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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 117 122
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 943 753 914
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.07% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.87% 5.85% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 520 673
10th Percentile £380 £377 £400
25th Percentile £415 £442 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £774 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,736 12,878 16,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.46% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,298 8,463 11,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 189 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.09%

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 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +8 756 £505 -9.05% 279
London +8 413 £525 -4.55% 120
UK excluding London +10 383 £480 -8.57% 229
Work from Home +5 303 £525 +0.24% 202
North of England +19 150 £495 -1.00% 64
Yorkshire +27 89 £500 -6.67% 19
Midlands +8 72 £500 - 25
Scotland 0 67 £450 -5.26% 25
North West -3 55 £450 -0.61% 40
West Midlands +12 54 £525 - 14
South East -44 47 £430 -31.20% 76
South West -12 34 £625 -2.72% 24
East of England +4 29 £505 -11.40% 11
East Midlands -6 18 £411 -8.61% 11
North East -4 7 £466 -23.61% 5
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 1
Wales -8 1 £488 -2.50% 6

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 48 (5.09%) Apache
2 33 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.18%) Confluence
4 13 (1.38%) CMS
5 12 (1.27%) nginx
6 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.74%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) FileNet
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 701 (74.34%) AWS
2 573 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (38.28%) Amazon S3
4 295 (31.28%) Azure
5 197 (20.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 196 (20.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 186 (19.72%) GitHub
8 179 (18.98%) Amazon ECS
9 176 (18.66%) Amazon EC2
10 164 (17.39%) Azure Functions
11 126 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
12 118 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
13 112 (11.88%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (9.97%) GCP
15 90 (9.54%) Amazon SQS
16 88 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 79 (8.38%) Azure Logic Apps
18 71 (7.53%) AWS Step Functions
19 62 (6.57%) Power Platform
20 59 (6.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.39%) Firewall
2 26 (2.76%) VPN
3 22 (2.33%) DNS
4 10 (1.06%) Network Security
5 9 (0.95%) SSL
6 7 (0.74%) HTTP
7 6 (0.64%) DHCP
7 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) SSH
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.35%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (13.89%) DynamoDB
4 88 (9.33%) NoSQL
5 66 (7.00%) Relational Database
6 60 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (4.56%) Power BI
11 35 (3.71%) Data Lake
12 33 (3.50%) Big Data
13 31 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (3.29%) MySQL
14 30 (3.18%) Redis
15 27 (2.86%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.55%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.12%) RDBMS
18 19 (2.01%) Tableau
19 14 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 169 (17.92%) Git
2 164 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 133 (14.10%) GitLab
4 84 (8.91%) JIRA
5 39 (4.14%) Liquibase
6 28 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.55%) JUnit
8 23 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 19 (2.01%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.70%) Maven
10 16 (1.70%) Mockito
11 15 (1.59%) Postman
12 14 (1.48%) MLflow
13 12 (1.27%) Selenium
13 12 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.85%) Gradle
16 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
16 5 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 243 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 168 (17.82%) Public Sector
3 124 (13.15%) Finance
4 77 (8.17%) Banking
5 58 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.48%) Marketing
9 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.95%) Retail
11 8 (0.85%) Front Office
12 7 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.53%) Military
15 4 (0.42%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Aviation
16 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.32%) Local Government
17 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (27.04%) Developer
2 150 (15.91%) Senior
3 149 (15.80%) AWS Engineer
4 123 (13.04%) Architect
5 113 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 89 (9.44%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.85%) Data Engineer
8 65 (6.89%) Lead
9 47 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
10 45 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (4.35%) AWS Developer
13 40 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.14%) Java Developer
15 36 (3.82%) Python Engineer
16 35 (3.71%) Senior Developer
17 33 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (3.29%) Technical Architect
20 30 (3.18%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (17.07%) Node.js
2 153 (16.22%) RESTful
3 140 (14.85%) REST
4 133 (14.10%) React
5 108 (11.45%) .NET
6 87 (9.23%) Kafka
7 63 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
8 62 (6.57%) AWS CDK
9 55 (5.83%) OAuth
10 50 (5.30%) Spring Boot
11 49 (5.20%) Spring
12 46 (4.88%) GraphQL
13 43 (4.56%) AngularJS
14 41 (4.35%) FastAPI
15 39 (4.14%) PyTorch
16 37 (3.92%) HTML
17 35 (3.71%) JSON
18 34 (3.61%) .NET Core
18 34 (3.61%) OAuth2
19 31 (3.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 225 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 37 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.80%) NHS
9 14 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.38%) Replication
11 10 (1.06%) IVR
11 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 113 (11.98%) Linux
2 12 (1.27%) Windows
3 10 (1.06%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.53%) VMS
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (55.04%) CI/CD
2 475 (50.37%) DevOps
3 384 (40.72%) Agile
4 333 (35.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 285 (30.22%) Microservices
6 241 (25.56%) Containerisation
7 190 (20.15%) Software Engineering
8 171 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (15.16%) AI
10 132 (14.00%) Test Automation
11 124 (13.15%) Analytics
12 114 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
12 114 (12.09%) Event-Driven
13 112 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 102 (10.82%) Mentoring
15 97 (10.29%) Data Modelling
16 93 (9.86%) ETL
17 91 (9.65%) Machine Learning
18 88 (9.33%) Migration
19 87 (9.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 476 (50.48%) Python
2 230 (24.39%) SQL
3 169 (17.92%) Java
4 150 (15.91%) TypeScript
5 142 (15.06%) JavaScript
6 101 (10.71%) C#
7 69 (7.32%) Go
8 65 (6.89%) Bash
9 46 (4.88%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.65%) Bicep
11 21 (2.23%) Ruby
12 19 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.27%) C++
13 12 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.06%) Perl
15 7 (0.74%) Scala
16 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.64%) JSX
16 6 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 218 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 174 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.44%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.42%) Degree
5 62 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.14%) Master's Degree
8 37 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.95%) MCP
14 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.11%) CISM
16 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.04%) QA
2 39 (4.14%) GDPR
3 34 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.48%) WCAG
6 12 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.27%) NIST
7 9 (0.95%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 273 (28.95%) Docker
2 36 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 376 (39.87%) Terraform
2 267 (28.31%) Kubernetes
3 113 (11.98%) Grafana
4 105 (11.13%) Prometheus
5 94 (9.97%) Ansible
6 17 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.06%) Kibana
7 10 (1.06%) Puppet
8 7 (0.74%) Packer
9 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Rancher
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 152 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.41%) Google
3 49 (5.20%) Splunk
4 47 (4.98%) Databricks
5 29 (3.08%) Oracle
6 26 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.01%) Foundry
8 18 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.38%) IBM
11 12 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.27%) Pega
12 10 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.06%) Cisco
12 10 (1.06%) Palantir
13 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.74%) Confluent
13 7 (0.74%) Genesys
14 6 (0.64%) Greenplum