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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 108 126
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,053 818 735
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.50% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 6.67% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 591 515
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £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 18,762 12,268 13,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 37.53% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,441 8,169 8,927
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 300 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.77 £52.81 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -35.77% +11.11%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -32 860 £525 - 838
London -15 513 £550 - 568
UK excluding London -47 394 £500 - 371
Work from Home -36 342 £533 +3.40% 1,521
North of England -56 129 £500 +4.06% 101
Midlands -10 87 £435 -9.14% 34
West Midlands -13 68 £460 -7.54% 18
North West -38 64 £600 +23.71% 67
Scotland -17 57 £450 -12.20% 59
South East -48 50 £600 +41.18% 63
South West -31 45 £520 -2.12% 63
Yorkshire -45 45 £500 +3.79% 21
North East -25 20 £463 +4.52% 13
East of England -36 20 £525 +1.94% 24
East Midlands -10 19 £419 +0.84% 16
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 23
Wales -10 4 £481 -16.34% 5

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 (5.60%) Confluence
2 49 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 35 (3.32%) Apache
5 33 (3.13%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.85%) CMS
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 8 (0.76%) nginx
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 821 (77.97%) AWS
2 666 (63.25%) AWS Lambda
3 440 (41.79%) Amazon S3
4 370 (35.14%) Azure
5 232 (22.03%) GitHub
6 224 (21.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 192 (18.23%) Azure Functions
8 188 (17.85%) Amazon ECS
9 163 (15.48%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 159 (15.10%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
12 144 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
13 128 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
13 128 (12.16%) Power Platform
14 117 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 107 (10.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 99 (9.40%) Amazon EventBridge
17 79 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
18 72 (6.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.42%) Firewall
2 27 (2.56%) DNS
2 27 (2.56%) Network Security
3 16 (1.52%) VPN
4 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 12 (1.14%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.95%) DynamoDB
2 160 (15.19%) Amazon RDS
3 116 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (8.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
7 85 (8.07%) Power BI
8 68 (6.46%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.51%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 54 (5.13%) MySQL
12 51 (4.84%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.32%) Metadata
14 33 (3.13%) MongoDB
15 29 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (2.37%) Delta Lake
16 25 (2.37%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (1.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 192 (18.23%) Git
2 142 (13.49%) GitLab
3 136 (12.92%) Jenkins
4 76 (7.22%) JIRA
5 32 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.94%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 24 (2.28%) Cucumber
9 18 (1.71%) Selenium
10 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.33%) JUnit
12 13 (1.23%) Postman
13 11 (1.04%) Mockito
14 9 (0.85%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.85%) RStudio
15 8 (0.76%) JMeter
15 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.66%) Gatling
16 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 247 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 185 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.81%) Finance
4 77 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.42%) Banking
7 17 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.33%) Legal
9 13 (1.23%) Marketing
9 13 (1.23%) Military
10 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.14%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Back Office
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Retail
13 8 (0.76%) Front Office
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (22.98%) Developer
2 207 (19.66%) Senior
3 196 (18.61%) Architect
4 169 (16.05%) AWS Engineer
5 129 (12.25%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.40%) Lead
7 82 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.17%) AWS Architect
9 61 (5.79%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.46%) Technical Architect
13 45 (4.27%) AWS Developer
13 45 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.08%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.99%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.80%) Python Developer
18 39 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (40.27%) Terraform
2 179 (17.00%) REST
3 129 (12.25%) .NET
4 128 (12.16%) React
5 119 (11.30%) Node.js
6 103 (9.78%) RESTful
7 99 (9.40%) Kafka
8 81 (7.69%) AWS CDK
9 77 (7.31%) PySpark
10 63 (5.98%) Spring Boot
11 62 (5.89%) Spring
12 58 (5.51%) GraphQL
13 53 (5.03%) FastAPI
14 52 (4.94%) OAuth
15 40 (3.80%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.80%) JSON
16 36 (3.42%) CSS
16 36 (3.42%) Flask
16 36 (3.42%) OAuth2
17 33 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 320 (30.39%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.83%) Product Ownership
3 74 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.98%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.66%) NHS
8 25 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.61%) IVR
12 16 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.04%) Taxonomies
15 10 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.74%) Linux
2 28 (2.66%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 16 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) Android
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 461 (43.78%) DevOps
3 415 (39.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (37.61%) Agile
5 255 (24.22%) AI
6 242 (22.98%) Event-Driven
7 240 (22.79%) Microservices
8 213 (20.23%) Containerisation
9 189 (17.95%) Observability
10 174 (16.52%) Test Automation
11 170 (16.14%) Data Modelling
12 169 (16.05%) Analytics
12 169 (16.05%) Software Engineering
13 158 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
14 157 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 152 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
16 143 (13.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 143 (13.58%) Migration
17 138 (13.11%) Data Engineering
18 137 (13.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 487 (46.25%) Python
2 306 (29.06%) SQL
3 183 (17.38%) TypeScript
4 158 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 143 (13.58%) C#
6 136 (12.92%) Java
7 79 (7.50%) Bash
8 48 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.18%) Bicep
10 33 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.33%) Scala
12 13 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.04%) Go
14 10 (0.95%) Groovy
15 8 (0.76%) R
16 6 (0.57%) Ruby
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 242 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 58 (5.51%) Degree
5 52 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) CISSP
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.12%) QA
3 46 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.70%) GDPR
5 27 (2.56%) WCAG
6 20 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) PMO
14 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 269 (25.55%) Docker
2 37 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 242 (22.98%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.17%) Grafana
3 66 (6.27%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.32%) Ansible
5 14 (1.33%) Puppet
6 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 193 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.93%) Databricks
3 45 (4.27%) Oracle
4 39 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.85%) Informatica
6 28 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.56%) Google
8 26 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.47%) Splunk
9 15 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.95%) Brio
11 10 (0.95%) SAP
11 10 (0.95%) Tenable
12 9 (0.85%) Foundry
13 8 (0.76%) Confluent
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday