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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 95 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,100 781 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.62% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 6.92% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 583 572
10th Percentile £381 £400 £376
25th Percentile £437 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £632 £608 £625
90th Percentile £735 £724 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.00 -
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 17,960 11,288 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,998 7,611 10,028
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £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 594 277 365
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.13 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -17 889 £525 - 202
London -9 534 £538 -2.27% 106
UK excluding London -24 379 £500 - 170
Work from Home -22 344 £511 -2.62% 126
North of England -25 146 £500 - 45
North West -26 82 £525 +5.00% 24
Midlands -25 63 £488 -2.50% 16
South East -43 55 £575 +15.00% 44
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 - 14
Scotland -11 49 £444 -15.48% 5
West Midlands -28 49 £488 -4.79% 10
South West -16 41 £575 +8.24% 25
East of England -25 26 £550 +2.33% 6
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 7
Wales -9 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +3 4 £190 -62.00% 26

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 (5.18%) Confluence
2 46 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (4.09%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.45%) Apache
5 26 (2.36%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.18%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.45%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.45%) Mendix
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 851 (77.36%) AWS
2 673 (61.18%) AWS Lambda
3 475 (43.18%) Amazon S3
4 387 (35.18%) Azure
5 228 (20.73%) GitHub
6 203 (18.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 203 (18.45%) Amazon EC2
7 194 (17.64%) Azure Functions
8 185 (16.82%) Amazon ECS
9 181 (16.45%) Amazon EKS
10 160 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 157 (14.27%) GitHub Actions
12 126 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
13 125 (11.36%) Power Platform
14 120 (10.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 114 (10.36%) Amazon SQS
15 114 (10.36%) AWS Step Functions
16 85 (7.73%) Azure Logic Apps
17 80 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
18 75 (6.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.18%) Firewall
2 32 (2.91%) DNS
3 24 (2.18%) VPN
4 21 (1.91%) Network Security
5 13 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.18%) WAN
6 10 (0.91%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.45%) IPsec
9 5 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.45%) SMS
10 4 (0.36%) MQTT
11 3 (0.27%) CTI
11 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.73%) DynamoDB
2 151 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (10.55%) Amazon Athena
4 104 (9.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 100 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (7.91%) Power BI
7 71 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
8 67 (6.09%) NoSQL
9 64 (5.82%) Data Lake
10 51 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.09%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.09%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.00%) Metadata
14 33 (3.00%) MySQL
15 28 (2.55%) Tableau
16 27 (2.45%) MongoDB
17 23 (2.09%) Big Data
18 22 (2.00%) Redis
19 19 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (15.91%) Git
2 152 (13.82%) GitLab
3 139 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.36%) JIRA
5 27 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.73%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.45%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.00%) JUnit
11 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.82%) Mocha
11 9 (0.82%) Postman
11 9 (0.82%) Vite
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) Mockito
13 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
General
1 240 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 194 (17.64%) Public Sector
3 145 (13.18%) Finance
4 66 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (2.45%) Banking
7 16 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.36%) Legal
9 12 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.09%) Law
10 10 (0.91%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.64%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.45%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Back Office
15 4 (0.36%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (23.27%) Developer
2 205 (18.64%) Architect
3 176 (16.00%) Senior
4 170 (15.45%) AWS Engineer
5 130 (11.82%) Data Engineer
6 102 (9.27%) Lead
7 77 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 71 (6.45%) AWS Architect
10 64 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.73%) AWS Developer
12 52 (4.73%) Technical Architect
13 51 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
15 48 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
16 47 (4.27%) Python Engineer
17 45 (4.09%) Senior Developer
18 44 (4.00%) Python Developer
19 43 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.64%) React
2 137 (12.45%) REST
3 122 (11.09%) Node.js
4 121 (11.00%) Kafka
5 116 (10.55%) .NET
6 111 (10.09%) RESTful
7 79 (7.18%) PySpark
8 72 (6.55%) OAuth
9 70 (6.36%) Spring Boot
10 69 (6.27%) Spring
11 64 (5.82%) AWS CDK
12 59 (5.36%) GraphQL
13 52 (4.73%) FastAPI
14 46 (4.18%) AngularJS
15 45 (4.09%) OpenID
16 43 (3.91%) JSON
16 43 (3.91%) OAuth2
17 37 (3.36%) Next.js
18 33 (3.00%) Flask
19 29 (2.64%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 323 (29.36%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.36%) NHS
7 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.73%) IVR
13 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.00%) Linux
2 22 (2.00%) Unix
3 13 (1.18%) 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 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (60.18%) CI/CD
2 484 (44.00%) DevOps
3 401 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 375 (34.09%) Agile
5 260 (23.64%) Microservices
6 237 (21.55%) Containerisation
7 229 (20.82%) AI
8 205 (18.64%) Event-Driven
9 176 (16.00%) Observability
10 163 (14.82%) Analytics
11 158 (14.36%) Data Modelling
12 157 (14.27%) Data Pipeline
13 152 (13.82%) Test Automation
14 150 (13.64%) Software Engineering
15 147 (13.36%) ETL
16 139 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (11.45%) Data Engineering
18 123 (11.18%) Migration
19 119 (10.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 116 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 495 (45.00%) Python
2 320 (29.09%) SQL
3 173 (15.73%) TypeScript
4 150 (13.64%) C#
5 148 (13.45%) JavaScript
6 141 (12.82%) Java
7 60 (5.45%) Bash
8 39 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.36%) Bicep
10 35 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.73%) Go
11 19 (1.73%) Scala
12 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.73%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
16 5 (0.45%) Formula Language
16 5 (0.45%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.45%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 286 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 230 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.18%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (3.27%) Degree
6 33 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.09%) QA
3 28 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.36%) GDPR
5 19 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.36%) NIST
7 12 (1.09%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 5 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 278 (25.27%) Docker
2 33 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.09%) Squid
5 5 (0.45%) RACF
5 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 441 (40.09%) Terraform
2 254 (23.09%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.00%) Grafana
4 90 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.27%) Ansible
6 28 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.82%) 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 (0.45%) Packer
13 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 154 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.09%) Databricks
3 51 (4.64%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.09%) Oracle
5 25 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.27%) Informatica
6 23 (2.09%) Splunk
7 20 (1.82%) Google
8 14 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.00%) Foundry
9 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.91%) Confluent
10 10 (0.91%) SAP
11 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.82%) Tenable
12 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 7 (0.64%) Sybase
14 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.45%) Teradata