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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 106 130
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,103 749 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.56% 2.54% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.84% 6.69% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 564 593
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +2.33% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 16,120 11,193 14,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.35% 37.93% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,001 7,744 10,327
10th Percentile £313 £313 £287
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 196 360
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.18 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.81 £43.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.72 £62.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +79.78% +34.83% -19.24%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +8 883 £505 -8.18% 351
London -3 520 £513 -6.82% 162
UK excluding London -7 395 £500 - 249
Work from Home -28 296 £525 -4.55% 203
North of England +15 175 £500 - 90
North West -3 83 £450 -6.74% 48
Yorkshire +3 76 £500 - 32
Midlands -12 72 £523 +14.96% 25
Scotland +2 56 £401 -19.90% 17
West Midlands -24 54 £525 +9.15% 19
South East -70 50 £525 -8.70% 68
South West -23 30 £625 - 35
East of England -2 28 £560 -22.81% 12
East Midlands -23 18 £460 +0.22% 6
North East -3 17 £500 -19.91% 12
Wales -12 5 £481 -8.33% 2
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 1

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 54 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 44 (3.99%) Apache
3 41 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.81%) Confluence
5 29 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.27%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
8 10 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.091%) CMS
11 1 (0.091%) FileNet
11 1 (0.091%) JBoss
11 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 798 (72.35%) AWS
2 628 (56.94%) AWS Lambda
3 419 (37.99%) Azure
4 403 (36.54%) Amazon S3
5 249 (22.57%) Azure Functions
6 248 (22.48%) GitHub
7 223 (20.22%) Amazon ECS
8 213 (19.31%) Amazon EC2
9 203 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 194 (17.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 188 (17.04%) Amazon EKS
12 179 (16.23%) GitHub Actions
13 178 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
14 119 (10.79%) Power Platform
15 116 (10.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 110 (9.97%) Azure Logic Apps
17 99 (8.98%) AWS Step Functions
18 89 (8.07%) Azure Service Bus
19 86 (7.80%) GCP
20 77 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.72%) Firewall
2 31 (2.81%) DNS
3 27 (2.45%) VPN
4 12 (1.09%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) SSL
6 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.54%) SMS
9 5 (0.45%) IPsec
10 4 (0.36%) WAN
11 3 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
13 1 (0.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.69%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (12.51%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (12.06%) DynamoDB
4 95 (8.61%) NoSQL
5 72 (6.53%) Power BI
6 71 (6.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 67 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
8 66 (5.98%) Data Lake
9 60 (5.44%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 53 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.35%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.26%) Redis
15 34 (3.08%) SQL Server
16 31 (2.81%) Tableau
17 27 (2.45%) Big Data
17 27 (2.45%) MySQL
18 26 (2.36%) Delta Lake
18 26 (2.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 191 (17.32%) Git
2 169 (15.32%) GitLab
3 165 (14.96%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.44%) JIRA
5 30 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.09%) JUnit
7 20 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.72%) Liquibase
9 18 (1.63%) MLflow
10 17 (1.54%) Mockito
11 16 (1.45%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
14 9 (0.82%) Mocha
14 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 8 (0.73%) Selenium
16 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 250 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 212 (19.22%) Public Sector
3 155 (14.05%) Finance
4 78 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.26%) Banking
6 29 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
12 8 (0.73%) Retail
13 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.63%) Legal
14 6 (0.54%) Billing
14 6 (0.54%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Aviation
15 4 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.36%) Law
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (26.20%) Developer
2 166 (15.05%) Architect
3 160 (14.51%) Senior
4 155 (14.05%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.24%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.80%) Lead
8 73 (6.62%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.99%) AWS Architect
11 49 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 47 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.81%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.72%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.63%) Python Engineer
17 39 (3.54%) AWS Developer
18 38 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (16.05%) Node.js
2 158 (14.32%) REST
3 142 (12.87%) .NET
3 142 (12.87%) React
4 133 (12.06%) RESTful
5 131 (11.88%) Kafka
6 86 (7.80%) Spring
7 84 (7.62%) Spring Boot
8 81 (7.34%) OAuth
9 56 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 51 (4.62%) PySpark
11 49 (4.44%) GraphQL
12 48 (4.35%) AWS CDK
12 48 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
12 48 (4.35%) OAuth2
13 47 (4.26%) .NET Core
14 44 (3.99%) FastAPI
14 44 (3.99%) JSON
15 36 (3.26%) JWT
16 35 (3.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 294 (26.65%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.54%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.27%) NHS
7 24 (2.18%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.82%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.70%) Linux
2 12 (1.09%) Unix
3 10 (0.91%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 567 (51.41%) DevOps
3 414 (37.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (32.82%) Agile
5 317 (28.74%) Microservices
6 279 (25.29%) Containerisation
7 201 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
8 193 (17.50%) AI
9 162 (14.69%) Analytics
9 162 (14.69%) Observability
10 157 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
10 157 (14.23%) Software Engineering
11 156 (14.14%) Event-Driven
12 145 (13.15%) Data Modelling
13 139 (12.60%) Test Automation
14 126 (11.42%) ETL
15 122 (11.06%) Data Engineering
16 113 (10.24%) Migration
17 108 (9.79%) Machine Learning
18 107 (9.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 531 (48.14%) Python
2 313 (28.38%) SQL
3 173 (15.68%) Java
4 162 (14.69%) C#
5 157 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 152 (13.78%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.17%) Bash
8 56 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 51 (4.62%) Go
10 49 (4.44%) Bicep
11 29 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.45%) Ruby
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
13 11 (1.00%) Scala
14 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.82%) C++
16 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 276 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 212 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.07%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.44%) Degree
5 45 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.35%) DV Cleared
9 33 (2.99%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.36%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.27%) PhD
15 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.091%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.17%) QA
3 35 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.99%) GDPR
5 26 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.18%) NIST
7 21 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.82%) EU AI Act
11 8 (0.73%) PMO
12 4 (0.36%) HL7
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.36%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) GxP
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 311 (28.20%) Docker
2 33 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) Squid
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.45%) RACF
6 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 466 (42.25%) Terraform
2 292 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 114 (10.34%) Grafana
4 113 (10.24%) Prometheus
5 88 (7.98%) Ansible
6 24 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.09%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.63%) Consul
9 7 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.36%) linkerd
11 4 (0.36%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 193 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.07%) Databricks
3 46 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.45%) Splunk
5 37 (3.35%) Oracle
6 34 (3.08%) Google
7 26 (2.36%) Foundry
8 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) Lotus
12 10 (0.91%) Kofax
12 10 (0.91%) Palantir
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 9 (0.82%) IBM
13 9 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.73%) Brio
14 8 (0.73%) Greenplum
14 8 (0.73%) Sybase