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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 104 124
Rank change year-on-year -48 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,043 836 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.52% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.52% 6.62% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 597 508
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £541
% change year-on-year +0.50% -8.00% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 18,910 12,619 13,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 38.02% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,545 8,428 8,670
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 297 190
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.13 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.71% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £78.98 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -36 844 £525 +2.44% 1,171
London -18 503 £550 +1.85% 582
UK excluding London -57 389 £500 +0.50% 773
Work from Home -33 337 £543 +6.90% 753
North of England -52 129 £500 +5.04% 207
Midlands -22 85 £430 -14.00% 105
North West -26 67 £538 +13.16% 126
West Midlands -23 65 £460 -10.24% 54
Scotland -26 55 £444 -11.25% 99
South East -50 52 £600 +41.18% 134
South West -17 46 £510 -7.27% 102
Yorkshire -57 42 £500 +5.04% 55
East Midlands -6 20 £425 -4.01% 51
North East -27 20 £463 -11.14% 26
East of England -37 16 £525 - 66
Northern Ireland +6 5 £375 - 24
Wales -10 5 £425 -26.12% 43

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 55 (5.27%) Confluence
2 49 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.84%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.74%) Apache
5 36 (3.45%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.96%) CMS
7 9 (0.86%) SAS
8 8 (0.77%) nginx
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.58%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.29%) CICS
12 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.096%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.096%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.096%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 803 (76.99%) AWS
2 645 (61.84%) AWS Lambda
3 421 (40.36%) Amazon S3
4 372 (35.67%) Azure
5 238 (22.82%) GitHub
6 228 (21.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 203 (19.46%) Azure Functions
8 194 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
9 170 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
10 163 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
11 159 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
13 147 (14.09%) Amazon SQS
14 130 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
15 123 (11.79%) Power Platform
16 107 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 105 (10.07%) AWS Step Functions
18 100 (9.59%) Amazon EventBridge
19 82 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
20 72 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.97%) Firewall
1 31 (2.97%) Network Security
2 25 (2.40%) DNS
3 13 (1.25%) HTTP
3 13 (1.25%) VPN
4 11 (1.05%) WAN
5 7 (0.67%) SSL
6 6 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.48%) CTI
7 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 3 (0.29%) FTP
8 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SMS
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.53%) Amazon RDS
1 162 (15.53%) DynamoDB
2 112 (10.74%) Amazon Athena
3 89 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (8.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 85 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (6.81%) Power BI
7 61 (5.85%) Data Lake
7 61 (5.85%) NoSQL
8 55 (5.27%) SQL Server
9 54 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.89%) MySQL
11 41 (3.93%) MongoDB
12 31 (2.97%) Metadata
13 29 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (2.49%) Delta Lake
15 21 (2.01%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.01%) Relational Database
16 20 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
17 15 (1.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 198 (18.98%) Git
2 146 (14.00%) GitLab
3 142 (13.61%) Jenkins
4 74 (7.09%) JIRA
5 32 (3.07%) Claude Code
6 31 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 31 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.82%) Selenium
9 18 (1.73%) JUnit
10 16 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.44%) Postman
12 14 (1.34%) Mockito
13 12 (1.15%) Maven
14 11 (1.05%) RStudio
15 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.86%) JMeter
16 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
17 8 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 241 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.35%) Public Sector
3 161 (15.44%) Finance
4 81 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.03%) Banking
7 16 (1.53%) Marketing
8 15 (1.44%) Back Office
9 14 (1.34%) Military
10 13 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.25%) Law
10 13 (1.25%) Legal
11 12 (1.15%) Billing
11 12 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.86%) Retail
13 8 (0.77%) Front Office
14 7 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 240 (23.01%) Developer
2 212 (20.33%) Senior
3 183 (17.55%) Architect
4 170 (16.30%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.56%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.51%) Lead
7 91 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (5.85%) AWS Architect
9 58 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
12 46 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
13 42 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (3.74%) AWS Developer
14 39 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
14 39 (3.74%) Senior Developer
14 39 (3.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (39.79%) Terraform
2 192 (18.41%) REST
3 133 (12.75%) .NET
4 116 (11.12%) React
5 108 (10.35%) Node.js
6 106 (10.16%) Kafka
7 103 (9.88%) RESTful
8 84 (8.05%) AWS CDK
9 67 (6.42%) PySpark
10 63 (6.04%) GraphQL
10 63 (6.04%) Spring Boot
11 62 (5.94%) Spring
12 55 (5.27%) OAuth
13 54 (5.18%) FastAPI
14 43 (4.12%) AngularJS
15 39 (3.74%) OAuth2
16 38 (3.64%) JSON
17 36 (3.45%) CSS
18 35 (3.36%) OpenID
19 33 (3.16%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 338 (32.41%) Cloud Native
2 91 (8.72%) Product Ownership
3 81 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (7.09%) AI Agents
5 40 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.30%) NHS
10 18 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.63%) IVR
12 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.25%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (1.05%) Mainframe
17 10 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.00%) Linux
2 26 (2.49%) Unix
3 17 (1.63%) Windows
4 16 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.29%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) AIX
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (63.66%) CI/CD
2 467 (44.77%) DevOps
3 422 (40.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 397 (38.06%) Agile
5 276 (26.46%) AI
6 251 (24.07%) Event-Driven
7 237 (22.72%) Microservices
8 208 (19.94%) Observability
9 206 (19.75%) Containerisation
10 183 (17.55%) Test Automation
11 169 (16.20%) Analytics
12 168 (16.11%) Software Engineering
13 167 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 162 (15.53%) Data Modelling
15 157 (15.05%) Technical Leadership
16 153 (14.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 148 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
18 145 (13.90%) Data Engineering
19 139 (13.33%) Migration
20 137 (13.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 476 (45.64%) Python
2 296 (28.38%) SQL
3 180 (17.26%) TypeScript
4 156 (14.96%) JavaScript
5 150 (14.38%) C#
6 132 (12.66%) Java
7 78 (7.48%) Bash
8 45 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.93%) Bicep
10 32 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.34%) Scala
12 12 (1.15%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.67%) R
15 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 276 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.34%) AWS Certification
4 61 (5.85%) Degree
5 57 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.67%) CISSP
17 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 4 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.51%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.86%) QA
3 49 (4.70%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.64%) GDPR
5 30 (2.88%) WCAG
6 16 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.96%) NIST
9 8 (0.77%) NCSC
9 8 (0.77%) SLA
10 6 (0.58%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.096%) GLBA
14 1 (0.096%) GRC
14 1 (0.096%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.096%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 271 (25.98%) Docker
2 35 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 248 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.34%) Grafana
3 72 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 61 (5.85%) Ansible
5 14 (1.34%) Puppet
6 12 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.86%) Packer
9 7 (0.67%) Argo
9 7 (0.67%) Kibana
9 7 (0.67%) Podman
10 6 (0.58%) Istio
10 6 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.29%) Control-M
13 3 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 203 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.09%) Databricks
3 47 (4.51%) OpenAI
4 45 (4.31%) Oracle
5 31 (2.97%) Google
6 29 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.49%) Informatica
8 26 (2.49%) Splunk
9 16 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.44%) Foundry
11 13 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.96%) Brio
12 10 (0.96%) Tenable
13 9 (0.86%) Confluent
14 6 (0.58%) SAP
15 5 (0.48%) Denodo
16 4 (0.38%) IBM
16 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA
16 4 (0.38%) UiPath