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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 102 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,074 759 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.34% 2.59% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.43% 6.82% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 574 604
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £511
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +5.13% -9.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +188.46% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £26.43 -
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 16,714 11,128 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.40% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,401 7,742 10,061
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £703 £725 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 345
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% +31.57% -30.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.45 £60.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -25.20%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -6 873 £508 -7.59% 292
London -6 533 £513 -10.87% 131
UK excluding London -12 368 £500 - 182
Work from Home -29 289 £503 -7.29% 177
North of England -4 154 £500 - 76
North West -11 80 £500 - 51
Yorkshire -6 60 £500 - 19
Midlands -30 58 £500 +11.11% 13
South East -41 54 £525 +5.00% 45
Scotland -6 50 £400 -23.81% 8
West Midlands -26 44 £500 +3.95% 9
South West -16 34 £575 -6.12% 20
East of England -19 22 £550 -20.00% 18
North East -11 15 £493 +3.68% 6
East Midlands -27 14 £498 +11.41% 4
Wales -13 5 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -

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 60 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 45 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (3.91%) Apache
4 32 (2.98%) Confluence
5 27 (2.51%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.58%) nginx
7 11 (1.02%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.93%) Mendix
9 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.093%) Shopify
4 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 797 (74.21%) AWS
2 639 (59.50%) AWS Lambda
3 424 (39.48%) Amazon S3
4 403 (37.52%) Azure
5 243 (22.63%) GitHub
6 226 (21.04%) Azure Functions
7 219 (20.39%) Amazon ECS
8 203 (18.90%) Amazon EC2
9 193 (17.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 192 (17.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 180 (16.76%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (15.83%) GitHub Actions
13 168 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
14 120 (11.17%) Power Platform
15 118 (10.99%) AWS Step Functions
16 117 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 101 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
18 92 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
19 87 (8.10%) Azure Service Bus
20 68 (6.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.10%) Firewall
2 37 (3.45%) DNS
3 23 (2.14%) VPN
4 15 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
5 13 (1.21%) Network Security
6 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.93%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
8 9 (0.84%) SSL
9 8 (0.74%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.65%) 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 (0.093%) 4G
14 1 (0.093%) BGP
14 1 (0.093%) CTI
14 1 (0.093%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (14.25%) DynamoDB
2 144 (13.41%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (8.47%) Amazon Athena
5 84 (7.82%) NoSQL
6 80 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 80 (7.45%) Power BI
7 60 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 60 (5.59%) Relational Database
8 52 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
9 51 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (3.72%) Tableau
11 38 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 38 (3.54%) MongoDB
12 36 (3.35%) SQL Server
13 33 (3.07%) Big Data
14 32 (2.98%) Metadata
15 30 (2.79%) MySQL
16 28 (2.61%) Redis
17 26 (2.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (17.13%) Git
2 154 (14.34%) GitLab
3 142 (13.22%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.59%) JIRA
5 30 (2.79%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.96%) JUnit
7 20 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 17 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.30%) Mockito
11 13 (1.21%) MLflow
12 11 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.93%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.84%) Maven
14 9 (0.84%) Selenium
15 8 (0.74%) NUnit
15 8 (0.74%) Postman
16 7 (0.65%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.65%) Mocha
17 6 (0.56%) Gradle
General
1 234 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.59%) Finance
4 79 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.38%) Banking
6 34 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.21%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 10 (0.93%) Legal
10 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 8 (0.74%) Retail
12 7 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.56%) Billing
13 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Front Office
14 5 (0.47%) Law
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (26.54%) Developer
2 176 (16.39%) Architect
3 152 (14.15%) Senior
4 144 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 90 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (8.38%) Lead
7 65 (6.05%) Software Engineer
8 58 (5.40%) AWS Architect
9 55 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 54 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.66%) AWS Developer
12 49 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (4.10%) Java Developer
15 43 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 43 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.91%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.54%) Python Engineer
18 37 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (16.20%) Node.js
2 147 (13.69%) React
3 131 (12.20%) REST
4 129 (12.01%) Kafka
5 122 (11.36%) .NET
6 109 (10.15%) RESTful
7 93 (8.66%) Spring
8 91 (8.47%) Spring Boot
9 83 (7.73%) OAuth
10 65 (6.05%) PySpark
11 60 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 48 (4.47%) OAuth2
13 47 (4.38%) JSON
14 45 (4.19%) .NET Core
14 45 (4.19%) AWS CDK
15 39 (3.63%) GraphQL
16 37 (3.45%) FastAPI
16 37 (3.45%) JWT
17 36 (3.35%) OpenID
18 35 (3.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 268 (24.95%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.61%) NHS
5 26 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 23 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.84%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.74%) DataPower
14 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 81 (7.54%) Linux
2 20 (1.86%) Unix
3 11 (1.02%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 1 (0.093%) Android
6 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (60.52%) CI/CD
2 537 (50.00%) DevOps
3 407 (37.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 347 (32.31%) Agile
5 290 (27.00%) Microservices
6 259 (24.12%) Containerisation
7 174 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (16.01%) AI
9 167 (15.55%) Event-Driven
10 165 (15.36%) Analytics
11 162 (15.08%) Observability
12 155 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
13 148 (13.78%) Data Modelling
14 139 (12.94%) ETL
15 137 (12.76%) Software Engineering
16 134 (12.48%) Test Automation
17 119 (11.08%) Data Engineering
18 118 (10.99%) Migration
19 112 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
20 104 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 502 (46.74%) Python
2 310 (28.86%) SQL
3 181 (16.85%) Java
4 158 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 157 (14.62%) C#
6 155 (14.43%) TypeScript
7 72 (6.70%) Bash
8 55 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.56%) Bicep
10 34 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.51%) Ruby
12 26 (2.42%) Go
13 18 (1.68%) Scala
14 11 (1.02%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.02%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.74%) Perl
16 7 (0.65%) C++
16 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 299 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 236 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.61%) Degree
9 22 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.31%) QA
3 31 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.79%) GDPR
5 24 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.49%) NIST
7 11 (1.02%) WCAG
8 10 (0.93%) PMO
9 8 (0.74%) 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 (0.093%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 297 (27.65%) Docker
2 33 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.93%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.37%) HDFS
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 455 (42.36%) Terraform
2 273 (25.42%) Kubernetes
3 100 (9.31%) Grafana
4 92 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 69 (6.42%) Ansible
6 27 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.21%) Puppet
8 11 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.84%) Kibana
10 7 (0.65%) Consul
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Podman
13 4 (0.37%) Rancher
13 4 (0.37%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 175 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.57%) Databricks
3 46 (4.28%) Oracle
4 44 (4.10%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.79%) Splunk
6 18 (1.68%) Google
7 17 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.40%) Foundry
9 11 (1.02%) Lotus
10 10 (0.93%) Brio
10 10 (0.93%) Confluent
10 10 (0.93%) Kofax
10 10 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.84%) SAP
12 8 (0.74%) IBM
12 8 (0.74%) Informatica
12 8 (0.74%) Sybase