Serverless Contracts with Work from Home Options

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 85 76
Rank change year-on-year -29 -9 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 281 657 1,382
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.90% 2.67% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.21% 6.76% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 511 1,012
10th Percentile £413 £438 £425
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £675
90th Percentile £650 £725 £774
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% +69.70%
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +69.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Serverless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serverless trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless.

Serverless daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Serverless over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Serverless daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 9 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.14%) Apache
3 5 (1.78%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.07%) CMS
5 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.71%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.07%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (65.48%) AWS
2 156 (55.52%) AWS Lambda
3 111 (39.50%) Azure
4 103 (36.65%) Amazon S3
5 72 (25.62%) Azure Functions
6 60 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (18.86%) Amazon EC2
8 48 (17.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (11.74%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 25 (8.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (8.54%) Power Platform
13 23 (8.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (7.12%) PaaS
16 19 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.76%) OpenShift
17 17 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.27%) Firewall
2 8 (2.85%) HTTP
3 4 (1.42%) Network Security
4 3 (1.07%) DHCP
4 3 (1.07%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) LAN
4 3 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.07%) WLAN
5 2 (0.71%) Internet
5 2 (0.71%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) FTP
6 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (22.42%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (15.30%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (11.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (10.68%) DynamoDB
4 30 (10.68%) MongoDB
4 30 (10.68%) SQL Server
5 28 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (9.61%) NoSQL
7 25 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (8.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (7.47%) Relational Database
11 17 (6.05%) RDBMS
12 16 (5.69%) Data Lake
13 14 (4.98%) Big Data
14 12 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (3.56%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (3.56%) Power BI
16 7 (2.49%) MySQL
16 7 (2.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (16.37%) Git
2 30 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.47%) GitLab
4 13 (4.63%) JIRA
5 9 (3.20%) Visual Studio
6 7 (2.49%) Selenium
7 6 (2.14%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.14%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.78%) Maven
8 5 (1.78%) Visual Studio Team System
9 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.07%) git-flow
9 3 (1.07%) Protractor
9 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.07%) webpack
10 2 (0.71%) JMeter
10 2 (0.71%) JUnit
10 2 (0.71%) NUnit
General
1 48 (17.08%) Public Sector
2 47 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.90%) Finance
4 10 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.49%) Marketing
6 6 (2.14%) Banking
6 6 (2.14%) Retail
7 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.71%) Czech Language
8 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.36%) Advertising
9 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.36%) Games
9 1 (0.36%) Law
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (34.16%) Developer
2 41 (14.59%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (14.23%) Senior
4 31 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.68%) Architect
6 29 (10.32%) Lead
7 26 (9.25%) Data Engineer
8 25 (8.90%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (8.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (6.05%) Full Stack Developer
10 17 (6.05%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.56%) DBA
13 10 (3.56%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 10 (3.56%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.20%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.88%) AWS CDK
1 39 (13.88%) Node.js
2 35 (12.46%) React
3 32 (11.39%) .NET
4 25 (8.90%) JSON
5 23 (8.19%) Kafka
6 21 (7.47%) REST
7 19 (6.76%) XML
8 16 (5.69%) OAuth
8 16 (5.69%) RESTful
9 14 (4.98%) .NET Core
9 14 (4.98%) PySpark
10 13 (4.63%) ARM Templates
11 12 (4.27%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.91%) Swagger
13 10 (3.56%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.56%) HTML
13 10 (3.56%) SOAP
14 9 (3.20%) CSS
14 9 (3.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.34%) Cloud Native
1 15 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.85%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.14%) Replication
5 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.42%) IoT
5 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.07%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.71%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.71%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.71%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.03%) Linux
2 11 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.85%) Unix
4 6 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (43.42%) DevOps
2 115 (40.93%) CI/CD
3 105 (37.37%) Agile
4 73 (25.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (17.79%) Microservices
6 45 (16.01%) ETL
7 38 (13.52%) Test Automation
8 37 (13.17%) Full Stack Development
9 36 (12.81%) Scrum
10 33 (11.74%) Mentoring
11 32 (11.39%) Analytics
12 30 (10.68%) Kanban
13 27 (9.61%) Containerisation
13 27 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (9.61%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (8.54%) TDD
16 22 (7.83%) Data Modelling
16 22 (7.83%) Machine Learning
16 22 (7.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 121 (43.06%) Python
2 73 (25.98%) SQL
3 57 (20.28%) TypeScript
4 55 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.23%) Java
6 36 (12.81%) C#
7 22 (7.83%) Bash
8 16 (5.69%) PowerShell
9 14 (4.98%) Go
10 10 (3.56%) Scala
11 9 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.14%) Groovy
13 4 (1.42%) Bicep
13 4 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.71%) C++
15 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.71%) R
16 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.20%) Degree
5 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.78%) QA
3 4 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.71%) SLA
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (17.79%) Docker
2 7 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (24.56%) Terraform
2 55 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.68%) Grafana
4 24 (8.54%) Ansible
5 9 (3.20%) Kibana
6 6 (2.14%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) Consul
7 2 (0.71%) Packer
7 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.71%) Salt
7 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.36%) Knative
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.61%) Oracle
3 10 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.20%) Databricks
4 9 (3.20%) Google
5 7 (2.49%) Ab Initio
6 6 (2.14%) Splunk
6 6 (2.14%) VMware
7 4 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.07%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.07%) SAP
9 2 (0.71%) Commvault
9 2 (0.71%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.71%) IBM
9 2 (0.71%) Informatica
9 2 (0.71%) Qualys
9 2 (0.71%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.71%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.71%) StreamSets