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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 107 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 996 728 808
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.31% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.09% 6.31% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 519 613
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,050 11,532 14,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.00% 36.63% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,672 7,661 10,469
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.35% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 173 276
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +7.69%

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 19 January 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
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 19 January 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 +11 797 £500 -9.09% 572
London +12 470 £513 -8.89% 122
UK excluding London -5 372 £500 - 517
Work from Home -9 285 £525 +2.44% 407
North of England +35 163 £480 -2.04% 121
Yorkshire +19 84 £500 - 50
North West +9 69 £450 -0.61% 56
Midlands -4 64 £513 +14.77% 51
Scotland -13 61 £450 -8.77% 24
West Midlands -1 51 £525 +5.00% 26
South East -50 47 £475 -24.00% 148
South West -17 27 £650 - 63
East of England +1 23 £550 -3.51% 77
East Midlands -19 13 £434 -2.96% 23
North East -9 11 £525 -12.13% 15
Wales -10 4 £488 -2.50% 32
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 13

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 41 (4.12%) Apache
2 34 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.31%) Confluence
4 23 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.41%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.90%) Mendix
8 5 (0.50%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 715 (71.79%) AWS
2 574 (57.63%) AWS Lambda
3 366 (36.75%) Azure
4 350 (35.14%) Amazon S3
5 229 (22.99%) GitHub
6 218 (21.89%) Azure Functions
7 201 (20.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 197 (19.78%) Amazon ECS
9 183 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 166 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
10 166 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 165 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
12 139 (13.96%) Amazon EKS
13 104 (10.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 99 (9.94%) GCP
15 92 (9.24%) Power Platform
16 83 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (8.23%) AWS Step Functions
18 81 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 78 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.81%) Firewall
2 27 (2.71%) DNS
3 21 (2.11%) VPN
4 13 (1.31%) Network Security
5 10 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.90%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.60%) SMS
9 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.30%) LAN
10 3 (0.30%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.10%) BGP
12 1 (0.10%) DKIM
12 1 (0.10%) Internet
12 1 (0.10%) IPsec
12 1 (0.10%) MQTT
12 1 (0.10%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.37%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (12.75%) DynamoDB
4 99 (9.94%) NoSQL
5 68 (6.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 64 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
7 61 (6.12%) Relational Database
8 60 (6.02%) Power BI
9 57 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 54 (5.42%) Data Lake
11 48 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (3.71%) MongoDB
14 34 (3.41%) Redis
15 33 (3.31%) MySQL
16 28 (2.81%) Big Data
17 24 (2.41%) SQL Server
17 24 (2.41%) Tableau
18 18 (1.81%) Metadata
18 18 (1.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 170 (17.07%) Git
2 167 (16.77%) Jenkins
3 149 (14.96%) GitLab
4 60 (6.02%) JIRA
5 32 (3.21%) Liquibase
6 19 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.91%) Cypress.io
6 19 (1.91%) JUnit
7 18 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.61%) MLflow
8 16 (1.61%) Mockito
9 14 (1.41%) Postman
10 13 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (1.10%) Maven
12 11 (1.10%) Selenium
13 8 (0.80%) Gradle
14 7 (0.70%) Storybook
15 5 (0.50%) SonarLint
General
1 236 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 191 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 137 (13.76%) Finance
4 74 (7.43%) Banking
5 58 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.21%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.91%) Marketing
8 16 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.10%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.80%) Front Office
12 8 (0.80%) Military
13 7 (0.70%) Retail
14 6 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.40%) Aviation
16 3 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Local Government
17 2 (0.20%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (28.01%) Developer
2 148 (14.86%) Senior
3 142 (14.26%) AWS Engineer
4 135 (13.55%) Architect
5 102 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 94 (9.44%) Data Engineer
7 82 (8.23%) Software Engineer
8 73 (7.33%) Lead
9 52 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
12 40 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 40 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 39 (3.92%) AWS Architect
13 39 (3.92%) AWS Developer
13 39 (3.92%) Java Developer
14 38 (3.82%) Senior Developer
15 37 (3.71%) Python Engineer
16 36 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (3.61%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (17.67%) Node.js
2 159 (15.96%) REST
3 152 (15.26%) RESTful
4 147 (14.76%) React
5 138 (13.86%) .NET
6 121 (12.15%) Kafka
7 65 (6.53%) OAuth
7 65 (6.53%) Spring Boot
8 61 (6.12%) Spring
9 58 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
10 57 (5.72%) AWS CDK
11 48 (4.82%) .NET Core
11 48 (4.82%) FastAPI
12 47 (4.72%) AngularJS
13 40 (4.02%) JSON
14 39 (3.92%) OAuth2
15 37 (3.71%) GraphQL
15 37 (3.71%) HTML
15 37 (3.71%) Next.js
15 37 (3.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (26.20%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.21%) NHS
8 20 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.31%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.20%) Replication
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.80%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.80%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.74%) Linux
2 12 (1.20%) Unix
3 7 (0.70%) Windows
4 5 (0.50%) VMS
5 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (60.24%) CI/CD
2 511 (51.31%) DevOps
3 391 (39.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 353 (35.44%) Agile
5 299 (30.02%) Microservices
6 264 (26.51%) Containerisation
7 179 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 169 (16.97%) AI
8 169 (16.97%) Software Engineering
9 146 (14.66%) Event-Driven
10 143 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
11 142 (14.26%) Analytics
12 122 (12.25%) Observability
12 122 (12.25%) Test Automation
13 116 (11.65%) Data Modelling
14 107 (10.74%) ETL
15 106 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
16 95 (9.54%) Machine Learning
17 94 (9.44%) Mentoring
18 92 (9.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 502 (50.40%) Python
2 264 (26.51%) SQL
3 164 (16.47%) Java
4 153 (15.36%) JavaScript
5 150 (15.06%) TypeScript
6 142 (14.26%) C#
7 67 (6.73%) Bash
8 55 (5.52%) Go
9 46 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.12%) Bicep
11 27 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.41%) Ruby
13 11 (1.10%) Perl
14 10 (1.00%) C++
14 10 (1.00%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.00%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.70%) Korn
16 7 (0.70%) PHP
16 7 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 239 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 193 (19.38%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 64 (6.43%) Degree
5 55 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (3.31%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.21%) MCP
11 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.30%) PhD
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.10%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.42%) QA
2 42 (4.22%) GDPR
3 41 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.91%) NIST
6 17 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.31%) WCAG
9 12 (1.20%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.90%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.50%) HL7
12 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.30%) PMO
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.20%) GxP
14 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.20%) NCSC
14 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 290 (29.12%) Docker
2 29 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 433 (43.47%) Terraform
2 288 (28.92%) Kubernetes
3 113 (11.35%) Grafana
4 103 (10.34%) Ansible
5 99 (9.94%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.41%) Puppet
8 9 (0.90%) Kibana
8 9 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.40%) Rancher
10 3 (0.30%) Argo
10 3 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.30%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.30%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Control-M
11 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Knative
11 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 184 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.53%) Databricks
3 44 (4.42%) Google
4 43 (4.32%) Splunk
5 34 (3.41%) Oracle
6 30 (3.01%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.01%) Foundry
9 15 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.41%) Confluent
11 12 (1.20%) IBM
12 11 (1.10%) Cloudera
13 10 (1.00%) Cisco
13 10 (1.00%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.00%) Lotus
14 9 (0.90%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.90%) Kofax
14 9 (0.90%) Palantir
14 9 (0.90%) Pega
15 7 (0.70%) Genesys