Serverless Contracts

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 135 101
Rank change year-on-year +37 -34 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 810 756 1,336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 1.74% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 5.29% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 563 1,001
10th Percentile £400 £383 £425
25th Percentile £450 £438 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £524
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.15% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £36.50 - £36.75
25th Percentile £38.75 - £39.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - £51.88
90th Percentile £53.50 - £55.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Cloud 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 11,815 14,295 20,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 32.88% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,909 10,042 14,673
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 357 334
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £25.73
% change year-on-year -10.08% -18.43% +33.64%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 17 Contract 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 3 July 2025. 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 +25 639 £525 - 2,477
London +20 393 £550 +5.01% 1,426
Work from Home +38 318 £525 +2.44% 1,139
UK excluding London +33 266 £500 -2.44% 1,215
North of England +20 90 £500 -2.91% 341
North West +20 59 £500 -1.96% 206
Scotland -3 58 £523 +13.59% 118
South East +17 36 £500 -20.00% 292
Midlands +22 32 £495 -1.00% 133
South West +39 29 £531 -3.41% 157
Yorkshire +3 23 £500 -6.54% 107
East of England +38 22 £531 -15.00% 119
West Midlands +11 19 £504 -1.76% 88
East Midlands +7 12 £459 +2.00% 44
North East +3 9 £468 -28.08% 28
Wales +7 2 £575 +4.59% 23
Northern Ireland -11 2 £500 -16.67% 42

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.44%) Apache
3 35 (4.32%) Confluence
4 30 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.60%) Documentum
5 13 (1.60%) FileNet
6 11 (1.36%) CMS
7 10 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.86%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.49%) nginx
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.25%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) JBoss
13 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 625 (77.16%) AWS
2 476 (58.77%) AWS Lambda
3 292 (36.05%) Amazon S3
4 206 (25.43%) Azure
5 150 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 138 (17.04%) Amazon EC2
7 116 (14.32%) GitHub
8 112 (13.83%) Azure Functions
9 109 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 101 (12.47%) Amazon SQS
11 94 (11.60%) Amazon ECS
12 76 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
13 62 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 59 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (6.30%) AWS Step Functions
16 49 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (5.93%) PaaS
18 46 (5.68%) SaaS
19 43 (5.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.94%) Firewall
2 34 (4.20%) VPN
3 17 (2.10%) DNS
4 13 (1.60%) HTTP
5 11 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.23%) Network Security
7 9 (1.11%) SSL
8 7 (0.86%) DHCP
9 6 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.37%) VLAN
10 3 (0.37%) WAN
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.25%) DKIM
11 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.25%) SSH
11 2 (0.25%) Wireless
12 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (16.05%) DynamoDB
2 125 (15.43%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 85 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.90%) Amazon Athena
6 57 (7.04%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.44%) MongoDB
10 34 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 31 (3.83%) SQL Server
12 29 (3.58%) Data Lake
13 28 (3.46%) MySQL
14 26 (3.21%) Power BI
15 25 (3.09%) Big Data
16 24 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (2.47%) Oracle Database
18 18 (2.22%) RDBMS
19 17 (2.10%) Apache Iceberg
20 15 (1.85%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 105 (12.96%) Jenkins
2 83 (10.25%) Git
3 62 (7.65%) GitLab
4 49 (6.05%) JIRA
5 33 (4.07%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.84%) Artifactory
7 21 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.60%) JUnit
8 13 (1.60%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.36%) Storybook
10 10 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.23%) git-flow
11 9 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.99%) Selenium
13 7 (0.86%) Maven
13 7 (0.86%) Mockito
14 6 (0.74%) Postman
15 5 (0.62%) Gradle
16 4 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 157 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 120 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 90 (11.11%) Finance
4 63 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (4.07%) Banking
6 18 (2.22%) Front Office
7 17 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.73%) Marketing
9 13 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.11%) Retail
11 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.49%) Military
