Serverless Contract Job Trends

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Serverless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 127 111
Rank change year-on-year +21 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 825 734 1,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.50% 1.91% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% 5.56% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 509 823
10th Percentile £391 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £36.50 - £40.25
25th Percentile £38.75 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £66.25
75th Percentile £51.25 - £78.75
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

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 12,367 13,195 17,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.53% 34.26% 35.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,251 8,899 12,684
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 196 336
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.49 £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.13 £62.81 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.94 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -36.88% +14.29% +36.36%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 18 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +17 662 £525 -4.55% 381
London +17 368 £550 +4.76% 208
UK excluding London +11 318 £500 -6.54% 273
Work from Home +17 307 £515 +2.28% 262
North of England +18 112 £475 -9.52% 88
Yorkshire +13 57 £476 -11.03% 25
Midlands +16 55 £479 -4.25% 19
Scotland -13 53 £511 +7.18% 27
North West -3 51 £475 - 53
South East -9 44 £425 -32.00% 92
West Midlands +13 38 £498 -2.93% 9
South West +20 31 £538 -10.42% 22
East of England +18 26 £515 -12.34% 13
East Midlands +6 16 £443 +10.69% 5
North East -4 6 £443 -27.46% 11
Northern Ireland -2 4 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales +2 2 £575 +15.05% 10

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (4.61%) Confluence
2 26 (3.15%) Apache
3 22 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.06%) CMS
5 13 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.45%) nginx
7 10 (1.21%) Documentum
7 10 (1.21%) FileNet
8 8 (0.97%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.48%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.24%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 626 (75.88%) AWS
2 490 (59.39%) AWS Lambda
3 316 (38.30%) Amazon S3
4 235 (28.48%) Azure
5 154 (18.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 137 (16.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 133 (16.12%) Amazon EC2
8 124 (15.03%) GitHub
9 120 (14.55%) Azure Functions
10 116 (14.06%) Amazon SQS
11 105 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
14 79 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (8.73%) GCP
16 68 (8.24%) AWS Step Functions
17 65 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 51 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 46 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
20 44 (5.33%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.52%) Firewall
1 29 (3.52%) VPN
2 19 (2.30%) DNS
3 11 (1.33%) SSL
4 9 (1.09%) HTTP
4 9 (1.09%) Network Security
5 7 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.73%) DHCP
7 5 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.36%) DKIM
8 3 (0.36%) VLAN
8 3 (0.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.24%) SSH
9 2 (0.24%) Wireless
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (16.61%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (16.48%) DynamoDB
3 90 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (9.58%) NoSQL
5 58 (7.03%) Relational Database
6 47 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.64%) Big Data
11 29 (3.52%) SQL Server
12 27 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (3.27%) MySQL
13 26 (3.15%) Power BI
14 25 (3.03%) Redis
15 23 (2.79%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.79%) MongoDB
16 20 (2.42%) RDBMS
17 18 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
18 13 (1.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 120 (14.55%) Git
2 119 (14.42%) Jenkins
3 74 (8.97%) GitLab
3 74 (8.97%) JIRA
4 36 (4.36%) Cypress.io
5 24 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.67%) Liquibase
7 20 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.94%) Storybook
9 14 (1.70%) Postman
10 13 (1.58%) JUnit
11 11 (1.33%) Maven
11 11 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.21%) Selenium
13 7 (0.85%) Gradle
13 7 (0.85%) JMeter
14 6 (0.73%) Mockito
15 5 (0.61%) SonarLint
16 4 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 205 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 129 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 81 (9.82%) Finance
4 59 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.21%) Banking
6 17 (2.06%) Marketing
7 15 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (0.97%) Retail
10 7 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.61%) Front Office
13 4 (0.48%) Publishing
14 3 (0.36%) Aviation
14 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.24%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 255 (30.91%) Developer
2 141 (17.09%) Architect
3 119 (14.42%) Senior
4 106 (12.85%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (10.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 77 (9.33%) Software Engineer
7 53 (6.42%) Lead
8 49 (5.94%) AWS Architect
9 48 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (5.58%) Data Engineer
11 44 (5.33%) AWS Developer
12 43 (5.21%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (4.48%) Python Engineer
15 36 (4.36%) Java Developer
16 32 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 25 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
18 25 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
19 23 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (15.76%) Node.js
2 129 (15.64%) React
3 118 (14.30%) RESTful
4 96 (11.64%) REST
5 85 (10.30%) Kafka
6 70 (8.48%) .NET
7 69 (8.36%) AWS CDK
8 55 (6.67%) GraphQL
9 42 (5.09%) OAuth
10 39 (4.73%) Spring Boot
11 37 (4.48%) HTML
11 37 (4.48%) Next.js
12 36 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
12 36 (4.36%) Spring
13 35 (4.24%) AngularJS
14 34 (4.12%) CSS
15 31 (3.76%) JSON
16 26 (3.15%) .NET Core
17 24 (2.91%) OAuth2
18 23 (2.79%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 164 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.79%) Public Cloud
6 18 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.21%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.97%) Replication
12 7 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.85%) N-Tier
13 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.61%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.48%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.24%) Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Windows
3 10 (1.21%) Unix
4 7 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) SUSE
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 360 (43.64%) DevOps
3 345 (41.82%) Agile
4 241 (29.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 217 (26.30%) Microservices
6 183 (22.18%) Containerisation
7 153 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 118 (14.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 106 (12.85%) Event-Driven
11 97 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 95 (11.52%) Test Automation
13 91 (11.03%) Mentoring
14 87 (10.55%) ETL
15 82 (9.94%) Analytics
16 80 (9.70%) Scrum
17 77 (9.33%) Clean Code
18 71 (8.61%) High Availability
19 68 (8.24%) Machine Learning
20 67 (8.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 347 (42.06%) Python
2 156 (18.91%) SQL
3 155 (18.79%) JavaScript
4 151 (18.30%) TypeScript
5 149 (18.06%) Java
6 74 (8.97%) C#
7 43 (5.21%) Bash
7 43 (5.21%) Go
8 29 (3.52%) Bicep
9 22 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.33%) Rust
11 11 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.21%) Scala
13 6 (0.73%) C++
13 6 (0.73%) Ruby
14 5 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.48%) Groovy
15 4 (0.48%) VBA
15 4 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 177 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 155 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 100 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 51 (6.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 51 (6.18%) Degree
5 43 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.42%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.06%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.24%) CCIE
14 2 (0.24%) CCNP
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.58%) QA
2 27 (3.27%) GDPR
3 25 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) WCAG
7 9 (1.09%) NIST
8 8 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.48%) HL7
9 4 (0.48%) MiFID
9 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 189 (22.91%) Docker
2 32 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 272 (32.97%) Terraform
2 200 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.61%) Grafana
4 68 (8.24%) Ansible
4 68 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.70%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.33%) Kibana
8 9 (1.09%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.24%) Control-M
11 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) linkerd
11 2 (0.24%) SELinux
12 1 (0.12%) Argo
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.73%) Google
3 36 (4.36%) Oracle
4 34 (4.12%) Splunk
5 18 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.94%) Databricks
6 16 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.09%) Cloudera
8 9 (1.09%) Foundry
8 9 (1.09%) IBM
8 9 (1.09%) Palantir
8 9 (1.09%) Pega
9 8 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (0.97%) StreamSets
10 7 (0.85%) Cisco
11 6 (0.73%) Confluent
11 6 (0.73%) Gigya
12 5 (0.61%) SAP