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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 102 128
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,061 846 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.55% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.57% 6.72% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 608 509
10th Percentile £400 £385 £371
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £643 £591 £638
90th Percentile £763 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £547
% change year-on-year - -8.59% +4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 19,058 12,598 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 38.04% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,644 8,413 8,692
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 297 188
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.50 £16.21
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.00 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £19.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.87% -42.42% +45.05%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -28 863 £525 +2.19% 976
London -13 514 £550 - 570
UK excluding London -58 398 £500 - 528
Work from Home -33 341 £545 +6.86% 477
North of England -55 133 £500 +4.06% 160
Midlands -28 86 £430 -14.00% 66
North West -33 69 £538 +11.98% 107
West Midlands -18 66 £460 -10.24% 34
Scotland -28 57 £450 -10.00% 53
South East -53 54 £600 +41.18% 104
South West -20 47 £520 -5.45% 76
Yorkshire -50 44 £500 +5.04% 38
East Midlands -10 20 £425 -4.01% 32
North East -30 20 £463 -11.14% 15
East of England -41 16 £525 - 25
Wales -9 5 £425 -26.12% 22
Northern Ireland +8 4 £283 - 25

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 55 (5.18%) Confluence
2 50 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.68%) Apache
5 36 (3.39%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 7 (0.66%) nginx
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.28%) CICS
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 820 (77.29%) AWS
2 664 (62.58%) AWS Lambda
3 435 (41.00%) Amazon S3
4 378 (35.63%) Azure
5 237 (22.34%) GitHub
6 234 (22.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 201 (18.94%) Azure Functions
8 198 (18.66%) Amazon ECS
9 171 (16.12%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (15.46%) Amazon EC2
11 162 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 158 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
13 152 (14.33%) Amazon SQS
14 132 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
15 123 (11.59%) Power Platform
16 109 (10.27%) AWS Step Functions
17 105 (9.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 103 (9.71%) Amazon EventBridge
19 80 (7.54%) Azure Logic Apps
20 74 (6.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.92%) Firewall
2 30 (2.83%) Network Security
3 25 (2.36%) DNS
4 14 (1.32%) HTTP
4 14 (1.32%) VPN
5 11 (1.04%) WAN
6 7 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
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%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) Internet
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.83%) DynamoDB
2 165 (15.55%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.74%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 88 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
6 72 (6.79%) Power BI
7 65 (6.13%) NoSQL
8 62 (5.84%) Data Lake
9 56 (5.28%) SQL Server
10 54 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 51 (4.81%) MySQL
12 40 (3.77%) MongoDB
13 33 (3.11%) Metadata
14 29 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (2.45%) Delta Lake
16 23 (2.17%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
19 17 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 199 (18.76%) Git
2 146 (13.76%) GitLab
3 142 (13.38%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.88%) JIRA
5 32 (3.02%) Claude Code
5 32 (3.02%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.92%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.89%) Selenium
9 18 (1.70%) JUnit
10 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.41%) Postman
12 14 (1.32%) Mockito
13 12 (1.13%) Maven
14 11 (1.04%) RStudio
15 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.85%) JMeter
16 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 245 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 187 (17.62%) Public Sector
3 162 (15.27%) Finance
4 82 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.05%) Banking
7 15 (1.41%) Back Office
7 15 (1.41%) Marketing
8 14 (1.32%) Military
9 13 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.23%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Front Office
12 9 (0.85%) Retail
13 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 247 (23.28%) Developer
2 211 (19.89%) Senior
3 191 (18.00%) Architect
4 172 (16.21%) AWS Engineer
5 133 (12.54%) Data Engineer
6 121 (11.40%) Lead
7 90 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (5.94%) AWS Architect
9 58 (5.47%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.96%) AWS Developer
14 42 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
15 41 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
15 41 (3.86%) Technical Architect
16 40 (3.77%) AWS Data Engineer
16 40 (3.77%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (39.59%) Terraform
2 193 (18.19%) REST
3 136 (12.82%) .NET
4 119 (11.22%) React
5 113 (10.65%) Node.js
6 107 (10.08%) Kafka
7 106 (9.99%) RESTful
8 81 (7.63%) AWS CDK
9 70 (6.60%) PySpark
10 68 (6.41%) Spring Boot
11 67 (6.31%) Spring
12 63 (5.94%) GraphQL
13 56 (5.28%) OAuth
14 54 (5.09%) FastAPI
15 43 (4.05%) AngularJS
16 39 (3.68%) OAuth2
17 38 (3.58%) JSON
18 36 (3.39%) CSS
19 34 (3.20%) OpenID
20 33 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 348 (32.80%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 83 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (6.97%) AI Agents
5 39 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.45%) NHS
10 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.60%) IVR
12 14 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (1.23%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.88%) Linux
2 28 (2.64%) Unix
3 17 (1.60%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.28%) zOS
7 2 (0.19%) AIX
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) Android
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (63.15%) CI/CD
2 472 (44.49%) DevOps
3 426 (40.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 403 (37.98%) Agile
5 276 (26.01%) AI
6 254 (23.94%) Event-Driven
7 243 (22.90%) Microservices
8 216 (20.36%) Containerisation
9 208 (19.60%) Observability
10 183 (17.25%) Test Automation
11 169 (15.93%) Software Engineering
12 168 (15.83%) Analytics
12 168 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (15.74%) Data Modelling
14 162 (15.27%) Technical Leadership
15 156 (14.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 151 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
17 145 (13.67%) Data Engineering
18 144 (13.57%) Migration
19 141 (13.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 481 (45.33%) Python
2 301 (28.37%) SQL
3 178 (16.78%) TypeScript
4 159 (14.99%) JavaScript
5 152 (14.33%) C#
6 139 (13.10%) Java
7 76 (7.16%) Bash
8 44 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 42 (3.96%) Bicep
10 32 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.32%) Scala
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.66%) R
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.47%) Cypher
16 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 281 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 241 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.92%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.75%) Degree
5 58 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.94%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.66%) CISSP
17 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.31%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.73%) QA
3 49 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.58%) GDPR
5 30 (2.83%) WCAG
6 17 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.85%) NIST
9 8 (0.75%) NCSC
9 8 (0.75%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 276 (26.01%) Docker
2 35 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 254 (23.94%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.20%) Grafana
3 70 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 60 (5.66%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Packer
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.66%) Argo
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Podman
9 6 (0.57%) Istio
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.38%) Rancher
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 206 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.07%) Databricks
3 48 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.24%) Oracle
5 30 (2.83%) Google
6 29 (2.73%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.45%) Informatica
8 26 (2.45%) Splunk
9 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.41%) Foundry
11 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.04%) Brio
13 10 (0.94%) Tenable
14 9 (0.85%) Confluent
15 6 (0.57%) SAP
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
17 4 (0.38%) IBM
17 4 (0.38%) New Relic
17 4 (0.38%) UiPath