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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 98 127
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,102 766 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.52% 2.59% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 6.82% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 579 597
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.35% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 16,264 11,239 14,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 38.03% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,097 7,822 10,239
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £488
% change year-on-year -0.84% -1.74% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 209 359
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £19.97 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%
75th Percentile £61.44 £41.97 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.10 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.85% +35.44% -20.04%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +3 882 £513 -6.82% 359
London -1 524 £513 -6.82% 156
UK excluding London -14 393 £500 - 244
Work from Home -25 298 £525 -2.78% 190
North of England +7 171 £500 - 95
North West -1 80 £455 -4.21% 43
Yorkshire -2 76 £500 - 45
Midlands -18 71 £520 +15.56% 21
Scotland +1 58 £401 -19.80% 8
West Midlands -16 56 £525 +9.15% 18
South East -73 50 £525 -8.70% 66
South West -18 31 £600 -2.10% 33
East of England -3 27 £570 -21.43% 21
North East -5 16 £475 -23.91% 9
East Midlands -29 15 £460 +2.22% 3
Wales -7 5 £481 +1.32% 1
Northern Ireland -2 2 - -

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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.72%) Apache
3 39 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.18%) Confluence
5 30 (2.72%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.36%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) CMS
12 1 (0.091%) FileNet
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 804 (72.96%) AWS
2 632 (57.35%) AWS Lambda
3 418 (37.93%) Azure
4 410 (37.21%) Amazon S3
5 254 (23.05%) GitHub
6 246 (22.32%) Azure Functions
7 226 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
8 219 (19.87%) Amazon EC2
9 207 (18.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (17.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 192 (17.42%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (16.70%) GitHub Actions
13 177 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (10.98%) Power Platform
15 120 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 112 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 101 (9.17%) AWS Step Functions
18 91 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
19 85 (7.71%) GCP
20 78 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.99%) Firewall
2 34 (3.09%) DNS
3 28 (2.54%) VPN
4 12 (1.09%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 11 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.82%) SSL
7 6 (0.54%) SMS
8 5 (0.45%) IPsec
9 4 (0.36%) WAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.091%) 4G
12 1 (0.091%) BGP
12 1 (0.091%) Internet
12 1 (0.091%) MQTT
12 1 (0.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.79%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (12.07%) DynamoDB
4 93 (8.44%) NoSQL
5 76 (6.90%) Power BI
6 69 (6.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 67 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
8 66 (5.99%) Data Lake
9 58 (5.26%) Relational Database
10 57 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
11 55 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.36%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.27%) SQL Server
15 35 (3.18%) Redis
16 30 (2.72%) Tableau
17 28 (2.54%) Metadata
18 27 (2.45%) Delta Lake
19 25 (2.27%) Big Data
20 24 (2.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 192 (17.42%) Git
2 172 (15.61%) GitLab
3 168 (15.25%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.90%) JIRA
5 33 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.09%) JUnit
7 20 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.63%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.54%) MLflow
9 17 (1.54%) Mockito
10 16 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.36%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
14 9 (0.82%) Postman
14 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 8 (0.73%) Selenium
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 246 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 215 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 159 (14.43%) Finance
4 78 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.17%) Banking
6 31 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
11 9 (0.82%) Retail
12 8 (0.73%) Legal
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.54%) Billing
14 6 (0.54%) Front Office
15 4 (0.36%) Aviation
15 4 (0.36%) Law
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 284 (25.77%) Developer
2 169 (15.34%) Architect
3 163 (14.79%) Senior
4 155 (14.07%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 85 (7.71%) Lead
8 75 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 57 (5.17%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 48 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (3.99%) Senior Developer
14 42 (3.81%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.72%) AWS Developer
15 41 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
16 40 (3.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (15.43%) Node.js
2 154 (13.97%) REST
3 143 (12.98%) React
4 137 (12.43%) .NET
5 132 (11.98%) RESTful
6 128 (11.62%) Kafka
7 86 (7.80%) Spring
8 84 (7.62%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.35%) OAuth
10 58 (5.26%) AngularJS
11 55 (4.99%) PySpark
12 51 (4.63%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
13 48 (4.36%) OAuth2
14 47 (4.26%) .NET Core
15 46 (4.17%) JSON
16 45 (4.08%) FastAPI
17 44 (3.99%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.27%) JWT
18 36 (3.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 288 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.27%) NHS
7 22 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.91%) Replication
12 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.89%) Linux
2 14 (1.27%) Unix
3 12 (1.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (61.34%) CI/CD
2 569 (51.63%) DevOps
3 426 (38.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (32.49%) Agile
5 309 (28.04%) Microservices
6 282 (25.59%) Containerisation
7 196 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
8 188 (17.06%) AI
9 163 (14.79%) Analytics
10 162 (14.70%) Observability
11 157 (14.25%) Event-Driven
12 153 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.70%) Software Engineering
14 148 (13.43%) Data Modelling
15 142 (12.89%) Test Automation
16 130 (11.80%) ETL
17 124 (11.25%) Data Engineering
18 115 (10.44%) Migration
19 106 (9.62%) Mentoring
20 103 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 531 (48.19%) Python
2 311 (28.22%) SQL
3 170 (15.43%) Java
4 156 (14.16%) JavaScript
5 155 (14.07%) C#
5 155 (14.07%) TypeScript
6 72 (6.53%) Bash
7 57 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.54%) Bicep
9 49 (4.45%) Go
10 31 (2.81%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.45%) Ruby
12 12 (1.09%) Scala
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
14 8 (0.73%) C++
14 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 282 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 219 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.62%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.45%) Degree
5 45 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.18%) DV Cleared
9 33 (2.99%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.36%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.36%) PhD
17 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.26%) QA
3 35 (3.18%) GDPR
4 34 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.81%) NIST
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.82%) PMO
11 5 (0.45%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.36%) HL7
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.36%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 315 (28.58%) Docker
2 33 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) Squid
5 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.45%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 477 (43.28%) Terraform
2 289 (26.23%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.44%) Grafana
4 114 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 86 (7.80%) Ansible
6 25 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.09%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.64%) Consul
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Istio
10 5 (0.45%) Rancher
11 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.36%) linkerd
12 3 (0.27%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 188 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.44%) Databricks
3 42 (3.81%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.63%) Splunk
5 38 (3.45%) Oracle
6 30 (2.72%) Google
7 21 (1.91%) Foundry
8 20 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.63%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.00%) Lotus
10 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) Kofax
11 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) IBM
12 9 (0.82%) Palantir
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.73%) Confluent
13 8 (0.73%) Sybase