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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 130
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,089 761 784
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.48% 2.62% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.69% 6.86% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 575 598
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £524
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.72% -7.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
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 16,284 11,101 14,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.10% 38.17% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 7,773 10,237
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.63% -2.25% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 212 358
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.23 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.31 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.60% +35.44% -19.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -8 875 £513 -6.82% 350
London -5 524 £513 -6.82% 153
UK excluding London -24 382 £500 - 232
Work from Home -31 291 £525 -3.14% 184
North of England +10 169 £500 - 90
North West -8 80 £455 -2.41% 47
Yorkshire +4 76 £500 - 34
Midlands -23 69 £513 +14.00% 22
West Midlands -13 54 £525 +16.67% 18
Scotland -4 52 £400 -20.00% 9
South East -61 50 £525 -8.70% 61
South West -15 31 £600 -2.10% 31
East of England -12 25 £573 -21.09% 20
East Midlands -27 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -4 14 £475 -23.91% 11
Wales -10 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -3 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 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.67%) Apache
3 39 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.12%) Confluence
5 29 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.38%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) Mendix
9 9 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) CMS
12 1 (0.092%) FileNet
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.092%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
4 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 794 (72.91%) AWS
2 627 (57.58%) AWS Lambda
3 414 (38.02%) Azure
4 409 (37.56%) Amazon S3
5 254 (23.32%) GitHub
6 244 (22.41%) Azure Functions
7 227 (20.84%) Amazon ECS
8 219 (20.11%) Amazon EC2
9 200 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 191 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
12 185 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
13 174 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 120 (11.02%) Power Platform
16 111 (10.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 103 (9.46%) AWS Step Functions
18 92 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
19 83 (7.62%) GCP
20 75 (6.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.13%) Firewall
2 35 (3.21%) DNS
3 28 (2.57%) VPN
4 13 (1.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (0.83%) HTTP
7 9 (0.83%) Kerberos
7 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.83%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.37%) WAN
11 3 (0.28%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.092%) 4G
13 1 (0.092%) BGP
13 1 (0.092%) CTI
13 1 (0.092%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.06%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 131 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.45%) NoSQL
5 75 (6.89%) Power BI
6 66 (6.06%) Data Lake
7 64 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
7 64 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 58 (5.33%) Relational Database
9 55 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (3.40%) MongoDB
11 35 (3.21%) SQL Server
12 34 (3.12%) Redis
13 30 (2.75%) Metadata
13 30 (2.75%) Tableau
14 27 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 25 (2.30%) Big Data
16 23 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 188 (17.26%) Git
2 173 (15.89%) GitLab
3 167 (15.34%) Jenkins
4 64 (5.88%) JIRA
5 33 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.11%) JUnit
7 20 (1.84%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.65%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.56%) Mockito
10 16 (1.47%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.38%) MLflow
11 15 (1.38%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.92%) Maven
14 9 (0.83%) Postman
14 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 8 (0.73%) Selenium
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 247 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 214 (19.65%) Public Sector
3 160 (14.69%) Finance
4 76 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.06%) Banking
6 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.29%) Marketing
9 10 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.83%) Military
10 9 (0.83%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 281 (25.80%) Developer
2 166 (15.24%) Architect
3 161 (14.78%) Senior
4 152 (13.96%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.28%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.71%) Lead
8 74 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 66 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (4.96%) AWS Architect
11 50 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 44 (4.04%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.86%) Java Developer
16 41 (3.76%) AWS Developer
16 41 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 40 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (15.24%) Node.js
2 153 (14.05%) REST
3 143 (13.13%) React
4 134 (12.30%) .NET
5 132 (12.12%) RESTful
6 128 (11.75%) Kafka
7 86 (7.90%) Spring
8 84 (7.71%) Spring Boot
9 80 (7.35%) OAuth
10 58 (5.33%) AngularJS
11 56 (5.14%) PySpark
12 50 (4.59%) AWS CDK
13 48 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (4.32%) .NET Core
14 47 (4.32%) OAuth2
15 46 (4.22%) JSON
16 45 (4.13%) FastAPI
17 42 (3.86%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.31%) JWT
19 35 (3.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 285 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.66%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.30%) NHS
7 22 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.92%) Replication
13 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.73%) IoT
15 8 (0.73%) IVR
16 7 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.18%) Linux
2 15 (1.38%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (61.71%) CI/CD
2 561 (51.52%) DevOps
3 422 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 357 (32.78%) Agile
5 304 (27.92%) Microservices
6 274 (25.16%) Containerisation
7 190 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (16.90%) AI
9 164 (15.06%) Analytics
9 164 (15.06%) Observability
10 159 (14.60%) Event-Driven
11 150 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
11 150 (13.77%) Software Engineering
12 145 (13.31%) Data Modelling
13 139 (12.76%) Test Automation
14 130 (11.94%) ETL
15 123 (11.29%) Data Engineering
16 113 (10.38%) Migration
17 104 (9.55%) Mentoring
18 101 (9.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 518 (47.57%) Python
2 310 (28.47%) SQL
3 169 (15.52%) Java
4 155 (14.23%) C#
4 155 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 154 (14.14%) TypeScript
6 72 (6.61%) Bash
7 56 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.59%) Bicep
9 48 (4.41%) Go
10 33 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.48%) Ruby
12 12 (1.10%) Scala
13 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.01%) Perl
14 8 (0.73%) C++
14 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 283 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 220 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.50%) Degree
5 45 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (3.12%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.94%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.33%) QA
3 34 (3.12%) GDPR
4 32 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.74%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.92%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 312 (28.65%) Docker
2 34 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.83%) Squid
5 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 470 (43.16%) Terraform
2 288 (26.45%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.56%) Grafana
4 114 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 87 (7.99%) Ansible
6 25 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.37%) linkerd
13 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 184 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.63%) Databricks
3 42 (3.86%) OpenAI
4 40 (3.67%) Splunk
5 39 (3.58%) Oracle
6 28 (2.57%) Google
7 20 (1.84%) Foundry
7 20 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.01%) Lotus
9 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.92%) Kofax
10 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.83%) IBM
11 9 (0.83%) Palantir
12 8 (0.73%) Brio
12 8 (0.73%) Confluent
12 8 (0.73%) SAP
12 8 (0.73%) Sybase