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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 98 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,095 758 790
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.46% 2.61% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 6.84% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 574 604
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £445 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.40% -7.16%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
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 16,431 11,080 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.11% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,210 7,785 10,216
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 217 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -9 881 £513 -6.82% 350
London -2 522 £513 -9.29% 153
UK excluding London -14 387 £500 - 232
Work from Home -24 295 £525 -4.55% 184
North of England +9 171 £500 +5.26% 90
Yorkshire +9 79 £500 - 34
North West -9 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Midlands -22 67 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -17 52 £525 +16.67% 18
Scotland -6 51 £400 -20.00% 9
South East -65 50 £525 -2.33% 61
South West -20 31 £591 -5.46% 31
East of England -11 29 £570 -18.57% 20
East Midlands -31 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -7 14 £475 - 11
Wales -11 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -

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 50 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.74%) Apache
2 41 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.20%) Confluence
4 29 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.37%) nginx
6 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.91%) Mendix
8 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.091%) JBoss
11 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
3 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 801 (73.15%) AWS
2 631 (57.63%) AWS Lambda
3 411 (37.53%) Amazon S3
3 411 (37.53%) Azure
4 256 (23.38%) GitHub
5 242 (22.10%) Azure Functions
6 223 (20.37%) Amazon ECS
7 217 (19.82%) Amazon EC2
8 201 (18.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 198 (18.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 184 (16.80%) Amazon EKS
10 184 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
11 173 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
12 125 (11.42%) Power Platform
13 119 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 109 (9.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 108 (9.86%) AWS Step Functions
16 90 (8.22%) Azure Service Bus
17 83 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
17 83 (7.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.02%) Firewall
2 37 (3.38%) DNS
3 28 (2.56%) VPN
4 13 (1.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.91%) SSL
8 9 (0.82%) HTTP
8 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.55%) SMS
10 5 (0.46%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) WAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) LAN
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) CTI
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
13 1 (0.091%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.79%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (12.69%) DynamoDB
3 135 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.31%) Power BI
6 70 (6.39%) Amazon Athena
7 67 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (6.03%) Data Lake
9 62 (5.66%) Relational Database
10 55 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 55 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (3.38%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.20%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.01%) Redis
14 30 (2.74%) Metadata
14 30 (2.74%) Tableau
15 27 (2.47%) Delta Lake
16 26 (2.37%) MySQL
17 24 (2.19%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (17.44%) Git
2 173 (15.80%) GitLab
3 165 (15.07%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.94%) JIRA
5 31 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.01%) JUnit
7 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.55%) Liquibase
8 17 (1.55%) Mockito
9 16 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.28%) MLflow
12 12 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
14 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 9 (0.82%) Selenium
14 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 247 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.45%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.25%) Finance
4 76 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (5.66%) Banking
6 34 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.82%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.55%) Military
13 4 (0.37%) Aviation
13 4 (0.37%) Front Office
13 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.37%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (26.03%) Developer
2 169 (15.43%) Architect
3 161 (14.70%) Senior
4 155 (14.16%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.67%) Lead
8 73 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 61 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.02%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 45 (4.11%) Senior Developer
16 42 (3.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.84%) Java Developer
17 41 (3.74%) AWS Developer
17 41 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (15.53%) Node.js
2 154 (14.06%) REST
3 148 (13.52%) React
4 133 (12.15%) RESTful
5 128 (11.69%) Kafka
6 127 (11.60%) .NET
7 88 (8.04%) Spring
8 86 (7.85%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.40%) OAuth
10 59 (5.39%) PySpark
11 56 (5.11%) AngularJS
12 50 (4.57%) JSON
13 47 (4.29%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (4.29%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.11%) .NET Core
15 44 (4.02%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.74%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.29%) JWT
18 35 (3.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 277 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.47%) NHS
6 26 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.91%) Replication
12 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) DataPower
14 8 (0.73%) IoT
14 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.04%) Linux
2 16 (1.46%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) zOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.091%) Android
7 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (61.46%) CI/CD
2 561 (51.23%) DevOps
3 421 (38.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (33.15%) Agile
5 301 (27.49%) Microservices
6 271 (24.75%) Containerisation
7 189 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (16.62%) AI
9 165 (15.07%) Observability
10 163 (14.89%) Event-Driven
11 162 (14.79%) Analytics
12 150 (13.70%) Data Pipeline
12 150 (13.70%) Software Engineering
13 145 (13.24%) Data Modelling
14 140 (12.79%) Test Automation
15 134 (12.24%) ETL
16 121 (11.05%) Data Engineering
17 113 (10.32%) Migration
18 106 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
19 102 (9.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 521 (47.58%) Python
2 311 (28.40%) SQL
3 171 (15.62%) Java
4 163 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 159 (14.52%) JavaScript
6 154 (14.06%) C#
7 76 (6.94%) Bash
8 58 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 48 (4.38%) Bicep
10 46 (4.20%) Go
11 35 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.56%) Ruby
13 13 (1.19%) Scala
14 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.82%) Perl
16 8 (0.73%) C++
16 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 289 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 224 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.38%) Degree
5 45 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (3.11%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
17 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.48%) QA
3 33 (3.01%) GDPR
4 32 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.83%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.91%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.27%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 312 (28.49%) Docker
2 34 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 473 (43.20%) Terraform
2 288 (26.30%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.50%) Grafana
4 110 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 84 (7.67%) Ansible
6 25 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.37%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 182 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.58%) Databricks
3 42 (3.84%) OpenAI
3 42 (3.84%) Oracle
4 39 (3.56%) Splunk
5 27 (2.47%) Google
6 20 (1.83%) Foundry
7 19 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.00%) Lotus
9 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.91%) Kofax
10 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.82%) Brio
11 9 (0.82%) Confluent
11 9 (0.82%) IBM
11 9 (0.82%) Palantir
11 9 (0.82%) SAP
12 8 (0.73%) Cloudera