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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 108 127
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,072 819 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.48% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.63% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 591 518
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £680 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,989 12,346 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 37.40% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,599 8,215 8,949
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 308 205
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.70 £54.06 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -37 879 £525 - 554
London -13 522 £550 - 381
UK excluding London -46 404 £500 - 254
Work from Home -28 347 £533 +3.40% 1,366
North of England -50 135 £500 +4.06% 68
Midlands -13 89 £444 -7.36% 23
West Midlands -15 70 £461 -7.29% 12
North West -27 68 £600 +23.71% 46
Scotland -17 57 £450 -11.76% 38
South East -52 51 £600 +39.53% 50
Yorkshire -54 46 £500 +3.79% 15
South West -27 45 £520 -2.12% 39
East of England -26 21 £525 +1.94% 17
North East -30 21 £463 +4.52% 7
East Midlands -11 19 £419 +0.84% 11
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 14
Wales -14 4 £481 -16.34% 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 60 (5.60%) Confluence
2 50 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 35 (3.26%) Apache
5 33 (3.08%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.84%) CMS
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
10 4 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.093%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 835 (77.89%) AWS
2 675 (62.97%) AWS Lambda
3 447 (41.70%) Amazon S3
4 381 (35.54%) Azure
5 238 (22.20%) GitHub
6 229 (21.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 198 (18.47%) Azure Functions
8 192 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
9 168 (15.67%) Amazon EC2
10 163 (15.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 163 (15.21%) GitHub Actions
11 161 (15.02%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
13 131 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
14 129 (12.03%) Power Platform
15 118 (11.01%) AWS Step Functions
16 109 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 99 (9.24%) Amazon EventBridge
18 80 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
19 75 (7.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.36%) Firewall
2 28 (2.61%) Network Security
3 27 (2.52%) DNS
4 16 (1.49%) VPN
5 13 (1.21%) HTTP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.37%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (15.95%) DynamoDB
2 164 (15.30%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (11.01%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 89 (8.30%) Data Warehouse
7 85 (7.93%) Power BI
8 70 (6.53%) NoSQL
9 59 (5.50%) Data Lake
10 56 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 56 (5.22%) MySQL
11 54 (5.04%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.26%) Metadata
12 35 (3.26%) MongoDB
13 32 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.33%) Delta Lake
14 25 (2.33%) Relational Database
15 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
16 20 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (1.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (18.38%) Git
2 144 (13.43%) GitLab
3 140 (13.06%) Jenkins
4 78 (7.28%) JIRA
5 33 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.89%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 25 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 18 (1.68%) Selenium
10 17 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.40%) JUnit
12 14 (1.31%) Postman
13 12 (1.12%) Mockito
14 9 (0.84%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.84%) RStudio
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.65%) Gatling
16 7 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 248 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 188 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.74%) Finance
4 77 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (3.45%) Banking
7 17 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.31%) Legal
9 13 (1.21%) Law
9 13 (1.21%) Marketing
9 13 (1.21%) Military
10 12 (1.12%) Billing
10 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.03%) Back Office
12 9 (0.84%) Retail
13 8 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 247 (23.04%) Developer
2 211 (19.68%) Senior
3 202 (18.84%) Architect
4 171 (15.95%) AWS Engineer
5 132 (12.31%) Data Engineer
6 122 (11.38%) Lead
7 82 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.16%) AWS Architect
9 62 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.38%) Technical Architect
14 45 (4.20%) AWS Developer
15 44 (4.10%) Senior Developer
16 43 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
17 42 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
18 41 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
18 41 (3.82%) Python Developer
18 41 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (40.39%) Terraform
2 186 (17.35%) REST
3 133 (12.41%) React
4 131 (12.22%) .NET
5 121 (11.29%) Node.js
6 105 (9.79%) RESTful
7 103 (9.61%) Kafka
8 81 (7.56%) AWS CDK
9 79 (7.37%) PySpark
10 66 (6.16%) Spring Boot
11 65 (6.06%) Spring
12 61 (5.69%) GraphQL
13 56 (5.22%) OAuth
14 54 (5.04%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.82%) AngularJS
16 40 (3.73%) JSON
17 39 (3.64%) CSS
18 37 (3.45%) Flask
18 37 (3.45%) OAuth2
19 36 (3.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 326 (30.41%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 75 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.88%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.61%) NHS
8 25 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.59%) IVR
12 16 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 10 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.62%) Linux
2 28 (2.61%) Unix
3 17 (1.59%) Windows
4 16 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) AIX
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 471 (43.94%) DevOps
3 424 (39.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (37.69%) Agile
5 259 (24.16%) AI
6 249 (23.23%) Event-Driven
7 247 (23.04%) Microservices
8 218 (20.34%) Containerisation
9 191 (17.82%) Observability
10 180 (16.79%) Test Automation
11 172 (16.04%) Analytics
12 170 (15.86%) Data Modelling
12 170 (15.86%) Software Engineering
13 158 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
14 157 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 156 (14.55%) Data Pipeline
16 148 (13.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 143 (13.34%) Migration
18 140 (13.06%) Data Engineering
18 140 (13.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 494 (46.08%) Python
2 314 (29.29%) SQL
3 186 (17.35%) TypeScript
4 162 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 146 (13.62%) C#
6 141 (13.15%) Java
7 79 (7.37%) Bash
8 48 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.10%) Bicep
10 33 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.49%) Scala
12 13 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.03%) Go
14 10 (0.93%) Groovy
15 8 (0.75%) R
16 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.56%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 244 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.00%) AWS Certification
4 58 (5.41%) Degree
5 52 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 32 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.56%) CISSP
17 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.18%) QA
3 47 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.64%) GDPR
5 28 (2.61%) WCAG
6 23 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.21%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) PMO
14 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.093%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 278 (25.93%) Docker
2 37 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.12%) Grafana
3 67 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.22%) Ansible
5 14 (1.31%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 196 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.81%) Databricks
3 46 (4.29%) Oracle
4 39 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.80%) Informatica
6 29 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.52%) Google
7 27 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.52%) Splunk
8 16 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.93%) Brio
10 10 (0.93%) SAP
10 10 (0.93%) Tenable
11 9 (0.84%) Foundry
12 8 (0.75%) Confluent
13 5 (0.47%) Denodo
13 5 (0.47%) New Relic
13 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.47%) Workday