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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 111 124
Rank change year-on-year -25 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 1,073 803 735
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.47% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.69% 6.63% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 582 522
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £680 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £535
% change year-on-year +1.63% -8.04% +1.90%
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 18,873 12,111 13,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 37.31% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,533 8,047 8,896
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 303 208
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £14.22
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.31 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.50 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.35 £71.89 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.89 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.44% -33.72% +11.11%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -29 878 £525 +1.94% 675
London -9 520 £550 - 452
UK excluding London -39 402 £500 +1.63% 314
Work from Home -23 347 £525 +1.94% 1,432
North of England -50 135 £500 +5.26% 91
Midlands -16 87 £447 -0.78% 39
North West -34 69 £605 +26.04% 60
West Midlands -13 67 £463 - 22
Scotland -15 55 £463 -7.50% 38
South East -64 51 £600 +37.93% 47
South West -29 46 £530 +2.42% 52
Yorkshire -49 44 £500 +5.26% 20
East of England -23 23 £525 +1.94% 22
North East -26 22 £463 +4.52% 11
East Midlands -6 20 £413 -0.66% 17
Northern Ireland +3 4 £283 -43.50% 22
Wales -12 4 £481 -16.34% 5

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 63 (5.87%) Confluence
2 49 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 34 (3.17%) Apache
5 29 (2.70%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.84%) CMS
6 9 (0.84%) SAS
7 8 (0.75%) nginx
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) CICS
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.37%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.093%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.093%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.093%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.093%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 834 (77.73%) AWS
2 675 (62.91%) AWS Lambda
3 447 (41.66%) Amazon S3
4 381 (35.51%) Azure
5 236 (21.99%) GitHub
6 228 (21.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 193 (17.99%) Azure Functions
8 191 (17.80%) Amazon ECS
9 164 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
10 163 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
11 159 (14.82%) Amazon EKS
11 159 (14.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 146 (13.61%) Amazon SQS
13 128 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
14 125 (11.65%) Power Platform
15 121 (11.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 107 (9.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 98 (9.13%) Amazon EventBridge
18 78 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.54%) Firewall
2 28 (2.61%) Network Security
3 27 (2.52%) DNS
4 16 (1.49%) VPN
5 13 (1.21%) HTTP
5 13 (1.21%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) 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 (0.37%) 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%) DHCP
10 2 (0.19%) SAN
10 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.12%) DynamoDB
2 162 (15.10%) Amazon RDS
3 118 (11.00%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (8.11%) Power BI
7 71 (6.62%) NoSQL
8 57 (5.31%) Data Lake
9 56 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 56 (5.22%) MySQL
10 52 (4.85%) SQL Server
11 36 (3.36%) Metadata
12 35 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (3.08%) MongoDB
14 26 (2.42%) Delta Lake
15 24 (2.24%) Relational Database
16 21 (1.96%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.96%) Tableau
17 20 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 196 (18.27%) Git
2 143 (13.33%) GitLab
3 139 (12.95%) Jenkins
4 82 (7.64%) JIRA
5 33 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.89%) Claude Code
7 26 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.05%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.58%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.49%) Selenium
11 13 (1.21%) JUnit
11 13 (1.21%) Postman
12 11 (1.03%) Mockito
13 9 (0.84%) RStudio
13 9 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.75%) JMeter
14 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.65%) Gatling
15 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.56%) Mocha
General
1 243 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 158 (14.73%) Finance
4 77 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.54%) Banking
6 36 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.21%) Billing
8 13 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.21%) Law
8 13 (1.21%) Legal
9 12 (1.12%) Marketing
9 12 (1.12%) Military
10 11 (1.03%) Back Office
11 10 (0.93%) Retail
12 8 (0.75%) Front Office
13 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.47%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 249 (23.21%) Developer
2 209 (19.48%) Architect
3 207 (19.29%) Senior
4 176 (16.40%) AWS Engineer
5 131 (12.21%) Data Engineer
6 118 (11.00%) Lead
7 82 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (5.96%) AWS Architect
9 61 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 54 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 47 (4.38%) Technical Architect
13 45 (4.19%) AWS Developer
13 45 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.01%) Senior Developer
15 42 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
15 42 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.82%) Python Developer
16 41 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (40.63%) Terraform
2 182 (16.96%) REST
3 135 (12.58%) React
4 133 (12.40%) .NET
5 121 (11.28%) Node.js
6 104 (9.69%) RESTful
7 103 (9.60%) Kafka
8 81 (7.55%) AWS CDK
9 78 (7.27%) PySpark
10 64 (5.96%) Spring Boot
11 63 (5.87%) Spring
12 60 (5.59%) GraphQL
13 54 (5.03%) FastAPI
13 54 (5.03%) OAuth
14 42 (3.91%) AngularJS
15 41 (3.82%) CSS
16 38 (3.54%) Flask
17 37 (3.45%) HTML
17 37 (3.45%) JSON
18 36 (3.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 336 (31.31%) Cloud Native
2 94 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 75 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (5.78%) AI Agents
5 32 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (2.70%) NHS
7 27 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.58%) IVR
9 17 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.03%) IoT
12 11 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
13 9 (0.84%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.34%) Linux
2 26 (2.42%) Unix
3 17 (1.58%) Windows
4 16 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 4 (0.37%) zOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) AIX
8 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 463 (43.15%) DevOps
3 425 (39.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 402 (37.47%) Agile
5 255 (23.77%) AI
6 253 (23.58%) Event-Driven
7 248 (23.11%) Microservices
8 218 (20.32%) Containerisation
9 190 (17.71%) Observability
10 178 (16.59%) Test Automation
11 172 (16.03%) Analytics
12 167 (15.56%) Data Modelling
13 165 (15.38%) Software Engineering
14 154 (14.35%) Technical Leadership
15 153 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (14.26%) Data Pipeline
16 151 (14.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 144 (13.42%) Migration
18 140 (13.05%) ETL
19 139 (12.95%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 494 (46.04%) Python
2 316 (29.45%) SQL
3 188 (17.52%) TypeScript
4 160 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 144 (13.42%) C#
6 136 (12.67%) Java
7 80 (7.46%) Bash
8 46 (4.29%) Bicep
8 46 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.40%) Scala
11 12 (1.12%) Go
12 10 (0.93%) Groovy
12 10 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.75%) R
14 7 (0.65%) Ruby
15 6 (0.56%) X++
16 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 238 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 56 (5.22%) Degree
5 53 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.56%) CISSP
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.18%) Data Quality
2 71 (6.62%) QA
3 42 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.54%) GDPR
5 27 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.33%) WCAG
7 15 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.21%) NIST
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) 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%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.093%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 276 (25.72%) Docker
2 39 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 247 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 87 (8.11%) Grafana
3 67 (6.24%) Prometheus
4 56 (5.22%) Ansible
5 14 (1.30%) Puppet
6 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.75%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Packer
9 7 (0.65%) Kibana
9 7 (0.65%) Podman
10 6 (0.56%) Istio
11 5 (0.47%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 4 (0.37%) Salt
13 3 (0.28%) Control-M
13 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) linkerd
13 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.19%) CASB
Vendors
1 193 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.90%) Databricks
3 45 (4.19%) Oracle
4 36 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 32 (2.98%) Informatica
6 29 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 28 (2.61%) Splunk
8 27 (2.52%) Google
9 25 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.12%) SAP
12 10 (0.93%) Brio
12 10 (0.93%) Tenable
13 8 (0.75%) Confluent
14 7 (0.65%) Foundry
15 5 (0.47%) Denodo
15 5 (0.47%) New Relic
15 5 (0.47%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.47%) Workday