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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 933 761 931
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.08% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% 5.90% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 527 672
10th Percentile £380 £375 £405
25th Percentile £419 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -10.42%
75th Percentile £588 £648 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,674 12,907 16,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.51% 35.23% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,256 8,520 11,873
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 170 315
10th Percentile £15.28 £18.50 £14.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.59 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%
75th Percentile £46.84 £59.99 £60.94
90th Percentile £72.45 £70.00 £78.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.26% +37.78% +19.05%

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 15 November 2025.

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
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 15 November 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 +14 750 £505 -8.18% 625
London +8 402 £525 -4.55% 318
UK excluding London +3 382 £480 -8.57% 346
Work from Home -1 308 £525 +2.44% 399
North of England +30 149 £500 -0.70% 136
Yorkshire +26 90 £500 -6.37% 36
Midlands +12 71 £500 - 34
Scotland -12 61 £450 -4.66% 29
West Midlands +7 53 £523 -0.48% 22
North West -5 53 £463 +2.15% 93
South East -43 45 £425 -32.00% 80
East of England +7 37 £525 -7.89% 22
South West -10 34 £575 -10.51% 38
East Midlands -5 18 £411 -8.61% 12
North East -9 7 £466 -23.61% 7
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 5
Wales -5 2 £569 +8.33% 8

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 42 (4.50%) Apache
2 31 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.32%) Confluence
3 25 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.39%) CMS
5 12 (1.29%) nginx
6 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.32%) Documentum
8 3 (0.32%) FileNet
9 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 693 (74.28%) AWS
2 559 (59.91%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (37.83%) Amazon S3
4 286 (30.65%) Azure
5 192 (20.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 187 (20.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 179 (19.19%) GitHub
8 173 (18.54%) Amazon EC2
9 166 (17.79%) Amazon ECS
10 161 (17.26%) Azure Functions
11 118 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
12 114 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (9.97%) Amazon SQS
14 93 (9.97%) GCP
15 83 (8.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 81 (8.68%) Azure Logic Apps
17 68 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
18 59 (6.32%) Power Platform
19 57 (6.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.64%) Firewall
2 28 (3.00%) VPN
3 23 (2.47%) DNS
4 12 (1.29%) SSL
5 10 (1.07%) Network Security
6 6 (0.64%) DHCP
6 6 (0.64%) HTTP
6 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.32%) DKIM
8 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.32%) LAN
8 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.32%) WAN
9 2 (0.21%) MPLS
9 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.21%) SSH
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (17.90%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (14.90%) DynamoDB
3 135 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (9.65%) NoSQL
5 64 (6.86%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
8 49 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (4.29%) Power BI
11 32 (3.43%) Data Lake
12 30 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (3.22%) Big Data
13 28 (3.00%) MySQL
14 27 (2.89%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.89%) Redis
15 26 (2.79%) SQL Server
16 20 (2.14%) RDBMS
17 19 (2.04%) Tableau
18 16 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 165 (17.68%) Jenkins
2 164 (17.58%) Git
3 123 (13.18%) GitLab
4 85 (9.11%) JIRA
5 39 (4.18%) Liquibase
6 28 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.57%) JUnit
8 22 (2.36%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.71%) Mockito
9 16 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.50%) Maven
11 14 (1.50%) Postman
11 14 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (1.07%) MLflow
12 10 (1.07%) Selenium
12 10 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.86%) Gradle
14 5 (0.54%) JMeter
14 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
General
1 246 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 155 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 119 (12.75%) Finance
4 75 (8.04%) Banking
5 61 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.71%) Marketing
9 10 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.96%) Retail
11 7 (0.75%) Front Office
11 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (0.64%) Military
12 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.43%) Publishing
14 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.32%) Local Government
14 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 256 (27.44%) Developer
2 147 (15.76%) AWS Engineer
3 144 (15.43%) Senior
4 134 (14.36%) Architect
5 111 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.32%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.93%) Data Engineer
8 66 (7.07%) Lead
9 44 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (4.50%) AWS Architect
11 41 (4.39%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.29%) AWS Developer
13 38 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 37 (3.97%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (3.75%) Python Engineer
16 31 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (16.83%) Node.js
2 148 (15.86%) RESTful
3 135 (14.47%) REST
4 132 (14.15%) React
5 99 (10.61%) .NET
6 90 (9.65%) Kafka
7 63 (6.75%) Elastic Stack
8 60 (6.43%) AWS CDK
9 50 (5.36%) OAuth
10 46 (4.93%) GraphQL
10 46 (4.93%) Spring Boot
11 45 (4.82%) Spring
12 40 (4.29%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.18%) FastAPI
14 37 (3.97%) PyTorch
15 36 (3.86%) HTML
16 32 (3.43%) JSON
17 31 (3.32%) CSS
17 31 (3.32%) Next.js
18 30 (3.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 221 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.61%) NHS
10 14 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.29%) Replication
13 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.07%) IVR
15 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
16 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
17 7 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 104 (11.15%) Linux
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Unix
4 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.54%) VMS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (53.48%) CI/CD
2 467 (50.05%) DevOps
3 382 (40.94%) Agile
4 317 (33.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 269 (28.83%) Microservices
6 233 (24.97%) Containerisation
7 183 (19.61%) Software Engineering
8 173 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (15.11%) AI
10 124 (13.29%) Test Automation
11 122 (13.08%) Analytics
12 111 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
13 110 (11.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 108 (11.58%) Event-Driven
15 104 (11.15%) Mentoring
16 96 (10.29%) ETL
17 93 (9.97%) Data Modelling
18 89 (9.54%) Machine Learning
19 86 (9.22%) Migration
19 86 (9.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 467 (50.05%) Python
2 223 (23.90%) SQL
3 164 (17.58%) Java
4 147 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 145 (15.54%) TypeScript
6 92 (9.86%) C#
7 67 (7.18%) Go
8 59 (6.32%) Bash
9 42 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 27 (2.89%) Bicep
11 18 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.82%) Ruby
13 12 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.07%) Perl
14 10 (1.07%) Scala
15 9 (0.96%) C++
16 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.64%) JSX
16 6 (0.64%) Korn
16 6 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 202 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 166 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.97%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.50%) Degree
5 61 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.86%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 27 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.39%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) MCP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.47%) QA
2 40 (4.29%) GDPR
3 33 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.50%) NIST
5 14 (1.50%) WCAG
6 13 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 265 (28.40%) Docker
2 38 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 358 (38.37%) Terraform
2 261 (27.97%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.68%) Grafana
4 104 (11.15%) Prometheus
5 94 (10.08%) Ansible
6 14 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.18%) Kibana
8 10 (1.07%) Puppet
9 7 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.21%) Argo
11 2 (0.21%) Control-M
11 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.21%) SELinux
12 1 (0.11%) linkerd
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 148 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.36%) Splunk
3 49 (5.25%) Google
4 41 (4.39%) Databricks
5 31 (3.32%) Oracle
6 26 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.04%) Foundry
7 19 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.29%) Pega
11 11 (1.18%) Cloudera
11 11 (1.18%) IBM
12 10 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.07%) Palantir
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco
14 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.75%) Confluent
15 6 (0.64%) Gigya
15 6 (0.64%) Greenplum