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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 103 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,095 756 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.53% 2.58% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.77% 6.78% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 571 596
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £542 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +3.24% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 16,163 11,156 14,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.29% 38.09% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,038 7,751 10,267
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 206 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.87 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%
75th Percentile £60.63 £41.85 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.13%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +6 876 £508 -7.59% 353
London +2 517 £513 -6.82% 158
UK excluding London -9 394 £500 - 251
Work from Home -27 294 £525 -3.67% 184
North of England +9 174 £500 - 94
North West -6 82 £455 -7.14% 49
Yorkshire +5 76 £500 - 33
Midlands -24 70 £520 +14.41% 20
Scotland +1 58 £401 -19.80% 16
West Midlands -18 55 £525 +9.15% 19
South East -68 50 £525 -8.70% 70
South West -17 30 £600 -2.10% 32
East of England +3 27 £570 -21.43% 18
North East +2 17 £500 -19.91% 14
East Midlands -31 15 £460 +0.22% 1
Wales -10 5 £481 +1.32% 3
Northern Ireland -4 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 54 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.84%) Apache
3 40 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (3.01%) Confluence
5 29 (2.65%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.28%) nginx
7 11 (1.00%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.91%) Mendix
9 9 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.091%) JBoss
12 1 (0.091%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 796 (72.69%) AWS
2 628 (57.35%) AWS Lambda
3 417 (38.08%) Azure
4 403 (36.80%) Amazon S3
5 251 (22.92%) GitHub
6 247 (22.56%) Azure Functions
7 224 (20.46%) Amazon ECS
8 217 (19.82%) Amazon EC2
9 207 (18.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 196 (17.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 191 (17.44%) Amazon EKS
12 183 (16.71%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
14 118 (10.78%) Power Platform
14 118 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 110 (10.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 100 (9.13%) AWS Step Functions
17 90 (8.22%) Azure Service Bus
18 83 (7.58%) GCP
19 77 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.84%) Firewall
2 31 (2.83%) DNS
3 27 (2.47%) VPN
4 12 (1.10%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.82%) SSL
6 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.55%) SMS
9 5 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.37%) WAN
11 3 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.18%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) Internet
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
13 1 (0.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.70%) Amazon RDS
2 133 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (11.96%) DynamoDB
4 94 (8.58%) NoSQL
5 74 (6.76%) Power BI
6 69 (6.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (6.03%) Data Lake
8 65 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
9 58 (5.30%) Relational Database
10 56 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 54 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 37 (3.38%) MongoDB
14 35 (3.20%) Redis
14 35 (3.20%) SQL Server
15 30 (2.74%) Tableau
16 27 (2.47%) Delta Lake
17 26 (2.37%) Metadata
18 25 (2.28%) Big Data
19 23 (2.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 191 (17.44%) Git
2 171 (15.62%) GitLab
3 168 (15.34%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.66%) JIRA
5 33 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 23 (2.10%) JUnit
7 20 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.64%) Liquibase
9 17 (1.55%) MLflow
9 17 (1.55%) Mockito
10 16 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 9 (0.82%) Mocha
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
13 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.73%) NUnit
14 8 (0.73%) Selenium
15 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 245 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 217 (19.82%) Public Sector
3 157 (14.34%) Finance
4 78 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.21%) Banking
6 29 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.28%) Marketing
9 11 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.82%) Military
10 9 (0.82%) Retail
11 8 (0.73%) Legal
12 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Front Office
14 4 (0.37%) Aviation
14 4 (0.37%) Law
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (26.03%) Developer
2 166 (15.16%) Architect
3 160 (14.61%) Senior
4 153 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 91 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.85%) Lead
8 73 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 68 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.02%) AWS Architect
11 49 (4.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 48 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
13 47 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (3.84%) Java Developer
15 41 (3.74%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.65%) AWS Developer
16 40 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.65%) Python Engineer
17 38 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (15.80%) Node.js
2 153 (13.97%) REST
3 144 (13.15%) React
4 139 (12.69%) .NET
5 134 (12.24%) RESTful
6 127 (11.60%) Kafka
7 86 (7.85%) Spring
8 84 (7.67%) Spring Boot
9 81 (7.40%) OAuth
10 58 (5.30%) AngularJS
11 53 (4.84%) PySpark
12 48 (4.38%) AWS CDK
12 48 (4.38%) OAuth2
13 47 (4.29%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (4.29%) GraphQL
14 45 (4.11%) JSON
15 44 (4.02%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.29%) JWT
17 35 (3.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 289 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.28%) NHS
7 22 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.73%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.73%) Replication
17 7 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.86%) Linux
2 13 (1.19%) Unix
3 12 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (61.10%) CI/CD
2 563 (51.42%) DevOps
3 419 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 356 (32.51%) Agile
5 312 (28.49%) Microservices
6 281 (25.66%) Containerisation
7 194 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.44%) AI
9 162 (14.79%) Analytics
9 162 (14.79%) Observability
10 155 (14.16%) Event-Driven
11 153 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
12 150 (13.70%) Software Engineering
13 145 (13.24%) Data Modelling
14 142 (12.97%) Test Automation
15 129 (11.78%) ETL
16 122 (11.14%) Data Engineering
17 116 (10.59%) Migration
18 107 (9.77%) Machine Learning
19 106 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 523 (47.76%) Python
2 310 (28.31%) SQL
3 169 (15.43%) Java
4 157 (14.34%) C#
5 155 (14.16%) JavaScript
6 153 (13.97%) TypeScript
7 69 (6.30%) Bash
8 56 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.57%) Bicep
10 48 (4.38%) Go
11 30 (2.74%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.47%) Ruby
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.00%) Perl
13 11 (1.00%) Scala
14 8 (0.73%) C++
14 8 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 278 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 214 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 85 (7.76%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.47%) Degree
5 46 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.20%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.01%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.21%) QA
3 35 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.11%) GDPR
5 28 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.01%) NIST
6 22 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.19%) WCAG
8 11 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.82%) PMO
10 7 (0.64%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 312 (28.49%) Docker
2 32 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.73%) Squid
4 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.46%) RACF
6 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 467 (42.65%) Terraform
2 287 (26.21%) Kubernetes
3 113 (10.32%) Grafana
4 111 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 86 (7.85%) Ansible
6 24 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.10%) Puppet
8 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.64%) Consul
9 7 (0.64%) Kibana
10 5 (0.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.37%) linkerd
11 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 188 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.31%) Databricks
3 45 (4.11%) OpenAI
4 38 (3.47%) Oracle
5 37 (3.38%) Splunk
6 30 (2.74%) Google
7 23 (2.10%) Foundry
8 18 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.00%) Lotus
12 10 (0.91%) Kofax
13 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.82%) IBM
13 9 (0.82%) Palantir
13 9 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.73%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.73%) Confluent
14 8 (0.73%) Greenplum
14 8 (0.73%) Sybase