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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 116 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 963 758 886
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.11% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 5.87% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 522 657
10th Percentile £380 £381 £400
25th Percentile £415 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +0.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £638
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.08% -0.95% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £43.25 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £44.38 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £49.38 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile £49.75 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,871 12,911 15,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 35.88% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,439 8,540 11,385
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £417 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 184 295
10th Percentile £15.23 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +12.80%
75th Percentile £51.67 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -16.15% +29.39% +9.18%

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 6 December 2025.

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
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 6 December 2025. 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 +10 772 £500 -12.66% 241
London +3 419 £525 -4.63% 100
UK excluding London +6 397 £478 -8.08% 182
Work from Home +1 296 £525 +2.44% 160
North of England +31 164 £476 -3.94% 76
Yorkshire +29 92 £500 -5.57% 37
Midlands +4 72 £500 +2.04% 16
Scotland +7 70 £450 -5.26% 8
North West +2 63 £450 +1.12% 31
West Midlands +7 54 £525 +5.00% 11
South East -50 43 £430 -31.20% 51
South West -11 34 £625 -2.72% 19
East of England +9 30 £538 -5.70% 11
East Midlands -8 18 £390 -13.33% 5
North East +1 10 £506 -17.01% 8
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 3
Wales -10 1 £488 -2.50% 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 49 (5.09%) Apache
2 34 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.80%) Confluence
5 11 (1.14%) nginx
5 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.62%) CMS
7 4 (0.42%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.31%) Mendix
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.10%) CICS
10 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 713 (74.04%) AWS
2 580 (60.23%) AWS Lambda
3 360 (37.38%) Amazon S3
4 310 (32.19%) Azure
5 206 (21.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (20.98%) GitHub
7 198 (20.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 190 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
9 176 (18.28%) Azure Functions
10 175 (18.17%) Amazon EC2
11 140 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
12 125 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
13 113 (11.73%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (9.76%) GCP
15 92 (9.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 89 (9.24%) Amazon SQS
17 88 (9.14%) Azure Logic Apps
18 75 (7.79%) AWS Step Functions
19 67 (6.96%) Power Platform
20 66 (6.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.32%) Firewall
2 26 (2.70%) VPN
3 25 (2.60%) DNS
4 12 (1.25%) Network Security
5 9 (0.93%) HTTP
5 9 (0.93%) SSL
6 7 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (0.62%) DHCP
7 6 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.31%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.31%) LAN
9 3 (0.31%) WAN
10 2 (0.21%) DKIM
10 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.10%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) NAS
11 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (14.64%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (13.08%) DynamoDB
4 99 (10.28%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.06%) Relational Database
6 59 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 58 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (5.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 49 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (4.78%) Power BI
11 41 (4.26%) Data Lake
12 35 (3.63%) MongoDB
13 33 (3.43%) Big Data
13 33 (3.43%) Redis
14 31 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (3.01%) MySQL
16 24 (2.49%) RDBMS
17 23 (2.39%) SQL Server
18 19 (1.97%) Tableau
19 15 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (18.59%) Git
2 168 (17.45%) Jenkins
3 143 (14.85%) GitLab
4 79 (8.20%) JIRA
5 39 (4.05%) Liquibase
6 29 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.49%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.28%) SonarQube
9 21 (2.18%) JUnit
10 16 (1.66%) MLflow
10 16 (1.66%) Mockito
11 15 (1.56%) Postman
12 13 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.35%) Maven
12 13 (1.35%) Selenium
13 12 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.83%) Gradle
16 5 (0.52%) JMeter
16 5 (0.52%) SonarLint
General
1 239 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 184 (19.11%) Public Sector
3 133 (13.81%) Finance
4 84 (8.72%) Banking
5 58 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.12%) Financial Institution
7 15 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.45%) Marketing
