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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,086 757 795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.37% 2.59% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.45% 6.83% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 577 609
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% -7.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,839 11,087 14,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.71% 37.95% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,500 7,754 10,128
10th Percentile £314 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 235 346
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.66 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -26.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.95 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -5 878 £510 -7.27% 350
London -6 534 £513 -10.87% 153
UK excluding London -10 376 £500 - 232
Work from Home -28 296 £513 -5.96% 184
North of England -3 158 £500 - 90
North West -3 81 £500 - 47
Yorkshire +1 64 £500 - 34
Midlands -25 59 £500 +11.11% 22
South East -50 53 £525 +5.00% 61
Scotland -2 52 £400 -23.81% 9
West Midlands -29 45 £500 +3.95% 18
South West -20 32 £575 -8.00% 31
East of England -15 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -12 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -27 14 £460 +2.91% 4
Wales -10 6 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -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 52 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.59%) Apache
4 31 (2.85%) Confluence
5 28 (2.58%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.38%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) Mendix
9 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.092%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 801 (73.76%) AWS
2 640 (58.93%) AWS Lambda
3 419 (38.58%) Amazon S3
4 409 (37.66%) Azure
5 249 (22.93%) GitHub
6 233 (21.45%) Azure Functions
7 222 (20.44%) Amazon ECS
8 210 (19.34%) Amazon EC2
9 200 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (18.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 186 (17.13%) Amazon EKS
12 175 (16.11%) GitHub Actions
13 173 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.33%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 115 (10.59%) AWS Step Functions
17 105 (9.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 90 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
19 89 (8.20%) Azure Service Bus
20 70 (6.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.33%) Firewall
2 38 (3.50%) DNS
3 26 (2.39%) VPN
4 13 (1.20%) Network Security
4 13 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
7 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.83%) SSL
8 7 (0.64%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.37%) WAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) FTP
11 2 (0.18%) LAN
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) 5G
12 1 (0.092%) MQTT
12 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (14.27%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (13.63%) DynamoDB
3 114 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (7.55%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.37%) Power BI
6 73 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 62 (5.71%) Data Lake
8 59 (5.43%) Relational Database
9 53 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (3.41%) Tableau
12 36 (3.31%) MongoDB
13 35 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
13 35 (3.22%) SQL Server
14 31 (2.85%) Metadata
15 30 (2.76%) Redis
16 28 (2.58%) MySQL
17 26 (2.39%) Big Data
18 25 (2.30%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 186 (17.13%) Git
2 159 (14.64%) GitLab
3 146 (13.44%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.52%) JIRA
5 31 (2.85%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.93%) JUnit
7 18 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.38%) Mockito
10 13 (1.20%) MLflow
11 12 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.92%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.83%) Maven
13 9 (0.83%) Selenium
14 8 (0.74%) NUnit
14 8 (0.74%) Postman
15 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.64%) Mocha
15 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 238 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 211 (19.43%) Public Sector
3 148 (13.63%) Finance
4 79 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.70%) Banking
6 34 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.29%) Marketing
8 13 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.92%) Legal
10 9 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.83%) Military
11 7 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.64%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Police
13 5 (0.46%) Front Office
13 5 (0.46%) Law
13 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 286 (26.34%) Developer
2 174 (16.02%) Architect
3 156 (14.36%) Senior
4 147 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 90 (8.29%) Lead
8 67 (6.17%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.06%) AWS Architect
9 55 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
11 49 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (4.42%) AWS Developer
13 44 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 44 (4.05%) Java Developer
13 44 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 43 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 40 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 38 (3.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (16.21%) Node.js
2 146 (13.44%) React
3 139 (12.80%) REST
4 128 (11.79%) Kafka
5 127 (11.69%) .NET
6 114 (10.50%) RESTful
7 93 (8.56%) Spring
8 91 (8.38%) Spring Boot
9 83 (7.64%) OAuth
10 65 (5.99%) PySpark
11 58 (5.34%) AngularJS
12 49 (4.51%) JSON
13 48 (4.42%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.42%) OAuth2
14 45 (4.14%) .NET Core
15 40 (3.68%) GraphQL
16 39 (3.59%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.41%) JWT
18 36 (3.31%) Next.js
18 36 (3.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 270 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.58%) NHS
5 25 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 23 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.83%) Replication
15 8 (0.74%) DataPower
15 8 (0.74%) IoT
15 8 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.55%) Linux
2 19 (1.75%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.28%) zOS
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Android
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (60.59%) CI/CD
2 549 (50.55%) DevOps
3 409 (37.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 346 (31.86%) Agile
5 295 (27.16%) Microservices
6 263 (24.22%) Containerisation
7 178 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.30%) AI
9 167 (15.38%) Event-Driven
10 164 (15.10%) Observability
11 161 (14.83%) Analytics
12 151 (13.90%) Data Pipeline
13 147 (13.54%) Data Modelling
14 141 (12.98%) Software Engineering
15 138 (12.71%) ETL
16 131 (12.06%) Test Automation
17 119 (10.96%) Migration
18 117 (10.77%) Data Engineering
19 107 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 106 (9.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 505 (46.50%) Python
2 307 (28.27%) SQL
3 179 (16.48%) Java
4 159 (14.64%) C#
5 156 (14.36%) TypeScript
6 155 (14.27%) JavaScript
7 74 (6.81%) Bash
8 57 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.60%) Bicep
10 34 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 31 (2.85%) Go
12 29 (2.67%) Ruby
13 13 (1.20%) Scala
14 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.83%) Perl
16 7 (0.64%) C++
16 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 292 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 230 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.76%) Degree
7 30 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.37%) PhD
14 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
15 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.34%) QA
3 33 (3.04%) GDPR
4 31 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.57%) NIST
7 12 (1.10%) WCAG
8 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.92%) PMO
9 5 (0.46%) NCSC
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.092%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 302 (27.81%) Docker
2 35 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.92%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 460 (42.36%) Terraform
2 279 (25.69%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.30%) Grafana
4 95 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 72 (6.63%) Ansible
6 27 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.29%) Puppet
8 12 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 6 (0.55%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
12 5 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.46%) Rancher
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 181 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.29%) Databricks
3 45 (4.14%) Oracle
4 44 (4.05%) OpenAI
5 26 (2.39%) Splunk
6 19 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.66%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.66%) Google
8 16 (1.47%) Foundry
9 11 (1.01%) Lotus
9 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.92%) Brio
10 10 (0.92%) Kofax
10 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.83%) SAP
12 8 (0.74%) Confluent
12 8 (0.74%) IBM
12 8 (0.74%) Informatica
12 8 (0.74%) Sybase