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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 104 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,095 750 784
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.56% 2.55% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.85% 6.70% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 564 591
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +2.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,989 11,188 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.33% 37.97% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,911 7,738 10,333
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £489
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.20% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 190 360
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £20.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £62.13 £42.74 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.34 £62.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +79.78% +34.83% -19.38%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +6 875 £505 -8.18% 360
London 0 516 £513 -6.82% 166
UK excluding London -15 391 £500 - 250
Work from Home -23 294 £525 -4.11% 200
North of England +12 172 £500 - 95
North West -8 80 £450 -6.74% 48
Yorkshire +2 76 £500 - 36
Midlands -21 71 £520 +14.41% 25
Scotland +2 56 £401 -19.90% 16
West Midlands -23 53 £525 +9.15% 18
South East -75 50 £525 -8.70% 68
South West -21 30 £625 - 32
East of England -2 28 £560 -22.81% 12
East Midlands -26 18 £460 +0.22% 7
North East -3 17 £500 -19.91% 13
Wales -10 5 £481 -8.33% 2
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 1

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 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.02%) Apache
3 41 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.83%) Confluence
5 29 (2.65%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.28%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
8 10 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.091%) JBoss
11 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 791 (72.24%) AWS
2 624 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
3 413 (37.72%) Azure
4 399 (36.44%) Amazon S3
5 248 (22.65%) Azure Functions
6 246 (22.47%) GitHub
7 222 (20.27%) Amazon ECS
8 210 (19.18%) Amazon EC2
9 203 (18.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (17.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 187 (17.08%) Amazon EKS
12 178 (16.26%) GitHub Actions
13 177 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (10.78%) Power Platform
15 114 (10.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 110 (10.05%) Azure Logic Apps
17 99 (9.04%) AWS Step Functions
18 89 (8.13%) Azure Service Bus
19 84 (7.67%) GCP
20 77 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.74%) Firewall
2 31 (2.83%) DNS
3 27 (2.47%) VPN
4 11 (1.00%) Network Security
4 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 9 (0.82%) HTTP
5 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
5 9 (0.82%) SSL
5 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.73%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.55%) SMS
8 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 4 (0.37%) WAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.091%) 4G
12 1 (0.091%) BGP
12 1 (0.091%) Internet
12 1 (0.091%) MQTT
12 1 (0.091%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.52%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (12.51%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (12.05%) DynamoDB
4 94 (8.58%) NoSQL
5 72 (6.58%) Power BI
6 70 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
8 65 (5.94%) Data Lake
9 60 (5.48%) Relational Database
10 53 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 52 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 36 (3.29%) MongoDB
13 36 (3.29%) Redis
14 34 (3.11%) SQL Server
15 31 (2.83%) Tableau
16 27 (2.47%) Big Data
17 26 (2.37%) Delta Lake
17 26 (2.37%) Metadata
17 26 (2.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 190 (17.35%) Git
2 167 (15.25%) GitLab
3 163 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.39%) JIRA
5 30 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.01%) JUnit
7 19 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.74%) Liquibase
8 18 (1.64%) MLflow
9 16 (1.46%) Mockito
10 15 (1.37%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.73%) NUnit
14 8 (0.73%) Postman
14 8 (0.73%) Selenium
15 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 249 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 210 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 153 (13.97%) Finance
4 78 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.21%) Banking
6 29 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
12 8 (0.73%) Retail
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.64%) Legal
14 6 (0.55%) Billing
14 6 (0.55%) Front Office
15 4 (0.37%) Aviation
15 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Law
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (26.30%) Developer
2 163 (14.89%) Architect
3 158 (14.43%) Senior
4 154 (14.06%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.67%) Lead
8 73 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 67 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.02%) AWS Architect
11 49 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 47 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.84%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.65%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.65%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.56%) AWS Developer
18 37 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (16.07%) Node.js
2 155 (14.16%) REST
3 142 (12.97%) .NET
3 142 (12.97%) React
4 132 (12.05%) RESTful
5 129 (11.78%) Kafka
6 84 (7.67%) Spring
7 82 (7.49%) Spring Boot
8 79 (7.21%) OAuth
9 56 (5.11%) AngularJS
10 51 (4.66%) PySpark
11 48 (4.38%) AWS CDK
11 48 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
11 48 (4.38%) OAuth2
12 47 (4.29%) .NET Core
12 47 (4.29%) GraphQL
13 44 (4.02%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.02%) JSON
14 36 (3.29%) JWT
15 35 (3.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 293 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.28%) NHS
7 24 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.82%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 7 (0.64%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.77%) Linux
2 12 (1.10%) Unix
3 10 (0.91%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (60.46%) CI/CD
2 561 (51.23%) DevOps
3 409 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 360 (32.88%) Agile
5 314 (28.68%) Microservices
6 276 (25.21%) Containerisation
7 201 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
8 190 (17.35%) AI
9 162 (14.79%) Observability
10 161 (14.70%) Analytics
11 157 (14.34%) Software Engineering
12 154 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
13 152 (13.88%) Event-Driven
14 145 (13.24%) Data Modelling
15 136 (12.42%) Test Automation
16 124 (11.32%) ETL
17 122 (11.14%) Data Engineering
18 113 (10.32%) Migration
19 107 (9.77%) Machine Learning
20 106 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 529 (48.31%) Python
2 310 (28.31%) SQL
3 171 (15.62%) Java
4 161 (14.70%) C#
5 157 (14.34%) JavaScript
6 152 (13.88%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.21%) Bash
8 56 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 51 (4.66%) Go
10 49 (4.47%) Bicep
11 29 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.47%) Ruby
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
13 11 (1.00%) Scala
14 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.82%) C++
16 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 273 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.47%) Degree
5 45 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.38%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.01%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.091%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.11%) QA
3 34 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.01%) GDPR
5 23 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.92%) NIST
6 21 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.10%) WCAG
8 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.82%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.73%) PMO
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 306 (27.95%) Docker
2 33 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) Squid
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 463 (42.28%) Terraform
2 287 (26.21%) Kubernetes
3 114 (10.41%) Grafana
4 113 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 88 (8.04%) Ansible
6 22 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.10%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.64%) Consul
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
10 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.37%) linkerd
11 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 193 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.13%) Databricks
3 46 (4.20%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.47%) Splunk
5 36 (3.29%) Oracle
6 34 (3.11%) Google
7 26 (2.37%) Foundry
8 18 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) Lotus
12 10 (0.91%) Kofax
12 10 (0.91%) Palantir
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 9 (0.82%) IBM
13 9 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.73%) Brio
14 8 (0.73%) Greenplum
14 8 (0.73%) Sybase