9 12 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.04%) Front Office
11 9 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.83%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.83%) Retail
13 6 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
13 6 (0.62%) Military
14 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Billing
15 2 (0.21%) Local Government
15 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 257 (26.69%) Developer
2 151 (15.68%) AWS Engineer
3 149 (15.47%) Senior
4 120 (12.46%) Architect
5 117 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.03%) Software Engineer
7 78 (8.10%) Data Engineer
8 71 (7.37%) Lead
9 48 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 41 (4.26%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.15%) Python Engineer
13 39 (4.05%) AWS Developer
13 39 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.32%) Technical Architect
17 31 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 31 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (17.65%) Node.js
2 154 (15.99%) RESTful
3 141 (14.64%) REST
4 135 (14.02%) React
5 115 (11.94%) .NET
6 96 (9.97%) Kafka
7 66 (6.85%) AWS CDK
8 63 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
9 58 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 52 (5.40%) Spring
11 50 (5.19%) OAuth
12 47 (4.88%) AngularJS
13 42 (4.36%) FastAPI
13 42 (4.36%) GraphQL
13 42 (4.36%) PyTorch
14 39 (4.05%) .NET Core
14 39 (4.05%) HTML
14 39 (4.05%) JSON
15 31 (3.22%) CSS
16 30 (3.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 233 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 97 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.97%) NHS
9 18 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.35%) Replication
13 12 (1.25%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.04%) IVR
14 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.93%) Data Fabric
15 9 (0.93%) Derivative
16 8 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 117 (12.15%) Linux
2 12 (1.25%) Windows
3 11 (1.14%) Unix
4 5 (0.52%) VMS
4 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) AIX
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
7 1 (0.10%) SUSE
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (56.91%) CI/CD
2 494 (51.30%) DevOps
3 384 (39.88%) Agile
4 351 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 302 (31.36%) Microservices
6 256 (26.58%) Containerisation
7 185 (19.21%) Software Engineering
8 173 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
9 155 (16.10%) AI
10 132 (13.71%) Analytics
11 130 (13.50%) Test Automation
12 119 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (12.05%) Event-Driven
14 106 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
15 103 (10.70%) Mentoring
16 101 (10.49%) Data Modelling
17 100 (10.38%) Machine Learning
18 93 (9.66%) Migration
19 91 (9.45%) ETL
20 88 (9.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 496 (51.51%) Python
2 238 (24.71%) SQL
3 173 (17.96%) Java
4 147 (15.26%) TypeScript
5 142 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 112 (11.63%) C#
7 71 (7.37%) Go
8 69 (7.17%) Bash
9 43 (4.47%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.91%) Bicep
11 24 (2.49%) Ruby
12 21 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.45%) C++
14 10 (1.04%) Perl
14 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.83%) Scala
16 6 (0.62%) Groovy
16 6 (0.62%) Korn
16 6 (0.62%) VBA
16 6 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 225 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 180 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.83%) AWS Certification
4 73 (7.58%) Degree
5 63 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.47%) DV Cleared
7 41 (4.26%) Master's Degree
8 36 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.14%) MCP
14 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.31%) PhD
16 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.02%) QA
2 39 (4.05%) GDPR
3 36 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.56%) WCAG
6 12 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.25%) NIST
7 11 (1.14%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.93%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) HL7
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 284 (29.49%) Docker
2 37 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.21%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 393 (40.81%) Terraform
2 282 (29.28%) Kubernetes
3 120 (12.46%) Grafana
4 109 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 98 (10.18%) Ansible
6 17 (1.77%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.25%) Puppet
8 8 (0.83%) Kibana
9 5 (0.52%) Packer
9 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Rancher
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.21%) Knative
12 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.21%) Podman
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
Vendors
1 164 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.50%) Databricks
3 52 (5.40%) Splunk
4 50 (5.19%) Google
5 32 (3.32%) Oracle
6 22 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 19 (1.97%) Foundry
9 18 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.77%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.25%) IBM
11 12 (1.25%) Pega
12 10 (1.04%) Cisco
12 10 (1.04%) Palantir
13 9 (0.93%) Greenplum
14 7 (0.73%) Confluent
14 7 (0.73%) Genesys
15 6 (0.62%) Gigya
16 5 (0.52%) Ping Identity