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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 100 126
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,041 755 774
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.58% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 6.86% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 580 591
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £713 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -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 17,057 10,999 14,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.55% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,545 7,616 9,992
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 252 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.58 £48.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £73.63 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.59 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.01% +22.05% -28.15%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -13 839 £525 -4.55% 309
London -16 504 £525 -4.55% 140
UK excluding London -18 369 £500 - 188
Work from Home -41 280 £508 -4.69% 162
North of England -3 145 £500 - 74
North West -11 84 £500 - 48
Midlands -35 64 £500 - 21
Scotland -11 53 £402 -23.43% 11
West Midlands -24 52 £494 -3.56% 8
South East -27 52 £550 +10.00% 42
Yorkshire -20 46 £500 - 20
South West -17 33 £578 +5.16% 28
East of England -14 24 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -11 16 £475 - 6
East Midlands -27 12 £500 - 13
Wales -11 6 £475 +5.50% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 56 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.03%) Confluence
3 39 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (3.46%) Apache
5 26 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.63%) 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 (0.38%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
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%) FileNet
13 1 (0.096%) JBoss
13 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 773 (74.26%) AWS
2 609 (58.50%) AWS Lambda
3 406 (39.00%) Amazon S3
4 391 (37.56%) Azure
5 231 (22.19%) GitHub
6 211 (20.27%) Azure Functions
7 202 (19.40%) Amazon ECS
8 188 (18.06%) Amazon EC2
9 176 (16.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 176 (16.91%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (16.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 167 (16.04%) GitHub Actions
12 148 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
13 121 (11.62%) Power Platform
14 118 (11.34%) AWS Step Functions
15 112 (10.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 101 (9.70%) Amazon SQS
16 101 (9.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 92 (8.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 66 (6.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.27%) DNS
1 34 (3.27%) Firewall
2 20 (1.92%) VPN
3 14 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
4 13 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) HTTP
6 11 (1.06%) Network Security
7 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.67%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.67%) SMS
8 7 (0.67%) SSL
9 5 (0.48%) IPsec
10 4 (0.38%) WAN
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 1 (0.096%) BGP
13 1 (0.096%) CTI
13 1 (0.096%) Internet
13 1 (0.096%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.31%) DynamoDB
2 129 (12.39%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (9.03%) Amazon Athena
5 78 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 77 (7.40%) NoSQL
6 77 (7.40%) Power BI
7 62 (5.96%) Data Lake
8 51 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (4.42%) Relational Database
11 43 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 42 (4.03%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.17%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.98%) Big Data
14 31 (2.98%) Metadata
15 30 (2.88%) Tableau
16 29 (2.79%) Delta Lake
16 29 (2.79%) MySQL
17 27 (2.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 166 (15.95%) Git
2 152 (14.60%) GitLab
3 125 (12.01%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.76%) JIRA
5 30 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.34%) MLflow
9 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.15%) JUnit
10 9 (0.86%) Mocha
11 8 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.77%) Maven
11 8 (0.77%) NUnit
11 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.67%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.67%) MSTest
12 7 (0.67%) Vite
13 6 (0.58%) Mockito
13 6 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 220 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 190 (18.25%) Public Sector
3 148 (14.22%) Finance
4 66 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.55%) Banking
6 27 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.34%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.96%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Military
10 8 (0.77%) Retail
11 6 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.48%) Front Office
12 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.38%) Billing
13 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (25.65%) Developer
2 185 (17.77%) Architect
3 152 (14.60%) Senior
4 140 (13.45%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 94 (9.03%) Lead
7 76 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.05%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.19%) AWS Architect
9 54 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.80%) AWS Developer
12 48 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.94%) Python Engineer
18 40 (3.84%) Cloud Architect
18 40 (3.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (14.99%) Node.js
2 140 (13.45%) React
3 130 (12.49%) REST
4 124 (11.91%) .NET
5 120 (11.53%) Kafka
6 97 (9.32%) RESTful
7 84 (8.07%) Spring
8 83 (7.97%) Spring Boot
9 78 (7.49%) OAuth
10 71 (6.82%) PySpark
11 57 (5.48%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.09%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.51%) OAuth2
14 46 (4.42%) FastAPI
15 45 (4.32%) JSON
16 42 (4.03%) .NET Core
17 40 (3.84%) OpenID
18 36 (3.46%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.46%) Next.js
19 33 (3.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 276 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.59%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.31%) NHS
7 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.77%) Replication
13 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.01%) Linux
2 23 (2.21%) Unix
3 10 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) 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
1 635 (61.00%) CI/CD
2 509 (48.90%) DevOps
3 395 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (32.28%) Agile
5 267 (25.65%) Microservices
6 249 (23.92%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.58%) AI
8 170 (16.33%) Event-Driven
9 168 (16.14%) Observability
10 160 (15.37%) Analytics
11 149 (14.31%) Data Modelling
11 149 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
13 141 (13.54%) Software Engineering
14 137 (13.16%) Test Automation
15 134 (12.87%) ETL
16 115 (11.05%) Data Engineering
17 113 (10.85%) Migration
18 106 (10.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 105 (10.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 479 (46.01%) Python
2 291 (27.95%) SQL
3 166 (15.95%) C#
4 159 (15.27%) Java
5 158 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 150 (14.41%) JavaScript
7 63 (6.05%) Bash
8 49 (4.71%) Bicep
9 43 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.40%) Go
12 22 (2.11%) Ruby
13 17 (1.63%) Scala
14 10 (0.96%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.96%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.67%) Groovy
16 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) C++
18 4 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 279 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 221 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.24%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 34 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.59%) Degree
9 19 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.38%) PhD
16 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.51%) QA
3 30 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.69%) GDPR
5 23 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.44%) NIST
7 10 (0.96%) PMO
7 10 (0.96%) WCAG
8 7 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 273 (26.22%) Docker
2 31 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.96%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 426 (40.92%) Terraform
2 248 (23.82%) Kubernetes
3 103 (9.89%) Grafana
4 89 (8.55%) Prometheus
5 53 (5.09%) Ansible
6 29 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.25%) Puppet
8 11 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.86%) 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 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 164 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 85 (8.17%) Databricks
3 48 (4.61%) Oracle
4 47 (4.51%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.59%) Splunk
6 22 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.54%) Google
8 14 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.25%) Foundry
10 12 (1.15%) Informatica
11 10 (0.96%) Confluent
11 10 (0.96%) Kofax
11 10 (0.96%) Lotus
11 10 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.86%) SAP
13 8 (0.77%) Tenable
14 6 (0.58%) Palantir
14 6 (0.58%) Sybase