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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 84 76
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 274 634 1,419
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 2.62% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.10% 6.65% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 497 1,038
10th Percentile £413 £437 £431
25th Percentile £456 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £585 £649 £675
90th Percentile £638 £715 £766
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £53.63
25th Percentile - - £60.94
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -51.72% +70.59%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -37.93% +75.76%

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 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
10th Percentile £350 £370 £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 £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 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 9 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.19%) Apache
3 5 (1.82%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.50%) AWS
2 146 (53.28%) AWS Lambda
3 103 (37.59%) Azure
4 100 (36.50%) Amazon S3
5 67 (24.45%) Azure Functions
6 61 (22.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (18.61%) Amazon EC2
8 44 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (11.31%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (8.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 22 (8.03%) Power Platform
12 21 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (7.30%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (7.30%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (6.93%) PaaS
15 18 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (6.57%) OpenShift
16 16 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (5.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) Firewall
2 8 (2.92%) HTTP
3 4 (1.46%) DNS
4 3 (1.09%) DHCP
4 3 (1.09%) Internet
4 3 (1.09%) LAN
4 3 (1.09%) Network Security
4 3 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.09%) WLAN
5 2 (0.73%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) FTP
6 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (21.17%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (16.42%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (10.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (10.22%) MongoDB
5 27 (9.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (9.85%) DynamoDB
5 27 (9.85%) SQL Server
6 24 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (8.39%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (8.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (8.03%) NoSQL
9 20 (7.30%) Relational Database
10 15 (5.47%) Data Lake
10 15 (5.47%) RDBMS
11 12 (4.38%) Big Data
11 12 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (2.92%) Power BI
13 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (17.15%) Git
2 30 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.03%) GitLab
4 10 (3.65%) JIRA
5 8 (2.92%) Selenium
6 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.19%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.82%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.46%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.09%) git-flow
10 3 (1.09%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.09%) webpack
11 2 (0.73%) JMeter
11 2 (0.73%) JUnit
11 2 (0.73%) NUnit
11 2 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 49 (17.88%) Public Sector
2 40 (14.60%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.39%) Finance
4 7 (2.55%) Marketing
5 6 (2.19%) Retail
6 5 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.46%) Banking
8 2 (0.73%) Czech Language
8 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.36%) Advertising
9 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
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
1 104 (37.96%) Developer
2 52 (18.98%) Senior
3 37 (13.50%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (10.95%) Full Stack Developer
5 29 (10.58%) Lead
6 27 (9.85%) Architect
7 24 (8.76%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (8.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.39%) Data Engineer
9 22 (8.03%) Senior Developer
10 17 (6.20%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Senior Full Stack Developer
12 11 (4.01%) .NET Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.28%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.52%) Node.js
2 38 (13.87%) AWS CDK
2 38 (13.87%) React
3 33 (12.04%) .NET
4 23 (8.39%) REST
5 20 (7.30%) JSON
5 20 (7.30%) Kafka
6 18 (6.57%) RESTful
7 16 (5.84%) OAuth
8 15 (5.47%) .NET Core
9 14 (5.11%) XML
10 13 (4.74%) CSS
10 13 (4.74%) HTML
11 12 (4.38%) ARM Templates
11 12 (4.38%) PySpark
12 11 (4.01%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.65%) Swagger
13 10 (3.65%) Web Services
14 9 (3.28%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.11%) Cloud Native
1 14 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (2.92%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.19%) Replication
5 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.46%) IoT
5 4 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.73%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.73%) Life Science
7 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.73%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.31%) Linux
2 11 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.92%) Unix
4 6 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.24%) DevOps
2 108 (39.42%) CI/CD
3 95 (34.67%) Agile
4 69 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
6 46 (16.79%) Microservices
7 40 (14.60%) ETL
8 38 (13.87%) Test Automation
9 33 (12.04%) Scrum
10 30 (10.95%) Analytics
11 29 (10.58%) Mentoring
12 27 (9.85%) Containerisation
12 27 (9.85%) Software Engineering
13 26 (9.49%) TDD
14 25 (9.12%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.12%) Kanban
15 24 (8.76%) Migration
16 21 (7.66%) E-Commerce
16 21 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (7.30%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 113 (41.24%) Python
2 71 (25.91%) SQL
3 58 (21.17%) JavaScript
4 55 (20.07%) TypeScript
5 38 (13.87%) Java
6 32 (11.68%) C#
7 22 (8.03%) Bash
8 15 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.01%) Go
10 10 (3.65%) Scala
11 8 (2.92%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.19%) Groovy
13 4 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.09%) Bicep
15 2 (0.73%) C++
15 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.36%) Perl
16 1 (0.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.01%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.28%) Degree
5 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.46%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.73%) SLA
4 2 (0.73%) 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 52 (18.98%) Docker
2 8 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (24.82%) Terraform
2 53 (19.34%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.58%) Grafana
4 23 (8.39%) Ansible
5 9 (3.28%) Kibana
6 4 (1.46%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.73%) Salt
7 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.03%) Oracle
3 12 (4.38%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.28%) Databricks
4 9 (3.28%) Google
5 7 (2.55%) Ab Initio
6 6 (2.19%) Splunk
6 6 (2.19%) VMware
7 4 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.09%) SAP
9 2 (0.73%) Commvault
9 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 2 (0.73%) Informatica
9 2 (0.73%) Qualys
9 2 (0.73%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.73%) Sitecore