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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,023 731 813
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.35% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.09% 6.37% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 519 617
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £53.50 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 14,437 11,483 14,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.92% 36.93% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,948 7,619 10,678
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 166 308
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £27.43 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +17.08% +1.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £24.83 £21.00
% change year-on-year +20.82% +18.24% +5.79%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +11 821 £500 -9.09% 461
London +14 483 £513 -6.82% 134
UK excluding London -2 378 £500 - 392
Work from Home -15 292 £525 +2.44% 309
North of England +29 169 £500 +3.63% 87
Yorkshire +16 83 £500 - 34
North West +6 75 £450 +0.78% 42
Midlands -18 64 £520 +15.56% 44
Scotland -13 59 £450 -8.91% 18
West Midlands 0 52 £525 +2.54% 24
South East -55 48 £475 -18.80% 126
South West -24 27 £650 - 47
East of England -1 23 £550 -3.51% 48
East Midlands -22 12 £435 -2.03% 20
North East -10 11 £525 -12.13% 11
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 10
Wales -9 4 £488 -2.50% 19

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 37 (3.62%) Apache
2 35 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 32 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.64%) Confluence
5 26 (2.54%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.86%) nginx
7 10 (0.98%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.88%) Mendix
9 5 (0.49%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.098%) FileNet
12 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.098%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.098%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.098%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 736 (71.95%) AWS
2 590 (57.67%) AWS Lambda
3 375 (36.66%) Azure
4 367 (35.87%) Amazon S3
5 239 (23.36%) GitHub
6 223 (21.80%) Azure Functions
7 208 (20.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (19.84%) Amazon ECS
9 188 (18.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 182 (17.79%) Amazon EC2
11 173 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
12 168 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
13 152 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
14 106 (10.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 102 (9.97%) GCP
16 95 (9.29%) Power Platform
17 89 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 87 (8.50%) Amazon SQS
19 84 (8.21%) AWS Step Functions
20 81 (7.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.23%) Firewall
2 31 (3.03%) DNS
3 26 (2.54%) VPN
4 13 (1.27%) Network Security
5 10 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.88%) SSL
7 8 (0.78%) HTTP
8 6 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.59%) SMS
9 5 (0.49%) OpenVPN
9 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.29%) LAN
10 3 (0.29%) WAN
11 2 (0.20%) IPsec
11 2 (0.20%) MPLS
12 1 (0.098%) BGP
12 1 (0.098%) DKIM
12 1 (0.098%) MQTT
12 1 (0.098%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.098%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
2 142 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (12.41%) DynamoDB
4 98 (9.58%) NoSQL
5 68 (6.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 63 (6.16%) Power BI
7 62 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
7 62 (6.06%) Relational Database
8 59 (5.77%) Data Lake
9 53 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (3.71%) MongoDB
13 36 (3.52%) Redis
14 33 (3.23%) MySQL
15 27 (2.64%) SQL Server
16 26 (2.54%) Big Data
17 24 (2.35%) Tableau
18 19 (1.86%) Delta Lake
18 19 (1.86%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 176 (17.20%) Git
2 174 (17.01%) Jenkins
3 158 (15.44%) GitLab
4 63 (6.16%) JIRA
5 31 (3.03%) Liquibase
6 24 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.15%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.66%) JUnit
10 16 (1.56%) MLflow
11 15 (1.47%) Mockito
11 15 (1.47%) Postman
12 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.37%) Maven
12 14 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.08%) Gradle
15 10 (0.98%) Selenium
16 6 (0.59%) Storybook
17 5 (0.49%) SonarLint
General
1 242 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 197 (19.26%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.88%) Finance
4 79 (7.72%) Banking
5 60 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 20 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (1.86%) Marketing
9 11 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 8 (0.78%) Military
13 7 (0.68%) Retail
14 6 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.39%) Aviation
15 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Law
16 3 (0.29%) Legal
