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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 110 129
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,026 740 825
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.34% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.09% 6.37% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 526 628
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £51.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £74.05 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 14,478 11,621 14,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.76% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,985 7,717 10,638
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 168 299
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.61
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.34%
75th Percentile £58.65 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +6.80% +22.62% +7.69%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +6 823 £500 -9.09% 590
London +14 490 £513 -8.48% 125
UK excluding London -2 373 £500 - 544
Work from Home -11 294 £525 +2.44% 357
North of England +23 164 £500 +5.26% 117
Yorkshire +5 82 £500 - 48
North West +1 72 £450 +0.78% 54
Midlands -11 65 £520 +16.33% 64
Scotland -20 59 £450 -8.91% 28
West Midlands -15 53 £525 +9.15% 30
South East -47 48 £475 -18.80% 160
South West -25 27 £650 - 66
East of England -2 23 £550 -3.51% 78
East Midlands -23 12 £435 -2.03% 33
North East -8 11 £525 -12.13% 15
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 14
Wales -11 4 £488 -2.50% 30

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 39 (3.80%) Apache
2 35 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 33 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.63%) Confluence
5 26 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.85%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.88%) Mendix
9 5 (0.49%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.097%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.097%) FileNet
12 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.097%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 738 (71.93%) AWS
2 593 (57.80%) AWS Lambda
3 379 (36.94%) Azure
4 369 (35.96%) Amazon S3
5 239 (23.29%) GitHub
6 225 (21.93%) Azure Functions
7 206 (20.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (19.49%) Amazon ECS
9 186 (18.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 180 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
11 172 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
12 171 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
13 151 (14.72%) Amazon EKS
14 106 (10.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (10.04%) GCP
16 95 (9.26%) Power Platform
17 89 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 86 (8.38%) Amazon SQS
18 86 (8.38%) AWS Step Functions
19 81 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.22%) Firewall
2 31 (3.02%) DNS
3 26 (2.53%) VPN
4 13 (1.27%) Network Security
5 10 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 8 (0.78%) HTTP
6 8 (0.78%) SSL
7 6 (0.58%) SMS
8 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.49%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.29%) LAN
9 3 (0.29%) WAN
10 2 (0.19%) MPLS
11 1 (0.097%) AMQP
11 1 (0.097%) BGP
11 1 (0.097%) IPsec
11 1 (0.097%) MQTT
11 1 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.98%) Amazon RDS
2 144 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (12.28%) DynamoDB
4 99 (9.65%) NoSQL
5 70 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 63 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
6 63 (6.14%) Power BI
6 63 (6.14%) Relational Database
7 59 (5.75%) Data Lake
8 55 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 48 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (3.70%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.41%) Redis
13 34 (3.31%) MySQL
14 27 (2.63%) SQL Server
15 26 (2.53%) Big Data
16 24 (2.34%) Tableau
17 19 (1.85%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.85%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 175 (17.06%) Git
2 173 (16.86%) Jenkins
3 157 (15.30%) GitLab
4 63 (6.14%) JIRA
5 32 (3.12%) Liquibase
6 24 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.85%) JUnit
9 16 (1.56%) MLflow
9 16 (1.56%) Mockito
10 15 (1.46%) Postman
11 14 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 13 (1.27%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.07%) Maven
15 10 (0.97%) Selenium
16 8 (0.78%) Gradle
17 6 (0.58%) Storybook
18 5 (0.49%) JMeter
General
1 246 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 196 (19.10%) Public Sector
3 142 (13.84%) Finance
4 79 (7.70%) Banking
5 59 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.12%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (1.85%) Marketing
9 11 (1.07%) Health Technology
10 10 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.78%) Front Office
12 8 (0.78%) Military
13 7 (0.68%) Retail
14 6 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.39%) Aviation
15 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.29%) Law
16 3 (0.29%) Legal
16 3 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (27.49%) Developer
2 146 (14.23%) Senior
