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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 101 127
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,044 750 779
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.56% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.15% 6.81% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 578 593
10th Percentile £363 £400 £380
25th Percentile £415 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.93% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £703 £788 £711
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 16,972 11,012 14,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.81% 37.60% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,516 7,643 9,977
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 £482 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.47% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 250 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% +30.78% -40.09%
75th Percentile £67.75 £46.30 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -11 846 £520 -5.45% 303
London -13 505 £525 -4.55% 145
UK excluding London -13 373 £500 - 172
Work from Home -42 282 £500 -4.76% 147
North of England -9 149 £500 - 71
North West -12 83 £500 - 46
Midlands -28 63 £500 +4.28% 20
Scotland -20 53 £402 -23.43% 5
South East -43 52 £538 +7.50% 39
West Midlands -20 51 £494 +2.65% 9
Yorkshire -14 50 £500 - 20
South West -10 34 £578 +5.16% 27
East of England -17 24 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -13 17 £475 - 5
East Midlands -29 12 £500 - 11
Wales -9 6 £475 +5.50% 2
Northern Ireland +3 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 56 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.93%) Confluence
3 38 (3.64%) Apache
3 38 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.68%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.63%) nginx
6 11 (1.05%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.96%) Mendix
8 7 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.48%) SAS
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.096%) JBoss
13 1 (0.096%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 769 (73.66%) AWS
2 603 (57.76%) AWS Lambda
3 405 (38.79%) Amazon S3
4 398 (38.12%) Azure
5 231 (22.13%) GitHub
6 218 (20.88%) Azure Functions
7 207 (19.83%) Amazon ECS
8 190 (18.20%) Amazon EC2
9 181 (17.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 180 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 174 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
12 165 (15.80%) GitHub Actions
13 153 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.69%) Power Platform
15 114 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
15 114 (10.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 103 (9.87%) Azure Logic Apps
17 94 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
18 93 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
19 67 (6.42%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.45%) DNS
1 36 (3.45%) Firewall
2 22 (2.11%) VPN
3 15 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) HTTP
5 12 (1.15%) Network Security
6 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.77%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.67%) SMS
8 7 (0.67%) SSL
9 5 (0.48%) IPsec
10 4 (0.38%) WAN
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 1 (0.096%) 4G
13 1 (0.096%) 5G
13 1 (0.096%) MQTT
13 1 (0.096%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.08%) DynamoDB
2 128 (12.26%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
5 78 (7.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (7.47%) NoSQL
5 78 (7.47%) Power BI
6 62 (5.94%) Data Lake
7 52 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 45 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (3.83%) SQL Server
11 39 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 35 (3.35%) MongoDB
13 32 (3.07%) Big Data
13 32 (3.07%) Metadata
14 30 (2.87%) Tableau
15 27 (2.59%) MySQL
15 27 (2.59%) Redis
16 26 (2.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 167 (16.00%) Git
2 153 (14.66%) GitLab
3 128 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.75%) JIRA
5 31 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.34%) JUnit
8 14 (1.34%) MLflow
9 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.86%) Maven
10 9 (0.86%) Mockito
10 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.77%) NUnit
11 8 (0.77%) Selenium
12 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.67%) Mocha
12 7 (0.67%) Postman
12 7 (0.67%) Vite
13 6 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 222 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 201 (19.25%) Public Sector
3 145 (13.89%) Finance
4 65 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.74%) Banking
6 29 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.25%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.96%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
10 8 (0.77%) Military
10 8 (0.77%) Retail
11 6 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.57%) Police
12 5 (0.48%) Front Office
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.38%) Billing
13 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (26.05%) Developer
2 184 (17.62%) Architect
3 146 (13.98%) Senior
4 140 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
5 108 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 96 (9.20%) Lead
7 78 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.27%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 50 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (4.69%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 45 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
15 43 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 43 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.93%) Python Engineer
18 40 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
19 39 (3.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (15.42%) Node.js
2 143 (13.70%) React
3 129 (12.36%) REST
4 121 (11.59%) .NET
5 119 (11.40%) Kafka
6 101 (9.67%) RESTful
7 86 (8.24%) Spring
8 84 (8.05%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.76%) OAuth
10 66 (6.32%) PySpark
11 58 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 52 (4.98%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.50%) JSON
13 47 (4.50%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.31%) FastAPI
15 43 (4.12%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.83%) OpenID
17 37 (3.54%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.45%) Next.js
19 35 (3.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 274 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.78%) NHS
5 25 (2.39%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.86%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.77%) Replication
15 7 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.28%) Linux
2 22 (2.11%) Unix
3 10 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
6 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 516 (49.43%) DevOps
3 395 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (32.47%) Agile
5 273 (26.15%) Microservices
6 252 (24.14%) Containerisation
7 180 (17.24%) AI
8 167 (16.00%) Observability
9 166 (15.90%) Event-Driven
10 161 (15.42%) Analytics
11 153 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (14.08%) Data Modelling
13 145 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (13.31%) Software Engineering
15 137 (13.12%) Test Automation
16 133 (12.74%) ETL
17 115 (11.02%) Migration
18 113 (10.82%) Data Engineering
19 109 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 105 (10.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 480 (45.98%) Python
2 287 (27.49%) SQL
3 164 (15.71%) Java
4 162 (15.52%) C#
5 159 (15.23%) TypeScript
6 148 (14.18%) JavaScript
7 63 (6.03%) Bash
8 50 (4.79%) Bicep
9 45 (4.31%) PowerShell
10 36 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.39%) Go
12 24 (2.30%) Ruby
13 17 (1.63%) Scala
14 11 (1.05%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.05%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.67%) Groovy
15 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) C++
17 5 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 287 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 228 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.42%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.49%) Degree
8 19 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.38%) PhD
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.69%) QA
3 31 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.87%) GDPR
4 30 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.44%) NIST
7 11 (1.05%) WCAG
8 10 (0.96%) PMO
9 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 4 (0.38%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 281 (26.92%) Docker
2 32 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.96%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 434 (41.57%) Terraform
2 255 (24.43%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.77%) Grafana
4 88 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 56 (5.36%) Ansible
6 29 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.25%) Puppet
8 11 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.77%) Consul
11 6 (0.57%) Istio
11 6 (0.57%) Kibana
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
12 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 170 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.24%) Databricks
3 49 (4.69%) Oracle
4 47 (4.50%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.68%) Splunk
6 22 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.63%) Google
8 15 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.34%) Foundry
10 12 (1.15%) Informatica
11 11 (1.05%) Lotus
12 10 (0.96%) Confluent
12 10 (0.96%) Kofax
12 10 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.86%) Brio
13 9 (0.86%) SAP
14 8 (0.77%) Tenable
15 7 (0.67%) Palantir