16 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (27.08%) Developer
2 148 (14.47%) Senior
3 146 (14.27%) AWS Engineer
4 145 (14.17%) Architect
5 106 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 103 (10.07%) Data Engineer
7 84 (8.21%) Software Engineer
8 74 (7.23%) Lead
9 56 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
11 45 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 44 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 42 (4.11%) AWS Architect
14 41 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 40 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
16 39 (3.81%) Python Engineer
17 38 (3.71%) Senior Developer
18 36 (3.52%) AWS Developer
19 35 (3.42%) Data Architect
20 33 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.30%) Node.js
2 153 (14.96%) REST
3 148 (14.47%) React
4 146 (14.27%) RESTful
5 140 (13.69%) .NET
6 122 (11.93%) Kafka
7 72 (7.04%) OAuth
8 64 (6.26%) Spring Boot
9 60 (5.87%) Elastic Stack
9 60 (5.87%) Spring
10 56 (5.47%) AWS CDK
11 50 (4.89%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.69%) FastAPI
13 47 (4.59%) AngularJS
14 42 (4.11%) OAuth2
15 41 (4.01%) GraphQL
15 41 (4.01%) PySpark
16 40 (3.91%) JSON
17 39 (3.81%) JWT
18 36 (3.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 94 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.05%) NHS
8 19 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.17%) Replication
13 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
16 8 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 112 (10.95%) Linux
2 12 (1.17%) Unix
3 8 (0.78%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) VMS
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (60.51%) CI/CD
2 532 (52.00%) DevOps
3 400 (39.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 350 (34.21%) Agile
5 297 (29.03%) Microservices
6 271 (26.49%) Containerisation
7 185 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
8 175 (17.11%) Software Engineering
9 166 (16.23%) AI
10 149 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
10 149 (14.57%) Event-Driven
11 144 (14.08%) Analytics
12 127 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 123 (12.02%) Observability
14 121 (11.83%) Data Modelling
15 112 (10.95%) ETL
16 107 (10.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 100 (9.78%) Mentoring
18 98 (9.58%) Machine Learning
19 92 (8.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 511 (49.95%) Python
2 272 (26.59%) SQL
3 161 (15.74%) Java
4 152 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 151 (14.76%) TypeScript
6 147 (14.37%) C#
7 66 (6.45%) Bash
8 61 (5.96%) Go
9 51 (4.99%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.11%) Bicep
11 29 (2.83%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.35%) Ruby
13 11 (1.08%) Perl
14 10 (0.98%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.98%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.88%) C++
15 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.68%) Korn
16 7 (0.68%) PHP
16 7 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 253 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 204 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 65 (6.35%) Degree
5 55 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.42%) Master's Degree
8 34 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.64%) Azure Certification
11 22 (2.15%) MCP
12 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PhD
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.08%) QA
2 43 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.01%) GDPR
4 32 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.86%) NIST
6 17 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.17%) WCAG
9 9 (0.88%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.39%) HL7
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.29%) PMO
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.20%) GxP
12 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 307 (30.01%) Docker
2 28 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.49%) Squid
6 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 2 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 457 (44.67%) Terraform
2 298 (29.13%) Kubernetes
3 119 (11.63%) Grafana
4 109 (10.65%) Prometheus
5 101 (9.87%) Ansible
6 16 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.27%) Puppet
9 8 (0.78%) Kibana
10 5 (0.49%) Consul
10 5 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.39%) Rancher
12 3 (0.29%) Argo
12 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.29%) Packer
13 2 (0.20%) Control-M
13 2 (0.20%) Knative
13 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 183 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.94%) Databricks
3 47 (4.59%) Google
4 44 (4.30%) Splunk
5 33 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 33 (3.23%) Oracle
6 20 (1.96%) Foundry
7 19 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.37%) Confluent
9 14 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.17%) IBM
11 10 (0.98%) Cisco
11 10 (0.98%) Cloudera
11 10 (0.98%) Lotus
12 9 (0.88%) Greenplum
12 9 (0.88%) Kofax
12 9 (0.88%) Palantir
12 9 (0.88%) Pega
13 7 (0.68%) Genesys