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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,076 758 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.33% 2.58% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 6.79% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 579 604
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -8.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,762 11,156 14,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.35% 37.91% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 7,770 10,058
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.86% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 247 343
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.78 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.00 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% +32.19% -30.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.13 £75.20 £59.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -2 877 £513 -6.82% 293
London -2 532 £513 -10.87% 135
UK excluding London -5 370 £500 - 190
Work from Home -27 291 £505 -5.61% 165
North of England -1 155 £500 - 76
North West -17 82 £500 +2.56% 49
Yorkshire -9 58 £500 - 19
Midlands -29 58 £500 +11.11% 14
South East -29 55 £525 +5.00% 40
Scotland -10 48 £400 -23.81% 22
West Midlands -31 45 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -14 35 £578 -5.57% 22
East of England -14 23 £550 -18.52% 17
North East -6 16 £475 - 8
East Midlands -29 13 £499 +11.63% 6
Wales -6 5 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland +4 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 60 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 46 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.90%) Apache
4 33 (3.07%) Confluence
5 28 (2.60%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.58%) nginx
7 11 (1.02%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.93%) Mendix
9 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.093%) FileNet
13 1 (0.093%) JBoss
13 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.093%) Shopify
4 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 797 (74.07%) AWS
2 636 (59.11%) AWS Lambda
3 425 (39.50%) Amazon S3
4 406 (37.73%) Azure
5 244 (22.68%) GitHub
6 227 (21.10%) Azure Functions
7 219 (20.35%) Amazon ECS
8 200 (18.59%) Amazon EC2
9 191 (17.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 189 (17.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 177 (16.45%) Amazon EKS
12 171 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
13 169 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (11.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 121 (11.25%) Power Platform
15 115 (10.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 101 (9.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 93 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
18 88 (8.18%) Azure Service Bus
19 67 (6.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.72%) Firewall
2 37 (3.44%) DNS
3 23 (2.14%) VPN
4 15 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.21%) Network Security
6 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.93%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.84%) SSL
9 8 (0.74%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.65%) SMS
11 5 (0.46%) IPsec
12 4 (0.37%) WAN
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.093%) 4G
14 1 (0.093%) BGP
14 1 (0.093%) CTI
14 1 (0.093%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (14.13%) DynamoDB
2 140 (13.01%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.55%) Amazon Athena
5 84 (7.81%) NoSQL
6 81 (7.53%) Power BI
7 80 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 61 (5.67%) Data Lake
9 59 (5.48%) Relational Database
10 51 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 49 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 38 (3.53%) MongoDB
13 38 (3.53%) SQL Server
13 38 (3.53%) Tableau
14 33 (3.07%) Big Data
14 33 (3.07%) Metadata
15 29 (2.70%) MySQL
15 29 (2.70%) Redis
16 26 (2.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 182 (16.91%) Git
2 155 (14.41%) GitLab
3 137 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.48%) JIRA
5 29 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.95%) JUnit
7 20 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.30%) Mockito
11 13 (1.21%) MLflow
12 10 (0.93%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.84%) Maven
13 9 (0.84%) Selenium
13 9 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.74%) NUnit
14 8 (0.74%) Postman
15 7 (0.65%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.65%) Mocha
16 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 235 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 210 (19.52%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.38%) Finance
4 76 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.09%) Banking
6 34 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.21%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 10 (0.93%) Legal
10 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.46%) Front Office
13 5 (0.46%) Law
13 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (26.49%) Developer
2 178 (16.54%) Architect
3 152 (14.13%) Senior
4 146 (13.57%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 93 (8.64%) Lead
7 89 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.30%) AWS Architect
10 55 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 54 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (4.65%) AWS Developer
12 50 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
13 49 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.09%) Java Developer
16 43 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 42 (3.90%) Senior Developer
18 39 (3.62%) Python Engineer
18 39 (3.62%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (15.99%) Node.js
2 148 (13.75%) React
3 131 (12.17%) REST
4 130 (12.08%) Kafka
5 122 (11.34%) .NET
6 110 (10.22%) RESTful
7 93 (8.64%) Spring
8 91 (8.46%) Spring Boot
9 86 (7.99%) OAuth
10 66 (6.13%) PySpark
11 58 (5.39%) AngularJS
12 50 (4.65%) OAuth2
13 49 (4.55%) AWS CDK
13 49 (4.55%) JSON
14 45 (4.18%) .NET Core
15 39 (3.62%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.62%) OpenID
16 37 (3.44%) FastAPI
16 37 (3.44%) JWT
17 36 (3.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 270 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.70%) NHS
5 26 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.93%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.84%) Replication
12 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.74%) DataPower
13 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.25%) Linux
2 19 (1.77%) Unix
3 10 (0.93%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.093%) Android
6 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 535 (49.72%) DevOps
3 406 (37.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 349 (32.43%) Agile
5 287 (26.67%) Microservices
6 256 (23.79%) Containerisation
7 174 (16.17%) AI
8 170 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (15.71%) Event-Driven
10 167 (15.52%) Analytics
11 160 (14.87%) Observability
12 154 (14.31%) Data Pipeline
13 149 (13.85%) Data Modelling
14 141 (13.10%) Software Engineering
15 137 (12.73%) ETL
16 135 (12.55%) Test Automation
17 120 (11.15%) Data Engineering
18 115 (10.69%) Migration
19 112 (10.41%) Full-Stack Development
20 104 (9.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 499 (46.38%) Python
2 311 (28.90%) SQL
3 178 (16.54%) Java
4 162 (15.06%) JavaScript
5 159 (14.78%) C#
6 157 (14.59%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.32%) Bash
8 50 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.55%) Bicep
10 35 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.42%) Go
12 25 (2.32%) Ruby
13 18 (1.67%) Scala
14 11 (1.02%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.02%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.65%) C++
15 7 (0.65%) Groovy
15 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 301 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 240 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.51%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 33 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.60%) Degree
9 22 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
15 4 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.30%) QA
3 31 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.88%) GDPR
3 31 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.49%) NIST
6 11 (1.02%) WCAG
7 10 (0.93%) PMO
8 8 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.46%) NCSC
11 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 1 (0.093%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 295 (27.42%) Docker
2 33 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.93%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 4 (0.37%) HDFS
6 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 452 (42.01%) Terraform
2 269 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.39%) Grafana
4 93 (8.64%) Prometheus
5 64 (5.95%) Ansible
6 27 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.21%) Puppet
8 11 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.74%) Kibana
11 7 (0.65%) Consul
12 6 (0.56%) Istio
12 6 (0.56%) linkerd
13 5 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.46%) Rancher
14 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.37%) Podman
14 4 (0.37%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) Argo
15 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 176 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.55%) Databricks
3 45 (4.18%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.09%) Oracle
5 31 (2.88%) Splunk
6 18 (1.67%) Google
7 17 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.39%) Foundry
9 11 (1.02%) Lotus
10 10 (0.93%) Brio
10 10 (0.93%) Confluent
10 10 (0.93%) Kofax
10 10 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.74%) Informatica
12 8 (0.74%) Sybase
12 8 (0.74%) Tenable