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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 109 129
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 826 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.51% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.73% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 602 515
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% +6.28%
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 12,275 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.25% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,407 8,176 9,007
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 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 314 223
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.12 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.42 £57.75
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.77%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -37 866 £525 +1.94% 417
London -16 513 £550 - 253
UK excluding London -35 397 £500 +1.63% 233
Work from Home -28 337 £525 +2.19% 219
North of England -45 135 £500 +5.26% 68
Midlands -11 86 £447 -0.72% 33
North West -34 67 £605 +27.37% 41
West Midlands -10 66 £469 +2.79% 18
Scotland -12 53 £463 -7.50% 21
South East -61 49 £600 +33.33% 45
South West -24 47 £534 +3.14% 35
Yorkshire -48 46 £500 +5.15% 16
East of England -16 23 £525 +1.94% 11
North East -21 22 £463 +4.52% 11
East Midlands -6 20 £413 -0.66% 15
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 14
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 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 56 (5.29%) Confluence
2 46 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.12%) Apache
5 22 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.76%) CMS
7 8 (0.76%) nginx
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
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
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) Drupal
12 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.094%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 828 (78.19%) AWS
2 660 (62.32%) AWS Lambda
3 438 (41.36%) Amazon S3
4 373 (35.22%) Azure
5 226 (21.34%) GitHub
6 218 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 186 (17.56%) Amazon ECS
7 186 (17.56%) Azure Functions
8 162 (15.30%) Amazon EC2
9 160 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
10 159 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 158 (14.92%) Amazon EKS
12 138 (13.03%) Amazon SQS
13 122 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
14 119 (11.24%) AWS Step Functions
15 117 (11.05%) Power Platform
16 108 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 89 (8.40%) Amazon EventBridge
18 81 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.59%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
2 27 (2.55%) Network Security
3 16 (1.51%) VPN
4 13 (1.23%) HTTP
4 13 (1.23%) WAN
5 8 (0.76%) SSL
6 5 (0.47%) CTI
6 5 (0.47%) MQTT
6 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.38%) SMS
8 3 (0.28%) FTP
8 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.28%) IPv4
8 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.49%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.83%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.24%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (8.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 86 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
7 85 (8.03%) Power BI
8 68 (6.42%) NoSQL
9 56 (5.29%) Data Lake
10 53 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 52 (4.91%) MySQL
12 49 (4.63%) SQL Server
13 36 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.12%) Metadata
15 32 (3.02%) MongoDB
16 28 (2.64%) Relational Database
17 26 (2.46%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.98%) Tableau
19 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 192 (18.13%) Git
2 141 (13.31%) Jenkins
3 140 (13.22%) GitLab
4 76 (7.18%) JIRA
5 33 (3.12%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.74%) Claude Code
7 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.51%) Selenium
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
12 12 (1.13%) JUnit
13 10 (0.94%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) RStudio
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
General
1 242 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 187 (17.66%) Public Sector
3 150 (14.16%) Finance
4 75 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.49%) Banking
6 32 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.23%) Billing
8 13 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.13%) Law
9 12 (1.13%) Legal
9 12 (1.13%) Marketing
9 12 (1.13%) Military
10 10 (0.94%) Back Office
11 9 (0.85%) Retail
12 8 (0.76%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (23.14%) Developer
2 211 (19.92%) Architect
3 197 (18.60%) Senior
4 175 (16.53%) AWS Engineer
5 125 (11.80%) Data Engineer
6 116 (10.95%) Lead
7 79 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.42%) AWS Architect
9 62 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
14 46 (4.34%) Technical Architect
15 44 (4.15%) AWS Developer
16 42 (3.97%) AWS Data Engineer
16 42 (3.97%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.87%) Python Developer
18 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
18 40 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (40.98%) Terraform
2 166 (15.68%) REST
3 135 (12.75%) React
4 130 (12.28%) .NET
5 122 (11.52%) Node.js
6 102 (9.63%) RESTful
7 100 (9.44%) Kafka
8 79 (7.46%) AWS CDK
9 78 (7.37%) PySpark
10 65 (6.14%) Spring
10 65 (6.14%) Spring Boot
11 56 (5.29%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.82%) FastAPI
12 51 (4.82%) OAuth
13 40 (3.78%) AngularJS
13 40 (3.78%) CSS
14 36 (3.40%) Flask
15 35 (3.31%) HTML
15 35 (3.31%) OpenID
16 34 (3.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 339 (32.01%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.69%) Product Ownership
3 77 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.74%) NHS
7 21 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.61%) 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 65 (6.14%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 18 (1.70%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) 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
1 649 (61.28%) CI/CD
2 456 (43.06%) DevOps
3 423 (39.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 398 (37.58%) Agile
5 250 (23.61%) Microservices
6 248 (23.42%) AI
7 233 (22.00%) Event-Driven
8 222 (20.96%) Containerisation
9 183 (17.28%) Observability
10 174 (16.43%) Test Automation
11 171 (16.15%) Analytics
12 162 (15.30%) Data Modelling
13 160 (15.11%) Software Engineering
14 150 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
15 147 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 147 (13.88%) Technical Leadership
16 140 (13.22%) ETL
17 139 (13.13%) Migration
17 139 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
18 136 (12.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 478 (45.14%) Python
2 311 (29.37%) SQL
3 180 (17.00%) TypeScript
4 157 (14.83%) JavaScript
5 141 (13.31%) C#
6 136 (12.84%) Java
7 80 (7.55%) Bash
8 48 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.15%) Bicep
10 32 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.51%) Scala
12 11 (1.04%) 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%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 281 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 232 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 53 (5.00%) Degree
5 52 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.83%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 63 (5.95%) QA
3 41 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.40%) GDPR
5 29 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.27%) WCAG
7 17 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.23%) NIST
9 6 (0.57%) HL7
9 6 (0.57%) SLA
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%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 277 (26.16%) Docker
2 38 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) 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
1 249 (23.51%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.22%) Grafana
3 67 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 55 (5.19%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 179 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.42%) Databricks
3 41 (3.87%) Oracle
4 38 (3.59%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.02%) Informatica
6 27 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.46%) Google
8 25 (2.36%) Splunk
9 24 (2.27%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.13%) SAP
12 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.94%) Brio
13 10 (0.94%) Tenable
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
15 6 (0.57%) Foundry
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
16 5 (0.47%) New Relic
16 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.47%) Workday