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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 108 132
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,052 824 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.51% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.59% 6.74% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 608 511
10th Percentile £389 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £538
% change year-on-year +1.42% -8.28% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £34.08 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 18,803 12,233 13,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.20% 37.23% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,198 9,163
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 273
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -18.59%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -28 849 £525 - 445
London -22 495 £550 - 284
UK excluding London -29 392 £500 +1.42% 216
Work from Home -32 338 £513 -0.49% 206
North of England -43 135 £500 +4.17% 70
Midlands -15 81 £481 +9.94% 24
North West -28 69 £550 +15.79% 37
West Midlands -18 66 £477 +12.24% 14
Scotland -5 57 £428 -14.50% 19
South West -16 48 £542 +5.97% 32
South East -62 46 £600 +33.33% 47
Yorkshire -35 44 £500 +2.56% 20
East of England -19 24 £525 - 8
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 13
East Midlands -12 15 £488 +8.32% 10
Northern Ireland +6 4 £283 -43.50% 7
Wales -8 3 £550 -4.39% 12

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 52 (4.94%) Confluence
2 46 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 33 (3.14%) Apache
5 19 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.67%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 824 (78.33%) AWS
2 661 (62.83%) AWS Lambda
3 448 (42.59%) Amazon S3
4 348 (33.08%) Azure
5 216 (20.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 205 (19.49%) GitHub
7 194 (18.44%) Amazon ECS
8 184 (17.49%) Amazon EC2
9 169 (16.06%) Amazon EKS
9 169 (16.06%) Azure Functions
10 161 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 145 (13.78%) GitHub Actions
12 124 (11.79%) Amazon SQS
13 117 (11.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 115 (10.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 107 (10.17%) Power Platform
16 106 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
17 81 (7.70%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.41%) GCP
19 73 (6.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.33%) Firewall
2 26 (2.47%) DNS
3 24 (2.28%) Network Security
4 18 (1.71%) VPN
5 13 (1.24%) WAN
6 12 (1.14%) HTTP
7 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.48%) CTI
8 5 (0.48%) MQTT
8 5 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.48%) SSL
9 4 (0.38%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.29%) FTP
10 3 (0.29%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.29%) IPv4
10 3 (0.29%) SMS
11 2 (0.19%) AMQP
11 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.095%) 4G
12 1 (0.095%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.25%) DynamoDB
2 155 (14.73%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.12%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 83 (7.89%) Power BI
7 75 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.84%) NoSQL
9 54 (5.13%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (4.18%) SQL Server
12 39 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 38 (3.61%) MySQL
14 34 (3.23%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.14%) Metadata
15 33 (3.14%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.28%) Tableau
17 21 (2.00%) Delta Lake
18 18 (1.71%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 181 (17.21%) Git
2 137 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 135 (12.83%) GitLab
4 74 (7.03%) JIRA
5 31 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 27 (2.57%) Bitbucket
7 26 (2.47%) Claude Code
8 21 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.33%) JUnit
11 13 (1.24%) Postman
12 12 (1.14%) Selenium
13 9 (0.86%) Mockito
14 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.76%) Vite
15 7 (0.67%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.67%) Gatling
15 7 (0.67%) MSTest
15 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 232 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 179 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.88%) Finance
4 72 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.33%) Banking
6 27 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.33%) Legal
9 11 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.05%) Law
9 11 (1.05%) Retail
10 10 (0.95%) Billing
10 10 (0.95%) Marketing
11 9 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.67%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Military
13 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (24.05%) Developer
2 194 (18.44%) Architect
3 190 (18.06%) Senior
4 176 (16.73%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (11.03%) Data Engineer
6 110 (10.46%) Lead
7 69 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (6.08%) AWS Architect
8 64 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 60 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 58 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 53 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (4.56%) AWS Developer
13 45 (4.28%) Python Developer
14 44 (4.18%) Senior Developer
15 43 (4.09%) Technical Architect
16 41 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
17 40 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
17 40 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (13.78%) REST
2 132 (12.55%) React
3 128 (12.17%) Node.js
4 113 (10.74%) .NET
5 110 (10.46%) RESTful
6 105 (9.98%) Kafka
7 78 (7.41%) AWS CDK
8 72 (6.84%) PySpark
9 64 (6.08%) Spring
9 64 (6.08%) Spring Boot
10 62 (5.89%) GraphQL
11 54 (5.13%) OAuth
12 46 (4.37%) FastAPI
13 44 (4.18%) AngularJS
14 40 (3.80%) JSON
15 36 (3.42%) OAuth2
16 34 (3.23%) CSS
16 34 (3.23%) OpenID
17 33 (3.14%) Flask
17 33 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 322 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.46%) Product Ownership
3 69 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.32%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.66%) NHS
6 26 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.43%) IVR
10 14 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.05%) IoT
13 11 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.86%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.42%) Linux
2 25 (2.38%) Unix
3 15 (1.43%) Windows
4 14 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.57%) zOS
6 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (60.27%) CI/CD
2 443 (42.11%) DevOps
3 396 (37.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (37.55%) Agile
5 265 (25.19%) Microservices
6 235 (22.34%) AI
7 222 (21.10%) Event-Driven
8 218 (20.72%) Containerisation
9 182 (17.30%) Observability
10 166 (15.78%) Test Automation
11 162 (15.40%) Data Modelling
12 159 (15.11%) Analytics
13 147 (13.97%) Software Engineering
14 145 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
15 139 (13.21%) ETL
16 138 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 133 (12.64%) Migration
18 130 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
19 126 (11.98%) Data Engineering
20 125 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 462 (43.92%) Python
2 306 (29.09%) SQL
3 179 (17.02%) TypeScript
4 152 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 135 (12.83%) Java
6 129 (12.26%) C#
7 73 (6.94%) Bash
8 39 (3.71%) Bicep
9 36 (3.42%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 15 (1.43%) Go
13 9 (0.86%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.67%) SPARQL
15 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 6 (0.57%) JCL
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.48%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 286 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 233 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (4.18%) Degree
6 38 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.57%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.94%) QA
3 39 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.23%) GDPR
5 26 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.09%) WCAG
7 15 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.05%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) NCSC
9 7 (0.67%) PMO
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.48%) SLA
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 268 (25.48%) Docker
2 33 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Squid
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 405 (38.50%) Terraform
2 237 (22.53%) Kubernetes
3 90 (8.56%) Grafana
4 75 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.47%) Ansible
6 16 (1.52%) Puppet
7 15 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.95%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.67%) Argo
10 7 (0.67%) linkerd
10 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) Packer
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.48%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) Consul
13 4 (0.38%) Kibana
14 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.29%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 150 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.32%) Databricks
3 36 (3.42%) Oracle
4 31 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.57%) Dynatrace
5 27 (2.57%) Informatica
6 25 (2.38%) Google
6 25 (2.38%) Splunk
7 23 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.14%) SAP
10 11 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.95%) Brio
12 9 (0.86%) Tenable
13 7 (0.67%) Confluent
13 7 (0.67%) New Relic
14 5 (0.48%) Denodo
14 5 (0.48%) Foundry
14 5 (0.48%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.48%) Workday