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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 109 128
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 812 726
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.48% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.64% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 598 528
10th Percentile £386 £400 £367
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £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 £74.00 £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 18,669 12,237 13,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.32% 37.37% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,316 8,189 9,408
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 316 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.43 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +94.54% -10.14% -21.50%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -25 851 £529 +0.76% 278
London -21 498 £550 - 145
UK excluding London -24 396 £500 - 170
Work from Home -22 342 £525 - 124
North of England -32 140 £500 - 63
Midlands -8 78 £476 +5.78% 24
North West -32 73 £538 +7.50% 31
West Midlands -10 62 £472 +4.89% 17
Scotland -2 61 £438 -12.50% 9
Yorkshire -25 49 £500 +3.90% 16
South East -62 47 £600 +26.72% 35
South West -17 45 £550 +8.64% 24
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 11
North East -30 19 £463 +0.54% 16
East Midlands -9 16 £488 +17.52% 7
Northern Ireland +2 4 £283 -43.50% 1
Wales -12 4 £400 -30.47% 5

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 52 (4.91%) Confluence
2 48 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.15%) Apache Spark
4 32 (3.02%) Apache
5 18 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 839 (79.23%) AWS
2 662 (62.51%) AWS Lambda
3 452 (42.68%) Amazon S3
4 354 (33.43%) Azure
5 207 (19.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 203 (19.17%) GitHub
7 195 (18.41%) Amazon ECS
8 182 (17.19%) Amazon EC2
9 172 (16.24%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (15.77%) Azure Functions
11 159 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 141 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
14 117 (11.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (10.95%) AWS Step Functions
16 114 (10.76%) Power Platform
17 101 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
18 82 (7.74%) GCP
19 76 (7.18%) Azure Logic Apps
20 73 (6.89%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.40%) Firewall
2 26 (2.46%) DNS
3 25 (2.36%) Network Security
4 18 (1.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.66%) SSL
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.38%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 1 (0.094%) 5G
12 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.77%) DynamoDB
2 151 (14.26%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (10.95%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 98 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.93%) Power BI
6 78 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (6.80%) NoSQL
8 58 (5.48%) Data Lake
9 49 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (4.25%) SQL Server
11 38 (3.59%) MySQL
12 36 (3.40%) Relational Database
13 35 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (3.21%) Metadata
15 29 (2.74%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.36%) Tableau
17 21 (1.98%) Big Data
18 19 (1.79%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 179 (16.90%) Git
2 138 (13.03%) GitLab
3 135 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.08%) JIRA
5 29 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.46%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.27%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.23%) JUnit
11 12 (1.13%) Postman
12 10 (0.94%) Selenium
13 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.76%) MLflow
13 8 (0.76%) Mocha
13 8 (0.76%) MSTest
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.76%) Vite
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 239 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.31%) Finance
4 70 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.02%) Banking
6 24 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.61%) Legal
8 12 (1.13%) Law
9 10 (0.94%) Billing
9 10 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.85%) Marketing
10 9 (0.85%) Retail
11 8 (0.76%) Back Office
12 7 (0.66%) Front Office
12 7 (0.66%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.47%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (23.14%) Developer
2 197 (18.60%) Senior
3 195 (18.41%) Architect
4 173 (16.34%) AWS Engineer
5 121 (11.43%) Data Engineer
6 113 (10.67%) Lead
7 70 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.42%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.04%) Software Engineer
10 63 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (4.53%) Senior Developer
13 48 (4.53%) Technical Architect
14 47 (4.44%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.06%) Python Developer
15 43 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) Python Engineer
17 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.22%) REST
2 131 (12.37%) Node.js
3 129 (12.18%) React
4 110 (10.39%) .NET
5 109 (10.29%) RESTful
6 105 (9.92%) Kafka
7 76 (7.18%) AWS CDK
8 74 (6.99%) PySpark
9 64 (6.04%) GraphQL
9 64 (6.04%) Spring Boot
10 62 (5.85%) Spring
11 60 (5.67%) OAuth
12 50 (4.72%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.25%) JSON
14 43 (4.06%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.78%) OAuth2
16 37 (3.49%) OpenID
17 33 (3.12%) CSS
18 32 (3.02%) Flask
18 32 (3.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 316 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.69%) Product Ownership
3 70 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.83%) NHS
6 29 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) IVR
12 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
13 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.57%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 449 (42.40%) DevOps
3 396 (37.39%) Agile
4 389 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (25.50%) Microservices
6 243 (22.95%) AI
7 224 (21.15%) Containerisation
8 216 (20.40%) Event-Driven
9 177 (16.71%) Observability
10 165 (15.58%) Analytics
11 162 (15.30%) Data Modelling
12 160 (15.11%) Test Automation
13 152 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
14 149 (14.07%) Software Engineering
15 145 (13.69%) ETL
16 136 (12.84%) Data Engineering
17 132 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
18 131 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 128 (12.09%) Migration
20 127 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 481 (45.42%) Python
2 309 (29.18%) SQL
3 175 (16.53%) TypeScript
4 144 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 137 (12.94%) Java
6 134 (12.65%) C#
7 74 (6.99%) Bash
8 39 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 35 (3.31%) Bicep
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.61%) Scala
12 15 (1.42%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 278 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 226 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (4.15%) Degree
6 37 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
19 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.72%) QA
3 38 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.02%) GDPR
5 25 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.79%) WCAG
7 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.13%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 266 (25.12%) Docker
2 34 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.28%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 400 (37.77%) Terraform
2 243 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 93 (8.78%) Grafana
4 79 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.44%) Ansible
6 20 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.51%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.28%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 151 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.38%) Databricks
3 41 (3.87%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.12%) Oracle
5 27 (2.55%) Informatica
6 25 (2.36%) Google
6 25 (2.36%) Splunk
7 24 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Brio
12 9 (0.85%) Foundry
13 8 (0.76%) Tenable
14 6 (0.57%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday