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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 93 127
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 756 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.64% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 7.02% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 577 580
10th Percentile £372 £400 £381
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +2.19% -6.59%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 0
10th Percentile £42.95 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £59.88 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +179.25% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 17,253 10,771 13,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 37.65% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,607 7,395 9,878
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £633
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 236 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.88 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.12% +30.46% -38.94%
75th Percentile £64.00 £47.22 £39.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -29.47%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -15 846 £525 -2.33% 307
London -17 511 £525 -4.55% 141
UK excluding London -30 362 £500 - 200
Work from Home -27 301 £525 - 164
North of England -20 151 £500 - 69
North West -11 86 £500 - 38
Midlands -43 57 £491 -1.75% 21
South East -46 53 £588 +17.50% 50
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 - 23
West Midlands -37 45 £488 -4.79% 12
Scotland -24 44 £450 -14.29% 11
South West -22 32 £578 +5.16% 31
East of England -18 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -22 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 9
Wales -8 6 £475 -17.43% 6
Northern Ireland +4 4 £190 -62.00% 7

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 46 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.15%) Confluence
3 40 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 26 (2.46%) Apache
6 17 (1.61%) nginx
7 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.94%) Mendix
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) JBoss
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 800 (75.54%) AWS
2 626 (59.11%) AWS Lambda
3 416 (39.28%) Amazon S3
4 383 (36.17%) Azure
5 247 (23.32%) GitHub
6 210 (19.83%) Azure Functions
7 192 (18.13%) Amazon EC2
8 188 (17.75%) Amazon ECS
9 179 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
10 176 (16.62%) GitHub Actions
11 174 (16.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 153 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 139 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
14 119 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
15 118 (11.14%) AWS Step Functions
16 115 (10.86%) Power Platform
17 104 (9.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 96 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
19 92 (8.69%) Azure Service Bus
20 69 (6.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.21%) DNS
2 27 (2.55%) Firewall
3 19 (1.79%) VPN
4 14 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.13%) HTTP
7 11 (1.04%) Network Security
8 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
9 8 (0.76%) SSL
10 7 (0.66%) SMS
11 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.47%) IPsec
13 4 (0.38%) WAN
14 3 (0.28%) FTP
14 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
15 2 (0.19%) AMQP
15 2 (0.19%) CTI
15 2 (0.19%) MQTT
16 1 (0.094%) 5G
16 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (14.64%) DynamoDB
2 138 (13.03%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.22%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (7.55%) NoSQL
6 76 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 73 (6.89%) Power BI
8 58 (5.48%) Data Lake
9 54 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (4.44%) SQL Server
12 44 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
13 43 (4.06%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
14 33 (3.12%) MySQL
15 31 (2.93%) Metadata
16 29 (2.74%) Tableau
17 27 (2.55%) Big Data
18 25 (2.36%) Redis
19 24 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 162 (15.30%) Git
2 139 (13.13%) GitLab
3 126 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.95%) JIRA
5 25 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 17 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.23%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.04%) JUnit
10 9 (0.85%) MLflow
11 8 (0.76%) NUnit
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
11 8 (0.76%) Vite
12 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.66%) Mocha
12 7 (0.66%) MSTest
12 7 (0.66%) Selenium
13 6 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 226 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.53%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.13%) Finance
4 60 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.74%) Banking
7 15 (1.42%) Legal
8 12 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.85%) Marketing
11 8 (0.76%) Military
11 8 (0.76%) Retail
12 7 (0.66%) Law
13 6 (0.57%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Billing
14 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.38%) Front Office
15 4 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 268 (25.31%) Developer
2 193 (18.22%) Architect
3 153 (14.45%) Senior
4 146 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 98 (9.25%) Lead
7 72 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.95%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.10%) AWS Developer
10 54 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 47 (4.44%) Technical Architect
14 46 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.25%) Python Engineer
16 43 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
17 41 (3.87%) Python Developer
18 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.41%) React
2 140 (13.22%) REST
3 139 (13.13%) Node.js
4 129 (12.18%) .NET
5 127 (11.99%) Kafka
6 103 (9.73%) RESTful
7 81 (7.65%) Spring
8 80 (7.55%) Spring Boot
9 76 (7.18%) OAuth
10 69 (6.52%) PySpark
11 62 (5.85%) AWS CDK
12 56 (5.29%) AngularJS
13 51 (4.82%) GraphQL
14 48 (4.53%) JSON
15 47 (4.44%) OAuth2
16 46 (4.34%) FastAPI
17 45 (4.25%) .NET Core
18 41 (3.87%) OpenID
19 38 (3.59%) Next.js
20 33 (3.12%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 299 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.93%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.27%) NHS
7 18 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.76%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.76%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.04%) Linux
2 23 (2.17%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (60.43%) CI/CD
2 488 (46.08%) DevOps
3 394 (37.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 343 (32.39%) Agile
5 268 (25.31%) Microservices
6 236 (22.29%) Containerisation
7 193 (18.22%) Event-Driven
8 189 (17.85%) AI
9 172 (16.24%) Observability
10 150 (14.16%) Data Modelling
11 147 (13.88%) Analytics
12 143 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
13 139 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
14 137 (12.94%) Software Engineering
15 136 (12.84%) ETL
16 135 (12.75%) Test Automation
17 115 (10.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 111 (10.48%) Migration
19 109 (10.29%) Data Engineering
19 109 (10.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 455 (42.97%) Python
2 289 (27.29%) SQL
3 168 (15.86%) C#
4 167 (15.77%) TypeScript
5 152 (14.35%) Java
6 147 (13.88%) JavaScript
7 56 (5.29%) Bash
8 45 (4.25%) Bicep
9 40 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.98%) Go
12 19 (1.79%) Scala
13 18 (1.70%) Ruby
14 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.66%) Groovy
16 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 264 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.92%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.55%) Degree
9 16 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.63%) QA
3 27 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.27%) GDPR
6 19 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.42%) NIST
8 12 (1.13%) WCAG
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.57%) NCSC
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) HL7
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 269 (25.40%) Docker
2 29 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.04%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 421 (39.75%) Terraform
2 246 (23.23%) Kubernetes
3 105 (9.92%) Grafana
4 88 (8.31%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.63%) Ansible
6 29 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.32%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
9 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Kibana
10 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.47%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 159 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.80%) Databricks
3 48 (4.53%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.15%) Oracle
5 26 (2.46%) Splunk
6 20 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.42%) Google
8 12 (1.13%) Foundry
8 12 (1.13%) Informatica
9 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) Brio
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.94%) SAP
10 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 6 (0.57%) Qualys