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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 100 129
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,029 759 772
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.58% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.04% 6.87% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 579 587
10th Percentile £375 £400 £385
25th Percentile £430 £451 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £52.63 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +181.13% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 17,040 11,045 13,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.53% 37.58% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,500 7,589 9,860
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £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 515 252 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.63 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +87.00% +20.71% -31.49%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -13 828 £525 -4.55% 315
London -15 500 £525 -4.55% 140
UK excluding London -20 354 £500 -0.10% 203
Work from Home -35 284 £518 -1.90% 448
North of England -19 147 £500 - 72
North West -10 86 £500 - 43
Midlands -31 60 £495 -2.17% 22
South East -42 51 £575 +15.00% 49
West Midlands -27 48 £488 -4.83% 15
Yorkshire -29 47 £500 - 21
Scotland -20 45 £450 -14.29% 8
South West -14 30 £591 +7.43% 36
East of England -13 23 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -16 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -23 12 £500 - 7
Wales -8 6 £475 -17.43% 5
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 7

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 51 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.37%) Confluence
3 38 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.92%) Apache
5 26 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.65%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.97%) Mendix
8 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.49%) SAS
10 4 (0.39%) CICS
11 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) CMS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.097%) JBoss
13 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 772 (75.02%) AWS
2 604 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
3 408 (39.65%) Amazon S3
4 377 (36.64%) Azure
5 232 (22.55%) GitHub
6 206 (20.02%) Azure Functions
7 190 (18.46%) Amazon EC2
7 190 (18.46%) Amazon ECS
8 173 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
9 171 (16.62%) GitHub Actions
10 164 (15.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 160 (15.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 139 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
13 117 (11.37%) Power Platform
14 115 (11.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 111 (10.79%) Amazon SQS
16 99 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 94 (9.14%) Azure Logic Apps
18 89 (8.65%) Azure Service Bus
19 64 (6.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.30%) DNS
2 27 (2.62%) Firewall
3 19 (1.85%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.17%) HTTP
7 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.78%) Network Security
9 7 (0.68%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.68%) SMS
9 7 (0.68%) SSL
10 5 (0.49%) IPsec
11 3 (0.29%) FTP
11 3 (0.29%) WAN
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.097%) BGP
13 1 (0.097%) Internet
13 1 (0.097%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (13.99%) DynamoDB
2 131 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 76 (7.39%) NoSQL
6 75 (7.29%) Power BI
7 60 (5.83%) Data Lake
8 50 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.47%) Relational Database
11 45 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (4.37%) SQL Server
12 32 (3.11%) Metadata
12 32 (3.11%) MongoDB
13 31 (3.01%) MySQL
14 30 (2.92%) Big Data
15 29 (2.82%) Tableau
16 27 (2.62%) Delta Lake
16 27 (2.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (15.35%) Git
2 142 (13.80%) GitLab
3 118 (11.47%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.64%) JIRA
5 26 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.17%) MLflow
9 10 (0.97%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.97%) JUnit
10 8 (0.78%) Mocha
10 8 (0.78%) NUnit
11 7 (0.68%) Jasmine
11 7 (0.68%) Maven
11 7 (0.68%) MSTest
11 7 (0.68%) Vite
12 6 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 220 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.59%) Public Sector
3 135 (13.12%) Finance
4 62 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.92%) Banking
6 27 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.46%) Legal
8 12 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 10 (0.97%) Marketing
10 9 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.78%) Military
11 8 (0.78%) Retail
12 6 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.58%) Police
13 5 (0.49%) Front Office
13 5 (0.49%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.49%) Law
13 5 (0.49%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.39%) Billing
14 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 267 (25.95%) Developer
2 181 (17.59%) Architect
3 153 (14.87%) Senior
4 139 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (10.30%) Data Engineer
6 93 (9.04%) Lead
7 69 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.51%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.25%) AWS Architect
10 52 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.96%) AWS Developer
11 51 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 43 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.08%) Python Engineer
15 40 (3.89%) Python Developer
16 39 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.70%) React
2 140 (13.61%) Node.js
3 132 (12.83%) REST
4 129 (12.54%) .NET
5 124 (12.05%) Kafka
6 92 (8.94%) RESTful
7 81 (7.87%) Spring
8 80 (7.77%) Spring Boot
9 75 (7.29%) OAuth
10 68 (6.61%) PySpark
11 61 (5.93%) AWS CDK
12 56 (5.44%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.66%) JSON
14 46 (4.47%) OAuth2
15 45 (4.37%) FastAPI
16 44 (4.28%) .NET Core
17 41 (3.98%) GraphQL
17 41 (3.98%) OpenID
18 39 (3.79%) Next.js
19 31 (3.01%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 278 (27.02%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.53%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.33%) NHS
6 15 (1.46%) Data Structures
6 15 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (0.97%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.78%) Replication
14 7 (0.68%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.41%) Linux
2 23 (2.24%) Unix
3 9 (0.87%) Windows
4 4 (0.39%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (60.54%) CI/CD
2 483 (46.94%) DevOps
3 388 (37.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 332 (32.26%) Agile
5 252 (24.49%) Microservices
6 238 (23.13%) Containerisation
7 180 (17.49%) AI
7 180 (17.49%) Event-Driven
8 164 (15.94%) Observability
9 146 (14.19%) Data Modelling
10 144 (13.99%) Analytics
11 141 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (13.31%) Data Pipeline
13 136 (13.22%) Software Engineering
14 130 (12.63%) ETL
15 126 (12.24%) Test Automation
16 109 (10.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 108 (10.50%) Data Engineering
17 108 (10.50%) Migration
18 107 (10.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 452 (43.93%) Python
2 283 (27.50%) SQL
3 168 (16.33%) C#
4 161 (15.65%) TypeScript
5 151 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 146 (14.19%) Java
7 58 (5.64%) Bash
8 44 (4.28%) Bicep
9 40 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.24%) Go
12 19 (1.85%) Ruby
13 17 (1.65%) Scala
14 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.49%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 268 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 211 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.44%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.53%) Degree
9 16 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.18%) QA
3 27 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.14%) GDPR
6 19 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.46%) NIST
8 10 (0.97%) WCAG
9 7 (0.68%) PMO
10 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.39%) SLA
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
15 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.097%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 266 (25.85%) Docker
2 27 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.97%) Squid
5 5 (0.49%) RACF
6 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 415 (40.33%) Terraform
2 237 (23.03%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.82%) Grafana
4 85 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.57%) Ansible
6 29 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.26%) Puppet
8 10 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.78%) Consul
11 6 (0.58%) Istio
11 6 (0.58%) Kibana
11 6 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.49%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.39%) Podman
13 4 (0.39%) Rancher
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 157 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.48%) Databricks
3 46 (4.47%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.37%) Oracle
5 26 (2.53%) Splunk
6 21 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.36%) Google
8 13 (1.26%) Foundry
9 12 (1.17%) Informatica
9 12 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.97%) Brio
10 10 (0.97%) Confluent
10 10 (0.97%) Kofax
10 10 (0.97%) Lotus
10 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.87%) SAP
12 8 (0.78%) Tenable
13 6 (0.58%) Sybase