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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 105 135
Rank change year-on-year -34 +30 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,050 810 703
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.46% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 6.61% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 595 508
10th Percentile £400 £391 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £687 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +2.04% -8.84% +2.63%
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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £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 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -25 853 £525 - 688
London -25 497 £548 -0.45% 446
UK excluding London -26 390 £500 +2.04% 310
Work from Home -26 338 £525 +3.45% 316
North of England -37 138 £500 +5.26% 104
Midlands -7 82 £479 +12.71% 39
North West -33 70 £563 +18.42% 53
West Midlands -2 66 £477 +12.24% 25
Scotland -5 52 £450 -10.00% 28
South West -24 47 £542 +5.97% 43
Yorkshire -37 46 £500 +3.90% 28
South East -58 46 £600 +39.53% 55
East of England -16 24 £525 - 19
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 23
East Midlands -4 16 £481 +15.83% 14
Northern Ireland +8 4 £283 -43.50% 14
Wales -10 3 £550 -4.39% 11

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 53 (5.05%) Confluence
2 46 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.14%) Apache
5 19 (1.81%) 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%) Jupyter
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 (0.095%) Camunda
11 1 (0.095%) Mendix
11 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 826 (78.67%) AWS
2 660 (62.86%) AWS Lambda
3 447 (42.57%) Amazon S3
4 344 (32.76%) Azure
5 216 (20.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 208 (19.81%) GitHub
7 193 (18.38%) Amazon ECS
8 179 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (16.19%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (16.10%) Azure Functions
11 157 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
13 128 (12.19%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (11.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (10.95%) AWS Step Functions
16 110 (10.48%) Power Platform
17 108 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
18 84 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
19 76 (7.24%) GCP
20 73 (6.95%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.43%) Firewall
2 26 (2.48%) DNS
3 25 (2.38%) Network Security
4 17 (1.62%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) HTTP
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
7 5 (0.48%) SSL
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.095%) IPsec
10 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.62%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.95%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.76%) Amazon Athena
4 95 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.90%) Power BI
7 78 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
8 71 (6.76%) NoSQL
9 55 (5.24%) Data Lake
10 50 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 43 (4.10%) SQL Server
12 39 (3.71%) MySQL
13 36 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.14%) Metadata
15 32 (3.05%) MongoDB
15 32 (3.05%) Relational Database
16 25 (2.38%) Tableau
17 21 (2.00%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
18 17 (1.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 181 (17.24%) Git
2 142 (13.52%) Jenkins
3 139 (13.24%) GitLab
4 75 (7.14%) JIRA
5 31 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 30 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 27 (2.57%) Claude Code
8 21 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.33%) JUnit
11 13 (1.24%) Postman
12 12 (1.14%) Selenium
13 9 (0.86%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.67%) Gatling
15 7 (0.67%) MSTest
15 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.67%) Vite
16 6 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 232 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 183 (17.43%) Public Sector
3 148 (14.10%) Finance
4 70 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.33%) Banking
6 27 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.14%) Law
8 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
10 10 (0.95%) Marketing
11 9 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.67%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (23.43%) Developer
2 196 (18.67%) Senior
3 191 (18.19%) Architect
4 177 (16.86%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 110 (10.48%) Lead
7 74 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 63 (6.00%) AWS Architect
10 56 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (4.57%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.48%) Python Developer
14 43 (4.10%) Senior Developer
15 42 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (4.00%) Technical Architect
16 41 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.81%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.19%) REST
2 132 (12.57%) React
3 125 (11.90%) Node.js
4 112 (10.67%) .NET
5 108 (10.29%) RESTful
6 106 (10.10%) Kafka
7 80 (7.62%) AWS CDK
8 71 (6.76%) PySpark
9 62 (5.90%) GraphQL
9 62 (5.90%) Spring
9 62 (5.90%) Spring Boot
10 50 (4.76%) OAuth
11 47 (4.48%) FastAPI
12 42 (4.00%) AngularJS
13 40 (3.81%) JSON
14 36 (3.43%) CSS
14 36 (3.43%) Flask
15 35 (3.33%) HTML
15 35 (3.33%) OpenID
16 33 (3.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 322 (30.67%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.48%) Product Ownership
3 73 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.62%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.67%) NHS
6 25 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.43%) IVR
10 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.05%) IoT
12 11 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.90%) Linux
2 21 (2.00%) Unix
3 15 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.33%) Windows
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 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (60.10%) CI/CD
2 448 (42.67%) DevOps
3 400 (38.10%) Agile
3 400 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 260 (24.76%) Microservices
5 238 (22.67%) AI
6 227 (21.62%) Event-Driven
7 218 (20.76%) Containerisation
8 180 (17.14%) Observability
9 165 (15.71%) Test Automation
10 161 (15.33%) Data Modelling
11 158 (15.05%) Analytics
12 152 (14.48%) Software Engineering
13 145 (13.81%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 138 (13.14%) ETL
16 131 (12.48%) Migration
16 131 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
17 127 (12.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 127 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 458 (43.62%) Python
2 306 (29.14%) SQL
3 179 (17.05%) TypeScript
4 149 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 133 (12.67%) Java
6 127 (12.10%) C#
7 74 (7.05%) Bash
8 40 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 39 (3.71%) Bicep
10 33 (3.14%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 14 (1.33%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.67%) Ruby
14 7 (0.67%) SPARQL
14 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 287 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (4.38%) Degree
6 40 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.05%) QA
3 38 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.24%) GDPR
5 26 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.10%) WCAG
7 14 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.24%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 7 (0.67%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 272 (25.90%) Docker
2 34 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Squid
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 414 (39.43%) Terraform
2 241 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.76%) Grafana
4 74 (7.05%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.48%) Ansible
6 16 (1.52%) Puppet
7 14 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.05%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.67%) Kibana
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 155 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.24%) Databricks
3 36 (3.43%) Oracle
4 30 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.57%) Dynatrace
5 27 (2.57%) Informatica
6 26 (2.48%) Splunk
7 24 (2.29%) Google
8 23 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.14%) SAP
11 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.95%) 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%) Foundry
15 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.48%) Workday