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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 115 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 973 739 847
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.64% 2.15% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.96% 5.92% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 518 628
10th Percentile £380 £391 £400
25th Percentile £415 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +1.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £638
90th Percentile £688 £788 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £43.25 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £44.38 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £49.38 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile £49.75 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,986 12,486 15,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.29% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,543 8,302 10,995
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 176 273
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.33 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.08 £69.72 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +29.17% +7.69%

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 17 December 2025.

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
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 17 December 2025. 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 +12 773 £500 -12.66% 254
London +12 430 £525 -6.25% 115
UK excluding London +1 391 £475 -8.65% 178
Work from Home +2 299 £525 +0.96% 185
North of England +34 167 £476 -3.94% 63
Yorkshire +25 93 £500 -6.67% 34
Midlands +7 71 £500 +11.11% 26
Scotland +4 70 £450 -6.25% 5
North West +2 64 £450 +1.12% 25
West Midlands 0 55 £525 +5.00% 15
South East -57 44 £443 -29.20% 50
East of England +4 27 £528 -7.46% 8
South West -14 26 £650 - 24
East Midlands -15 16 £390 -12.75% 11
North East -2 11 £525 -13.93% 5
Northern Ireland -5 4 - -
Wales -6 2 £481 -3.75% 6

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 47 (4.83%) Apache
2 35 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.77%) Confluence
5 14 (1.44%) nginx
5 14 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.62%) CMS
6 6 (0.62%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.51%) Mendix
8 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.10%) CICS
10 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.41%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 714 (73.38%) AWS
2 584 (60.02%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (36.69%) Amazon S3
4 329 (33.81%) Azure
5 212 (21.79%) GitHub
6 202 (20.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 198 (20.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 192 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
9 188 (19.32%) Azure Functions
10 180 (18.50%) Amazon EC2
11 158 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
12 140 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
13 126 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
14 98 (10.07%) GCP
15 95 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 92 (9.46%) Amazon SQS
16 92 (9.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (8.02%) AWS Step Functions
18 71 (7.30%) Power Platform
19 69 (7.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.19%) Firewall
2 27 (2.77%) DNS
3 26 (2.67%) VPN
4 13 (1.34%) Network Security
5 10 (1.03%) HTTP
6 9 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.72%) SSL
8 6 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.41%) DHCP
10 4 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.41%) LAN
10 4 (0.41%) WAN
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 1 (0.10%) Internet
12 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.10%) MQTT
12 1 (0.10%) NAS
12 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (17.68%) Amazon RDS
2 142 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (13.05%) DynamoDB
4 99 (10.17%) NoSQL
5 69 (7.09%) Relational Database
6 61 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
6 61 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 50 (5.14%) Power BI
9 48 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (4.83%) Data Lake
11 38 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.70%) MongoDB
13 34 (3.49%) Big Data
14 33 (3.39%) Redis
15 29 (2.98%) MySQL
16 27 (2.77%) SQL Server
17 24 (2.47%) RDBMS
18 20 (2.06%) Tableau
19 15 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 182 (18.71%) Git
2 173 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 155 (15.93%) GitLab
4 73 (7.50%) JIRA
5 39 (4.01%) Liquibase
6 24 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 23 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.26%) SonarQube
9 21 (2.16%) JUnit
10 16 (1.64%) MLflow
10 16 (1.64%) Mockito
10 16 (1.64%) Postman
11 13 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.34%) Maven
11 13 (1.34%) Selenium
11 13 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.82%) Gradle
14 6 (0.62%) JMeter
15 5 (0.51%) SonarLint
General
1 247 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 180 (18.50%) Public Sector
3 138 (14.18%) Finance
4 84 (8.63%) Banking
5 58 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.29%) Financial Institution
7 15 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.54%) Marketing
