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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 106 133
Rank change year-on-year -27 +27 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,079 809 754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 2.49% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.77% 6.64% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 599 550
10th Percentile £385 £400 £368
25th Percentile £450 £447 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.15%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.49% +0.67%
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 18,702 12,186 14,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.44% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,395 8,167 9,848
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 313 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -18 864 £530 +0.95% 196
London -6 512 £550 - 83
UK excluding London -32 389 £510 +2.00% 145
Work from Home -24 353 £525 - 93
North of England -36 140 £510 +2.00% 49
North West -36 77 £550 +10.00% 23
Midlands -17 76 £477 +5.94% 20
West Midlands -19 62 £475 +5.56% 12
Scotland 0 59 £444 -11.25% 6
Yorkshire -24 48 £500 +2.30% 11
South East -52 45 £588 +19.41% 36
South West -21 43 £575 +9.52% 24
East of England -14 28 £550 +3.53% 5
North East -25 16 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -12 14 £497 +10.21% 8
Northern Ireland +4 5 £283 -43.50%
Wales -11 4 £400 -30.47% 6

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 56 (5.19%) Confluence
2 49 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.97%) Apache
5 18 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.20%) nginx
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 856 (79.33%) AWS
2 677 (62.74%) AWS Lambda
3 477 (44.21%) Amazon S3
4 360 (33.36%) Azure
5 210 (19.46%) GitHub
6 206 (19.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 200 (18.54%) Amazon EC2
8 197 (18.26%) Amazon ECS
9 176 (16.31%) Amazon EKS
10 167 (15.48%) Azure Functions
11 160 (14.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
13 126 (11.68%) Amazon SQS
14 121 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 114 (10.57%) AWS Step Functions
16 113 (10.47%) Power Platform
17 104 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
18 80 (7.41%) GCP
19 73 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
20 72 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.52%) Firewall
2 29 (2.69%) DNS
3 24 (2.22%) Network Security
4 23 (2.13%) VPN
5 13 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.20%) WAN
6 11 (1.02%) HTTP
7 10 (0.93%) 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 1 (0.093%) Internet
12 1 (0.093%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 157 (14.55%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
6 83 (7.69%) Power BI
7 77 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (6.30%) NoSQL
9 59 (5.47%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.26%) SQL Server
12 37 (3.43%) MySQL
12 37 (3.43%) Relational Database
13 36 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (3.06%) Metadata
15 29 (2.69%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.32%) Tableau
17 21 (1.95%) Big Data
18 20 (1.85%) Delta Lake
19 18 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 183 (16.96%) Git
2 145 (13.44%) GitLab
3 142 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 80 (7.41%) JIRA
5 29 (2.69%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.22%) Claude Code
8 22 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.11%) Postman
11 11 (1.02%) JUnit
12 10 (0.93%) Vite
13 9 (0.83%) Mocha
13 9 (0.83%) Selenium
14 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.74%) MSTest
15 7 (0.65%) MLflow
16 6 (0.56%) Gatling
16 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 243 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.16%) Finance
4 66 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (2.87%) Banking
6 30 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.67%) Legal
9 12 (1.11%) Law
10 11 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.93%) Billing
12 8 (0.74%) Retail
13 7 (0.65%) Back Office
13 7 (0.65%) Marketing
13 7 (0.65%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Front Office
14 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.46%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (22.52%) Developer
2 202 (18.72%) Architect
3 196 (18.16%) Senior
4 176 (16.31%) AWS Engineer
5 128 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 112 (10.38%) Lead
7 77 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.21%) Software Engineer
9 66 (6.12%) AWS Architect
10 64 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (4.91%) Technical Architect
12 52 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 47 (4.36%) AWS Developer
13 47 (4.36%) Senior Developer
14 44 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (4.08%) Python Engineer
15 43 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
15 43 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
16 41 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (12.51%) Node.js
1 135 (12.51%) REST
2 133 (12.33%) React
3 110 (10.19%) .NET
4 109 (10.10%) RESTful
5 105 (9.73%) Kafka
6 77 (7.14%) PySpark
7 76 (7.04%) AWS CDK
8 69 (6.39%) GraphQL
9 68 (6.30%) Spring Boot
10 65 (6.02%) Spring
11 63 (5.84%) OAuth
12 50 (4.63%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.17%) JSON
14 43 (3.99%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.80%) OpenID
16 38 (3.52%) OAuth2
17 32 (2.97%) .NET Core
18 28 (2.59%) Flask
18 28 (2.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 324 (30.03%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (4.63%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.50%) NHS
7 20 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.02%) IVR
11 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.93%) IoT
12 10 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.65%) Linux
2 22 (2.04%) Unix
3 15 (1.39%) Windows
4 14 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.56%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (60.06%) CI/CD
2 470 (43.56%) DevOps
3 391 (36.24%) Agile
4 389 (36.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 272 (25.21%) Microservices
6 240 (22.24%) AI
7 229 (21.22%) Containerisation
8 214 (19.83%) Event-Driven
9 167 (15.48%) Observability
10 166 (15.38%) Analytics
11 159 (14.74%) Data Modelling
11 159 (14.74%) Test Automation
12 154 (14.27%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.99%) Software Engineering
14 146 (13.53%) ETL
15 136 (12.60%) Data Engineering
16 133 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
17 131 (12.14%) Migration
18 130 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 130 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 488 (45.23%) Python
2 309 (28.64%) SQL
3 175 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 141 (13.07%) Java
5 140 (12.97%) JavaScript
6 136 (12.60%) C#
7 71 (6.58%) Bash
8 42 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.15%) Bicep
10 33 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.85%) Go
12 17 (1.58%) Scala
13 10 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.74%) Groovy
14 8 (0.74%) Ruby
15 7 (0.65%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.56%) JCL
17 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 280 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 226 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.80%) Degree
6 35 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.17%) QA
3 33 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.69%) GDPR
5 25 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.48%) WCAG
7 13 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.11%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) PMO
10 6 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.56%) NCSC
11 5 (0.46%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.093%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 280 (25.95%) Docker
2 32 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.11%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 419 (38.83%) Terraform
2 252 (23.35%) Kubernetes
3 98 (9.08%) Grafana
4 87 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.45%) Ansible
6 26 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.48%) Puppet
8 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.74%) Consul
9 8 (0.74%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.65%) Istio
10 7 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
11 6 (0.56%) Podman
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
12 5 (0.46%) Salt
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 148 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.75%) Databricks
3 44 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 32 (2.97%) Oracle
5 26 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 26 (2.41%) Informatica
6 25 (2.32%) Google
7 23 (2.13%) Splunk
8 19 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.93%) SAP
12 9 (0.83%) Brio
12 9 (0.83%) Foundry
13 8 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.74%) Tenable
14 5 (0.46%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.46%) Confluent
14 5 (0.46%) Denodo
14 5 (0.46%) Sybase