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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 105 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,090 749 792
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.55% 2.55% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.84% 6.69% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 563 596
10th Percentile £358 £400 £394
25th Percentile £413 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 15,943 11,197 14,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.34% 38.05% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,884 7,753 10,347
10th Percentile £313 £313 £286
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £489
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.20% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 188 359
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.39 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.69 £20.28 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +44.38% +21.67% -14.52%
75th Percentile £62.13 £42.23 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.28 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.18 £17.80
% change year-on-year +78.44% +35.84% -19.24%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +2 866 £500 -9.09% 354
London +1 513 £513 -6.82% 166
UK excluding London -12 388 £500 - 244
Work from Home -22 292 £525 -4.55% 192
North of England +8 169 £500 - 92
North West -11 79 £450 -6.74% 52
Yorkshire -3 75 £500 - 33
Midlands -18 70 £513 +12.87% 23
Scotland 0 59 £402 -19.60% 16
West Midlands -24 52 £525 +9.15% 18
South East -66 49 £525 -8.70% 66
South West -17 30 £625 - 36
East of England -2 27 £560 -22.81% 10
East Midlands -25 18 £460 +0.22% 5
North East -4 16 £475 -23.91% 9
Wales -9 5 £481 -8.33% 1
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 1

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 52 (4.77%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.04%) Apache
3 40 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.75%) Confluence
5 29 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.28%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) Mendix
8 10 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.092%) JBoss
11 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 790 (72.48%) AWS
2 623 (57.16%) AWS Lambda
3 409 (37.52%) Azure
4 400 (36.70%) Amazon S3
5 244 (22.39%) GitHub
6 243 (22.29%) Azure Functions
7 221 (20.28%) Amazon ECS
8 209 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
9 202 (18.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (17.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 188 (17.25%) Amazon EKS
12 177 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
13 175 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (10.83%) Power Platform
15 114 (10.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 109 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 98 (8.99%) AWS Step Functions
18 89 (8.17%) Azure Service Bus
19 83 (7.61%) GCP
20 78 (7.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.76%) Firewall
2 31 (2.84%) DNS
3 27 (2.48%) VPN
4 11 (1.01%) Network Security
4 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
5 10 (0.92%) HTTP
6 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.83%) SSL
6 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) AMQP
12 1 (0.092%) BGP
12 1 (0.092%) Internet
12 1 (0.092%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.59%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (12.02%) DynamoDB
4 93 (8.53%) NoSQL
5 72 (6.61%) Power BI
6 69 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 65 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (5.96%) Data Lake
8 60 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 52 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 36 (3.30%) Redis
13 35 (3.21%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.84%) SQL Server
14 31 (2.84%) Tableau
15 26 (2.39%) Big Data
15 26 (2.39%) Delta Lake
15 26 (2.39%) Metadata
16 25 (2.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 186 (17.06%) Git
2 168 (15.41%) GitLab
3 162 (14.86%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.32%) JIRA
5 30 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.02%) JUnit
7 19 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.74%) Liquibase
8 18 (1.65%) MLflow
9 16 (1.47%) Mockito
10 15 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.92%) Maven
14 9 (0.83%) Mocha
14 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 8 (0.73%) Postman
15 8 (0.73%) Selenium
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 250 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.17%) Public Sector
3 153 (14.04%) Finance
4 78 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.24%) Banking
6 29 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 11 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.83%) Military
12 8 (0.73%) Retail
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.64%) Legal
14 6 (0.55%) Front Office
15 5 (0.46%) Billing
16 4 (0.37%) Aviation
16 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 286 (26.24%) Developer
2 160 (14.68%) Architect
3 157 (14.40%) Senior
4 154 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.71%) Lead
8 72 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (4.95%) AWS Architect
11 48 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 48 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 46 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 43 (3.94%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.76%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.67%) AWS Developer
16 40 (3.67%) Python Engineer
17 37 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (16.15%) Node.js
2 152 (13.94%) REST
3 140 (12.84%) .NET
4 137 (12.57%) React
5 132 (12.11%) RESTful
6 127 (11.65%) Kafka
7 84 (7.71%) Spring
8 82 (7.52%) Spring Boot
9 79 (7.25%) OAuth
10 55 (5.05%) AngularJS
11 51 (4.68%) AWS CDK
12 49 (4.50%) PySpark
13 48 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (4.31%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.22%) .NET Core
15 46 (4.22%) GraphQL
16 45 (4.13%) FastAPI
16 45 (4.13%) JSON
17 37 (3.39%) JWT
18 33 (3.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 290 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.57%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 20 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.83%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.64%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.81%) Linux
2 12 (1.10%) Unix
3 10 (0.92%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 559 (51.28%) DevOps
3 409 (37.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 357 (32.75%) Agile
5 311 (28.53%) Microservices
6 276 (25.32%) Containerisation
7 203 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (17.61%) AI
9 160 (14.68%) Analytics
9 160 (14.68%) Observability
10 156 (14.31%) Software Engineering
11 153 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
12 149 (13.67%) Event-Driven
13 145 (13.30%) Data Modelling
14 134 (12.29%) Test Automation
15 122 (11.19%) ETL
16 120 (11.01%) Data Engineering
17 114 (10.46%) Migration
18 110 (10.09%) Machine Learning
19 107 (9.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 528 (48.44%) Python
2 305 (27.98%) SQL
3 169 (15.50%) Java
4 159 (14.59%) C#
5 154 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 150 (13.76%) TypeScript
7 69 (6.33%) Bash
8 56 (5.14%) PowerShell
9 51 (4.68%) Go
10 49 (4.50%) Bicep
11 29 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.48%) Ruby
13 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.01%) Perl
14 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.83%) Scala
16 8 (0.73%) C++
16 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 271 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 210 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.17%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.50%) Degree
5 45 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.39%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 18 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.28%) PhD
16 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.092%) CompTIA Security+
17 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.05%) QA
3 34 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.03%) GDPR
5 23 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.93%) NIST
6 21 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.10%) WCAG
8 11 (1.01%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.73%) PMO
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.28%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 303 (27.80%) Docker
2 33 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) Squid
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 458 (42.02%) Terraform
2 289 (26.51%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.55%) Grafana
4 112 (10.28%) Prometheus
5 89 (8.17%) Ansible
6 22 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.10%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.64%) Consul
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
10 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.37%) linkerd
11 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 190 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.17%) Databricks
3 46 (4.22%) OpenAI
4 37 (3.39%) Splunk
5 36 (3.30%) Oracle
6 34 (3.12%) Google
7 26 (2.39%) Foundry
8 17 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.01%) Lotus
10 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.92%) Kofax
11 10 (0.92%) Palantir
12 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.83%) Cloudera
12 9 (0.83%) Greenplum
12 9 (0.83%) IBM
12 9 (0.83%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) Sybase