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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 112 99
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 725 1,113 2,282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 2.23% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.52% 6.24% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 825 1,582
10th Percentile £363 £413 £438
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £688 £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £532
% change year-on-year +1.90% -1.32% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £40.25 £68.00
25th Percentile - £48.13 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +59.57%

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 13,139 17,826 32,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 35.75% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 12,824 23,639
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 337 343
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.97 £13.43
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +62.79% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.07 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.44 £26.00 £19.61
% change year-on-year +17.07% +32.62% +0.54%

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 2024. 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 -17 591 £550 - 367
London -18 351 £525 -4.55% 165
UK excluding London -4 294 £535 +1.90% 220
Work from Home -12 290 £507 -3.43% 223
North of England +5 74 £525 - 79
South East +21 72 £625 +4.17% 47
Scotland -4 70 £476 +0.21% 16
North West -12 39 £475 -9.52% 62
South West -5 37 £600 -4.00% 21
Yorkshire +14 26 £535 +1.90% 8
Midlands -2 24 £513 +13.89% 32
West Midlands +4 14 £525 +23.53% 17
East of England +20 13 £588 +11.90% 15
East Midlands -2 10 £490 -2.00% 15
North East +3 9 £610 +43.53% 9
Wales +14 5 £500 +17.65% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 10

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 31 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (4.14%) Confluence
3 27 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.59%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.48%) Apache
6 7 (0.97%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.97%) CMS
7 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.41%) Drupal
9 3 (0.41%) JBoss
9 3 (0.41%) Mendix
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
9 3 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.28%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Trello
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 16 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (0.69%) Shopify
3 4 (0.55%) Endur
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 471 (64.97%) AWS
2 369 (50.90%) AWS Lambda
3 302 (41.66%) Azure
4 218 (30.07%) Amazon S3
5 212 (29.24%) Azure Functions
6 151 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
7 101 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 75 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
10 70 (9.66%) GitHub
11 68 (9.38%) Power Platform
12 64 (8.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 60 (8.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 59 (8.14%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (7.59%) OpenShift
16 54 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
17 49 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (6.62%) GCP
18 48 (6.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.86%) Firewall
2 8 (1.10%) FTP
2 8 (1.10%) VPN
3 7 (0.97%) HTTP
4 6 (0.83%) AMQP
4 6 (0.83%) Network Security
5 5 (0.69%) DNS
5 5 (0.69%) Internet
6 4 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) DHCP
7 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.41%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.14%) Intranet
9 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.41%) NoSQL
3 84 (11.59%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (9.93%) SQL Server
5 64 (8.83%) Amazon Athena
6 57 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (7.59%) DynamoDB
8 54 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 53 (7.31%) MongoDB
10 48 (6.62%) Power BI
11 44 (6.07%) Data Lake
12 34 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (4.41%) Big Data
14 31 (4.28%) Relational Database
15 29 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (2.34%) Hadoop
17 17 (2.34%) MySQL
18 16 (2.21%) InfluxDB
18 16 (2.21%) Informix
Development Applications
1 159 (21.93%) Git
2 95 (13.10%) Jenkins
3 52 (7.17%) GitLab
3 52 (7.17%) JIRA
4 28 (3.86%) Selenium
5 21 (2.90%) Cypress.io
6 19 (2.62%) Maven
7 16 (2.21%) JUnit
8 12 (1.66%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) Postman
9 10 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 10 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.24%) CircleCI
10 9 (1.24%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.10%) Gradle
12 5 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
13 4 (0.55%) MLflow
13 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 172 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.31%) Public Sector
3 82 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (10.76%) Finance
5 49 (6.76%) Banking
6 28 (3.86%) Retail
7 18 (2.48%) Front Office
8 17 (2.34%) Marketing
9 14 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Publishing
13 6 (0.83%) Electronics
13 6 (0.83%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.69%) Military
15 4 (0.55%) Advertising
15 4 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 304 (41.93%) Developer
2 124 (17.10%) Senior
3 92 (12.69%) Architect
4 76 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
5 75 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 68 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 66 (9.10%) Lead
8 62 (8.55%) Senior Developer
9 60 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 52 (7.17%) Azure Developer
11 47 (6.48%) Python Developer
12 45 (6.21%) Java Developer
13 44 (6.07%) .NET Developer
13 44 (6.07%) Software Engineer
14 37 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.17%) AWS Architect
17 23 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (18.21%) React
2 118 (16.28%) .NET
3 91 (12.55%) Node.js
4 72 (9.93%) RESTful
5 64 (8.83%) AWS CDK
6 56 (7.72%) CSS
7 55 (7.59%) HTML
8 54 (7.45%) Kafka
9 52 (7.17%) REST
10 50 (6.90%) AngularJS
11 48 (6.62%) .NET Core
12 32 (4.41%) Swagger
13 31 (4.28%) ASP.NET
14 30 (4.14%) PySpark
15 29 (4.00%) GraphQL
15 29 (4.00%) Spring
16 27 (3.72%) Lambda Expressions
17 26 (3.59%) JSON
17 26 (3.59%) OAuth
17 26 (3.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.72%) Public Cloud
4 18 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.34%) Replication
6 16 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.52%) Equities
9 11 (1.52%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.38%) Derivative
10 10 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.38%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.24%) IoT
11 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.86%) Linux
2 20 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (2.34%) Windows
4 11 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.52%) Unix
5 6 (0.83%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (42.48%) Agile
2 303 (41.79%) DevOps
3 278 (38.34%) CI/CD
4 169 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 156 (21.52%) Microservices
6 136 (18.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (15.45%) Test Automation
8 103 (14.21%) Software Engineering
9 100 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (13.10%) Containerisation
11 91 (12.55%) Scrum
12 76 (10.48%) Migration
13 75 (10.34%) SDLC
14 74 (10.21%) Data Modelling
15 70 (9.66%) ETL
16 67 (9.24%) TDD
17 64 (8.83%) Analytics
18 61 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
19 58 (8.00%) Unit Testing
20 54 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 310 (42.76%) Python
2 209 (28.83%) SQL
3 178 (24.55%) Java
4 175 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 132 (18.21%) TypeScript
6 105 (14.48%) C#
7 30 (4.14%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.00%) Bash
9 28 (3.86%) Groovy
10 15 (2.07%) PHP
10 15 (2.07%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.93%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.79%) Scala
13 10 (1.38%) Bicep
13 10 (1.38%) Go
14 6 (0.83%) C
15 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.69%) R
16 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 116 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.93%) Degree
4 39 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.41%) CISM
12 3 (0.41%) CISSP
12 3 (0.41%) OCP
13 2 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 10 (1.38%) QA
5 8 (1.10%) NIST
6 7 (0.97%) GDPR
6 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (16.97%) Docker
2 53 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 180 (24.83%) Terraform
2 151 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 58 (8.00%) Ansible
4 53 (7.31%) Grafana
5 12 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.38%) Kibana
7 7 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.97%) Podman
7 7 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.41%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.41%) Packer
9 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.28%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Salt
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 132 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.17%) Oracle
3 39 (5.38%) Google
4 24 (3.31%) Databricks
5 22 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.62%) Atlassian
7 17 (2.34%) SAP
8 16 (2.21%) WSO2
9 14 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.10%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.10%) Confluent
11 6 (0.83%) Commvault
11 6 (0.83%) Imperva
11 6 (0.83%) Informatica
11 6 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.83%) StreamSets
11 6 (0.83%) VMware
12 5 (0.69%) Adobe
12 5 (0.69%) IBM
12 5 (0.69%) Sitecore