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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 107 128
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 989 727 808
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.68% 2.25% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.04% 6.21% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 514 601
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £414 £439 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £507 £530
% change year-on-year -5.33% -4.34% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,043 11,709 14,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 36.28% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,648 7,800 10,403
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 172 251
10th Percentile £14.49 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £25.34 £20.64
% change year-on-year +7.38% +22.80% +5.82%

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 8 January 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
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 8 January 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 +14 790 £500 -9.91% 623
London +9 457 £513 -6.82% 140
UK excluding London -9 375 £480 -5.33% 559
Work from Home -3 295 £525 +2.44% 373
North of England +38 165 £476 -4.80% 120
Yorkshire +21 89 £500 -6.37% 51
Midlands 0 67 £506 +16.34% 60
North West +11 66 £450 +0.45% 53
Scotland -9 63 £450 -8.35% 21
West Midlands -5 52 £525 +23.53% 24
South East -62 44 £475 -24.00% 169
South West -19 27 £650 - 71
East of England -4 24 £550 -3.51% 83
East Midlands -19 15 £411 -8.00% 34
North East -5 11 £525 -13.93% 16
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 15
Wales -9 2 £481 -3.75% 33

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 45 (4.55%) Apache
2 33 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 29 (2.93%) Confluence
4 21 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.42%) nginx
6 9 (0.91%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.81%) Mendix
8 6 (0.61%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) FileNet
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.20%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 712 (71.99%) AWS
2 577 (58.34%) AWS Lambda
3 350 (35.39%) Azure
4 348 (35.19%) Amazon S3
5 230 (23.26%) GitHub
6 211 (21.33%) Azure Functions
7 196 (19.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 191 (19.31%) Amazon ECS
9 189 (19.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 171 (17.29%) Amazon EC2
11 167 (16.89%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
13 135 (13.65%) Amazon EKS
14 99 (10.01%) GCP
15 98 (9.91%) Azure Logic Apps
16 89 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
17 86 (8.70%) Power Platform
18 84 (8.49%) AWS Step Functions
18 84 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 79 (7.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.93%) Firewall
2 26 (2.63%) DNS
3 20 (2.02%) VPN
4 13 (1.31%) Network Security
5 10 (1.01%) HTTP
6 9 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
7 8 (0.81%) SSL
8 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.40%) SMS
10 3 (0.30%) LAN
10 3 (0.30%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.10%) BGP
12 1 (0.10%) Internet
12 1 (0.10%) MQTT
12 1 (0.10%) NAS
12 1 (0.10%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.68%) Amazon RDS
2 143 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (12.44%) DynamoDB
4 100 (10.11%) NoSQL
5 65 (6.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 64 (6.47%) Relational Database
7 62 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
8 58 (5.86%) Power BI
9 56 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
10 54 (5.46%) Data Lake
11 48 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (3.74%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.64%) Redis
15 33 (3.34%) MySQL
16 29 (2.93%) Big Data
17 27 (2.73%) SQL Server
18 23 (2.33%) Tableau
19 20 (2.02%) RDBMS
20 18 (1.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 182 (18.40%) Git
2 171 (17.29%) Jenkins
3 155 (15.67%) GitLab
4 69 (6.98%) JIRA
5 37 (3.74%) Liquibase
6 23 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.72%) JUnit
10 16 (1.62%) MLflow
10 16 (1.62%) Mockito
11 15 (1.52%) Postman
12 12 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (1.11%) Maven
13 11 (1.11%) Selenium
14 8 (0.81%) Gradle
15 7 (0.71%) Storybook
16 5 (0.51%) SonarLint
General
1 241 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 185 (18.71%) Public Sector
3 139 (14.05%) Finance
4 80 (8.09%) Banking
5 58 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.24%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.82%) Marketing
8 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.11%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.91%) Front Office
12 7 (0.71%) Military
12 7 (0.71%) Retail
13 6 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.40%) Aviation
15 3 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.20%) Billing
16 2 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 271 (27.40%) Developer
