Serverless Contracts

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 130 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 -33 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 743 781 1,501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.54% 1.79% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.76% 5.54% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 599 1,103
10th Percentile £400 £381 £435
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -6.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £788 £708 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £25.50 - £42.00
25th Percentile £25.88 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile £33.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +21 586 £550 +4.76% 684
London +12 393 £550 +6.85% 395
Work from Home +43 313 £525 +1.55% 430
UK excluding London +24 224 £500 -1.96% 325
North of England +23 76 £500 -4.76% 129
Scotland +5 64 £525 +10.53% 28
North West +9 56 £500 -1.96% 84
South East +31 39 £500 -16.67% 63
Midlands +18 21 £480 +6.56% 38
South West +42 19 £550 - 39
West Midlands +7 12 £481 +6.89% 26
Yorkshire +8 11 £500 -16.67% 34
North East +5 9 £475 -26.92% 13
East Midlands +12 8 £500 +11.11% 12
East of England +28 5 £675 +8.00% 14
Wales - 4 £501 - 12
Northern Ireland -15 1 £500 -16.67% 7

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (6.86%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.65%) Apache
3 39 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.90%) Confluence
5 18 (2.42%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) Documentum
7 5 (0.67%) FileNet
8 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) InfoPath
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.40%) Endur
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 565 (76.04%) AWS
2 452 (60.83%) AWS Lambda
3 276 (37.15%) Amazon S3
4 206 (27.73%) Azure
5 138 (18.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (17.63%) Azure Functions
7 121 (16.29%) Amazon EC2
8 101 (13.59%) Amazon ECS
9 93 (12.52%) Amazon SQS
10 89 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 87 (11.71%) GitHub
12 67 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
14 62 (8.34%) Azure Logic Apps
15 61 (8.21%) PaaS
16 55 (7.40%) OpenShift
17 54 (7.27%) Power Platform
18 46 (6.19%) SaaS
19 45 (6.06%) Azure AKS
20 44 (5.92%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.52%) Firewall
2 23 (3.10%) VPN
3 13 (1.75%) HTTP
4 10 (1.35%) DNS
5 8 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.94%) SSL
7 6 (0.81%) Network Security
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.40%) IPsec
9 3 (0.40%) SMS
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.27%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Wireless
11 1 (0.13%) FTP
11 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (16.82%) Amazon RDS
2 102 (13.73%) DynamoDB
3 96 (12.92%) NoSQL
4 93 (12.52%) Amazon Athena
5 90 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (7.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (6.46%) Relational Database
8 42 (5.65%) MongoDB
9 39 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.58%) Power BI
11 32 (4.31%) Data Lake
12 30 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
13 29 (3.90%) MySQL
14 28 (3.77%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (3.77%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (3.77%) Dremio
15 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.50%) Big Data
17 23 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (3.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 65 (8.75%) Git
3 56 (7.54%) GitLab
4 44 (5.92%) Artifactory
5 35 (4.71%) JIRA
6 21 (2.83%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.29%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.48%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.35%) Selenium
10 9 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (1.08%) git-flow
12 7 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.94%) Mockito
13 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.81%) Postman
14 5 (0.67%) Gradle
14 5 (0.67%) JUnit
14 5 (0.67%) Maven
15 4 (0.54%) JMeter
15 4 (0.54%) NUnit
General
1 127 (17.09%) Public Sector
2 125 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 111 (14.94%) Finance
4 55 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.06%) Front Office
6 37 (4.98%) Banking
7 17 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.75%) Marketing
9 8 (1.08%) Retail
9 8 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.81%) Military
11 5 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.40%) Aviation
13 3 (0.40%) Electronics
13 3 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.27%) Back Office
14 2 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (27.73%) Developer
2 141 (18.98%) AWS Engineer
3 132 (17.77%) Architect
4 110 (14.80%) Senior
5 104 (14.00%) Data Engineer
6 93 (12.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 65 (8.75%) AWS DevOps
7 65 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.86%) Python Engineer
8 51 (6.86%) Senior Developer
9 49 (6.59%) Lead
10 43 (5.79%) AWS Developer
11 42 (5.65%) Software Engineer
12 40 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
13 38 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (4.71%) AWS Architect
15 29 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
16 28 (3.77%) Azure Architect
16 28 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
17 25 (3.36%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (16.96%) Node.js
2 95 (12.79%) React
3 94 (12.65%) Kafka
4 75 (10.09%) .NET
5 72 (9.69%) AWS CDK
6 60 (8.08%) JSON
7 56 (7.54%) RESTful
8 48 (6.46%) PySpark
9 38 (5.11%) REST
10 34 (4.58%) J2EE
11 33 (4.44%) Spring Boot
12 30 (4.04%) Spring
13 29 (3.90%) GraphQL
13 29 (3.90%) HTML
14 26 (3.50%) CSS
14 26 (3.50%) XML
15 25 (3.36%) .NET Framework
15 25 (3.36%) OAuth
16 24 (3.23%) .NET Core
17 23 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (3.10%) Public Cloud
3 22 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.81%) Genomics
13 5 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.67%) Tandem
14 4 (0.54%) LIMS
14 4 (0.54%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.38%) Linux
2 14 (1.88%) Unix
3 13 (1.75%) Windows
4 12 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.81%) Android
5 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (46.43%) DevOps
2 338 (45.49%) CI/CD
3 267 (35.94%) Agile
4 181 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 169 (22.75%) Microservices
6 139 (18.71%) Containerisation
7 124 (16.69%) Software Engineering
8 108 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
9 88 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 86 (11.57%) Event-Driven
11 81 (10.90%) Data Engineering
12 72 (9.69%) ETL
13 68 (9.15%) Test Automation
14 65 (8.75%) Migration
15 64 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
16 62 (8.34%) High Availability
16 62 (8.34%) Scrum
17 60 (8.08%) Mentoring
18 59 (7.94%) Analytics
19 55 (7.40%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 344 (46.30%) Python
2 175 (23.55%) SQL
3 153 (20.59%) Java
4 140 (18.84%) JavaScript
5 112 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 65 (8.75%) C#
7 50 (6.73%) Go
8 42 (5.65%) PowerShell
9 41 (5.52%) Bash
10 32 (4.31%) Bicep
11 14 (1.88%) Scala
11 14 (1.88%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.35%) Ruby
14 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.08%) C++
16 7 (0.94%) Groovy
16 7 (0.94%) Perl
16 7 (0.94%) R
16 7 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 171 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 161 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 103 (13.86%) AWS Certification
4 58 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 46 (6.19%) Degree
6 26 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 16 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.94%) OCP
11 7 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.27%) CCIE
13 2 (0.27%) CCNP
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.50%) QA
2 23 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.02%) GDPR
4 13 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.67%) NIST
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) WCAG
9 3 (0.40%) HL7
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 194 (26.11%) Docker
2 29 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.40%) RACF
5 2 (0.27%) HDFS
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 274 (36.88%) Terraform
2 217 (29.21%) Kubernetes
3 52 (7.00%) Ansible
4 26 (3.50%) Grafana
5 23 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.94%) Kibana
8 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.67%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) Packer
10 2 (0.27%) linkerd
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) Consul
11 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.13%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 101 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.02%) Oracle
3 21 (2.83%) Databricks
3 21 (2.83%) Splunk
4 17 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.15%) Google
5 16 (2.15%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.21%) Virgin Media
7 7 (0.94%) SAP
8 6 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.54%) Cisco
10 4 (0.54%) LabVantage
10 4 (0.54%) StreamSets
11 3 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.40%) IBM
11 3 (0.40%) Informatica
11 3 (0.40%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.40%) VMware