Serverless Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 116 78
Rank change year-on-year +44 -38 -1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 316 286 708
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.19% 1.87% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.01% 5.18% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 240 533
10th Percentile £400 £413 £438
25th Percentile £446 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £650
90th Percentile £838 £651 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.93% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.38 - -
25th Percentile £25.56 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £26.31 - -
90th Percentile £26.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

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 3,946 5,521 10,172
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.87% 36.19% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,894 3,959 7,476
10th Percentile £351 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 87 126
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.52
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.29% +98.18%
75th Percentile £70.63 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

Serverless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serverless trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Serverless.

Serverless daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Serverless over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Serverless daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Serverless.

Serverless hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 31 (9.81%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.18%) Apache
3 28 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.58%) Confluence
5 4 (1.27%) CMS
6 3 (0.95%) Documentum
6 3 (0.95%) FileNet
7 2 (0.63%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.63%) WordPress
8 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Endur
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 252 (79.75%) AWS
2 214 (67.72%) AWS Lambda
3 116 (36.71%) Amazon S3
4 73 (23.10%) Azure
5 69 (21.84%) Amazon ECS
5 69 (21.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (16.14%) Amazon SQS
7 47 (14.87%) Azure Functions
8 45 (14.24%) Amazon EC2
8 45 (14.24%) GitHub
9 38 (12.03%) OpenShift
10 31 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (8.86%) dbt
13 24 (7.59%) AWS CodePipeline
13 24 (7.59%) PaaS
14 19 (6.01%) Azure AKS
14 19 (6.01%) SaaS
15 18 (5.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.06%) Firewall
2 9 (2.85%) HTTP
3 5 (1.58%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) IPsec
4 3 (0.95%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.95%) VPN
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) DNS
6 1 (0.32%) FTP
6 1 (0.32%) SMS
6 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.72%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (14.56%) DynamoDB
3 45 (14.24%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (13.61%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (12.66%) NoSQL
6 28 (8.86%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (8.86%) Apache Iceberg
6 28 (8.86%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (8.86%) Dremio
7 25 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (5.70%) MongoDB
9 16 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.06%) MySQL
10 15 (4.75%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (3.80%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (3.16%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.53%) RDBMS
14 7 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (12.66%) Jenkins
2 33 (10.44%) Artifactory
3 31 (9.81%) Git
4 27 (8.54%) GitLab
5 14 (4.43%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.53%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.22%) JIRA
9 5 (1.58%) git-flow
9 5 (1.58%) Maven
9 5 (1.58%) Storybook
10 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.27%) NUnit
10 4 (1.27%) Postman
11 3 (0.95%) Mocha
11 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.63%) Gradle
12 2 (0.63%) JMeter
12 2 (0.63%) Selenium
13 1 (0.32%) Ant
General
1 66 (20.89%) Public Sector
2 56 (17.72%) Finance
3 54 (17.09%) Social Skills
4 36 (11.39%) Front Office
5 31 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.59%) Banking
7 7 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.95%) Military
10 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Electronics
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 2 (0.63%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.32%) Aviation
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 94 (29.75%) Developer
2 75 (23.73%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (17.09%) Architect
5 45 (14.24%) Data Engineer
6 44 (13.92%) AWS DevOps
6 44 (13.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 43 (13.61%) Senior
8 37 (11.71%) Python Engineer
9 25 (7.91%) AWS Architect
10 18 (5.70%) AWS Developer
10 18 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.75%) .NET Developer
11 15 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.43%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (4.43%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.11%) Lead
14 12 (3.80%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (23.73%) Node.js
2 62 (19.62%) React
3 52 (16.46%) Kafka
4 46 (14.56%) AWS CDK
5 35 (11.08%) PySpark
6 28 (8.86%) J2EE
6 28 (8.86%) RESTful
7 27 (8.54%) .NET
8 24 (7.59%) REST
9 23 (7.28%) JSON
10 22 (6.96%) GraphQL
11 18 (5.70%) CSS
12 14 (4.43%) Jest
12 14 (4.43%) Spring Boot
13 13 (4.11%) HTML
13 13 (4.11%) Next.js
13 13 (4.11%) OAuth
13 13 (4.11%) Redux
14 11 (3.48%) ARM Templates
15 10 (3.16%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.80%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.95%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.95%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.95%) Vector Graphics
10 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.70%) Linux
2 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.27%) Windows
4 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.95%) Unix
4 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (54.43%) CI/CD
2 162 (51.27%) DevOps
3 127 (40.19%) Agile
4 69 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (21.20%) Containerisation
6 66 (20.89%) Microservices
7 65 (20.57%) Software Engineering
8 52 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (14.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (14.56%) Open Source
11 42 (13.29%) Data Engineering
12 39 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 37 (11.71%) Asset Management
14 36 (11.39%) High Availability
15 34 (10.76%) Event-Driven
15 34 (10.76%) Mentoring
16 30 (9.49%) Scrum
16 30 (9.49%) Test Automation
17 25 (7.91%) Analytics
18 24 (7.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 140 (44.30%) Python
2 71 (22.47%) JavaScript
3 67 (21.20%) TypeScript
4 64 (20.25%) SQL
5 63 (19.94%) Java
6 35 (11.08%) Go
7 25 (7.91%) C#
8 19 (6.01%) Bash
9 15 (4.75%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.48%) Bicep
11 7 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.27%) R
12 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 3 (0.95%) Groovy
13 3 (0.95%) PHP
13 3 (0.95%) Rust
14 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) Natural
15 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 68 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 52 (16.46%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.70%) Degree
6 14 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.27%) OCP
7 4 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.06%) QA
2 10 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.53%) GDPR
4 7 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.95%) HL7
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (32.59%) Docker
2 7 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.95%) RACF
Systems Management
1 119 (37.66%) Terraform
2 92 (29.11%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.54%) Ansible
4 14 (4.43%) Grafana
5 9 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
7 3 (0.95%) Packer
7 3 (0.95%) Puppet
7 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.32%) Consul
8 1 (0.32%) Istio
8 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 28 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.23%) Oracle
3 8 (2.53%) Splunk
4 7 (2.22%) Google
5 5 (1.58%) Databricks
6 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.95%) Imperva
7 3 (0.95%) New Relic
7 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.63%) Okta
8 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.63%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.63%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.63%) Sage
8 2 (0.63%) SAP