2 150 (15.17%) Senior
3 143 (14.46%) AWS Engineer
4 129 (13.04%) Architect
5 109 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (9.10%) Software Engineer
7 89 (9.00%) Data Engineer
8 71 (7.18%) Lead
9 48 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 45 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
12 44 (4.45%) Python Engineer
13 39 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 39 (3.94%) AWS Developer
13 39 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.64%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.54%) Java Developer
16 34 (3.44%) AWS Architect
16 34 (3.44%) Data Architect
17 33 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (18.30%) Node.js
2 164 (16.58%) REST
3 154 (15.57%) React
4 152 (15.37%) RESTful
5 137 (13.85%) .NET
6 109 (11.02%) Kafka
7 66 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
8 63 (6.37%) OAuth
9 59 (5.97%) Spring Boot
10 57 (5.76%) AWS CDK
11 54 (5.46%) Spring
12 51 (5.16%) AngularJS
13 49 (4.95%) .NET Core
14 48 (4.85%) FastAPI
15 40 (4.04%) JSON
16 39 (3.94%) GraphQL
16 39 (3.94%) HTML
17 38 (3.84%) Next.js
18 37 (3.74%) OAuth2
19 36 (3.64%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 247 (24.97%) Cloud Native
2 100 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.12%) NHS
8 20 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.21%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.21%) Replication
14 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.81%) Data Fabric
15 8 (0.81%) IVR
16 7 (0.71%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 114 (11.53%) Linux
2 11 (1.11%) Unix
3 8 (0.81%) Windows
4 5 (0.51%) VMS
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
8 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (59.25%) CI/CD
2 506 (51.16%) DevOps
3 387 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (36.20%) Agile
5 305 (30.84%) Microservices
6 266 (26.90%) Containerisation
7 182 (18.40%) Software Engineering
8 177 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (17.09%) AI
10 139 (14.05%) Analytics
11 138 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
12 133 (13.45%) Event-Driven
13 125 (12.64%) Test Automation
14 120 (12.13%) Observability
15 113 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 111 (11.22%) Data Modelling
17 105 (10.62%) ETL
18 98 (9.91%) Machine Learning
19 96 (9.71%) Mentoring
20 92 (9.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 512 (51.77%) Python
2 262 (26.49%) SQL
3 162 (16.38%) Java
4 154 (15.57%) TypeScript
5 151 (15.27%) JavaScript
6 137 (13.85%) C#
7 68 (6.88%) Bash
8 67 (6.77%) Go
9 43 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.15%) Bicep
11 27 (2.73%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.63%) Ruby
13 11 (1.11%) C++
13 11 (1.11%) Perl
14 9 (0.91%) Formula Language
14 9 (0.91%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.71%) PHP
16 6 (0.61%) Korn
16 6 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 193 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.79%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.08%) Degree
5 61 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.25%) DV Cleared
7 39 (3.94%) Master's Degree
8 36 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.02%) MCP
12 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.30%) PhD
15 3 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.17%) QA
2 40 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 39 (3.94%) GDPR
4 33 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.72%) NIST
6 16 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.52%) WCAG
8 13 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.01%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.91%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.51%) HL7
12 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 3 (0.30%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 292 (29.52%) Docker
2 35 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 427 (43.17%) Terraform
2 290 (29.32%) Kubernetes
3 125 (12.64%) Grafana
4 111 (11.22%) Prometheus
5 104 (10.52%) Ansible
6 16 (1.62%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.21%) Kibana
8 11 (1.11%) Puppet
9 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.40%) Packer
10 4 (0.40%) Rancher
11 3 (0.30%) Argo
11 3 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.30%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.20%) Control-M
12 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.20%) Knative
12 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 176 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.37%) Databricks
3 50 (5.06%) Splunk
4 48 (4.85%) Google
5 34 (3.44%) Oracle
6 29 (2.93%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.02%) Foundry
7 20 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.31%) Confluent
9 13 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.21%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.21%) IBM
11 10 (1.01%) Cisco
12 9 (0.91%) Greenplum
12 9 (0.91%) Lotus
12 9 (0.91%) Palantir
12 9 (0.91%) Pega
13 8 (0.81%) Kofax
14 7 (0.71%) Genesys