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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 931 754 924
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.65% 2.08% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 5.91% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 519 670
10th Percentile £380 £375 £405
25th Percentile £420 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -10.17%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -6.61% -0.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,576 12,764 16,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.58% 35.22% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,171 8,403 11,812
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 166 314
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.90 £14.53
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +47.61%
75th Percentile £45.60 £59.99 £61.41
90th Percentile £71.62 £70.00 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -35.38% +44.44% +19.52%

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 12 November 2025.

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
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 12 November 2025. 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 +8 744 £510 -7.27% 650
London +14 402 £525 -4.55% 341
UK excluding London +2 376 £488 -6.61% 340
Work from Home +7 309 £525 +2.44% 394
North of England +21 147 £500 -1.38% 135
Yorkshire +22 88 £500 -4.31% 37
Midlands +9 69 £500 - 32
Scotland -5 62 £475 +0.64% 29
North West -3 54 £475 +6.03% 89
West Midlands +3 51 £523 -0.48% 20
South East -44 43 £425 -32.00% 79
East of England +14 38 £525 -7.89% 19
South West -10 32 £625 -2.72% 34
East Midlands -3 18 £411 -8.61% 12
North East -8 6 £466 -23.61% 9
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 6
Wales -9 2 £569 +8.33% 10

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 42 (4.51%) Apache
2 33 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.44%) Confluence
4 24 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.40%) CMS
6 12 (1.29%) nginx
7 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.54%) Documentum
8 5 (0.54%) FileNet
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 694 (74.54%) AWS
2 555 (59.61%) AWS Lambda
3 355 (38.13%) Amazon S3
4 281 (30.18%) Azure
5 187 (20.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 183 (19.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 175 (18.80%) GitHub
8 170 (18.26%) Amazon EC2
9 163 (17.51%) Amazon ECS
10 160 (17.19%) Azure Functions
11 117 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
13 103 (11.06%) Amazon EKS
14 96 (10.31%) Amazon SQS
15 92 (9.88%) GCP
16 82 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 76 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
19 59 (6.34%) Power Platform
20 54 (5.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.11%) Firewall
2 27 (2.90%) VPN
3 23 (2.47%) DNS
4 12 (1.29%) SSL
5 10 (1.07%) Network Security
6 6 (0.64%) DHCP
6 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.54%) HTTP
7 5 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.32%) DKIM
8 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.21%) LAN
9 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.21%) SSH
9 2 (0.21%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (17.51%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (15.04%) DynamoDB
3 136 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (9.88%) NoSQL
5 63 (6.77%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (5.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (4.30%) Power BI
11 31 (3.33%) Big Data
11 31 (3.33%) Data Lake
12 29 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.01%) MySQL
14 27 (2.90%) Redis
15 26 (2.79%) MongoDB
15 26 (2.79%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.26%) RDBMS
17 20 (2.15%) Tableau
18 17 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 163 (17.51%) Jenkins
2 160 (17.19%) Git
3 119 (12.78%) GitLab
4 84 (9.02%) JIRA
5 38 (4.08%) Liquibase
6 28 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.47%) JUnit
8 19 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.61%) Mockito
11 14 (1.50%) Postman
12 13 (1.40%) Maven
13 12 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.18%) MLflow
15 10 (1.07%) Selenium
15 10 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.75%) Gradle
17 5 (0.54%) SonarLint
17 5 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 240 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 151 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 119 (12.78%) Finance
4 72 (7.73%) Banking
5 63 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.61%) Marketing
9 9 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.97%) Retail
10 7 (0.75%) Front Office
10 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (0.64%) Military
11 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Publishing
13 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Local Government
13 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 251 (26.96%) Developer
2 147 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 146 (15.68%) Senior
4 135 (14.50%) Architect
5 106 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (9.45%) Software Engineer
7 75 (8.06%) Data Engineer
8 63 (6.77%) Lead
9 49 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (4.62%) AWS Architect
10 43 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.19%) AWS Developer
12 39 (4.19%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (3.97%) Senior Developer
14 35 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.76%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 30 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (16.65%) Node.js
2 148 (15.90%) RESTful
3 132 (14.18%) React
3 132 (14.18%) REST
4 96 (10.31%) .NET
5 90 (9.67%) Kafka
6 65 (6.98%) AWS CDK
7 61 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
8 47 (5.05%) OAuth
9 44 (4.73%) GraphQL
9 44 (4.73%) Spring Boot
10 43 (4.62%) Spring
11 39 (4.19%) AngularJS
11 39 (4.19%) FastAPI
12 38 (4.08%) PyTorch
13 35 (3.76%) HTML
14 32 (3.44%) Next.js
15 31 (3.33%) CSS
15 31 (3.33%) JSON
16 29 (3.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 216 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.61%) NHS
9 14 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.29%) Replication
12 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.07%) IVR
14 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
16 7 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 103 (11.06%) Linux
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Unix
4 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.54%) VMS
5 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (52.20%) CI/CD
2 453 (48.66%) DevOps
3 384 (41.25%) Agile
4 314 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 261 (28.03%) Microservices
6 225 (24.17%) Containerisation
7 185 (19.87%) Software Engineering
8 176 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
9 142 (15.25%) AI
10 120 (12.89%) Test Automation
11 117 (12.57%) Analytics
12 109 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
12 109 (11.71%) Event-Driven
12 109 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 102 (10.96%) Mentoring
14 96 (10.31%) ETL
15 91 (9.77%) Data Modelling
15 91 (9.77%) Machine Learning
16 88 (9.45%) Scrum
17 84 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 467 (50.16%) Python
2 220 (23.63%) SQL
3 160 (17.19%) Java
4 151 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 143 (15.36%) TypeScript
6 87 (9.34%) C#
7 67 (7.20%) Go
8 58 (6.23%) Bash
9 40 (4.30%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.58%) Bicep
11 16 (1.72%) Ruby
11 16 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.07%) Scala
14 9 (0.97%) C++
14 9 (0.97%) Perl
15 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.64%) JSX
15 6 (0.64%) VBA
16 5 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 195 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 159 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.77%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.52%) Degree
5 61 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.87%) Master's Degree
8 34 (3.65%) DV Cleared
9 26 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.97%) MCP
13 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.48%) QA
2 40 (4.30%) GDPR
3 34 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.72%) NIST
6 15 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.50%) WCAG
8 9 (0.97%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.97%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 260 (27.93%) Docker
2 35 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 351 (37.70%) Terraform
2 253 (27.18%) Kubernetes
3 107 (11.49%) Grafana
4 102 (10.96%) Prometheus
5 91 (9.77%) Ansible
6 13 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.18%) Kibana
8 10 (1.07%) Puppet
9 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.75%) Packer
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.32%) Rancher
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 144 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.37%) Splunk
3 49 (5.26%) Google
4 39 (4.19%) Databricks
5 32 (3.44%) Oracle
6 26 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.15%) Foundry
8 19 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.29%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.29%) Pega
12 11 (1.18%) Palantir
13 10 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
13 10 (1.07%) IBM
14 9 (0.97%) Cisco
15 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.75%) Confluent
16 6 (0.64%) Gigya
16 6 (0.64%) StreamSets