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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -36 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,046 817 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.48% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 6.67% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 603 520
10th Percentile £388 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +2.56% -8.88% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £34.08 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,613 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.22% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 311 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -32 843 £525 - 354
London -20 494 £550 - 206
UK excluding London -22 389 £500 +2.56% 197
Work from Home -24 339 £525 +1.45% 239
North of England -25 131 £500 +5.26% 71
Midlands -11 80 £481 +9.94% 21
North West -32 68 £550 +22.22% 34
West Midlands -14 65 £477 +12.24% 15
Scotland -8 57 £428 -14.50% 15
South West -22 49 £538 +6.17% 28
South East -60 46 £600 +33.33% 43
Yorkshire -36 44 £500 +2.56% 22
East of England -15 24 £550 +4.76% 10
North East -29 19 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -7 15 £488 +8.32% 6
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 7
Wales -11 4 £400 -30.47% 4

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 51 (4.88%) Confluence
2 44 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.96%) Apache
5 19 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.096%) Camunda
11 1 (0.096%) Mendix
11 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 821 (78.49%) AWS
2 656 (62.72%) AWS Lambda
3 445 (42.54%) Amazon S3
4 346 (33.08%) Azure
5 212 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 203 (19.41%) GitHub
7 195 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
8 183 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
9 169 (16.16%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (15.97%) Azure Functions
11 160 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
13 122 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (11.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 115 (10.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 109 (10.42%) Power Platform
17 104 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
18 77 (7.36%) Amazon EventBridge
18 77 (7.36%) GCP
19 70 (6.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.44%) Firewall
2 27 (2.58%) DNS
3 24 (2.29%) Network Security
4 19 (1.82%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 10 (0.96%) HTTP
7 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.48%) CTI
8 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 5 (0.48%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.38%) SSL
10 3 (0.29%) FTP
10 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.29%) IPv4
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) SMS
11 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.096%) IPsec
12 1 (0.096%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (16.16%) DynamoDB
2 152 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.19%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 85 (8.13%) Power BI
7 76 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.88%) NoSQL
9 54 (5.16%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.30%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.63%) MySQL
13 37 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (3.35%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.15%) MongoDB
16 32 (3.06%) Metadata
17 24 (2.29%) Tableau
18 20 (1.91%) Delta Lake
19 17 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
19 17 (1.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 179 (17.11%) Git
2 134 (12.81%) GitLab
2 134 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 73 (6.98%) JIRA
4 31 (2.96%) Cypress.io
5 27 (2.58%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.39%) Claude Code
7 21 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.34%) JUnit
10 13 (1.24%) Postman
11 11 (1.05%) Selenium
12 9 (0.86%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Vite
14 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.67%) Gatling
14 7 (0.67%) MSTest
14 7 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 232 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.83%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.77%) Finance
4 72 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.25%) Banking
6 26 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.43%) Legal
9 12 (1.15%) Law
10 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.05%) Retail
11 10 (0.96%) Billing
11 10 (0.96%) Marketing
12 9 (0.86%) Back Office
13 7 (0.67%) Front Office
14 6 (0.57%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.48%) Police
15 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (24.09%) Developer
2 193 (18.45%) Senior
3 192 (18.36%) Architect
4 176 (16.83%) AWS Engineer
5 117 (11.19%) Data Engineer
6 109 (10.42%) Lead
7 68 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.31%) AWS Architect
9 63 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 62 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 53 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.68%) AWS Developer
14 47 (4.49%) Senior Developer
15 44 (4.21%) Python Developer
16 43 (4.11%) Technical Architect
17 42 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
18 41 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
19 39 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
19 39 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.38%) REST
2 131 (12.52%) React
3 127 (12.14%) Node.js
4 112 (10.71%) .NET
5 108 (10.33%) RESTful
6 104 (9.94%) Kafka
7 74 (7.07%) AWS CDK
8 72 (6.88%) PySpark
9 65 (6.21%) Spring Boot
10 64 (6.12%) Spring
11 62 (5.93%) GraphQL
12 55 (5.26%) OAuth
13 46 (4.40%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.21%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.82%) JSON
16 37 (3.54%) OAuth2
17 35 (3.35%) OpenID
18 34 (3.25%) CSS
19 33 (3.15%) Flask
19 33 (3.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 320 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 69 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (4.97%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.58%) NHS
6 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.24%) IVR
10 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.05%) IoT
12 11 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.35%) Linux
2 24 (2.29%) Unix
3 15 (1.43%) Windows
4 14 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 442 (42.26%) DevOps
3 392 (37.48%) Agile
4 387 (37.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (25.53%) Microservices
6 232 (22.18%) AI
7 219 (20.94%) Event-Driven
8 214 (20.46%) Containerisation
9 178 (17.02%) Observability
10 163 (15.58%) Data Modelling
11 162 (15.49%) Test Automation
12 159 (15.20%) Analytics
13 147 (14.05%) Data Pipeline
14 142 (13.58%) Software Engineering
15 140 (13.38%) ETL
16 134 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 131 (12.52%) Migration
18 130 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
18 130 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (12.14%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 457 (43.69%) Python
2 304 (29.06%) SQL
3 179 (17.11%) TypeScript
4 150 (14.34%) JavaScript
5 137 (13.10%) Java
6 130 (12.43%) C#
7 71 (6.79%) Bash
8 39 (3.73%) Bicep
9 38 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.53%) Scala
12 14 (1.34%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.67%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 282 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 231 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.36%) AWS Certification
4 47 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.30%) Degree
6 37 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.97%) QA
3 39 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.15%) GDPR
5 26 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.10%) WCAG
7 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.05%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 7 (0.67%) PMO
10 5 (0.48%) HL7
10 5 (0.48%) SLA
11 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 263 (25.14%) Docker
2 32 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.67%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 397 (37.95%) Terraform
2 235 (22.47%) Kubernetes
3 89 (8.51%) Grafana
4 76 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 45 (4.30%) Ansible
6 16 (1.53%) Puppet
6 16 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.86%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.67%) Argo
9 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.48%) Packer
11 5 (0.48%) Salt
12 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.38%) Kibana
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 149 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.35%) Databricks
3 34 (3.25%) Oracle
4 32 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.68%) Informatica
6 26 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.29%) Google
7 24 (2.29%) Splunk
8 22 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.05%) SAP
12 10 (0.96%) Brio
13 9 (0.86%) Tenable
14 7 (0.67%) Confluent
14 7 (0.67%) New Relic
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
15 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.48%) Workday
16 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA