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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 88 127
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,063 768 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.67% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.11% 7.06% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 582 585
10th Percentile £372 £400 £378
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £46.45 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £53.00 -
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 17,388 10,875 13,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 37.80% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,663 7,407 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £634
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 260 348
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -42.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.65 £71.38 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.28% +12.19% -35.27%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -19 843 £525 - 335
London -15 515 £525 -4.55% 178
UK excluding London -27 358 £500 - 202
Work from Home -25 315 £513 -2.38% 245
North of England -27 140 £500 - 68
North West -17 79 £518 +3.50% 37
Midlands -25 59 £488 -1.52% 20
South East -43 54 £575 +15.00% 46
Scotland -17 48 £444 -15.48% 6
Yorkshire -29 48 £500 - 20
West Midlands -29 46 £488 -3.18% 12
South West -17 31 £575 +4.55% 36
East of England -20 25 £550 -2.22% 8
North East -25 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -23 13 £498 +3.86% 8
Wales -8 7 £488 -15.25% 14
Northern Ireland +8 5 £190 -62.00% 6

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 50 (4.70%) Confluence
2 46 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 44 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.54%) Apache
4 27 (2.54%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.51%) nginx
6 8 (0.75%) HCL Notes
6 8 (0.75%) Mendix
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.094%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 814 (76.58%) AWS
2 641 (60.30%) AWS Lambda
3 434 (40.83%) Amazon S3
4 380 (35.75%) Azure
5 237 (22.30%) GitHub
6 201 (18.91%) Amazon EC2
7 199 (18.72%) Azure Functions
8 189 (17.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 183 (17.22%) Amazon EKS
10 179 (16.84%) Amazon ECS
11 167 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
12 153 (14.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 133 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
14 117 (11.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (10.82%) Power Platform
16 113 (10.63%) Amazon SQS
17 112 (10.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 91 (8.56%) Azure Logic Apps
19 88 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
20 75 (7.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.82%) DNS
1 30 (2.82%) Firewall
2 23 (2.16%) VPN
3 16 (1.51%) Network Security
4 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.03%) HTTP
6 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.85%) SSL
7 7 (0.66%) SMS
8 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) MQTT
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) CTI
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
12 1 (0.094%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (14.86%) DynamoDB
2 150 (14.11%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (7.15%) Power BI
7 68 (6.40%) NoSQL
8 57 (5.36%) Data Lake
9 53 (4.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 48 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (4.42%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.29%) Relational Database
14 32 (3.01%) MySQL
15 30 (2.82%) Metadata
16 29 (2.73%) Tableau
17 27 (2.54%) Big Data
18 25 (2.35%) MongoDB
19 24 (2.26%) Delta Lake
20 21 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 159 (14.96%) Git
2 143 (13.45%) GitLab
3 133 (12.51%) Jenkins
4 70 (6.59%) JIRA
5 26 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.94%) JUnit
10 9 (0.85%) Vite
11 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.75%) Mocha
11 8 (0.75%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) Gatling
12 7 (0.66%) MSTest
13 6 (0.56%) MLflow
13 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.56%) Snyk
14 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 239 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.08%) Finance
4 57 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.63%) Banking
7 15 (1.41%) Legal
8 12 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 9 (0.85%) Law
11 8 (0.75%) Marketing
11 8 (0.75%) Retail
12 7 (0.66%) Military
13 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.47%) Billing
14 5 (0.47%) Police
15 4 (0.38%) Back Office
15 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (23.99%) Developer
2 204 (19.19%) Architect
3 155 (14.58%) Senior
4 152 (14.30%) AWS Engineer
5 117 (11.01%) Data Engineer
6 99 (9.31%) Lead
7 75 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (6.87%) AWS Architect
9 68 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 57 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.89%) AWS Developer
12 51 (4.80%) Technical Architect
13 50 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
15 44 (4.14%) Senior Developer
16 43 (4.05%) Python Engineer
17 42 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
18 41 (3.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (13.08%) React
2 136 (12.79%) REST
3 129 (12.14%) Node.js
4 121 (11.38%) Kafka
5 119 (11.19%) .NET
6 104 (9.78%) RESTful
7 74 (6.96%) OAuth
7 74 (6.96%) PySpark
8 70 (6.59%) Spring
8 70 (6.59%) Spring Boot
9 65 (6.11%) AWS CDK
10 53 (4.99%) GraphQL
11 48 (4.52%) AngularJS
12 45 (4.23%) FastAPI
12 45 (4.23%) OAuth2
13 43 (4.05%) JSON
13 43 (4.05%) OpenID
14 38 (3.57%) .NET Core
15 36 (3.39%) Next.js
16 30 (2.82%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 317 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 53 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.07%) NHS
7 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.41%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.46%) Linux
2 22 (2.07%) Unix
3 11 (1.03%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) zOS
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (60.30%) CI/CD
2 479 (45.06%) DevOps
3 397 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (32.74%) Agile
5 259 (24.37%) Microservices
6 228 (21.45%) Containerisation
7 202 (19.00%) Event-Driven
8 194 (18.25%) AI
9 174 (16.37%) Observability
10 151 (14.21%) Analytics
11 149 (14.02%) Data Modelling
12 143 (13.45%) ETL
13 142 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
14 141 (13.26%) Software Engineering
15 140 (13.17%) Test Automation
16 133 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
17 121 (11.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 119 (11.19%) Migration
19 109 (10.25%) Mentoring
20 107 (10.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 454 (42.71%) Python
2 293 (27.56%) SQL
3 165 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 154 (14.49%) C#
5 143 (13.45%) Java
6 141 (13.26%) JavaScript
7 59 (5.55%) Bash
8 43 (4.05%) Bicep
8 43 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.98%) Go
11 20 (1.88%) Scala
12 10 (0.94%) Ruby
12 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.75%) Formula Language
13 8 (0.75%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 271 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 217 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.02%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.73%) Degree
8 26 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.33%) QA
3 27 (2.54%) GDPR
3 27 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.51%) NIST
7 12 (1.13%) WCAG
8 7 (0.66%) NCSC
8 7 (0.66%) PMO
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.38%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.19%) HL7
14 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 267 (25.12%) Docker
2 30 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.13%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 1 (0.094%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 424 (39.89%) Terraform
2 241 (22.67%) Kubernetes
3 103 (9.69%) Grafana
4 91 (8.56%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.70%) Ansible
6 28 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.60%) Puppet
8 10 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 7 (0.66%) Istio
12 6 (0.56%) Kibana
12 6 (0.56%) linkerd
13 5 (0.47%) Podman
13 5 (0.47%) Salt
14 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.28%) Argo
15 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 150 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.59%) Databricks
3 47 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 37 (3.48%) Oracle
5 22 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.07%) Splunk
6 18 (1.69%) Google
7 16 (1.51%) Informatica
8 13 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.13%) Foundry
9 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) SAP
10 10 (0.94%) Tenable
11 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) Brio
12 8 (0.75%) Kofax
12 8 (0.75%) Lotus
13 6 (0.56%) Sybase