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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 95 129
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,068 755 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.34% 2.58% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.41% 6.79% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 575 602
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +3.41% -8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £788 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
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 16,654 11,122 14,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.42% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,758 9,985
10th Percentile £314 £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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 344
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.98 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -24.08%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -1 864 £513 -6.82% 326
London -7 528 £513 -10.87% 138
UK excluding London -13 367 £500 - 208
Work from Home -36 287 £513 -4.92% 194
North of England -4 154 £500 - 84
North West -7 80 £500 - 54
Yorkshire -9 61 £500 - 22
Midlands -29 58 £500 +11.11% 19
South East -46 53 £525 +5.00% 49
Scotland -8 52 £400 -23.81% 7
West Midlands -28 45 £500 +3.95% 10
South West -20 32 £575 -8.00% 26
East of England -12 22 £575 -17.86% 19
North East -13 14 £475 - 9
East Midlands -28 13 £479 +7.16% 9
Wales -11 5 £475 - 5
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 1

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 53 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (3.75%) Apache
4 31 (2.90%) Confluence
5 27 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.40%) nginx
7 11 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.94%) Mendix
9 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) JBoss
12 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
4 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 789 (73.88%) AWS
2 630 (58.99%) AWS Lambda
3 412 (38.58%) Amazon S3
4 401 (37.55%) Azure
5 245 (22.94%) GitHub
6 227 (21.25%) Azure Functions
7 218 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
8 205 (19.19%) Amazon EC2
9 197 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 194 (18.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 182 (17.04%) Amazon EKS
12 172 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
13 170 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
14 119 (11.14%) Power Platform
15 116 (10.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 113 (10.58%) AWS Step Functions
17 102 (9.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 89 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
19 88 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
20 67 (6.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.31%) Firewall
2 37 (3.46%) DNS
3 24 (2.25%) VPN
4 13 (1.22%) Network Security
4 13 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.94%) HTTP
7 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
7 9 (0.84%) SSL
8 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.66%) SMS
10 5 (0.47%) IPsec
11 4 (0.37%) WAN
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) FTP
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
13 1 (0.094%) 4G
13 1 (0.094%) 5G
13 1 (0.094%) MQTT
13 1 (0.094%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (13.76%) DynamoDB
3 114 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (7.77%) Amazon Athena
5 81 (7.58%) NoSQL
6 78 (7.30%) Power BI
7 74 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 60 (5.62%) Data Lake
8 60 (5.62%) Relational Database
9 53 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (3.37%) Tableau
12 35 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 35 (3.28%) MongoDB
12 35 (3.28%) SQL Server
13 31 (2.90%) Metadata
14 30 (2.81%) Redis
15 28 (2.62%) MySQL
16 26 (2.43%) Big Data
17 25 (2.34%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (17.23%) Git
2 156 (14.61%) GitLab
3 143 (13.39%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.62%) JIRA
5 31 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.97%) JUnit
7 18 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.31%) Mockito
11 13 (1.22%) MLflow
12 12 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.94%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.84%) Maven
15 8 (0.75%) NUnit
15 8 (0.75%) Postman
15 8 (0.75%) Selenium
16 7 (0.66%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.66%) Mocha
16 7 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 231 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 208 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 147 (13.76%) Finance
4 76 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (4.68%) Banking
6 34 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 10 (0.94%) Legal
10 9 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 9 (0.84%) Military
11 7 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.66%) Retail
12 6 (0.56%) Billing
12 6 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.47%) Front Office
13 5 (0.47%) Law
13 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (26.40%) Developer
2 171 (16.01%) Architect
3 151 (14.14%) Senior
4 144 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (10.39%) Data Engineer
6 90 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 89 (8.33%) Lead
8 66 (6.18%) Software Engineer
9 55 (5.15%) AWS Architect
10 54 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 49 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (4.49%) AWS Developer
14 44 (4.12%) Java Developer
15 43 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 43 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.93%) Senior Developer
17 39 (3.65%) Python Engineer
18 37 (3.46%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (16.29%) Node.js
2 142 (13.30%) React
3 134 (12.55%) REST
4 127 (11.89%) Kafka
5 123 (11.52%) .NET
6 111 (10.39%) RESTful
7 93 (8.71%) Spring
8 91 (8.52%) Spring Boot
9 83 (7.77%) OAuth
10 65 (6.09%) PySpark
11 58 (5.43%) AngularJS
12 48 (4.49%) JSON
12 48 (4.49%) OAuth2
13 45 (4.21%) .NET Core
13 45 (4.21%) AWS CDK
14 40 (3.75%) GraphQL
15 37 (3.46%) FastAPI
15 37 (3.46%) JWT
16 36 (3.37%) OpenID
17 35 (3.28%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 267 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.62%) NHS
5 25 (2.34%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.94%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.84%) Replication
12 8 (0.75%) DataPower
12 8 (0.75%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.49%) Linux
2 19 (1.78%) Unix
3 11 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) zOS
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 541 (50.66%) DevOps
3 405 (37.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 341 (31.93%) Agile
5 293 (27.43%) Microservices
6 260 (24.34%) Containerisation
7 173 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (16.10%) AI
9 166 (15.54%) Event-Driven
10 163 (15.26%) Observability
11 160 (14.98%) Analytics
12 149 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
13 145 (13.58%) Data Modelling
14 137 (12.83%) ETL
15 136 (12.73%) Software Engineering
16 130 (12.17%) Test Automation
17 117 (10.96%) Migration
18 116 (10.86%) Data Engineering
19 106 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
20 104 (9.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 497 (46.54%) Python
2 303 (28.37%) SQL
3 179 (16.76%) Java
4 157 (14.70%) C#
5 153 (14.33%) JavaScript
6 152 (14.23%) TypeScript
7 73 (6.84%) Bash
8 55 (5.15%) PowerShell
9 49 (4.59%) Bicep
10 33 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 30 (2.81%) Go
12 29 (2.72%) Ruby
13 14 (1.31%) Scala
14 11 (1.03%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.03%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.84%) Perl
16 7 (0.66%) C++
16 7 (0.66%) Groovy
16 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 230 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 74 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.53%) Degree
9 21 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
17 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
18 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.34%) QA
3 31 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.81%) GDPR
5 24 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.50%) NIST
7 11 (1.03%) WCAG
8 10 (0.94%) PMO
9 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 1 (0.094%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 298 (27.90%) Docker
2 33 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.94%) Squid
5 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.47%) RACF
7 3 (0.28%) HDFS
7 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 454 (42.51%) Terraform
2 275 (25.75%) Kubernetes
3 99 (9.27%) Grafana
4 93 (8.71%) Prometheus
5 71 (6.65%) Ansible
6 27 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.22%) Puppet
8 11 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.66%) Consul
10 7 (0.66%) Kibana
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 6 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.47%) Rancher
13 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.37%) Salt
14 3 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 175 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.33%) Databricks
3 45 (4.21%) Oracle
4 44 (4.12%) OpenAI
5 26 (2.43%) Splunk
6 19 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.59%) Google
9 15 (1.40%) Foundry
10 11 (1.03%) Lotus
11 10 (0.94%) Brio
11 10 (0.94%) Kofax
11 10 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.94%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.84%) SAP
13 8 (0.75%) Confluent
13 8 (0.75%) IBM
13 8 (0.75%) Informatica
13 8 (0.75%) Sybase