12 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.49%) Publishing
12 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.37%) Aviation
13 3 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 253 (31.23%) Developer
2 153 (18.89%) Architect
3 119 (14.69%) Senior
4 118 (14.57%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (9.75%) Data Engineer
6 77 (9.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (7.28%) Lead
8 55 (6.79%) Software Engineer
9 54 (6.67%) AWS Developer
9 54 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 53 (6.54%) AWS Architect
11 50 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.31%) AWS DevOps
13 42 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
14 41 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 35 (4.32%) Java Developer
17 32 (3.95%) Python Engineer
18 29 (3.58%) Azure Architect
18 29 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (17.28%) Node.js
2 110 (13.58%) React
3 89 (10.99%) Kafka
4 81 (10.00%) RESTful
5 77 (9.51%) AWS CDK
6 74 (9.14%) .NET
7 51 (6.30%) JSON
8 45 (5.56%) GraphQL
9 40 (4.94%) REST
9 40 (4.94%) Spring
10 39 (4.81%) CSS
11 37 (4.57%) Spring Boot
12 32 (3.95%) HTML
12 32 (3.95%) PySpark
13 31 (3.83%) AngularJS
14 29 (3.58%) OAuth
15 28 (3.46%) Jest
15 28 (3.46%) XML
16 26 (3.21%) .NET Framework
16 26 (3.21%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.74%) PKI
13 5 (0.62%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.62%) Genomics
13 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.49%) NHS
14 4 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.67%) Linux
2 17 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.36%) Windows
4 8 (0.99%) Unix
4 8 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.49%) Android
5 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) SUSE
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (42.72%) DevOps
2 343 (42.35%) CI/CD
3 300 (37.04%) Agile
4 220 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 179 (22.10%) Microservices
6 160 (19.75%) Containerisation
7 150 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (15.19%) Software Engineering
9 99 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (11.85%) Event-Driven
11 90 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 87 (10.74%) Test Automation
13 81 (10.00%) ETL
14 72 (8.89%) High Availability
15 71 (8.77%) Scrum
16 66 (8.15%) Data Engineering
17 65 (8.02%) Migration
18 64 (7.90%) Analytics
18 64 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
19 62 (7.65%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 315 (38.89%) Python
2 171 (21.11%) Java
3 170 (20.99%) JavaScript
4 169 (20.86%) SQL
5 153 (18.89%) TypeScript
6 73 (9.01%) C#
7 43 (5.31%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.44%) Bash
8 36 (4.44%) Bicep
8 36 (4.44%) Go
9 20 (2.47%) Scala
10 18 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.85%) Rust
11 15 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.48%) Ruby
13 8 (0.99%) C++
14 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Groovy
15 4 (0.49%) Perl
15 4 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 166 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 155 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 112 (13.83%) AWS Certification
4 60 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 50 (6.17%) Degree
6 28 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.86%) OCP
12 7 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.25%) CCIE
15 2 (0.25%) CCNP
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.32%) QA
2 33 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.35%) GDPR
4 18 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.48%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.36%) NIST
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.62%) WCAG
10 3 (0.37%) HL7
11 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 178 (21.98%) Docker
2 27 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 283 (34.94%) Terraform
2 197 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 63 (7.78%) Ansible
4 35 (4.32%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.07%) Grafana
6 13 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.99%) Puppet
8 7 (0.86%) Kibana
8 7 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.37%) Packer
10 2 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.25%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.25%) linkerd
10 2 (0.25%) SELinux
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) Consul
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Istio
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.40%) Oracle
3 23 (2.84%) Splunk
4 19 (2.35%) Google
5 17 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.98%) Databricks
7 14 (1.73%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.11%) SAP
8 9 (1.11%) Virgin Media
9 8 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (0.99%) Cloudera
10 7 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.74%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.74%) Foundry
11 6 (0.74%) Palantir
12 5 (0.62%) StreamSets
13 4 (0.49%) LabVantage
13 4 (0.49%) New Relic
13 4 (0.49%) Qualys