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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -32 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,058 807 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.46% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.63% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 587 505
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £538
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.47% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,730 12,170 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.16% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,406 8,107 9,047
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 321 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -31 864 £525 +1.94% 402
London -15 508 £550 - 243
UK excluding London -32 397 £500 +1.63% 204
Work from Home -33 335 £525 +1.94% 205
North of England -39 134 £500 +5.26% 83
Midlands -11 86 £447 -0.67% 27
North West -32 66 £600 +26.32% 42
West Midlands -13 65 £469 +4.22% 17
Scotland -9 53 £463 -7.50% 14
South East -45 51 £600 +37.93% 17
South West -24 47 £534 +4.66% 37
Yorkshire -48 46 £511 +10.54% 23
East of England -21 23 £525 - 12
North East -26 22 £463 +4.52% 18
East Midlands -5 21 £413 -0.66% 10
Northern Ireland +1 4 £283 -43.50% 11
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 5

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 56 (5.29%) Confluence
2 50 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.12%) Apache
5 22 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.76%) nginx
8 7 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.095%) Drupal
13 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 823 (77.79%) AWS
2 659 (62.29%) AWS Lambda
3 439 (41.49%) Amazon S3
4 367 (34.69%) Azure
5 222 (20.98%) GitHub
6 216 (20.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 182 (17.20%) Azure Functions
8 181 (17.11%) Amazon ECS
9 164 (15.50%) Amazon EC2
10 160 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
11 159 (15.03%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 139 (13.14%) Amazon SQS
14 120 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
14 120 (11.34%) Power Platform
15 117 (11.06%) AWS Step Functions
16 109 (10.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 88 (8.32%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.37%) Azure Logic Apps
19 77 (7.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.40%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
3 26 (2.46%) Network Security
4 16 (1.51%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.50%) DynamoDB
2 155 (14.65%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (10.96%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 86 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (8.13%) Power BI
7 67 (6.33%) NoSQL
8 54 (5.10%) Data Lake
9 53 (5.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.73%) MySQL
11 48 (4.54%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
14 32 (3.02%) Metadata
15 29 (2.74%) Relational Database
16 26 (2.46%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.08%) Tableau
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 189 (17.86%) Git
2 143 (13.52%) GitLab
2 143 (13.52%) Jenkins
3 76 (7.18%) JIRA
4 32 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 29 (2.74%) Claude Code
6 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.42%) Selenium
8 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.23%) Postman
10 12 (1.13%) JUnit
11 9 (0.85%) Mockito
12 8 (0.76%) RStudio
12 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.66%) Gatling
13 7 (0.66%) JMeter
13 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 237 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 188 (17.77%) Public Sector
3 148 (13.99%) Finance
4 72 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.40%) Banking
6 32 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.23%) Billing
9 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.13%) Law
9 12 (1.13%) Legal
9 12 (1.13%) Marketing
10 9 (0.85%) Back Office
10 9 (0.85%) Military
10 9 (0.85%) Retail
11 7 (0.66%) Front Office
12 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.47%) Publishing
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 248 (23.44%) Developer
2 208 (19.66%) Architect
3 199 (18.81%) Senior
4 174 (16.45%) AWS Engineer
5 122 (11.53%) Data Engineer
6 115 (10.87%) Lead
7 77 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.24%) AWS Architect
9 65 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.25%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.25%) Technical Architect
15 43 (4.06%) Python Developer
16 42 (3.97%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
18 39 (3.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (40.55%) Terraform
2 163 (15.41%) REST
3 135 (12.76%) React
4 125 (11.81%) .NET
5 119 (11.25%) Node.js
6 102 (9.64%) Kafka
6 102 (9.64%) RESTful
7 79 (7.47%) AWS CDK
8 78 (7.37%) PySpark
9 64 (6.05%) Spring
9 64 (6.05%) Spring Boot
10 58 (5.48%) GraphQL
11 53 (5.01%) OAuth
12 52 (4.91%) FastAPI
13 39 (3.69%) CSS
14 38 (3.59%) AngularJS
15 37 (3.50%) Flask
16 35 (3.31%) HTML
16 35 (3.31%) JSON
16 35 (3.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 334 (31.57%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 78 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.74%) NHS
6 21 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.61%) IVR
9 14 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) IoT
11 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.05%) Linux
2 23 (2.17%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 452 (42.72%) DevOps
3 414 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (37.43%) Agile
5 252 (23.82%) Microservices
6 246 (23.25%) AI
7 228 (21.55%) Event-Driven
8 218 (20.60%) Containerisation
9 185 (17.49%) Observability
10 173 (16.35%) Test Automation
11 167 (15.78%) Analytics
12 160 (15.12%) Software Engineering
13 159 (15.03%) Data Modelling
14 149 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
15 142 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
16 141 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (13.14%) ETL
17 139 (13.14%) Migration
18 136 (12.85%) Platform Engineering
19 133 (12.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 473 (44.71%) Python
2 310 (29.30%) SQL
3 178 (16.82%) TypeScript
4 155 (14.65%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.85%) C#
6 134 (12.67%) Java
7 77 (7.28%) Bash
8 44 (4.16%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.88%) Bicep
10 32 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.51%) Scala
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 279 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 231 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.91%) Degree
5 50 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (10.21%) Data Quality
2 59 (5.58%) QA
3 42 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.40%) GDPR
5 28 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.27%) WCAG
7 16 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.23%) NIST
9 9 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 279 (26.37%) Docker
2 37 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 243 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 90 (8.51%) Grafana
3 70 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 52 (4.91%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 178 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.24%) Databricks
3 42 (3.97%) Oracle
4 37 (3.50%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.02%) Informatica
6 27 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.55%) Splunk
7 25 (2.36%) Google
8 24 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) SAP
11 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.95%) Brio
13 9 (0.85%) Tenable
14 7 (0.66%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday