Serverless Contracts

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 128 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 754 766 1,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 1.80% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.89% 5.54% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 586 1,052
10th Percentile £400 £384 £438
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £660
90th Percentile £775 £703 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £25.50 - £42.00
25th Percentile £25.88 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile £33.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.14%

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 10,938 13,825 20,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.48% 32.49% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,522 9,822 15,173
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 346 334
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.02 £18.31
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.60 £35.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.00
% change year-on-year +20.09% -29.12% +25.00%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 17 Contract 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 16 May 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 +22 589 £550 +4.76% 1,001
London +13 386 £550 +7.32% 629
Work from Home +37 315 £525 +2.44% 600
UK excluding London +21 236 £500 -1.91% 563
North of England +19 82 £500 -4.53% 180
Scotland +9 68 £525 +13.51% 38
North West +9 55 £500 -1.96% 109
South East +30 32 £500 -16.67% 208
Midlands +15 28 £506 +12.44% 46
South West +44 21 £550 - 53
West Midlands +8 18 £512 +13.83% 28
Yorkshire +7 17 £500 -14.86% 49
North East +6 11 £475 -26.92% 25
East Midlands +11 8 £500 +11.11% 13
East of England +25 7 £600 -4.00% 26
Wales - 2 £501 - 14
Northern Ireland -15 1 £500 -16.67% 15

