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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 133
Rank change year-on-year -24 +40 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,063 761 757
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.64% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 6.97% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 575 578
10th Percentile £372 £400 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £729 £733 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £46.45 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 17,428 10,911 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.85% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,684 7,405 9,873
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £634
90th Percentile £710 £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 558 262 347
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.81 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +30.23% -42.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +82.85% +13.68% -35.27%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -22 841 £525 - 348
London -13 510 £525 -4.55% 189
UK excluding London -26 361 £500 - 199
Work from Home -25 317 £513 -2.38% 246
North of England -25 141 £500 - 66
North West -12 79 £518 +3.50% 37
Midlands -30 60 £488 -1.52% 24
South East -40 54 £575 +15.00% 44
Scotland -21 48 £444 -15.48% 6
Yorkshire -30 48 £500 - 19
West Midlands -30 47 £488 -3.18% 15
South West -22 31 £575 +4.55% 34
East of England -21 26 £550 -2.22% 9
North East -22 15 £475 - 10
East Midlands -21 13 £498 +3.86% 9
Wales -10 7 £488 -15.25% 14
Northern Ireland +10 5 £190 -62.00% 5

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 51 (4.80%) Confluence
2 46 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 44 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.54%) Apache
4 27 (2.54%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.51%) nginx
6 8 (0.75%) HCL Notes
6 8 (0.75%) Mendix
7 6 (0.56%) CICS
7 6 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.094%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
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 (76.67%) AWS
2 641 (60.30%) AWS Lambda
3 434 (40.83%) Amazon S3
4 379 (35.65%) Azure
5 239 (22.48%) GitHub
6 201 (18.91%) Amazon EC2
7 197 (18.53%) Azure Functions
8 189 (17.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 186 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
10 180 (16.93%) Amazon ECS
11 169 (15.90%) GitHub Actions
12 151 (14.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 132 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (11.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 116 (10.91%) Amazon SQS
16 115 (10.82%) Power Platform
17 111 (10.44%) AWS Step Functions
18 90 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
19 89 (8.37%) Azure Service Bus
20 75 (7.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.82%) DNS
1 30 (2.82%) Firewall
2 23 (2.16%) VPN
3 16 (1.51%) Network Security
4 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.94%) HTTP
6 9 (0.85%) OpenVPN
6 9 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.85%) SSL
7 7 (0.66%) SMS
8 6 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) FTP
10 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.28%) MQTT
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) CTI
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
12 1 (0.094%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (14.77%) DynamoDB
2 149 (14.02%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (7.15%) Power BI
7 67 (6.30%) NoSQL
8 55 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 53 (4.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 51 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (4.42%) SQL Server
12 35 (3.29%) Relational Database
13 32 (3.01%) MySQL
14 30 (2.82%) Metadata
15 29 (2.73%) Tableau
16 27 (2.54%) Big Data
17 26 (2.45%) MongoDB
18 22 (2.07%) Delta Lake
19 21 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (14.86%) Git
2 146 (13.73%) GitLab
3 135 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 71 (6.68%) JIRA
5 26 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 18 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.94%) JUnit
10 9 (0.85%) 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%) MSTest
13 6 (0.56%) MLflow
13 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.56%) Snyk
14 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 241 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.99%) Public Sector
3 138 (12.98%) Finance
4 58 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (2.54%) Banking
7 15 (1.41%) Legal
8 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.85%) Law
12 8 (0.75%) Marketing
12 8 (0.75%) Retail
13 7 (0.66%) Military
14 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Billing
15 5 (0.47%) Police
16 4 (0.38%) Back Office
16 4 (0.38%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (23.99%) Developer
2 204 (19.19%) Architect
3 156 (14.68%) Senior
4 154 (14.49%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (10.72%) Data Engineer
6 99 (9.31%) Lead
7 73 (6.87%) AWS Architect
7 73 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 69 (6.49%) Software Engineer
9 58 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (4.89%) AWS Developer
11 51 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 51 (4.80%) Technical Architect
12 50 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
14 44 (4.14%) Python Engineer
14 44 (4.14%) Senior Developer
15 43 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (13.08%) React
2 137 (12.89%) REST
3 129 (12.14%) Node.js
4 123 (11.57%) Kafka
5 119 (11.19%) .NET
6 104 (9.78%) RESTful
7 74 (6.96%) OAuth
8 72 (6.77%) PySpark
9 71 (6.68%) Spring
9 71 (6.68%) Spring Boot
10 65 (6.11%) AWS CDK
11 53 (4.99%) GraphQL
12 49 (4.61%) AngularJS
13 47 (4.42%) FastAPI
14 45 (4.23%) OAuth2
15 43 (4.05%) JSON
15 43 (4.05%) OpenID
16 37 (3.48%) .NET Core
17 36 (3.39%) Next.js
18 30 (2.82%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 319 (30.01%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.07%) NHS
7 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.41%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.75%) IoT
15 7 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.55%) Linux
2 22 (2.07%) 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
1 641 (60.30%) CI/CD
2 479 (45.06%) DevOps
3 398 (37.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 350 (32.93%) Agile
5 258 (24.27%) Microservices
6 229 (21.54%) Containerisation
7 204 (19.19%) Event-Driven
8 194 (18.25%) AI
9 175 (16.46%) Observability
10 149 (14.02%) Analytics
11 148 (13.92%) Data Modelling
12 143 (13.45%) Software Engineering
13 142 (13.36%) ETL
14 141 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
14 141 (13.26%) Test Automation
15 135 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
16 123 (11.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 118 (11.10%) Migration
18 109 (10.25%) Mentoring
19 108 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 453 (42.62%) Python
2 291 (27.38%) SQL
3 166 (15.62%) TypeScript
4 154 (14.49%) C#
5 144 (13.55%) Java
6 142 (13.36%) JavaScript
7 59 (5.55%) Bash
8 43 (4.05%) Bicep
8 43 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.98%) Go
11 20 (1.88%) Scala
12 10 (0.94%) Ruby
12 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.75%) Formula Language
13 8 (0.75%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.66%) Groovy
15 6 (0.56%) JCL
16 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 272 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 218 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 62 (5.83%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.73%) Degree
8 28 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
17 2 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.42%) QA
3 27 (2.54%) GDPR
3 27 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.51%) NIST
7 12 (1.13%) WCAG
8 7 (0.66%) NCSC
8 7 (0.66%) PMO
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
System Software
1 270 (25.40%) Docker
2 30 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.13%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 1 (0.094%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 428 (40.26%) Terraform
2 245 (23.05%) Kubernetes
3 101 (9.50%) Grafana
4 90 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 51 (4.80%) Ansible
6 28 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.60%) Puppet
8 10 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.85%) 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%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.47%) Podman
13 5 (0.47%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 148 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.49%) Databricks
3 47 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.57%) Oracle
5 23 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.07%) Splunk
7 18 (1.69%) Google
8 16 (1.51%) Informatica
9 13 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.13%) Foundry
10 12 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.03%) Confluent
12 10 (0.94%) SAP
12 10 (0.94%) Tenable
13 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.85%) Brio
14 8 (0.75%) Kofax
14 8 (0.75%) Lotus
15 6 (0.56%) Sybase