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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,033 750 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.56% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 6.81% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 578 588
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £415 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.48% -6.41%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £705 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,881 11,015 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 7,643 9,909
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 251 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.95
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.30 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -14 836 £525 -4.55% 299
London -14 496 £525 -4.55% 143
UK excluding London -16 372 £500 - 169
Work from Home -39 279 £500 -4.76% 144
North of England -9 149 £500 - 69
North West -13 83 £500 - 44
Midlands -29 63 £500 +4.28% 18
Scotland -20 53 £402 -23.43% 5
West Midlands -22 51 £494 +2.65% 6
South East -41 51 £538 +7.50% 40
Yorkshire -11 50 £500 - 19
South West -19 34 £578 +5.16% 28
East of England -16 24 £550 -18.52% 8
North East -14 17 £475 - 6
East Midlands -28 12 £500 - 12
Wales -9 6 £475 +5.50% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 - -

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 55 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.97%) Confluence
3 38 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (3.58%) Apache
5 28 (2.71%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.65%) nginx
7 11 (1.06%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.97%) Mendix
9 7 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.48%) SAS
11 4 (0.39%) CICS
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.097%) FileNet
14 1 (0.097%) JBoss
14 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 762 (73.77%) AWS
2 597 (57.79%) AWS Lambda
3 401 (38.82%) Amazon S3
4 393 (38.04%) Azure
5 226 (21.88%) GitHub
6 215 (20.81%) Azure Functions
7 203 (19.65%) Amazon ECS
8 186 (18.01%) Amazon EC2
9 180 (17.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 174 (16.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 171 (16.55%) Amazon EKS
12 162 (15.68%) GitHub Actions
13 150 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.81%) Power Platform
15 114 (11.04%) AWS Step Functions
16 111 (10.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 102 (9.87%) Azure Logic Apps
18 94 (9.10%) Amazon SQS
19 92 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.39%) Firewall
2 34 (3.29%) DNS
3 20 (1.94%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.16%) HTTP
7 11 (1.06%) Network Security
8 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.68%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.68%) SMS
9 7 (0.68%) SSL
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
11 4 (0.39%) WAN
12 3 (0.29%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.097%) 4G
14 1 (0.097%) 5G
14 1 (0.097%) MQTT
14 1 (0.097%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.13%) DynamoDB
2 126 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
5 78 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (7.55%) NoSQL
5 78 (7.55%) Power BI
6 61 (5.91%) Data Lake
7 51 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 45 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (3.78%) SQL Server
11 35 (3.39%) MongoDB
12 32 (3.10%) Metadata
13 31 (3.00%) Big Data
14 30 (2.90%) Tableau
15 27 (2.61%) MySQL
15 27 (2.61%) Redis
16 26 (2.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 162 (15.68%) Git
2 152 (14.71%) GitLab
3 125 (12.10%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.71%) JIRA
5 29 (2.81%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.36%) MLflow
9 13 (1.26%) JUnit
10 12 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.77%) Maven
11 8 (0.77%) Mockito
11 8 (0.77%) NUnit
11 8 (0.77%) Selenium
11 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.68%) Mocha
12 7 (0.68%) Postman
12 7 (0.68%) Vite
13 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 219 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 197 (19.07%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.94%) Finance
4 65 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.68%) Banking
6 28 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.26%) Legal
8 12 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.97%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
10 8 (0.77%) Military
10 8 (0.77%) Retail
11 6 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.48%) Front Office
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.39%) Billing
13 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (25.85%) Developer
2 184 (17.81%) Architect
3 145 (14.04%) Senior
4 139 (13.46%) AWS Engineer
5 108 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 95 (9.20%) Lead
7 77 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (5.91%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.32%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (4.74%) AWS Developer
11 49 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
13 45 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
14 43 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 43 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 41 (3.97%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
17 39 (3.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (15.20%) Node.js
2 142 (13.75%) React
3 128 (12.39%) REST
4 119 (11.52%) .NET
4 119 (11.52%) Kafka
5 98 (9.49%) RESTful
6 85 (8.23%) Spring
7 83 (8.03%) Spring Boot
8 80 (7.74%) OAuth
9 66 (6.39%) PySpark
10 56 (5.42%) AngularJS
11 52 (5.03%) AWS CDK
12 47 (4.55%) OAuth2
13 45 (4.36%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.36%) JSON
14 42 (4.07%) .NET Core
15 40 (3.87%) OpenID
16 37 (3.58%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.48%) Next.js
18 34 (3.29%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 273 (26.43%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.81%) NHS
5 25 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.32%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.87%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.77%) Replication
16 7 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.68%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.07%) Linux
2 22 (2.13%) Unix
3 10 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (60.70%) CI/CD
2 508 (49.18%) DevOps
3 393 (38.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (32.53%) Agile
5 267 (25.85%) Microservices
6 247 (23.91%) Containerisation
7 179 (17.33%) AI
8 165 (15.97%) Event-Driven
8 165 (15.97%) Observability
9 159 (15.39%) Analytics
10 150 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (14.23%) Data Modelling
12 144 (13.94%) Data Pipeline
13 139 (13.46%) Software Engineering
14 137 (13.26%) Test Automation
15 133 (12.88%) ETL
16 114 (11.04%) Migration
17 112 (10.84%) Data Engineering
18 109 (10.55%) Full-Stack Development
19 105 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 473 (45.79%) Python
2 283 (27.40%) SQL
3 161 (15.59%) C#
3 161 (15.59%) Java
4 158 (15.30%) TypeScript
5 147 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 63 (6.10%) Bash
7 49 (4.74%) Bicep
8 44 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.42%) Go
11 21 (2.03%) Ruby
12 17 (1.65%) Scala
13 11 (1.06%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.06%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.68%) Groovy
14 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.58%) C++
16 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 283 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 225 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.39%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.52%) Degree
8 19 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.39%) PhD
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.65%) QA
3 31 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.90%) GDPR
4 30 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.32%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.45%) NIST
7 11 (1.06%) WCAG
8 10 (0.97%) PMO
9 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 4 (0.39%) HL7
12 4 (0.39%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 274 (26.52%) Docker
2 31 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.97%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 426 (41.24%) Terraform
2 249 (24.10%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.87%) Grafana
4 88 (8.52%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.23%) Ansible
6 29 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.26%) Puppet
8 11 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.77%) Consul
11 6 (0.58%) Istio
11 6 (0.58%) Kibana
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.39%) Podman
13 4 (0.39%) Rancher
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 168 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 85 (8.23%) Databricks
3 48 (4.65%) Oracle
4 46 (4.45%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.71%) Splunk
6 22 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.55%) Google
8 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.36%) Foundry
10 12 (1.16%) Informatica
11 11 (1.06%) Lotus
12 10 (0.97%) Confluent
12 10 (0.97%) Kofax
12 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.87%) Brio
13 9 (0.87%) SAP
14 8 (0.77%) Tenable
15 7 (0.68%) Palantir