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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 104 135
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,031 763 812
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.45% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.97% 6.57% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 554 616
10th Percentile £366 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £697 £788 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
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 14,798 11,611 15,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.91% 37.34% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,163 7,737 10,787
10th Percentile £309 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £632
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% -0.95% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 171 325
10th Percentile £14.45 £16.75 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £50.25
90th Percentile £79.63 £73.75 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.97
% change year-on-year +53.02% +15.31% +4.85%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -1 823 £500 -13.04% 306
London +6 485 £513 -10.87% 143
UK excluding London -13 379 £500 -4.03% 204
Work from Home -19 290 £525 +0.48% 176
North of England +17 167 £500 -7.75% 77
Yorkshire +12 85 £500 - 29
North West -7 70 £450 -18.18% 42
Midlands -12 66 £506 +7.66% 23
Scotland -9 60 £450 -10.00% 7
West Midlands -6 54 £525 +2.54% 12
South East -49 51 £500 -13.04% 49
East of England -5 28 £550 -3.93% 8
South West -32 23 £650 - 39
North East -8 13 £500 -16.32% 6
East Midlands -25 12 £434 -7.71% 11
Wales -4 5 £481 -3.75% 2
Northern Ireland +1 3 - - 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 39 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 38 (3.69%) Apache
3 37 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.62%) Confluence
4 27 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.16%) nginx
6 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
7 9 (0.87%) Mendix
7 9 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.48%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) FileNet
11 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.097%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 738 (71.58%) AWS
2 590 (57.23%) AWS Lambda
3 384 (37.25%) Azure
4 372 (36.08%) Amazon S3
5 233 (22.60%) Azure Functions
6 227 (22.02%) GitHub
7 203 (19.69%) Amazon ECS
8 200 (19.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 186 (18.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 179 (17.36%) Amazon EC2
11 170 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
12 169 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
13 161 (15.62%) Amazon EKS
14 112 (10.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 104 (10.09%) Power Platform
16 95 (9.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 90 (8.73%) GCP
18 81 (7.86%) Azure Service Bus
19 78 (7.57%) Azure AKS
20 77 (7.47%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.39%) Firewall
2 31 (3.01%) DNS
3 27 (2.62%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) Network Security
5 12 (1.16%) SSL
6 11 (1.07%) HTTP
7 10 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 9 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.68%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.58%) OpenVPN
10 6 (0.58%) SMS
11 5 (0.48%) IPsec
12 3 (0.29%) LAN
12 3 (0.29%) WAN
13 2 (0.19%) MPLS
14 1 (0.097%) AMQP
14 1 (0.097%) BGP
14 1 (0.097%) Internet
14 1 (0.097%) MQTT
14 1 (0.097%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (15.42%) Amazon RDS
2 133 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (11.25%) DynamoDB
4 92 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 72 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 65 (6.30%) Data Lake
6 65 (6.30%) Power BI
7 60 (5.82%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (4.95%) Relational Database
9 50 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 38 (3.69%) MongoDB
13 31 (3.01%) Redis
14 29 (2.81%) MySQL
15 28 (2.72%) Big Data
16 26 (2.52%) SQL Server
17 24 (2.33%) Tableau
18 22 (2.13%) DocumentDB
19 19 (1.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 175 (16.97%) Git
2 166 (16.10%) Jenkins
3 160 (15.52%) GitLab
4 56 (5.43%) JIRA
5 28 (2.72%) Liquibase
6 24 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.75%) JUnit
7 18 (1.75%) MLflow
8 16 (1.55%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.45%) Mockito
10 14 (1.36%) Postman
10 14 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.97%) Maven
12 10 (0.97%) Selenium
13 7 (0.68%) Mocha
14 6 (0.58%) Gradle
14 6 (0.58%) Storybook
General
1 238 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 197 (19.11%) Public Sector
3 143 (13.87%) Finance
4 78 (7.57%) Banking
5 67 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 23 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.75%) Marketing
9 11 (1.07%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.87%) Military
11 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 7 (0.68%) Retail
13 6 (0.58%) Legal
14 4 (0.39%) Aviation
14 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.39%) Law
