Serverless Contracts with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 87 77
Rank change year-on-year -33 -10 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 271 627 1,411
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.84% 2.63% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.02% 6.66% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 497 1,035
10th Percentile £413 £429 £434
25th Percentile £456 £475 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £646 £721 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.00% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +76.47%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -40.00% +81.82%

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 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 10 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 5 (1.85%) Confluence
5 3 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.11%) CMS
6 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.74%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.37%) Mendix
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (64.21%) AWS
2 143 (52.77%) AWS Lambda
3 103 (38.01%) Amazon S3
4 102 (37.64%) Azure
5 68 (25.09%) Azure Functions
6 64 (23.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (19.19%) Amazon EC2
8 43 (15.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (10.70%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 22 (8.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 22 (8.12%) Power Platform
12 21 (7.75%) PaaS
13 20 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (7.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (7.38%) OpenShift
14 18 (6.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 16 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) Firewall
2 8 (2.95%) HTTP
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) DHCP
4 3 (1.11%) Internet
4 3 (1.11%) LAN
4 3 (1.11%) Network Security
4 3 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.11%) WLAN
5 2 (0.74%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) FTP
6 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (20.66%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (16.61%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (10.70%) MongoDB
4 28 (10.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 28 (10.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (10.33%) SQL Server
5 27 (9.96%) DynamoDB
6 24 (8.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 24 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (7.75%) NoSQL
9 20 (7.38%) Relational Database
10 17 (6.27%) Data Lake
11 14 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (5.17%) RDBMS
12 13 (4.80%) Big Data
13 9 (3.32%) Power BI
14 7 (2.58%) Informix
14 7 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (2.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (17.71%) Git
2 32 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.75%) GitLab
4 12 (4.43%) JIRA
5 7 (2.58%) Selenium
6 6 (2.21%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.21%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.85%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio Team System
9 3 (1.11%) git-flow
9 3 (1.11%) JUnit
9 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.74%) JMeter
10 2 (0.74%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Moq
10 2 (0.74%) NUnit
10 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 49 (18.08%) Public Sector
2 44 (16.24%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.86%) Finance
4 8 (2.95%) Retail
5 7 (2.58%) Marketing
6 4 (1.48%) Banking
7 3 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.11%) Czech Language
8 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.37%) Advertising
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.37%) Law
9 1 (0.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (39.48%) Developer
2 55 (20.30%) Senior
3 36 (13.28%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (11.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 29 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (10.33%) Architect
7 26 (9.59%) Senior Developer
8 25 (9.23%) Lead
9 23 (8.49%) Data Engineer
10 22 (8.12%) AWS DevOps
10 22 (8.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (6.27%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.80%) Senior Full Stack Developer
13 12 (4.43%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Azure Developer
14 10 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.32%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.34%) Node.js
2 40 (14.76%) AWS CDK
3 37 (13.65%) React
4 35 (12.92%) .NET
5 20 (7.38%) REST
5 20 (7.38%) RESTful
6 19 (7.01%) Kafka
7 17 (6.27%) .NET Core
7 17 (6.27%) JSON
8 14 (5.17%) OAuth
9 13 (4.80%) Swagger
10 12 (4.43%) CSS
10 12 (4.43%) HTML
10 12 (4.43%) PySpark
11 11 (4.06%) .NET Framework
11 11 (4.06%) ARM Templates
11 11 (4.06%) XML
12 10 (3.69%) Spring
13 9 (3.32%) OpenAPI
13 9 (3.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.95%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.95%) Replication
5 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.48%) IoT
6 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.11%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Hackathon
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.07%) Linux
2 12 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.58%) Unix
4 6 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.48%) Windows
6 1 (0.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.59%) DevOps
2 102 (37.64%) CI/CD
3 98 (36.16%) Agile
4 69 (25.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (18.45%) Full Stack Development
6 45 (16.61%) Microservices
7 41 (15.13%) ETL
8 38 (14.02%) Scrum
8 38 (14.02%) Test Automation
9 29 (10.70%) Analytics
9 29 (10.70%) Mentoring
9 29 (10.70%) Software Engineering
10 28 (10.33%) Kanban
11 27 (9.96%) Containerisation
12 26 (9.59%) TDD
13 25 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (9.23%) Migration
14 22 (8.12%) E-Commerce
15 21 (7.75%) Data Engineering
16 20 (7.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.96%) Python
2 74 (27.31%) SQL
3 57 (21.03%) TypeScript
4 56 (20.66%) JavaScript
5 39 (14.39%) Java
6 35 (12.92%) C#
7 20 (7.38%) Bash
8 14 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.06%) Scala
10 9 (3.32%) Go
11 8 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.21%) Groovy
13 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.11%) Bicep
15 2 (0.74%) C++
15 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.37%) PHP
16 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.69%) Degree
5 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.48%) QA
3 3 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.74%) WCAG
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (19.56%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (24.35%) Terraform
2 55 (20.30%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.07%) Grafana
4 24 (8.86%) Ansible
5 9 (3.32%) Kibana
6 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.48%) Puppet
7 2 (0.74%) Argo
7 2 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.74%) Salt
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) CASB
8 1 (0.37%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.75%) Oracle
3 12 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.69%) Google
5 9 (3.32%) Databricks
6 7 (2.58%) Ab Initio
7 6 (2.21%) VMware
8 5 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.85%) Splunk
9 3 (1.11%) Commvault
9 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.11%) SAP
10 2 (0.74%) Apiary
10 2 (0.74%) Confluent
10 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.74%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) Qualys
10 2 (0.74%) StreamSets