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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 97 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,099 765 794
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.45% 2.63% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.64% 6.90% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 582 606
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +2.97% -7.16%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £624
90th Percentile £700 £788 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £50.88 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +190.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 16,559 11,085 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.12% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,284 7,774 10,164
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £495
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.84% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.48%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -12 888 £513 -6.82% 350
London -15 527 £513 -10.87% 153
UK excluding London -11 389 £500 - 232
Work from Home -32 294 £525 -3.67% 184
North of England +11 173 £500 - 90
North West -17 81 £500 +2.56% 47
Yorkshire +7 79 £500 - 34
Midlands -21 68 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -23 54 £506 +5.20% 18
South East -55 52 £525 +5.00% 61
Scotland -5 51 £400 -23.81% 9
South West -20 32 £582 -5.02% 31
East of England -16 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -8 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -25 14 £460 +2.22% 4
Wales -8 5 £481 +1.32%
Northern Ireland -3 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 52 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.82%) Apache
3 40 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (3.09%) Confluence
5 29 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.36%) 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
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 810 (73.70%) AWS
2 644 (58.60%) AWS Lambda
3 421 (38.31%) Amazon S3
4 411 (37.40%) Azure
5 252 (22.93%) GitHub
6 235 (21.38%) Azure Functions
7 228 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
8 216 (19.65%) Amazon EC2
9 205 (18.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 204 (18.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 186 (16.92%) Amazon EKS
12 182 (16.56%) GitHub Actions
13 176 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
14 123 (11.19%) Power Platform
15 118 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 114 (10.37%) AWS Step Functions
17 106 (9.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 91 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
19 89 (8.10%) Azure Service Bus
20 84 (7.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.19%) Firewall
2 38 (3.46%) DNS
3 29 (2.64%) VPN
4 13 (1.18%) Network Security
5 12 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 10 (0.91%) HTTP
7 10 (0.91%) SSL
8 9 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.82%) OpenVPN
9 7 (0.64%) SMS
10 5 (0.45%) IPsec
11 4 (0.36%) WAN
12 2 (0.18%) AMQP
12 2 (0.18%) LAN
13 1 (0.091%) 4G
13 1 (0.091%) BGP
13 1 (0.091%) CTI
13 1 (0.091%) MPLS
13 1 (0.091%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.83%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (13.47%) DynamoDB
3 130 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (8.74%) NoSQL
5 80 (7.28%) Power BI
6 74 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
7 68 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (6.01%) Data Lake
9 59 (5.37%) Relational Database
10 54 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
11 52 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.28%) MongoDB
13 35 (3.18%) SQL Server
14 33 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
14 33 (3.00%) Tableau
15 32 (2.91%) Metadata
16 31 (2.82%) Redis
17 27 (2.46%) Big Data
18 26 (2.37%) MySQL
19 25 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 194 (17.65%) Git
2 173 (15.74%) GitLab
3 165 (15.01%) Jenkins
4 65 (5.91%) JIRA
5 31 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.00%) JUnit
7 19 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.55%) Liquibase
8 17 (1.55%) Mockito
9 16 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.18%) MLflow
11 12 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
12 10 (0.91%) Selenium
13 9 (0.82%) Postman
13 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.73%) NUnit
15 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.64%) Mocha
General
1 250 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 215 (19.56%) Public Sector
3 156 (14.19%) Finance
4 78 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.73%) Banking
6 34 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.27%) Marketing
9 9 (0.82%) Health Technology
10 8 (0.73%) Legal
11 7 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.64%) Retail
12 6 (0.55%) Billing
12 6 (0.55%) Military
13 5 (0.45%) Front Office
14 4 (0.36%) Aviation
14 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.36%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (26.11%) Developer
2 172 (15.65%) Architect
3 159 (14.47%) AWS Engineer
4 157 (14.29%) Senior
5 110 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 92 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 85 (7.73%) Lead
8 72 (6.55%) Software Engineer
9 63 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (5.10%) AWS Architect
11 52 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 50 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 45 (4.09%) AWS Developer
15 44 (4.00%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.91%) Java Developer
17 41 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (15.92%) Node.js
2 154 (14.01%) REST
3 150 (13.65%) React
4 132 (12.01%) RESTful
5 129 (11.74%) Kafka
6 128 (11.65%) .NET
7 93 (8.46%) Spring
8 91 (8.28%) Spring Boot
9 82 (7.46%) OAuth
10 61 (5.55%) PySpark
11 57 (5.19%) AngularJS
12 49 (4.46%) JSON
13 47 (4.28%) AWS CDK
13 47 (4.28%) OAuth2
14 46 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (4.09%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.91%) FastAPI
17 41 (3.73%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.37%) JWT
19 35 (3.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 279 (25.39%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.64%) NHS
5 28 (2.55%) AI Agents
6 25 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.73%) DataPower
15 8 (0.73%) IoT
15 8 (0.73%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.83%) Linux
2 17 (1.55%) Unix
3 12 (1.09%) Windows
4 5 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.27%) zOS
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.091%) Android
8 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (61.69%) CI/CD
2 569 (51.77%) DevOps
3 424 (38.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 364 (33.12%) Agile
5 307 (27.93%) Microservices
6 278 (25.30%) Containerisation
7 182 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.11%) AI
9 167 (15.20%) Event-Driven
10 160 (14.56%) Observability
11 157 (14.29%) Analytics
12 149 (13.56%) Software Engineering
13 147 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
14 144 (13.10%) Data Modelling
15 138 (12.56%) ETL
16 134 (12.19%) Test Automation
17 118 (10.74%) Migration
18 117 (10.65%) Data Engineering
19 106 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
20 104 (9.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 519 (47.22%) Python
2 309 (28.12%) SQL
3 180 (16.38%) Java
4 159 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 159 (14.47%) TypeScript
5 158 (14.38%) C#
6 74 (6.73%) Bash
7 57 (5.19%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.55%) Bicep
9 47 (4.28%) Go
10 34 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.55%) Ruby
12 13 (1.18%) Scala
13 11 (1.00%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.00%) LotusScript
14 9 (0.82%) Perl
15 8 (0.73%) C++
16 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 226 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (4.19%) Degree
5 38 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 33 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.18%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.36%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.10%) QA
3 33 (3.00%) GDPR
4 32 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.64%) NIST
8 13 (1.18%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.91%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.36%) HL7
10 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.36%) NCSC
10 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 313 (28.48%) Docker
2 34 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) Squid
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.45%) RACF
7 3 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 474 (43.13%) Terraform
2 294 (26.75%) Kubernetes
3 114 (10.37%) Grafana
4 109 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 82 (7.46%) Ansible
6 25 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.09%) Puppet
9 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.64%) Consul
10 7 (0.64%) Kibana
11 5 (0.45%) Istio
11 5 (0.45%) Rancher
12 4 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.36%) linkerd
13 3 (0.27%) Argo
13 3 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 180 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.64%) Databricks
3 43 (3.91%) OpenAI
4 42 (3.82%) Oracle
5 39 (3.55%) Splunk
6 27 (2.46%) Google
7 19 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.55%) Foundry
10 11 (1.00%) Lotus
10 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.91%) Brio
11 10 (0.91%) Kofax
11 10 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.82%) Palantir
12 9 (0.82%) SAP
13 8 (0.73%) Confluent
13 8 (0.73%) IBM
13 8 (0.73%) Sybase