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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 836 586 646
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.40% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.87% 6.46% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 443 481
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £430 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £625
90th Percentile £719 £835 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £528 £515
% change year-on-year -5.21% +2.48% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £58.98 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £69.63 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.91% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 14,233 9,074 11,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.22% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,777 6,350 8,496
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 195 318
10th Percentile £15.98 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £39.38 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.25 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -14 496 £525 -4.55% 141
North of England -9 149 £500 - 70
North West -13 83 £500 - 44
Midlands -29 63 £500 +4.28% 19
West Midlands -22 51 £494 +2.65% 7
South East -41 51 £538 +7.50% 40
Yorkshire -11 50 £500 - 20
South West -19 34 £578 +5.16% 27
East of England -16 24 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -14 17 £475 - 6
East Midlands -28 12 £500 - 12
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 46 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.55%) Confluence
3 31 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (3.11%) Apache
5 25 (2.99%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.32%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.32%) nginx
7 10 (1.20%) Mendix
8 7 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (73.33%) AWS
2 486 (58.13%) AWS Lambda
3 342 (40.91%) Amazon S3
4 323 (38.64%) Azure
5 182 (21.77%) Azure Functions
6 180 (21.53%) GitHub
7 151 (18.06%) Amazon ECS
8 146 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
9 136 (16.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 126 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
11 120 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
12 117 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 113 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
13 113 (13.52%) Power Platform
14 95 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 84 (10.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 80 (9.57%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (8.85%) Azure Service Bus
18 72 (8.61%) Amazon SQS
19 59 (7.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.95%) DNS
2 30 (3.59%) Firewall
3 19 (2.27%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.32%) Network Security
6 10 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.84%) HTTP
8 7 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.84%) SMS
8 7 (0.84%) SSL
9 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 4 (0.48%) WAN
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
13 1 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.76%) DynamoDB
2 104 (12.44%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.61%) Power BI
5 71 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 70 (8.37%) NoSQL
7 69 (8.25%) Amazon Athena
8 47 (5.62%) Data Lake
9 42 (5.02%) Relational Database
10 34 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (3.59%) Tableau
14 29 (3.47%) MongoDB
15 27 (3.23%) Redis
16 26 (3.11%) SQL Server
17 25 (2.99%) Metadata
18 24 (2.87%) Big Data
19 17 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
20 16 (1.91%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 141 (16.87%) Git
2 112 (13.40%) GitLab
3 106 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 48 (5.74%) JIRA
5 24 (2.87%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.03%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.44%) JUnit
9 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.96%) Maven
10 8 (0.96%) Mockito
11 7 (0.84%) Mocha
11 7 (0.84%) Selenium
12 6 (0.72%) Vite
13 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.60%) Gradle
13 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.60%) MLflow
13 5 (0.60%) MSTest
13 5 (0.60%) Snyk
General
1 193 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 158 (18.90%) Public Sector
3 125 (14.95%) Finance
4 57 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (4.07%) Banking
6 27 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.20%) Marketing
9 8 (0.96%) Military
9 8 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.84%) Legal
11 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.60%) Front Office
12 5 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.60%) Law
12 5 (0.60%) Police
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (26.44%) Developer
2 153 (18.30%) Architect
3 113 (13.52%) Senior
4 99 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 74 (8.85%) Lead
7 52 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 47 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 43 (5.14%) AWS Architect
10 42 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (4.90%) AWS Developer
12 39 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
13 35 (4.19%) Python Developer
14 34 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (3.95%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 32 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.95%) Node.js
2 123 (14.71%) React
3 114 (13.64%) Kafka
4 96 (11.48%) REST
5 91 (10.89%) .NET
6 89 (10.65%) RESTful
7 76 (9.09%) Spring
7 76 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 57 (6.82%) OAuth
9 48 (5.74%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.50%) PySpark
11 39 (4.67%) OpenID
12 38 (4.55%) JSON
13 34 (4.07%) AWS CDK
14 33 (3.95%) FastAPI
15 31 (3.71%) GraphQL
16 29 (3.47%) OAuth2
17 26 (3.11%) CSS
17 26 (3.11%) Flask
17 26 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.51%) NHS
6 19 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.08%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.96%) Replication
13 7 (0.84%) DataPower
13 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.84%) IoT
13 7 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.46%) Linux
2 21 (2.51%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 416 (49.76%) DevOps
3 309 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 275 (32.89%) Agile
5 210 (25.12%) Microservices
6 190 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 141 (16.87%) AI
8 135 (16.15%) Event-Driven
9 131 (15.67%) Analytics
10 129 (15.43%) Data Modelling
11 127 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
12 120 (14.35%) Observability
13 114 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 114 (13.64%) Software Engineering
13 114 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 106 (12.68%) ETL
15 95 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
16 92 (11.00%) Data Engineering
17 88 (10.53%) Mentoring
18 86 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 384 (45.93%) Python
2 249 (29.78%) SQL
3 135 (16.15%) Java
4 132 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 131 (15.67%) C#
6 128 (15.31%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.10%) Bash
8 38 (4.55%) Bicep
9 34 (4.07%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.75%) Go
12 16 (1.91%) Scala
13 15 (1.79%) Ruby
14 11 (1.32%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.32%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
15 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.72%) C++
17 4 (0.48%) JCL
17 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 251 (30.02%) Security Cleared
2 200 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.78%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.99%) Degree
8 18 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.55%) QA
3 24 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.51%) GDPR
6 16 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.79%) NIST
8 7 (0.84%) PMO
8 7 (0.84%) WCAG
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.48%) HL7
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (27.27%) Docker
2 29 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.20%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 349 (41.75%) Terraform
2 207 (24.76%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.25%) Grafana
4 65 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.02%) Ansible
6 27 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.56%) Puppet
8 11 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.96%) Consul
11 6 (0.72%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Rancher
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 153 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.89%) Databricks
3 46 (5.50%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.90%) Oracle
5 25 (2.99%) Splunk
6 21 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.91%) Google
8 14 (1.67%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) Lotus
9 11 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.20%) Confluent
10 10 (1.20%) Kofax
11 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.08%) Brio
11 9 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
12 7 (0.84%) Palantir
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.60%) IBM