Serverless Contract Job Trends in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 123 138
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 851 658 585
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 2.37% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.22% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 461 394
10th Percentile £400 £381 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Serverless job vacancy trend in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless

Serverless
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 September 2026. 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 -13 508 £550 - 444
North of England -49 130 £500 +5.26% 130
Midlands -14 87 £428 -14.07% 54
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -10.00% 28
North West -39 66 £550 +15.79% 83
South East -50 51 £600 +41.18% 61
South West -25 44 £500 -9.09% 58
Yorkshire -53 44 £500 +5.15% 37
North East -26 20 £463 -11.14% 10
East Midlands -12 19 £419 -5.42% 26
East of England -34 16 £525 +1.94% 25
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.58%) Confluence
3 33 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.06%) Apache
6 9 (1.06%) CMS
7 8 (0.94%) SAS
8 6 (0.71%) nginx
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
12 2 (0.24%) Camunda
12 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.24%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 640 (75.21%) AWS
2 511 (60.05%) AWS Lambda
3 354 (41.60%) Amazon S3
4 337 (39.60%) Azure
5 182 (21.39%) GitHub
6 181 (21.27%) Azure Functions
7 177 (20.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 150 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
9 133 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
10 129 (15.16%) Amazon EKS
11 121 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
12 119 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
13 112 (13.16%) Power Platform
14 111 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 104 (12.22%) Amazon SQS
16 81 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
18 73 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 66 (7.76%) GCP
20 64 (7.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.17%) Network Security
2 25 (2.94%) Firewall
3 17 (2.00%) DNS
4 14 (1.65%) VPN
5 10 (1.18%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) HTTP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.22%) DynamoDB
2 119 (13.98%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (11.16%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (8.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 70 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (7.76%) Power BI
8 55 (6.46%) NoSQL
9 51 (5.99%) SQL Server
10 50 (5.88%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.29%) MongoDB
12 27 (3.17%) Metadata
13 25 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (2.82%) MySQL
15 23 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.59%) Delta Lake
17 19 (2.23%) Relational Database
18 18 (2.12%) BigQuery
18 18 (2.12%) Tableau
19 15 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 156 (18.33%) Git
2 117 (13.75%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.28%) GitLab
4 57 (6.70%) JIRA
5 27 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.47%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.23%) Selenium
8 14 (1.65%) Postman
9 13 (1.53%) JUnit
10 11 (1.29%) Mockito
10 11 (1.29%) RStudio
11 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.06%) Maven
13 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.71%) Gatling
15 6 (0.71%) JMeter
General
1 205 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.57%) Finance
4 76 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.23%) Banking
7 15 (1.76%) Marketing
8 14 (1.65%) Military
9 12 (1.41%) Back Office
9 12 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.41%) Law
10 11 (1.29%) Billing
10 11 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.06%) Front Office
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
13 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 192 (22.56%) Developer
2 172 (20.21%) Senior
3 151 (17.74%) Architect
4 123 (14.45%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (13.40%) Data Engineer
6 111 (13.04%) Lead
7 68 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (5.99%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.41%) AWS Architect
9 46 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
11 35 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
12 34 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
12 34 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 33 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
13 33 (3.88%) Python Developer
14 31 (3.64%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (39.95%) Terraform
2 144 (16.92%) REST
3 99 (11.63%) React
4 95 (11.16%) .NET
5 91 (10.69%) Kafka
6 90 (10.58%) Node.js
7 87 (10.22%) RESTful
8 60 (7.05%) PySpark
9 54 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 54 (6.35%) Spring Boot
10 53 (6.23%) Spring
11 45 (5.29%) FastAPI
12 42 (4.94%) OAuth
13 38 (4.47%) AngularJS
13 38 (4.47%) AWS CDK
14 35 (4.11%) JSON
15 31 (3.64%) Flask
16 30 (3.53%) CSS
16 30 (3.53%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 276 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.46%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.17%) NHS
7 24 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) Fixed Income
16 8 (0.94%) Mainframe
16 8 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.17%) Linux
2 22 (2.59%) Unix
3 15 (1.76%) Windows
4 14 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.35%) zOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (63.69%) CI/CD
2 392 (46.06%) DevOps
3 340 (39.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 326 (38.31%) Agile
5 218 (25.62%) AI
6 185 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 181 (21.27%) Microservices
8 176 (20.68%) Containerisation
9 163 (19.15%) Observability
10 158 (18.57%) Test Automation
11 143 (16.80%) Analytics
12 142 (16.69%) Data Modelling
13 141 (16.57%) Software Engineering
14 140 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 134 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
16 131 (15.39%) Data Engineering
17 129 (15.16%) Data Pipeline
18 127 (14.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 119 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
20 118 (13.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 410 (48.18%) Python
2 263 (30.90%) SQL
3 139 (16.33%) TypeScript
4 136 (15.98%) JavaScript
5 120 (14.10%) C#
6 116 (13.63%) Java
7 65 (7.64%) Bash
8 39 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.47%) Bicep
10 27 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.65%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) Groovy
13 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.94%) R
14 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.71%) Go
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 230 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.23%) AWS Certification
4 52 (6.11%) Degree
5 37 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 34 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.18%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.82%) CISSP
16 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.22%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.58%) QA
3 35 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.11%) GDPR
4 22 (2.59%) WCAG
5 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.06%) NIST
7 8 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.85%) Docker
2 31 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Squid
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (23.62%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.05%) Grafana
3 51 (5.99%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.76%) Ansible
5 14 (1.65%) Puppet
6 10 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.71%) Istio
8 6 (0.71%) Packer
8 6 (0.71%) Podman
9 5 (0.59%) Kibana
9 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 4 (0.47%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
12 2 (0.24%) CASB
12 2 (0.24%) Consul
12 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 188 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.64%) Databricks
3 40 (4.70%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.41%) Oracle
5 27 (3.17%) Google
6 22 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.35%) Informatica
9 18 (2.12%) Splunk
10 11 (1.29%) Brio
10 11 (1.29%) Foundry
11 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.82%) Confluent
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.82%) Tenable
13 4 (0.47%) Adyen
13 4 (0.47%) New Relic
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.47%) UiPath
13 4 (0.47%) Workday