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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 107 123
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 811 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.50% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 6.66% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 586 511
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £678 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -30 869 £525 - 1,054
London -11 517 £550 - 661
UK excluding London -55 399 £500 - 513
Work from Home -36 343 £533 +3.40% 508
North of England -47 131 £500 +4.06% 153
Midlands -6 89 £444 -7.36% 64
West Midlands -18 70 £461 -7.29% 32
North West -30 65 £588 +21.13% 101
Scotland -11 57 £450 -12.20% 67
South East -57 50 £600 +41.18% 78
South West -33 46 £510 -4.00% 76
Yorkshire -41 46 £500 +3.79% 33
North East -24 20 £463 +4.52% 19
East of England -35 20 £525 +1.94% 31
East Midlands -5 19 £419 +0.84% 32
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 33
Wales -10 4 £481 -16.34% 13

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 59 (5.56%) Confluence
2 50 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 37 (3.48%) Apache
5 35 (3.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 8 (0.75%) nginx
9 7 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
11 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 826 (77.78%) AWS
2 670 (63.09%) AWS Lambda
3 446 (42.00%) Amazon S3
4 373 (35.12%) Azure
5 234 (22.03%) GitHub
6 228 (21.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 194 (18.27%) Azure Functions
8 190 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
9 166 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
10 162 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 161 (15.16%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
13 145 (13.65%) Amazon SQS
14 130 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
14 130 (12.24%) Power Platform
15 118 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 109 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 100 (9.42%) Amazon EventBridge
18 79 (7.44%) Azure Logic Apps
19 71 (6.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.39%) Firewall
2 27 (2.54%) DNS
2 27 (2.54%) Network Security
3 16 (1.51%) VPN
4 13 (1.22%) HTTP
5 12 (1.13%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) Internet
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (16.01%) DynamoDB
2 163 (15.35%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 88 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
6 85 (8.00%) Power BI
7 68 (6.40%) NoSQL
8 58 (5.46%) Data Lake
9 56 (5.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 55 (5.18%) MySQL
11 54 (5.08%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.30%) Metadata
13 33 (3.11%) MongoDB
14 29 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (2.35%) Delta Lake
15 25 (2.35%) Relational Database
16 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
17 20 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
17 20 (1.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (18.55%) Git
2 143 (13.47%) GitLab
3 137 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 77 (7.25%) JIRA
5 32 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.92%) Claude Code
7 27 (2.54%) Bitbucket
8 24 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 18 (1.69%) Selenium
10 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.32%) JUnit
12 13 (1.22%) Postman
13 11 (1.04%) Mockito
14 10 (0.94%) RStudio
15 9 (0.85%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.75%) JMeter
16 8 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.66%) Gatling
17 7 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 250 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 187 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 159 (14.97%) Finance
4 80 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (3.58%) Banking
7 17 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Legal
8 14 (1.32%) Marketing
9 13 (1.22%) Military
10 12 (1.13%) Back Office
10 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Front Office
13 8 (0.75%) Retail
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (23.16%) Developer
2 208 (19.59%) Senior
3 197 (18.55%) Architect
4 169 (15.91%) AWS Engineer
5 132 (12.43%) Data Engineer
6 123 (11.58%) Lead
7 82 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (6.12%) AWS Architect
9 62 (5.84%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.43%) Technical Architect
13 45 (4.24%) AWS Developer
13 45 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (4.14%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.77%) Python Developer
17 40 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (40.02%) Terraform
2 181 (17.04%) REST
3 130 (12.24%) React
4 129 (12.15%) .NET
5 120 (11.30%) Node.js
6 104 (9.79%) RESTful
7 100 (9.42%) Kafka
8 81 (7.63%) AWS CDK
9 76 (7.16%) PySpark
10 64 (6.03%) Spring Boot
11 63 (5.93%) Spring
12 58 (5.46%) GraphQL
13 54 (5.08%) FastAPI
14 52 (4.90%) OAuth
15 42 (3.95%) JSON
16 41 (3.86%) AngularJS
17 37 (3.48%) CSS
18 36 (3.39%) Flask
18 36 (3.39%) OAuth2
19 34 (3.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 326 (30.70%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 74 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.93%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.64%) NHS
8 25 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.60%) IVR
12 16 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.69%) Linux
2 28 (2.64%) Unix
3 17 (1.60%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) AIX
8 1 (0.094%) Android
8 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (61.30%) CI/CD
2 466 (43.88%) DevOps
3 418 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 401 (37.76%) Agile
5 258 (24.29%) AI
6 245 (23.07%) Event-Driven
7 241 (22.69%) Microservices
8 213 (20.06%) Containerisation
9 191 (17.98%) Observability
10 176 (16.57%) Test Automation
11 174 (16.38%) Data Modelling
12 171 (16.10%) Analytics
12 171 (16.10%) Software Engineering
13 161 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 160 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
15 155 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
16 145 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 145 (13.65%) Migration
17 142 (13.37%) Data Engineering
18 140 (13.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 492 (46.33%) Python
2 309 (29.10%) SQL
3 185 (17.42%) TypeScript
4 161 (15.16%) JavaScript
5 145 (13.65%) C#
6 137 (12.90%) Java
7 79 (7.44%) Bash
8 48 (4.52%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.14%) Bicep
10 33 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.32%) Scala
12 13 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.04%) Go
14 10 (0.94%) Groovy
15 8 (0.75%) R
16 6 (0.56%) Ruby
16 6 (0.56%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 242 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.06%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.56%) Degree
5 52 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.30%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.56%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 76 (7.16%) QA
3 48 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.86%) GDPR
5 29 (2.73%) WCAG
6 20 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) PMO
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 271 (25.52%) Docker
2 37 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 243 (22.88%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.10%) Grafana
3 66 (6.21%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.27%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 195 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.97%) Databricks
3 46 (4.33%) Oracle
4 39 (3.67%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.82%) Informatica
6 28 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.54%) Google
8 26 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.45%) Splunk
9 15 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.04%) Brio
12 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 9 (0.85%) Foundry
14 8 (0.75%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday