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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 117 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 949 744 888
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.62% 2.08% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.87% 5.81% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 510 656
10th Percentile £380 £377 £400
25th Percentile £415 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £638
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -8.64% -0.76% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £43.25 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £44.38 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £49.38 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile £49.75 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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
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 3 December 2025. 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 +4 758 £500 -13.04% 383
London +5 408 £523 -5.09% 133
UK excluding London +13 392 £476 -8.64% 335
Work from Home +5 295 £525 +2.44% 287
North of England +32 161 £475 -4.04% 98
Yorkshire +31 92 £500 -5.57% 37
Midlands +13 71 £500 +1.01% 40
Scotland +7 69 £450 -5.96% 16
North West -2 61 £450 +1.12% 52
West Midlands +8 54 £525 +5.00% 20
South East -43 44 £430 -31.20% 116
South West -8 33 £625 -2.72% 33
East of England +4 30 £538 -5.70% 29
East Midlands -10 17 £390 -13.33% 18
North East -2 9 £475 -22.13% 9
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 1
Wales -11 1 £488 -2.50% 7

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 49 (5.16%) Apache
2 34 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.95%) Confluence
5 11 (1.16%) nginx
5 11 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.84%) CMS
7 4 (0.42%) FileNet
7 4 (0.42%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.32%) Documentum
8 3 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.32%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) CICS
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 701 (73.87%) AWS
2 567 (59.75%) AWS Lambda
3 354 (37.30%) Amazon S3
4 307 (32.35%) Azure
5 196 (20.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 195 (20.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 194 (20.44%) GitHub
8 181 (19.07%) Amazon ECS
9 175 (18.44%) Amazon EC2
10 169 (17.81%) Azure Functions
11 134 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
12 123 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
13 112 (11.80%) Amazon EKS
14 96 (10.12%) GCP
15 91 (9.59%) Amazon SQS
15 91 (9.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 83 (8.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
18 65 (6.85%) Power Platform
19 63 (6.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.48%) Firewall
2 26 (2.74%) VPN
3 22 (2.32%) DNS
4 11 (1.16%) Network Security
5 9 (0.95%) SSL
6 8 (0.84%) HTTP
7 6 (0.63%) DHCP
7 6 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.32%) LAN
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) DKIM
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.11%) MQTT
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (17.91%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (12.96%) DynamoDB
4 97 (10.22%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.17%) Relational Database
6 58 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
6 58 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 48 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.85%) Power BI
10 37 (3.90%) Data Lake
11 34 (3.58%) MongoDB
12 33 (3.48%) Big Data
12 33 (3.48%) Redis
13 31 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.06%) MySQL
15 24 (2.53%) RDBMS
16 23 (2.42%) SQL Server
17 19 (2.00%) Tableau
18 15 (1.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 173 (18.23%) Git
2 165 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 142 (14.96%) GitLab
4 80 (8.43%) JIRA
5 39 (4.11%) Liquibase
6 29 (3.06%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.32%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.32%) SonarQube
8 21 (2.21%) JUnit
9 16 (1.69%) MLflow
9 16 (1.69%) Mockito
10 15 (1.58%) Postman
11 13 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.37%) Maven
11 13 (1.37%) Selenium
12 12 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.84%) Gradle
15 5 (0.53%) JMeter
15 5 (0.53%) SonarLint
General
1 238 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 176 (18.55%) Public Sector
3 126 (13.28%) Finance
4 81 (8.54%) Banking
5 56 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 15 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.48%) Marketing
9 12 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.95%) Front Office
11 9 (0.95%) Retail
12 8 (0.84%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
13 6 (0.63%) Military
14 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Aviation
15 2 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 258 (27.19%) Developer
2 149 (15.70%) Senior
3 148 (15.60%) AWS Engineer
4 120 (12.64%) Architect
5 114 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (9.17%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.80%) Data Engineer
8 69 (7.27%) Lead
9 47 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (4.32%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 40 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (4.11%) AWS Developer
14 37 (3.90%) Python Engineer
15 34 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.27%) Technical Architect
18 30 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (17.70%) Node.js
2 152 (16.02%) RESTful
3 139 (14.65%) REST
4 135 (14.23%) React
5 113 (11.91%) .NET
6 94 (9.91%) Kafka
7 65 (6.85%) AWS CDK
8 63 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
9 57 (6.01%) Spring Boot
10 52 (5.48%) OAuth
11 50 (5.27%) Spring
12 45 (4.74%) AngularJS
13 42 (4.43%) FastAPI
14 41 (4.32%) GraphQL
14 41 (4.32%) PyTorch
15 39 (4.11%) JSON
16 38 (4.00%) HTML
17 37 (3.90%) .NET Core
18 31 (3.27%) Next.js
18 31 (3.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 232 (24.45%) Cloud Native
2 96 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.00%) NHS
8 18 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.37%) Replication
13 10 (1.05%) IVR
13 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.95%) Data Fabric
15 8 (0.84%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.01%) Linux
2 12 (1.26%) Windows
3 11 (1.16%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.53%) VMS
4 5 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) SUSE
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (56.38%) CI/CD
2 487 (51.32%) DevOps
3 384 (40.46%) Agile
4 344 (36.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (31.40%) Microservices
6 249 (26.24%) Containerisation
7 185 (19.49%) Software Engineering
8 170 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
9 150 (15.81%) AI
10 129 (13.59%) Analytics
11 128 (13.49%) Test Automation
12 118 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
13 117 (12.33%) Event-Driven
14 107 (11.28%) Full-Stack Development
15 102 (10.75%) Mentoring
16 100 (10.54%) Data Modelling
17 99 (10.43%) Machine Learning
18 91 (9.59%) Migration
19 90 (9.48%) ETL
20 87 (9.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 481 (50.68%) Python
2 235 (24.76%) SQL
3 174 (18.34%) Java
4 147 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 141 (14.86%) JavaScript
6 109 (11.49%) C#
7 71 (7.48%) Go
8 68 (7.17%) Bash
9 43 (4.53%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.74%) Bicep
11 21 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.00%) Ruby
13 13 (1.37%) C++
14 10 (1.05%) Perl
14 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.84%) Scala
16 6 (0.63%) Groovy
16 6 (0.63%) JSX
16 6 (0.63%) Korn
16 6 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 177 (18.65%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 73 (7.69%) Degree
5 63 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.21%) Master's Degree
8 35 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.95%) MCP
13 8 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.21%) PhD
15 1 (0.11%) CCSP
15 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.01%) QA
2 39 (4.11%) GDPR
3 35 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.58%) WCAG
6 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.48%) NIST
7 11 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.95%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) HL7
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 277 (29.19%) Docker
2 38 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
5 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 387 (40.78%) Terraform
2 273 (28.77%) Kubernetes
3 118 (12.43%) Grafana
4 108 (11.38%) Prometheus
5 100 (10.54%) Ansible
6 17 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.26%) Puppet
8 8 (0.84%) Kibana
9 6 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.53%) Packer
11 4 (0.42%) Rancher
12 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.21%) Knative
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) SELinux
Vendors
1 160 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.37%) Databricks
2 51 (5.37%) Google
2 51 (5.37%) Splunk
3 35 (3.69%) Oracle
4 22 (2.32%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.00%) Foundry
6 18 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.26%) Cloudera
8 12 (1.26%) IBM
8 12 (1.26%) Pega
9 10 (1.05%) Cisco
9 10 (1.05%) Palantir
10 9 (0.95%) Greenplum
11 7 (0.74%) Confluent
11 7 (0.74%) Genesys
12 6 (0.63%) Gigya
13 5 (0.53%) Ping Identity