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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 105 124
Rank change year-on-year -36 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,072 823 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.49% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.67% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 595 519
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £683 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £535
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.04% +1.90%
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 18,981 12,340 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 37.41% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,589 8,206 8,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 306 207
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.63 £54.69 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.45 £71.73 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +11.11%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -30 875 £525 - 400
London -15 518 £550 - 256
UK excluding London -47 401 £500 +1.63% 214
Work from Home -27 349 £525 +1.94% 213
North of England -44 135 £500 +5.26% 58
Midlands -20 86 £444 -7.36% 27
North West -36 69 £605 +27.37% 37
West Midlands -12 66 £463 -7.04% 14
Scotland -29 55 £463 -7.50% 28
South East -59 51 £600 +39.53% 41
South West -28 45 £520 -0.95% 32
Yorkshire -53 45 £500 +5.04% 15
East of England -31 23 £525 +1.94% 15
North East -31 21 £463 +4.52% 6
East Midlands -10 20 £413 -0.66% 13
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 10
Wales -9 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 63 (5.88%) Confluence
2 48 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.17%) Apache
5 29 (2.71%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.84%) CMS
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
10 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 838 (78.17%) AWS
2 677 (63.15%) AWS Lambda
3 450 (41.98%) Amazon S3
4 378 (35.26%) Azure
5 235 (21.92%) GitHub
6 230 (21.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 192 (17.91%) Azure Functions
8 191 (17.82%) Amazon ECS
9 169 (15.76%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 162 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
11 160 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
12 147 (13.71%) Amazon SQS
13 125 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
14 124 (11.57%) Power Platform
15 119 (11.10%) AWS Step Functions
16 107 (9.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 100 (9.33%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.28%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.36%) Firewall
2 28 (2.61%) Network Security
3 27 (2.52%) DNS
4 16 (1.49%) VPN
5 13 (1.21%) HTTP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.37%) 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%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (16.23%) DynamoDB
2 165 (15.39%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (8.02%) Power BI
8 70 (6.53%) NoSQL
9 57 (5.32%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.22%) MySQL
11 55 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 51 (4.76%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.26%) Metadata
14 34 (3.17%) MongoDB
15 33 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (2.24%) Relational Database
17 23 (2.15%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.96%) Tableau
19 20 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 195 (18.19%) Git
2 143 (13.34%) GitLab
3 140 (13.06%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.56%) JIRA
5 32 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.89%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.49%) Selenium
11 14 (1.31%) JUnit
12 13 (1.21%) Postman
13 12 (1.12%) Mockito
14 9 (0.84%) RStudio
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.65%) Gatling
16 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
17 6 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 241 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 188 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.55%) Finance
4 76 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.45%) Banking
6 36 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.31%) Legal
9 13 (1.21%) Billing
9 13 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.21%) Law
10 12 (1.12%) Marketing
10 12 (1.12%) Military
11 11 (1.03%) Back Office
12 10 (0.93%) Retail
13 8 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (22.95%) Developer
2 207 (19.31%) Architect
2 207 (19.31%) Senior
3 175 (16.32%) AWS Engineer
4 131 (12.22%) Data Engineer
5 120 (11.19%) Lead
6 81 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 65 (6.06%) AWS Architect
8 61 (5.69%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
11 47 (4.38%) Technical Architect
12 45 (4.20%) AWS Developer
12 45 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
13 42 (3.92%) Senior Developer
14 41 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
14 41 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 40 (3.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (40.21%) Terraform
2 183 (17.07%) REST
3 134 (12.50%) React
4 131 (12.22%) .NET
5 121 (11.29%) Node.js
6 105 (9.79%) RESTful
7 101 (9.42%) Kafka
8 81 (7.56%) AWS CDK
9 77 (7.18%) PySpark
10 67 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 66 (6.16%) Spring
12 60 (5.60%) GraphQL
13 55 (5.13%) OAuth
14 53 (4.94%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.82%) AngularJS
16 40 (3.73%) CSS
17 37 (3.45%) Flask
17 37 (3.45%) JSON
17 37 (3.45%) OAuth2
18 36 (3.36%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 333 (31.06%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 75 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.88%) AI Agents
5 32 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.71%) NHS
7 28 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.59%) IVR
10 17 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.84%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.84%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.62%) Linux
2 28 (2.61%) Unix
3 17 (1.59%) Windows
4 16 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) AIX
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (61.10%) CI/CD
2 464 (43.28%) DevOps
3 422 (39.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (37.69%) Agile
5 254 (23.69%) AI
6 253 (23.60%) Event-Driven
7 248 (23.13%) Microservices
8 220 (20.52%) Containerisation
9 191 (17.82%) Observability
10 178 (16.60%) Test Automation
11 169 (15.76%) Analytics
12 167 (15.58%) Data Modelling
12 167 (15.58%) Software Engineering
13 157 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 156 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
15 152 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
15 152 (14.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 144 (13.43%) Migration
17 138 (12.87%) Data Engineering
17 138 (12.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 490 (45.71%) Python
2 312 (29.10%) SQL
3 186 (17.35%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 142 (13.25%) C#
6 139 (12.97%) Java
7 79 (7.37%) Bash
8 46 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.10%) Bicep
10 33 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.49%) Scala
12 13 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.03%) Go
14 9 (0.84%) Groovy
15 8 (0.75%) R
16 7 (0.65%) Ruby
17 6 (0.56%) X++
18 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.47%) Rust
18 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 242 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 57 (5.32%) Degree
5 52 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.56%) CISSP
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.90%) QA
3 42 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.36%) GDPR
5 25 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.33%) WCAG
6 15 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.21%) NIST
8 7 (0.65%) SLA
9 6 (0.56%) HL7
10 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) PMO
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.093%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 277 (25.84%) Docker
2 39 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 246 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.02%) Grafana
3 66 (6.16%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.22%) Ansible
5 14 (1.31%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
13 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 191 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.62%) Databricks
3 46 (4.29%) Oracle
4 37 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.80%) Informatica
6 28 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.52%) Google
7 27 (2.52%) Splunk
8 24 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.93%) Brio
11 10 (0.93%) SAP
11 10 (0.93%) Tenable
12 8 (0.75%) Confluent
13 7 (0.65%) Foundry
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday