (1.69%) Scala
13 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.75%) Groovy
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.56%) Perl
16 6 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 295 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 236 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.66%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.72%) Degree
6 29 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.38%) PhD
13 4 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.97%) QA
3 32 (3.00%) GDPR
4 31 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.72%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.50%) NIST
8 11 (1.03%) WCAG
9 10 (0.94%) PMO
10 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.47%) NCSC
13 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.38%) HL7
13 4 (0.38%) SLA
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.094%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 293 (27.49%) Docker
2 34 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.94%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 448 (42.03%) Terraform
2 263 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.29%) Grafana
4 91 (8.54%) Prometheus
5 64 (6.00%) Ansible
6 29 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 7 (0.66%) Kibana
12 6 (0.56%) Istio
12 6 (0.56%) linkerd
13 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.47%) Rancher
14 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.38%) Packer
14 4 (0.38%) Podman
14 4 (0.38%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 175 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.35%) Databricks
3 46 (4.32%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.22%) Oracle
5 32 (3.00%) Splunk
6 17 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 17 (1.59%) Google
7 15 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.31%) Foundry
9 11 (1.03%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Brio
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) Informatica
12 8 (0.75%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Palantir