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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 107 128
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,000 722 790
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.27% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.08% 6.20% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 514 595
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £635
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -2.50% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,131 11,648 14,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 36.58% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,711 7,750 10,286
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 173 255
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £57.25 £44.50 £53.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +2.68% +27.59% +7.45%

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 15 January 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
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 January 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 +14 800 £500 -9.09% 456
London +14 471 £513 -6.82% 120
UK excluding London -6 376 £488 -2.50% 401
Work from Home -6 287 £525 +2.44% 311
North of England +34 164 £478 -3.43% 93
Yorkshire +18 87 £500 - 39
North West +10 67 £450 -0.61% 43
Midlands +1 65 £506 +13.20% 37
Scotland -5 63 £450 -8.49% 19
West Midlands 0 51 £525 +5.00% 22
South East -49 47 £475 -24.00% 121
South West -25 27 £650 - 50
East of England -5 24 £550 -3.51% 53
East Midlands -21 14 £433 -3.24% 14
North East -6 11 £525 -12.13% 11
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 11
Wales -9 3 £481 -3.75% 25

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 (4.20%) Apache
2 34 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 33 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.70%) Confluence
5 23 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.40%) nginx
7 10 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.90%) Mendix
9 6 (0.60%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) FileNet
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 721 (72.10%) AWS
2 585 (58.50%) AWS Lambda
3 358 (35.80%) Azure
4 355 (35.50%) Amazon S3
5 235 (23.50%) GitHub
6 215 (21.50%) Azure Functions
7 202 (20.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 195 (19.50%) Amazon ECS
9 191 (19.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 172 (17.20%) GitHub Actions
11 168 (16.80%) Amazon EC2
12 162 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
13 138 (13.80%) Amazon EKS
14 101 (10.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 98 (9.80%) GCP
16 90 (9.00%) Power Platform
17 88 (8.80%) Amazon SQS
18 83 (8.30%) AWS Step Functions
18 83 (8.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 80 (8.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.80%) Firewall
2 27 (2.70%) DNS
3 18 (1.80%) VPN
4 13 (1.30%) Network Security
5 10 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.90%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) SSL
8 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.50%) SMS
9 3 (0.30%) LAN
9 3 (0.30%) WAN
10 2 (0.20%) MPLS
11 1 (0.10%) BGP
11 1 (0.10%) Internet
11 1 (0.10%) IPsec
11 1 (0.10%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.20%) Amazon RDS
2 145 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 101 (10.10%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 65 (6.50%) Amazon Athena
7 61 (6.10%) Relational Database
8 60 (6.00%) Power BI
9 57 (5.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 54 (5.40%) Data Lake
11 47 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (3.70%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.60%) Redis
15 33 (3.30%) MySQL
16 28 (2.80%) Big Data
17 24 (2.40%) SQL Server
17 24 (2.40%) Tableau
18 18 (1.80%) Metadata
18 18 (1.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 181 (18.10%) Git
2 169 (16.90%) Jenkins
3 154 (15.40%) GitLab
4 66 (6.60%) JIRA
5 35 (3.50%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 19 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 19 (1.90%) JUnit
8 16 (1.60%) MLflow
8 16 (1.60%) Mockito
9 14 (1.40%) Postman
10 13 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (1.10%) Maven
12 11 (1.10%) Selenium
13 8 (0.80%) Gradle
14 7 (0.70%) Storybook
15 5 (0.50%) SonarLint
General
1 239 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 188 (18.80%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.90%) Finance
4 77 (7.70%) Banking
5 56 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.10%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.90%) Marketing
8 16 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.10%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.90%) Military
12 8 (0.80%) Front Office
13 7 (0.70%) Retail
14 6 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.40%) Aviation
16 3 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Local Government
17 2 (0.20%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 275 (27.50%) Developer
2 152 (15.20%) Senior
3 146 (14.60%) AWS Engineer
4 128 (12.80%) Architect
5 107 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 93 (9.30%) Data Engineer
7 88 (8.80%) Software Engineer
8 73 (7.30%) Lead
9 53 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.20%) Python Engineer
13 40 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.90%) AWS Developer
15 38 (3.80%) Senior Developer
16 37 (3.70%) Java Developer
17 36 (3.60%) Data Architect
18 34 (3.40%) AWS Architect
18 34 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (18.10%) Node.js
2 163 (16.30%) REST
3 154 (15.40%) React
4 152 (15.20%) RESTful
5 137 (13.70%) .NET
6 119 (11.90%) Kafka
7 65 (6.50%) OAuth
8 63 (6.30%) Spring Boot
9 62 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
10 59 (5.90%) Spring
11 57 (5.70%) AWS CDK
12 49 (4.90%) .NET Core
12 49 (4.90%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.80%) FastAPI
14 40 (4.00%) JSON
15 39 (3.90%) OAuth2
16 38 (3.80%) GraphQL
16 38 (3.80%) HTML
16 38 (3.80%) Next.js
17 36 (3.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 255 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 97 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 36 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.10%) NHS
8 20 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.30%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.20%) Replication
15 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.80%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.80%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 111 (11.10%) Linux
2 12 (1.20%) Unix
3 7 (0.70%) Windows
4 5 (0.50%) VMS
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (59.90%) CI/CD
2 516 (51.60%) DevOps
3 390 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 359 (35.90%) Agile
5 305 (30.50%) Microservices
6 265 (26.50%) Containerisation
7 177 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
8 174 (17.40%) Software Engineering
9 170 (17.00%) AI
10 142 (14.20%) Analytics
10 142 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
11 138 (13.80%) Event-Driven
12 122 (12.20%) Observability
13 121 (12.10%) Test Automation
14 115 (11.50%) Data Modelling
15 110 (11.00%) ETL
15 110 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 96 (9.60%) Machine Learning
16 96 (9.60%) Mentoring
17 92 (9.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 514 (51.40%) Python
2 266 (26.60%) SQL
3 165 (16.50%) Java
4 152 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 151 (15.10%) JavaScript
6 139 (13.90%) C#
7 69 (6.90%) Bash
8 65 (6.50%) Go
9 46 (4.60%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.20%) Bicep
11 27 (2.70%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.50%) Ruby
13 11 (1.10%) Perl
14 10 (1.00%) C++
14 10 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.00%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.70%) Korn
16 7 (0.70%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 241 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 196 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 67 (6.70%) Degree
5 58 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 22 (2.20%) MCP
12 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.30%) PhD
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
18 1 (0.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.10%) QA
2 41 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.00%) GDPR
4 33 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.90%) NIST
6 17 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.50%) WCAG
8 11 (1.10%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.90%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.50%) HL7
11 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.30%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
13 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 291 (29.10%) Docker
2 34 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 434 (43.40%) Terraform
2 294 (29.40%) Kubernetes
3 121 (12.10%) Grafana
4 107 (10.70%) Prometheus
5 102 (10.20%) Ansible
6 15 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.20%) Kibana
8 11 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.40%) Rancher
11 3 (0.30%) Argo
11 3 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.30%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.30%) Packer
12 2 (0.20%) Control-M
12 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.20%) Knative
12 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 183 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.30%) Databricks
3 48 (4.80%) Splunk
4 46 (4.60%) Google
5 34 (3.40%) Oracle
6 30 (3.00%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.90%) Foundry
9 15 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.40%) Confluent
11 12 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.20%) IBM
12 11 (1.10%) Cloudera
13 10 (1.00%) Cisco
13 10 (1.00%) Lotus
14 9 (0.90%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.90%) Kofax
14 9 (0.90%) Pega
15 8 (0.80%) Palantir
16 7 (0.70%) Genesys