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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 96 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 +34 -37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,088 789 761
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.66% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 7.02% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 590 569
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £625
90th Percentile £734 £721 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
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 17,839 11,244 14,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.88% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 7,595 9,937
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
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 584 280 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £19.95
% change year-on-year +98.05% -5.09% -26.38%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -24 874 £525 - 312
London -10 521 £525 -4.55% 161
UK excluding London -22 376 £500 - 202
Work from Home -27 335 £505 -3.81% 163
North of England -19 142 £500 - 66
North West -20 79 £518 +3.50% 39
Midlands -23 64 £488 -2.50% 22
South East -39 54 £588 +17.50% 47
West Midlands -22 50 £488 -4.79% 13
Scotland -16 49 £444 -15.48% 11
Yorkshire -26 49 £500 - 17
South West -15 41 £575 +8.24% 35
East of England -18 27 £550 +2.33% 12
North East -26 15 £469 -1.32% 10
East Midlands -17 14 £497 +3.55% 9
Wales -7 6 £500 -13.08% 12
Northern Ireland +6 4 £190 -62.00% 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 56 (5.15%) Confluence
2 46 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.48%) 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 16 (1.47%) 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
1 836 (76.84%) AWS
2 662 (60.85%) AWS Lambda
3 464 (42.65%) Amazon S3
4 389 (35.75%) Azure
5 225 (20.68%) GitHub
6 203 (18.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 200 (18.38%) Amazon EC2
8 197 (18.11%) Azure Functions
9 184 (16.91%) Amazon ECS
10 180 (16.54%) Amazon EKS
11 158 (14.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 155 (14.25%) GitHub Actions
13 127 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
14 124 (11.40%) Power Platform
15 117 (10.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 113 (10.39%) Amazon SQS
16 113 (10.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 86 (7.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 80 (7.35%) Azure Service Bus
19 75 (6.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.03%) Firewall
2 32 (2.94%) DNS
3 22 (2.02%) VPN
4 19 (1.75%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) WAN
7 10 (0.92%) HTTP
8 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.83%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.55%) SMS
10 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 5 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 3 (0.28%) CTI
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
12 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.18%) AMQP
13 2 (0.18%) IPv4
14 1 (0.092%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 151 (13.88%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
4 103 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 101 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (7.81%) Power BI
7 68 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
8 67 (6.16%) NoSQL
9 65 (5.97%) Data Lake
10 54 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.14%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.22%) MySQL
14 34 (3.13%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.03%) Metadata
16 28 (2.57%) Tableau
17 26 (2.39%) MongoDB
18 24 (2.21%) Big Data
19 21 (1.93%) Redis
20 20 (1.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 172 (15.81%) Git
2 148 (13.60%) GitLab
3 135 (12.41%) Jenkins
4 78 (7.17%) JIRA
5 26 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 19 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.38%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.92%) JUnit
11 9 (0.83%) Mocha
11 9 (0.83%) Vite
12 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.74%) MSTest
12 8 (0.74%) 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 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 187 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 143 (13.14%) Finance
4 64 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.39%) Banking
7 16 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.38%) Legal
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
1 255 (23.44%) Developer
2 204 (18.75%) Architect
3 170 (15.63%) Senior
4 166 (15.26%) AWS Engineer
5 128 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.19%) Lead
7 75 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.53%) AWS Architect
9 70 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 60 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.69%) Technical Architect
13 50 (4.60%) AWS Developer
14 49 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
15 48 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
16 45 (4.14%) Senior Developer
17 44 (4.04%) Python Engineer
18 43 (3.95%) Python Developer
19 41 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (12.87%) React
2 138 (12.68%) REST
3 123 (11.31%) Kafka
4 119 (10.94%) Node.js
5 116 (10.66%) .NET
6 110 (10.11%) RESTful
7 78 (7.17%) PySpark
8 73 (6.71%) OAuth
9 72 (6.62%) Spring Boot
10 71 (6.53%) Spring
11 66 (6.07%) AWS CDK
12 58 (5.33%) GraphQL
13 49 (4.50%) FastAPI
14 47 (4.32%) AngularJS
15 45 (4.14%) JSON
16 44 (4.04%) OAuth2
16 44 (4.04%) OpenID
17 36 (3.31%) Next.js
18 30 (2.76%) .NET Core
18 30 (2.76%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 318 (29.23%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.58%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.11%) NHS
7 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.96%) 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
1 656 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 480 (44.12%) DevOps
3 400 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 363 (33.36%) Agile
5 257 (23.62%) Microservices
6 234 (21.51%) Containerisation
7 225 (20.68%) AI
8 206 (18.93%) Event-Driven
9 179 (16.45%) Observability
10 162 (14.89%) Analytics
11 159 (14.61%) Data Modelling
12 154 (14.15%) Data Pipeline
13 152 (13.97%) Test Automation
14 148 (13.60%) Software Engineering
15 145 (13.33%) ETL
16 140 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
17 124 (11.40%) Data Engineering
18 122 (11.21%) Migration
19 118 (10.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 117 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 483 (44.39%) Python
2 318 (29.23%) SQL
3 168 (15.44%) TypeScript
4 152 (13.97%) C#
5 148 (13.60%) JavaScript
6 142 (13.05%) Java
7 58 (5.33%) Bash
8 40 (3.68%) PowerShell
9 38 (3.49%) Bicep
10 35 (3.22%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.75%) Go
11 19 (1.75%) Scala
12 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.74%) 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 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 223 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.34%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (3.22%) Degree
7 31 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.38%) 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
14 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.14%) QA
3 27 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.48%) GDPR
3 27 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.38%) NIST
6 13 (1.19%) WCAG
7 7 (0.64%) NCSC
7 7 (0.64%) PMO
8 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.37%) SLA
10 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.18%) GRC
10 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.18%) HL7
11 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 275 (25.28%) 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
1 437 (40.17%) Terraform
2 248 (22.79%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.10%) Grafana
4 89 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.23%) Ansible
6 28 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.65%) 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%) Argo
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Packer
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 153 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.25%) Databricks
3 50 (4.60%) OpenAI
4 36 (3.31%) Oracle
5 25 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.11%) Informatica
7 22 (2.02%) Splunk
8 20 (1.84%) Google
9 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.01%) Confluent
11 11 (1.01%) Foundry
11 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 10 (0.92%) Tenable
13 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.83%) Brio
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Kofax
15 6 (0.55%) Lotus