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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 102 127
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,030 751 772
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.55% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 6.80% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 575 590
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £714 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.13% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 16,978 11,050 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.58% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,635 9,909
10th Percentile £322 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £633
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 504 251 347
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.19 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.88 £73.75 £63.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £21.43 £17.71
% change year-on-year +118.44% +21.01% -28.09%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -13 836 £525 -4.55% 298
London -11 503 £525 -4.55% 139
UK excluding London -20 358 £500 - 182
Work from Home -36 279 £513 -3.76% 153
North of England -15 147 £500 - 69
North West -15 85 £500 - 42
Midlands -30 62 £498 -0.40% 19
South East -38 52 £550 +10.00% 39
West Midlands -27 50 £488 -4.79% 8
Yorkshire -20 47 £500 - 21
Scotland -18 44 £428 -18.57% 12
South West -22 32 £578 +5.16% 34
East of England -12 23 £550 -18.52% 7
North East -12 16 £475 - 6
East Midlands -29 12 £500 - 11
Wales -9 6 £475 +5.50% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.17%) Confluence
3 38 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (3.20%) Apache
5 26 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.65%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.97%) Mendix
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.49%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.097%) FileNet
13 1 (0.097%) JBoss
13 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 767 (74.47%) AWS
2 602 (58.45%) AWS Lambda
3 407 (39.51%) Amazon S3
4 386 (37.48%) Azure
5 233 (22.62%) GitHub
6 207 (20.10%) Azure Functions
7 198 (19.22%) Amazon ECS
8 191 (18.54%) Amazon EC2
9 174 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (16.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 168 (16.31%) GitHub Actions
12 163 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 147 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
14 116 (11.26%) Power Platform
15 115 (11.17%) AWS Step Functions
16 105 (10.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 104 (10.10%) Amazon SQS
18 98 (9.51%) Azure Logic Apps
19 92 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.30%) DNS
2 33 (3.20%) Firewall
3 20 (1.94%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.17%) HTTP
7 10 (0.97%) Network Security
8 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.68%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.68%) SMS
9 7 (0.68%) SSL
10 5 (0.49%) IPsec
11 4 (0.39%) WAN
12 3 (0.29%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.097%) BGP
14 1 (0.097%) CTI
14 1 (0.097%) Internet
14 1 (0.097%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (13.98%) DynamoDB
2 128 (12.43%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (7.38%) NoSQL
7 75 (7.28%) Power BI
8 60 (5.83%) Data Lake
9 49 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (4.56%) Relational Database
11 46 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
12 43 (4.17%) SQL Server
13 42 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
14 33 (3.20%) MongoDB
15 32 (3.11%) Metadata
16 31 (3.01%) Big Data
17 29 (2.82%) MySQL
17 29 (2.82%) Tableau
18 28 (2.72%) Delta Lake
18 28 (2.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 164 (15.92%) Git
2 151 (14.66%) GitLab
3 125 (12.14%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.73%) JIRA
5 30 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.26%) MLflow
9 12 (1.17%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.07%) JUnit
11 9 (0.87%) Mocha
12 8 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.78%) Maven
12 8 (0.78%) NUnit
13 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.68%) MSTest
13 7 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.68%) Vite
14 6 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 216 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.69%) Finance
4 64 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.50%) Banking
6 27 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.36%) Legal
8 12 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (0.97%) Marketing
10 8 (0.78%) Military
10 8 (0.78%) Retail
11 6 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.49%) Front Office
12 5 (0.49%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.49%) Law
12 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (25.73%) Developer
2 180 (17.48%) Architect
3 151 (14.66%) Senior
4 138 (13.40%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 93 (9.03%) Lead
7 76 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 53 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (5.05%) AWS Architect
10 52 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 50 (4.85%) AWS Developer
12 48 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 42 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.98%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
16 40 (3.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.47%) Node.js
2 136 (13.20%) React
3 126 (12.23%) REST
4 125 (12.14%) .NET
5 119 (11.55%) Kafka
6 95 (9.22%) RESTful
7 84 (8.16%) Spring
8 83 (8.06%) Spring Boot
9 78 (7.57%) OAuth
10 68 (6.60%) PySpark
11 55 (5.34%) AngularJS
12 54 (5.24%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.56%) OAuth2
14 46 (4.47%) JSON
15 43 (4.17%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.98%) .NET Core
17 40 (3.88%) OpenID
18 37 (3.59%) GraphQL
19 36 (3.50%) Next.js
20 33 (3.20%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 275 (26.70%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.52%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.23%) NHS
6 17 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.97%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.78%) Replication
12 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.99%) Linux
2 23 (2.23%) Unix
3 10 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (61.36%) CI/CD
2 503 (48.83%) DevOps
3 391 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (32.04%) Agile
5 264 (25.63%) Microservices
6 247 (23.98%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.77%) AI
8 171 (16.60%) Event-Driven
9 167 (16.21%) Observability
10 149 (14.47%) Analytics
11 148 (14.37%) Data Modelling
11 148 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
12 142 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
13 136 (13.20%) Software Engineering
14 132 (12.82%) Test Automation
15 130 (12.62%) ETL
16 111 (10.78%) Data Engineering
17 108 (10.49%) Migration
18 106 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 106 (10.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 466 (45.24%) Python
2 285 (27.67%) SQL
3 166 (16.12%) C#
4 157 (15.24%) Java
5 156 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 149 (14.47%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.92%) Bash
8 48 (4.66%) Bicep
9 42 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.59%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.43%) Go
12 21 (2.04%) Ruby
13 17 (1.65%) Scala
14 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 275 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 217 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.92%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 33 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.72%) Degree
7 28 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.39%) PhD
16 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.56%) QA
3 27 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.23%) GDPR
6 19 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.46%) NIST
8 10 (0.97%) WCAG
9 7 (0.68%) PMO
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.39%) SLA
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 273 (26.50%) Docker
2 30 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.97%) Squid
5 5 (0.49%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 424 (41.17%) Terraform
2 246 (23.88%) Kubernetes
3 104 (10.10%) Grafana
4 87 (8.45%) Prometheus
5 53 (5.15%) Ansible
6 29 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.26%) Puppet
8 11 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.78%) Consul
11 6 (0.58%) Istio
11 6 (0.58%) Kibana
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.49%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.39%) Podman
13 4 (0.39%) Rancher
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 160 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.86%) Databricks
3 48 (4.66%) Oracle
4 45 (4.37%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.62%) Splunk
6 22 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.55%) Google
8 13 (1.26%) Foundry
9 12 (1.17%) Informatica
10 11 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.97%) Confluent
11 10 (0.97%) Kofax
11 10 (0.97%) Lotus
11 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.87%) SAP
13 8 (0.78%) Tenable
14 7 (0.68%) Brio
15 6 (0.58%) IBM
15 6 (0.58%) Salesforce