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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 100 119
Rank change year-on-year -54 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,062 876 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.92% 2.64% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 6.88% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 635 503
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £638
90th Percentile £775 £675 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £35.98 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £53.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 - -

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 19,177 12,735 13,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.39% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,727 8,519 8,599
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 288 181
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.80 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -44.94% +55.49%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -42 864 £525 +2.19% 794
London -20 516 £550 +2.33% 447
UK excluding London -77 391 £500 - 419
Work from Home -36 345 £548 +5.29% 415
North of England -65 128 £500 +2.56% 139
Midlands -38 85 £430 -14.43% 58
North West -38 65 £525 +10.53% 89
West Midlands -34 64 £460 -10.24% 32
South East -48 57 £600 +41.18% 58
Scotland -25 53 £438 -12.50% 43
South West -19 47 £534 -2.95% 49
Yorkshire -65 43 £500 +2.04% 36
East Midlands -14 21 £425 -2.30% 26
North East -29 20 £463 -11.14% 14
East of England -50 15 £515 - 33
Northern Ireland +8 5 £375 - 27
Wales -11 5 £419 -16.33% 15

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 58 (5.46%) Confluence
2 50 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 40 (3.77%) Apache
4 40 (3.77%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.94%) CMS
6 9 (0.85%) SAS
7 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.66%) nginx
8 6 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.56%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.094%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.094%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 813 (76.55%) AWS
2 656 (61.77%) AWS Lambda
3 427 (40.21%) Amazon S3
4 382 (35.97%) Azure
5 252 (23.73%) GitHub
6 239 (22.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 213 (20.06%) Azure Functions
8 206 (19.40%) Amazon ECS
9 172 (16.20%) Amazon EKS
10 164 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
11 163 (15.35%) Amazon EC2
12 162 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 155 (14.60%) Amazon SQS
14 136 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
15 128 (12.05%) Power Platform
16 109 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 107 (10.08%) Amazon EventBridge
18 105 (9.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 84 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
20 73 (6.87%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.11%) Network Security
2 30 (2.82%) Firewall
3 25 (2.35%) DNS
4 13 (1.22%) HTTP
4 13 (1.22%) VPN
5 11 (1.04%) WAN
6 7 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
8 4 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) Internet
10 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.20%) Amazon RDS
2 171 (16.10%) DynamoDB
3 108 (10.17%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
5 87 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (8.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (6.78%) Power BI
8 66 (6.21%) Data Lake
9 65 (6.12%) NoSQL
10 56 (5.27%) SQL Server
11 55 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
12 51 (4.80%) MySQL
13 46 (4.33%) MongoDB
14 36 (3.39%) Metadata
15 33 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (2.64%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (2.07%) Relational Database
18 21 (1.98%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (19.02%) Git
2 150 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 145 (13.65%) GitLab
4 79 (7.44%) JIRA
5 33 (3.11%) Cypress.io
6 32 (3.01%) Claude Code
6 32 (3.01%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.45%) Bitbucket
8 19 (1.79%) JUnit
8 19 (1.79%) Selenium
9 15 (1.41%) Mockito
9 15 (1.41%) Postman
10 14 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.22%) Maven
12 11 (1.04%) RStudio
13 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.85%) JMeter
14 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
15 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 250 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.85%) Public Sector
3 165 (15.54%) Finance
4 85 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.05%) Banking
7 17 (1.60%) Marketing
8 15 (1.41%) Back Office
9 13 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Billing
10 12 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.13%) Legal
10 12 (1.13%) Retail
11 11 (1.04%) Law
11 11 (1.04%) Military
12 8 (0.75%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (22.50%) Developer
2 220 (20.72%) Senior
3 188 (17.70%) Architect
4 172 (16.20%) AWS Engineer
5 134 (12.62%) Data Engineer
6 120 (11.30%) Lead
7 92 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.31%) AWS Architect
9 59 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 50 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
11 49 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.95%) Senior Developer
15 41 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
15 41 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
15 41 (3.86%) Python Engineer
16 38 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (40.02%) Terraform
2 201 (18.93%) REST
3 137 (12.90%) .NET
4 115 (10.83%) React
5 111 (10.45%) Node.js
6 106 (9.98%) Kafka
6 106 (9.98%) RESTful
7 89 (8.38%) AWS CDK
8 70 (6.59%) PySpark
9 68 (6.40%) Spring Boot
10 67 (6.31%) Spring
11 66 (6.21%) GraphQL
12 61 (5.74%) OAuth
13 57 (5.37%) FastAPI
14 43 (4.05%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.86%) OAuth2
16 39 (3.67%) JSON
17 38 (3.58%) OpenID
18 36 (3.39%) CSS
19 33 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 348 (32.77%) Cloud Native
2 95 (8.95%) Product Ownership
3 87 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
4 76 (7.16%) AI Agents
5 40 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 33 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.07%) NHS
10 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.60%) IVR
12 16 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
13 14 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.22%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 12 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.13%) Mainframe
16 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.87%) Linux
2 26 (2.45%) Unix
3 20 (1.88%) Windows
4 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) AIX
5 3 (0.28%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.094%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (64.12%) CI/CD
2 489 (46.05%) DevOps
3 433 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 403 (37.95%) Agile
5 284 (26.74%) AI
6 260 (24.48%) Event-Driven
7 245 (23.07%) Microservices
8 215 (20.24%) Observability
9 206 (19.40%) Containerisation
10 188 (17.70%) Test Automation
11 181 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 173 (16.29%) Software Engineering
13 167 (15.73%) Analytics
14 165 (15.54%) Data Modelling
15 161 (15.16%) Technical Leadership
16 160 (15.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 153 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
18 151 (14.22%) Migration
19 148 (13.94%) Data Engineering
20 141 (13.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 483 (45.48%) Python
2 302 (28.44%) SQL
3 191 (17.98%) TypeScript
4 159 (14.97%) JavaScript
5 154 (14.50%) C#
6 141 (13.28%) Java
7 76 (7.16%) Bash
8 47 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 44 (4.14%) Bicep
10 33 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.22%) Scala
13 12 (1.13%) Go
14 9 (0.85%) Groovy
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.66%) Rust
16 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.56%) R
16 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 277 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 238 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 63 (5.93%) Degree
5 60 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.11%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.66%) CISSP
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 83 (7.82%) QA
3 50 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.39%) GDPR
5 31 (2.92%) WCAG
6 18 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.94%) NIST
9 8 (0.75%) SLA
10 7 (0.66%) NCSC
11 6 (0.56%) HL7
12 4 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.094%) GLBA
15 1 (0.094%) GRC
15 1 (0.094%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.094%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.094%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 273 (25.71%) Docker
2 35 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.094%) HDFS
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 249 (23.45%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.10%) Grafana
3 67 (6.31%) Prometheus
4 58 (5.46%) Ansible
5 13 (1.22%) Puppet
6 11 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.85%) Packer
8 7 (0.66%) Argo
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Podman
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.47%) Istio
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.38%) Rancher
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 211 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.53%) Databricks
3 48 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 46 (4.33%) Oracle
5 33 (3.11%) Dynatrace
5 33 (3.11%) Google
6 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.45%) Informatica
8 25 (2.35%) Splunk
9 16 (1.51%) Foundry
9 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.94%) Brio
12 9 (0.85%) Confluent
12 9 (0.85%) Tenable
13 6 (0.56%) SAP
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) UiPath
15 4 (0.38%) Adyen
15 4 (0.38%) NVIDIA