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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 109 122
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,079 813 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.48% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.65% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 588 516
10th Percentile £400 £385 £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 £750 £686 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £530
% change year-on-year +1.63% -7.17% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £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 - £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 19,021 12,228 13,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 37.35% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,622 8,124 8,831
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
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 613 305 206
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.00 £60.95
90th Percentile £82.05 £71.78 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.89 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.53% -33.72% +11.11%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -25 882 £525 +1.94% 677
London -21 523 £550 - 450
UK excluding London -41 404 £500 +1.63% 314
Work from Home -24 350 £525 +1.94% 1,439
North of England -42 135 £500 +5.26% 95
Midlands -13 89 £447 -3.35% 39
West Midlands -13 69 £463 -6.57% 22
North West -32 69 £605 +27.37% 61
Scotland -15 55 £463 -7.50% 39
South East -60 51 £600 +37.93% 50
South West -31 46 £530 +2.42% 52
Yorkshire -43 44 £500 +5.04% 21
East of England -24 23 £525 +1.94% 22
North East -30 22 £463 +4.52% 13
East Midlands -8 20 £413 -0.66% 17
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 14
Wales -14 4 £481 -16.34% 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 63 (5.84%) Confluence
2 49 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.15%) Apache
5 29 (2.69%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.83%) CMS
6 9 (0.83%) SAS
7 8 (0.74%) nginx
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.46%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
10 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 840 (77.85%) AWS
2 681 (63.11%) AWS Lambda
3 453 (41.98%) Amazon S3
4 382 (35.40%) Azure
5 239 (22.15%) GitHub
6 230 (21.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 193 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
7 193 (17.89%) Azure Functions
8 170 (15.76%) Amazon EC2
9 166 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
10 162 (15.01%) Amazon EKS
10 162 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 146 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
12 128 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
13 125 (11.58%) Power Platform
14 121 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
15 107 (9.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 98 (9.08%) Amazon EventBridge
17 78 (7.23%) Azure Logic Apps
18 76 (7.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.52%) Firewall
2 28 (2.59%) Network Security
3 27 (2.50%) DNS
4 16 (1.48%) VPN
5 13 (1.20%) HTTP
5 13 (1.20%) WAN
6 8 (0.74%) SSL
7 5 (0.46%) CTI
7 5 (0.46%) MQTT
7 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.37%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.03%) DynamoDB
2 166 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (10.94%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (8.06%) Power BI
7 72 (6.67%) NoSQL
8 57 (5.28%) Data Lake
9 56 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 56 (5.19%) MySQL
10 52 (4.82%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.34%) Metadata
12 35 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 34 (3.15%) MongoDB
14 26 (2.41%) Delta Lake
15 24 (2.22%) Relational Database
16 21 (1.95%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.95%) Tableau
17 20 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 199 (18.44%) Git
2 144 (13.35%) GitLab
3 142 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 82 (7.60%) JIRA
5 33 (3.06%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.87%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.41%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.58%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.48%) Selenium
11 14 (1.30%) JUnit
12 13 (1.20%) Postman
13 12 (1.11%) Mockito
14 9 (0.83%) RStudio
14 9 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.74%) JMeter
15 8 (0.74%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.65%) Gatling
16 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
17 6 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 244 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.52%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.64%) Finance
4 77 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.52%) Banking
6 37 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.30%) Legal
9 13 (1.20%) Billing
9 13 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.20%) Law
10 12 (1.11%) Marketing
10 12 (1.11%) Military
11 11 (1.02%) Back Office
12 10 (0.93%) Retail
13 8 (0.74%) Front Office
14 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 250 (23.17%) Developer
2 209 (19.37%) Architect
3 207 (19.18%) Senior
4 176 (16.31%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.14%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.12%) Lead
7 82 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (5.93%) AWS Architect
9 61 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.36%) Technical Architect
13 45 (4.17%) AWS Developer
13 45 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
15 42 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.80%) Python Developer
16 41 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (40.41%) Terraform
2 183 (16.96%) REST
3 135 (12.51%) React
4 133 (12.33%) .NET
5 121 (11.21%) Node.js
6 106 (9.82%) RESTful
7 104 (9.64%) Kafka
8 81 (7.51%) AWS CDK
9 78 (7.23%) PySpark
10 67 (6.21%) Spring Boot
11 66 (6.12%) Spring
12 61 (5.65%) GraphQL
13 54 (5.00%) FastAPI
13 54 (5.00%) OAuth
14 42 (3.89%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.80%) CSS
16 38 (3.52%) Flask
17 37 (3.43%) HTML
17 37 (3.43%) JSON
18 36 (3.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 338 (31.33%) Cloud Native
2 96 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 75 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.84%) AI Agents
5 32 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.69%) NHS
7 27 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.58%) IVR
9 17 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.02%) IoT
12 11 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.02%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.83%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.58%) Linux
2 29 (2.69%) Unix
3 17 (1.58%) Windows
4 16 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) AIX
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (61.45%) CI/CD
2 469 (43.47%) DevOps
3 427 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 408 (37.81%) Agile
5 256 (23.73%) AI
6 254 (23.54%) Event-Driven
7 250 (23.17%) Microservices
8 221 (20.48%) Containerisation
9 193 (17.89%) Observability
10 180 (16.68%) Test Automation
11 172 (15.94%) Analytics
12 170 (15.76%) Data Modelling
13 167 (15.48%) Software Engineering
14 157 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 156 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
16 153 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
17 152 (14.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 144 (13.35%) Migration
19 140 (12.97%) ETL
20 139 (12.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 494 (45.78%) Python
2 319 (29.56%) SQL
3 188 (17.42%) TypeScript
4 160 (14.83%) JavaScript
5 144 (13.35%) C#
6 139 (12.88%) Java
7 80 (7.41%) Bash
8 46 (4.26%) Bicep
8 46 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.48%) Scala
11 13 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.11%) Go
13 10 (0.93%) Groovy
14 8 (0.74%) R
15 7 (0.65%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.46%) Rust
17 5 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 244 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 57 (5.28%) Degree
5 53 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.56%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.12%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.86%) QA
3 42 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.52%) GDPR
5 27 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.32%) WCAG
7 15 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.20%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 279 (25.86%) Docker
2 39 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (22.98%) Kubernetes
2 88 (8.16%) Grafana
3 68 (6.30%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.19%) Ansible
5 14 (1.30%) Puppet
6 12 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.74%) Argo
8 8 (0.74%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 193 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.86%) Databricks
3 49 (4.54%) Oracle
4 37 (3.43%) OpenAI
5 32 (2.97%) Informatica
6 29 (2.69%) Dynatrace
7 28 (2.59%) Splunk
8 27 (2.50%) Google
9 25 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.11%) SAP
12 10 (0.93%) Brio
12 10 (0.93%) Tenable
13 8 (0.74%) Confluent
14 7 (0.65%) Foundry
15 5 (0.46%) Denodo
15 5 (0.46%) New Relic
15 5 (0.46%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.46%) Workday