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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 950 760 909
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.08% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.87% 5.87% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 526 668
10th Percentile £380 £376 £400
25th Percentile £416 £444 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,831 12,951 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.51% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,367 8,522 11,553
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 190 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.73 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +13.82% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.67 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.40%

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 26 November 2025.

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
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 26 November 2025. 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 +11 762 £500 -9.95% 298
London +9 415 £525 -4.55% 129
UK excluding London +8 387 £478 -8.95% 236
Work from Home +11 305 £525 - 215
North of England +23 154 £490 -2.00% 71
Yorkshire +26 91 £500 -6.67% 23
Midlands +9 72 £500 - 27
Scotland -1 67 £450 -5.26% 25
North West -2 56 £450 -0.61% 44
West Midlands +13 54 £525 - 15
South East -45 47 £430 -31.20% 73
South West -13 34 £625 -2.72% 24
East of England +5 29 £505 -11.40% 12
East Midlands -5 18 £411 -8.61% 12
North East -4 8 £471 -22.87% 4
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 1
Wales -12 1 £488 -2.50% 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 48 (5.05%) Apache
2 33 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.16%) Confluence
4 13 (1.37%) CMS
5 12 (1.26%) nginx
6 8 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.74%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) FileNet
10 2 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 707 (74.42%) AWS
2 578 (60.84%) AWS Lambda
3 364 (38.32%) Amazon S3
4 297 (31.26%) Azure
5 198 (20.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 198 (20.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 190 (20.00%) GitHub
7 182 (19.16%) Amazon ECS
8 177 (18.63%) Amazon EC2
9 164 (17.26%) Azure Functions
10 130 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
11 119 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
12 113 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
13 94 (9.89%) GCP
14 90 (9.47%) Amazon SQS
15 88 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 74 (7.79%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (6.53%) Power Platform
19 59 (6.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.37%) Firewall
2 26 (2.74%) VPN
3 22 (2.32%) DNS
4 10 (1.05%) Network Security
5 9 (0.95%) SSL
6 7 (0.74%) HTTP
7 6 (0.63%) DHCP
7 6 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) SSH
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.21%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
3 134 (14.11%) DynamoDB
4 90 (9.47%) NoSQL
5 67 (7.05%) Relational Database
6 60 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (4.53%) Power BI
11 35 (3.68%) Data Lake
12 33 (3.47%) Big Data
13 31 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (3.26%) MySQL
14 30 (3.16%) Redis
15 27 (2.84%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.63%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.11%) RDBMS
18 19 (2.00%) Tableau
19 14 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 169 (17.79%) Git
2 165 (17.37%) Jenkins
3 134 (14.11%) GitLab
4 84 (8.84%) JIRA
5 39 (4.11%) Liquibase
6 29 (3.05%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.53%) JUnit
8 23 (2.42%) Bitbucket
9 20 (2.11%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.79%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.79%) Maven
11 16 (1.68%) Mockito
12 15 (1.58%) Postman
13 14 (1.47%) MLflow
14 13 (1.37%) Selenium
15 12 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
17 8 (0.84%) Gradle
18 5 (0.53%) JMeter
18 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
General
1 244 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 125 (13.16%) Finance
4 77 (8.11%) Banking
5 58 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 18 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.47%) Marketing
9 10 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.95%) Retail
11 8 (0.84%) Front Office
12 7 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.53%) Military
15 4 (0.42%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Aviation
16 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.32%) Local Government
17 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 259 (27.26%) Developer
2 151 (15.89%) Senior
3 150 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 123 (12.95%) Architect
5 114 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 67 (7.05%) Lead
9 48 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
10 46 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (4.32%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.11%) Java Developer
14 36 (3.79%) Python Engineer
15 35 (3.68%) Senior Developer
16 34 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (3.26%) Technical Architect
19 30 (3.16%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (17.16%) Node.js
2 156 (16.42%) RESTful
3 141 (14.84%) REST
4 135 (14.21%) React
5 110 (11.58%) .NET
6 87 (9.16%) Kafka
7 63 (6.63%) AWS CDK
7 63 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
8 55 (5.79%) OAuth
9 53 (5.58%) Spring Boot
10 52 (5.47%) Spring
11 46 (4.84%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.84%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.32%) FastAPI
13 39 (4.11%) PyTorch
14 38 (4.00%) HTML
15 35 (3.68%) .NET Core
15 35 (3.68%) JSON
16 34 (3.58%) OAuth2
17 32 (3.37%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 227 (23.89%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.89%) NHS
7 18 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.37%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.37%) Replication
11 10 (1.05%) IVR
11 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.84%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 113 (11.89%) Linux
2 12 (1.26%) Windows
3 10 (1.05%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.53%) VMS
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 480 (50.53%) DevOps
3 386 (40.63%) Agile
4 336 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 289 (30.42%) Microservices
6 244 (25.68%) Containerisation
7 191 (20.11%) Software Engineering
8 173 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (15.16%) AI
10 134 (14.11%) Test Automation
11 124 (13.05%) Analytics
12 116 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
12 116 (12.21%) Event-Driven
13 114 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 103 (10.84%) Mentoring
15 97 (10.21%) Data Modelling
16 93 (9.79%) ETL
17 91 (9.58%) Machine Learning
18 88 (9.26%) Migration
19 87 (9.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 479 (50.42%) Python
2 230 (24.21%) SQL
3 172 (18.11%) Java
4 154 (16.21%) TypeScript
5 142 (14.95%) JavaScript
6 103 (10.84%) C#
7 69 (7.26%) Go
8 65 (6.84%) Bash
9 46 (4.84%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.63%) Bicep
11 21 (2.21%) Ruby
12 19 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.26%) C++
13 12 (1.26%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.05%) Perl
15 7 (0.74%) Scala
16 6 (0.63%) Groovy
16 6 (0.63%) JSX
16 6 (0.63%) Korn
16 6 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 175 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.37%) AWS Certification
4 70 (7.37%) Degree
5 62 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.11%) Master's Degree
8 37 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.37%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.95%) MCP
14 8 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.11%) CISM
16 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.11%) QA
2 39 (4.11%) GDPR
3 34 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.58%) WCAG
6 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.26%) NIST
7 9 (0.95%) EU AI Act
7 9 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 276 (29.05%) Docker
2 36 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 378 (39.79%) Terraform
2 269 (28.32%) Kubernetes
3 114 (12.00%) Grafana
4 105 (11.05%) Prometheus
5 94 (9.89%) Ansible
6 17 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.05%) Kibana
7 10 (1.05%) Puppet
8 7 (0.74%) Packer
9 6 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Rancher
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
13 1 (0.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 152 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.37%) Google
3 49 (5.16%) Splunk
4 47 (4.95%) Databricks
5 29 (3.05%) Oracle
6 26 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.00%) Foundry
8 18 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.37%) IBM
11 12 (1.26%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.26%) Pega
12 10 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco
12 10 (1.05%) Palantir
13 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.74%) Confluent
13 7 (0.74%) Genesys
14 6 (0.63%) Greenplum