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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 100 133
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,074 823 759
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.08% 2.59% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% 6.86% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 611 562
10th Percentile £386 £400 £376
25th Percentile £450 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.25% -5.30%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,271 12,003 14,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.81% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,131 8,033 10,026
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 300 360
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.88 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +34.51% +26.30% -36.93%
75th Percentile £69.27 £47.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.08% -20.81%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -27 860 £525 - 332
London -18 514 £550 - 177
UK excluding London -36 379 £508 +1.50% 221
Work from Home -26 346 £525 - 190
North of England -30 142 £500 - 68
North West -22 80 £525 +5.00% 40
Midlands -26 67 £488 +6.21% 26
Scotland -14 55 £450 -13.88% 16
West Midlands -31 53 £488 +3.17% 12
Yorkshire -29 49 £500 - 18
South East -50 48 £575 +16.87% 52
South West -12 40 £575 +8.24% 39
East of England -25 27 £550 +3.53% 8
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +8.17% 14
North East -31 14 £463 -1.07% 10
Wales -13 6 £500 -13.08% 6
Northern Ireland +5 5 £283 -43.50% 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 56 (5.21%) Confluence
2 48 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.61%) Apache
5 20 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.21%) nginx
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Mendix
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 841 (78.31%) AWS
2 664 (61.82%) AWS Lambda
3 465 (43.30%) Amazon S3
4 369 (34.36%) Azure
5 214 (19.93%) GitHub
6 200 (18.62%) Amazon EC2
7 198 (18.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 190 (17.69%) Amazon ECS
9 177 (16.48%) Azure Functions
10 173 (16.11%) Amazon EKS
11 155 (14.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
13 119 (11.08%) Amazon SQS
13 119 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 118 (10.99%) Power Platform
15 114 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
16 107 (9.96%) AWS Step Functions
17 81 (7.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 80 (7.45%) GCP
19 70 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.35%) Firewall
2 29 (2.70%) DNS
3 25 (2.33%) VPN
4 23 (2.14%) Network Security
5 13 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 10 (0.93%) HTTP
6 10 (0.93%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.74%) SSL
8 6 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.28%) CTI
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) SMS
12 1 (0.093%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.99%) DynamoDB
2 154 (14.34%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.52%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 98 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.82%) Power BI
6 72 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
7 69 (6.42%) NoSQL
8 57 (5.31%) Data Lake
9 48 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (4.19%) SQL Server
11 39 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (3.26%) MySQL
12 35 (3.26%) Relational Database
13 31 (2.89%) Metadata
14 28 (2.61%) MongoDB
15 26 (2.42%) Tableau
16 23 (2.14%) Big Data
17 21 (1.96%) Delta Lake
18 19 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (16.67%) Git
2 146 (13.59%) GitLab
3 136 (12.66%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.54%) JIRA
5 28 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.86%) Claude Code
7 20 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.21%) JUnit
10 10 (0.93%) Postman
10 10 (0.93%) Vite
11 9 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.84%) Mocha
12 8 (0.74%) MSTest
13 7 (0.65%) MLflow
13 7 (0.65%) Selenium
14 6 (0.56%) Gatling
14 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 243 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 187 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.22%) Finance
4 62 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.70%) Banking
7 17 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.58%) Legal
8 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.12%) Law
9 9 (0.84%) Military
10 8 (0.74%) Retail
11 7 (0.65%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.56%) Marketing
12 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.47%) Back Office
13 5 (0.47%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 240 (22.35%) Developer
2 206 (19.18%) Architect
3 185 (17.23%) Senior
4 171 (15.92%) AWS Engineer
5 124 (11.55%) Data Engineer
6 105 (9.78%) Lead
7 76 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.24%) AWS Architect
8 67 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (4.93%) Technical Architect
12 49 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 46 (4.28%) AWS Developer
14 46 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
15 44 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (4.00%) Python Engineer
17 41 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
18 40 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (12.01%) REST
2 127 (11.82%) Node.js
2 127 (11.82%) React
3 116 (10.80%) Kafka
4 112 (10.43%) .NET
4 112 (10.43%) RESTful
5 77 (7.17%) PySpark
6 70 (6.52%) AWS CDK
7 68 (6.33%) Spring Boot
8 66 (6.15%) Spring
9 65 (6.05%) GraphQL
10 63 (5.87%) OAuth
11 45 (4.19%) FastAPI
11 45 (4.19%) JSON
12 42 (3.91%) AngularJS
12 42 (3.91%) OpenID
13 38 (3.54%) OAuth2
14 31 (2.89%) .NET Core
15 27 (2.51%) Next.js
15 27 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 326 (30.35%) Cloud Native
2 86 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 32 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.42%) NHS
7 20 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.84%) IoT
12 9 (0.84%) IVR
12 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.74%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.49%) Linux
2 22 (2.05%) Unix
3 13 (1.21%) Windows
4 12 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.56%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (60.52%) CI/CD
2 476 (44.32%) DevOps
3 386 (35.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (35.01%) Agile
5 268 (24.95%) Microservices
6 233 (21.69%) Containerisation
7 227 (21.14%) AI
8 215 (20.02%) Event-Driven
9 164 (15.27%) Observability
10 162 (15.08%) Analytics
11 153 (14.25%) Data Modelling
12 151 (14.06%) Test Automation
13 150 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
14 147 (13.69%) Software Engineering
15 141 (13.13%) ETL
16 136 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
17 130 (12.10%) Data Engineering
18 127 (11.82%) Migration
19 120 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
20 119 (11.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 478 (44.51%) Python
2 304 (28.31%) SQL
3 170 (15.83%) TypeScript
4 141 (13.13%) C#
4 141 (13.13%) Java
5 136 (12.66%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.33%) Bash
7 42 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 35 (3.26%) Bicep
9 33 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.86%) Go
11 18 (1.68%) Scala
12 10 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.74%) Ruby
14 7 (0.65%) Groovy
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
15 6 (0.56%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 5 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 276 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 222 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.91%) Degree
6 37 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 3 (0.28%) CCSP
19 3 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.00%) QA
3 28 (2.61%) GDPR
4 27 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.30%) NIST
8 13 (1.21%) WCAG
9 7 (0.65%) NCSC
9 7 (0.65%) PMO
10 6 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) HL7
12 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 274 (25.51%) Docker
2 32 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.12%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 423 (39.39%) Terraform
2 253 (23.56%) Kubernetes
3 95 (8.85%) Grafana
4 86 (8.01%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.75%) Ansible
6 26 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.86%) Puppet
8 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.84%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.74%) Consul
10 7 (0.65%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
11 6 (0.56%) Podman
11 6 (0.56%) Salt
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 151 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.96%) Databricks
3 44 (4.10%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.17%) Oracle
5 26 (2.42%) Informatica
6 25 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.14%) Google
7 23 (2.14%) Splunk
8 18 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.93%) Foundry
11 10 (0.93%) SAP
12 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.84%) Tenable
13 8 (0.74%) Brio
14 7 (0.65%) Sybase
15 6 (0.56%) Ab Initio
15 6 (0.56%) Confluent
16 5 (0.47%) Workday