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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 103 123
Rank change year-on-year -43 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,060 828 735
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.52% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 6.67% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 599 509
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £751 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £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 £75.80 £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 18,909 12,423 13,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 37.76% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,539 8,291 8,880
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
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 623 293 195
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -35.77% +14.29%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -32 865 £525 +1.94% 894
London -16 517 £550 - 540
UK excluding London -51 395 £500 - 455
Work from Home -35 343 £535 +4.09% 425
North of England -51 130 £500 +5.15% 142
Midlands -22 86 £428 -13.64% 53
West Midlands -20 67 £450 -10.00% 27
North West -32 65 £588 +22.40% 96
Scotland -17 57 £450 -11.11% 52
South East -53 51 £600 +41.18% 75
Yorkshire -53 46 £500 +5.04% 29
South West -20 45 £500 -8.05% 67
East of England -35 20 £515 - 23
East Midlands -15 19 £419 -5.42% 26
North East -29 19 £463 +4.52% 17
Northern Ireland +5 4 £283 -43.50% 29
Wales -9 4 £481 -16.34% 15

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 55 (5.19%) Confluence
2 51 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.68%) Apache
5 34 (3.21%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 8 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.66%) nginx
10 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.38%) CICS
12 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.094%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 828 (78.11%) AWS
2 671 (63.30%) AWS Lambda
3 445 (41.98%) Amazon S3
4 373 (35.19%) Azure
5 235 (22.17%) GitHub
6 226 (21.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 193 (18.21%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
9 164 (15.47%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
10 162 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 157 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
12 152 (14.34%) Amazon SQS
13 131 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
14 125 (11.79%) Power Platform
15 119 (11.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 106 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 104 (9.81%) Amazon EventBridge
18 81 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
19 75 (7.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.11%) Firewall
2 28 (2.64%) Network Security
3 25 (2.36%) DNS
4 15 (1.42%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
6 12 (1.13%) WAN
7 8 (0.75%) SSL
8 6 (0.57%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.38%) SMS
10 4 (0.38%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.19%) DHCP
12 2 (0.19%) Internet
12 2 (0.19%) SAN
12 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (16.42%) DynamoDB
2 166 (15.66%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.23%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 89 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
7 80 (7.55%) Power BI
8 68 (6.42%) NoSQL
9 60 (5.66%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 55 (5.19%) MySQL
12 53 (5.00%) SQL Server
13 36 (3.40%) MongoDB
14 35 (3.30%) Metadata
15 27 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (2.36%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.26%) Relational Database
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 19 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 199 (18.77%) Git
2 140 (13.21%) GitLab
3 137 (12.92%) Jenkins
4 74 (6.98%) JIRA
5 33 (3.11%) Cypress.io
6 32 (3.02%) Claude Code
7 28 (2.64%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.79%) Selenium
10 17 (1.60%) JUnit
10 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.32%) Mockito
11 14 (1.32%) Postman
12 11 (1.04%) Maven
13 10 (0.94%) RStudio
14 9 (0.85%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 250 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.91%) Finance
4 81 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (3.87%) Banking
7 16 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Marketing
8 14 (1.32%) Military
9 13 (1.23%) Back Office
9 13 (1.23%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Front Office
13 8 (0.75%) Retail
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (23.02%) Developer
2 209 (19.72%) Senior
3 196 (18.49%) Architect
4 174 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
5 135 (12.74%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.32%) Lead
7 84 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (5.94%) AWS Architect
9 59 (5.57%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.43%) Technical Architect
13 46 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
14 44 (4.15%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (39.43%) Terraform
2 188 (17.74%) REST
3 130 (12.26%) .NET
4 127 (11.98%) React
5 118 (11.13%) Node.js
6 102 (9.62%) Kafka
6 102 (9.62%) RESTful
7 80 (7.55%) AWS CDK
8 76 (7.17%) PySpark
9 69 (6.51%) Spring Boot
10 68 (6.42%) Spring
11 63 (5.94%) GraphQL
12 54 (5.09%) OAuth
13 53 (5.00%) FastAPI
14 40 (3.77%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.77%) JSON
15 37 (3.49%) CSS
15 37 (3.49%) OAuth2
16 34 (3.21%) Flask
16 34 (3.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 327 (30.85%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (6.32%) AI Agents
5 35 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.64%) NHS
8 25 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.70%) IVR
12 17 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.13%) Low-Code
16 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.79%) Linux
2 27 (2.55%) Unix
3 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.42%) Windows
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Android
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 464 (43.77%) DevOps
3 410 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 400 (37.74%) Agile
5 260 (24.53%) AI
6 250 (23.58%) Event-Driven
7 241 (22.74%) Microservices
8 210 (19.81%) Containerisation
9 196 (18.49%) Observability
10 175 (16.51%) Test Automation
11 174 (16.42%) Data Modelling
12 171 (16.13%) Analytics
13 168 (15.85%) Software Engineering
14 163 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
16 156 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
17 151 (14.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 145 (13.68%) Data Engineering
19 144 (13.58%) Migration
20 141 (13.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 490 (46.23%) Python
2 311 (29.34%) SQL
3 184 (17.36%) TypeScript
4 164 (15.47%) JavaScript
5 149 (14.06%) C#
6 143 (13.49%) Java
7 78 (7.36%) Bash
8 47 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.06%) Bicep
10 34 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.42%) Scala
12 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.94%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) R
15 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.57%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 278 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.75%) Degree
5 51 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.85%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.66%) CISSP
17 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 80 (7.55%) QA
3 49 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.87%) GDPR
5 30 (2.83%) WCAG
6 18 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) PMO
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 271 (25.57%) Docker
2 38 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.28%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.30%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.92%) Grafana
3 65 (6.13%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.28%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 200 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.17%) Databricks
3 49 (4.62%) Oracle
4 44 (4.15%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.83%) Google
6 29 (2.74%) Informatica
7 27 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.55%) Splunk
8 25 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) Foundry
10 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.04%) Brio
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 8 (0.75%) Confluent
13 8 (0.75%) SAP
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 4 (0.38%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.38%) New Relic