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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,068 765 782
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 2.60% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.35% 6.86% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 582 601
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +3.41% -6.82%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
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 16,827 11,154 14,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.30% 37.86% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,458 7,763 9,961
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 250 344
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.57 £16.05
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -38.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £75.05 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -28.11%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -9 874 £513 -6.82% 301
London -10 528 £513 -8.07% 137
UK excluding London -5 371 £500 - 193
Work from Home -31 286 £500 -4.76% 167
North of England -6 156 £500 - 76
North West -15 84 £500 +2.56% 51
Midlands -28 58 £500 +11.86% 16
Yorkshire -10 57 £500 - 18
South East -39 55 £525 +5.00% 45
Scotland -15 48 £400 -23.81% 8
West Midlands -24 45 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -24 35 £578 -5.57% 24
East of England -13 23 £550 -18.52% 19
North East -12 16 £475 - 7
East Midlands -30 13 £499 +12.39% 8
Wales -6 5 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 5

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 61 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.84%) Apache
4 32 (3.00%) Confluence
5 28 (2.62%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.59%) nginx
7 11 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.94%) Mendix
9 7 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.37%) CICS
11 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.094%) CMS
13 1 (0.094%) FileNet
13 1 (0.094%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
4 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 791 (74.06%) AWS
2 626 (58.61%) AWS Lambda
3 416 (38.95%) Amazon S3
4 408 (38.20%) Azure
5 244 (22.85%) GitHub
6 226 (21.16%) Azure Functions
7 214 (20.04%) Amazon ECS
8 195 (18.26%) Amazon EC2
9 185 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 182 (17.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 176 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
13 168 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.52%) Power Platform
15 118 (11.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 115 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 103 (9.64%) Azure Logic Apps
18 91 (8.52%) Amazon SQS
19 90 (8.43%) Azure Service Bus
20 66 (6.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.75%) Firewall
2 37 (3.46%) DNS
3 22 (2.06%) VPN
4 15 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.22%) Network Security
6 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.94%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
9 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.75%) SSL
10 7 (0.66%) SMS
11 5 (0.47%) IPsec
12 4 (0.37%) WAN
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
14 1 (0.094%) 4G
14 1 (0.094%) BGP
14 1 (0.094%) CTI
14 1 (0.094%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.95%) DynamoDB
2 133 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
3 111 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 83 (7.77%) NoSQL
6 81 (7.58%) Power BI
7 80 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 61 (5.71%) Data Lake
9 54 (5.06%) Relational Database
10 51 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 39 (3.65%) SQL Server
14 37 (3.46%) MongoDB
15 36 (3.37%) Tableau
16 33 (3.09%) Metadata
17 32 (3.00%) Big Data
18 29 (2.72%) Redis
19 28 (2.62%) MySQL
20 26 (2.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 178 (16.67%) Git
2 152 (14.23%) GitLab
3 134 (12.55%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.43%) JIRA
5 29 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 17 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.22%) MLflow
10 12 (1.12%) Mockito
11 9 (0.84%) Maven
11 9 (0.84%) Selenium
11 9 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.75%) Liquibase
12 8 (0.75%) NUnit
12 8 (0.75%) Postman
13 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.66%) Mocha
14 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 230 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.67%) Finance
4 73 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.12%) Banking
6 33 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 10 (0.94%) Legal
10 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 8 (0.75%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.47%) Front Office
13 5 (0.47%) Law
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (26.03%) Developer
2 184 (17.23%) Architect
3 147 (13.76%) Senior
4 142 (13.30%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (10.30%) Data Engineer
6 94 (8.80%) Lead
7 87 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.18%) Software Engineer
9 57 (5.34%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 49 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (4.49%) AWS Developer
14 44 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 44 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.84%) Technical Architect
16 39 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
16 39 (3.65%) Python Engineer
17 38 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (16.20%) Node.js
2 147 (13.76%) React
3 131 (12.27%) REST
4 124 (11.61%) .NET
4 124 (11.61%) Kafka
5 107 (10.02%) RESTful
6 88 (8.24%) OAuth
7 87 (8.15%) Spring
8 86 (8.05%) Spring Boot
9 67 (6.27%) PySpark
10 58 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 50 (4.68%) AWS CDK
11 50 (4.68%) OAuth2
12 49 (4.59%) JSON
13 46 (4.31%) .NET Core
14 41 (3.84%) OpenID
15 40 (3.75%) GraphQL
16 38 (3.56%) FastAPI
17 37 (3.46%) JWT
18 36 (3.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.72%) NHS
5 26 (2.43%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.03%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
14 10 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.84%) Replication
16 8 (0.75%) DataPower
16 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.49%) Linux
2 20 (1.87%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (60.49%) CI/CD
2 533 (49.91%) DevOps
3 404 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (32.58%) Agile
5 282 (26.40%) Microservices
6 254 (23.78%) Containerisation
7 176 (16.48%) AI
8 168 (15.73%) Analytics
8 168 (15.73%) Event-Driven
9 165 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 156 (14.61%) Observability
11 153 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
12 148 (13.86%) Data Modelling
13 141 (13.20%) Software Engineering
14 135 (12.64%) ETL
14 135 (12.64%) Test Automation
15 118 (11.05%) Data Engineering
16 112 (10.49%) Migration
17 110 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
18 106 (9.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 499 (46.72%) Python
2 305 (28.56%) SQL
3 168 (15.73%) Java
4 163 (15.26%) C#
5 162 (15.17%) JavaScript
6 159 (14.89%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.27%) Bash
8 50 (4.68%) Bicep
8 50 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.34%) Go
10 25 (2.34%) Ruby
11 18 (1.69%) Scala
12 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
13 7 (0.66%) Groovy
13 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.56%) Perl
14 6 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 296 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 45 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.72%) Degree
6 29 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.37%) PhD
13 4 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.06%) QA
3 31 (2.90%) GDPR
3 31 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.50%) NIST
7 11 (1.03%) WCAG
8 10 (0.94%) PMO
9 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.37%) HL7
12 4 (0.37%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
14 1 (0.094%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 292 (27.34%) Docker
2 34 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.94%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 4 (0.37%) HDFS
6 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 449 (42.04%) Terraform
2 263 (24.63%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.27%) Grafana
4 91 (8.52%) Prometheus
5 63 (5.90%) Ansible
6 27 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.66%) Consul
10 7 (0.66%) Kibana
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.47%) Rancher
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Podman
13 4 (0.37%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 176 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.61%) Databricks
3 46 (4.31%) OpenAI
4 44 (4.12%) Oracle
5 31 (2.90%) Splunk
6 17 (1.59%) Google
7 16 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.31%) Foundry
9 11 (1.03%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) Brio
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.75%) Informatica
12 8 (0.75%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Palantir