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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 106 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,020 738 802
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.33% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.09% 6.35% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 528 609
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £445 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £74.05 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 14,381 11,627 14,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.67% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,922 7,739 10,418
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £726 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 173 287
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.61
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%
75th Percentile £58.33 £43.75 £51.79
90th Percentile £79.25 £68.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +10.06%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +17 814 £500 -9.09% 574
London +5 480 £510 -9.73% 126
UK excluding London -15 379 £500 - 522
Work from Home -5 291 £525 +2.44% 391
North of England +20 166 £500 +5.26% 118
Yorkshire +10 84 £500 - 47
North West +6 72 £450 +0.78% 57
Midlands -13 66 £513 +14.77% 50
Scotland -14 61 £450 -8.91% 24
West Midlands -10 53 £525 +3.75% 24
South East -56 48 £475 -23.39% 157
South West -21 27 £650 - 63
East of England -2 24 £550 -3.51% 77
East Midlands -18 13 £434 -2.31% 24
North East -8 11 £525 -12.13% 14
Northern Ireland -3 4 - - 15
Wales -10 4 £488 -2.50% 31

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 40 (3.92%) Apache
2 35 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.45%) SharePoint
5 22 (2.16%) Confluence
6 14 (1.37%) nginx
7 10 (0.98%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.88%) Mendix
9 5 (0.49%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.098%) FileNet
12 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.098%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 733 (71.86%) AWS
2 590 (57.84%) AWS Lambda
3 377 (36.96%) Azure
4 364 (35.69%) Amazon S3
5 239 (23.43%) GitHub
6 224 (21.96%) Azure Functions
7 206 (20.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 202 (19.80%) Amazon ECS
9 189 (18.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 173 (16.96%) Amazon EC2
11 172 (16.86%) GitHub Actions
12 171 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
13 145 (14.22%) Amazon EKS
14 106 (10.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (9.80%) GCP
16 95 (9.31%) Power Platform
17 88 (8.63%) Amazon SQS
18 86 (8.43%) AWS Step Functions
19 85 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 80 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.75%) Firewall
2 26 (2.55%) DNS
3 21 (2.06%) VPN
4 13 (1.27%) Network Security
5 10 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.88%) HTTP
7 8 (0.78%) SSL
8 6 (0.59%) SMS
9 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.29%) LAN
10 3 (0.29%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.098%) AMQP
12 1 (0.098%) BGP
12 1 (0.098%) DKIM
12 1 (0.098%) Internet
12 1 (0.098%) IPsec
12 1 (0.098%) MQTT
12 1 (0.098%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.098%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (16.37%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (14.31%) PostgreSQL
3 128 (12.55%) DynamoDB
4 99 (9.71%) NoSQL
5 69 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 66 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
7 63 (6.18%) Power BI
7 63 (6.18%) Relational Database
8 59 (5.78%) Data Lake
9 57 (5.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 49 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (3.73%) MongoDB
13 35 (3.43%) Redis
14 34 (3.33%) MySQL
15 26 (2.55%) Big Data
15 26 (2.55%) SQL Server
16 24 (2.35%) Tableau
17 19 (1.86%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.86%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 173 (16.96%) Git
1 173 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 154 (15.10%) GitLab
3 59 (5.78%) JIRA
4 32 (3.14%) Liquibase
5 19 (1.86%) Bitbucket
5 19 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 19 (1.86%) JUnit
6 17 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.57%) MLflow
7 16 (1.57%) Mockito
8 15 (1.47%) Postman
9 14 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 13 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (1.08%) Maven
12 11 (1.08%) Selenium
13 8 (0.78%) Gradle
14 6 (0.59%) Storybook
15 5 (0.49%) Mocha
General
1 242 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 195 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.82%) Finance
4 75 (7.35%) Banking
5 59 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.14%) Financial Institution
7 19 (1.86%) Marketing
8 16 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 8 (0.78%) Military
13 7 (0.69%) Retail
14 6 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.39%) Aviation
15 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Law
16 3 (0.29%) Legal
