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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 97 129
Rank change year-on-year -17 +32 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 777 767
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.61% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 6.89% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 581 573
10th Percentile £381 £400 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year - +0.57% -5.09%
75th Percentile £630 £611 £625
90th Percentile £734 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 17,914 11,278 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.82% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,970 7,607 10,025
10th Percentile £326 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 278 365
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -23.07%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -13 880 £525 - 219
London -12 528 £538 -2.27% 115
UK excluding London -27 376 £500 - 159
Work from Home -29 339 £510 -2.86% 123
North of England -20 144 £500 - 53
North West -18 80 £525 +5.00% 28
Midlands -24 63 £488 -2.50% 16
South East -47 54 £588 +17.50% 42
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 - 16
Scotland -14 49 £444 -15.48% 6
West Midlands -29 49 £488 -4.79% 10
South West -11 41 £575 +8.24% 25
East of England -20 26 £550 +2.33% 5
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 9
Wales -11 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +4 4 £190 -62.00% 8

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 (5.22%) Confluence
2 46 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.03%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.38%) Apache
5 25 (2.29%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 843 (77.20%) AWS
2 667 (61.08%) AWS Lambda
3 469 (42.95%) Amazon S3
4 386 (35.35%) Azure
5 226 (20.70%) GitHub
6 204 (18.68%) Amazon EC2
7 202 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 194 (17.77%) Azure Functions
9 184 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
10 180 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
11 160 (14.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.17%) Power Platform
15 119 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 114 (10.44%) Amazon SQS
17 113 (10.35%) AWS Step Functions
18 85 (7.78%) Azure Logic Apps
19 80 (7.33%) Azure Service Bus
20 75 (6.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) Firewall
2 32 (2.93%) DNS
3 25 (2.29%) VPN
4 21 (1.92%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.46%) SMS
10 4 (0.37%) MQTT
11 3 (0.27%) CTI
11 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.74%) DynamoDB
2 151 (13.83%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
4 103 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 100 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.69%) Power BI
7 69 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
8 67 (6.14%) NoSQL
9 64 (5.86%) Data Lake
10 52 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.12%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.11%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.02%) MySQL
15 32 (2.93%) Metadata
16 27 (2.47%) Tableau
17 26 (2.38%) MongoDB
18 23 (2.11%) Big Data
19 22 (2.01%) Redis
20 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 172 (15.75%) Git
2 150 (13.74%) GitLab
3 138 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 80 (7.33%) JIRA
5 27 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.47%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.92%) JUnit
11 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.82%) Mocha
11 9 (0.82%) Vite
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
12 8 (0.73%) Postman
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 194 (17.77%) Public Sector
3 143 (13.10%) Finance
4 65 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.38%) Banking
7 16 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.37%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 10 (0.92%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.64%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (23.35%) Developer
2 204 (18.68%) Architect
3 174 (15.93%) Senior
4 168 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 128 (11.72%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.16%) Lead
7 77 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (6.68%) Software Engineer
9 72 (6.59%) AWS Architect
10 64 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.76%) Technical Architect
13 51 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
14 50 (4.58%) AWS Developer
15 49 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
16 48 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
17 47 (4.30%) Python Engineer
18 45 (4.12%) Senior Developer
19 44 (4.03%) Python Developer
20 42 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.73%) React
2 138 (12.64%) REST
3 120 (10.99%) Kafka
3 120 (10.99%) Node.js
4 115 (10.53%) .NET
5 111 (10.16%) RESTful
6 77 (7.05%) PySpark
7 72 (6.59%) OAuth
8 70 (6.41%) Spring Boot
9 69 (6.32%) Spring
10 64 (5.86%) AWS CDK
11 58 (5.31%) GraphQL
12 52 (4.76%) FastAPI
13 46 (4.21%) AngularJS
14 44 (4.03%) JSON
14 44 (4.03%) OpenID
15 43 (3.94%) OAuth2
16 37 (3.39%) Next.js
17 33 (3.02%) Flask
18 29 (2.66%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 322 (29.49%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.73%) IVR
13 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.04%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 483 (44.23%) DevOps
3 400 (36.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (34.07%) Agile
5 261 (23.90%) Microservices
6 238 (21.79%) Containerisation
7 227 (20.79%) AI
8 206 (18.86%) Event-Driven
9 174 (15.93%) Observability
10 162 (14.84%) Analytics
11 157 (14.38%) Data Modelling
12 155 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.83%) Test Automation
14 150 (13.74%) Software Engineering
15 144 (13.19%) ETL
16 138 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
17 123 (11.26%) Data Engineering
18 122 (11.17%) Migration
19 119 (10.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 116 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 491 (44.96%) Python
2 317 (29.03%) SQL
3 169 (15.48%) TypeScript
4 149 (13.64%) C#
5 148 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 141 (12.91%) Java
7 60 (5.49%) Bash
8 39 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.39%) Bicep
10 35 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.74%) Go
11 19 (1.74%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 5 (0.46%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.46%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 284 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 228 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.23%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (3.21%) Degree
7 33 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.12%) QA
3 28 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.38%) GDPR
5 19 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.37%) NIST
7 12 (1.10%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 278 (25.46%) Docker
2 33 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 440 (40.29%) Terraform
2 253 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 98 (8.97%) Grafana
4 89 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.30%) Ansible
6 28 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.83%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 154 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.14%) Databricks
3 50 (4.58%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.11%) Oracle
5 25 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 24 (2.20%) Informatica
7 23 (2.11%) Splunk
8 20 (1.83%) Google
9 14 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.01%) Foundry
10 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.92%) Confluent
11 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 5 (0.46%) Lotus
15 5 (0.46%) Teradata