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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 100 131
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,092 785 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.62% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 6.94% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 585 570
10th Percentile £381 £400 £381
25th Percentile £438 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
75th Percentile £630 £604 £625
90th Percentile £735 £723 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £86.60 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 18,016 11,318 14,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.77% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 7,621 9,986
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 281 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -21.62%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -15 882 £525 - 211
London -15 530 £533 -3.18% 114
UK excluding London -22 378 £500 - 155
Work from Home -22 342 £510 -2.86% 118
North of England -24 144 £500 - 45
North West -21 82 £525 +5.00% 24
Midlands -18 63 £488 -2.50% 16
South East -41 55 £575 +15.00% 46
Scotland -17 50 £450 -14.29% 6
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 14
West Midlands -26 49 £488 -4.79% 9
South West -20 41 £575 +8.24% 24
East of England -20 26 £550 +2.33% 6
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 7
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 7
Wales -10 6 £500 -13.08% 6
Northern Ireland +2 4 £190 -62.00% 10

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 57 (5.22%) Confluence
2 46 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (4.03%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.47%) Apache
5 26 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.19%) nginx
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.46%) Mendix
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) JBoss
12 1 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.092%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 841 (77.01%) AWS
2 665 (60.90%) AWS Lambda
3 468 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 388 (35.53%) Azure
5 228 (20.88%) GitHub
6 202 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 201 (18.41%) Amazon EC2
8 196 (17.95%) Azure Functions
9 181 (16.58%) Amazon ECS
10 178 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 157 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
13 127 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
13 127 (11.63%) Power Platform
14 121 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 114 (10.44%) Amazon SQS
16 111 (10.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 87 (7.97%) Azure Logic Apps
18 81 (7.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 74 (6.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.21%) Firewall
2 32 (2.93%) DNS
3 24 (2.20%) VPN
4 21 (1.92%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.19%) WAN
6 10 (0.92%) HTTP
7 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.46%) SMS
11 4 (0.37%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 3 (0.27%) CTI
12 3 (0.27%) FTP
12 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.27%) IPv4
13 2 (0.18%) AMQP
14 1 (0.092%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.65%) DynamoDB
2 150 (13.74%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 99 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (8.06%) Power BI
7 71 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
8 67 (6.14%) NoSQL
9 63 (5.77%) Data Lake
10 50 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (4.12%) SQL Server
13 34 (3.11%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.02%) MySQL
15 31 (2.84%) Metadata
16 27 (2.47%) MongoDB
16 27 (2.47%) Tableau
17 23 (2.11%) Big Data
18 22 (2.01%) Redis
19 19 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (16.03%) Git
2 151 (13.83%) GitLab
3 139 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 81 (7.42%) JIRA
5 27 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.47%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.01%) JUnit
11 9 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.82%) Mocha
11 9 (0.82%) Postman
11 9 (0.82%) Vite
12 8 (0.73%) MSTest
13 6 (0.55%) Gatling
13 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 6 (0.55%) Mockito
13 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.55%) tSQLt
General
1 241 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 146 (13.37%) Finance
4 66 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.56%) Banking
7 16 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.37%) Legal
9 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.10%) Law
10 10 (0.92%) Military
11 8 (0.73%) Marketing
11 8 (0.73%) Retail
12 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.55%) Billing
13 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.46%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Back Office
15 4 (0.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (23.17%) Developer
2 204 (18.68%) Architect
3 174 (15.93%) Senior
4 167 (15.29%) AWS Engineer
5 127 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 102 (9.34%) Lead
7 77 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.50%) AWS Architect
8 71 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 64 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 52 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (4.67%) Technical Architect
13 49 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
14 48 (4.40%) AWS Developer
14 48 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
15 45 (4.12%) Python Engineer
16 44 (4.03%) Senior Developer
17 41 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 41 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (12.55%) React
2 135 (12.36%) REST
3 123 (11.26%) Node.js
4 120 (10.99%) Kafka
5 118 (10.81%) .NET
6 112 (10.26%) RESTful
7 78 (7.14%) PySpark
8 71 (6.50%) OAuth
9 70 (6.41%) Spring Boot
10 68 (6.23%) Spring
11 64 (5.86%) AWS CDK
12 60 (5.49%) GraphQL
13 49 (4.49%) FastAPI
14 44 (4.03%) OpenID
15 43 (3.94%) AngularJS
15 43 (3.94%) JSON
16 42 (3.85%) OAuth2
17 36 (3.30%) Next.js
18 29 (2.66%) .NET Core
18 29 (2.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 322 (29.49%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.29%) NHS
7 18 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.73%) IVR
12 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.04%) Linux
2 22 (2.01%) Unix
3 13 (1.19%) Windows
4 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.55%) zOS
6 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 485 (44.41%) DevOps
3 394 (36.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (34.07%) Agile
5 259 (23.72%) Microservices
6 235 (21.52%) Containerisation
7 227 (20.79%) AI
8 203 (18.59%) Event-Driven
9 174 (15.93%) Observability
10 162 (14.84%) Analytics
11 155 (14.19%) Data Modelling
12 153 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
13 150 (13.74%) Test Automation
14 148 (13.55%) Software Engineering
15 144 (13.19%) ETL
16 140 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
17 126 (11.54%) Data Engineering
18 123 (11.26%) Migration
19 117 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 115 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 485 (44.41%) Python
2 315 (28.85%) SQL
3 173 (15.84%) TypeScript
4 152 (13.92%) C#
5 148 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 140 (12.82%) Java
7 60 (5.49%) Bash
8 39 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.39%) Bicep
10 35 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.74%) Go
12 18 (1.65%) Scala
13 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.73%) Ruby
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) JCL
17 5 (0.46%) Formula Language
17 5 (0.46%) LotusScript
17 5 (0.46%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 284 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 228 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.32%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (3.30%) Degree
7 31 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.12%) QA
3 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.47%) GDPR
5 25 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.37%) NIST
8 12 (1.10%) WCAG
9 7 (0.64%) NCSC
9 7 (0.64%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.092%) NIST 800
System Software
1 276 (25.27%) Docker
2 34 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 435 (39.84%) Terraform
2 252 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 98 (8.97%) Grafana
4 89 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 47 (4.30%) Ansible
6 26 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.83%) Puppet
8 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 9 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.73%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Istio
11 6 (0.55%) linkerd
11 6 (0.55%) Podman
11 6 (0.55%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Argo
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
15 2 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 155 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.14%) Databricks
3 51 (4.67%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.11%) Oracle
5 25 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.29%) Informatica
6 23 (2.11%) Splunk
7 20 (1.83%) Google
8 14 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.01%) Foundry
9 11 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.82%) Confluent
10 9 (0.82%) Tenable
11 8 (0.73%) Brio
11 8 (0.73%) SAP
12 7 (0.64%) Sybase
13 6 (0.55%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.46%) Teradata