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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 118 133
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 849 651 630
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.39% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 6.39% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 473 447
10th Percentile £396 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £735 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -16 501 £550 - 129
North of England -34 139 £500 - 53
North West -30 76 £550 +10.00% 27
Midlands -7 75 £479 +6.33% 26
West Midlands -14 60 £475 +5.56% 16
Yorkshire -36 47 £500 +2.30% 14
South West -20 44 £550 +4.76% 31
South East -68 43 £575 +16.87% 39
East of England -18 27 £550 +3.53% 6
North East -33 17 £463 +0.54% 12
East Midlands -10 15 £495 +8.85% 10
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 50 (5.89%) Confluence
2 40 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.36%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.36%) Apache
5 16 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.41%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 664 (78.21%) AWS
2 529 (62.31%) AWS Lambda
3 386 (45.47%) Amazon S3
4 304 (35.81%) Azure
5 163 (19.20%) Amazon EC2
6 158 (18.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 154 (18.14%) GitHub
8 153 (18.02%) Amazon ECS
9 145 (17.08%) Azure Functions
10 133 (15.67%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
12 106 (12.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 104 (12.25%) Power Platform
14 97 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
14 97 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 87 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
16 79 (9.31%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.60%) GCP
18 63 (7.42%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (5.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.48%) Firewall
2 27 (3.18%) DNS
3 25 (2.94%) Network Security
4 23 (2.71%) VPN
5 13 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.41%) WAN
7 10 (1.18%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.94%) SSL
9 5 (0.59%) IPsec
9 5 (0.59%) MQTT
9 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.47%) HTTP
10 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.35%) CTI
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (14.96%) DynamoDB
2 120 (14.13%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (10.72%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 76 (8.95%) Power BI
6 74 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.71%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.54%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.71%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.89%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.94%) Metadata
14 25 (2.94%) Tableau
15 22 (2.59%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
17 17 (2.00%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 147 (17.31%) Git
2 115 (13.55%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.43%) GitLab
4 72 (8.48%) JIRA
5 28 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.12%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.18%) Postman
10 9 (1.06%) JUnit
11 8 (0.94%) Mocha
11 8 (0.94%) MSTest
11 8 (0.94%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
14 5 (0.59%) Gatling
14 5 (0.59%) Maven
14 5 (0.59%) Mockito
14 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 200 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.43%) Finance
4 60 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.53%) Banking
6 28 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.30%) Law
9 9 (1.06%) Billing
9 9 (1.06%) Retail
10 8 (0.94%) Legal
11 7 (0.82%) Marketing
11 7 (0.82%) Military
12 6 (0.71%) Back Office
12 6 (0.71%) Front Office
12 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 190 (22.38%) Developer
2 161 (18.96%) Senior
3 160 (18.85%) Architect
4 118 (13.90%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (11.66%) Data Engineer
6 94 (11.07%) Lead
7 55 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.54%) AWS Architect
10 46 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.36%) AWS Developer
12 37 (4.36%) Technical Architect
13 36 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.24%) Python Developer
14 35 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
15 30 (3.53%) AWS Data Engineer
16 29 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (12.84%) React
2 108 (12.72%) Node.js
3 103 (12.13%) REST
4 96 (11.31%) Kafka
5 94 (11.07%) RESTful
6 71 (8.36%) .NET
7 61 (7.18%) Spring Boot
8 59 (6.95%) PySpark
9 58 (6.83%) Spring
10 55 (6.48%) GraphQL
11 47 (5.54%) OAuth
12 40 (4.71%) JSON
13 39 (4.59%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.59%) OpenID
14 38 (4.48%) FastAPI
15 36 (4.24%) AngularJS
16 28 (3.30%) OAuth2
17 26 (3.06%) Flask
17 26 (3.06%) Web Services
18 24 (2.83%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.80%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.77%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.94%) NHS
6 16 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.18%) IoT
10 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.12%) Linux
2 22 (2.59%) Unix
3 15 (1.77%) Windows
4 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 386 (45.47%) DevOps
3 316 (37.22%) Agile
4 309 (36.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (23.79%) Microservices
6 190 (22.38%) AI
7 187 (22.03%) Containerisation
8 155 (18.26%) Event-Driven
9 140 (16.49%) Analytics
10 137 (16.14%) Test Automation
11 131 (15.43%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
12 125 (14.72%) Observability
13 120 (14.13%) Software Engineering
14 117 (13.78%) Data Engineering
15 114 (13.43%) ETL
15 114 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
16 105 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 103 (12.13%) Migration
18 102 (12.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 397 (46.76%) Python
2 270 (31.80%) SQL
3 129 (15.19%) TypeScript
4 120 (14.13%) Java
5 112 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 102 (12.01%) C#
7 62 (7.30%) Bash
8 36 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.42%) Bicep
9 29 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.88%) Scala
11 15 (1.77%) Go
12 9 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.94%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
14 6 (0.71%) Ruby
14 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 236 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.60%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.36%) Degree
5 32 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.47%) CISSP
15 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.18%) QA
3 26 (3.06%) GDPR
4 25 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.41%) NIST
6 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.30%) WCAG
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 238 (28.03%) Docker
2 31 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.41%) Squid
3 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) RACF
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 342 (40.28%) Terraform
2 210 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.01%) Grafana
4 63 (7.42%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.06%) Ansible
6 24 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.88%) Puppet
8 9 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.94%) Consul
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.59%) Packer
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) Argo
14 2 (0.24%) CASB
Vendors
1 137 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.12%) Databricks
3 37 (4.36%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.30%) Oracle
5 24 (2.83%) Google
6 23 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.12%) Informatica
7 18 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.12%) Splunk
8 15 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.06%) Brio
10 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.94%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) Foundry
12 6 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.59%) Confluent
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Sybase
13 5 (0.59%) Workday