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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 118 123
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 939 755 902
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.10% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.90% 5.88% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 520 664
10th Percentile £380 £377 £400
25th Percentile £416 £442 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +3.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
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 13,616 12,840 16,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.11% 35.69% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,246 8,478 11,521
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 187 296
10th Percentile £15.40 £17.87 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% +19.10%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.98 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -19.63% +28.07% +12.39%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +8 751 £500 -9.09% 267
London +7 404 £525 -4.55% 113
UK excluding London +7 387 £476 -9.33% 203
Work from Home -1 294 £525 - 174
North of England +31 160 £476 -4.90% 78
Yorkshire +24 92 £500 -6.67% 24
Midlands +2 71 £500 - 24
Scotland +6 67 £450 -6.25% 9
North West +3 60 £450 +0.45% 47
West Midlands +9 54 £525 +2.44% 14
South East -52 43 £425 -32.00% 59
South West -8 33 £625 -2.72% 23
East of England +5 29 £538 -5.70% 10
East Midlands -5 17 £390 -13.33% 10
North East -3 9 £475 -22.13% 7
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 1
Wales -12 1 £488 -2.50% 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 49 (5.22%) Apache
2 34 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.98%) Confluence
5 10 (1.06%) nginx
6 9 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.85%) CMS
8 4 (0.43%) FileNet
8 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 695 (74.01%) AWS
2 566 (60.28%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (37.59%) Amazon S3
4 299 (31.84%) Azure
5 196 (20.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 195 (20.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 193 (20.55%) GitHub
8 181 (19.28%) Amazon ECS
9 174 (18.53%) Amazon EC2
10 165 (17.57%) Azure Functions
11 134 (14.27%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
13 111 (11.82%) Amazon EKS
14 95 (10.12%) GCP
15 91 (9.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (9.58%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (8.41%) Azure Logic Apps
18 72 (7.67%) AWS Step Functions
19 63 (6.71%) Power Platform
20 62 (6.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.51%) Firewall
2 26 (2.77%) VPN
3 22 (2.34%) DNS
4 11 (1.17%) Network Security
5 9 (0.96%) SSL
6 8 (0.85%) HTTP
7 6 (0.64%) DHCP
7 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) MQTT
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (18.10%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (14.70%) PostgreSQL
3 121 (12.89%) DynamoDB
4 95 (10.12%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.24%) Relational Database
6 58 (6.18%) Amazon Athena
6 58 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 47 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.69%) Power BI
10 36 (3.83%) Data Lake
11 33 (3.51%) Big Data
11 33 (3.51%) MongoDB
12 32 (3.41%) Redis
13 31 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.09%) MySQL
15 24 (2.56%) RDBMS
16 23 (2.45%) SQL Server
17 19 (2.02%) Tableau
18 14 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (18.32%) Git
2 165 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 141 (15.02%) GitLab
4 80 (8.52%) JIRA
5 39 (4.15%) Liquibase
6 29 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.34%) SonarQube
8 21 (2.24%) JUnit
9 16 (1.70%) Mockito
10 15 (1.60%) MLflow
10 15 (1.60%) Postman
11 13 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.38%) Maven
11 13 (1.38%) Selenium
12 12 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.85%) Gradle
15 5 (0.53%) JMeter
15 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
General
1 236 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 176 (18.74%) Public Sector
3 123 (13.10%) Finance
4 81 (8.63%) Banking
5 56 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.98%) Financial Institution
7 15 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.49%) Marketing
9 12 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.96%) Front Office
11 9 (0.96%) Retail
12 8 (0.85%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 6 (0.64%) Military
14 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Aviation
15 2 (0.21%) Local Government
15 2 (0.21%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 254 (27.05%) Developer
2 148 (15.76%) AWS Engineer
2 148 (15.76%) Senior
3 119 (12.67%) Architect
4 114 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 87 (9.27%) Software Engineer
6 74 (7.88%) Data Engineer
7 69 (7.35%) Lead
8 47 (5.01%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (4.37%) Java Developer
11 40 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 40 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (4.15%) AWS Developer
13 37 (3.94%) Python Engineer
14 34 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (3.41%) Senior Developer
16 31 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (3.30%) Technical Architect
17 29 (3.09%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (17.68%) Node.js
2 151 (16.08%) RESTful
3 139 (14.80%) REST
4 133 (14.16%) React
5 110 (11.71%) .NET
6 94 (10.01%) Kafka
7 65 (6.92%) AWS CDK
8 63 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
9 56 (5.96%) Spring Boot
10 52 (5.54%) OAuth
11 49 (5.22%) Spring
12 44 (4.69%) AngularJS
13 41 (4.37%) FastAPI
13 41 (4.37%) GraphQL
14 40 (4.26%) PyTorch
15 39 (4.15%) JSON
16 37 (3.94%) .NET Core
16 37 (3.94%) HTML
17 31 (3.30%) Next.js
17 31 (3.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 228 (24.28%) Cloud Native
2 93 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.02%) NHS
8 18 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.38%) Replication
13 10 (1.06%) IVR
13 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.85%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.75%) Derivative
15 7 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.03%) Linux
2 12 (1.28%) Windows
3 11 (1.17%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.53%) VMS
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
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
1 528 (56.23%) CI/CD
2 482 (51.33%) DevOps
3 383 (40.79%) Agile
4 340 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 296 (31.52%) Microservices
6 247 (26.30%) Containerisation
7 185 (19.70%) Software Engineering
8 168 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (15.65%) AI
10 128 (13.63%) Analytics
11 127 (13.53%) Test Automation
12 117 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (12.35%) Event-Driven
14 106 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (10.76%) Mentoring
16 98 (10.44%) Data Modelling
17 96 (10.22%) Machine Learning
18 89 (9.48%) ETL
18 89 (9.48%) Migration
19 87 (9.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 476 (50.69%) Python
2 230 (24.49%) SQL
3 173 (18.42%) Java
4 146 (15.55%) TypeScript
5 139 (14.80%) JavaScript
6 106 (11.29%) C#
7 71 (7.56%) Go
8 66 (7.03%) Bash
9 42 (4.47%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.77%) Bicep
11 21 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.02%) Ruby
13 13 (1.38%) C++
14 10 (1.06%) Perl
14 10 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.85%) Scala
16 6 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.64%) Korn
16 6 (0.64%) PHP
16 6 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (23.54%) Security Cleared
2 177 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.73%) AWS Certification
4 73 (7.77%) Degree
5 63 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.26%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.96%) MCP
14 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.21%) PhD
16 1 (0.11%) CISM
16 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.07%) QA
2 39 (4.15%) GDPR
3 35 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.60%) WCAG
6 13 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.38%) NIST
7 10 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.43%) HL7
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) PMO
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 276 (29.39%) Docker
2 38 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 384 (40.89%) Terraform
2 270 (28.75%) Kubernetes
3 117 (12.46%) Grafana
4 107 (11.40%) Prometheus
5 97 (10.33%) Ansible
6 17 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.28%) Puppet
8 8 (0.85%) Kibana
9 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.53%) Packer
11 4 (0.43%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) SELinux
14 1 (0.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 156 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.32%) Google
2 50 (5.32%) Splunk
3 49 (5.22%) Databricks
4 33 (3.51%) Oracle
5 22 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.02%) Foundry
7 18 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.28%) IBM
10 12 (1.28%) Pega
11 10 (1.06%) Cisco
11 10 (1.06%) Palantir
12 7 (0.75%) Confluent
12 7 (0.75%) Genesys
12 7 (0.75%) Greenplum
13 6 (0.64%) Gigya
14 5 (0.53%) Ping Identity