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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 827 579 663
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.19% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 5.91% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 398 487
10th Percentile £375 £400 £396
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -11.17%
75th Percentile £623 £683 £638
90th Percentile £700 £799 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £68.38 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.63 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 12,417 9,792 12,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 37.01% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,624 6,490 9,147
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
% change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +12 483 £513 -6.82% 132
North of England +27 172 £500 +3.63% 87
Yorkshire +13 84 £500 - 33
North West +9 77 £450 +0.78% 43
Midlands -12 66 £513 +14.00% 44
West Midlands -1 54 £525 +2.54% 24
South East -45 48 £475 -18.80% 125
South West -28 27 £650 - 46
East of England +3 24 £550 -3.51% 48
East Midlands -29 12 £435 -2.68% 20
North East -10 11 £525 -12.13% 11
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 28 (3.39%) Apache
2 27 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.02%) Confluence
5 22 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.45%) nginx
7 10 (1.21%) HCL Notes
8 9 (1.09%) Mendix
9 5 (0.60%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 584 (70.62%) AWS
2 470 (56.83%) AWS Lambda
3 303 (36.64%) Azure
4 287 (34.70%) Amazon S3
5 192 (23.22%) GitHub
6 189 (22.85%) Azure Functions
7 144 (17.41%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (16.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 131 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
10 128 (15.48%) Amazon EC2
10 128 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 127 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
12 99 (11.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 94 (11.37%) Amazon EKS
14 90 (10.88%) GCP
15 78 (9.43%) Power Platform
16 65 (7.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 64 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
18 63 (7.62%) AWS Step Functions
19 62 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.51%) DNS
2 24 (2.90%) Firewall
3 22 (2.66%) VPN
4 13 (1.57%) Network Security
5 6 (0.73%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.73%) SMS
5 6 (0.73%) SSL
6 5 (0.60%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) IPsec
8 2 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) DKIM
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (12.58%) DynamoDB
4 90 (10.88%) NoSQL
5 56 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (6.17%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.05%) Power BI
8 44 (5.32%) Data Lake
9 42 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (4.23%) Redis
12 34 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (3.75%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.90%) Big Data
15 23 (2.78%) MySQL
16 21 (2.54%) Tableau
17 19 (2.30%) DocumentDB
18 16 (1.93%) SQL Server
19 15 (1.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 141 (17.05%) Git
2 135 (16.32%) Jenkins
3 110 (13.30%) GitLab
4 50 (6.05%) JIRA
5 26 (3.14%) Liquibase
6 22 (2.66%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.93%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.69%) JUnit
8 14 (1.69%) Maven
8 14 (1.69%) Postman
9 12 (1.45%) Mockito
10 11 (1.33%) Gradle
10 11 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (1.21%) Selenium
12 6 (0.73%) MLflow
12 6 (0.73%) Storybook
13 5 (0.60%) Mocha
13 5 (0.60%) SonarLint
General
1 211 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 114 (13.78%) Finance
4 67 (8.10%) Banking
5 53 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.30%) Marketing
8 17 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.97%) Front Office
10 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.97%) Military
11 7 (0.85%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.48%) Aviation
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 220 (26.60%) Developer
2 114 (13.78%) Architect
3 111 (13.42%) Senior
4 108 (13.06%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (10.28%) Data Engineer
6 81 (9.79%) Software Engineer
7 76 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (7.50%) Lead
9 48 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 31 (3.75%) Technical Architect
13 30 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 30 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.51%) AWS Architect
14 29 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (3.39%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.17%) Node.js
2 131 (15.84%) React
2 131 (15.84%) RESTful
3 123 (14.87%) REST
4 116 (14.03%) Kafka
5 111 (13.42%) .NET
6 56 (6.77%) Spring Boot
7 51 (6.17%) Spring
8 49 (5.93%) OAuth
9 46 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 46 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
10 41 (4.96%) GraphQL
11 37 (4.47%) FastAPI
12 33 (3.99%) JSON
13 32 (3.87%) .NET Core
14 30 (3.63%) HTML
14 30 (3.63%) Next.js
15 29 (3.51%) Flask
16 28 (3.39%) CSS
17 26 (3.14%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.72%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 33 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.81%) AI Agents
6 15 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.69%) NHS
8 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.45%) Replication
10 11 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.97%) Data Fabric
12 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.40%) Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Unix
3 7 (0.85%) Windows
4 5 (0.60%) VMS
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (59.37%) CI/CD
2 424 (51.27%) DevOps
3 288 (34.82%) Agile
4 286 (34.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 245 (29.63%) Microservices
6 195 (23.58%) Containerisation
7 156 (18.86%) Software Engineering
8 153 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (14.75%) AI
10 121 (14.63%) Event-Driven
11 116 (14.03%) Data Pipeline
12 113 (13.66%) Analytics
13 109 (13.18%) Test Automation
14 96 (11.61%) Data Modelling
15 94 (11.37%) Full-Stack Development
16 89 (10.76%) ETL
17 88 (10.64%) Observability
18 85 (10.28%) Mentoring
19 73 (8.83%) Data Engineering
20 72 (8.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 399 (48.25%) Python
2 235 (28.42%) SQL
3 135 (16.32%) JavaScript
4 133 (16.08%) Java
5 126 (15.24%) TypeScript
6 116 (14.03%) C#
7 52 (6.29%) Go
8 47 (5.68%) Bash
9 38 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.75%) Bicep
11 19 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.93%) Ruby
13 10 (1.21%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.21%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.09%) C++
14 9 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.85%) Korn
16 6 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.73%) Scala
16 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 176 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.38%) Degree
4 55 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.47%) DV Cleared
7 34 (4.11%) Master's Degree
8 26 (3.14%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.54%) MCP
10 20 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.99%) QA
3 28 (3.39%) GDPR
4 20 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.30%) NIST
6 10 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.09%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.97%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) HL7
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 231 (27.93%) Docker
2 25 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.60%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
7 2 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 351 (42.44%) Terraform
2 228 (27.57%) Kubernetes
3 78 (9.43%) Ansible
3 78 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 75 (9.07%) Grafana
5 16 (1.93%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.57%) Puppet
7 12 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.85%) Kibana
9 5 (0.60%) Consul
9 5 (0.60%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.48%) Rancher
11 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
12 2 (0.24%) Control-M
12 2 (0.24%) Knative
12 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 157 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.29%) Databricks
3 42 (5.08%) Splunk
4 39 (4.72%) Google
5 31 (3.75%) OpenAI
6 27 (3.26%) Oracle
7 20 (2.42%) Foundry
8 15 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.69%) Confluent
10 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.45%) IBM
12 10 (1.21%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.21%) Lotus
12 10 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.09%) Kofax
13 9 (1.09%) Palantir
14 6 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.73%) Brio
14 6 (0.73%) Gigya
15 5 (0.60%) Pega