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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 95 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,046 763 749
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.65% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 7.03% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 582 570
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £431 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £620
90th Percentile £725 £750 £689
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 17,157 10,856 13,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,543 7,447 9,883
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 £634
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 536 240 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -10 837 £525 -2.28% 257
London -14 507 £525 -4.55% 114
UK excluding London -32 356 £500 - 186
Work from Home -32 296 £525 - 127
North of England -22 149 £500 - 61
North West -17 85 £503 +0.50% 34
Midlands -34 57 £491 -1.75% 22
South East -39 52 £575 +15.00% 50
Yorkshire -29 50 £500 - 20
West Midlands -37 45 £488 -4.79% 13
Scotland -21 43 £450 -14.29% 12
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 24
East of England -20 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -21 15 £475 - 8
East Midlands -20 12 £500 - 9
Wales -7 6 £475 -17.43% 5
Northern Ireland +5 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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.21%) Confluence
3 41 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 26 (2.49%) Apache
6 17 (1.63%) nginx
7 10 (0.96%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.96%) Mendix
8 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.48%) SAS
9 4 (0.38%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) JBoss
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.096%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 788 (75.33%) AWS
2 616 (58.89%) AWS Lambda
3 409 (39.10%) Amazon S3
4 380 (36.33%) Azure
5 239 (22.85%) GitHub
6 208 (19.89%) Azure Functions
7 193 (18.45%) Amazon EC2
8 180 (17.21%) Amazon ECS
9 176 (16.83%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (16.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 169 (16.16%) GitHub Actions
12 147 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 137 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
14 116 (11.09%) Amazon SQS
15 114 (10.90%) Power Platform
16 111 (10.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 105 (10.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 96 (9.18%) Azure Logic Apps
19 92 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
20 70 (6.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.06%) DNS
2 27 (2.58%) Firewall
3 19 (1.82%) VPN
4 13 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.15%) HTTP
5 12 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
6 11 (1.05%) Network Security
7 9 (0.86%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.76%) SSL
9 7 (0.67%) SMS
10 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.48%) IPsec
12 4 (0.38%) WAN
13 3 (0.29%) FTP
13 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.19%) AMQP
14 2 (0.19%) CTI
14 2 (0.19%) MQTT
15 1 (0.096%) BGP
15 1 (0.096%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (14.72%) DynamoDB
2 136 (13.00%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
5 79 (7.55%) NoSQL
6 74 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (6.88%) Power BI
8 58 (5.54%) Data Lake
9 51 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (4.40%) SQL Server
12 44 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (3.82%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.15%) MongoDB
15 31 (2.96%) Metadata
16 30 (2.87%) MySQL
17 29 (2.77%) Tableau
18 27 (2.58%) Big Data
19 24 (2.29%) Delta Lake
19 24 (2.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 156 (14.91%) Git
2 138 (13.19%) GitLab
3 126 (12.05%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.02%) JIRA
5 25 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.24%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.05%) JUnit
11 8 (0.76%) MLflow
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
11 8 (0.76%) Vite
12 7 (0.67%) Mocha
12 7 (0.67%) MSTest
13 6 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.57%) Selenium
13 6 (0.57%) Snyk
13 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 170 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 138 (13.19%) Finance
4 58 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.77%) Banking
7 15 (1.43%) Legal
8 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (0.86%) Marketing
11 8 (0.76%) Military
11 8 (0.76%) Retail
12 7 (0.67%) Law
13 6 (0.57%) Police
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.48%) Billing
14 5 (0.48%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.38%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (25.24%) Developer
2 190 (18.16%) Architect
3 151 (14.44%) Senior
4 144 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 98 (9.37%) Lead
7 70 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.41%) Software Engineer
9 63 (6.02%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.97%) AWS Developer
12 49 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.49%) Senior Developer
14 46 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.30%) Python Engineer
16 44 (4.21%) Technical Architect
17 43 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
18 41 (3.92%) Python Developer
19 39 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.58%) React
2 137 (13.10%) Node.js
3 136 (13.00%) REST
4 127 (12.14%) Kafka
5 125 (11.95%) .NET
6 102 (9.75%) RESTful
7 78 (7.46%) Spring
8 77 (7.36%) Spring Boot
9 73 (6.98%) OAuth
10 67 (6.41%) PySpark
11 59 (5.64%) AWS CDK
12 54 (5.16%) AngularJS
13 51 (4.88%) GraphQL
14 47 (4.49%) JSON
15 45 (4.30%) FastAPI
16 44 (4.21%) OAuth2
17 42 (4.02%) .NET Core
18 41 (3.92%) OpenID
19 38 (3.63%) Next.js
20 30 (2.87%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 295 (28.20%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (2.96%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.29%) NHS
7 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.76%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.76%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.64%) Linux
2 23 (2.20%) Unix
3 10 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.38%) zOS
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.096%) Android
6 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 480 (45.89%) DevOps
3 386 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 341 (32.60%) Agile
5 261 (24.95%) Microservices
6 230 (21.99%) Containerisation
7 189 (18.07%) Event-Driven
8 186 (17.78%) AI
9 169 (16.16%) Observability
10 145 (13.86%) Analytics
10 145 (13.86%) Data Modelling
11 139 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (12.91%) Software Engineering
14 134 (12.81%) ETL
14 134 (12.81%) Test Automation
15 112 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 112 (10.71%) Migration
16 107 (10.23%) Data Engineering
17 106 (10.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 449 (42.93%) Python
2 286 (27.34%) SQL
3 164 (15.68%) C#
3 164 (15.68%) TypeScript
4 150 (14.34%) Java
5 146 (13.96%) JavaScript
6 53 (5.07%) Bash
7 45 (4.30%) Bicep
8 38 (3.63%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.15%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.01%) Go
11 20 (1.91%) Scala
12 15 (1.43%) Ruby
13 10 (0.96%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.96%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) Groovy
15 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 257 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 207 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 41 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (2.58%) Degree
8 25 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.40%) QA
3 27 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.29%) GDPR
6 19 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.43%) NIST
8 12 (1.15%) WCAG
9 7 (0.67%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.57%) NCSC
11 5 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
System Software
1 264 (25.24%) Docker
2 29 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.05%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 413 (39.48%) Terraform
2 241 (23.04%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.75%) Grafana
4 88 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.59%) Ansible
6 29 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.24%) Puppet
8 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.76%) Consul
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Istio
11 6 (0.57%) Kibana
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
12 5 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.29%) Rancher
15 2 (0.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 157 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.79%) Databricks
3 47 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.21%) Oracle
5 25 (2.39%) Splunk
6 20 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.34%) Google
8 12 (1.15%) Foundry
8 12 (1.15%) Informatica
9 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.96%) Brio
10 10 (0.96%) Confluent
10 10 (0.96%) Kofax
10 10 (0.96%) Lotus
10 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.96%) SAP
10 10 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.86%) Tenable
12 6 (0.57%) Qualys