Serverless Contracts

Serverless Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 96 97
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 766 1,418 2,351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.48% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 6.74% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 1,057 1,669
10th Percentile £388 £434 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £675
90th Percentile £706 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £38.50 £53.50
25th Percentile - £43.75 £59.94
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +75.76%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £77.50
90th Percentile - £71.50 £79.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +199.22%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 May 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 16 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 May 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 -19 646 £525 -8.70% 393
London -5 426 £513 -14.58% 196
Work from Home -30 280 £513 -6.82% 221
UK excluding London -55 256 £510 -2.86% 239
North of England -5 82 £523 -0.48% 81
Scotland -17 62 £466 -2.71% 12
South East -34 55 £600 +4.35% 55
North West +2 54 £510 -2.86% 41
Midlands +12 27 £450 -7.69% 36
Yorkshire -10 24 £587 +11.86% 27
West Midlands +20 21 £450 - 27
South West -15 18 £550 -16.98% 34
Northern Ireland - 8 £600 - 5
East of England +2 7 £625 +11.11% 14
East Midlands +13 6 £450 -10.00% 9
North East +11 4 £650 -13.33% 13

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 32 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.13%) Apache
4 15 (1.96%) Confluence
5 12 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.91%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.52%) CMS
10 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.26%) SAS
12 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.65%) Endur
3 5 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 522 (68.15%) AWS
2 434 (56.66%) AWS Lambda
3 290 (37.86%) Azure
4 246 (32.11%) Amazon S3
5 186 (24.28%) Azure Functions
6 146 (19.06%) Amazon EC2
7 130 (16.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 100 (13.05%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 78 (10.18%) GitHub
11 76 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 62 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
13 61 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 61 (7.96%) Power Platform
14 59 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (7.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 56 (7.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 51 (6.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (6.53%) PaaS
18 46 (6.01%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.61%) Firewall
2 12 (1.57%) HTTP
3 10 (1.31%) Network Security
4 7 (0.91%) AMQP
4 7 (0.91%) FTP
5 6 (0.78%) DHCP
5 6 (0.78%) DNS
6 4 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.52%) SSL
6 4 (0.52%) VPN
7 3 (0.39%) Internet
7 3 (0.39%) LAN
7 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.39%) WLAN
8 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.13%) IPsec
8 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (14.88%) Amazon RDS
2 106 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (12.01%) NoSQL
4 87 (11.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 73 (9.53%) DynamoDB
6 59 (7.70%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (7.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (7.18%) MongoDB
8 55 (7.18%) SQL Server
9 51 (6.66%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (6.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 48 (6.27%) Big Data
12 47 (6.14%) Data Lake
12 47 (6.14%) Relational Database
13 38 (4.96%) Power BI
14 24 (3.13%) Parquet
14 24 (3.13%) RDBMS
15 17 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (2.22%) MySQL
16 13 (1.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 139 (18.15%) Git
2 74 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 61 (7.96%) GitLab
4 41 (5.35%) JIRA
5 24 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.09%) Selenium
7 15 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.31%) JMeter
10 9 (1.17%) Maven
10 9 (1.17%) Visual Studio Team System
11 8 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.78%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.65%) JUnit
14 5 (0.65%) kappa
14 5 (0.65%) NUnit
15 4 (0.52%) Postman
General
1 132 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.66%) Public Sector
3 79 (10.31%) Finance
4 50 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.92%) Banking
6 21 (2.74%) Retail
7 12 (1.57%) Marketing
7 12 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.91%) Front Office
10 7 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.65%) Back Office
12 5 (0.65%) Billing
12 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.52%) Publishing
14 3 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 262 (34.20%) Developer
2 113 (14.75%) Data Engineer
3 91 (11.88%) Architect
4 90 (11.75%) Senior
5 87 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
6 82 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 72 (9.40%) Lead
8 55 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
9 49 (6.40%) Full Stack Developer
10 44 (5.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 39 (5.09%) Azure Developer
12 37 (4.83%) Python Developer
13 36 (4.70%) Software Engineer
14 35 (4.57%) Java Developer
15 32 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
16 29 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
17 28 (3.66%) AWS Developer
18 27 (3.52%) AWS Architect
19 25 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
19 25 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (16.19%) React
2 115 (15.01%) Node.js
3 85 (11.10%) Kafka
4 83 (10.84%) .NET
5 68 (8.88%) AWS CDK
6 65 (8.49%) JSON
7 57 (7.44%) REST
8 39 (5.09%) XML
9 38 (4.96%) RESTful
10 36 (4.70%) .NET Core
10 36 (4.70%) PySpark
11 33 (4.31%) HTML
12 31 (4.05%) OAuth
13 30 (3.92%) Spring
14 25 (3.26%) CSS
15 24 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
16 23 (3.00%) AngularJS
16 23 (3.00%) ARM Templates
17 22 (2.87%) Spring Boot
18 20 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 19 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.22%) IoT
6 17 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.17%) Replication
9 8 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.04%) Market Risk
9 8 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
11 5 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.65%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 65 (8.49%) Linux
2 24 (3.13%) Windows
3 19 (2.48%) Unix
4 15 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.39%) VMS
7 2 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (42.82%) DevOps
2 310 (40.47%) CI/CD
3 252 (32.90%) Agile
4 161 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (21.02%) Microservices
5 109 (14.23%) ETL
6 98 (12.79%) Full Stack Development
7 95 (12.40%) Software Engineering
8 88 (11.49%) Containerisation
8 88 (11.49%) Test Automation
9 87 (11.36%) Scrum
10 78 (10.18%) Data Modelling
10 78 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
11 73 (9.53%) SDLC
12 72 (9.40%) Analytics
13 70 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (8.75%) TDD
15 55 (7.18%) Kanban
16 54 (7.05%) Mentoring
17 53 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 366 (47.78%) Python
2 238 (31.07%) SQL
3 136 (17.75%) Java
4 130 (16.97%) JavaScript
5 122 (15.93%) TypeScript
6 82 (10.70%) C#
7 55 (7.18%) Bash
8 41 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.18%) Go
10 26 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.09%) Scala
12 10 (1.31%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.17%) C++
14 8 (1.04%) Bicep
14 8 (1.04%) C
14 8 (1.04%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.91%) Groovy
16 6 (0.78%) Ruby
17 5 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 124 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.48%) Degree
4 40 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 31 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
13 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.13%) GIAC
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.52%) QA
3 15 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.83%) NIST
5 8 (1.04%) GDPR
6 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.39%) WCAG
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 145 (18.93%) Docker
2 31 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.13%) Ceph
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 206 (26.89%) Terraform
2 169 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 60 (7.83%) Ansible
4 52 (6.79%) Grafana
5 14 (1.83%) Argo
6 13 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.57%) Kibana
7 12 (1.57%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.91%) Puppet
10 5 (0.65%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.52%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.39%) Consul
12 3 (0.39%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.39%) Packer
12 3 (0.39%) Podman
12 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.26%) Salt
14 1 (0.13%) logstash
14 1 (0.13%) Mesos
Vendors
1 100 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.88%) Oracle
3 24 (3.13%) Databricks
4 23 (3.00%) Google
5 21 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.35%) SAP
7 16 (2.09%) Splunk
8 15 (1.96%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.83%) Ab Initio
10 9 (1.17%) Informatica
11 8 (1.04%) Talend
12 7 (0.91%) NEC
12 7 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.91%) VMware
12 7 (0.91%) WSO2
13 6 (0.78%) New Relic
13 6 (0.78%) Sage
14 5 (0.65%) Citrix
14 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.65%) Sitecore