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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 105 128
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 750 782
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 2.54% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 6.74% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 576 598
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £622
90th Percentile £700 £788 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,867 11,134 14,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.17% 37.72% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,745 10,000
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £704 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 252 349
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -27.13%

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 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -2 867 £513 -6.82% 246
London -8 519 £513 -6.82% 110
UK excluding London -1 376 £500 - 162
Work from Home -30 286 £500 -4.76% 307
North of England -3 157 £500 - 60
North West -13 84 £500 - 42
Midlands -17 60 £500 +10.01% 17
Yorkshire -13 57 £500 - 15
South East -48 55 £525 +5.00% 41
Scotland -5 51 £402 -23.43% 3
West Midlands -22 47 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -26 34 £578 +5.16% 21
East of England -21 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -10 17 £475 - 3
East Midlands -26 13 £499 +8.71% 9
Wales -7 5 £475 -5.09% 3
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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 59 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.77%) Apache
4 34 (3.20%) Confluence
5 28 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.60%) nginx
7 11 (1.04%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.94%) Mendix
9 7 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) SAS
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) CMS
13 1 (0.094%) FileNet
13 1 (0.094%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 784 (73.82%) AWS
2 619 (58.29%) AWS Lambda
3 415 (39.08%) Amazon S3
4 406 (38.23%) Azure
5 243 (22.88%) GitHub
6 224 (21.09%) Azure Functions
7 213 (20.06%) Amazon ECS
8 192 (18.08%) Amazon EC2
9 184 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 183 (17.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 175 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (16.01%) GitHub Actions
13 166 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
14 122 (11.49%) Power Platform
15 116 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 115 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 103 (9.70%) Azure Logic Apps
18 93 (8.76%) Amazon SQS
19 91 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
20 66 (6.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.77%) Firewall
2 38 (3.58%) DNS
3 22 (2.07%) VPN
4 15 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.22%) Network Security
5 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.13%) HTTP
7 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.85%) SSL
8 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.66%) SMS
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
11 4 (0.38%) WAN
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.094%) 4G
14 1 (0.094%) BGP
14 1 (0.094%) CTI
14 1 (0.094%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (14.12%) DynamoDB
2 133 (12.52%) Amazon RDS
3 110 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.19%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (7.72%) NoSQL
6 80 (7.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 80 (7.53%) Power BI
7 63 (5.93%) Data Lake
8 53 (4.99%) Relational Database
9 51 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (3.67%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 36 (3.39%) MongoDB
14 33 (3.11%) Tableau
15 32 (3.01%) Big Data
15 32 (3.01%) Metadata
16 28 (2.64%) MySQL
16 28 (2.64%) Redis
17 26 (2.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 175 (16.48%) Git
2 152 (14.31%) GitLab
3 134 (12.62%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.37%) JIRA
5 29 (2.73%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 17 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.51%) JUnit
9 14 (1.32%) MLflow
10 12 (1.13%) Mockito
11 10 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.85%) Maven
12 9 (0.85%) Selenium
13 8 (0.75%) Liquibase
13 8 (0.75%) NUnit
14 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.66%) Mocha
14 7 (0.66%) Postman
15 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 229 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 205 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.75%) Finance
4 73 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (4.05%) Banking
6 32 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.13%) Marketing
9 11 (1.04%) Legal
10 10 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.75%) Military
12 8 (0.75%) Retail
13 6 (0.56%) Billing
13 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Front Office
14 5 (0.47%) Law
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 276 (25.99%) Developer
2 183 (17.23%) Architect
3 147 (13.84%) Senior
4 144 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.36%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.76%) Lead
7 87 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.21%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.27%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.52%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 40 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
16 40 (3.77%) Python Engineer
16 40 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (16.29%) Node.js
2 146 (13.75%) React
3 134 (12.62%) REST
4 123 (11.58%) .NET
5 122 (11.49%) Kafka
6 108 (10.17%) RESTful
7 90 (8.47%) OAuth
8 88 (8.29%) Spring
9 87 (8.19%) Spring Boot
10 67 (6.31%) PySpark
11 58 (5.46%) AngularJS
12 51 (4.80%) AWS CDK
12 51 (4.80%) OAuth2
13 49 (4.61%) JSON
14 46 (4.33%) .NET Core
15 42 (3.95%) OpenID
16 41 (3.86%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.86%) GraphQL
17 40 (3.77%) JWT
18 36 (3.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.73%) NHS
5 26 (2.45%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.32%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.85%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.75%) Replication
16 7 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.53%) Linux
2 21 (1.98%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 531 (50.00%) DevOps
3 404 (38.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (32.77%) Agile
5 281 (26.46%) Microservices
6 254 (23.92%) Containerisation
7 178 (16.76%) AI
8 170 (16.01%) Analytics
9 166 (15.63%) Event-Driven
10 164 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
11 159 (14.97%) Observability
12 150 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
13 148 (13.94%) Data Modelling
14 144 (13.56%) Software Engineering
15 137 (12.90%) ETL
16 136 (12.81%) Test Automation
17 116 (10.92%) Data Engineering
18 113 (10.64%) Migration
19 109 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
20 105 (9.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 495 (46.61%) Python
2 301 (28.34%) SQL
3 170 (16.01%) Java
4 163 (15.35%) C#
5 160 (15.07%) JavaScript
6 157 (14.78%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.21%) Bash
8 50 (4.71%) Bicep
8 50 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 26 (2.45%) Go
11 25 (2.35%) Ruby
12 17 (1.60%) Scala
13 11 (1.04%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.04%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.56%) Perl
15 6 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 294 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 235 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.69%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.73%) Degree
6 29 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.38%) PhD
13 4 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.90%) QA
3 32 (3.01%) GDPR
4 31 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.51%) NIST
8 11 (1.04%) WCAG
9 10 (0.94%) PMO
10 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.47%) NCSC
13 4 (0.38%) HL7
13 4 (0.38%) SLA
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.094%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 291 (27.40%) Docker
2 34 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.94%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) HDFS
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 447 (42.09%) Terraform
2 262 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.51%) Grafana
4 90 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 64 (6.03%) Ansible
6 29 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.04%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) Kibana
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.38%) Packer
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Rancher
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 175 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.38%) Databricks
3 47 (4.43%) Oracle
4 46 (4.33%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.01%) Splunk
6 18 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.60%) Google
8 14 (1.32%) Foundry
8 14 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.04%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Brio
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Informatica
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Palantir