Serverless Contracts in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 113 104
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 651 1,125 1,852
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.77% 2.29% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 6.26% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 832 1,324
10th Percentile £375 £450 £427
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.27% -4.35% +9.52%
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +69.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,742 17,981 26,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.93% 36.55% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,473 13,174 19,938
10th Percentile £300 £325 £332
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £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 321 304 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.28
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -4 435 £513 -14.58% 151
North of England -20 77 £525 -1.18% 59
North West +12 55 £510 -2.86% 38
South East -37 54 £600 +4.35% 24
Midlands +24 27 £450 -10.00% 26
South West -6 22 £550 -16.98% 25
West Midlands +16 21 £450 - 18
Yorkshire -17 18 £600 +9.09% 16
East of England 0 7 £625 -3.85% 11
East Midlands +18 6 £450 -10.00% 8
North East +12 4 £650 -13.33% 5
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.23%) Apache
4 15 (2.30%) Confluence
5 13 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
7 6 (0.92%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.77%) nginx
8 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.46%) CMS
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.31%) SAS
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.92%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.61%) Endur
2 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 419 (64.36%) AWS
2 346 (53.15%) AWS Lambda
3 267 (41.01%) Azure
4 178 (27.34%) Azure Functions
5 170 (26.11%) Amazon S3
6 122 (18.74%) Amazon EC2
7 101 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (12.29%) GitHub
9 78 (11.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (11.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 68 (10.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 60 (9.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 59 (9.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 56 (8.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 54 (8.29%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (8.29%) Power Platform
16 52 (7.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 49 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 44 (6.76%) PaaS
19 42 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.92%) Firewall
2 12 (1.84%) HTTP
3 9 (1.38%) FTP
3 9 (1.38%) Network Security
4 7 (1.08%) AMQP
5 6 (0.92%) DHCP
5 6 (0.92%) DNS
6 4 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.61%) SSL
7 3 (0.46%) Internet
7 3 (0.46%) LAN
7 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 3 (0.46%) WLAN
8 1 (0.15%) IPsec
8 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.52%) Amazon RDS
1 88 (13.52%) NoSQL
2 72 (11.06%) DynamoDB
3 69 (10.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 59 (9.06%) SQL Server
5 58 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (6.61%) Data Lake
8 43 (6.61%) Relational Database
9 42 (6.45%) Big Data
10 39 (5.99%) Power BI
11 37 (5.68%) MongoDB
12 35 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (3.69%) Parquet
14 22 (3.38%) RDBMS
15 20 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
16 17 (2.61%) MySQL
17 12 (1.84%) Redis
18 10 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 124 (19.05%) Git
2 52 (7.99%) Jenkins
3 48 (7.37%) GitLab
4 35 (5.38%) JIRA
5 28 (4.30%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.46%) Visual Studio
7 15 (2.30%) Selenium
8 13 (2.00%) Maven
9 12 (1.84%) SonarQube
10 11 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.69%) JMeter
11 9 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.38%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (1.23%) Protractor
13 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.77%) kappa
14 5 (0.77%) NUnit
15 4 (0.61%) Sourcetree
15 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.52%) Finance
3 67 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.45%) Banking
6 22 (3.38%) Retail
7 14 (2.15%) Marketing
8 13 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.92%) Front Office
13 6 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.77%) Back Office
15 3 (0.46%) Electronics
15 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.46%) Law
15 3 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 219 (33.64%) Developer
2 105 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 80 (12.29%) Senior
4 76 (11.67%) Architect
5 74 (11.37%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (7.99%) Lead
8 46 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
9 45 (6.91%) Full Stack Developer
10 40 (6.14%) Azure Developer
11 35 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 34 (5.22%) Python Developer
13 33 (5.07%) Software Engineer
14 32 (4.92%) Java Developer
15 30 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (3.84%) AWS Architect
17 24 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
18 23 (3.53%) AWS Data Engineer
19 21 (3.23%) AWS Developer
20 20 (3.07%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.67%) Node.js
2 95 (14.59%) React
3 80 (12.29%) .NET
4 76 (11.67%) Kafka
5 63 (9.68%) JSON
6 44 (6.76%) REST
7 38 (5.84%) RESTful
8 37 (5.68%) XML
9 34 (5.22%) .NET Core
10 29 (4.45%) PySpark
11 28 (4.30%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.69%) Lambda Expressions
13 22 (3.38%) OAuth
14 21 (3.23%) Spring
15 20 (3.07%) ARM Templates
15 20 (3.07%) Jest
16 19 (2.92%) Apache Avro
16 19 (2.92%) SOAP
17 18 (2.76%) GraphQL
17 18 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.92%) Public Cloud
5 18 (2.76%) IoT
5 18 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.08%) Machine to Machine
9 7 (1.08%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.92%) PKI
11 5 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.77%) Smart Meter
11 5 (0.77%) Solar Panel
12 4 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.45%) Linux
2 26 (3.99%) Windows
3 18 (2.76%) Unix
4 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (44.85%) DevOps
2 271 (41.63%) CI/CD
3 212 (32.57%) Agile
4 136 (20.89%) Microservices
5 115 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (13.82%) Full Stack Development
7 85 (13.06%) ETL
8 82 (12.60%) Software Engineering
9 72 (11.06%) SDLC
10 70 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
11 68 (10.45%) Test Automation
12 64 (9.83%) Scrum
13 63 (9.68%) Containerisation
13 63 (9.68%) Data Modelling
14 62 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
15 59 (9.06%) TDD
16 54 (8.29%) Analytics
17 46 (7.07%) Data Engineering
18 41 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
19 39 (5.99%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 309 (47.47%) Python
2 206 (31.64%) SQL
3 114 (17.51%) Java
4 100 (15.36%) JavaScript
5 82 (12.60%) C#
6 72 (11.06%) TypeScript
7 41 (6.30%) PowerShell
8 38 (5.84%) Bash
9 32 (4.92%) Go
10 13 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.69%) Scala
11 11 (1.69%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.54%) C++
13 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.08%) C
15 6 (0.92%) Bicep
16 5 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.77%) Ruby
17 4 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.14%) Degree
4 37 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.15%) CISM
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) GIAC
13 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.84%) QA
2 14 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.00%) NIST
4 12 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.08%) GDPR
5 7 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.77%) SLA
7 4 (0.61%) WCAG
8 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 116 (17.82%) Docker
2 30 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.15%) Ceph
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 180 (27.65%) Terraform
2 139 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 47 (7.22%) Ansible
4 23 (3.53%) Grafana
5 13 (2.00%) Argo
5 13 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (1.23%) Puppet
8 5 (0.77%) SysTrack
9 4 (0.61%) Packer
10 3 (0.46%) Consul
10 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.46%) Kibana
10 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.31%) Salt
12 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.15%) logstash
12 1 (0.15%) Mesos
12 1 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 87 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.22%) Oracle
3 24 (3.69%) Databricks
4 18 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.76%) SAP
5 15 (2.30%) Google
5 15 (2.30%) MuleSoft
6 14 (2.15%) Splunk
7 9 (1.38%) Ab Initio
8 8 (1.23%) Informatica
8 8 (1.23%) Talend
9 7 (1.08%) VMware
10 6 (0.92%) NEC
10 6 (0.92%) New Relic
10 6 (0.92%) Sage
10 6 (0.92%) WSO2
11 5 (0.77%) Citrix
11 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.77%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.61%) Adobe