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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 98 130
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,098 780 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.60% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 6.86% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 581 570
10th Percentile £384 £400 £381
25th Percentile £438 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £625
90th Percentile £738 £720 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
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 18,044 11,362 14,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.83% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,061 7,650 9,974
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £621 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 285 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.19 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -21.56%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -14 884 £525 - 211
London -14 532 £538 -2.27% 113
UK excluding London -28 378 £500 - 155
Work from Home -28 349 £513 -2.38% 112
North of England -28 143 £500 - 45
North West -29 81 £525 +5.00% 25
Midlands -20 64 £488 -2.50% 18
South East -42 55 £575 +15.00% 46
Scotland -15 50 £450 -14.29% 6
West Midlands -24 50 £482 -5.81% 10
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 - 14
South West -18 41 £575 +8.24% 22
East of England -21 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 8
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 6
Wales -8 6 £500 -13.08% 6
Northern Ireland +2 4 £190 -62.00% 10

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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 46 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.01%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.46%) Apache
5 26 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.18%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 845 (76.96%) AWS
2 668 (60.84%) AWS Lambda
3 469 (42.71%) Amazon S3
4 390 (35.52%) Azure
5 230 (20.95%) GitHub
6 203 (18.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 201 (18.31%) Amazon EC2
8 198 (18.03%) Azure Functions
9 183 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
10 179 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
11 160 (14.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 159 (14.48%) GitHub Actions
13 128 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
14 127 (11.57%) Power Platform
15 121 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 115 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
17 111 (10.11%) AWS Step Functions
18 88 (8.01%) Azure Logic Apps
19 81 (7.38%) Azure Service Bus
20 74 (6.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.19%) Firewall
2 32 (2.91%) DNS
3 24 (2.19%) VPN
4 21 (1.91%) Network Security
5 13 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.18%) WAN
6 10 (0.91%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.46%) SMS
11 4 (0.36%) IPsec
11 4 (0.36%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.36%) MQTT
12 3 (0.27%) CTI
12 3 (0.27%) FTP
12 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.27%) IPv4
13 2 (0.18%) AMQP
14 1 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.75%) DynamoDB
2 153 (13.93%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
4 102 (9.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 99 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (8.01%) Power BI
7 72 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
8 69 (6.28%) NoSQL
9 64 (5.83%) Data Lake
10 51 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 47 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.10%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.19%) MySQL
13 35 (3.19%) Relational Database
14 31 (2.82%) Metadata
15 27 (2.46%) MongoDB
15 27 (2.46%) Tableau
16 23 (2.09%) Big Data
17 22 (2.00%) Redis
18 19 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (16.30%) Git
2 151 (13.75%) GitLab
3 140 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.38%) JIRA
5 27 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.73%) Claude Code
9 18 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.00%) JUnit
11 10 (0.91%) Postman
11 10 (0.91%) Vite
12 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 8 (0.73%) MSTest
14 7 (0.64%) Selenium
14 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.55%) Gatling
15 6 (0.55%) MLflow
15 6 (0.55%) Mockito
General
1 243 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.30%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.30%) Finance
4 67 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.55%) Banking
7 17 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.46%) Legal
9 12 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.09%) Law
10 10 (0.91%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Marketing
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Back Office
15 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (22.95%) Developer
2 205 (18.67%) Architect
3 177 (16.12%) Senior
4 171 (15.57%) AWS Engineer
5 127 (11.57%) Data Engineer
6 104 (9.47%) Lead
7 78 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.56%) AWS Architect
9 71 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.64%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
13 49 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.28%) AWS Developer
15 45 (4.10%) Python Engineer
16 44 (4.01%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.66%) React
2 136 (12.39%) REST
3 124 (11.29%) Node.js
4 121 (11.02%) .NET
5 120 (10.93%) Kafka
6 114 (10.38%) RESTful
7 78 (7.10%) PySpark
8 70 (6.38%) OAuth
8 70 (6.38%) Spring Boot
9 68 (6.19%) Spring
10 67 (6.10%) AWS CDK
11 61 (5.56%) GraphQL
12 50 (4.55%) FastAPI
13 45 (4.10%) OpenID
14 44 (4.01%) JSON
15 42 (3.83%) AngularJS
15 42 (3.83%) OAuth2
16 36 (3.28%) Next.js
17 30 (2.73%) .NET Core
18 29 (2.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 322 (29.33%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (3.83%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.28%) NHS
7 18 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.82%) IVR
11 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.01%) Linux
2 22 (2.00%) Unix
3 13 (1.18%) Windows
4 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 489 (44.54%) DevOps
3 394 (35.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (34.24%) Agile
5 262 (23.86%) Microservices
6 235 (21.40%) Containerisation
7 229 (20.86%) AI
8 207 (18.85%) Event-Driven
9 175 (15.94%) Observability
10 161 (14.66%) Analytics
11 157 (14.30%) Data Modelling
12 154 (14.03%) Data Pipeline
13 151 (13.75%) Test Automation
14 149 (13.57%) Software Engineering
15 144 (13.11%) ETL
16 141 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (11.48%) Data Engineering
18 124 (11.29%) Migration
19 118 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 117 (10.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 488 (44.44%) Python
2 314 (28.60%) SQL
3 175 (15.94%) TypeScript
4 155 (14.12%) C#
5 150 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 140 (12.75%) Java
7 61 (5.56%) Bash
8 40 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.37%) Bicep
10 35 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.73%) Go
12 18 (1.64%) Scala
13 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
17 5 (0.46%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.46%) LotusScript
17 5 (0.46%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 286 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 230 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (3.37%) Degree
6 31 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.19%) QA
3 29 (2.64%) GDPR
3 29 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.37%) NIST
7 14 (1.28%) WCAG
8 7 (0.64%) NCSC
8 7 (0.64%) PMO
9 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.36%) SLA
10 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.27%) HL7
11 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 276 (25.14%) Docker
2 34 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.09%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.36%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 435 (39.62%) Terraform
2 252 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 98 (8.93%) Grafana
4 89 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.28%) Ansible
6 25 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.82%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 157 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.10%) Databricks
3 52 (4.74%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.10%) Oracle
5 25 (2.28%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.28%) Informatica
6 23 (2.09%) Splunk
7 20 (1.82%) Google
8 15 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) Foundry
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) Confluent
12 9 (0.82%) Tenable
13 8 (0.73%) Brio
13 8 (0.73%) SAP
14 7 (0.64%) Sybase
15 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
16 5 (0.46%) Teradata