8 12 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.03%) Front Office
9 10 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.82%) Health Technology
11 7 (0.72%) Retail
12 6 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (0.62%) Military
13 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.21%) Aviation
14 2 (0.21%) Billing
14 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 253 (26.00%) Developer
2 158 (16.24%) Senior
3 148 (15.21%) AWS Engineer
4 125 (12.85%) Architect
5 121 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (8.84%) Software Engineer
7 82 (8.43%) Data Engineer
8 76 (7.81%) Lead
9 50 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 42 (4.32%) Python Engineer
13 39 (4.01%) Java Developer
13 39 (4.01%) Senior Developer
14 38 (3.91%) AWS Developer
14 38 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
15 35 (3.60%) Technical Architect
16 33 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (3.29%) AWS Architect
18 31 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (18.60%) Node.js
2 153 (15.72%) RESTful
3 146 (15.01%) REST
4 139 (14.29%) React
5 125 (12.85%) .NET
6 98 (10.07%) Kafka
7 67 (6.89%) Elastic Stack
8 64 (6.58%) AWS CDK
9 57 (5.86%) Spring Boot
10 53 (5.45%) OAuth
11 51 (5.24%) Spring
12 46 (4.73%) .NET Core
13 43 (4.42%) AngularJS
14 42 (4.32%) FastAPI
15 41 (4.21%) GraphQL
15 41 (4.21%) PyTorch
16 39 (4.01%) HTML
16 39 (4.01%) JSON
17 32 (3.29%) JWT
17 32 (3.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 237 (24.36%) Cloud Native
2 100 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.95%) NHS
8 19 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.34%) Replication
13 12 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.92%) Derivative
15 9 (0.92%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.82%) Data Fabric
16 8 (0.82%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.23%) Linux
2 12 (1.23%) Windows
3 11 (1.13%) Unix
4 5 (0.51%) VMS
4 5 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) AIX
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
7 1 (0.10%) SUSE
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (58.48%) CI/CD
2 505 (51.90%) DevOps
3 377 (38.75%) Agile
4 372 (38.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 306 (31.45%) Microservices
6 266 (27.34%) Containerisation
7 184 (18.91%) Software Engineering
8 179 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (15.72%) AI
10 132 (13.57%) Analytics
11 128 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
12 125 (12.85%) Event-Driven
13 122 (12.54%) Test Automation
14 102 (10.48%) Data Modelling
14 102 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 100 (10.28%) Machine Learning
16 98 (10.07%) ETL
16 98 (10.07%) Mentoring
17 97 (9.97%) Observability
18 95 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 502 (51.59%) Python
2 252 (25.90%) SQL
3 170 (17.47%) Java
4 148 (15.21%) TypeScript
5 137 (14.08%) JavaScript
6 119 (12.23%) C#
7 72 (7.40%) Bash
7 72 (7.40%) Go
8 45 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.49%) Bicep
10 26 (2.67%) Ruby
11 24 (2.47%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.23%) C++
13 11 (1.13%) Perl
14 9 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.72%) PHP
16 6 (0.62%) Formula Language
16 6 (0.62%) Korn
16 6 (0.62%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 227 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 182 (18.71%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.63%) AWS Certification
4 75 (7.71%) Degree
5 65 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.21%) Master's Degree
7 37 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.95%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.23%) MCP
11 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.31%) PhD
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.27%) QA
2 40 (4.11%) GDPR
3 38 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.34%) NIST
5 13 (1.34%) WCAG
6 11 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 10 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.92%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.41%) HL7
9 4 (0.41%) MiFID
10 3 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.31%) NCSC
10 3 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) GxP
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 289 (29.70%) Docker
2 39 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 411 (42.24%) Terraform
2 288 (29.60%) Kubernetes
3 126 (12.95%) Grafana
4 113 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 109 (11.20%) Ansible
6 18 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.34%) Puppet
8 12 (1.23%) Kibana
9 5 (0.51%) Packer
9 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.41%) Rancher
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Control-M
12 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.21%) Knative
12 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 172 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.06%) Databricks
3 53 (5.45%) Splunk
4 50 (5.14%) Google
5 32 (3.29%) Oracle
6 20 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.95%) Foundry
8 18 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.23%) IBM
12 10 (1.03%) Cisco
12 10 (1.03%) Palantir
13 9 (0.92%) Greenplum
13 9 (0.92%) Pega
14 8 (0.82%) Confluent
15 7 (0.72%) Genesys
16 6 (0.62%) Gigya
16 6 (0.62%) Lotus