Hybrid/Remote Serverless Contract Job Trends

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 94 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 295 299 419
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.90% 2.46% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.76% 6.37% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 225 330
10th Percentile £400 £355 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £671 £627
90th Percentile £698 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £534 £528
% change year-on-year -5.43% +1.23% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile - £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -66.45% -
75th Percentile - £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,362 4,693 6,830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.83% 38.68% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 3,149 4,943
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 88
10th Percentile £17.73 £19.30 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.69 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -21.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.22 £63.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £88.23
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Serverless job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serverless over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Serverless daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serverless

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 11 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.03%) Confluence
3 5 (1.69%) Apache
3 5 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.69%) nginx
4 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.02%) CMS
5 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Mendix
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Chatbot
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.36%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.36%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 217 (73.56%) AWS
2 182 (61.69%) AWS Lambda
3 109 (36.95%) Amazon S3
4 98 (33.22%) Azure
5 68 (23.05%) GitHub
6 66 (22.37%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (21.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 61 (20.68%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (20.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (17.63%) Azure Functions
10 50 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (14.92%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (10.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (9.15%) Power Platform
15 27 (9.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (8.81%) GCP
17 23 (7.80%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (6.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.73%) DNS
2 8 (2.71%) VPN
3 7 (2.37%) Firewall
4 6 (2.03%) Network Security
5 5 (1.69%) HTTP
5 5 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.98%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.19%) DynamoDB
4 29 (9.83%) Relational Database
5 28 (9.49%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.12%) Power BI
7 20 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (6.10%) MongoDB
9 17 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (5.08%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (4.07%) MySQL
12 12 (4.07%) SQL Server
13 11 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (3.05%) RDBMS
16 7 (2.37%) Tableau
17 6 (2.03%) Big Data
17 6 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
17 6 (2.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 53 (17.97%) Git
2 51 (17.29%) Jenkins
3 41 (13.90%) GitLab
4 24 (8.14%) JIRA
5 13 (4.41%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.05%) Liquibase
7 8 (2.71%) JUnit
8 7 (2.37%) Postman
9 6 (2.03%) Maven
10 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.69%) Mockito
10 5 (1.69%) Selenium
10 5 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.36%) MLflow
11 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.02%) JMeter
13 2 (0.68%) Gradle
13 2 (0.68%) SonarLint
13 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.69%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.49%) Finance
4 20 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.76%) Banking
6 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.36%) Marketing
9 3 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (29.15%) Developer
2 51 (17.29%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (17.29%) Senior
3 40 (13.56%) Architect
4 39 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (7.12%) Lead
6 20 (6.78%) Data Engineer
7 19 (6.44%) Python Engineer
8 17 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.08%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.75%) AWS Developer
10 14 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.75%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.41%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.93%) Node.js
2 39 (13.22%) REST
3 37 (12.54%) RESTful
4 31 (10.51%) .NET
5 30 (10.17%) React
6 27 (9.15%) AWS CDK
7 23 (7.80%) Kafka
8 22 (7.46%) OAuth
9 18 (6.10%) JSON
10 17 (5.76%) HTML
11 15 (5.08%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.08%) Spring Boot
12 13 (4.41%) Next.js
12 13 (4.41%) OAuth2
12 13 (4.41%) PyTorch
12 13 (4.41%) Spring
13 12 (4.07%) Pandas
14 11 (3.73%) AngularJS
14 11 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (22.71%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.36%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.36%) Derivative
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.02%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.68%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.49%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Windows
2 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.68%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.68%) VMS
4 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (59.32%) CI/CD
2 143 (48.47%) DevOps
3 119 (40.34%) Agile
4 115 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (25.42%) Containerisation
6 69 (23.39%) Microservices
7 60 (20.34%) AI
8 51 (17.29%) Software Engineering
9 49 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (13.90%) Analytics
11 40 (13.56%) Event-Driven
12 38 (12.88%) Observability
13 37 (12.54%) Mentoring
13 37 (12.54%) Test Automation
14 36 (12.20%) Data Modelling
15 35 (11.86%) Scrum
16 32 (10.85%) Machine Learning
17 30 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (10.17%) TDD
17 30 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 142 (48.14%) Python
2 65 (22.03%) SQL
3 52 (17.63%) Java
3 52 (17.63%) TypeScript
4 46 (15.59%) JavaScript
5 31 (10.51%) C#
6 26 (8.81%) Bash
7 24 (8.14%) Go
8 15 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.05%) Ruby
10 7 (2.37%) Bicep
10 7 (2.37%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.02%) JSX
11 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.02%) VBA
12 2 (0.68%) Perl
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) PromQL
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 59 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.15%) AWS Certification
4 22 (7.46%) Degree
5 19 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.12%) QA
2 15 (5.08%) GDPR
3 11 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) MiFID
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) GxP
7 2 (0.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (30.85%) Docker
2 13 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (41.36%) Terraform
2 88 (29.83%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.56%) Grafana
4 31 (10.51%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.12%) Ansible
6 8 (2.71%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.69%) Puppet
8 4 (1.36%) Kibana
9 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.68%) Knative
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Argo
11 1 (0.34%) Consul
11 1 (0.34%) Control-M
11 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 46 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.76%) Databricks
3 15 (5.08%) Google
4 9 (3.05%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.71%) Splunk
6 7 (2.37%) Pega
7 6 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.03%) Oracle
8 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.36%) Portware
10 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.68%) Gigya
10 2 (0.68%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.68%) Sybase
11 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.34%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.34%) New Relic
11 1 (0.34%) OneLogin