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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 100 128
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,038 754 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.59% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 6.89% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 576 586
10th Percentile £371 £400 £384
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.13% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 17,124 10,944 13,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.57% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,525 9,823
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 250 348
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.77 £18.50 £16.05
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.67% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.53 £21.28 £17.72
% change year-on-year +90.46% +20.09% -29.12%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -18 836 £525 -4.55% 329
London -17 508 £525 -4.55% 148
UK excluding London -17 355 £500 -0.05% 206
Work from Home -30 286 £513 -2.38% 573
North of England -18 147 £500 - 79
North West -8 86 £500 - 43
Midlands -35 60 £495 -2.17% 22
South East -49 51 £575 +15.00% 54
West Midlands -32 48 £488 -4.83% 15
Yorkshire -26 47 £500 - 30
Scotland -23 46 £450 -14.29% 8
South West -29 30 £591 +7.43% 31
East of England -15 23 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -17 15 £475 - 7
East Midlands -21 12 £500 - 7
Wales -7 6 £475 -5.09% 4
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 4

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 52 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.34%) Confluence
3 38 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.89%) Apache
5 26 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.64%) nginx
7 10 (0.96%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.96%) Mendix
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.48%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) CMS
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%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 780 (75.14%) AWS
2 611 (58.86%) AWS Lambda
3 415 (39.98%) Amazon S3
4 379 (36.51%) Azure
5 235 (22.64%) GitHub
6 206 (19.85%) Azure Functions
7 197 (18.98%) Amazon ECS
8 194 (18.69%) Amazon EC2
9 177 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
10 172 (16.57%) GitHub Actions
11 170 (16.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 163 (15.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 140 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
14 117 (11.27%) Power Platform
15 116 (11.18%) AWS Step Functions
16 110 (10.60%) Amazon SQS
17 103 (9.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 94 (9.06%) Azure Logic Apps
19 89 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.28%) DNS
2 27 (2.60%) Firewall
3 19 (1.83%) VPN
4 14 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.16%) HTTP
7 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.77%) Network Security
9 7 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.67%) SMS
9 7 (0.67%) SSL
10 5 (0.48%) IPsec
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) WAN
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.096%) 4G
13 1 (0.096%) 5G
13 1 (0.096%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.07%) DynamoDB
2 134 (12.91%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.38%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 76 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 75 (7.23%) Power BI
7 60 (5.78%) Data Lake
8 50 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.43%) Relational Database
11 45 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (4.34%) SQL Server
12 32 (3.08%) Metadata
12 32 (3.08%) MongoDB
13 31 (2.99%) Big Data
13 31 (2.99%) MySQL
14 29 (2.79%) Tableau
15 27 (2.60%) Delta Lake
15 27 (2.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (15.22%) Git
2 145 (13.97%) GitLab
3 122 (11.75%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.68%) JIRA
5 27 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.16%) MLflow
10 11 (1.06%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.96%) JUnit
12 8 (0.77%) Mocha
12 8 (0.77%) NUnit
13 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.67%) Maven
13 7 (0.67%) MSTest
13 7 (0.67%) Postman
13 7 (0.67%) Vite
14 6 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 222 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 140 (13.49%) Finance
4 63 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.08%) Banking
6 27 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.45%) Legal
8 12 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.96%) Marketing
10 9 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.77%) Military
11 8 (0.77%) Retail
12 6 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.58%) Police
13 5 (0.48%) Front Office
13 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.48%) Law
13 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 267 (25.72%) Developer
2 183 (17.63%) Architect
3 154 (14.84%) Senior
4 139 (13.39%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (10.21%) Data Engineer
6 94 (9.06%) Lead
7 70 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.30%) AWS Architect
10 52 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.91%) AWS Developer
12 47 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (4.14%) Senior Developer
15 42 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
15 42 (4.05%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.85%) Python Developer
17 39 (3.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (13.87%) Node.js
2 141 (13.58%) React
3 132 (12.72%) REST
4 128 (12.33%) .NET
5 124 (11.95%) Kafka
6 95 (9.15%) RESTful
7 83 (8.00%) Spring
8 82 (7.90%) Spring Boot
9 76 (7.32%) OAuth
10 68 (6.55%) PySpark
11 61 (5.88%) AWS CDK
12 56 (5.39%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.62%) JSON
14 46 (4.43%) OAuth2
15 45 (4.34%) FastAPI
16 44 (4.24%) .NET Core
17 41 (3.95%) OpenID
18 40 (3.85%) GraphQL
19 39 (3.76%) Next.js
20 32 (3.08%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 282 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.41%) NHS
7 15 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.77%) Replication
14 7 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.65%) Linux
2 23 (2.22%) Unix
3 10 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.096%) 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
1 630 (60.69%) CI/CD
2 490 (47.21%) DevOps
3 393 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (32.27%) Agile
5 260 (25.05%) Microservices
6 243 (23.41%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.63%) Event-Driven
8 182 (17.53%) AI
9 169 (16.28%) Observability
10 147 (14.16%) Analytics
11 146 (14.07%) Data Modelling
11 146 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
12 138 (13.29%) Software Engineering
13 130 (12.52%) ETL
14 129 (12.43%) Test Automation
15 110 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 109 (10.50%) Data Engineering
17 108 (10.40%) Migration
18 107 (10.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 459 (44.22%) Python
2 284 (27.36%) SQL
3 168 (16.18%) C#
4 162 (15.61%) TypeScript
5 153 (14.74%) Java
6 151 (14.55%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.88%) Bash
8 44 (4.24%) Bicep
9 40 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.31%) Go
12 19 (1.83%) Ruby
13 17 (1.64%) Scala
14 10 (0.96%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.96%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.67%) Groovy
16 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 269 (25.92%) Security Cleared
2 212 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 59 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.70%) Degree
6 28 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 10 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.43%) QA
3 27 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.22%) GDPR
5 20 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.45%) NIST
7 10 (0.96%) WCAG
8 7 (0.67%) PMO
9 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.58%) NCSC
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.39%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) HL7
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%) NIST 800
System Software
1 271 (26.11%) Docker
2 27 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.96%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 421 (40.56%) Terraform
2 240 (23.12%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.73%) Grafana
4 85 (8.19%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.53%) Ansible
6 29 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.25%) Puppet
8 10 (0.96%) 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
1 157 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.51%) Databricks
3 46 (4.43%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.34%) Oracle
5 26 (2.50%) Splunk
6 22 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.45%) Google
8 13 (1.25%) Foundry
9 12 (1.16%) Informatica
9 12 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.96%) Brio
10 10 (0.96%) Confluent
10 10 (0.96%) Kofax
10 10 (0.96%) Lotus
10 10 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.87%) SAP
12 8 (0.77%) Tenable
13 6 (0.58%) Palantir