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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,054 814 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.49% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 6.69% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 597 504
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £744 £677 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £538
% change year-on-year +1.83% -8.65% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £35.65 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £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 18,735 12,164 13,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,407 8,112 9,037
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 227
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -28 860 £525 - 203
London -20 503 £550 - 111
UK excluding London -26 398 £500 +1.83% 124
Work from Home -27 334 £525 +1.94% 124
North of England -42 137 £500 +5.26% 45
Midlands -9 85 £447 -0.67% 18
North West -31 69 £575 +21.05% 20
West Midlands -23 64 £473 +5.11% 13
Scotland -15 53 £463 -7.50% 8
South East -59 50 £600 +35.59% 11
South West -26 47 £534 +4.66% 29
Yorkshire -39 45 £523 +12.97% 15
East of England -23 23 £525 - 6
North East -25 23 £463 +4.52% 10
East Midlands -5 21 £413 -0.66% 5
Northern Ireland +1 4 £283 -43.50% 5
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 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 56 (5.31%) Confluence
2 49 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.94%) Apache
5 20 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.76%) SAS
7 7 (0.66%) nginx
8 6 (0.57%) CMS
9 5 (0.47%) CICS
9 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.095%) Drupal
13 1 (0.095%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.095%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.095%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 822 (77.99%) AWS
2 657 (62.33%) AWS Lambda
3 437 (41.46%) Amazon S3
4 361 (34.25%) Azure
5 219 (20.78%) GitHub
6 216 (20.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 183 (17.36%) Amazon ECS
8 176 (16.70%) Azure Functions
9 164 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
10 160 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
12 156 (14.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 138 (13.09%) Amazon SQS
14 116 (11.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 116 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
14 116 (11.01%) Power Platform
15 109 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 87 (8.25%) Amazon EventBridge
17 77 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (7.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.42%) Firewall
2 27 (2.56%) DNS
3 26 (2.47%) Network Security
4 16 (1.52%) VPN
5 13 (1.23%) HTTP
5 13 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) CTI
7 5 (0.47%) MQTT
7 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.38%) SMS
9 3 (0.28%) FTP
9 3 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.28%) IPv4
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.75%) DynamoDB
2 155 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
3 115 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
4 106 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (8.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 84 (7.97%) Power BI
7 83 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
8 69 (6.55%) NoSQL
9 53 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 53 (5.03%) Data Lake
10 50 (4.74%) MySQL
11 47 (4.46%) SQL Server
12 36 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (3.42%) MongoDB
13 32 (3.04%) Relational Database
14 30 (2.85%) Metadata
15 25 (2.37%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.09%) Tableau
17 21 (1.99%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 187 (17.74%) Git
2 144 (13.66%) GitLab
3 143 (13.57%) Jenkins
4 76 (7.21%) JIRA
5 32 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.75%) Claude Code
7 25 (2.37%) Bitbucket
8 20 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.42%) Selenium
9 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.23%) Postman
11 12 (1.14%) JUnit
12 9 (0.85%) Mockito
13 8 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.66%) Gatling
14 7 (0.66%) JMeter
14 7 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.66%) RStudio
14 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 235 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 148 (14.04%) Finance
4 71 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.51%) Banking
6 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.23%) Billing
9 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.14%) Law
9 12 (1.14%) Legal
9 12 (1.14%) Marketing
10 9 (0.85%) Back Office
10 9 (0.85%) Retail
11 8 (0.76%) Military
12 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 6 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.47%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (23.34%) Developer
2 209 (19.83%) Architect
3 195 (18.50%) Senior
4 173 (16.41%) AWS Engineer
5 117 (11.10%) Data Engineer
6 116 (11.01%) Lead
7 77 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (6.36%) AWS Architect
9 65 (6.17%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 51 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.27%) AWS Developer
14 45 (4.27%) Technical Architect
15 43 (4.08%) Python Developer
16 41 (3.89%) Senior Developer
17 40 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
18 38 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (40.32%) Terraform
2 163 (15.46%) REST
3 134 (12.71%) React
4 121 (11.48%) Node.js
5 120 (11.39%) .NET
6 105 (9.96%) Kafka
7 103 (9.77%) RESTful
8 78 (7.40%) AWS CDK
9 76 (7.21%) PySpark
10 64 (6.07%) Spring
10 64 (6.07%) Spring Boot
11 58 (5.50%) GraphQL
12 54 (5.12%) OAuth
13 52 (4.93%) FastAPI
14 40 (3.80%) CSS
15 39 (3.70%) AngularJS
16 37 (3.51%) Flask
16 37 (3.51%) JSON
17 36 (3.42%) HTML
17 36 (3.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 331 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (5.79%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.75%) NHS
6 28 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.61%) IVR
10 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.14%) Mainframe
11 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.04%) IoT
13 10 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 10 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.88%) Linux
2 23 (2.18%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.47%) zOS
6 4 (0.38%) VMS
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.095%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (61.01%) CI/CD
2 451 (42.79%) DevOps
3 409 (38.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 398 (37.76%) Agile
5 254 (24.10%) Microservices
6 241 (22.87%) AI
7 227 (21.54%) Event-Driven
8 219 (20.78%) Containerisation
9 183 (17.36%) Observability
10 173 (16.41%) Test Automation
11 163 (15.46%) Analytics
12 159 (15.09%) Software Engineering
13 154 (14.61%) Data Modelling
14 146 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
15 139 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
16 138 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (13.00%) Migration
18 134 (12.71%) ETL
19 132 (12.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 132 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 466 (44.21%) Python
2 308 (29.22%) SQL
3 178 (16.89%) TypeScript
4 153 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 135 (12.81%) Java
6 130 (12.33%) C#
7 76 (7.21%) Bash
8 43 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 41 (3.89%) Bicep
10 33 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.52%) Scala
12 12 (1.14%) Go
13 9 (0.85%) Groovy
14 8 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.76%) Ruby
15 7 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.57%) X++
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 278 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 231 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.21%) AWS Certification
4 52 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.74%) Degree
6 37 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.06%) Data Quality
2 60 (5.69%) QA
3 40 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.23%) GDPR
5 28 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.09%) WCAG
7 16 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.23%) NIST
9 9 (0.85%) SLA
10 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.095%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 280 (26.57%) Docker
2 37 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 243 (23.06%) Kubernetes
2 89 (8.44%) Grafana
3 69 (6.55%) Prometheus
4 51 (4.84%) Ansible
5 14 (1.33%) Puppet
6 13 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.76%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.66%) Kibana
9 7 (0.66%) linkerd
9 7 (0.66%) Packer
9 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Podman
11 4 (0.38%) Salt
12 3 (0.28%) Control-M
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 2 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 174 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.98%) Databricks
3 45 (4.27%) Oracle
4 36 (3.42%) OpenAI
5 32 (3.04%) Informatica
6 27 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.56%) Splunk
7 24 (2.28%) Google
7 24 (2.28%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.14%) SAP
10 11 (1.04%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.95%) Brio
12 9 (0.85%) Tenable
13 7 (0.66%) Confluent
14 5 (0.47%) Denodo
14 5 (0.47%) New Relic
14 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.47%) Workday
15 4 (0.38%) ForgeRock