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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 94 129
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 786 767
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.61% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 6.88% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 585 572
10th Percentile £385 £400 £382
25th Percentile £445 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £625
90th Percentile £738 £720 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
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 18,062 11,423 14,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 37.93% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,063 7,684 10,016
10th Percentile £329 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 286 365
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.20 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.60 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.15% -21.56%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -19 881 £525 - 186
London -16 528 £535 -2.73% 88
UK excluding London -27 378 £500 - 147
Work from Home -23 347 £513 -2.38% 93
North of England -24 144 £500 - 45
North West -20 82 £525 +5.00% 22
Midlands -25 64 £488 -2.50% 19
South East -45 54 £575 +15.00% 47
Scotland -12 50 £450 -14.29% 5
West Midlands -25 50 £482 -5.81% 13
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 15
South West -32 41 £575 +8.24% 20
East of England -22 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 8
Wales -7 6 £500 -13.08% 6
Northern Ireland +3 4 £190 -62.00% 3

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 (5.22%) Confluence
2 46 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.47%) Apache
5 26 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 842 (77.11%) AWS
2 669 (61.26%) AWS Lambda
3 469 (42.95%) Amazon S3
4 384 (35.16%) Azure
5 226 (20.70%) GitHub
6 202 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 201 (18.41%) Amazon EC2
8 194 (17.77%) Azure Functions
9 185 (16.94%) Amazon ECS
10 178 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
13 125 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
14 124 (11.36%) Power Platform
15 121 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 117 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
17 111 (10.16%) AWS Step Functions
18 86 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
19 80 (7.33%) Azure Service Bus
20 74 (6.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) Firewall
2 32 (2.93%) DNS
3 24 (2.20%) VPN
4 21 (1.92%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.46%) SMS
11 4 (0.37%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 3 (0.27%) CTI
12 3 (0.27%) FTP
12 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.27%) IPv4
13 2 (0.18%) AMQP
14 1 (0.092%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.84%) DynamoDB
2 153 (14.01%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (7.97%) Power BI
7 71 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (6.23%) NoSQL
9 61 (5.59%) Data Lake
10 51 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.12%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.21%) MySQL
12 35 (3.21%) Relational Database
13 31 (2.84%) Metadata
14 27 (2.47%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.47%) Tableau
15 23 (2.11%) Big Data
16 22 (2.01%) Redis
17 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (16.30%) Git
2 150 (13.74%) GitLab
3 139 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.42%) JIRA
5 27 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.01%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.74%) Claude Code
9 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.01%) JUnit
11 10 (0.92%) Postman
11 10 (0.92%) Vite
12 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 8 (0.73%) MSTest
14 7 (0.64%) Selenium
14 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.55%) Gatling
15 6 (0.55%) MLflow
15 6 (0.55%) Mockito
General
1 242 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.40%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.19%) Finance
4 66 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.56%) Banking
7 17 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.47%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 10 (0.92%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Marketing
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (22.99%) Developer
2 207 (18.96%) Architect
3 176 (16.12%) Senior
4 170 (15.57%) AWS Engineer
5 126 (11.54%) Data Engineer
6 104 (9.52%) Lead
7 77 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.59%) AWS Architect
9 70 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.67%) Technical Architect
13 48 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.30%) AWS Developer
15 44 (4.03%) Python Engineer
15 44 (4.03%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
17 40 (3.66%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.55%) React
2 135 (12.36%) REST
3 125 (11.45%) Node.js
4 121 (11.08%) .NET
4 121 (11.08%) Kafka
5 114 (10.44%) RESTful
6 77 (7.05%) PySpark
7 70 (6.41%) OAuth
7 70 (6.41%) Spring Boot
8 68 (6.23%) Spring
9 67 (6.14%) AWS CDK
10 60 (5.49%) GraphQL
11 48 (4.40%) FastAPI
12 45 (4.12%) OpenID
13 44 (4.03%) JSON
14 42 (3.85%) AngularJS
14 42 (3.85%) OAuth2
15 34 (3.11%) Next.js
16 30 (2.75%) .NET Core
17 27 (2.47%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 322 (29.49%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 18 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.82%) IVR
11 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.95%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (59.98%) CI/CD
2 485 (44.41%) DevOps
3 389 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (34.16%) Agile
5 262 (23.99%) Microservices
6 234 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 224 (20.51%) AI
8 209 (19.14%) Event-Driven
9 173 (15.84%) Observability
10 159 (14.56%) Analytics
11 156 (14.29%) Data Modelling
12 153 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
13 149 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 148 (13.55%) Software Engineering
15 143 (13.10%) ETL
16 140 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (11.54%) Data Engineering
18 125 (11.45%) Migration
19 118 (10.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 117 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 483 (44.23%) Python
2 311 (28.48%) SQL
3 172 (15.75%) TypeScript
4 155 (14.19%) C#
5 148 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 140 (12.82%) Java
7 61 (5.59%) Bash
8 40 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.11%) Bicep
9 34 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.74%) Go
11 18 (1.65%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 5 (0.46%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.46%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.46%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 287 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 229 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.41%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (3.39%) Degree
6 31 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.12%) QA
3 29 (2.66%) GDPR
3 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.37%) NIST
7 13 (1.19%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.37%) SLA
10 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.27%) HL7
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 274 (25.09%) Docker
2 34 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 431 (39.47%) Terraform
2 251 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 97 (8.88%) Grafana
4 88 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.30%) Ansible
6 25 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.83%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 154 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.04%) Databricks
3 49 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.11%) Oracle
5 25 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.29%) Informatica
6 23 (2.11%) Splunk
7 20 (1.83%) Google
8 15 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.01%) Foundry
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) Confluent
12 9 (0.82%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) SAP
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
16 5 (0.46%) Teradata