Serverless Contracts in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 114 148
Rank change year-on-year -62 +34 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 254 502 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 2.14% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 6.42% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 419 409
10th Percentile £404 £425 £408
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £658 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £522 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.05% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +109.46%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +31.58% +38.18%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -8 77 £525 -2.33% 57
Scotland -27 60 £463 -3.44% 6
North West +6 56 £510 -4.00% 35
South East -28 54 £600 +4.35% 24
Midlands +30 27 £450 -7.69% 28
South West -5 22 £550 -16.98% 28
West Midlands +22 21 £450 - 19
Yorkshire -15 17 £600 +9.09% 17
East of England +4 9 £625 -3.85% 13
Northern Ireland - 8 £600 - 6
East Midlands +20 6 £450 -10.00% 9
North East +10 4 £650 -13.33% 5
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.76%) Apache
3 6 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.57%) Confluence
4 4 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.18%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (65.35%) AWS
2 138 (54.33%) AWS Lambda
3 101 (39.76%) Amazon S3
4 91 (35.83%) Azure
5 69 (27.17%) Azure Functions
6 57 (22.44%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (22.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (12.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (11.02%) OpenShift
10 26 (10.24%) Power Platform
11 25 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (9.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 22 (8.66%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (6.69%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (6.69%) GitHub
15 15 (5.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (5.91%) Entra ID
16 14 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.54%) Network Security
2 6 (2.36%) FTP
3 5 (1.97%) AMQP
4 4 (1.57%) Firewall
4 4 (1.57%) HTTP
4 4 (1.57%) SSL
5 2 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.39%) IPsec
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (27.17%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (15.75%) NoSQL
3 39 (15.35%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (13.39%) MongoDB
5 30 (11.81%) Relational Database
6 29 (11.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (6.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (6.69%) Power BI
7 17 (6.69%) SQL Server
8 15 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (5.12%) RDBMS
11 12 (4.72%) Big Data
11 12 (4.72%) InfluxDB
11 12 (4.72%) Oracle Database
12 11 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.33%) DynamoDB
13 10 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (3.94%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (3.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (18.90%) Git
2 28 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.06%) GitLab
4 13 (5.12%) JIRA
5 7 (2.76%) Selenium
5 7 (2.76%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.57%) JUnit
7 4 (1.57%) kappa
7 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.18%) NUnit
8 3 (1.18%) webpack
9 2 (0.79%) Moq
9 2 (0.79%) Postman
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) Hudson
10 1 (0.39%) Mockito
10 1 (0.39%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.39%) TestCafe
General
1 45 (17.72%) Public Sector
2 37 (14.57%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.27%) Finance
4 16 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.15%) Retail
6 7 (2.76%) Banking
6 7 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.97%) Marketing
8 5 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.79%) Automotive
9 2 (0.79%) Electronics
9 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 107 (42.13%) Developer
2 26 (10.24%) Lead
3 25 (9.84%) Azure Developer
4 24 (9.45%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (8.66%) Full Stack Developer
7 21 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (6.30%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.30%) Python Developer
9 15 (5.91%) Architect
10 14 (5.51%) Java Developer
10 14 (5.51%) Senior
11 12 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.33%) DBA
12 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 11 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.05%) React
2 53 (20.87%) AWS CDK
3 43 (16.93%) Node.js
4 29 (11.42%) REST
5 24 (9.45%) JSON
5 24 (9.45%) XML
6 22 (8.66%) HTML
7 21 (8.27%) .NET
8 20 (7.87%) CSS
9 19 (7.48%) Kafka
10 15 (5.91%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.72%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.72%) RESTful
11 12 (4.72%) Spring
12 11 (4.33%) .NET Core
12 11 (4.33%) Lambda Expressions
13 10 (3.94%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.54%) OAuth
14 9 (3.54%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.69%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.54%) Replication
5 8 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.97%) Smart Meter
8 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
10 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.79%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.42%) Linux
2 14 (5.51%) Windows
3 9 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.15%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.76%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (47.24%) DevOps
2 108 (42.52%) Agile
3 101 (39.76%) CI/CD
4 62 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (19.69%) Scrum
6 47 (18.50%) Full Stack Development
7 44 (17.32%) Microservices
8 34 (13.39%) Mentoring
9 33 (12.99%) Kanban
10 31 (12.20%) Test Automation
11 30 (11.81%) Containerisation
11 30 (11.81%) TDD
12 29 (11.42%) SDLC
13 28 (11.02%) ETL
14 27 (10.63%) Analytics
14 27 (10.63%) Software Engineering
15 23 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (8.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (8.27%) OO
17 21 (8.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.88%) Python
2 74 (29.13%) SQL
3 61 (24.02%) TypeScript
4 54 (21.26%) Java
5 52 (20.47%) JavaScript
6 30 (11.81%) Bash
7 27 (10.63%) C#
8 16 (6.30%) Shell Script
9 14 (5.51%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.94%) Go
11 8 (3.15%) C
12 6 (2.36%) Groovy
13 3 (1.18%) Bicep
13 3 (1.18%) Ruby
14 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.79%) Scala
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.39%) PHP
15 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.91%) AWS Certification
2 15 (5.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.76%) Degree
5 6 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.76%) GDPR
3 5 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.18%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.18%) QA
5 3 (1.18%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (17.32%) Docker
2 17 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 49 (19.29%) Terraform
2 48 (18.90%) Kubernetes
3 40 (15.75%) Grafana
4 33 (12.99%) Ansible
5 11 (4.33%) Kibana
6 9 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.97%) SysTrack
9 3 (1.18%) HP Fortify
9 3 (1.18%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) Knative
10 1 (0.39%) Packer
10 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.42%) Oracle
2 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.94%) Splunk
4 7 (2.76%) Informatica
5 5 (1.97%) Ab Initio
5 5 (1.97%) Citrix
5 5 (1.97%) New Relic
5 5 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.97%) Talend
6 4 (1.57%) Commvault
6 4 (1.57%) Google
6 4 (1.57%) Sage
6 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.18%) SAP
7 3 (1.18%) VMware
8 2 (0.79%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.39%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud