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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 120 123
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 882 736 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.62% 1.99% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.80% 5.69% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 500 726
10th Percentile £387 £363 £410
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £681 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
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 12,963 12,946 16,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.55% 34.92% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,672 8,540 12,205
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 173 323
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.44 £14.68
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +42.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £34.47 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.52% +53.18% +16.70%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +13 701 £513 -6.82% 616
London +12 368 £525 -4.55% 306
UK excluding London +11 368 £500 -6.98% 450
Work from Home +13 299 £525 +2.44% 379
North of England +22 140 £500 -4.76% 138
Yorkshire +24 82 £500 -6.37% 49
Midlands +15 73 £500 -2.44% 23
Scotland 0 61 £500 +5.26% 24
West Midlands +21 53 £516 -1.67% 13
North West 0 52 £485 +0.52% 77
South East -44 40 £425 -32.00% 202
East of England +24 38 £525 -8.30% 17
South West +2 32 £563 -6.25% 34
East Midlands +1 19 £435 -11.22% 9
North East -4 8 £521 -12.89% 12
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 1
Wales -7 2 £569 +13.75% 16

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 34 (3.85%) Apache
1 34 (3.85%) Confluence
2 26 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.47%) CMS
4 13 (1.47%) nginx
5 8 (0.91%) Documentum
5 8 (0.91%) FileNet
6 7 (0.79%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.45%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 662 (75.06%) AWS
2 519 (58.84%) AWS Lambda
3 333 (37.76%) Amazon S3
4 256 (29.02%) Azure
5 162 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 162 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
6 161 (18.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 158 (17.91%) GitHub
8 140 (15.87%) Azure Functions
9 135 (15.31%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
11 100 (11.34%) Amazon SQS
12 95 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
13 92 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
14 90 (10.20%) GCP
15 69 (7.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (7.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 65 (7.37%) AWS Step Functions
18 52 (5.90%) Snowflake
19 50 (5.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.95%) Firewall
1 26 (2.95%) VPN
2 17 (1.93%) DNS
3 10 (1.13%) SSL
4 7 (0.79%) Network Security
5 6 (0.68%) DHCP
5 6 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.45%) HTTP
8 3 (0.34%) DKIM
8 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.23%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) SSH
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) Internet
10 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.11%) SMS
10 1 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (17.57%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 122 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (10.43%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.26%) Relational Database
6 57 (6.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 56 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 49 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (3.97%) Power BI
11 33 (3.74%) Big Data
12 29 (3.29%) MySQL
13 28 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.17%) SQL Server
14 25 (2.83%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.83%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.83%) Redis
15 20 (2.27%) RDBMS
16 18 (2.04%) Tableau
17 17 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 158 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 144 (16.33%) Git
3 107 (12.13%) GitLab
4 76 (8.62%) JIRA
5 32 (3.63%) Liquibase
6 31 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.04%) JUnit
8 16 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.81%) Storybook
9 15 (1.70%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.36%) Maven
11 12 (1.36%) Postman
12 10 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (1.02%) MLflow
13 9 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.91%) Mockito
14 8 (0.91%) Selenium
15 7 (0.79%) Gradle
16 5 (0.57%) SonarLint
General
1 224 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 128 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 103 (11.68%) Finance
4 64 (7.26%) Banking
5 54 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.59%) Marketing
8 13 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.79%) Front Office
12 6 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.57%) Military
13 5 (0.57%) Publishing
14 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.23%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 245 (27.78%) Developer
2 138 (15.65%) Architect
3 137 (15.53%) Senior
4 130 (14.74%) AWS Engineer
5 92 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.86%) Software Engineer
7 65 (7.37%) Data Engineer
8 60 (6.80%) Lead
9 43 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.76%) AWS Architect
10 42 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 38 (4.31%) AWS Developer
12 38 (4.31%) Python Engineer
12 38 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 36 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
13 36 (4.08%) Java Developer
14 31 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (15.87%) RESTful
2 130 (14.74%) Node.js
3 128 (14.51%) React
4 119 (13.49%) REST
5 90 (10.20%) Kafka
6 87 (9.86%) .NET
7 68 (7.71%) AWS CDK
8 58 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
9 47 (5.33%) GraphQL
10 41 (4.65%) Spring
11 40 (4.54%) Spring Boot
12 36 (4.08%) CSS
13 35 (3.97%) AngularJS
13 35 (3.97%) FastAPI
13 35 (3.97%) PyTorch
14 34 (3.85%) HTML
15 33 (3.74%) OAuth
16 32 (3.63%) Next.js
17 26 (2.95%) JSON
18 25 (2.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 215 (24.38%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.25%) Replication
12 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.91%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
15 7 (0.79%) NHS
15 7 (0.79%) N-Tier
16 5 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.66%) Linux
2 12 (1.36%) Windows
3 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.02%) Unix
4 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.45%) VMS
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 455 (51.59%) CI/CD
2 417 (47.28%) DevOps
3 364 (41.27%) Agile
4 284 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 236 (26.76%) Microservices
6 215 (24.38%) Containerisation
7 179 (20.29%) Software Engineering
8 170 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (15.53%) AI
10 113 (12.81%) Test Automation
11 111 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 109 (12.36%) Event-Driven
13 100 (11.34%) Mentoring
14 93 (10.54%) Analytics
14 93 (10.54%) ETL
14 93 (10.54%) Machine Learning
15 89 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
16 85 (9.64%) Scrum
17 83 (9.41%) Data Modelling
18 79 (8.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 424 (48.07%) Python
2 196 (22.22%) SQL
3 153 (17.35%) Java
4 149 (16.89%) TypeScript
5 140 (15.87%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.73%) C#
7 68 (7.71%) Go
8 53 (6.01%) Bash
9 31 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.72%) Bicep
11 15 (1.70%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.25%) Ruby
14 9 (1.02%) C++
14 9 (1.02%) Scala
15 8 (0.91%) Rust
16 6 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.68%) VBA
17 5 (0.57%) Perl
17 5 (0.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 170 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.75%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.94%) Degree
5 60 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 35 (3.97%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.97%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.02%) MCP
12 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.10%) QA
2 34 (3.85%) GDPR
3 29 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.70%) NIST
6 13 (1.47%) WCAG
7 12 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.45%) MiFID
10 4 (0.45%) NCSC
11 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 234 (26.53%) Docker
2 31 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 316 (35.83%) Terraform
2 239 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 104 (11.79%) Grafana
4 98 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 87 (9.86%) Ansible
6 15 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.13%) Kibana
7 10 (1.13%) Puppet
8 9 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.45%) Packer
10 3 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.23%) Control-M
11 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.23%) linkerd
11 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) SELinux
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 134 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.44%) Google
3 46 (5.22%) Splunk
4 35 (3.97%) Oracle
5 31 (3.51%) Databricks
6 20 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.15%) Foundry
8 16 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
10 10 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 10 (1.13%) Palantir
11 9 (1.02%) IBM
11 9 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.02%) Pega
12 7 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.79%) Confluent
12 7 (0.79%) StreamSets
13 6 (0.68%) Gigya
13 6 (0.68%) Greenplum