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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 99 99
Rank change year-on-year -29 0 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 766 1,415 2,329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.48% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 6.75% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 1,052 1,654
10th Percentile £384 £438 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £675
90th Percentile £703 £730 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £42.00 £52.55
25th Percentile - £52.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +69.70%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -24.14% +189.25%

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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 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 15 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 -20 639 £525 -8.70% 328
London 0 420 £513 -14.58% 157
Work from Home -30 280 £513 -6.82% 188
UK excluding London -50 260 £510 -2.86% 174
North of England -11 83 £524 -1.41% 65
Scotland -9 67 £463 -3.44% 8
North West +8 55 £510 -4.00% 40
South East -37 53 £600 +4.35% 26
Midlands +26 27 £450 -10.00% 30
Yorkshire -11 24 £587 +9.26% 17
West Midlands +18 21 £450 - 20
South West -5 18 £550 -16.98% 26
Northern Ireland - 8 £600 - 6
East of England +4 7 £625 -3.85% 11
East Midlands +11 6 £450 -10.00% 10
North East +9 4 £650 -13.33% 8

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 16 (2.09%) Confluence
5 13 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.31%) 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 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Trello
3 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.52%) Endur
3 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 527 (68.80%) AWS
2 439 (57.31%) AWS Lambda
3 288 (37.60%) Azure
4 248 (32.38%) Amazon S3
5 184 (24.02%) Azure Functions
6 145 (18.93%) Amazon EC2
7 134 (17.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 101 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (12.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 80 (10.44%) GitHub
11 76 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 64 (8.36%) Power Platform
13 62 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 61 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
15 59 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 59 (7.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 56 (7.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 50 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 47 (6.14%) PaaS
19 44 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.48%) 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
1 113 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (12.01%) NoSQL
4 88 (11.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 70 (9.14%) DynamoDB
6 60 (7.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (7.31%) MongoDB
7 56 (7.31%) SQL Server
8 54 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (6.53%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (6.40%) Data Lake
11 48 (6.27%) Big Data
12 46 (6.01%) Relational Database
13 41 (5.35%) 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
1 138 (18.02%) Git
2 74 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.09%) GitLab
4 42 (5.48%) JIRA
5 24 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.96%) Selenium
6 15 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 12 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.31%) JMeter
9 9 (1.17%) Maven
9 9 (1.17%) Visual Studio Team System
10 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.65%) JUnit
13 5 (0.65%) kappa
13 5 (0.65%) NUnit
14 4 (0.52%) Sourcetree
General
1 133 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.66%) Public Sector
3 79 (10.31%) Finance
4 51 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.05%) Banking
6 21 (2.74%) Retail
7 13 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.57%) Marketing
9 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.78%) Front Office
12 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.65%) Back Office
14 3 (0.39%) Automotive
14 3 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.39%) Law
14 3 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 265 (34.60%) Developer
2 115 (15.01%) Data Engineer
3 90 (11.75%) Architect
4 88 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (11.23%) Senior
6 83 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 72 (9.40%) Lead
8 55 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
9 47 (6.14%) Full Stack Developer
10 44 (5.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 38 (4.96%) Azure Developer
12 36 (4.70%) Java Developer
13 35 (4.57%) Python Developer
13 35 (4.57%) Software Engineer
14 32 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
15 29 (3.79%) AWS Developer
16 26 (3.39%) AWS Architect
16 26 (3.39%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (16.06%) React
2 114 (14.88%) Node.js
3 85 (11.10%) Kafka
4 83 (10.84%) .NET
5 72 (9.40%) AWS CDK
6 65 (8.49%) JSON
7 56 (7.31%) REST
8 39 (5.09%) XML
9 38 (4.96%) .NET Core
9 38 (4.96%) PySpark
9 38 (4.96%) RESTful
10 33 (4.31%) HTML
11 31 (4.05%) OAuth
12 29 (3.79%) Spring
13 25 (3.26%) CSS
14 24 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
15 23 (3.00%) AngularJS
15 23 (3.00%) ARM Templates
15 23 (3.00%) Spring Boot
16 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%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
10 7 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.65%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.65%) PKI
11 5 (0.65%) Smart Meter
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 2 (0.26%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Debian
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (42.56%) DevOps
2 307 (40.08%) CI/CD
3 256 (33.42%) Agile
4 162 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 157 (20.50%) Microservices
6 110 (14.36%) ETL
7 96 (12.53%) Full Stack Development
8 92 (12.01%) Software Engineering
9 89 (11.62%) Containerisation
9 89 (11.62%) Scrum
10 87 (11.36%) Test Automation
11 80 (10.44%) Data Modelling
11 80 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (9.53%) Analytics
13 72 (9.40%) SDLC
14 71 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (8.75%) TDD
16 58 (7.57%) Kanban
17 55 (7.18%) Mentoring
18 53 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 369 (48.17%) Python
2 238 (31.07%) SQL
3 134 (17.49%) Java
4 128 (16.71%) JavaScript
5 126 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 82 (10.70%) C#
7 55 (7.18%) Bash
8 42 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 33 (4.31%) Go
10 26 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.09%) Scala
12 11 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.31%) C++
14 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.04%) Bicep
15 8 (1.04%) C
16 7 (0.91%) Groovy
17 6 (0.78%) Ruby
18 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.48%) Degree
4 41 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 31 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.13%) CISM
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
12 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.13%) GIAC
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.52%) QA
3 14 (1.83%) NIST
4 13 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.04%) GDPR
6 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.65%) SLA
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.39%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 145 (18.93%) Docker
2 30 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.57%) 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 55 (7.18%) 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%) Packer
12 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.26%) Salt
14 1 (0.13%) CASB
14 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
14 1 (0.13%) logstash
14 1 (0.13%) Mesos
Vendors
1 101 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.75%) Oracle
3 25 (3.26%) Databricks
4 23 (3.00%) Google
5 20 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.22%) SAP
7 16 (2.09%) MuleSoft
7 16 (2.09%) Splunk
8 14 (1.83%) Ab Initio
9 9 (1.17%) Informatica
10 8 (1.04%) Talend
11 7 (0.91%) NEC
11 7 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.91%) VMware
11 7 (0.91%) WSO2
12 6 (0.78%) New Relic
12 6 (0.78%) Sage
13 5 (0.65%) Citrix
13 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.65%) Sitecore