15 3 (0.29%) Police
15 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (26.58%) Developer
2 155 (15.03%) Senior
3 149 (14.45%) Architect
4 140 (13.58%) AWS Engineer
5 107 (10.38%) Data Engineer
6 99 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 82 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 79 (7.66%) Lead
9 58 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 47 (4.56%) AWS Architect
10 47 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
10 47 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
11 45 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (3.98%) Python Engineer
13 40 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 40 (3.88%) Senior Developer
14 38 (3.69%) AWS Developer
15 34 (3.30%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.30%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (17.26%) Node.js
2 153 (14.84%) REST
3 142 (13.77%) React
4 137 (13.29%) .NET
5 130 (12.61%) RESTful
6 125 (12.12%) Kafka
7 67 (6.50%) OAuth
7 67 (6.50%) Spring
8 66 (6.40%) Spring Boot
9 57 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
10 55 (5.33%) AWS CDK
11 50 (4.85%) FastAPI
12 48 (4.66%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.56%) AngularJS
14 42 (4.07%) PySpark
15 41 (3.98%) JSON
16 38 (3.69%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.49%) PyTorch
18 35 (3.39%) OAuth2
19 34 (3.30%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 261 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 24 (2.33%) NHS
7 22 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.07%) Replication
14 11 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.87%) Mobile App
17 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (10.77%) Linux
2 11 (1.07%) Unix
3 9 (0.87%) Windows
4 5 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.39%) VMS
6 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 530 (51.41%) DevOps
3 400 (38.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 339 (32.88%) Agile
5 288 (27.93%) Microservices
6 257 (24.93%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (16.78%) AI
9 170 (16.49%) Software Engineering
10 157 (15.23%) Analytics
10 157 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
11 138 (13.39%) Event-Driven
12 128 (12.42%) Data Modelling
13 126 (12.22%) Observability
13 126 (12.22%) Test Automation
14 120 (11.64%) ETL
15 106 (10.28%) Machine Learning
16 102 (9.89%) Data Engineering
16 102 (9.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 101 (9.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 512 (49.66%) Python
2 279 (27.06%) SQL
3 155 (15.03%) C#
3 155 (15.03%) Java
4 147 (14.26%) JavaScript
5 143 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 65 (6.30%) Bash
7 57 (5.53%) Go
8 54 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.07%) Bicep
10 29 (2.81%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.33%) Ruby
12 11 (1.07%) Perl
13 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
13 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.87%) C++
15 8 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.78%) Scala
16 7 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 249 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 203 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.72%) Degree
5 49 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (3.39%) Master's Degree
8 32 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.29%) PhD
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.097%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.04%) Data Quality
1 52 (5.04%) QA
2 40 (3.88%) GDPR
3 31 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.94%) NIST
5 17 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.97%) WCAG
9 9 (0.87%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.39%) HL7
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) NCSC
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 284 (27.55%) Docker
2 29 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.58%) Squid
6 5 (0.48%) RACF
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 442 (42.87%) Terraform
2 290 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 116 (11.25%) Grafana
4 107 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 97 (9.41%) Ansible
6 19 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.16%) Puppet
9 8 (0.78%) Kibana
10 6 (0.58%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.48%) Consul
12 4 (0.39%) Rancher
13 3 (0.29%) Argo
13 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.29%) Packer
14 2 (0.19%) Control-M
14 2 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 194 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.27%) Databricks
3 45 (4.36%) Google
4 43 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 40 (3.88%) Splunk
6 32 (3.10%) Oracle
7 25 (2.42%) Foundry
8 18 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.36%) Confluent
10 14 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.26%) IBM
12 10 (0.97%) Cisco
12 10 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 10 (0.97%) Lotus
13 9 (0.87%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.87%) Kofax
13 9 (0.87%) Palantir
14 7 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.68%) Red Hat