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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 105 129
Rank change year-on-year -35 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 813 717
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.50% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 6.71% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 592 515
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +1.42% -10.36% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,719 12,123 13,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.27% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,419 8,074 8,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 310 224
10th Percentile £15.41 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.27 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.44%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -31 865 £525 +1.94% 714
London -16 513 £550 - 465
UK excluding London -43 398 £500 +1.42% 361
Work from Home -30 341 £525 +1.94% 377
North of England -49 134 £505 +6.32% 112
Midlands -15 86 £447 -0.72% 42
North West -32 67 £610 +27.08% 69
West Midlands -13 66 £469 +2.79% 21
Scotland -14 55 £463 -7.50% 41
South East -60 49 £600 +33.33% 56
South West -24 47 £534 +3.14% 52
Yorkshire -43 46 £500 +5.15% 25
East of England -23 23 £525 +1.94% 19
North East -31 21 £463 +4.52% 18
East Midlands -8 20 £413 -0.66% 21
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 35
Wales -13 4 £481 -16.34% 6

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 60 (5.67%) Confluence
2 48 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.12%) Apache
5 27 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.76%) nginx
8 7 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Mendix
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.094%) Drupal
13 1 (0.094%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 829 (78.28%) AWS
2 664 (62.70%) AWS Lambda
3 443 (41.83%) Amazon S3
4 374 (35.32%) Azure
5 231 (21.81%) GitHub
6 221 (20.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 189 (17.85%) Amazon ECS
8 183 (17.28%) Azure Functions
9 164 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.30%) GitHub Actions
11 160 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
12 159 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 143 (13.50%) Amazon SQS
14 125 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
15 119 (11.24%) AWS Step Functions
15 119 (11.24%) Power Platform
16 109 (10.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 94 (8.88%) Amazon EventBridge
18 81 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
19 77 (7.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.68%) Firewall
2 28 (2.64%) Network Security
3 27 (2.55%) DNS
4 16 (1.51%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.96%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.73%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (11.14%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 88 (8.31%) Power BI
7 87 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
8 67 (6.33%) NoSQL
9 57 (5.38%) Data Lake
10 54 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 54 (5.10%) MySQL
11 50 (4.72%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (3.31%) Metadata
13 32 (3.02%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.55%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.36%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.98%) Tableau
17 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 189 (17.85%) Git
2 143 (13.50%) Jenkins
3 139 (13.13%) GitLab
4 79 (7.46%) JIRA
5 33 (3.12%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.74%) Claude Code
7 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.51%) Selenium
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
12 12 (1.13%) JUnit
13 11 (1.04%) Mockito
14 9 (0.85%) RStudio
15 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.66%) Gatling
16 7 (0.66%) JMeter
16 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 243 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 155 (14.64%) Finance
4 76 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.59%) Banking
6 33 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Billing
9 13 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.23%) Law
10 12 (1.13%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Marketing
10 12 (1.13%) Military
11 10 (0.94%) Back Office
12 8 (0.76%) Front Office
12 8 (0.76%) Retail
13 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (23.14%) Developer
2 206 (19.45%) Architect
3 201 (18.98%) Senior
4 173 (16.34%) AWS Engineer
5 130 (12.28%) Data Engineer
6 116 (10.95%) Lead
7 80 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.04%) AWS Architect
9 62 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.34%) Technical Architect
14 44 (4.15%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.97%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.87%) Python Developer
17 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (41.17%) Terraform
2 174 (16.43%) REST
3 136 (12.84%) React
4 129 (12.18%) .NET
5 121 (11.43%) Node.js
6 103 (9.73%) RESTful
7 102 (9.63%) Kafka
8 80 (7.55%) AWS CDK
9 77 (7.27%) PySpark
10 64 (6.04%) Spring Boot
11 63 (5.95%) Spring
12 59 (5.57%) GraphQL
13 53 (5.00%) FastAPI
14 52 (4.91%) OAuth
15 42 (3.97%) CSS
16 41 (3.87%) AngularJS
17 38 (3.59%) Flask
18 36 (3.40%) HTML
19 35 (3.31%) OAuth2
19 35 (3.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 333 (31.44%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.78%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.74%) NHS
7 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.61%) IVR
11 15 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.23%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 452 (42.68%) DevOps
3 420 (39.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 399 (37.68%) Agile
5 254 (23.98%) AI
6 247 (23.32%) Microservices
7 241 (22.76%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.49%) Containerisation
9 184 (17.37%) Observability
10 176 (16.62%) Test Automation
11 172 (16.24%) Analytics
12 164 (15.49%) Data Modelling
13 161 (15.20%) Software Engineering
14 153 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
15 148 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 147 (13.88%) Technical Leadership
17 143 (13.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 140 (13.22%) ETL
18 140 (13.22%) Migration
19 138 (13.03%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 488 (46.08%) Python
2 313 (29.56%) SQL
3 181 (17.09%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.92%) JavaScript
5 138 (13.03%) C#
6 136 (12.84%) Java
7 81 (7.65%) Bash
8 48 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 46 (4.34%) Bicep
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.61%) Scala
12 11 (1.04%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) R
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 279 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 231 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.37%) AWS Certification
4 56 (5.29%) Degree
5 55 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.57%) CISSP
14 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.95%) Data Quality
2 67 (6.33%) QA
3 39 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.40%) GDPR
5 27 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.17%) WCAG
7 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.23%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 277 (26.16%) Docker
2 38 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.22%) Grafana
3 67 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.29%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) Istio
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.38%) linkerd
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 185 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.80%) Databricks
3 43 (4.06%) Oracle
4 39 (3.68%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.02%) Informatica
6 27 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.55%) Google
7 26 (2.46%) Splunk
8 24 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.13%) SAP
11 10 (0.94%) Brio
11 10 (0.94%) Tenable
12 7 (0.66%) Confluent
13 6 (0.57%) Foundry
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday