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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 100 130
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,025 746 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.57% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 6.85% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 572 588
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £627 £615 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £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 16,950 10,887 13,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 37.57% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,444 7,495 9,847
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £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 511 245 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +99.56% +20.71% -28.58%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -15 827 £525 -4.11% 324
London -15 499 £525 -4.55% 135
UK excluding London -24 353 £500 - 208
Work from Home -43 276 £511 -2.62% 163
North of England -14 144 £500 - 77
North West -9 85 £500 - 42
Midlands -26 61 £497 -1.88% 25
South East -35 53 £563 +12.50% 56
West Midlands -24 49 £488 -4.83% 16
Yorkshire -24 45 £500 - 27
Scotland -16 44 £450 -14.29% 8
South West -22 30 £591 +7.43% 29
East of England -17 23 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -13 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 9
Wales -8 6 £475 +5.50% 3
Northern Ireland +2 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 53 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.20%) Confluence
3 38 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (3.02%) Apache
5 26 (2.54%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.66%) nginx
7 10 (0.98%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.98%) Mendix
8 6 (0.59%) 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 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.098%) JBoss
13 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.20%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.098%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 766 (74.73%) AWS
2 600 (58.54%) AWS Lambda
3 410 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 382 (37.27%) Azure
5 230 (22.44%) GitHub
6 207 (20.20%) Azure Functions
7 195 (19.02%) Amazon ECS
8 187 (18.24%) Amazon EC2
9 172 (16.78%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (16.59%) GitHub Actions
11 169 (16.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 164 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 142 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
14 116 (11.32%) Power Platform
15 115 (11.22%) AWS Step Functions
16 108 (10.54%) Amazon SQS
17 102 (9.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 96 (9.37%) Azure Logic Apps
19 91 (8.88%) Azure Service Bus
20 65 (6.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.32%) DNS
2 30 (2.93%) Firewall
3 20 (1.95%) VPN
4 14 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.17%) HTTP
7 9 (0.88%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.78%) Network Security
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 (0.20%) AMQP
13 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.20%) LAN
14 1 (0.098%) CTI
14 1 (0.098%) Internet
14 1 (0.098%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.34%) DynamoDB
2 127 (12.39%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (7.41%) NoSQL
7 75 (7.32%) Power BI
8 61 (5.95%) Data Lake
9 49 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (4.39%) Relational Database
12 44 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 43 (4.20%) SQL Server
14 32 (3.12%) Metadata
14 32 (3.12%) MongoDB
15 31 (3.02%) Big Data
16 30 (2.93%) MySQL
17 29 (2.83%) Tableau
18 27 (2.63%) Delta Lake
18 27 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (15.32%) Git
2 145 (14.15%) GitLab
3 121 (11.80%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.56%) JIRA
5 27 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.17%) MLflow
10 10 (0.98%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.98%) JUnit
11 8 (0.78%) Maven
11 8 (0.78%) Mocha
11 8 (0.78%) NUnit
12 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.68%) MSTest
12 7 (0.68%) Vite
13 6 (0.59%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.59%) Postman
13 6 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 217 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 179 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 138 (13.46%) Finance
4 62 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.22%) Banking
6 27 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.46%) Legal
8 12 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.88%) Marketing
11 8 (0.78%) Military
11 8 (0.78%) Retail
12 6 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.59%) Police
13 5 (0.49%) Front Office
13 5 (0.49%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.49%) Law
13 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 263 (25.66%) Developer
2 182 (17.76%) Architect
3 151 (14.73%) Senior
4 135 (13.17%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 95 (9.27%) Lead
7 70 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.27%) AWS Architect
10 52 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.78%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (4.00%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
16 40 (3.90%) Python Engineer
17 39 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 38 (3.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.85%) Node.js
2 136 (13.27%) React
3 125 (12.20%) .NET
3 125 (12.20%) REST
4 119 (11.61%) Kafka
5 94 (9.17%) RESTful
6 83 (8.10%) Spring
7 82 (8.00%) Spring Boot
8 75 (7.32%) OAuth
9 68 (6.63%) PySpark
10 58 (5.66%) AWS CDK
11 55 (5.37%) AngularJS
12 47 (4.59%) JSON
13 46 (4.49%) OAuth2
14 43 (4.20%) FastAPI
15 42 (4.10%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.90%) OpenID
17 36 (3.51%) Next.js
18 35 (3.41%) GraphQL
19 32 (3.12%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 276 (26.93%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.24%) NHS
7 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.37%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.07%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.88%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.78%) Replication
14 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.73%) Linux
2 23 (2.24%) Unix
3 10 (0.98%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
7 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.098%) Android
7 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 492 (48.00%) DevOps
3 390 (38.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (32.20%) Agile
5 260 (25.37%) Microservices
6 241 (23.51%) Containerisation
7 183 (17.85%) AI
8 176 (17.17%) Event-Driven
9 167 (16.29%) Observability
10 150 (14.63%) Analytics
11 147 (14.34%) Data Modelling
11 147 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
12 139 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
13 135 (13.17%) Software Engineering
14 131 (12.78%) ETL
15 126 (12.29%) Test Automation
16 110 (10.73%) Data Engineering
17 108 (10.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 106 (10.34%) Mentoring
18 106 (10.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 457 (44.59%) Python
2 283 (27.61%) SQL
3 165 (16.10%) C#
4 156 (15.22%) TypeScript
5 151 (14.73%) Java
6 147 (14.34%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.95%) Bash
8 46 (4.49%) Bicep
9 40 (3.90%) PowerShell
10 36 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.34%) Go
12 19 (1.85%) Ruby
13 17 (1.66%) Scala
14 10 (0.98%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.98%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.59%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 267 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 210 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 33 (3.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (2.63%) Degree
8 26 (2.54%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
14 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.49%) QA
3 27 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.24%) GDPR
5 20 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.46%) NIST
7 10 (0.98%) WCAG
8 7 (0.68%) PMO
9 6 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.59%) NCSC
10 5 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.39%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) HL7
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) GRC
14 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 267 (26.05%) Docker
2 28 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.98%) Squid
5 5 (0.49%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 419 (40.88%) Terraform
2 237 (23.12%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.85%) Grafana
4 85 (8.29%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.88%) Ansible
6 29 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.27%) Puppet
8 10 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.78%) Consul
11 6 (0.59%) Istio
11 6 (0.59%) Kibana
11 6 (0.59%) 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
1 158 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.80%) Databricks
3 46 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.39%) Oracle
5 26 (2.54%) Splunk
6 22 (2.15%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.46%) Google
8 13 (1.27%) Foundry
9 12 (1.17%) Informatica
10 11 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.98%) Confluent
11 10 (0.98%) Kofax
11 10 (0.98%) Lotus
11 10 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.88%) SAP
13 8 (0.78%) Brio
13 8 (0.78%) Tenable
14 6 (0.59%) Palantir
14 6 (0.59%) Salesforce