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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 105 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,084 814 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.06% 2.51% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 6.70% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 605 564
10th Percentile £385 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.25% -4.86%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,579 12,154 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.45% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,330 8,142 9,946
10th Percentile £328 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 310 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -19 867 £527 +0.29% 394
London -9 514 £550 - 112
UK excluding London -35 389 £500 - 380
Work from Home -25 355 £525 - 347
North of England -27 143 £500 - 97
North West -25 80 £538 +7.50% 47
Midlands -19 73 £482 +7.05% 50
Scotland -5 59 £444 -13.41% 44
West Midlands -27 59 £476 +5.78% 21
Yorkshire -31 49 £500 +1.01% 32
South East -58 46 £575 +15.93% 75
South West -19 42 £575 +8.24% 52
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 30
North East -32 15 £463 +0.54% 18
East Midlands -11 14 £497 +9.18% 29
Northern Ireland +5 5 £283 -43.50% 19
Wales -8 5 £500 -13.08% 18

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 57 (5.26%) Confluence
2 48 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.06%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.86%) Apache
5 18 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.20%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 859 (79.24%) AWS
2 674 (62.18%) AWS Lambda
3 475 (43.82%) Amazon S3
4 364 (33.58%) Azure
5 211 (19.46%) GitHub
6 204 (18.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 202 (18.63%) Amazon EC2
8 193 (17.80%) Amazon ECS
9 174 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (15.68%) Azure Functions
11 158 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
13 123 (11.35%) Amazon SQS
14 118 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 115 (10.61%) Power Platform
16 112 (10.33%) AWS Step Functions
17 108 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
18 84 (7.75%) GCP
19 77 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
20 70 (6.46%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.51%) Firewall
2 29 (2.68%) DNS
3 26 (2.40%) VPN
4 24 (2.21%) Network Security
5 13 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.20%) WAN
6 11 (1.01%) HTTP
7 10 (0.92%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.74%) SSL
9 5 (0.46%) CTI
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) MQTT
9 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.28%) AMQP
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
12 2 (0.18%) SMS
13 1 (0.092%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.31%) DynamoDB
2 159 (14.67%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (8.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 96 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
5 83 (7.66%) Power BI
6 76 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
7 69 (6.37%) NoSQL
8 58 (5.35%) Data Lake
9 49 (4.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (4.24%) SQL Server
11 37 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (3.23%) MySQL
12 35 (3.23%) Relational Database
13 32 (2.95%) Metadata
14 29 (2.68%) MongoDB
15 25 (2.31%) Tableau
16 21 (1.94%) Big Data
16 21 (1.94%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (16.42%) Git
2 148 (13.65%) GitLab
3 142 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.47%) JIRA
5 29 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 26 (2.40%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.03%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.01%) JUnit
10 11 (1.01%) Postman
11 10 (0.92%) Vite
12 9 (0.83%) Mocha
13 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.74%) MSTest
13 8 (0.74%) Selenium
14 7 (0.65%) MLflow
15 6 (0.55%) Gatling
15 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 241 (22.23%) Social Skills
2 191 (17.62%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.28%) Finance
4 67 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (2.77%) Banking
5 30 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.66%) Legal
8 12 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.11%) Law
9 10 (0.92%) Billing
10 8 (0.74%) Marketing
10 8 (0.74%) Retail
11 7 (0.65%) Back Office
11 7 (0.65%) Military
12 6 (0.55%) Front Office
12 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (22.60%) Developer
2 208 (19.19%) Architect
3 192 (17.71%) Senior
4 175 (16.14%) AWS Engineer
5 126 (11.62%) Data Engineer
6 109 (10.06%) Lead
7 77 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.55%) AWS Architect
9 68 (6.27%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
12 53 (4.89%) Technical Architect
13 51 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (4.34%) AWS Developer
14 47 (4.34%) Senior Developer
15 45 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
16 44 (4.06%) Python Engineer
17 43 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
17 43 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
18 41 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (12.27%) REST
2 132 (12.18%) Node.js
3 129 (11.90%) React
4 111 (10.24%) .NET
5 110 (10.15%) RESTful
6 105 (9.69%) Kafka
7 79 (7.29%) PySpark
8 74 (6.83%) AWS CDK
9 68 (6.27%) GraphQL
9 68 (6.27%) Spring Boot
10 65 (6.00%) Spring
11 62 (5.72%) OAuth
12 48 (4.43%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.06%) JSON
14 43 (3.97%) AngularJS
15 40 (3.69%) OpenID
16 37 (3.41%) OAuth2
17 30 (2.77%) .NET Core
18 28 (2.58%) Flask
18 28 (2.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 328 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (4.34%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.49%) NHS
7 21 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.01%) IVR
13 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.92%) Fixed Income
14 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.44%) Linux
2 21 (1.94%) Unix
3 15 (1.38%) Windows
4 13 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 479 (44.19%) DevOps
3 391 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 388 (35.79%) Agile
5 273 (25.18%) Microservices
6 236 (21.77%) AI
7 232 (21.40%) Containerisation
8 218 (20.11%) Event-Driven
9 166 (15.31%) Analytics
9 166 (15.31%) Observability
10 161 (14.85%) Data Modelling
11 159 (14.67%) Test Automation
12 153 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
12 153 (14.11%) Software Engineering
13 143 (13.19%) ETL
14 136 (12.55%) Data Engineering
14 136 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (12.18%) Migration
16 128 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
17 127 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 487 (44.93%) Python
2 310 (28.60%) SQL
3 173 (15.96%) TypeScript
4 141 (13.01%) Java
4 141 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 138 (12.73%) C#
6 68 (6.27%) Bash
7 41 (3.78%) PowerShell
8 35 (3.23%) Bicep
9 32 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.85%) Go
11 17 (1.57%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.74%) Groovy
13 8 (0.74%) Ruby
14 6 (0.55%) JCL
14 6 (0.55%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.46%) Rust
15 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 280 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 225 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.78%) Degree
6 38 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 35 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.06%) QA
3 29 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 29 (2.68%) GDPR
4 25 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.29%) WCAG
7 12 (1.11%) NIST
8 7 (0.65%) NCSC
8 7 (0.65%) PMO
9 6 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.092%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 279 (25.74%) Docker
2 32 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.11%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 420 (38.75%) Terraform
2 253 (23.34%) Kubernetes
3 96 (8.86%) Grafana
4 85 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.61%) Ansible
6 26 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.75%) Puppet
8 10 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.74%) Consul
11 7 (0.65%) Istio
12 6 (0.55%) linkerd
12 6 (0.55%) Podman
13 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 5 (0.46%) Salt
14 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.28%) Argo
15 3 (0.28%) Rancher
16 2 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 147 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.90%) Databricks
3 44 (4.06%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.04%) Oracle
5 26 (2.40%) Dynatrace
5 26 (2.40%) Google
5 26 (2.40%) Informatica
6 23 (2.12%) Splunk
7 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.92%) Foundry
10 10 (0.92%) SAP
11 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.74%) Brio
12 8 (0.74%) Tenable
13 5 (0.46%) Confluent
13 5 (0.46%) Denodo
13 5 (0.46%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.46%) Workday