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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 95 131
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,084 770 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.63% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 6.94% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 581 578
10th Percentile £375 £400 £379
25th Percentile £439 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +1.74% -6.18%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £625
90th Percentile £735 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £46.45 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 17,667 11,096 14,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.56% 37.90% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 7,514 9,919
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 270 353
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% +1.42% -31.73%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -15 862 £525 - 241
London -8 524 £525 -4.55% 110
UK excluding London -22 366 £500 - 172
Work from Home -31 327 £513 -2.38% 149
North of England -21 143 £500 - 64
North West -18 79 £518 +3.50% 36
Midlands -27 59 £491 -1.75% 15
South East -40 54 £575 +15.00% 50
Yorkshire -27 50 £500 - 19
Scotland -20 49 £438 -16.67% 5
West Midlands -28 46 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -15 34 £563 +2.27% 24
East of England -20 26 £550 -2.22% 7
North East -19 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -24 13 £498 +3.86% 7
Wales -6 7 £488 -15.25% 7
Northern Ireland +7 5 £190 -62.00% 3

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 52 (4.80%) Confluence
2 46 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 27 (2.49%) Apache
5 12 (1.11%) nginx
6 8 (0.74%) HCL Notes
6 8 (0.74%) Mendix
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 832 (76.75%) AWS
2 661 (60.98%) AWS Lambda
3 452 (41.70%) Amazon S3
4 384 (35.42%) Azure
5 239 (22.05%) GitHub
6 199 (18.36%) Amazon EC2
6 199 (18.36%) Azure Functions
7 194 (17.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 183 (16.88%) Amazon EKS
9 181 (16.70%) Amazon ECS
10 169 (15.59%) GitHub Actions
11 157 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 134 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
13 120 (11.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 119 (10.98%) Power Platform
15 116 (10.70%) AWS Step Functions
16 113 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
17 89 (8.21%) Azure Logic Apps
18 88 (8.12%) Azure Service Bus
19 77 (7.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.77%) DNS
1 30 (2.77%) Firewall
2 23 (2.12%) VPN
3 16 (1.48%) Network Security
4 13 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.92%) HTTP
6 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.83%) SSL
7 7 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.65%) SMS
8 6 (0.55%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.55%) WAN
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) CTI
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) MQTT
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) LAN
12 1 (0.092%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.94%) DynamoDB
2 154 (14.21%) Amazon RDS
3 106 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
5 95 (8.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 80 (7.38%) Power BI
7 67 (6.18%) NoSQL
8 63 (5.81%) Data Lake
9 55 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
10 54 (4.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 51 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 48 (4.43%) SQL Server
13 35 (3.23%) Relational Database
14 34 (3.14%) MySQL
15 32 (2.95%) Metadata
16 29 (2.68%) Tableau
17 27 (2.49%) Big Data
18 26 (2.40%) MongoDB
19 22 (2.03%) Delta Lake
20 21 (1.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (15.04%) Git
2 144 (13.28%) GitLab
3 136 (12.55%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.73%) JIRA
5 26 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.38%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.92%) JUnit
11 9 (0.83%) Mocha
11 9 (0.83%) Vite
12 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.74%) MSTest
12 8 (0.74%) Postman
13 7 (0.65%) Gatling
14 6 (0.55%) MLflow
14 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.55%) Snyk
14 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
General
1 242 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 140 (12.92%) Finance
4 57 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.40%) Banking
7 15 (1.38%) Legal
8 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 10 (0.92%) Law
11 8 (0.74%) Marketing
11 8 (0.74%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.46%) Billing
13 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Back Office
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (23.71%) Developer
2 204 (18.82%) Architect
3 164 (15.13%) AWS Engineer
4 156 (14.39%) Senior
5 120 (11.07%) Data Engineer
6 101 (9.32%) Lead
7 76 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 74 (6.83%) AWS Architect
9 70 (6.46%) Software Engineer
10 58 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (4.98%) AWS Developer
12 52 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
13 50 (4.61%) Technical Architect
14 49 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (4.24%) Python Engineer
16 45 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
17 44 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
18 42 (3.87%) Python Developer
18 42 (3.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.01%) React
2 138 (12.73%) REST
3 126 (11.62%) Node.js
4 123 (11.35%) Kafka
5 122 (11.25%) .NET
6 107 (9.87%) RESTful
7 74 (6.83%) OAuth
7 74 (6.83%) PySpark
8 72 (6.64%) Spring Boot
9 71 (6.55%) Spring
10 66 (6.09%) AWS CDK
11 54 (4.98%) GraphQL
12 50 (4.61%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.43%) FastAPI
14 45 (4.15%) JSON
14 45 (4.15%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.97%) OpenID
16 37 (3.41%) .NET Core
17 36 (3.32%) Next.js
18 30 (2.77%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 320 (29.52%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 54 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.41%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.12%) NHS
7 16 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.92%) Low-Code
11 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.74%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.35%) Linux
2 22 (2.03%) Unix
3 11 (1.01%) Windows
4 6 (0.55%) zOS
5 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) VMS
7 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 486 (44.83%) DevOps
3 402 (37.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 355 (32.75%) Agile
5 264 (24.35%) Microservices
6 228 (21.03%) Containerisation
7 213 (19.65%) AI
8 208 (19.19%) Event-Driven
9 179 (16.51%) Observability
10 161 (14.85%) Analytics
11 154 (14.21%) Data Pipeline
12 150 (13.84%) Data Modelling
13 147 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 145 (13.38%) ETL
15 143 (13.19%) Test Automation
16 140 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
17 125 (11.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 120 (11.07%) Migration
19 117 (10.79%) Data Engineering
20 112 (10.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 470 (43.36%) Python
2 307 (28.32%) SQL
3 170 (15.68%) TypeScript
4 157 (14.48%) C#
5 148 (13.65%) JavaScript
6 147 (13.56%) Java
7 55 (5.07%) Bash
8 42 (3.87%) Bicep
8 42 (3.87%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.32%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.94%) Go
11 20 (1.85%) Scala
12 11 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.92%) Ruby
14 8 (0.74%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.74%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.65%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
17 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 276 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 219 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 43 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.86%) Degree
8 28 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
19 2 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.34%) QA
3 27 (2.49%) GDPR
3 27 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.48%) NIST
7 12 (1.11%) WCAG
8 7 (0.65%) NCSC
8 7 (0.65%) PMO
9 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.18%) HL7
13 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 272 (25.09%) Docker
2 31 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.11%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 1 (0.092%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 440 (40.59%) Terraform
2 245 (22.60%) Kubernetes
3 98 (9.04%) Grafana
4 88 (8.12%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.43%) Ansible
6 28 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.57%) Puppet
8 10 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.74%) Consul
11 7 (0.65%) Istio
12 6 (0.55%) Kibana
12 6 (0.55%) linkerd
13 5 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.46%) Podman
13 5 (0.46%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 150 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.46%) Databricks
3 49 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 39 (3.60%) Oracle
5 23 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.03%) Splunk
7 19 (1.75%) Google
8 17 (1.57%) Informatica
9 14 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.11%) Foundry
10 12 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.01%) Confluent
12 10 (0.92%) SAP
12 10 (0.92%) Tenable
13 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.83%) Brio
14 8 (0.74%) Kofax
14 8 (0.74%) Lotus
15 7 (0.65%) Sybase