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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 108 135
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,052 808 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.46% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 6.63% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 590 511
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £685 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £489 £544
% change year-on-year +2.30% -10.11% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £35.33 £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 18,789 12,188 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,436 8,138 9,107
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 £714 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 316 250
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £53.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -17.81%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -26 855 £525 - 424
London -18 492 £550 - 254
UK excluding London -23 399 £500 +2.30% 225
Work from Home -29 333 £525 +3.45% 222
North of England -48 141 £500 +5.26% 89
Midlands +6 85 £472 +11.06% 23
North West -33 74 £575 +21.05% 46
West Midlands -12 67 £477 +12.24% 15
Scotland -11 51 £469 -6.25% 18
South West -25 48 £542 +5.97% 33
South East -61 48 £600 +37.93% 35
Yorkshire -44 44 £500 +3.90% 24
East of England -25 24 £525 - 16
North East -22 23 £463 +4.52% 19
East Midlands -8 18 £447 +7.65% 8
Northern Ireland +8 4 £283 -43.50% 10
Wales -13 4 £481 -16.34% 4

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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 47 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.95%) Apache
5 20 (1.90%) 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 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) Drupal
12 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 825 (78.42%) AWS
2 659 (62.64%) AWS Lambda
3 442 (42.02%) Amazon S3
4 353 (33.56%) Azure
5 216 (20.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 215 (20.44%) GitHub
7 188 (17.87%) Amazon ECS
8 173 (16.44%) Azure Functions
9 171 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
10 166 (15.78%) Amazon EKS
11 157 (14.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 154 (14.64%) GitHub Actions
13 129 (12.26%) Amazon SQS
14 115 (10.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 112 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
15 112 (10.65%) Power Platform
16 110 (10.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 85 (8.08%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.41%) GCP
19 75 (7.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.61%) Firewall
2 27 (2.57%) DNS
3 26 (2.47%) Network Security
4 18 (1.71%) 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 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.29%) FTP
9 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.29%) IPv4
9 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.87%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.92%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (11.03%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.89%) Power BI
7 82 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
8 70 (6.65%) NoSQL
9 53 (5.04%) Data Lake
10 52 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.37%) SQL Server
12 41 (3.90%) MySQL
13 35 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (3.33%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.95%) Metadata
15 30 (2.85%) Relational Database
16 23 (2.19%) Tableau
17 22 (2.09%) Delta Lake
18 21 (2.00%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 187 (17.78%) Git
2 142 (13.50%) GitLab
2 142 (13.50%) Jenkins
3 76 (7.22%) JIRA
4 32 (3.04%) Cypress.io
5 28 (2.66%) Bitbucket
5 28 (2.66%) Claude Code
6 21 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.33%) JUnit
8 14 (1.33%) Postman
8 14 (1.33%) Selenium
9 10 (0.95%) Mockito
10 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.67%) Gatling
11 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.67%) Vite
12 6 (0.57%) MSTest
12 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 229 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.21%) Public Sector
3 151 (14.35%) Finance
4 66 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.52%) Banking
6 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.14%) Law
8 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.95%) 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%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 245 (23.29%) Developer
2 203 (19.30%) Architect
3 192 (18.25%) Senior
4 176 (16.73%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (11.03%) Data Engineer
6 112 (10.65%) Lead
7 75 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.27%) AWS Architect
8 66 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 48 (4.56%) AWS Developer
12 45 (4.28%) Python Developer
13 43 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (4.09%) Technical Architect
14 42 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 40 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
15 40 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
16 39 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (14.64%) REST
2 132 (12.55%) React
3 122 (11.60%) Node.js
4 113 (10.74%) .NET
5 110 (10.46%) RESTful
6 108 (10.27%) Kafka
7 77 (7.32%) AWS CDK
8 71 (6.75%) PySpark
9 64 (6.08%) Spring
9 64 (6.08%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.51%) GraphQL
11 49 (4.66%) OAuth
12 46 (4.37%) FastAPI
13 40 (3.80%) AngularJS
14 38 (3.61%) CSS
14 38 (3.61%) Flask
14 38 (3.61%) JSON
15 36 (3.42%) OpenID
16 35 (3.33%) HTML
17 32 (3.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 333 (31.65%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.37%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (5.80%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.66%) NHS
6 27 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.62%) IVR
9 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.24%) Mainframe
10 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.05%) IoT
12 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.99%) Linux
2 23 (2.19%) Unix
3 18 (1.71%) Windows
4 16 (1.52%) 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%) VMS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 447 (42.49%) DevOps
3 410 (38.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (37.55%) Agile
5 262 (24.90%) Microservices
6 237 (22.53%) AI
7 229 (21.77%) Event-Driven
8 222 (21.10%) Containerisation
9 183 (17.40%) Observability
10 171 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 162 (15.40%) Analytics
12 158 (15.02%) Data Modelling
12 158 (15.02%) Software Engineering
13 142 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (12.83%) ETL
16 134 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 134 (12.74%) Migration
17 132 (12.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 126 (11.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 457 (43.44%) Python
2 303 (28.80%) SQL
3 173 (16.44%) TypeScript
4 150 (14.26%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.93%) Java
6 127 (12.07%) C#
7 75 (7.13%) Bash
8 42 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.90%) Bicep
10 31 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 14 (1.33%) 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%) Rust
Qualifications
1 281 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 234 (22.24%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.51%) AWS Certification
4 53 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.75%) Degree
6 39 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
15 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.13%) QA
3 38 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.23%) GDPR
5 28 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.00%) WCAG
7 17 (1.62%) 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 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 273 (25.95%) Docker
2 38 (3.61%) 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
1 421 (40.02%) Terraform
2 244 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.75%) Grafana
4 72 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.66%) Ansible
6 16 (1.52%) Puppet
7 15 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.05%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Argo
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.67%) Kibana
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Consul
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 167 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.51%) Databricks
3 42 (3.99%) Oracle
4 33 (3.14%) OpenAI
5 31 (2.95%) Informatica
6 28 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.47%) Splunk
8 25 (2.38%) Google
8 25 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.14%) SAP
11 10 (0.95%) Tenable
12 8 (0.76%) 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