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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 114 120
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 920 766 945
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.09% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.81% 5.94% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 527 688
10th Percentile £384 £374 £400
25th Percentile £425 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -11.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,503 12,891 16,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.23% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,102 8,497 11,960
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 165 323
10th Percentile £15.14 £18.82 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.78 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.27 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.88% +47.87% +15.38%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +12 742 £513 -6.82% 1,161
London +12 400 £525 -4.55% 546
UK excluding London -1 368 £490 -6.67% 898
Work from Home +3 307 £525 +3.55% 664
North of England +25 147 £500 -1.38% 226
Yorkshire +19 88 £500 -4.76% 59
Midlands +10 70 £500 - 49
Scotland -10 54 £500 +5.93% 56
North West 0 53 £463 +3.24% 153
West Midlands +1 51 £525 - 22
South East -51 43 £425 -32.00% 448
East of England +16 37 £525 -7.89% 37
South West -13 32 £600 -6.61% 47
East Midlands -8 18 £411 -8.61% 25
North East -8 7 £466 -23.61% 14
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 8
Wales -6 2 £569 +8.33% 20

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 39 (4.24%) Apache
2 33 (3.59%) Confluence
3 32 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.41%) CMS
6 12 (1.30%) nginx
7 7 (0.76%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.65%) Documentum
8 6 (0.65%) FileNet
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 685 (74.46%) AWS
2 546 (59.35%) AWS Lambda
3 348 (37.83%) Amazon S3
4 277 (30.11%) Azure
5 184 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 176 (19.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 173 (18.80%) GitHub
8 168 (18.26%) Amazon EC2
9 157 (17.07%) Azure Functions
10 156 (16.96%) Amazon ECS
11 117 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
12 109 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
13 100 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
14 98 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
15 92 (10.00%) GCP
16 75 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (7.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 64 (6.96%) AWS Step Functions
19 58 (6.30%) Power Platform
20 53 (5.76%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.04%) Firewall
2 27 (2.93%) VPN
3 23 (2.50%) DNS
4 12 (1.30%) SSL
5 9 (0.98%) Network Security
6 6 (0.65%) DHCP
6 6 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.54%) HTTP
7 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.33%) DKIM
8 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.22%) LAN
9 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.22%) SSH
9 2 (0.22%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) Internet
10 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 138 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (9.89%) NoSQL
4 63 (6.85%) Relational Database
5 62 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 50 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (5.11%) Amazon Athena
7 47 (5.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 40 (4.35%) Power BI
9 32 (3.48%) Big Data
10 30 (3.26%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.15%) MySQL
12 27 (2.93%) MongoDB
13 26 (2.83%) Redis
13 26 (2.83%) SQL Server
14 21 (2.28%) RDBMS
15 20 (2.17%) Tableau
16 17 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 161 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 158 (17.17%) Git
3 114 (12.39%) GitLab
4 83 (9.02%) JIRA
5 38 (4.13%) Liquibase
6 28 (3.04%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.50%) JUnit
8 18 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.63%) Mockito
9 15 (1.63%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.52%) Postman
11 13 (1.41%) Maven
12 10 (1.09%) Selenium
12 10 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (0.98%) MLflow
14 7 (0.76%) Gradle
15 6 (0.65%) Storybook
16 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
General
1 238 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 113 (12.28%) Finance
4 70 (7.61%) Banking
5 63 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.04%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.63%) Marketing
9 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.98%) Retail
10 8 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 7 (0.76%) Front Office
12 6 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (0.65%) Military
12 6 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.43%) Publishing
14 3 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.33%) Local Government
14 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 249 (27.07%) Developer
2 144 (15.65%) Senior
3 141 (15.33%) AWS Engineer
4 134 (14.57%) Architect
5 104 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 73 (7.93%) Data Engineer
8 63 (6.85%) Lead
9 48 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.46%) AWS Architect
12 40 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 40 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 39 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.13%) AWS Developer
15 37 (4.02%) Senior Developer
16 35 (3.80%) Python Engineer
17 33 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 31 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
19 30 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (16.30%) Node.js
2 149 (16.20%) RESTful
3 131 (14.24%) REST
4 130 (14.13%) React
5 94 (10.22%) .NET
6 91 (9.89%) Kafka
7 64 (6.96%) AWS CDK
8 61 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
9 46 (5.00%) OAuth
10 45 (4.89%) Spring
10 45 (4.89%) Spring Boot
11 44 (4.78%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.02%) AngularJS
12 37 (4.02%) FastAPI
12 37 (4.02%) PyTorch
13 35 (3.80%) HTML
14 32 (3.48%) Next.js
15 31 (3.37%) CSS
15 31 (3.37%) JSON
16 29 (3.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 215 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 24 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 16 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 16 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.52%) NHS
9 13 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.30%) Replication
10 12 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.98%) IVR
12 8 (0.87%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.76%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 103 (11.20%) Linux
2 11 (1.20%) Windows
3 10 (1.09%) Unix
4 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.54%) VMS
5 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Android
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 448 (48.70%) DevOps
3 381 (41.41%) Agile
4 307 (33.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (28.04%) Microservices
6 224 (24.35%) Containerisation
7 184 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 177 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (15.54%) AI
10 114 (12.39%) Test Automation
11 113 (12.28%) Analytics
12 111 (12.07%) Event-Driven
13 108 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
14 102 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
15 101 (10.98%) Mentoring
16 94 (10.22%) ETL
17 93 (10.11%) Machine Learning
18 91 (9.89%) Data Modelling
19 85 (9.24%) Scrum
20 80 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 458 (49.78%) Python
2 217 (23.59%) SQL
3 162 (17.61%) Java
4 147 (15.98%) JavaScript
5 142 (15.43%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.24%) C#
7 67 (7.28%) Go
8 58 (6.30%) Bash
9 38 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.61%) Bicep
11 16 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.52%) Ruby
13 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.09%) Scala
15 9 (0.98%) C++
16 7 (0.76%) Perl
17 6 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.65%) JSX
17 6 (0.65%) Rust
17 6 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 159 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.35%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.61%) Degree
5 61 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.91%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 26 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.98%) MCP
13 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.54%) QA
2 40 (4.35%) GDPR
3 33 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 27 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.74%) NIST
6 15 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.52%) WCAG
8 9 (0.98%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.43%) MiFID
11 4 (0.43%) NCSC
12 3 (0.33%) HL7
12 3 (0.33%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.22%) GxP
13 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 258 (28.04%) Docker
2 34 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 349 (37.93%) Terraform
2 252 (27.39%) Kubernetes
3 107 (11.63%) Grafana
4 102 (11.09%) Prometheus
5 92 (10.00%) Ansible
6 14 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.20%) Kibana
8 10 (1.09%) Puppet
9 8 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.76%) Packer
11 3 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.33%) Rancher
12 2 (0.22%) Argo
12 2 (0.22%) Control-M
12 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.22%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 143 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.33%) Google
2 49 (5.33%) Splunk
3 36 (3.91%) Databricks
4 33 (3.59%) Oracle
5 26 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.17%) Foundry
7 19 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.30%) Cloudera
9 12 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.30%) Pega
10 11 (1.20%) Palantir
11 10 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.09%) IBM
12 8 (0.87%) Cisco
13 7 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.76%) Confluent
14 6 (0.65%) Gigya
14 6 (0.65%) StreamSets