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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 107 127
Rank change year-on-year -40 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,058 835 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.53% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.59% 6.66% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 604 501
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -7.76% +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 £76.20 £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 18,915 12,541 13,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 37.95% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,557 8,377 8,732
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 295 187
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.33 £64.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +26.92%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -29 862 £525 +2.44% 825
London -12 511 £550 - 466
UK excluding London -51 398 £500 +1.32% 477
Work from Home -23 342 £537 +5.29% 399
North of England -48 133 £500 +5.26% 139
Midlands -11 87 £428 -14.07% 55
West Midlands -19 68 £450 -10.00% 28
North West -36 66 £550 +15.79% 89
Scotland -24 57 £450 -10.45% 50
South East -56 52 £600 +41.18% 90
Yorkshire -55 47 £500 +5.15% 39
South West -19 45 £500 -9.09% 65
North East -26 20 £463 -0.75% 11
East Midlands -12 19 £419 -5.42% 27
East of England -32 17 £515 - 26
Wales -9 5 £425 -26.12% 17
Northern Ireland +2 4 £283 -43.50% 38

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 54 (5.10%) Confluence
2 51 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.69%) Apache
5 35 (3.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.95%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 7 (0.66%) nginx
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.28%) CICS
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 821 (77.60%) AWS
2 666 (62.95%) AWS Lambda
3 439 (41.49%) Amazon S3
4 376 (35.54%) Azure
5 237 (22.40%) GitHub
6 228 (21.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 198 (18.71%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.96%) Amazon ECS
9 165 (15.60%) Amazon EKS
10 159 (15.03%) Amazon EC2
10 159 (15.03%) Amazon SQS
10 159 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 157 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
12 132 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
13 126 (11.91%) Power Platform
14 112 (10.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 105 (9.92%) Amazon EventBridge
16 102 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 81 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
18 74 (6.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.02%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) Network Security
3 25 (2.36%) DNS
4 14 (1.32%) HTTP
4 14 (1.32%) VPN
5 11 (1.04%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
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%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) Internet
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.16%) DynamoDB
2 161 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (11.15%) Amazon Athena
4 94 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
5 89 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 88 (8.32%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (7.18%) Power BI
8 67 (6.33%) NoSQL
9 61 (5.77%) Data Lake
10 54 (5.10%) SQL Server
11 53 (5.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 51 (4.82%) MySQL
13 40 (3.78%) MongoDB
14 32 (3.02%) Metadata
15 27 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.46%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.17%) Relational Database
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 20 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (1.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 202 (19.09%) Git
2 146 (13.80%) GitLab
3 140 (13.23%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.90%) JIRA
5 32 (3.02%) Claude Code
5 32 (3.02%) Cypress.io
6 30 (2.84%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.80%) Selenium
9 18 (1.70%) JUnit
10 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.42%) Postman
12 14 (1.32%) Mockito
13 11 (1.04%) Maven
13 11 (1.04%) RStudio
14 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.85%) JMeter
15 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
16 8 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 244 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.93%) Finance
4 79 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (3.88%) Banking
7 15 (1.42%) Marketing
8 14 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Military
9 13 (1.23%) Back Office
9 13 (1.23%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Front Office
13 8 (0.76%) Retail
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 245 (23.16%) Developer
2 210 (19.85%) Senior
3 192 (18.15%) Architect
4 174 (16.45%) AWS Engineer
5 134 (12.67%) Data Engineer
6 123 (11.63%) Lead
7 89 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (5.77%) AWS Architect
9 59 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 46 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.25%) Technical Architect
14 44 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (4.06%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
17 40 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
18 39 (3.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (39.41%) Terraform
2 191 (18.05%) REST
3 133 (12.57%) .NET
4 126 (11.91%) React
5 119 (11.25%) Node.js
6 108 (10.21%) Kafka
7 105 (9.92%) RESTful
8 77 (7.28%) AWS CDK
9 72 (6.81%) PySpark
10 68 (6.43%) Spring Boot
11 67 (6.33%) Spring
12 63 (5.95%) GraphQL
13 56 (5.29%) OAuth
14 52 (4.91%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.88%) AngularJS
16 39 (3.69%) JSON
17 38 (3.59%) OAuth2
18 37 (3.50%) CSS
19 34 (3.21%) HTML
20 33 (3.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 336 (31.76%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 79 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (6.71%) AI Agents
5 39 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.65%) NHS
8 25 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.61%) IVR
12 14 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.23%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.90%) Linux
2 27 (2.55%) Unix
3 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.42%) Windows
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.28%) zOS
7 2 (0.19%) AIX
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) Android
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (62.19%) CI/CD
2 460 (43.48%) DevOps
3 414 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 396 (37.43%) Agile
5 261 (24.67%) AI
6 253 (23.91%) Event-Driven
7 241 (22.78%) Microservices
8 208 (19.66%) Containerisation
9 202 (19.09%) Observability
10 176 (16.64%) Test Automation
11 172 (16.26%) Data Modelling
12 169 (15.97%) Software Engineering
13 168 (15.88%) Analytics
14 165 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 158 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
16 154 (14.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 153 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
18 145 (13.71%) Data Engineering
19 143 (13.52%) Migration
20 140 (13.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 483 (45.65%) Python
2 302 (28.54%) SQL
3 186 (17.58%) TypeScript
4 161 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 150 (14.18%) C#
6 140 (13.23%) Java
7 76 (7.18%) Bash
8 45 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.06%) Bicep
10 32 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.42%) Scala
12 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.04%) Go
14 10 (0.95%) Groovy
15 8 (0.76%) R
16 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 279 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 240 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 82 (7.75%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.77%) Degree
5 55 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.66%) CISSP
16 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.34%) Data Quality
2 81 (7.66%) QA
3 49 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.59%) GDPR
5 30 (2.84%) WCAG
6 15 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.85%) NIST
9 8 (0.76%) 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
14 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.095%) GRC
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 271 (25.61%) Docker
2 35 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.28%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.94%) Grafana
3 67 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 57 (5.39%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Packer
8 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.66%) Argo
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 203 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.18%) Databricks
3 47 (4.44%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.25%) Oracle
5 30 (2.84%) Google
6 29 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.46%) Informatica
8 26 (2.46%) Splunk
9 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.23%) Foundry
11 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.04%) Brio
13 10 (0.95%) Tenable
14 9 (0.85%) Confluent
15 7 (0.66%) SAP
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
16 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
17 4 (0.38%) ForgeRock
17 4 (0.38%) New Relic