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.44%) Apache
2 41 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (4.11%) Confluence
4 17 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.33%) Documentum
5 10 (1.33%) FileNet
6 8 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
8 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.66%) InfoPath
1 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.40%) Endur
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 581 (77.06%) AWS
2 459 (60.88%) AWS Lambda
3 268 (35.54%) Amazon S3
4 205 (27.19%) Azure
5 135 (17.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 123 (16.31%) Azure Functions
7 119 (15.78%) Amazon EC2
8 97 (12.86%) GitHub
9 96 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
10 94 (12.47%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 72 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
13 66 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
14 65 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
15 57 (7.56%) PaaS
16 52 (6.90%) Power Platform
17 50 (6.63%) AWS Step Functions
17 50 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (6.63%) OpenShift
18 47 (6.23%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.70%) Firewall
2 24 (3.18%) VPN
3 13 (1.72%) DNS
3 13 (1.72%) HTTP
4 10 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.19%) Network Security
5 9 (1.19%) SSL
6 4 (0.53%) DHCP
6 4 (0.53%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.53%) SMS
7 3 (0.40%) IPsec
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.27%) Wireless
9 1 (0.13%) DKIM
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
2 104 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 93 (12.33%) NoSQL
4 88 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (11.14%) Amazon Athena
6 53 (7.03%) Relational Database
7 49 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (5.57%) MongoDB
9 40 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (4.64%) Power BI
11 33 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 30 (3.98%) MySQL
13 29 (3.85%) Data Lake
14 28 (3.71%) Apache Iceberg
14 28 (3.71%) SQL Server
15 26 (3.45%) Apache Arrow
15 26 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
15 26 (3.45%) Big Data
15 26 (3.45%) Dremio
16 25 (3.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (11.67%) Jenkins
2 72 (9.55%) Git
3 59 (7.82%) GitLab
4 38 (5.04%) Artifactory
5 36 (4.77%) JIRA
6 23 (3.05%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.46%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.46%) Storybook
9 10 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.06%) git-flow
12 7 (0.93%) Mockito
12 7 (0.93%) Selenium
13 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.80%) Postman
14 5 (0.66%) Gradle
14 5 (0.66%) JUnit
14 5 (0.66%) Maven
15 4 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 128 (16.98%) Public Sector
2 125 (16.58%) Social Skills
3 101 (13.40%) Finance
4 53 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.64%) Front Office
6 30 (3.98%) Banking
7 17 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.59%) Marketing
9 8 (1.06%) Retail
10 7 (0.93%) Military
11 6 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.27%) Aviation
15 2 (0.27%) Electronics
15 2 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (28.51%) Developer
2 137 (18.17%) Architect
3 129 (17.11%) AWS Engineer
4 109 (14.46%) Senior
5 101 (13.40%) Data Engineer
6 83 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (7.29%) AWS DevOps
8 54 (7.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 50 (6.63%) Lead
9 50 (6.63%) Senior Developer
10 47 (6.23%) Software Engineer
11 44 (5.84%) Python Engineer
11 44 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.70%) AWS Developer
13 36 (4.77%) AWS Architect
14 34 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
15 31 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
16 30 (3.98%) Azure Architect
17 27 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
18 24 (3.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (17.51%) Node.js
2 103 (13.66%) React
3 92 (12.20%) Kafka
4 78 (10.34%) .NET
4 78 (10.34%) AWS CDK
5 63 (8.36%) RESTful
6 54 (7.16%) JSON
7 47 (6.23%) PySpark
8 40 (5.31%) REST
9 36 (4.77%) GraphQL
10 35 (4.64%) CSS
11 34 (4.51%) Spring Boot
12 31 (4.11%) Spring
13 29 (3.85%) HTML
13 29 (3.85%) J2EE
14 26 (3.45%) .NET Framework
15 25 (3.32%) OAuth
16 23 (3.05%) .NET Core
16 23 (3.05%) ARM Templates
16 23 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (2.92%) Public Cloud
4 21 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 15 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (0.80%) Genomics
12 5 (0.66%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.53%) IoT
13 4 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.70%) Linux
2 16 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (1.86%) Unix
3 14 (1.86%) Windows
4 7 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.53%) Android
5 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (44.96%) CI/CD
2 329 (43.63%) DevOps
3 272 (36.07%) Agile
4 191 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (22.55%) Microservices
6 143 (18.97%) Containerisation
7 124 (16.45%) Software Engineering
8 119 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 90 (11.94%) Event-Driven
11 79 (10.48%) Data Engineering
12 76 (10.08%) ETL
13 73 (9.68%) Test Automation
14 66 (8.75%) High Availability
14 66 (8.75%) Scrum
15 64 (8.49%) Migration
16 62 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (7.96%) Mentoring
18 54 (7.16%) Analytics
19 52 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 341 (45.23%) Python
2 179 (23.74%) SQL
3 152 (20.16%) Java
4 145 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 124 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 69 (9.15%) C#
7 47 (6.23%) Go
8 43 (5.70%) Bash
9 42 (5.57%) PowerShell
10 34 (4.51%) Bicep
11 15 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.86%) Scala
12 14 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.59%) Rust
14 11 (1.46%) Ruby
15 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.06%) C++
17 7 (0.93%) Groovy
17 7 (0.93%) Perl
17 7 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 172 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 163 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 101 (13.40%) AWS Certification
4 57 (7.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 48 (6.37%) Degree
6 28 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 17 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.93%) OCP
10 7 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.27%) CCIE
12 2 (0.27%) CCNP
12 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
13 1 (0.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.71%) Data Quality
1 28 (3.71%) QA
2 18 (2.39%) GDPR
3 13 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 8 (1.06%) NIST
6 7 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.40%) HL7
8 3 (0.40%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 182 (24.14%) Docker
2 25 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.40%) RACF
5 2 (0.27%) HDFS
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 276 (36.60%) Terraform
2 209 (27.72%) Kubernetes
3 60 (7.96%) Ansible
4 30 (3.98%) Grafana
5 27 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.93%) Kibana
8 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.66%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Packer
11 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.55%) Oracle
3 23 (3.05%) Splunk
4 21 (2.79%) Databricks
5 18 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.25%) Google
6 17 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.19%) SAP
7 9 (1.19%) Virgin Media
8 6 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.66%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.66%) StreamSets
10 4 (0.53%) Cisco
10 4 (0.53%) Informatica
10 4 (0.53%) LabVantage
10 4 (0.53%) New Relic
10 4 (0.53%) Qualys
11 3 (0.40%) IBM
11 3 (0.40%) OpenLink