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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 105 130
Rank change year-on-year -35 +25 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,057 820 717
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.48% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.64% 6.65% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 607 520
10th Percentile £388 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £426 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £535
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.04% +1.90%
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 18,734 12,335 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.25% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,359 8,262 9,249
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £616 £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 623 313 274
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -20.11%

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 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 3 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 3 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 -30 850 £525 - 357
London -15 499 £550 - 204
UK excluding London -30 392 £500 +1.63% 203
Work from Home -26 340 £525 - 191
North of England -40 133 £500 +3.09% 71
Midlands -4 80 £479 +6.44% 22
North West -39 69 £550 +13.40% 34
West Midlands -16 64 £476 +8.80% 16
Scotland +2 58 £428 -14.50% 15
South West -15 49 £538 +8.86% 30
South East -64 46 £600 +33.33% 45
Yorkshire -38 45 £500 +3.90% 22
East of England -13 24 £550 +4.76% 11
North East -26 20 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -13 16 £488 +8.32% 6
Northern Ireland +4 4 £283 -43.50% 7
Wales -12 4 £400 -30.47% 4

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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 43 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.84%) Apache
5 19 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) CICS
7 6 (0.57%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.095%) Mendix
Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) 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
1 832 (78.71%) AWS
2 659 (62.35%) AWS Lambda
3 446 (42.19%) Amazon S3
4 352 (33.30%) Azure
5 213 (20.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 203 (19.21%) GitHub
7 196 (18.54%) Amazon ECS
8 184 (17.41%) Amazon EC2
9 173 (16.37%) Amazon EKS
10 168 (15.89%) Azure Functions
11 161 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
13 123 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (10.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 116 (10.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 110 (10.41%) Power Platform
16 104 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
17 79 (7.47%) GCP
18 76 (7.19%) Amazon EventBridge
19 71 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.50%) Firewall
2 27 (2.55%) DNS
3 24 (2.27%) Network Security
4 19 (1.80%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 10 (0.95%) HTTP
7 8 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) CTI
8 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 5 (0.47%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.47%) SSL
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) IPsec
10 2 (0.19%) SMS
10 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.18%) DynamoDB
2 152 (14.38%) Amazon RDS
3 117 (11.07%) Amazon Athena
4 98 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (8.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 85 (8.04%) Power BI
7 76 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
8 72 (6.81%) NoSQL
9 55 (5.20%) Data Lake
10 49 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 46 (4.35%) SQL Server
12 38 (3.60%) MySQL
13 36 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (3.22%) Relational Database
15 33 (3.12%) MongoDB
16 32 (3.03%) Metadata
17 24 (2.27%) Tableau
18 19 (1.80%) Delta Lake
19 18 (1.70%) Big Data
20 16 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 181 (17.12%) Git
2 138 (13.06%) GitLab
2 138 (13.06%) Jenkins
3 74 (7.00%) JIRA
4 31 (2.93%) Cypress.io
5 27 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.37%) Claude Code
7 22 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.32%) JUnit
10 13 (1.23%) Postman
11 11 (1.04%) Selenium
12 9 (0.85%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.76%) MSTest
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.76%) Vite
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) Mocha
14 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 233 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.03%) Public Sector
3 144 (13.62%) Finance
4 72 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.22%) Banking
6 26 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.42%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Law
10 11 (1.04%) Retail
11 10 (0.95%) Billing
11 10 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.95%) Marketing
12 9 (0.85%) Back Office
13 7 (0.66%) Front Office
14 6 (0.57%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.47%) Police
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (23.84%) Developer
2 197 (18.64%) Senior
3 196 (18.54%) Architect
4 178 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
5 117 (11.07%) Data Engineer
6 111 (10.50%) Lead
7 69 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.34%) AWS Architect
9 64 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 63 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 52 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (4.64%) AWS Developer
14 47 (4.45%) Senior Developer
15 46 (4.35%) Technical Architect
16 44 (4.16%) Python Developer
17 43 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
18 41 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
19 40 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
20 39 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (13.34%) REST
2 132 (12.49%) React
3 127 (12.02%) Node.js
4 113 (10.69%) .NET
5 110 (10.41%) RESTful
6 104 (9.84%) Kafka
7 74 (7.00%) AWS CDK
8 73 (6.91%) PySpark
9 66 (6.24%) Spring Boot
10 64 (6.05%) Spring
11 63 (5.96%) GraphQL
12 57 (5.39%) OAuth
13 46 (4.35%) AngularJS
13 46 (4.35%) FastAPI
14 40 (3.78%) JSON
15 39 (3.69%) OAuth2
16 36 (3.41%) OpenID
17 35 (3.31%) CSS
18 34 (3.22%) HTML
19 33 (3.12%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 323 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 71 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (5.01%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.55%) NHS
6 25 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.23%) IVR
10 12 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.95%) IoT
12 10 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.39%) Linux
2 24 (2.27%) Unix
3 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) zOS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (60.45%) CI/CD
2 450 (42.57%) DevOps
3 400 (37.84%) Agile
4 393 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 273 (25.83%) Microservices
6 233 (22.04%) AI
7 220 (20.81%) Event-Driven
8 218 (20.62%) Containerisation
9 181 (17.12%) Observability
10 165 (15.61%) Data Modelling
11 164 (15.52%) Test Automation
12 158 (14.95%) Analytics
13 147 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
14 144 (13.62%) Software Engineering
15 140 (13.25%) ETL
16 135 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 131 (12.39%) Migration
17 131 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
17 131 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (12.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 463 (43.80%) Python
2 305 (28.86%) SQL
3 179 (16.93%) TypeScript
4 153 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 139 (13.15%) Java
6 131 (12.39%) C#
7 73 (6.91%) Bash
8 38 (3.60%) Bicep
8 38 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.51%) Scala
11 14 (1.32%) Go
12 10 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.76%) Groovy
13 8 (0.76%) Ruby
14 7 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 6 (0.57%) JCL
15 6 (0.57%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 286 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 235 (22.23%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.26%) Degree
6 37 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 27 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.92%) QA
3 39 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.03%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.08%) WCAG
7 14 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 7 (0.66%) PMO
10 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.47%) HL7
10 5 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 267 (25.26%) Docker
2 34 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.66%) Squid
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.095%) RACF
7 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 402 (38.03%) Terraform
2 239 (22.61%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.61%) Grafana
4 78 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.35%) Ansible
6 18 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.51%) Puppet
8 9 (0.85%) Istio
9 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.66%) Argo
10 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.57%) linkerd
11 6 (0.57%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) Packer
12 5 (0.47%) Salt
13 4 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.38%) Kibana
14 3 (0.28%) Consul
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 151 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.20%) Databricks
3 33 (3.12%) Oracle
4 32 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.55%) Informatica
6 26 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.27%) Google
7 24 (2.27%) Splunk
8 22 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.95%) Brio
10 10 (0.95%) SAP
11 9 (0.85%) Tenable
12 7 (0.66%) Confluent
12 7 (0.66%) New Relic
13 5 (0.47%) Denodo
13 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.47%) Sybase
13 5 (0.47%) Workday