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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 94 126
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,087 779 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.64% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.13% 6.97% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 586 581
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £436 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year - +1.55% -6.00%
75th Percentile £627 £609 £625
90th Percentile £735 £723 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.00 -
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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -18 873 £525 - 244
London -11 524 £525 -4.55% 120
UK excluding London -18 375 £500 - 175
Work from Home -30 334 £511 -2.62% 136
North of England -15 143 £500 - 61
North West -20 79 £510 +2.00% 36
Midlands -27 60 £488 -2.50% 14
South East -43 54 £588 +17.50% 43
Scotland -17 49 £438 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire -24 49 £500 - 18
West Midlands -24 47 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -1 41 £575 +4.55% 36
East of England -18 27 £550 +2.33% 8
North East -27 16 £475 - 7
East Midlands -17 13 £498 +3.86% 6
Wales -8 7 £488 -15.25% 7
Northern Ireland +6 5 £190 -62.00% 3

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 53 (4.88%) Confluence
2 46 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.39%) Apache
4 25 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.10%) nginx
6 6 (0.55%) CICS
6 6 (0.55%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.55%) Mendix
6 6 (0.55%) SAS
7 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) JBoss
10 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 837 (77.00%) AWS
2 664 (61.09%) AWS Lambda
3 461 (42.41%) Amazon S3
4 383 (35.23%) Azure
5 228 (20.98%) GitHub
6 199 (18.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 199 (18.31%) Amazon EC2
7 195 (17.94%) Azure Functions
8 182 (16.74%) Amazon ECS
8 182 (16.74%) Amazon EKS
9 160 (14.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 159 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
11 127 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
12 122 (11.22%) Power Platform
13 118 (10.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 117 (10.76%) AWS Step Functions
15 113 (10.40%) Amazon SQS
16 85 (7.82%) Azure Logic Apps
17 79 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
18 76 (6.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.04%) Firewall
2 32 (2.94%) DNS
3 22 (2.02%) VPN
4 19 (1.75%) Network Security
5 13 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) WAN
7 9 (0.83%) HTTP
7 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.83%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.37%) MQTT
11 3 (0.28%) CTI
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) IPv4
13 1 (0.092%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 152 (13.98%) Amazon RDS
3 111 (10.21%) Amazon Athena
4 100 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.73%) Power BI
7 67 (6.16%) NoSQL
8 66 (6.07%) Data Lake
9 64 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (4.05%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.22%) MySQL
14 34 (3.13%) Relational Database
15 32 (2.94%) Metadata
16 29 (2.67%) Tableau
17 25 (2.30%) Big Data
17 25 (2.30%) MongoDB
18 21 (1.93%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 168 (15.46%) Git
2 147 (13.52%) GitLab
3 133 (12.24%) Jenkins
4 75 (6.90%) JIRA
5 26 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.38%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.92%) JUnit
10 9 (0.83%) Mocha
10 9 (0.83%) Vite
11 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.74%) MSTest
12 7 (0.64%) Postman
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 185 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.06%) Finance
4 63 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.39%) Banking
7 15 (1.38%) Legal
8 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 10 (0.92%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.74%) Marketing
11 8 (0.74%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Back Office
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (23.28%) Developer
2 203 (18.68%) Architect
3 172 (15.82%) Senior
4 168 (15.46%) AWS Engineer
5 126 (11.59%) Data Engineer
6 98 (9.02%) Lead
7 80 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.62%) AWS Architect
9 71 (6.53%) Software Engineer
10 61 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.69%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.51%) AWS Developer
13 49 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
14 48 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (4.23%) Python Engineer
16 45 (4.14%) Senior Developer
17 43 (3.96%) Python Developer
18 42 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.79%) React
2 136 (12.51%) REST
3 122 (11.22%) Kafka
4 119 (10.95%) Node.js
5 115 (10.58%) .NET
6 108 (9.94%) RESTful
7 76 (6.99%) PySpark
8 72 (6.62%) OAuth
9 71 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 70 (6.44%) Spring
11 69 (6.35%) AWS CDK
12 56 (5.15%) GraphQL
13 48 (4.42%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.42%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.05%) JSON
15 43 (3.96%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.96%) OpenID
16 36 (3.31%) Next.js
17 30 (2.76%) .NET Core
17 30 (2.76%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 318 (29.25%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.50%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.12%) NHS
7 16 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.74%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.34%) Linux
2 22 (2.02%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.55%) zOS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (60.44%) CI/CD
2 481 (44.25%) DevOps
3 401 (36.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 358 (32.93%) Agile
5 260 (23.92%) Microservices
6 233 (21.44%) Containerisation
7 221 (20.33%) AI
8 204 (18.77%) Event-Driven
9 177 (16.28%) Observability
10 162 (14.90%) Analytics
11 156 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
12 155 (14.26%) Data Modelling
13 150 (13.80%) Software Engineering
14 148 (13.62%) Test Automation
15 147 (13.52%) ETL
16 139 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
17 122 (11.22%) Data Engineering
18 120 (11.04%) Migration
19 118 (10.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 115 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 485 (44.62%) Python
2 315 (28.98%) SQL
3 164 (15.09%) TypeScript
4 151 (13.89%) C#
5 147 (13.52%) JavaScript
6 144 (13.25%) Java
7 56 (5.15%) Bash
8 41 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 38 (3.50%) Bicep
10 36 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.84%) Go
11 20 (1.84%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.83%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.55%) JCL
15 6 (0.55%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.46%) Rust
16 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 279 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 222 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (3.13%) Degree
7 31 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.37%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.14%) QA
3 26 (2.39%) GDPR
3 26 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.38%) NIST
7 12 (1.10%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.18%) HL7
12 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 271 (24.93%) Docker
2 31 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 441 (40.57%) Terraform
2 246 (22.63%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.11%) Grafana
4 89 (8.19%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.42%) Ansible
6 28 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.66%) Puppet
8 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.74%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
12 5 (0.46%) Salt
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Packer
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 151 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.26%) Databricks
3 50 (4.60%) OpenAI
4 37 (3.40%) Oracle
5 23 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.93%) Splunk
7 20 (1.84%) Google
7 20 (1.84%) Informatica
8 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.01%) Confluent
10 11 (1.01%) Foundry
10 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.92%) SAP
11 10 (0.92%) Tenable
12 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.83%) Brio
13 7 (0.64%) Sybase
14 6 (0.55%) Kofax
14 6 (0.55%) Lotus