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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 91 130
Rank change year-on-year -24 +39 -32
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,068 771 755
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.67% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 7.06% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 584 574
10th Percentile £373 £400 £377
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £44.13 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -19 848 £525 - 160
London -10 516 £525 -4.55% 75
UK excluding London -29 363 £500 - 124
Work from Home -31 313 £525 - 88
North of England -24 143 £500 - 36
North West -23 81 £525 +5.00% 16
Midlands -30 59 £488 -1.52% 19
South East -47 54 £575 +15.00% 38
Scotland -18 49 £444 -15.48% 6
Yorkshire -34 48 £500 - 15
West Midlands -41 45 £488 -3.18% 11
South West -25 31 £575 +4.55% 18
East of England -19 26 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -20 15 £475 - 5
East Midlands -18 14 £498 +3.86% 8
Wales -8 7 £488 -15.25% 3
Northern Ireland +9 5 £190 -62.00%

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 47 (4.40%) Confluence
2 46 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 44 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.72%) SharePoint
5 27 (2.53%) Apache
6 17 (1.59%) nginx
7 10 (0.94%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.94%) Mendix
8 6 (0.56%) CICS
9 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.47%) SAS
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
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%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 815 (76.31%) AWS
2 638 (59.74%) AWS Lambda
3 428 (40.07%) Amazon S3
4 384 (35.96%) Azure
5 242 (22.66%) GitHub
6 205 (19.19%) Azure Functions
7 200 (18.73%) Amazon EC2
8 184 (17.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 183 (17.13%) Amazon ECS
9 183 (17.13%) Amazon EKS
10 170 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
11 156 (14.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 137 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
13 115 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
13 115 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 113 (10.58%) Power Platform
15 112 (10.49%) AWS Step Functions
16 97 (9.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 91 (8.52%) Azure Service Bus
18 74 (6.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.09%) DNS
2 29 (2.72%) Firewall
3 22 (2.06%) VPN
4 15 (1.40%) Network Security
5 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
7 11 (1.03%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.84%) SSL
9 7 (0.66%) SMS
10 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.56%) WAN
11 5 (0.47%) IPsec
12 3 (0.28%) FTP
12 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.19%) AMQP
13 2 (0.19%) CTI
13 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 2 (0.19%) MQTT
14 1 (0.094%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.07%) DynamoDB
2 150 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
5 77 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 72 (6.74%) Power BI
7 71 (6.65%) NoSQL
8 59 (5.52%) Data Lake
9 52 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (4.40%) SQL Server
12 44 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 32 (3.00%) MySQL
15 31 (2.90%) Metadata
16 29 (2.72%) Tableau
17 27 (2.53%) Big Data
17 27 (2.53%) MongoDB
18 24 (2.25%) Delta Lake
19 22 (2.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (14.79%) Git
2 139 (13.01%) GitLab
3 130 (12.17%) Jenkins
4 66 (6.18%) JIRA
5 26 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.94%) JUnit
10 9 (0.84%) Vite
11 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.75%) Mocha
11 8 (0.75%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) Gatling
12 7 (0.66%) MLflow
12 7 (0.66%) MSTest
13 6 (0.56%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 237 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.30%) Finance
4 56 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (2.53%) Banking
7 15 (1.40%) Legal
8 12 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (0.84%) Law
10 8 (0.75%) Marketing
10 8 (0.75%) Retail
11 7 (0.66%) Military
12 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.47%) Billing
13 5 (0.47%) Police
14 4 (0.37%) Back Office
14 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (24.25%) Developer
2 203 (19.01%) Architect
3 151 (14.14%) AWS Engineer
4 150 (14.04%) Senior
5 113 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 101 (9.46%) Lead
7 73 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.65%) AWS Architect
9 68 (6.37%) Software Engineer
10 56 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (4.87%) AWS Developer
12 51 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 50 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
13 50 (4.68%) Technical Architect
14 49 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (4.21%) Python Engineer
15 45 (4.21%) Senior Developer
16 43 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
17 41 (3.84%) Python Developer
18 40 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (13.30%) React
2 136 (12.73%) REST
3 133 (12.45%) Node.js
4 123 (11.52%) .NET
5 121 (11.33%) Kafka
6 106 (9.93%) RESTful
7 74 (6.93%) OAuth
8 73 (6.84%) Spring
9 72 (6.74%) Spring Boot
10 69 (6.46%) PySpark
11 64 (5.99%) AWS CDK
12 54 (5.06%) GraphQL
13 51 (4.78%) AngularJS
14 46 (4.31%) FastAPI
15 45 (4.21%) OAuth2
16 43 (4.03%) JSON
16 43 (4.03%) OpenID
17 39 (3.65%) .NET Core
18 37 (3.46%) Next.js
19 30 (2.81%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 313 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.49%) Product Ownership
3 56 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.06%) NHS
7 16 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.12%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.84%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.75%) IoT
14 8 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.90%) Linux
2 22 (2.06%) Unix
3 11 (1.03%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) zOS
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (60.30%) CI/CD
2 481 (45.04%) DevOps
3 400 (37.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 348 (32.58%) Agile
5 262 (24.53%) Microservices
6 230 (21.54%) Containerisation
7 197 (18.45%) Event-Driven
8 193 (18.07%) AI
9 177 (16.57%) Observability
10 148 (13.86%) Analytics
11 146 (13.67%) Data Modelling
12 141 (13.20%) Software Engineering
13 138 (12.92%) Data Pipeline
13 138 (12.92%) ETL
13 138 (12.92%) Test Automation
14 137 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (11.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 117 (10.96%) Migration
17 111 (10.39%) Mentoring
18 106 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 458 (42.88%) Python
2 291 (27.25%) SQL
3 167 (15.64%) TypeScript
4 158 (14.79%) C#
5 146 (13.67%) Java
6 144 (13.48%) JavaScript
7 60 (5.62%) Bash
8 44 (4.12%) Bicep
8 44 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 35 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.97%) Go
11 20 (1.87%) Scala
12 15 (1.40%) Ruby
13 10 (0.94%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.94%) LotusScript
13 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 266 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 212 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 41 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.62%) Degree
7 25 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.31%) QA
3 27 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.53%) GDPR
3 27 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 17 (1.59%) NIST
6 12 (1.12%) WCAG
7 7 (0.66%) NCSC
7 7 (0.66%) PMO
8 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 267 (25.00%) Docker
2 31 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.12%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 2 (0.19%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 425 (39.79%) Terraform
2 247 (23.13%) Kubernetes
3 102 (9.55%) Grafana
4 90 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.78%) Ansible
6 28 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.50%) Puppet
8 10 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.84%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.75%) Consul
11 7 (0.66%) Istio
12 6 (0.56%) Kibana
12 6 (0.56%) linkerd
13 5 (0.47%) Salt
14 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.37%) Podman
15 3 (0.28%) Argo
15 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 156 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.65%) Databricks
3 50 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 39 (3.65%) Oracle
5 24 (2.25%) Splunk
6 22 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.78%) Google
8 13 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.12%) Foundry
9 12 (1.12%) Informatica
9 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.94%) Confluent
10 10 (0.94%) Kofax
10 10 (0.94%) Lotus
10 10 (0.94%) SAP
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) Brio
11 9 (0.84%) Tenable
12 6 (0.56%) Qualys