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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 102 125
Rank change year-on-year -52 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 873 743
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.63% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 6.84% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 635 509
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £547
% change year-on-year - -8.59% +4.19%
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 £76.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 19,185 12,757 13,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.42% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,732 8,532 8,661
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 291 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £16.41
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £34.47
% change year-on-year +52.79% -43.03% +53.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -40 865 £525 +2.44% 163
London -14 519 £550 +2.47% 75
UK excluding London -78 390 £500 - 116
Work from Home -36 344 £550 +5.77% 99
North of England -65 129 £500 +2.56% 42
Midlands -33 85 £430 -14.85% 10
North West -37 65 £525 +10.53% 26
West Midlands -32 64 £460 -10.90% 8
South East -53 57 £600 +41.18% 28
Scotland -25 53 £438 -12.50% 3
South West -24 45 £534 -5.11% 19
Yorkshire -66 44 £500 +2.04% 13
East Midlands -8 21 £425 -2.30% 2
North East -24 20 £463 -11.14% 3
East of England -50 15 £515 -1.90% 9
Northern Ireland +5 5 £375 - 3
Wales -10 5 £419 -16.33% 4

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 (5.37%) Confluence
2 49 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.86%) SharePoint
4 40 (3.77%) Apache
5 37 (3.48%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.94%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.56%) nginx
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.56%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) CICS
12 2 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 809 (76.18%) AWS
2 654 (61.58%) AWS Lambda
3 422 (39.74%) Amazon S3
4 385 (36.25%) Azure
5 252 (23.73%) GitHub
6 239 (22.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 217 (20.43%) Azure Functions
8 207 (19.49%) Amazon ECS
9 172 (16.20%) Amazon EKS
10 166 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 163 (15.35%) Amazon EC2
11 163 (15.35%) GitHub Actions
12 156 (14.69%) Amazon SQS
13 139 (13.09%) Azure DevOps
14 131 (12.34%) Power Platform
15 108 (10.17%) Amazon EventBridge
16 107 (10.08%) AWS Step Functions
17 104 (9.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 88 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
19 75 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.11%) Network Security
2 30 (2.82%) Firewall
3 25 (2.35%) DNS
4 13 (1.22%) HTTP
4 13 (1.22%) VPN
5 11 (1.04%) WAN
6 7 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.28%) IPv4
8 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.28%) SMS
8 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.29%) Amazon RDS
2 170 (16.01%) DynamoDB
3 104 (9.79%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
6 83 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (6.78%) Power BI
8 66 (6.21%) Data Lake
9 62 (5.84%) NoSQL
10 57 (5.37%) SQL Server
11 52 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 50 (4.71%) MySQL
13 45 (4.24%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.39%) Metadata
15 33 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (2.54%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.17%) Relational Database
18 21 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 18 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (19.02%) Git
2 147 (13.84%) Jenkins
3 143 (13.47%) GitLab
4 78 (7.34%) JIRA
5 32 (3.01%) Claude Code
5 32 (3.01%) Cucumber
5 32 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.45%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.79%) JUnit
7 19 (1.79%) Selenium
8 15 (1.41%) Mockito
8 15 (1.41%) Postman
9 13 (1.22%) Maven
9 13 (1.22%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.04%) RStudio
11 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.85%) JMeter
12 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 251 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 165 (15.54%) Finance
4 83 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.24%) Banking
7 17 (1.60%) Marketing
8 15 (1.41%) Back Office
9 13 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.22%) Legal
9 13 (1.22%) Retail
10 12 (1.13%) Billing
10 12 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.04%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Military
12 8 (0.75%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (22.79%) Developer
2 220 (20.72%) Senior
3 187 (17.61%) Architect
4 170 (16.01%) AWS Engineer
5 132 (12.43%) Data Engineer
6 119 (11.21%) Lead
7 92 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.21%) AWS Architect
9 59 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 50 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
12 49 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
15 42 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 42 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.95%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.86%) Python Engineer
17 39 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
18 38 (3.58%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (39.92%) Terraform
2 204 (19.21%) REST
3 140 (13.18%) .NET
4 113 (10.64%) React
5 111 (10.45%) Node.js
6 108 (10.17%) RESTful
7 106 (9.98%) Kafka
8 89 (8.38%) AWS CDK
9 70 (6.59%) PySpark
9 70 (6.59%) Spring Boot
10 69 (6.50%) Spring
11 66 (6.21%) GraphQL
12 62 (5.84%) OAuth
13 57 (5.37%) FastAPI
14 43 (4.05%) AngularJS
15 42 (3.95%) OAuth2
16 40 (3.77%) JSON
17 38 (3.58%) OpenID
18 34 (3.20%) CSS
19 32 (3.01%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 350 (32.96%) Cloud Native
2 93 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 89 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (7.25%) AI Agents
5 42 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 33 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.07%) NHS
10 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.60%) IVR
12 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
13 14 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.22%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.13%) Mainframe
16 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (6.69%) Linux
2 25 (2.35%) Unix
3 20 (1.88%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) AIX
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 492 (46.33%) DevOps
3 433 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 402 (37.85%) Agile
5 286 (26.93%) AI
6 262 (24.67%) Event-Driven
7 247 (23.26%) Microservices
8 215 (20.24%) Observability
9 207 (19.49%) Containerisation
10 186 (17.51%) Test Automation
11 182 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 173 (16.29%) Software Engineering
13 166 (15.63%) Data Modelling
14 165 (15.54%) Analytics
15 161 (15.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 161 (15.16%) Technical Leadership
16 152 (14.31%) Data Pipeline
16 152 (14.31%) Migration
17 147 (13.84%) Data Engineering
18 143 (13.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 480 (45.20%) Python
2 301 (28.34%) SQL
3 193 (18.17%) TypeScript
4 159 (14.97%) JavaScript
5 157 (14.78%) C#
6 141 (13.28%) Java
7 75 (7.06%) Bash
8 46 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.14%) Bicep
10 33 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.13%) Go
13 10 (0.94%) Scala
14 9 (0.85%) Groovy
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.66%) Rust
15 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 273 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 236 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 93 (8.76%) AWS Certification
4 63 (5.93%) Degree
5 58 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.11%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.66%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 83 (7.82%) QA
3 50 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.39%) GDPR
5 31 (2.92%) WCAG
6 18 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 8 (0.75%) SLA
10 7 (0.66%) NCSC
11 6 (0.56%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.094%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.094%) GLBA
14 1 (0.094%) GRC
14 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.094%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 273 (25.71%) Docker
2 35 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 83 (7.82%) Grafana
3 66 (6.21%) Prometheus
4 58 (5.46%) Ansible
5 13 (1.22%) Puppet
6 11 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Packer
8 7 (0.66%) Argo
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (0.56%) Podman
10 5 (0.47%) Istio
10 5 (0.47%) Kibana
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 215 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.53%) Databricks
3 50 (4.71%) OpenAI
4 46 (4.33%) Oracle
5 33 (3.11%) Dynatrace
6 32 (3.01%) Google
7 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.45%) Informatica
9 23 (2.17%) Splunk
10 17 (1.60%) Foundry
11 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.32%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.94%) Brio
14 8 (0.75%) Confluent
14 8 (0.75%) Tenable
15 6 (0.56%) SAP
16 5 (0.47%) Denodo
16 5 (0.47%) UiPath
17 4 (0.38%) Adyen
17 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA