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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -39 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,057 827 734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.51% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 6.68% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 597 508
10th Percentile £400 £394 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £751 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £75.80 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 - -

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 18,878 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 195
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -35.77% +15.38%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -28 863 £525 +1.45% 841
London -17 514 £550 - 505
UK excluding London -51 396 £500 - 434
Work from Home -32 343 £537 +4.27% 401
North of England -50 131 £500 +5.26% 133
Midlands -19 85 £430 -13.13% 53
West Midlands -18 66 £460 -8.00% 27
North West -34 65 £588 +23.68% 91
Scotland -18 57 £450 -11.76% 49
South East -54 51 £600 +41.18% 74
South West -19 46 £500 -8.05% 60
Yorkshire -45 46 £500 +5.04% 27
North East -32 20 £463 +4.52% 15
East of England -37 20 £515 - 22
East Midlands -12 19 £419 -5.42% 26
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 28
Wales -11 4 £481 -16.34% 16

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 55 (5.20%) Confluence
2 51 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 39 (3.69%) Apache
5 35 (3.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.95%) CMS
7 9 (0.85%) SAS
8 8 (0.76%) nginx
8 8 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.57%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.38%) CICS
11 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.095%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 825 (78.05%) AWS
2 669 (63.29%) AWS Lambda
3 447 (42.29%) Amazon S3
4 369 (34.91%) Azure
5 230 (21.76%) GitHub
6 224 (21.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 190 (17.98%) Amazon ECS
7 190 (17.98%) Azure Functions
8 164 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
9 162 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
10 160 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 157 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
12 150 (14.19%) Amazon SQS
13 127 (12.02%) Power Platform
14 126 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
15 119 (11.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 107 (10.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 104 (9.84%) Amazon EventBridge
18 79 (7.47%) Azure Logic Apps
19 72 (6.81%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.31%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
2 27 (2.55%) Network Security
3 16 (1.51%) VPN
4 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 12 (1.14%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 6 (0.57%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.38%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) Internet
11 2 (0.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.27%) DynamoDB
2 167 (15.80%) Amazon RDS
3 119 (11.26%) Amazon Athena
4 99 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 90 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (7.76%) Power BI
7 67 (6.34%) NoSQL
8 59 (5.58%) Data Lake
9 56 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 56 (5.30%) MySQL
10 53 (5.01%) SQL Server
11 35 (3.31%) Metadata
12 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
13 28 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.37%) Delta Lake
15 24 (2.27%) Relational Database
16 21 (1.99%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
17 19 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (18.54%) Git
2 140 (13.25%) GitLab
3 135 (12.77%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.91%) JIRA
5 32 (3.03%) Claude Code
5 32 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.37%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.70%) Selenium
9 17 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.32%) JUnit
11 13 (1.23%) Postman
12 11 (1.04%) Mockito
13 10 (0.95%) RStudio
14 9 (0.85%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.76%) JMeter
15 8 (0.76%) Maven
15 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 248 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.12%) Public Sector
3 159 (15.04%) Finance
4 78 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (3.88%) Banking
7 17 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.32%) Marketing
9 13 (1.23%) Back Office
9 13 (1.23%) Legal
9 13 (1.23%) Military
10 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.14%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Billing
12 9 (0.85%) Front Office
13 8 (0.76%) Retail
14 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (23.08%) Developer
2 207 (19.58%) Senior
3 197 (18.64%) Architect
4 173 (16.37%) AWS Engineer
5 135 (12.77%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.35%) Lead
7 83 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.05%) AWS Architect
9 60 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.45%) Technical Architect
13 46 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (4.16%) AWS Data Engineer
14 44 (4.16%) AWS Developer
15 42 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.97%) Senior Developer
16 41 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
18 39 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (39.83%) Terraform
2 184 (17.41%) REST
3 128 (12.11%) .NET
4 127 (12.02%) React
5 120 (11.35%) Node.js
6 102 (9.65%) RESTful
7 101 (9.56%) Kafka
8 79 (7.47%) AWS CDK
9 75 (7.10%) PySpark
10 67 (6.34%) Spring Boot
11 66 (6.24%) Spring
12 59 (5.58%) GraphQL
13 52 (4.92%) OAuth
14 51 (4.82%) FastAPI
15 41 (3.88%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.88%) JSON
16 37 (3.50%) CSS
17 36 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 34 (3.22%) Flask
18 34 (3.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 327 (30.94%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 77 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (5.96%) AI Agents
5 35 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.65%) NHS
8 24 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.70%) IVR
12 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.62%) Linux
2 28 (2.65%) Unix
3 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.42%) Windows
5 4 (0.38%) VMS
5 4 (0.38%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) Android
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (61.31%) CI/CD
2 459 (43.42%) DevOps
3 413 (39.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 398 (37.65%) Agile
5 255 (24.12%) AI
6 248 (23.46%) Event-Driven
7 241 (22.80%) Microservices
8 209 (19.77%) Containerisation
9 195 (18.45%) Observability
10 174 (16.46%) Data Modelling
11 173 (16.37%) Analytics
12 171 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 169 (15.99%) Software Engineering
14 160 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
16 155 (14.66%) Data Pipeline
17 148 (14.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 145 (13.72%) Data Engineering
19 144 (13.62%) Migration
20 140 (13.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 486 (45.98%) Python
2 309 (29.23%) SQL
3 183 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 161 (15.23%) JavaScript
5 146 (13.81%) C#
6 140 (13.25%) Java
7 79 (7.47%) Bash
8 47 (4.45%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.07%) Bicep
10 32 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.42%) Scala
12 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.04%) Go
14 10 (0.95%) Groovy
15 8 (0.76%) R
16 6 (0.57%) Ruby
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 278 (26.30%) Security Cleared
2 237 (22.42%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.47%) AWS Certification
4 59 (5.58%) Degree
5 51 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.66%) CISSP
16 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 78 (7.38%) QA
3 48 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.78%) GDPR
5 29 (2.74%) WCAG
6 18 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.095%) GRC
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) PMO
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 269 (25.45%) Docker
2 38 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 245 (23.18%) Kubernetes
2 85 (8.04%) Grafana
3 66 (6.24%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.30%) Ansible
5 14 (1.32%) Puppet
6 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 4 (0.38%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 195 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.91%) Databricks
3 46 (4.35%) Oracle
4 40 (3.78%) OpenAI
5 29 (2.74%) Informatica
6 28 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 27 (2.55%) Google
7 27 (2.55%) Splunk
8 26 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.04%) Brio
12 10 (0.95%) Tenable
13 9 (0.85%) Foundry
13 9 (0.85%) SAP
14 8 (0.76%) Confluent
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday
16 4 (0.38%) ForgeRock