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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 104 132
Rank change year-on-year -36 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,047 820 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.48% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.57% 6.67% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 598 513
10th Percentile £400 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £741 £688 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,793 12,300 13,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.16% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,415 8,210 9,113
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 319 253
10th Percentile £15.70 £15.23 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.00% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -15.37%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -30 850 £525 - 408
London -22 491 £550 - 241
UK excluding London -30 393 £500 +1.63% 223
Work from Home -31 327 £525 +2.94% 205
North of England -47 138 £500 +5.26% 86
Midlands -2 82 £479 +12.71% 20
North West -25 71 £563 +18.42% 44
West Midlands -8 66 £477 +12.24% 12
Scotland -7 51 £469 -6.25% 15
South West -24 48 £542 +5.97% 36
South East -52 48 £600 +37.93% 38
Yorkshire -34 45 £500 +3.90% 24
East of England -18 24 £525 - 14
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 18
East Midlands -11 16 £481 +15.83% 8
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 12
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 5

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 53 (5.06%) Confluence
2 46 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 32 (3.06%) Apache
5 20 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Drupal
11 1 (0.096%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 820 (78.32%) AWS
2 654 (62.46%) AWS Lambda
3 440 (42.02%) Amazon S3
4 351 (33.52%) Azure
5 210 (20.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 210 (20.06%) GitHub
6 186 (17.77%) Amazon ECS
7 175 (16.71%) Azure Functions
8 170 (16.24%) Amazon EC2
9 165 (15.76%) Amazon EKS
10 155 (14.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 150 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
12 128 (12.23%) Amazon SQS
13 118 (11.27%) AWS Step Functions
14 112 (10.70%) Power Platform
15 111 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
16 109 (10.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 83 (7.93%) Amazon EventBridge
18 77 (7.35%) GCP
19 75 (7.16%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.53%) Firewall
2 27 (2.58%) DNS
3 25 (2.39%) Network Security
4 18 (1.72%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) HTTP
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.66%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.90%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (11.08%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.93%) Power BI
7 82 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
8 70 (6.69%) NoSQL
9 54 (5.16%) Data Lake
10 52 (4.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (4.20%) SQL Server
12 41 (3.92%) MySQL
13 35 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (3.06%) Metadata
14 32 (3.06%) MongoDB
15 31 (2.96%) Relational Database
16 22 (2.10%) Tableau
17 21 (2.01%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.91%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (1.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (17.57%) Git
2 141 (13.47%) Jenkins
3 140 (13.37%) GitLab
4 75 (7.16%) JIRA
5 31 (2.96%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.67%) Claude Code
7 27 (2.58%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.34%) JUnit
11 13 (1.24%) Postman
11 13 (1.24%) Selenium
12 10 (0.96%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.67%) Gatling
14 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.67%) Vite
15 6 (0.57%) MSTest
15 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 226 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 179 (17.10%) Public Sector
3 148 (14.14%) Finance
4 65 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.53%) Banking
6 29 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.15%) Law
8 12 (1.15%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.96%) Marketing
11 9 (0.86%) Back Office
11 9 (0.86%) Billing
12 7 (0.67%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.57%) Military
14 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 247 (23.59%) Developer
2 199 (19.01%) Architect
3 194 (18.53%) Senior
4 178 (17.00%) AWS Engineer
5 118 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 114 (10.89%) Lead
7 74 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.21%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.11%) Software Engineer
10 56 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (4.58%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.58%) Python Developer
14 44 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (4.11%) Senior Developer
15 43 (4.11%) Technical Architect
16 41 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (14.14%) REST
2 131 (12.51%) React
3 121 (11.56%) Node.js
4 113 (10.79%) .NET
5 107 (10.22%) Kafka
5 107 (10.22%) RESTful
6 78 (7.45%) AWS CDK
7 71 (6.78%) PySpark
8 63 (6.02%) Spring
8 63 (6.02%) Spring Boot
9 58 (5.54%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.58%) OAuth
11 47 (4.49%) FastAPI
12 40 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 38 (3.63%) Flask
13 38 (3.63%) JSON
14 37 (3.53%) CSS
15 36 (3.44%) HTML
16 34 (3.25%) OpenID
17 31 (2.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 325 (31.04%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.60%) Product Ownership
3 73 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (5.73%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.67%) NHS
6 27 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.43%) IVR
11 13 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.15%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.05%) IoT
13 11 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.96%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.92%) Linux
2 23 (2.20%) Unix
3 17 (1.62%) Windows
4 15 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.096%) AIX
8 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (59.98%) CI/CD
2 444 (42.41%) DevOps
3 402 (38.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (37.82%) Agile
5 257 (24.55%) Microservices
6 235 (22.45%) AI
7 226 (21.59%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.73%) Containerisation
9 181 (17.29%) Observability
10 166 (15.85%) Test Automation
11 158 (15.09%) Analytics
12 156 (14.90%) Data Modelling
13 155 (14.80%) Software Engineering
14 142 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
15 135 (12.89%) ETL
15 135 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
16 133 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 133 (12.70%) Migration
17 128 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 125 (11.94%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 456 (43.55%) Python
2 302 (28.84%) SQL
3 172 (16.43%) TypeScript
4 151 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.99%) Java
6 128 (12.23%) C#
7 74 (7.07%) Bash
8 40 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 39 (3.72%) Bicep
10 31 (2.96%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.53%) Scala
12 14 (1.34%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.48%) Cypher
16 5 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 281 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 231 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (4.58%) Degree
6 40 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.58%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.16%) QA
3 38 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.25%) GDPR
5 28 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.01%) WCAG
7 16 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.24%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 268 (25.60%) Docker
2 37 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Squid
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 415 (39.64%) Terraform
2 240 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.69%) Grafana
4 72 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.58%) Ansible
6 16 (1.53%) Puppet
7 13 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.05%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.67%) Kibana
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Control-M
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 162 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.35%) Databricks
3 42 (4.01%) Oracle
4 31 (2.96%) Informatica
4 31 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 26 (2.48%) Splunk
7 24 (2.29%) Google
7 24 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.15%) SAP
10 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.96%) Tenable
12 9 (0.86%) Brio
13 7 (0.67%) Confluent
13 7 (0.67%) New Relic
14 5 (0.48%) Denodo
14 5 (0.48%) Foundry
14 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.48%) Workday