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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 94 131
Rank change year-on-year -20 +37 -38
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 787 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.66% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 7.01% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 588 569
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £437 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £625
90th Percentile £731 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.00 -
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 17,796 11,228 14,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.90% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 7,582 9,936
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 279 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +97.37% -4.76% -26.38%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -17 878 £525 - 329
London -13 525 £525 -4.55% 180
UK excluding London -23 379 £500 - 203
Work from Home -20 334 £510 -2.86% 164
North of England -19 143 £500 - 63
North West -21 79 £518 +3.50% 36
Midlands -23 64 £488 -2.50% 18
South East -40 54 £588 +17.50% 46
West Midlands -26 50 £488 -4.79% 11
Scotland -14 49 £444 -15.48% 12
Yorkshire -24 49 £500 - 17
South West -15 41 £575 +6.98% 40
East of England -21 27 £550 +2.33% 12
North East -26 16 £475 - 10
East Midlands -20 14 £497 +3.55% 7
Wales -8 7 £488 -15.25% 11
Northern Ireland +6 5 £190 -62.00% 5

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 54 (4.95%) Confluence
2 46 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.38%) Apache
4 25 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.10%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) CICS
6 6 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.55%) Mendix
6 6 (0.55%) SAS
7 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 839 (76.83%) AWS
2 665 (60.90%) AWS Lambda
3 465 (42.58%) Amazon S3
4 388 (35.53%) Azure
5 227 (20.79%) GitHub
6 202 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 199 (18.22%) Amazon EC2
8 198 (18.13%) Azure Functions
9 184 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
10 182 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
11 160 (14.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
13 128 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
14 125 (11.45%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
15 117 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
17 86 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 80 (7.33%) Azure Service Bus
19 76 (6.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.02%) DNS
1 33 (3.02%) Firewall
2 22 (2.01%) VPN
3 19 (1.74%) Network Security
4 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.01%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.37%) MQTT
11 3 (0.27%) CTI
11 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) IPv4
13 1 (0.092%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.74%) DynamoDB
2 152 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.35%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 101 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
6 86 (7.88%) Power BI
7 67 (6.14%) NoSQL
8 66 (6.04%) Data Lake
8 66 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
9 54 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 48 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.12%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.21%) MySQL
13 34 (3.11%) Relational Database
14 32 (2.93%) Metadata
15 29 (2.66%) Tableau
16 25 (2.29%) Big Data
16 25 (2.29%) MongoDB
17 21 (1.92%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 169 (15.48%) Git
2 147 (13.46%) GitLab
3 135 (12.36%) Jenkins
4 76 (6.96%) JIRA
5 26 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.37%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.92%) JUnit
11 9 (0.82%) Mocha
11 9 (0.82%) Vite
12 8 (0.73%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
12 8 (0.73%) Postman
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) Selenium
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 242 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 185 (16.94%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.19%) Finance
4 65 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.38%) Banking
7 15 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.37%) Legal
8 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.10%) Law
9 10 (0.92%) Military
10 8 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.73%) Marketing
10 8 (0.73%) Retail
11 6 (0.55%) Billing
11 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.37%) Back Office
13 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 254 (23.26%) Developer
2 206 (18.86%) Architect
3 170 (15.57%) Senior
4 166 (15.20%) AWS Engineer
5 128 (11.72%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.16%) Lead
7 75 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 74 (6.78%) AWS Architect
9 70 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 51 (4.67%) Technical Architect
14 49 (4.49%) AWS Developer
14 49 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
15 47 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
16 45 (4.12%) Senior Developer
17 44 (4.03%) Python Engineer
18 43 (3.94%) Python Developer
19 42 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (12.82%) React
2 137 (12.55%) REST
3 123 (11.26%) Kafka
4 118 (10.81%) Node.js
5 116 (10.62%) .NET
6 110 (10.07%) RESTful
7 77 (7.05%) PySpark
8 73 (6.68%) OAuth
9 72 (6.59%) Spring Boot
10 71 (6.50%) Spring
11 66 (6.04%) AWS CDK
12 57 (5.22%) GraphQL
13 49 (4.49%) FastAPI
14 47 (4.30%) AngularJS
15 44 (4.03%) JSON
15 44 (4.03%) OAuth2
15 44 (4.03%) OpenID
16 36 (3.30%) Next.js
17 30 (2.75%) .NET Core
17 30 (2.75%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 321 (29.40%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 56 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.11%) NHS
7 16 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.73%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.95%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.55%) zOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (60.16%) CI/CD
2 481 (44.05%) DevOps
3 402 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (33.24%) Agile
5 258 (23.63%) Microservices
6 233 (21.34%) Containerisation
7 224 (20.51%) AI
8 207 (18.96%) Event-Driven
9 181 (16.58%) Observability
10 162 (14.84%) Analytics
11 159 (14.56%) Data Modelling
12 157 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
13 152 (13.92%) Test Automation
14 150 (13.74%) Software Engineering
15 148 (13.55%) ETL
16 141 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
17 124 (11.36%) Data Engineering
18 122 (11.17%) Migration
19 119 (10.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 118 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 483 (44.23%) Python
2 319 (29.21%) SQL
3 167 (15.29%) TypeScript
4 153 (14.01%) C#
5 147 (13.46%) JavaScript
6 143 (13.10%) Java
7 56 (5.13%) Bash
8 40 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 38 (3.48%) Bicep
10 34 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.83%) Scala
12 19 (1.74%) Go
13 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) Formula Language
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 6 (0.55%) LotusScript
17 5 (0.46%) Rust
17 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 280 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 223 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 47 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (3.30%) Degree
6 31 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.21%) QA
3 27 (2.47%) GDPR
3 27 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.37%) NIST
7 13 (1.19%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.18%) HL7
12 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 273 (25.00%) Docker
2 31 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 438 (40.11%) Terraform
2 247 (22.62%) Kubernetes
3 98 (8.97%) Grafana
4 88 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.21%) Ansible
6 28 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.65%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
12 5 (0.46%) Salt
13 4 (0.37%) Argo
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Packer
14 3 (0.27%) Kibana
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 153 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.32%) Databricks
3 50 (4.58%) OpenAI
4 36 (3.30%) Oracle
5 24 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.01%) Splunk
7 21 (1.92%) Informatica
8 20 (1.83%) Google
9 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.01%) Confluent
11 11 (1.01%) Foundry
11 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 10 (0.92%) Tenable
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) Brio
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Kofax
15 6 (0.55%) Lotus