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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 108 129
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,057 812 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.47% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 6.62% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 597 526
10th Percentile £388 £400 £372
25th Percentile £450 £447 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £35.00 £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 £74.00 £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 18,704 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,355 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +90.30% -10.14% -20.75%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -28 850 £528 +0.57% 290
London -17 497 £550 - 151
UK excluding London -18 392 £500 - 175
Work from Home -28 340 £525 - 135
North of England -36 138 £500 - 70
Midlands -16 78 £481 +6.89% 23
North West -37 71 £525 +5.00% 34
West Midlands -22 62 £477 +6.00% 16
Scotland -5 57 £433 -13.50% 11
Yorkshire -35 49 £500 +3.90% 17
South West -14 48 £542 +9.72% 22
South East -63 44 £600 +31.87% 35
East of England -13 25 £550 +3.53% 10
North East -34 19 £463 +0.54% 19
East Midlands -8 16 £488 +17.52% 7
Northern Ireland 0 4 £283 -43.50% 1
Wales -13 4 £400 -30.47% 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 52 (4.92%) Confluence
2 44 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.84%) Apache
5 19 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 836 (79.09%) AWS
2 660 (62.44%) AWS Lambda
3 448 (42.38%) Amazon S3
4 352 (33.30%) Azure
5 207 (19.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 202 (19.11%) GitHub
7 192 (18.16%) Amazon ECS
8 183 (17.31%) Amazon EC2
9 170 (16.08%) Amazon EKS
10 165 (15.61%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 141 (13.34%) GitHub Actions
13 124 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
14 117 (11.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (10.97%) AWS Step Functions
16 110 (10.41%) Power Platform
17 99 (9.37%) Azure DevOps
18 80 (7.57%) GCP
19 75 (7.10%) Amazon EventBridge
20 71 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.50%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
3 24 (2.27%) Network Security
4 19 (1.80%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 10 (0.95%) HTTP
7 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.66%) SSL
9 5 (0.47%) CTI
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.38%) IPsec
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) SMS
12 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.18%) DynamoDB
2 150 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.88%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (9.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.85%) Power BI
7 76 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.81%) NoSQL
9 58 (5.49%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (4.26%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.60%) MySQL
13 35 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (3.22%) Metadata
14 34 (3.22%) Relational Database
15 31 (2.93%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.27%) Tableau
17 20 (1.89%) Big Data
18 19 (1.80%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (16.75%) Git
2 136 (12.87%) GitLab
3 134 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.00%) JIRA
5 29 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.46%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.37%) Claude Code
8 21 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.32%) JUnit
11 12 (1.14%) Postman
12 10 (0.95%) Selenium
13 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.76%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) MSTest
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.76%) Vite
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) Mocha
15 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 234 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.93%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.43%) Finance
4 69 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.03%) Banking
6 23 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.61%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Law
10 11 (1.04%) Retail
11 10 (0.95%) Billing
11 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.85%) Marketing
13 8 (0.76%) Back Office
14 7 (0.66%) Front Office
14 7 (0.66%) Military
15 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 248 (23.46%) Developer
2 200 (18.92%) Senior
3 199 (18.83%) Architect
4 174 (16.46%) AWS Engineer
5 119 (11.26%) Data Engineer
6 113 (10.69%) Lead
7 69 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (6.43%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 62 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (4.54%) AWS Developer
13 48 (4.54%) Senior Developer
13 48 (4.54%) Technical Architect
14 44 (4.16%) Python Developer
15 43 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 40 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (3.69%) AWS Data Engineer
17 39 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.96%) REST
2 129 (12.20%) React
3 127 (12.02%) Node.js
4 110 (10.41%) .NET
5 107 (10.12%) RESTful
6 103 (9.74%) Kafka
7 75 (7.10%) AWS CDK
8 74 (7.00%) PySpark
9 63 (5.96%) GraphQL
9 63 (5.96%) Spring Boot
10 61 (5.77%) Spring
11 58 (5.49%) OAuth
12 46 (4.35%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.07%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.78%) OAuth2
15 39 (3.69%) JSON
16 37 (3.50%) OpenID
17 34 (3.22%) CSS
18 33 (3.12%) Flask
18 33 (3.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 319 (30.18%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 71 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.84%) NHS
6 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.23%) IVR
10 13 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.04%) IoT
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.39%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 446 (42.19%) DevOps
3 394 (37.28%) Agile
4 390 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 272 (25.73%) Microservices
6 236 (22.33%) AI
7 218 (20.62%) Containerisation
8 216 (20.44%) Event-Driven
9 180 (17.03%) Observability
10 162 (15.33%) Analytics
10 162 (15.33%) Data Modelling
11 160 (15.14%) Test Automation
12 149 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
13 145 (13.72%) Software Engineering
14 141 (13.34%) ETL
15 133 (12.58%) Data Engineering
16 131 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 131 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
17 129 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
18 127 (12.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 470 (44.47%) Python
2 307 (29.04%) SQL
3 177 (16.75%) TypeScript
4 146 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 137 (12.96%) Java
6 129 (12.20%) C#
7 73 (6.91%) Bash
8 39 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 35 (3.31%) Bicep
10 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.61%) Scala
12 14 (1.32%) Go
13 10 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 279 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 230 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.47%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (4.16%) Degree
6 37 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.74%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
18 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.73%) QA
3 36 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.03%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.80%) WCAG
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.47%) HL7
10 5 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 265 (25.07%) Docker
2 35 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.28%) RACF
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 403 (38.13%) Terraform
2 239 (22.61%) Kubernetes
3 89 (8.42%) Grafana
4 77 (7.28%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.35%) Ansible
6 20 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.51%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.28%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 152 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.39%) Databricks
3 36 (3.41%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.12%) Oracle
5 27 (2.55%) Informatica
6 25 (2.37%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.37%) Google
7 24 (2.27%) Splunk
8 22 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.95%) SAP
11 9 (0.85%) Brio
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 7 (0.66%) New Relic
13 6 (0.57%) Confluent
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) Foundry
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday