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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 114 122
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 935 756 917
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.07% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.84% 5.88% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 520 664
10th Percentile £380 £375 £405
25th Percentile £419 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.22% -9.92%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -6.61% -0.57% -
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 13,676 12,852 16,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.52% 35.25% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,240 8,464 11,709
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 168 313
10th Percentile £15.22 £19.06 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +6.70% +47.56%
75th Percentile £45.73 £60.15 £61.88
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £78.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £32.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -35.88% +45.56% +18.73%

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 13 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 13 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 +8 748 £508 -7.73% 656
London +3 403 £525 -4.55% 335
UK excluding London -3 380 £488 -6.61% 354
Work from Home +11 311 £525 +2.44% 414
North of England +23 147 £500 -1.38% 146
Yorkshire +21 88 £500 -4.31% 43
Midlands +5 70 £500 - 35
Scotland -8 62 £450 -4.66% 28
North West -5 54 £475 +6.03% 95
West Midlands +5 52 £525 - 21
South East -47 44 £425 -32.00% 81
East of England +11 38 £525 -7.89% 18
South West -8 34 £575 -10.51% 36
East Midlands -3 18 £411 -8.61% 14
North East -8 6 £466 -23.61% 8
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 6
Wales -8 2 £569 +8.33% 8

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 (4.49%) Apache
2 33 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.42%) Confluence
4 24 (2.57%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.39%) CMS
6 12 (1.28%) nginx
7 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.53%) Documentum
8 5 (0.53%) FileNet
9 4 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Mendix
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 695 (74.33%) AWS
2 557 (59.57%) AWS Lambda
3 354 (37.86%) Amazon S3
4 284 (30.37%) Azure
5 187 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 184 (19.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 176 (18.82%) GitHub
8 172 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
9 164 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
10 160 (17.11%) Azure Functions
11 118 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
12 113 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
13 104 (11.12%) Amazon EKS
14 96 (10.27%) Amazon SQS
15 93 (9.95%) GCP
16 82 (8.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 78 (8.34%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (7.38%) AWS Step Functions
19 59 (6.31%) Power Platform
20 56 (5.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.21%) Firewall
2 27 (2.89%) VPN
3 23 (2.46%) DNS
4 12 (1.28%) Network Security
4 12 (1.28%) SSL
5 6 (0.64%) DHCP
5 6 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (0.53%) HTTP
6 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.32%) DKIM
7 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.21%) LAN
8 2 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.21%) SSH
8 2 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.11%) NAS
9 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (14.76%) DynamoDB
3 137 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (9.84%) NoSQL
5 65 (6.95%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (4.28%) Power BI
11 31 (3.32%) Big Data
11 31 (3.32%) Data Lake
12 29 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.10%) MySQL
13 27 (2.89%) MongoDB
13 27 (2.89%) Redis
14 26 (2.78%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.25%) RDBMS
16 20 (2.14%) Tableau
17 17 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 165 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 163 (17.43%) Git
3 119 (12.73%) GitLab
4 85 (9.09%) JIRA
5 38 (4.06%) Liquibase
6 28 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.46%) JUnit
8 20 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.60%) Mockito
11 14 (1.50%) Postman
12 13 (1.39%) Maven
12 13 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.18%) MLflow
14 10 (1.07%) Selenium
14 10 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.75%) Gradle
16 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
16 5 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 242 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 153 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 119 (12.73%) Finance
4 72 (7.70%) Banking
5 63 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.60%) Marketing
9 9 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.75%) Front Office
10 7 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (0.64%) Military
11 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Publishing
13 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Local Government
13 3 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 254 (27.17%) Developer
2 145 (15.51%) AWS Engineer
2 145 (15.51%) Senior
3 136 (14.55%) Architect
4 108 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 88 (9.41%) Software Engineer
6 75 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 63 (6.74%) Lead
8 46 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 43 (4.60%) AWS Architect
10 43 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
11 40 (4.28%) AWS Developer
12 39 (4.17%) Java Developer
12 39 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (3.96%) Senior Developer
14 36 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.74%) Python Engineer
16 31 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.68%) Node.js
2 148 (15.83%) RESTful
3 133 (14.22%) React
3 133 (14.22%) REST
4 98 (10.48%) .NET
5 90 (9.63%) Kafka
6 63 (6.74%) AWS CDK
7 61 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
8 48 (5.13%) OAuth
9 45 (4.81%) GraphQL
10 44 (4.71%) Spring Boot
11 43 (4.60%) Spring
12 39 (4.17%) AngularJS
12 39 (4.17%) FastAPI
13 38 (4.06%) PyTorch
14 35 (3.74%) HTML
15 32 (3.42%) Next.js
16 31 (3.32%) CSS
16 31 (3.32%) JSON
17 29 (3.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 219 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.60%) NHS
9 14 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.28%) Replication
12 11 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.07%) IVR
14 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
16 7 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 105 (11.23%) Linux
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Unix
4 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.53%) VMS
5 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
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
1 492 (52.62%) CI/CD
2 458 (48.98%) DevOps
3 384 (41.07%) Agile
4 317 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 264 (28.24%) Microservices
6 230 (24.60%) Containerisation
7 186 (19.89%) Software Engineering
8 175 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (15.08%) AI
10 122 (13.05%) Test Automation
11 117 (12.51%) Analytics
12 110 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 109 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
13 109 (11.66%) Event-Driven
14 102 (10.91%) Mentoring
15 96 (10.27%) ETL
16 91 (9.73%) Data Modelling
16 91 (9.73%) Machine Learning
17 88 (9.41%) Scrum
18 85 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 468 (50.05%) Python
2 221 (23.64%) SQL
3 163 (17.43%) Java
4 150 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 145 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 89 (9.52%) C#
7 67 (7.17%) Go
8 58 (6.20%) Bash
9 40 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.78%) Bicep
11 17 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.71%) Ruby
13 12 (1.28%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.07%) Scala
15 9 (0.96%) C++
15 9 (0.96%) Perl
16 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.64%) JSX
16 6 (0.64%) VBA
17 5 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 199 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 163 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.73%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.49%) Degree
5 61 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.85%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.96%) MCP
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.11%) CISM
13 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.45%) QA
2 40 (4.28%) GDPR
3 34 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.71%) NIST
6 15 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.50%) WCAG
8 9 (0.96%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.43%) MiFID
10 4 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 263 (28.13%) Docker
2 37 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 355 (37.97%) Terraform
2 258 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.55%) Grafana
4 103 (11.02%) Prometheus
5 93 (9.95%) Ansible
6 14 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.18%) Kibana
8 10 (1.07%) Puppet
9 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.75%) Packer
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.32%) Rancher
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 147 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.35%) Google
2 50 (5.35%) Splunk
3 39 (4.17%) Databricks
4 33 (3.53%) Oracle
5 26 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.14%) Foundry
7 19 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.28%) Pega
11 11 (1.18%) Palantir
12 10 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.07%) IBM
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco
14 7 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.75%) Confluent
15 6 (0.64%) Gigya
15 6 (0.64%) StreamSets