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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 100 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,091 759 791
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.47% 2.61% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.68% 6.85% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 572 605
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,324 11,080 14,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.02% 38.17% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,117 7,789 10,220
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £637
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £489
% change year-on-year -0.84% -2.04% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 217 353
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%
75th Percentile £66.88 £41.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.80% +35.95% -19.45%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -7 876 £513 -6.82% 350
London -2 522 £513 -6.82% 153
UK excluding London -22 383 £500 - 232
Work from Home -36 292 £525 -3.67% 184
North of England +8 168 £500 - 90
North West -9 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Yorkshire +7 76 £500 - 34
Midlands -21 69 £513 +14.00% 22
West Midlands -17 54 £525 +16.67% 18
Scotland -10 51 £400 -20.00% 9
South East -64 51 £525 -8.70% 61
South West -18 30 £600 -2.10% 31
East of England -8 28 £573 -18.21% 20
East Midlands -25 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -6 14 £475 -13.58% 11
Wales -10 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -2 2 - -

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 50 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.76%) Apache
3 40 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.21%) Confluence
5 29 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.37%) nginx
7 11 (1.01%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.92%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) FileNet
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.092%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
3 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 796 (72.96%) AWS
2 627 (57.47%) AWS Lambda
3 416 (38.13%) Azure
4 408 (37.40%) Amazon S3
5 253 (23.19%) GitHub
6 244 (22.36%) Azure Functions
7 225 (20.62%) Amazon ECS
8 218 (19.98%) Amazon EC2
9 201 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 199 (18.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 189 (17.32%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
14 121 (11.09%) Power Platform
14 121 (11.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 111 (10.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 105 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
17 92 (8.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 84 (7.70%) GCP
19 77 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.03%) Firewall
2 36 (3.30%) DNS
3 29 (2.66%) VPN
4 13 (1.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (0.82%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
9 5 (0.46%) WAN
10 3 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
12 1 (0.092%) MQTT
12 1 (0.092%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.092%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.03%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (12.47%) DynamoDB
3 134 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (8.80%) NoSQL
5 76 (6.97%) Power BI
6 66 (6.05%) Data Lake
7 65 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
7 65 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 60 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 55 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 39 (3.57%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.21%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.12%) Redis
14 30 (2.75%) Metadata
15 29 (2.66%) Tableau
16 28 (2.57%) MySQL
17 27 (2.47%) Delta Lake
18 24 (2.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 185 (16.96%) Git
2 173 (15.86%) GitLab
3 165 (15.12%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.77%) JIRA
5 31 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.11%) JUnit
7 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.65%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.56%) Mockito
10 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.37%) Cypress.io
12 14 (1.28%) MLflow
13 12 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.92%) Maven
15 9 (0.82%) Postman
15 9 (0.82%) Selenium
15 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.73%) NUnit
17 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
17 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 250 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.52%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.30%) Finance
4 76 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.77%) Banking
6 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 10 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 10 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 7 (0.64%) Military
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Front Office
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 284 (26.03%) Developer
2 168 (15.40%) Architect
3 162 (14.85%) Senior
4 153 (14.02%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 81 (7.42%) Lead
8 72 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 51 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (4.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 44 (4.03%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.94%) Java Developer
17 42 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 40 (3.67%) AWS Developer
18 40 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
19 38 (3.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (15.12%) Node.js
2 155 (14.21%) REST
3 142 (13.02%) React
4 133 (12.19%) RESTful
5 131 (12.01%) .NET
6 129 (11.82%) Kafka
7 89 (8.16%) Spring
8 87 (7.97%) Spring Boot
9 80 (7.33%) OAuth
10 58 (5.32%) PySpark
11 57 (5.22%) AngularJS
12 50 (4.58%) AWS CDK
13 49 (4.49%) JSON
14 48 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
15 47 (4.31%) OAuth2
16 46 (4.22%) .NET Core
17 45 (4.12%) FastAPI
18 42 (3.85%) GraphQL
19 36 (3.30%) JWT
20 35 (3.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 283 (25.94%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.66%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 22 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.92%) Replication
12 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.73%) IoT
14 8 (0.73%) IVR
14 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.07%) Linux
2 15 (1.37%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) zOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) Android
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (61.87%) CI/CD
2 565 (51.79%) DevOps
3 422 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (33.09%) Agile
5 309 (28.32%) Microservices
6 280 (25.66%) Containerisation
7 191 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (16.87%) AI
9 165 (15.12%) Observability
10 163 (14.94%) Analytics
11 160 (14.67%) Event-Driven
12 149 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
12 149 (13.66%) Software Engineering
13 142 (13.02%) Data Modelling
14 138 (12.65%) Test Automation
15 133 (12.19%) ETL
16 121 (11.09%) Data Engineering
17 112 (10.27%) Migration
18 105 (9.62%) Mentoring
19 102 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 519 (47.57%) Python
2 312 (28.60%) SQL
3 171 (15.67%) Java
4 157 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 154 (14.12%) C#
5 154 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 75 (6.87%) Bash
7 57 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 49 (4.49%) Bicep
9 48 (4.40%) Go
10 34 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.47%) Ruby
12 12 (1.10%) Scala
13 11 (1.01%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.01%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.82%) Perl
15 8 (0.73%) C++
15 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 284 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 219 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.15%) AWS Certification
4 48 (4.40%) Degree
5 45 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.12%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.93%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
17 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.50%) QA
3 37 (3.39%) GDPR
4 32 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.83%) NIST
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.92%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.27%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 315 (28.87%) Docker
2 35 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.46%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 472 (43.26%) Terraform
2 290 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 117 (10.72%) Grafana
4 115 (10.54%) Prometheus
5 87 (7.97%) Ansible
6 25 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 5 (0.46%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.37%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 185 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.52%) Databricks
3 42 (3.85%) OpenAI
3 42 (3.85%) Oracle
4 40 (3.67%) Splunk
5 28 (2.57%) Google
6 20 (1.83%) Foundry
6 20 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.01%) Lotus
8 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.92%) Kofax
9 10 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.82%) Brio
10 9 (0.82%) Confluent
10 9 (0.82%) IBM
10 9 (0.82%) Palantir
11 8 (0.73%) SAP
11 8 (0.73%) Sybase