16 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (27.65%) Developer
2 148 (14.51%) AWS Engineer
3 146 (14.31%) Senior
4 137 (13.43%) Architect
5 107 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (9.90%) Data Engineer
7 82 (8.04%) Software Engineer
8 76 (7.45%) Lead
9 56 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
11 47 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 41 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 40 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (3.82%) AWS Architect
15 39 (3.82%) Python Engineer
16 38 (3.73%) AWS Developer
16 38 (3.73%) Senior Developer
17 37 (3.63%) Java Developer
18 36 (3.53%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.65%) Node.js
2 159 (15.59%) REST
3 151 (14.80%) RESTful
4 149 (14.61%) React
5 140 (13.73%) .NET
6 122 (11.96%) Kafka
7 67 (6.57%) OAuth
8 65 (6.37%) Spring Boot
9 61 (5.98%) Spring
10 59 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
11 57 (5.59%) AWS CDK
12 50 (4.90%) .NET Core
13 49 (4.80%) FastAPI
14 48 (4.71%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.92%) JSON
15 40 (3.92%) OAuth2
15 40 (3.92%) PySpark
16 39 (3.82%) GraphQL
17 38 (3.73%) JWT
18 37 (3.63%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 270 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.43%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.16%) NHS
8 20 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.18%) Replication
14 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.78%) Linux
2 12 (1.18%) Unix
3 8 (0.78%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) VMS
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (60.39%) CI/CD
2 526 (51.57%) DevOps
3 405 (39.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 356 (34.90%) Agile
5 303 (29.71%) Microservices
6 271 (26.57%) Containerisation
7 184 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (16.76%) AI
8 171 (16.76%) Software Engineering
9 149 (14.61%) Analytics
10 148 (14.51%) Event-Driven
11 147 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
12 127 (12.45%) Test Automation
13 122 (11.96%) Observability
14 119 (11.67%) Data Modelling
15 111 (10.88%) ETL
16 109 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 98 (9.61%) Machine Learning
18 97 (9.51%) Mentoring
19 95 (9.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 515 (50.49%) Python
2 271 (26.57%) SQL
3 163 (15.98%) Java
4 155 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 154 (15.10%) JavaScript
6 147 (14.41%) C#
7 68 (6.67%) Bash
8 57 (5.59%) Go
9 50 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 43 (4.22%) Bicep
11 28 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.35%) Ruby
13 11 (1.08%) Perl
14 10 (0.98%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.98%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.88%) C++
15 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.69%) Korn
16 7 (0.69%) PHP
16 7 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 247 (24.22%) Security Cleared
2 200 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.65%) AWS Certification
4 66 (6.47%) Degree
5 56 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 31 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.55%) Azure Certification
10 22 (2.16%) MCP
11 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.29%) PhD
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.098%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.10%) QA
2 43 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.02%) GDPR
4 33 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.86%) NIST
6 17 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.18%) WCAG
9 9 (0.88%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.49%) HL7
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) GxP
13 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 302 (29.61%) Docker
2 28 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.098%) RACF
Systems Management
1 450 (44.12%) Terraform
2 292 (28.63%) Kubernetes
3 116 (11.37%) Grafana
4 104 (10.20%) Ansible
4 104 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.86%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.37%) Puppet
7 9 (0.88%) Kibana
8 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.39%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) Argo
10 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.29%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Control-M
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Knative
11 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 185 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.86%) Databricks
3 45 (4.41%) Google
4 44 (4.31%) Splunk
5 34 (3.33%) Oracle
6 33 (3.24%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.96%) Foundry
9 15 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.37%) Confluent
11 12 (1.18%) IBM
12 10 (0.98%) Cisco
12 10 (0.98%) Cloudera
12 10 (0.98%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.98%) Lotus
13 9 (0.88%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.88%) Kofax
13 9 (0.88%) Palantir
13 9 (0.88%) Pega
14 7 (0.69%) Genesys