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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 108 138
Rank change year-on-year -32 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,056 812 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.48% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.65% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 602 529
10th Percentile £386 £400 £368
25th Percentile £450 £448 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £36.95 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,626 12,207 13,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,287 8,180 9,586
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 314 313
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.17%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -26 849 £530 +0.95% 293
London -23 491 £550 - 136
UK excluding London -26 399 £500 - 195
Work from Home -23 342 £525 - 136
North of England -22 147 £500 - 74
North West -22 79 £550 +10.00% 37
Midlands -9 77 £477 +5.94% 28
West Midlands -19 61 £475 +5.56% 19
Scotland 0 59 £444 -11.25% 8
Yorkshire -28 50 £500 +2.56% 19
South East -60 46 £600 +21.95% 37
South West -23 44 £550 +7.32% 34
East of England -14 28 £550 +3.53% 8
North East -24 19 £463 +0.54% 18
East Midlands -9 16 £488 +8.32% 9
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 2
Wales -13 4 £400 -30.47% 6

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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 47 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.94%) Apache
5 17 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Camunda
12 1 (0.095%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 838 (79.36%) AWS
2 660 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
3 455 (43.09%) Amazon S3
4 351 (33.24%) Azure
5 207 (19.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 202 (19.13%) GitHub
7 201 (19.03%) Amazon ECS
8 185 (17.52%) Amazon EC2
9 172 (16.29%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (15.53%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (13.45%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
14 117 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 113 (10.70%) AWS Step Functions
16 112 (10.61%) Power Platform
17 100 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
18 81 (7.67%) GCP
19 75 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
20 71 (6.72%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.22%) Firewall
2 25 (2.37%) Network Security
3 24 (2.27%) DNS
4 18 (1.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) IPsec
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.38%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 1 (0.095%) 4G
12 1 (0.095%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.81%) DynamoDB
2 154 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.70%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (7.77%) Power BI
7 77 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.82%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.49%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 43 (4.07%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.60%) MySQL
13 35 (3.31%) Relational Database
14 34 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (3.22%) Metadata
15 29 (2.75%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.37%) Tableau
17 22 (2.08%) Big Data
18 19 (1.80%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 182 (17.23%) Git
2 138 (13.07%) GitLab
3 136 (12.88%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.10%) JIRA
5 27 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 24 (2.27%) Claude Code
7 21 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.14%) JUnit
10 11 (1.04%) Postman
11 9 (0.85%) Selenium
11 9 (0.85%) Vite
12 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.76%) MLflow
12 8 (0.76%) Mocha
12 8 (0.76%) MSTest
12 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.66%) Mockito
14 6 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 237 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 138 (13.07%) Finance
4 67 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (2.75%) Banking
6 24 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.61%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Law
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
10 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.85%) Retail
12 8 (0.76%) Marketing
13 7 (0.66%) Back Office
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Front Office
14 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Police
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (23.11%) Developer
2 199 (18.84%) Senior
3 195 (18.47%) Architect
4 173 (16.38%) AWS Engineer
5 119 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 110 (10.42%) Lead
7 72 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 66 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
12 49 (4.64%) Technical Architect
13 48 (4.55%) Senior Developer
14 47 (4.45%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) Python Developer
17 41 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
17 41 (3.88%) Python Engineer
18 39 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (13.26%) REST
2 130 (12.31%) React
3 129 (12.22%) Node.js
4 110 (10.42%) RESTful
5 108 (10.23%) .NET
6 102 (9.66%) Kafka
7 76 (7.20%) AWS CDK
8 74 (7.01%) PySpark
9 69 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 68 (6.44%) GraphQL
11 67 (6.34%) Spring
12 59 (5.59%) OAuth
13 50 (4.73%) FastAPI
14 45 (4.26%) JSON
15 43 (4.07%) AngularJS
16 38 (3.60%) OAuth2
17 35 (3.31%) OpenID
18 31 (2.94%) CSS
18 31 (2.94%) Flask
19 30 (2.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 316 (29.92%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 68 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (4.83%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.84%) NHS
6 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 11 (1.04%) IVR
12 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.68%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (60.70%) CI/CD
2 456 (43.18%) DevOps
3 394 (37.31%) Agile
4 388 (36.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (25.57%) Microservices
6 241 (22.82%) AI
7 226 (21.40%) Containerisation
8 212 (20.08%) Event-Driven
9 172 (16.29%) Observability
10 163 (15.44%) Analytics
11 161 (15.25%) Test Automation
12 159 (15.06%) Data Modelling
13 149 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
13 149 (14.11%) Software Engineering
14 143 (13.54%) ETL
15 134 (12.69%) Data Engineering
16 131 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
17 130 (12.31%) Migration
18 129 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
19 126 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 478 (45.27%) Python
2 308 (29.17%) SQL
3 171 (16.19%) TypeScript
4 142 (13.45%) JavaScript
5 141 (13.35%) Java
6 131 (12.41%) C#
7 73 (6.91%) Bash
8 39 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.22%) Bicep
9 34 (3.22%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.61%) Scala
11 15 (1.42%) Go
12 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.76%) Groovy
13 8 (0.76%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 271 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 220 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.39%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (4.07%) Degree
6 37 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.38%) CISSP
16 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.55%) QA
3 35 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.94%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.61%) WCAG
7 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 271 (25.66%) Docker
2 33 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.38%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 402 (38.07%) Terraform
2 242 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.71%) Grafana
4 80 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.45%) Ansible
6 21 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.52%) Puppet
8 8 (0.76%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.47%) Packer
11 5 (0.47%) Salt
12 4 (0.38%) Argo
12 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.28%) Consul
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
14 2 (0.19%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 150 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.40%) Databricks
3 41 (3.88%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.13%) Oracle
5 27 (2.56%) Informatica
6 23 (2.18%) Google
6 23 (2.18%) Splunk
7 22 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.95%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) Brio
13 8 (0.76%) Foundry
13 8 (0.76%) Tenable
14 6 (0.57%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday