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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 102 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,071 758 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.34% 2.59% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 6.81% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 575 602
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +188.46% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,690 11,128 14,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.40% 37.99% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,388 7,749 9,989
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 243 344
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £19.61 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +31.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.40 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -25.20%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 0 868 £513 -6.82% 315
London -4 531 £513 -10.87% 138
UK excluding London -10 366 £500 - 197
Work from Home -30 289 £513 -5.70% 184
North of England -2 154 £500 - 88
North West -16 80 £500 - 56
Yorkshire -2 61 £500 - 23
Midlands -26 57 £500 +11.11% 15
South East -41 53 £525 +5.00% 44
Scotland -6 51 £400 -23.81% 6
West Midlands -28 44 £500 +3.95% 10
South West -17 33 £563 -8.16% 23
East of England -13 21 £575 -17.86% 17
North East -14 14 £475 - 9
East Midlands -25 13 £479 +7.16% 5
Wales -9 5 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland -1 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 57 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.73%) Apache
4 31 (2.89%) Confluence
5 27 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.49%) nginx
7 11 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.93%) Mendix
9 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) JBoss
12 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.093%) Shopify
4 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 793 (74.04%) AWS
2 634 (59.20%) AWS Lambda
3 418 (39.03%) Amazon S3
4 401 (37.44%) Azure
5 244 (22.78%) GitHub
6 227 (21.20%) Azure Functions
7 219 (20.45%) Amazon ECS
8 204 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
9 195 (18.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 193 (18.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 181 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
13 169 (15.78%) Azure DevOps
14 120 (11.20%) Power Platform
15 116 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 115 (10.74%) AWS Step Functions
17 102 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
18 90 (8.40%) Amazon SQS
19 88 (8.22%) Azure Service Bus
20 67 (6.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.20%) Firewall
2 37 (3.45%) DNS
3 23 (2.15%) VPN
4 14 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.21%) Network Security
6 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.93%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.84%) SSL
9 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.65%) SMS
11 5 (0.47%) IPsec
12 4 (0.37%) WAN
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.093%) 4G
14 1 (0.093%) BGP
14 1 (0.093%) CTI
14 1 (0.093%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.91%) DynamoDB
2 146 (13.63%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.12%) Amazon Athena
5 84 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 79 (7.38%) Power BI
7 77 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 60 (5.60%) Data Lake
8 60 (5.60%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 38 (3.55%) Tableau
12 37 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 37 (3.45%) MongoDB
13 36 (3.36%) SQL Server
14 31 (2.89%) Metadata
15 29 (2.71%) Big Data
15 29 (2.71%) MySQL
16 28 (2.61%) Redis
17 26 (2.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 183 (17.09%) Git
2 156 (14.57%) GitLab
3 143 (13.35%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.60%) JIRA
5 31 (2.89%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.96%) JUnit
7 19 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.31%) Mockito
10 13 (1.21%) MLflow
11 12 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.93%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.84%) Maven
14 8 (0.75%) NUnit
14 8 (0.75%) Postman
14 8 (0.75%) Selenium
15 7 (0.65%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.65%) Mocha
15 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 231 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 208 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 148 (13.82%) Finance
4 78 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (4.67%) Banking
6 34 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.21%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 10 (0.93%) Legal
10 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 7 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.65%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.47%) Front Office
13 5 (0.47%) Law
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (26.33%) Developer
2 170 (15.87%) Architect
3 152 (14.19%) Senior
4 146 (13.63%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.50%) Lead
7 90 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.14%) AWS Architect
9 55 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (4.48%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (4.11%) Java Developer
15 43 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 43 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.92%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.64%) Python Engineer
18 37 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (16.34%) Node.js
2 144 (13.45%) React
3 133 (12.42%) REST
4 127 (11.86%) Kafka
5 123 (11.48%) .NET
6 111 (10.36%) RESTful
7 93 (8.68%) Spring
8 91 (8.50%) Spring Boot
9 83 (7.75%) OAuth
10 65 (6.07%) PySpark
11 59 (5.51%) AngularJS
12 48 (4.48%) JSON
12 48 (4.48%) OAuth2
13 45 (4.20%) .NET Core
13 45 (4.20%) AWS CDK
14 39 (3.64%) GraphQL
15 37 (3.45%) JWT
16 36 (3.36%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.36%) OpenID
17 35 (3.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 265 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.61%) NHS
5 25 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.75%) DataPower
12 8 (0.75%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.75%) Replication
13 7 (0.65%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.66%) Linux
2 20 (1.87%) Unix
3 11 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 1 (0.093%) Android
6 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (60.41%) CI/CD
2 539 (50.33%) DevOps
3 404 (37.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 344 (32.12%) Agile
5 292 (27.26%) Microservices
6 259 (24.18%) Containerisation
7 173 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (15.97%) AI
9 167 (15.59%) Event-Driven
10 162 (15.13%) Analytics
10 162 (15.13%) Observability
11 151 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
12 146 (13.63%) Data Modelling
13 138 (12.89%) ETL
13 138 (12.89%) Software Engineering
14 132 (12.32%) Test Automation
15 118 (11.02%) Data Engineering
16 116 (10.83%) Migration
17 110 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
18 104 (9.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 499 (46.59%) Python
2 306 (28.57%) SQL
3 181 (16.90%) Java
4 158 (14.75%) C#
5 157 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 154 (14.38%) TypeScript
7 72 (6.72%) Bash
8 56 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.58%) Bicep
10 33 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 29 (2.71%) Ruby
12 28 (2.61%) Go
13 17 (1.59%) Scala
14 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.84%) Perl
16 7 (0.65%) C++
16 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 296 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 233 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.52%) Degree
9 21 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
17 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.32%) QA
3 31 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.80%) GDPR
5 24 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.49%) NIST
7 11 (1.03%) WCAG
8 10 (0.93%) PMO
9 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 1 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 298 (27.82%) Docker
2 33 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.93%) Squid
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.47%) RACF
7 4 (0.37%) HDFS
8 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 454 (42.39%) Terraform
2 274 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 100 (9.34%) Grafana
4 92 (8.59%) Prometheus
5 70 (6.54%) Ansible
6 27 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.21%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.84%) Kibana
10 7 (0.65%) Consul
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Rancher
13 4 (0.37%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 174 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.31%) Databricks
3 45 (4.20%) Oracle
4 44 (4.11%) OpenAI
5 29 (2.71%) Splunk
6 18 (1.68%) Google
6 18 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.40%) Foundry
9 11 (1.03%) Lotus
10 10 (0.93%) Brio
10 10 (0.93%) Kofax
10 10 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) Confluent
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) IBM
12 8 (0.75%) Palantir
12 8 (0.75%) Sybase