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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 110 129
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,052 809 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.46% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 6.63% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 591 511
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £685 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £489 £544
% change year-on-year +2.30% -10.11% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £35.33 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,770 12,196 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,423 8,144 9,083
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 317 249
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -17.63%

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 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -34 856 £525 +1.94% 202
London -20 495 £550 - 88
UK excluding London -35 398 £500 +2.30% 148
Work from Home -35 331 £525 +2.94% 116
North of England -27 138 £500 +5.26% 55
Midlands -4 90 £463 +8.82% 18
North West -18 72 £563 +18.42% 28
West Midlands -11 67 £477 +12.24% 12
Scotland -11 51 £469 -6.25% 4
South East -47 48 £600 +37.93% 29
South West -22 46 £542 +5.97% 28
Yorkshire -42 43 £500 +3.90% 16
East Midlands -5 23 £425 +2.35% 6
East of England -18 23 £525 - 9
North East -22 23 £463 +4.52% 11
Northern Ireland +7 4 £283 -43.50% 4
Wales -13 4 £481 -16.34% 4

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 55 (5.23%) Confluence
2 48 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.95%) Apache
5 20 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.095%) Drupal
12 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 819 (77.85%) AWS
2 656 (62.36%) AWS Lambda
3 435 (41.35%) Amazon S3
4 359 (34.13%) Azure
5 217 (20.63%) GitHub
6 213 (20.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 182 (17.30%) Amazon ECS
8 175 (16.63%) Azure Functions
9 167 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
10 160 (15.21%) Amazon EKS
11 156 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
12 154 (14.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 135 (12.83%) Amazon SQS
14 115 (10.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 115 (10.93%) Azure DevOps
15 112 (10.65%) Power Platform
16 107 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 84 (7.98%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.41%) GCP
19 75 (7.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.61%) Firewall
2 27 (2.57%) DNS
3 26 (2.47%) Network Security
4 18 (1.71%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) HTTP
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 6 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.57%) SSL
6 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.29%) FTP
9 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.29%) IPv4
9 3 (0.29%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.68%) DynamoDB
2 154 (14.64%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.93%) Amazon Athena
4 104 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 82 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (7.79%) Power BI
7 67 (6.37%) NoSQL
8 53 (5.04%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.37%) MySQL
10 46 (4.37%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.42%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (2.85%) Metadata
14 29 (2.76%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.38%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.09%) Tableau
17 21 (2.00%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 190 (18.06%) Git
2 143 (13.59%) GitLab
3 141 (13.40%) Jenkins
4 77 (7.32%) JIRA
5 32 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.66%) Claude Code
7 22 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.33%) Postman
9 14 (1.33%) Selenium
10 13 (1.24%) JUnit
11 10 (0.95%) Mockito
12 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.67%) Gatling
13 7 (0.67%) JMeter
13 7 (0.67%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 232 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.21%) Public Sector
3 150 (14.26%) Finance
4 70 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.61%) Banking
6 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.14%) Billing
8 12 (1.14%) Law
8 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Marketing
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 9 (0.86%) Back Office
11 7 (0.67%) Front Office
12 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.57%) Military
13 5 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (23.00%) Developer
2 205 (19.49%) Architect
3 189 (17.97%) Senior
4 175 (16.63%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (11.03%) Data Engineer
6 113 (10.74%) Lead
7 78 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.18%) AWS Architect
10 55 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.37%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.28%) Python Developer
15 44 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (4.09%) Technical Architect
17 40 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.80%) Senior Developer
18 39 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (40.02%) Terraform
2 157 (14.92%) REST
3 132 (12.55%) React
4 121 (11.50%) Node.js
5 114 (10.84%) .NET
6 107 (10.17%) RESTful
7 104 (9.89%) Kafka
8 77 (7.32%) AWS CDK
9 73 (6.94%) PySpark
10 61 (5.80%) Spring
10 61 (5.80%) Spring Boot
11 58 (5.51%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.85%) FastAPI
13 48 (4.56%) OAuth
14 40 (3.80%) AngularJS
15 38 (3.61%) CSS
15 38 (3.61%) Flask
16 37 (3.52%) JSON
17 35 (3.33%) HTML
17 35 (3.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 328 (31.18%) Cloud Native
2 86 (8.17%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.61%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.66%) NHS
6 27 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.62%) IVR
10 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.05%) IoT
13 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.89%) Linux
2 21 (2.00%) Unix
3 17 (1.62%) Windows
4 15 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 4 (0.38%) VMS
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.095%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (60.65%) CI/CD
2 453 (43.06%) DevOps
3 405 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 393 (37.36%) Agile
5 255 (24.24%) Microservices
6 238 (22.62%) AI
7 224 (21.29%) Event-Driven
8 217 (20.63%) Containerisation
9 181 (17.21%) Observability
10 173 (16.44%) Test Automation
11 165 (15.68%) Analytics
12 157 (14.92%) Software Engineering
13 156 (14.83%) Data Modelling
14 144 (13.69%) Data Pipeline
15 138 (13.12%) Technical Leadership
16 136 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (12.83%) Migration
18 134 (12.74%) ETL
19 128 (12.17%) Platform Engineering
20 127 (12.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 462 (43.92%) Python
2 303 (28.80%) SQL
3 174 (16.54%) TypeScript
4 152 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 129 (12.26%) Java
6 127 (12.07%) C#
7 76 (7.22%) Bash
8 44 (4.18%) PowerShell
9 42 (3.99%) Bicep
10 31 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 14 (1.33%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) R
15 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 279 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 231 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.32%) AWS Certification
4 54 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.66%) Degree
6 39 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.32%) QA
3 38 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.23%) GDPR
5 27 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.00%) WCAG
7 16 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 8 (0.76%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 276 (26.24%) Docker
2 38 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Squid
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 242 (23.00%) Kubernetes
2 93 (8.84%) Grafana
3 71 (6.75%) Prometheus
4 51 (4.85%) Ansible
5 16 (1.52%) Puppet
6 14 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.67%) Kibana
9 7 (0.67%) linkerd
9 7 (0.67%) Packer
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.48%) Salt
12 3 (0.29%) Consul
12 3 (0.29%) Control-M
12 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 169 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.70%) Databricks
3 43 (4.09%) Oracle
4 33 (3.14%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.85%) Informatica
6 28 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.38%) Google
7 25 (2.38%) Splunk
8 23 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.14%) SAP
11 9 (0.86%) Tenable
12 8 (0.76%) Brio
13 7 (0.67%) Confluent
14 6 (0.57%) New Relic
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
15 5 (0.48%) Foundry
15 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.48%) Workday