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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 107 133
Rank change year-on-year -33 +26 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,057 825 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.50% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.64% 6.72% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 603 503
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £684 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +2.04% -8.84% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £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 18,745 12,285 13,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 37.24% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,400 8,196 9,048
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £21.59
% change year-on-year +72.23% -12.60% -20.04%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -30 859 £525 - 204
London -23 500 £550 - 95
UK excluding London -38 397 £500 +2.04% 152
Work from Home -38 335 £525 +1.94% 119
North of England -38 135 £500 +5.26% 52
Midlands -1 88 £449 -0.33% 18
North West -29 69 £575 +21.05% 26
West Midlands -10 65 £477 +6.00% 12
Scotland -15 53 £463 -7.50% 4
South East -56 49 £600 +35.59% 32
South West -25 46 £538 +5.39% 32
Yorkshire -40 43 £500 +5.26% 16
East Midlands 0 23 £413 -0.66% 6
North East -23 23 £463 +4.52% 10
East of England -23 23 £525 - 7
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 5
Wales -14 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 57 (5.39%) Confluence
2 49 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.60%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.93%) Apache
5 20 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
6 8 (0.76%) SAS
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.095%) Drupal
12 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.28%) 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 (78.05%) AWS
2 662 (62.63%) AWS Lambda
3 436 (41.25%) Amazon S3
4 361 (34.15%) Azure
5 217 (20.53%) GitHub
6 212 (20.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 185 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
8 173 (16.37%) Azure Functions
9 166 (15.70%) Amazon EC2
10 161 (15.23%) Amazon EKS
11 157 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (14.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 136 (12.87%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (10.97%) AWS Step Functions
15 114 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
16 113 (10.69%) Power Platform
17 107 (10.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 85 (8.04%) Amazon EventBridge
19 78 (7.38%) GCP
20 74 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.50%) Firewall
2 28 (2.65%) DNS
3 26 (2.46%) Network Security
4 18 (1.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.38%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 3 (0.28%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.80%) DynamoDB
2 156 (14.76%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (10.97%) Amazon Athena
4 106 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 84 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (7.95%) Power BI
7 70 (6.62%) NoSQL
8 52 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (4.92%) Data Lake
9 48 (4.54%) MySQL
10 47 (4.45%) SQL Server
11 38 (3.60%) MongoDB
12 36 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (3.03%) Relational Database
14 31 (2.93%) Metadata
15 25 (2.37%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.08%) Tableau
17 21 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 188 (17.79%) Git
2 146 (13.81%) GitLab
3 143 (13.53%) Jenkins
4 78 (7.38%) JIRA
5 32 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.65%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.42%) Selenium
11 14 (1.32%) Postman
12 13 (1.23%) JUnit
13 10 (0.95%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.66%) Gatling
15 7 (0.66%) JMeter
15 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.66%) Vite
16 6 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 233 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 183 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 151 (14.29%) Finance
4 72 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.69%) Banking
6 30 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.23%) Billing
9 12 (1.14%) Law
9 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Marketing
10 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.95%) Retail
12 9 (0.85%) Back Office
13 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (23.18%) Developer
2 209 (19.77%) Architect
3 192 (18.16%) Senior
4 171 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
5 117 (11.07%) Data Engineer
6 113 (10.69%) Lead
7 77 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.15%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 54 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.35%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.26%) Technical Architect
15 44 (4.16%) Python Developer
16 40 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
16 40 (3.78%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
18 38 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (40.02%) Terraform
2 160 (15.14%) REST
3 134 (12.68%) React
4 122 (11.54%) Node.js
5 118 (11.16%) .NET
6 108 (10.22%) RESTful
7 105 (9.93%) Kafka
8 77 (7.28%) AWS CDK
9 76 (7.19%) PySpark
10 64 (6.05%) Spring
10 64 (6.05%) Spring Boot
11 59 (5.58%) GraphQL
12 52 (4.92%) OAuth
13 50 (4.73%) FastAPI
14 41 (3.88%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.78%) CSS
16 38 (3.60%) JSON
17 37 (3.50%) Flask
18 36 (3.41%) HTML
18 36 (3.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 330 (31.22%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 75 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (5.68%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.74%) NHS
6 28 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.61%) IVR
10 13 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.87%) Linux
2 23 (2.18%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 4 (0.38%) VMS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.095%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (60.64%) CI/CD
2 452 (42.76%) DevOps
3 405 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 400 (37.84%) Agile
5 256 (24.22%) Microservices
6 245 (23.18%) AI
7 228 (21.57%) Event-Driven
8 219 (20.72%) Containerisation
9 180 (17.03%) Observability
10 174 (16.46%) Test Automation
11 164 (15.52%) Analytics
12 156 (14.76%) Software Engineering
13 154 (14.57%) Data Modelling
14 145 (13.72%) Data Pipeline
15 140 (13.25%) Migration
15 140 (13.25%) Technical Leadership
16 137 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (12.77%) ETL
18 131 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
19 130 (12.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 466 (44.09%) Python
2 308 (29.14%) SQL
3 177 (16.75%) TypeScript
4 154 (14.57%) JavaScript
5 134 (12.68%) Java
6 129 (12.20%) C#
7 77 (7.28%) Bash
8 43 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.88%) Bicep
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.51%) Scala
12 13 (1.23%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 279 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 232 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.73%) Degree
6 38 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.03%) Data Quality
2 59 (5.58%) QA
3 38 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.22%) GDPR
5 27 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.99%) WCAG
7 16 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 9 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 280 (26.49%) Docker
2 37 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Squid
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 244 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 90 (8.51%) Grafana
3 69 (6.53%) Prometheus
4 52 (4.92%) Ansible
5 15 (1.42%) Puppet
6 14 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Consul
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 168 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.87%) Databricks
3 45 (4.26%) Oracle
4 35 (3.31%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.03%) Informatica
6 28 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.37%) Google
8 24 (2.27%) Splunk
9 23 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.14%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Tenable
13 8 (0.76%) Brio
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday