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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 937 754 907
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.62% 2.07% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% 5.85% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 524 662
10th Percentile £377 £373 £405
25th Percentile £417 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -0.47% -12.08%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -
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 13,747 12,895 16,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 35.34% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 8,504 11,577
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 £711 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 174 301
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.74 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.59 £18.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% +9.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £51.00 £58.56 £61.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.36% +17.33%

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 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 20 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 +14 757 £505 -8.18% 629
London +1 409 £525 -4.55% 336
UK excluding London +7 382 £476 -9.33% 344
Work from Home +9 307 £525 +0.96% 365
North of England +21 150 £500 - 131
Yorkshire +26 89 £500 -6.67% 45
Midlands +14 71 £500 - 32
Scotland -3 62 £450 -4.05% 34
North West -6 55 £450 -0.61% 81
West Midlands +3 53 £525 - 19
South East -45 46 £430 -31.20% 83
East of England +5 36 £521 -8.55% 23
South West -14 33 £575 -10.51% 32
East Midlands -10 18 £411 -8.61% 13
North East -8 7 £466 -23.61% 5
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 7
Wales -6 1 £488 -2.50% 9

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 42 (4.48%) Apache
2 31 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.31%) Confluence
3 25 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.39%) CMS
5 12 (1.28%) nginx
6 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.43%) 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%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 697 (74.39%) AWS
2 569 (60.73%) AWS Lambda
3 363 (38.74%) Amazon S3
4 288 (30.74%) Azure
5 197 (21.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 189 (20.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 179 (19.10%) GitHub
8 177 (18.89%) Amazon EC2
9 173 (18.46%) Amazon ECS
10 160 (17.08%) Azure Functions
11 118 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
13 110 (11.74%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (10.03%) GCP
15 90 (9.61%) Amazon SQS
16 88 (9.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 80 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 65 (6.94%) AWS Step Functions
19 60 (6.40%) Power Platform
20 56 (5.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.42%) Firewall
2 27 (2.88%) VPN
3 20 (2.13%) DNS
4 10 (1.07%) Network Security
4 10 (1.07%) SSL
5 7 (0.75%) HTTP
6 6 (0.64%) DHCP
6 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.32%) LAN
9 3 (0.32%) WAN
10 2 (0.21%) DKIM
10 2 (0.21%) MPLS
10 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.21%) SSH
11 1 (0.11%) NAS
11 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.11%) VLAN
11 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.25%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (14.83%) DynamoDB
3 137 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (9.61%) NoSQL
5 63 (6.72%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.55%) Amazon Athena
8 48 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 48 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (4.38%) Power BI
10 33 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 32 (3.42%) Big Data
12 31 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.09%) Redis
14 28 (2.99%) MongoDB
14 28 (2.99%) MySQL
15 24 (2.56%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.24%) RDBMS
17 19 (2.03%) Tableau
18 15 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 162 (17.29%) Git
3 126 (13.45%) GitLab
4 85 (9.07%) JIRA
5 39 (4.16%) Liquibase
6 27 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.56%) JUnit
8 23 (2.45%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.71%) Mockito
11 15 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.60%) Postman
12 14 (1.49%) Maven
12 14 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.17%) Selenium
14 10 (1.07%) MLflow
15 9 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.75%) Gradle
17 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
17 5 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 247 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 159 (16.97%) Public Sector
3 121 (12.91%) Finance
4 78 (8.32%) Banking
5 61 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.60%) Marketing
9 10 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.96%) Retail
11 7 (0.75%) Front Office
11 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.53%) Military
13 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Publishing
15 3 (0.32%) Aviation
15 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 250 (26.68%) Developer
2 148 (15.80%) AWS Engineer
3 143 (15.26%) Senior
4 133 (14.19%) Architect
5 110 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 75 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.15%) Lead
9 47 (5.02%) AWS DevOps
10 45 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.48%) AWS Architect
13 40 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (4.16%) AWS Developer
15 37 (3.95%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.84%) Python Engineer
16 36 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (3.74%) Senior Developer
18 32 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
19 30 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (17.08%) Node.js
2 151 (16.12%) RESTful
3 133 (14.19%) React
3 133 (14.19%) REST
4 100 (10.67%) .NET
5 90 (9.61%) Kafka
6 62 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
7 59 (6.30%) AWS CDK
8 52 (5.55%) OAuth
9 46 (4.91%) Spring Boot
10 45 (4.80%) GraphQL
10 45 (4.80%) Spring
11 40 (4.27%) AngularJS
11 40 (4.27%) FastAPI
12 38 (4.06%) PyTorch
13 36 (3.84%) HTML
14 35 (3.74%) JSON
15 31 (3.31%) Next.js
15 31 (3.31%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.03%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.81%) NHS
7 17 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.39%) Replication
11 11 (1.17%) IVR
11 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.53%) Linux
2 12 (1.28%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.43%) VMS
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
1 504 (53.79%) CI/CD
2 472 (50.37%) DevOps
3 380 (40.55%) Agile
4 324 (34.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 277 (29.56%) Microservices
6 238 (25.40%) Containerisation
7 185 (19.74%) Software Engineering
8 175 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (14.83%) AI
10 130 (13.87%) Test Automation
11 123 (13.13%) Analytics
12 113 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
13 112 (11.95%) Event-Driven
14 111 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
15 104 (11.10%) Mentoring
16 94 (10.03%) Data Modelling
16 94 (10.03%) ETL
17 90 (9.61%) Machine Learning
18 86 (9.18%) Migration
19 85 (9.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 475 (50.69%) Python
2 226 (24.12%) SQL
3 167 (17.82%) Java
4 149 (15.90%) TypeScript
5 148 (15.80%) JavaScript
6 92 (9.82%) C#
7 69 (7.36%) Go
8 61 (6.51%) Bash
9 42 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.77%) Bicep
11 18 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.81%) Ruby
13 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.07%) C++
14 10 (1.07%) Perl
14 10 (1.07%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.64%) JSX
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 6 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 166 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 95 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 72 (7.68%) Degree
5 64 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.06%) Master's Degree
8 36 (3.84%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) MCP
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.76%) QA
2 40 (4.27%) GDPR
3 33 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.49%) WCAG
6 13 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.39%) NIST
7 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.43%) MiFID
9 4 (0.43%) NCSC
9 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
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
1 270 (28.82%) Docker
2 37 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 365 (38.95%) Terraform
2 262 (27.96%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.53%) Grafana
4 104 (11.10%) Prometheus
5 91 (9.71%) Ansible
6 15 (1.60%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.17%) Kibana
8 10 (1.07%) Puppet
9 7 (0.75%) Packer
10 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.21%) SELinux
14 1 (0.11%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 149 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.34%) Google
3 48 (5.12%) Splunk
4 42 (4.48%) Databricks
5 30 (3.20%) Oracle
6 26 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.03%) Foundry
8 18 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.28%) Pega
11 11 (1.17%) IBM
12 10 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.07%) Cisco
12 10 (1.07%) Palantir
13 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.75%) Confluent
13 7 (0.75%) Genesys
14 6 (0.64%) Greenplum