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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 105 130
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,104 751 788
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.56% 2.56% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 6.74% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 568 596
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +2.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 16,091 11,150 14,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.27% 37.97% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 7,737 10,304
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 200 356
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.81 £43.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.34 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £23.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +87.60% +29.21% -19.38%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +7 888 £505 -8.18% 343
London +3 522 £513 -6.82% 159
UK excluding London -8 398 £500 - 241
Work from Home -23 294 £525 -3.67% 185
North of England +16 175 £500 - 87
North West -2 84 £450 -6.74% 48
Yorkshire +2 75 £500 - 30
Midlands -10 74 £506 +11.33% 19
Scotland +3 56 £401 -19.90% 17
West Midlands -23 56 £525 +9.15% 17
South East -63 50 £525 -8.70% 69
East of England -3 29 £570 -21.43% 16
South West -21 29 £600 -4.00% 33
East Midlands -24 18 £460 +0.22% 2
North East -1 17 £500 -19.91% 11
Wales -11 5 £481 -12.50% 2
Northern Ireland -6 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 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 44 (3.99%) Apache
3 41 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.08%) Confluence
5 29 (2.63%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.27%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
8 10 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 797 (72.19%) AWS
2 630 (57.07%) AWS Lambda
3 422 (38.22%) Azure
4 406 (36.78%) Amazon S3
5 253 (22.92%) GitHub
6 250 (22.64%) Azure Functions
7 224 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
8 216 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
9 206 (18.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 196 (17.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 190 (17.21%) Amazon EKS
12 183 (16.58%) GitHub Actions
13 178 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
14 119 (10.78%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 111 (10.05%) Azure Logic Apps
17 100 (9.06%) AWS Step Functions
18 91 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
19 86 (7.79%) GCP
20 76 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.80%) Firewall
2 31 (2.81%) DNS
3 27 (2.45%) VPN
4 12 (1.09%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) SSL
6 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.72%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.54%) SMS
9 5 (0.45%) IPsec
10 4 (0.36%) WAN
11 3 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) AMQP
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
13 1 (0.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (11.96%) DynamoDB
4 94 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 72 (6.52%) Power BI
6 70 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 67 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
8 66 (5.98%) Data Lake
9 61 (5.53%) Relational Database
10 56 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 53 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.35%) MongoDB
14 35 (3.17%) Redis
14 35 (3.17%) SQL Server
15 29 (2.63%) Tableau
16 27 (2.45%) Big Data
16 27 (2.45%) Delta Lake
17 26 (2.36%) Metadata
17 26 (2.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 192 (17.39%) Git
2 170 (15.40%) GitLab
3 167 (15.13%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.71%) JIRA
5 32 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.08%) JUnit
7 20 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.63%) Liquibase
8 18 (1.63%) MLflow
9 17 (1.54%) Mockito
10 16 (1.45%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
13 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.72%) NUnit
14 8 (0.72%) Selenium
15 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 248 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.29%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.13%) Finance
4 78 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.16%) Banking
6 29 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.82%) Military
11 9 (0.82%) Retail
12 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.63%) Legal
13 6 (0.54%) Billing
13 6 (0.54%) Front Office
14 4 (0.36%) Aviation
14 4 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.36%) Law
14 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (26.18%) Developer
2 167 (15.13%) Architect
3 159 (14.40%) Senior
4 154 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.79%) Lead
8 74 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.98%) AWS Architect
11 48 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 48 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 42 (3.80%) Java Developer
14 41 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 40 (3.62%) Python Engineer
15 40 (3.62%) Senior Developer
16 39 (3.53%) AWS Developer
17 38 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (16.03%) Node.js
2 156 (14.13%) REST
3 145 (13.13%) React
4 141 (12.77%) .NET
5 135 (12.23%) RESTful
6 132 (11.96%) Kafka
7 86 (7.79%) Spring
8 84 (7.61%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.34%) OAuth
10 58 (5.25%) AngularJS
11 52 (4.71%) PySpark
12 48 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 48 (4.35%) OAuth2
13 47 (4.26%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.26%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (4.08%) JSON
15 44 (3.99%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.26%) JWT
17 35 (3.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 293 (26.54%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.26%) NHS
7 24 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.82%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.72%) Replication
17 7 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.79%) Linux
2 13 (1.18%) Unix
3 11 (1.00%) Windows
4 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 566 (51.27%) DevOps
3 417 (37.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (32.79%) Agile
5 316 (28.62%) Microservices
6 280 (25.36%) Containerisation
7 201 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (17.57%) AI
9 165 (14.95%) Analytics
10 162 (14.67%) Observability
11 159 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
12 157 (14.22%) Event-Driven
13 153 (13.86%) Software Engineering
14 145 (13.13%) Data Modelling
15 141 (12.77%) Test Automation
16 129 (11.68%) ETL
17 123 (11.14%) Data Engineering
18 114 (10.33%) Migration
19 110 (9.96%) Machine Learning
20 107 (9.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 529 (47.92%) Python
2 315 (28.53%) SQL
3 171 (15.49%) Java
4 160 (14.49%) C#
5 157 (14.22%) JavaScript
6 153 (13.86%) TypeScript
7 69 (6.25%) Bash
8 56 (5.07%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.53%) Bicep
10 48 (4.35%) Go
11 30 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.45%) Ruby
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
13 11 (1.00%) Scala
14 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.82%) C++
16 8 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 278 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 214 (19.38%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.79%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.44%) Degree
5 46 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.35%) DV Cleared
9 33 (2.99%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.36%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.36%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.25%) QA
3 35 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.08%) GDPR
5 27 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.17%) NIST
7 21 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.82%) EU AI Act
11 8 (0.72%) PMO
12 4 (0.36%) HL7
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.36%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 312 (28.26%) Docker
2 32 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.72%) Squid
4 8 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.45%) RACF
6 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 468 (42.39%) Terraform
2 291 (26.36%) Kubernetes
3 112 (10.14%) Grafana
4 111 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 86 (7.79%) Ansible
6 24 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.09%) Puppet
8 8 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.63%) Consul
9 7 (0.63%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.36%) linkerd
11 4 (0.36%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 191 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.15%) Databricks
3 46 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.44%) Oracle
5 37 (3.35%) Splunk
6 33 (2.99%) Google
7 26 (2.36%) Foundry
8 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) Lotus
12 10 (0.91%) Kofax
12 10 (0.91%) Palantir
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) Cloudera
13 9 (0.82%) IBM
13 9 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.72%) Brio
14 8 (0.72%) Greenplum
14 8 (0.72%) Sybase