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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 93 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +39 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,059 763 758
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.65% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.08% 7.03% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 579 577
10th Percentile £375 £400 £379
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £612 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £44.13 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -18 841 £525 -2.23% 245
London -14 513 £525 -4.55% 143
UK excluding London -25 358 £500 - 148
Work from Home -25 310 £523 -0.48% 126
North of England -20 142 £500 - 44
North West -12 81 £525 +5.00% 22
Midlands -27 59 £488 -2.01% 22
South East -35 52 £575 +15.00% 41
Scotland -20 49 £444 -15.48% 9
Yorkshire -25 47 £500 - 16
West Midlands -32 45 £488 -4.79% 13
South West -19 31 £575 +4.55% 23
East of England -17 25 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -23 15 £475 - 6
East Midlands -21 14 £498 +3.86% 9
Wales -9 6 £475 -17.43% 4
Northern Ireland +7 5 £190 -62.00% 1

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 46 (4.34%) Apache Spark
1 46 (4.34%) Confluence
2 44 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.55%) Apache
5 17 (1.61%) nginx
6 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.94%) Mendix
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.47%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 807 (76.20%) AWS
2 632 (59.68%) AWS Lambda
3 423 (39.94%) Amazon S3
4 380 (35.88%) Azure
5 241 (22.76%) GitHub
6 204 (19.26%) Azure Functions
7 196 (18.51%) Amazon EC2
8 179 (16.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 178 (16.81%) Amazon ECS
9 178 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
10 169 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
11 153 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
13 114 (10.76%) Amazon SQS
14 111 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 111 (10.48%) Power Platform
15 110 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 96 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 91 (8.59%) Azure Service Bus
18 73 (6.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.12%) DNS
2 28 (2.64%) Firewall
3 22 (2.08%) VPN
4 13 (1.23%) Network Security
4 13 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 11 (1.04%) HTTP
7 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.85%) SSL
8 7 (0.66%) SMS
9 6 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
10 5 (0.47%) WAN
11 3 (0.28%) FTP
11 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) CTI
12 2 (0.19%) MQTT
13 1 (0.094%) 5G
13 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.20%) DynamoDB
2 144 (13.60%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 86 (8.12%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (6.70%) NoSQL
7 70 (6.61%) Power BI
8 59 (5.57%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (4.34%) SQL Server
12 43 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (3.31%) Relational Database
14 31 (2.93%) Metadata
14 31 (2.93%) MySQL
15 29 (2.74%) Tableau
16 27 (2.55%) Big Data
16 27 (2.55%) MongoDB
17 24 (2.27%) Delta Lake
18 22 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (14.83%) Git
2 138 (13.03%) GitLab
3 129 (12.18%) Jenkins
4 65 (6.14%) JIRA
5 26 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.42%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.94%) JUnit
10 9 (0.85%) Vite
11 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.76%) Mocha
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) Gatling
12 7 (0.66%) MLflow
12 7 (0.66%) MSTest
13 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 235 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 169 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 141 (13.31%) Finance
4 56 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.46%) Banking
7 15 (1.42%) Legal
8 12 (1.13%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.76%) Marketing
10 8 (0.76%) Retail
11 7 (0.66%) Law
11 7 (0.66%) Military
12 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.47%) Billing
13 5 (0.47%) Police
14 4 (0.38%) Back Office
14 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (24.36%) Developer
2 201 (18.98%) Architect
3 150 (14.16%) AWS Engineer
4 149 (14.07%) Senior
5 112 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 100 (9.44%) Lead
7 72 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 69 (6.52%) AWS Architect
9 68 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 56 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.91%) AWS Developer
12 51 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.63%) Technical Architect
14 45 (4.25%) Senior Developer
15 44 (4.15%) Python Engineer
16 43 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
17 41 (3.87%) Python Developer
18 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.31%) React
2 135 (12.75%) REST
3 133 (12.56%) Node.js
4 122 (11.52%) .NET
5 121 (11.43%) Kafka
6 106 (10.01%) RESTful
7 73 (6.89%) OAuth
7 73 (6.89%) Spring
8 72 (6.80%) Spring Boot
9 69 (6.52%) PySpark
10 63 (5.95%) AWS CDK
11 54 (5.10%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.82%) AngularJS
13 46 (4.34%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.15%) OAuth2
15 43 (4.06%) JSON
16 42 (3.97%) OpenID
17 39 (3.68%) .NET Core
18 37 (3.49%) Next.js
19 30 (2.83%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 309 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.08%) NHS
7 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.76%) IoT
15 7 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.85%) Linux
2 22 (2.08%) Unix
3 11 (1.04%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Android
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (60.25%) CI/CD
2 475 (44.85%) DevOps
3 395 (37.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 347 (32.77%) Agile
5 258 (24.36%) Microservices
6 225 (21.25%) Containerisation
7 196 (18.51%) Event-Driven
8 189 (17.85%) AI
9 174 (16.43%) Observability
10 148 (13.98%) Analytics
11 146 (13.79%) Data Modelling
12 140 (13.22%) Software Engineering
13 137 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
13 137 (12.94%) ETL
13 137 (12.94%) Test Automation
14 136 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (11.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 114 (10.76%) Migration
17 109 (10.29%) Mentoring
18 106 (10.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 454 (42.87%) Python
2 290 (27.38%) SQL
3 165 (15.58%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.92%) C#
5 145 (13.69%) Java
6 143 (13.50%) JavaScript
7 58 (5.48%) Bash
8 44 (4.15%) Bicep
9 43 (4.06%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.98%) Go
12 20 (1.89%) Scala
13 15 (1.42%) Ruby
14 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.66%) Groovy
17 6 (0.57%) JCL
18 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 265 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 211 (19.92%) SC Cleared
3 60 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 40 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 33 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (2.55%) Degree
8 25 (2.36%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.34%) QA
3 27 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.55%) GDPR
3 27 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 17 (1.61%) NIST
6 12 (1.13%) WCAG
7 7 (0.66%) PMO
8 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.57%) NCSC
9 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 265 (25.02%) Docker
2 31 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.13%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 421 (39.75%) Terraform
2 245 (23.14%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.63%) Grafana
4 89 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.72%) Ansible
6 28 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.51%) Puppet
8 10 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.76%) Consul
11 7 (0.66%) Istio
12 6 (0.57%) Kibana
12 6 (0.57%) linkerd
13 5 (0.47%) Salt
14 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.38%) Podman
15 3 (0.28%) Argo
15 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 154 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.70%) Databricks
3 48 (4.53%) OpenAI
4 39 (3.68%) Oracle
5 24 (2.27%) Splunk
6 20 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.70%) Google
8 12 (1.13%) Foundry
8 12 (1.13%) Informatica
8 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Lotus
11 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.85%) Brio
11 9 (0.85%) SAP
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 6 (0.57%) Qualys