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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 109 131
Rank change year-on-year -38 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,069 834 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.53% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 6.68% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 603 500
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.54% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £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 19,034 12,488 13,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.84% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,629 8,337 8,771
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 299 187
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.33 £64.61
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -30 871 £525 +2.44% 892
London -18 515 £550 - 521
UK excluding London -55 401 £500 - 491
Work from Home -29 345 £533 +4.56% 440
North of England -44 134 £500 +5.15% 148
Midlands -18 87 £428 -14.07% 50
West Midlands -13 68 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -38 67 £563 +17.19% 99
Scotland -25 57 £450 -10.45% 52
South East -61 52 £600 +41.18% 88
Yorkshire -44 47 £500 +5.04% 37
South West -23 45 £500 -9.09% 73
North East -33 20 £463 -0.11% 12
East of England -43 20 £515 +1.98% 27
East Midlands -8 19 £419 -5.42% 24
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 38
Wales -11 4 £481 -16.34% 18

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 54 (5.05%) Confluence
2 52 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 40 (3.74%) Apache
5 35 (3.27%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.84%) SAS
8 8 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.65%) nginx
10 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.56%) WebLogic Portal
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.37%) CICS
12 4 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 831 (77.74%) AWS
2 673 (62.96%) AWS Lambda
3 442 (41.35%) Amazon S3
4 378 (35.36%) Azure
5 237 (22.17%) GitHub
6 229 (21.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 199 (18.62%) Azure Functions
8 192 (17.96%) Amazon ECS
9 166 (15.53%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 160 (14.97%) Amazon EC2
11 160 (14.97%) Amazon SQS
12 157 (14.69%) GitHub Actions
13 132 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
14 128 (11.97%) Power Platform
15 115 (10.76%) AWS Step Functions
16 107 (10.01%) Amazon EventBridge
17 104 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 81 (7.58%) Azure Logic Apps
19 74 (6.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.09%) Firewall
2 27 (2.53%) Network Security
3 26 (2.43%) DNS
4 15 (1.40%) VPN
5 14 (1.31%) HTTP
6 12 (1.12%) WAN
7 8 (0.75%) SSL
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.37%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.19%) DHCP
11 2 (0.19%) Internet
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (16.37%) DynamoDB
2 164 (15.34%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.13%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 88 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
7 78 (7.30%) Power BI
8 70 (6.55%) NoSQL
9 61 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 56 (5.24%) MySQL
11 54 (5.05%) SQL Server
12 41 (3.84%) MongoDB
13 32 (2.99%) Metadata
14 27 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (2.43%) Delta Lake
16 25 (2.34%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (1.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 202 (18.90%) Git
2 145 (13.56%) GitLab
3 138 (12.91%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.83%) JIRA
5 32 (2.99%) Claude Code
6 31 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 28 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.34%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.78%) Selenium
10 17 (1.59%) JUnit
10 17 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.40%) Postman
12 14 (1.31%) Mockito
13 11 (1.03%) Maven
13 11 (1.03%) RStudio
14 8 (0.75%) JMeter
14 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 249 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 183 (17.12%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.78%) Finance
4 79 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (3.93%) Banking
7 14 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.31%) Marketing
7 14 (1.31%) Military
8 13 (1.22%) Back Office
8 13 (1.22%) Legal
9 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.12%) Law
10 11 (1.03%) Billing
11 9 (0.84%) Front Office
12 8 (0.75%) Retail
13 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 248 (23.20%) Developer
2 213 (19.93%) Senior
3 195 (18.24%) Architect
4 174 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
5 135 (12.63%) Data Engineer
6 123 (11.51%) Lead
7 87 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (5.80%) AWS Architect
9 60 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.30%) Technical Architect
14 44 (4.12%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.84%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
17 40 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
17 40 (3.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (39.48%) Terraform
2 192 (17.96%) REST
3 134 (12.54%) .NET
4 127 (11.88%) React
5 122 (11.41%) Node.js
6 109 (10.20%) Kafka
7 104 (9.73%) RESTful
8 79 (7.39%) AWS CDK
9 74 (6.92%) PySpark
10 70 (6.55%) Spring Boot
11 69 (6.45%) Spring
12 64 (5.99%) GraphQL
13 56 (5.24%) OAuth
14 52 (4.86%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.93%) JSON
16 41 (3.84%) AngularJS
17 38 (3.55%) OAuth2
18 37 (3.46%) CSS
19 34 (3.18%) HTML
20 33 (3.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 337 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 79 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (6.64%) AI Agents
5 38 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.62%) NHS
8 25 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.59%) IVR
12 15 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (1.22%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.22%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.83%) Linux
2 27 (2.53%) Unix
3 16 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.40%) Windows
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Android
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (61.93%) CI/CD
2 466 (43.59%) DevOps
3 416 (38.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 401 (37.51%) Agile
5 264 (24.70%) AI
6 254 (23.76%) Event-Driven
7 244 (22.83%) Microservices
8 212 (19.83%) Containerisation
9 202 (18.90%) Observability
10 176 (16.46%) Test Automation
11 172 (16.09%) Data Modelling
12 170 (15.90%) Software Engineering
13 169 (15.81%) Analytics
14 166 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 162 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
16 155 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
16 155 (14.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 145 (13.56%) Data Engineering
18 143 (13.38%) Migration
19 142 (13.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 489 (45.74%) Python
2 309 (28.91%) SQL
3 187 (17.49%) TypeScript
4 164 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 151 (14.13%) C#
6 144 (13.47%) Java
7 79 (7.39%) Bash
8 48 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.02%) Bicep
10 33 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.40%) Scala
12 14 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.94%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) R
15 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.56%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 279 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 238 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.71%) Degree
5 54 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.65%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.67%) QA
3 49 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.84%) GDPR
5 30 (2.81%) WCAG
6 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 8 (0.75%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 274 (25.63%) Docker
2 36 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.28%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 249 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 85 (7.95%) Grafana
3 67 (6.27%) Prometheus
4 55 (5.14%) Ansible
5 14 (1.31%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.75%) Packer
7 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.65%) Argo
8 7 (0.65%) Kibana
8 7 (0.65%) Podman
9 6 (0.56%) Istio
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.37%) Rancher
11 4 (0.37%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 206 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.11%) Databricks
3 48 (4.49%) Oracle
4 47 (4.40%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.81%) Google
6 29 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.43%) Informatica
9 25 (2.34%) Splunk
10 16 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.22%) Foundry
12 12 (1.12%) Brio
12 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.94%) Confluent
13 10 (0.94%) Tenable
14 7 (0.65%) SAP
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
16 4 (0.37%) ForgeRock
16 4 (0.37%) New Relic