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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 96 126
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,065 764 782
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 2.59% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 6.84% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 583 601
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +3.41% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £606
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 16,796 11,169 14,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.93% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,432 7,781 9,965
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 248 344
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -9 870 £513 -6.82% 293
London -12 527 £513 -9.29% 130
UK excluding London -16 368 £500 - 196
Work from Home -34 286 £500 -4.76% 169
North of England 0 154 £500 - 76
North West -19 82 £500 - 51
Yorkshire -17 57 £500 - 18
Midlands -30 57 £500 +11.11% 16
South East -42 55 £525 +5.00% 43
Scotland -13 48 £400 -23.81% 16
West Midlands -28 45 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -16 35 £578 -5.57% 23
East of England -13 23 £550 -18.52% 17
North East -7 16 £475 - 7
East Midlands -30 12 £500 +11.86% 8
Wales -7 5 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 60 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 46 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.76%) Apache
4 32 (3.00%) Confluence
5 28 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.60%) 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%) Apache Superset
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%) 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
4 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 788 (73.99%) AWS
2 627 (58.87%) AWS Lambda
3 419 (39.34%) Amazon S3
4 406 (38.12%) Azure
5 242 (22.72%) GitHub
6 227 (21.31%) Azure Functions
7 216 (20.28%) Amazon ECS
8 198 (18.59%) Amazon EC2
9 188 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 186 (17.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 175 (16.43%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
12 169 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
13 122 (11.46%) Power Platform
14 118 (11.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 115 (10.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 102 (9.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 93 (8.73%) Amazon SQS
18 89 (8.36%) Azure Service Bus
19 67 (6.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.76%) Firewall
2 37 (3.47%) DNS
3 22 (2.07%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.22%) Network Security
6 12 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.94%) HTTP
8 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
9 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.75%) SSL
10 7 (0.66%) SMS
11 5 (0.47%) IPsec
12 4 (0.38%) WAN
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) FTP
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
1 151 (14.18%) DynamoDB
2 137 (12.86%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (8.36%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (7.70%) NoSQL
6 81 (7.61%) Power BI
7 79 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 61 (5.73%) Data Lake
9 57 (5.35%) Relational Database
10 51 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.66%) SQL Server
13 38 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 37 (3.47%) MongoDB
15 36 (3.38%) Tableau
16 33 (3.10%) Metadata
17 31 (2.91%) Big Data
18 29 (2.72%) Redis
19 28 (2.63%) MySQL
20 26 (2.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 178 (16.71%) Git
2 153 (14.37%) GitLab
3 134 (12.58%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.45%) JIRA
5 29 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.97%) JUnit
7 20 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.31%) Mockito
11 13 (1.22%) MLflow
12 10 (0.94%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.85%) Maven
13 9 (0.85%) Selenium
13 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.75%) NUnit
14 8 (0.75%) Postman
15 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.66%) Mocha
16 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 232 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.62%) Public Sector
3 145 (13.62%) Finance
4 75 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.13%) Banking
6 34 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.13%) Marketing
9 10 (0.94%) Legal
10 9 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.85%) Military
11 8 (0.75%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.47%) Front Office
13 5 (0.47%) Law
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (26.38%) Developer
2 179 (16.81%) Architect
3 149 (13.99%) Senior
4 143 (13.43%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.64%) Lead
7 88 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.20%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.35%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.69%) AWS Developer
12 50 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
13 49 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 43 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 42 (3.94%) Java Developer
17 41 (3.85%) Senior Developer
18 39 (3.66%) Python Engineer
19 38 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.06%) Node.js
2 146 (13.71%) React
3 131 (12.30%) REST
4 126 (11.83%) Kafka
5 122 (11.46%) .NET
6 107 (10.05%) RESTful
7 90 (8.45%) Spring
8 89 (8.36%) Spring Boot
9 86 (8.08%) OAuth
10 66 (6.20%) PySpark
11 57 (5.35%) AngularJS
12 50 (4.69%) OAuth2
13 49 (4.60%) JSON
14 48 (4.51%) AWS CDK
15 45 (4.23%) .NET Core
16 39 (3.66%) GraphQL
16 39 (3.66%) OpenID
17 37 (3.47%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.47%) JWT
18 36 (3.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 268 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.72%) NHS
5 26 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.60%) 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
13 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.85%) Replication
15 8 (0.75%) DataPower
15 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.32%) Linux
2 19 (1.78%) 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
1 644 (60.47%) CI/CD
2 533 (50.05%) DevOps
3 402 (37.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 346 (32.49%) Agile
5 284 (26.67%) Microservices
6 253 (23.76%) Containerisation
7 175 (16.43%) AI
8 168 (15.77%) Event-Driven
8 168 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 167 (15.68%) Analytics
10 158 (14.84%) Observability
11 153 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
12 148 (13.90%) Data Modelling
13 140 (13.15%) Software Engineering
14 136 (12.77%) ETL
15 135 (12.68%) Test Automation
16 119 (11.17%) Data Engineering
17 112 (10.52%) Migration
18 109 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
19 104 (9.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 497 (46.67%) Python
2 308 (28.92%) SQL
3 173 (16.24%) Java
4 160 (15.02%) C#
5 159 (14.93%) JavaScript
6 156 (14.65%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.29%) Bash
8 50 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.60%) Bicep
10 35 (3.29%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.35%) Go
11 25 (2.35%) Ruby
12 18 (1.69%) Scala
13 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) C++
15 6 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 295 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 235 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 45 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.72%) Degree
7 28 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.38%) PhD
14 4 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.26%) QA
3 31 (2.91%) GDPR
3 31 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.50%) NIST
7 11 (1.03%) WCAG
8 10 (0.94%) PMO
9 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
14 1 (0.094%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 292 (27.42%) 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 (42.07%) Terraform
2 265 (24.88%) Kubernetes
3 100 (9.39%) Grafana
4 92 (8.64%) Prometheus
5 63 (5.92%) Ansible
6 27 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.66%) Consul
10 7 (0.66%) Kibana
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.47%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 174 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.64%) Databricks
3 45 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.13%) Oracle
5 31 (2.91%) Splunk
6 17 (1.60%) Google
6 17 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.50%) Dynatrace
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 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) Informatica
12 8 (0.75%) Sybase
12 8 (0.75%) Tenable