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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 107 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,077 749 801
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.58% 2.51% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 6.63% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 553 600
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
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 15,710 11,304 14,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 37.86% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,781 7,713 10,409
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £634
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £495
% change year-on-year -4.09% +0.05% -1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 178 348
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.83 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.56 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.12 £74.28 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -15.53%

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 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 3 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 3 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 +2 854 £506 -10.44% 445
London +2 499 £513 -10.87% 181
UK excluding London -17 393 £500 -2.44% 331
Work from Home -33 296 £525 - 305
North of England +19 172 £500 -0.30% 95
North West -6 81 £450 -10.27% 50
Yorkshire -1 78 £500 - 34
Midlands -16 68 £525 +16.67% 26
Scotland -1 63 £404 -19.25% 12
West Midlands -15 51 £525 +9.15% 15
South East -50 50 £500 -13.04% 95
South West -19 29 £650 +1.96% 65
East of England -5 28 £560 -12.16% 37
East Midlands -25 17 £479 +5.39% 11
North East -6 14 £525 -13.93% 12
Wales -10 5 £481 -3.75% 6
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 3

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 49 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.81%) Apache
4 27 (2.51%) Confluence
4 27 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.30%) nginx
6 10 (0.93%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.84%) Mendix
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) CICS
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.093%) FileNet
10 1 (0.093%) JBoss
10 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 784 (72.79%) AWS
2 625 (58.03%) AWS Lambda
3 403 (37.42%) Amazon S3
4 394 (36.58%) Azure
5 238 (22.10%) Azure Functions
5 238 (22.10%) GitHub
6 223 (20.71%) Amazon ECS
7 208 (19.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 207 (19.22%) Amazon EC2
9 195 (18.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 185 (17.18%) Amazon EKS
11 172 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
12 171 (15.88%) Azure DevOps
13 116 (10.77%) Power Platform
14 111 (10.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 105 (9.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 88 (8.17%) AWS Step Functions
16 88 (8.17%) GCP
17 87 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
18 81 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.53%) Firewall
2 32 (2.97%) DNS
3 28 (2.60%) VPN
4 11 (1.02%) HTTP
4 11 (1.02%) Network Security
4 11 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 10 (0.93%) SSL
6 9 (0.84%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.56%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) LAN
10 3 (0.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.19%) MPLS
12 1 (0.093%) 4G
12 1 (0.093%) BGP
12 1 (0.093%) Internet
12 1 (0.093%) MQTT
12 1 (0.093%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.86%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (12.26%) DynamoDB
3 130 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (8.73%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 72 (6.69%) Power BI
7 66 (6.13%) Data Lake
8 63 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
9 58 (5.39%) Relational Database
10 54 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
11 50 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.44%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.88%) Redis
15 30 (2.79%) Tableau
16 27 (2.51%) SQL Server
17 26 (2.41%) Big Data
17 26 (2.41%) MySQL
18 25 (2.32%) Metadata
19 21 (1.95%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 175 (16.25%) Git
2 166 (15.41%) GitLab
3 161 (14.95%) Jenkins
4 56 (5.20%) JIRA
5 30 (2.79%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.14%) Liquibase
7 21 (1.95%) JUnit
8 19 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.76%) MLflow
9 16 (1.49%) Mockito
9 16 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.93%) Maven
12 10 (0.93%) Postman
12 10 (0.93%) Selenium
13 9 (0.84%) Mocha
14 7 (0.65%) NUnit
15 6 (0.56%) Jasmine
General
1 252 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.94%) Public Sector
3 151 (14.02%) Finance
4 74 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.59%) Banking
6 27 (2.51%) Financial Institution
7 26 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.30%) Marketing
9 11 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.65%) Legal
13 6 (0.56%) Front Office
13 6 (0.56%) Retail
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
15 3 (0.28%) Billing
15 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Police
15 3 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (25.44%) Developer
2 163 (15.13%) Senior
3 152 (14.11%) Architect
4 149 (13.83%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 96 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 87 (8.08%) Lead
8 76 (7.06%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 51 (4.74%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 48 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.90%) Python Engineer
15 41 (3.81%) AWS Developer
15 41 (3.81%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.71%) Java Developer
17 34 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (15.97%) Node.js
2 153 (14.21%) REST
3 132 (12.26%) .NET
4 131 (12.16%) React
4 131 (12.16%) RESTful
5 125 (11.61%) Kafka
6 77 (7.15%) Spring
7 76 (7.06%) OAuth
7 76 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 58 (5.39%) AWS CDK
9 52 (4.83%) AngularJS
9 52 (4.83%) FastAPI
10 51 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
11 49 (4.55%) PySpark
12 46 (4.27%) GraphQL
13 45 (4.18%) .NET Core
14 44 (4.09%) JSON
15 43 (3.99%) OAuth2
16 39 (3.62%) JWT
17 34 (3.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 273 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 28 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.41%) Algorithms
7 24 (2.23%) NHS
8 19 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.93%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.74%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.74%) Replication
14 7 (0.65%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.56%) Linux
2 14 (1.30%) Unix
3 8 (0.74%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) zOS
7 1 (0.093%) Android
7 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (59.98%) CI/CD
2 551 (51.16%) DevOps
3 414 (38.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 354 (32.87%) Agile
5 302 (28.04%) Microservices
6 272 (25.26%) Containerisation
7 193 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.73%) AI
9 163 (15.13%) Software Engineering
10 158 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (14.58%) Analytics
12 150 (13.93%) Observability
13 148 (13.74%) Data Modelling
14 144 (13.37%) Event-Driven
15 129 (11.98%) Test Automation
16 124 (11.51%) ETL
17 117 (10.86%) Data Engineering
18 113 (10.49%) Migration
19 109 (10.12%) Machine Learning
20 107 (9.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 539 (50.05%) Python
2 302 (28.04%) SQL
3 164 (15.23%) Java
4 151 (14.02%) C#
5 150 (13.93%) JavaScript
6 145 (13.46%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.13%) Bash
8 54 (5.01%) Go
9 53 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 46 (4.27%) Bicep
11 32 (2.97%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.32%) Ruby
13 11 (1.02%) Perl
13 11 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.93%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.93%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.74%) C++
15 8 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.74%) Scala
16 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 264 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 207 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.80%) AWS Certification
4 53 (4.92%) Degree
5 43 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.97%) Azure Certification
10 30 (2.79%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.093%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.01%) QA
3 35 (3.25%) GDPR
4 34 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.95%) NIST
6 19 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.02%) WCAG
9 9 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 298 (27.67%) Docker
2 30 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.74%) Squid
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 458 (42.53%) Terraform
2 287 (26.65%) Kubernetes
3 119 (11.05%) Grafana
4 114 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 94 (8.73%) Ansible
6 22 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.30%) Puppet
8 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.65%) Consul
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Argo
10 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.28%) Packer
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Control-M
11 2 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 190 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.08%) Databricks
3 42 (3.90%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.71%) Splunk
5 37 (3.44%) Google
6 35 (3.25%) Oracle
7 26 (2.41%) Foundry
8 16 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.11%) IBM
12 11 (1.02%) Confluent
13 10 (0.93%) Lotus
13 10 (0.93%) Palantir
14 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.84%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.84%) Greenplum
14 9 (0.84%) Kofax
14 9 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.74%) Brio