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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -35 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 811 711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.48% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 6.67% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 591 505
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £538
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.47% +4.88%
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 18,758 12,160 13,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 37.17% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,425 8,096 9,068
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 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 315 229
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.69 £18.16
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.25
% change year-on-year +72.23% -15.19% -17.59%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -34 867 £525 +1.94% 671
London -26 511 £550 - 435
UK excluding London -36 397 £500 +1.63% 320
Work from Home -29 336 £525 +2.19% 328
North of England -43 134 £500 +5.26% 109
Midlands -5 86 £447 -0.72% 43
North West -28 67 £605 +27.37% 61
West Midlands -18 65 £469 +4.22% 22
Scotland -7 53 £463 -7.50% 30
South East -49 50 £600 +35.59% 49
South West -11 48 £538 +5.39% 49
Yorkshire -47 45 £511 +10.54% 26
East of England -19 23 £525 +1.94% 19
North East -24 22 £463 +4.52% 22
East Midlands -8 21 £413 -8.44% 21
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 16
Wales -16 4 £481 -16.34% 7

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 56 (5.27%) Confluence
2 50 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.11%) Apache
5 21 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 7 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.094%) Drupal
13 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.094%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 831 (78.25%) AWS
2 666 (62.71%) AWS Lambda
3 443 (41.71%) Amazon S3
4 368 (34.65%) Azure
5 224 (21.09%) GitHub
6 220 (20.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 185 (17.42%) Amazon ECS
8 182 (17.14%) Azure Functions
9 163 (15.35%) Amazon EC2
10 161 (15.16%) GitHub Actions
11 160 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 159 (14.97%) Amazon EKS
13 139 (13.09%) Amazon SQS
14 120 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
15 119 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 118 (11.11%) Power Platform
17 110 (10.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 90 (8.47%) Amazon EventBridge
19 79 (7.44%) GCP
20 78 (7.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.48%) Firewall
2 27 (2.54%) DNS
3 26 (2.45%) Network Security
4 16 (1.51%) VPN
5 13 (1.22%) HTTP
5 13 (1.22%) 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 (0.38%) 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%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.63%) DynamoDB
2 158 (14.88%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 86 (8.10%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (8.10%) Power BI
7 67 (6.31%) NoSQL
8 55 (5.18%) Data Lake
9 53 (4.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.71%) MySQL
11 48 (4.52%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 34 (3.20%) Metadata
14 32 (3.01%) MongoDB
15 28 (2.64%) Relational Database
16 26 (2.45%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.07%) Tableau
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 191 (17.98%) Git
2 144 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 142 (13.37%) GitLab
4 76 (7.16%) JIRA
5 33 (3.11%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.73%) Claude Code
7 25 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.51%) Selenium
9 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.22%) Postman
11 12 (1.13%) JUnit
12 9 (0.85%) Mockito
13 8 (0.75%) RStudio
13 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 240 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 149 (14.03%) Finance
4 74 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.48%) Banking
6 32 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.22%) Billing
9 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.13%) Law
9 12 (1.13%) Legal
9 12 (1.13%) Marketing
10 11 (1.04%) Military
11 10 (0.94%) Back Office
12 9 (0.85%) Retail
13 8 (0.75%) Front Office
14 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (23.07%) Developer
2 208 (19.59%) Architect
3 199 (18.74%) Senior
4 177 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 126 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 116 (10.92%) Lead
7 78 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.31%) AWS Architect
9 63 (5.93%) Software Engineer
10 53 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.24%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.24%) Technical Architect
15 43 (4.05%) Python Developer
16 42 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
16 42 (3.95%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (40.96%) Terraform
2 164 (15.44%) REST
3 135 (12.71%) React
4 126 (11.86%) .NET
5 120 (11.30%) Node.js
6 102 (9.60%) RESTful
7 101 (9.51%) Kafka
8 80 (7.53%) AWS CDK
9 79 (7.44%) PySpark
10 65 (6.12%) Spring
10 65 (6.12%) Spring Boot
11 58 (5.46%) GraphQL
12 52 (4.90%) FastAPI
13 51 (4.80%) OAuth
14 39 (3.67%) AngularJS
15 38 (3.58%) CSS
16 37 (3.48%) Flask
17 35 (3.30%) OpenID
18 34 (3.20%) HTML
18 34 (3.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 338 (31.83%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 78 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.93%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.73%) NHS
7 21 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.60%) IVR
10 14 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.94%) Fixed Income
13 10 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.03%) Linux
2 24 (2.26%) Unix
3 18 (1.69%) Windows
4 15 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (61.30%) CI/CD
2 453 (42.66%) DevOps
3 422 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (37.19%) Agile
5 250 (23.54%) Microservices
6 248 (23.35%) AI
7 231 (21.75%) Event-Driven
8 222 (20.90%) Containerisation
9 186 (17.51%) Observability
10 174 (16.38%) Test Automation
11 171 (16.10%) Analytics
12 161 (15.16%) Data Modelling
13 160 (15.07%) Software Engineering
14 151 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
15 147 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 144 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
17 141 (13.28%) ETL
18 140 (13.18%) Migration
19 138 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
20 137 (12.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 481 (45.29%) Python
2 311 (29.28%) SQL
3 179 (16.85%) TypeScript
4 157 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 137 (12.90%) C#
6 135 (12.71%) Java
7 80 (7.53%) Bash
8 48 (4.52%) PowerShell
9 42 (3.95%) Bicep
10 32 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.51%) Scala
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.75%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 279 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 231 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.34%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (4.90%) Degree
5 37 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 61 (5.74%) QA
3 41 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.39%) GDPR
5 29 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.26%) WCAG
7 17 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.22%) NIST
9 9 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) 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 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 282 (26.55%) Docker
2 37 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 246 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 91 (8.57%) Grafana
3 71 (6.69%) Prometheus
4 55 (5.18%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.94%) Istio
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 4 (0.38%) Salt
11 3 (0.28%) Control-M
11 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.28%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 178 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.31%) Databricks
3 41 (3.86%) Oracle
4 37 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.01%) Informatica
6 27 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.54%) Splunk
7 26 (2.45%) Google
8 24 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) SAP
11 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.94%) Brio
13 9 (0.85%) Tenable
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