3 145 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
4 144 (14.04%) Architect
5 107 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 104 (10.14%) Data Engineer
7 83 (8.09%) Software Engineer
8 75 (7.31%) Lead
9 55 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
11 46 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 44 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 42 (4.09%) AWS Architect
14 41 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 39 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (3.80%) Python Engineer
16 38 (3.70%) AWS Developer
16 38 (3.70%) Senior Developer
17 36 (3.51%) Data Architect
17 36 (3.51%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.54%) Node.js
2 157 (15.30%) REST
3 147 (14.33%) RESTful
4 146 (14.23%) React
5 140 (13.65%) .NET
6 124 (12.09%) Kafka
7 70 (6.82%) OAuth
8 64 (6.24%) Spring Boot
9 60 (5.85%) Spring
10 59 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
11 56 (5.46%) AWS CDK
12 50 (4.87%) .NET Core
13 48 (4.68%) AngularJS
13 48 (4.68%) FastAPI
14 41 (4.00%) OAuth2
14 41 (4.00%) PySpark
15 40 (3.90%) JSON
16 38 (3.70%) GraphQL
16 38 (3.70%) JWT
17 37 (3.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 271 (26.41%) Cloud Native
2 96 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.05%) NHS
8 20 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.17%) Replication
14 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.78%) Data Fabric
17 8 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 111 (10.82%) Linux
2 12 (1.17%) Unix
3 8 (0.78%) Windows
4 5 (0.49%) VMS
4 5 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (60.33%) CI/CD
2 530 (51.66%) DevOps
3 398 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 352 (34.31%) Agile
5 300 (29.24%) Microservices
6 272 (26.51%) Containerisation
7 188 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (16.86%) Software Engineering
9 170 (16.57%) AI
10 151 (14.72%) Event-Driven
11 149 (14.52%) Analytics
11 149 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
12 125 (12.18%) Test Automation
13 122 (11.89%) Data Modelling
13 122 (11.89%) Observability
14 113 (11.01%) ETL
15 107 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 99 (9.65%) Mentoring
17 97 (9.45%) Machine Learning
18 95 (9.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 516 (50.29%) Python
2 276 (26.90%) SQL
3 163 (15.89%) Java
4 152 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 152 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 147 (14.33%) C#
6 68 (6.63%) Bash
7 60 (5.85%) Go
8 51 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.19%) Bicep
10 28 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.34%) Ruby
12 11 (1.07%) Perl
13 10 (0.97%) Formula Language
13 10 (0.97%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.88%) C++
14 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.68%) Korn
15 7 (0.68%) PHP
15 7 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 257 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 206 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.60%) AWS Certification
4 65 (6.34%) Degree
5 55 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (3.31%) Master's Degree
9 31 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 22 (2.14%) MCP
12 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.29%) PhD
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.097%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.07%) QA
2 43 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.00%) GDPR
4 32 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.85%) NIST
6 17 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.17%) WCAG
9 9 (0.88%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.39%) HL7
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.29%) PMO
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
12 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.19%) NCSC
12 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 306 (29.82%) Docker
2 28 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.49%) Squid
6 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.097%) RACF
Systems Management
1 455 (44.35%) Terraform
2 300 (29.24%) Kubernetes
3 118 (11.50%) Grafana
4 108 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 102 (9.94%) Ansible
6 17 (1.66%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.27%) Puppet
7 13 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.88%) Kibana
9 5 (0.49%) Consul
9 5 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.39%) Rancher
11 3 (0.29%) Argo
11 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.29%) Packer
12 2 (0.19%) Control-M
12 2 (0.19%) Knative
12 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 185 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.92%) Databricks
3 48 (4.68%) Google
4 44 (4.29%) Splunk
5 34 (3.31%) Oracle
6 33 (3.22%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.95%) Foundry
7 20 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.36%) Confluent
9 14 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.17%) IBM
11 10 (0.97%) Cisco
11 10 (0.97%) Cloudera
11 10 (0.97%) Lotus
12 9 (0.88%) Greenplum
12 9 (0.88%) Kofax
12 9 (0.88%) Palantir
12 9 (0.88%) Pega
13 7 (0.68%) Genesys