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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 103 131
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,085 824 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.06% 2.52% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.82% 6.72% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 614 564
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 £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% +0.48%
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 18,631 12,266 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,213 9,943
10th Percentile £328 £313 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 313 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.78 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.27 £48.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -20 868 £525 - 284
London -15 513 £550 - 146
UK excluding London -33 389 £505 +1.00% 188
Work from Home -27 352 £525 - 148
North of England -29 144 £500 - 64
North West -30 80 £525 +5.00% 30
Midlands -14 72 £488 +7.20% 27
West Midlands -29 58 £477 +0.95% 14
Scotland -14 56 £450 -13.88% 6
Yorkshire -30 50 £500 +1.01% 15
South East -66 48 £575 +15.93% 29
South West -19 42 £575 +8.24% 44
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 5
North East -28 15 £463 -1.07% 19
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +9.18% 13
Wales -10 6 £500 -13.08% 7
Northern Ireland +5 5 £283 -43.50% 8

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 (5.25%) Confluence
2 49 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.06%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.67%) 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 18 (1.66%) 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
1 857 (78.99%) AWS
2 672 (61.94%) AWS Lambda
3 470 (43.32%) Amazon S3
4 368 (33.92%) Azure
5 212 (19.54%) GitHub
6 202 (18.62%) Amazon EC2
7 201 (18.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 191 (17.60%) Amazon ECS
9 174 (16.04%) Amazon EKS
10 173 (15.94%) Azure Functions
11 154 (14.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 149 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
13 120 (11.06%) Amazon SQS
13 120 (11.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 117 (10.78%) Power Platform
15 111 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
16 109 (10.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 83 (7.65%) GCP
18 79 (7.28%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (6.18%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.41%) Firewall
2 28 (2.58%) DNS
3 26 (2.40%) VPN
4 23 (2.12%) Network Security
5 13 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.20%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
6 10 (0.92%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.74%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) CTI
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) MQTT
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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (15.02%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.47%) Amazon RDS
3 114 (10.51%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 96 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.74%) Power BI
7 75 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (6.27%) NoSQL
9 57 (5.25%) Data Lake
10 47 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.24%) SQL Server
12 37 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (3.32%) Relational Database
14 35 (3.23%) MySQL
15 32 (2.95%) Metadata
16 28 (2.58%) MongoDB
17 25 (2.30%) Tableau
18 23 (2.12%) Big Data
19 22 (2.03%) Delta Lake
20 19 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 180 (16.59%) Git
2 147 (13.55%) GitLab
3 138 (12.72%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.47%) JIRA
5 29 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 24 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.03%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.01%) JUnit
10 11 (1.01%) Postman
11 10 (0.92%) Vite
12 9 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.83%) Mocha
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
1 247 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.46%) Finance
4 65 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (2.76%) Banking
7 19 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.66%) Legal
9 12 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.11%) Law
10 9 (0.83%) Billing
10 9 (0.83%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Retail
12 7 (0.65%) Back Office
12 7 (0.65%) Marketing
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 243 (22.40%) Developer
2 208 (19.17%) Architect
3 191 (17.60%) Senior
4 176 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
5 129 (11.89%) Data Engineer
6 109 (10.05%) Lead
7 78 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.27%) AWS Architect
9 66 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 63 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
12 54 (4.98%) Technical Architect
13 50 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (4.33%) Senior Developer
15 45 (4.15%) AWS Developer
15 45 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (3.96%) Python Engineer
16 43 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
17 41 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (12.07%) Node.js
2 129 (11.89%) React
2 129 (11.89%) REST
3 111 (10.23%) .NET
4 110 (10.14%) RESTful
5 109 (10.05%) Kafka
6 78 (7.19%) PySpark
7 72 (6.64%) AWS CDK
8 67 (6.18%) GraphQL
8 67 (6.18%) Spring Boot
9 65 (5.99%) Spring
10 62 (5.71%) OAuth
11 46 (4.24%) FastAPI
12 44 (4.06%) JSON
13 42 (3.87%) AngularJS
14 41 (3.78%) OpenID
15 37 (3.41%) OAuth2
16 30 (2.76%) .NET Core
17 28 (2.58%) Next.js
17 28 (2.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.24%) AI Agents
5 31 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.49%) NHS
7 21 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.01%) IVR
11 11 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.92%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.25%) Linux
2 22 (2.03%) Unix
3 13 (1.20%) Windows
4 12 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
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
1 655 (60.37%) CI/CD
2 482 (44.42%) DevOps
3 392 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 385 (35.48%) Agile
5 271 (24.98%) Microservices
6 233 (21.47%) AI
7 231 (21.29%) Containerisation
8 216 (19.91%) Event-Driven
9 165 (15.21%) Observability
10 164 (15.12%) Analytics
11 158 (14.56%) Data Modelling
12 156 (14.38%) Test Automation
13 154 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
14 149 (13.73%) Software Engineering
15 145 (13.36%) ETL
16 136 (12.53%) Data Engineering
16 136 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
17 127 (11.71%) Migration
18 126 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
19 125 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 485 (44.70%) Python
2 309 (28.48%) SQL
3 172 (15.85%) TypeScript
4 139 (12.81%) C#
4 139 (12.81%) Java
5 138 (12.72%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.27%) Bash
7 40 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 36 (3.32%) Bicep
9 32 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.84%) Go
11 18 (1.66%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.74%) Ruby
14 7 (0.65%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
15 6 (0.55%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 284 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 228 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.10%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.87%) Degree
6 38 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.38%) 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%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.28%) CCSP
17 3 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.15%) QA
3 29 (2.67%) GDPR
4 28 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.29%) WCAG
8 13 (1.20%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) NCSC
9 7 (0.65%) PMO
10 6 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 273 (25.16%) Docker
2 32 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.75%) 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
1 425 (39.17%) Terraform
2 253 (23.32%) Kubernetes
3 96 (8.85%) Grafana
4 87 (8.02%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.70%) Ansible
6 26 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.84%) Puppet
8 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.74%) Consul
10 7 (0.65%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 150 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.99%) Databricks
3 44 (4.06%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.04%) Oracle
5 26 (2.40%) Dynatrace
5 26 (2.40%) Informatica
6 24 (2.21%) Google
7 23 (2.12%) Splunk
8 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.92%) Foundry
11 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.83%) Tenable
13 8 (0.74%) Brio
14 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.46%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.46%) Sybase
15 5 (0.46%) Teradata