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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 109 132
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 848 604 634
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.51% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.74% 6.69% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 449 473
10th Percentile £383 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £633 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £53.00 -
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 14,776 9,024 11,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.56% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,069 6,187 8,492
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £508 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 210 325
10th Percentile £15.69 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £18.13 £15.98
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.63 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -10 516 £525 -4.55% 142
North of England -24 143 £500 - 42
North West -23 81 £525 +5.00% 21
Midlands -30 59 £488 -1.52% 22
South East -47 54 £575 +15.00% 41
Yorkshire -34 48 £500 - 15
West Midlands -41 45 £488 -3.18% 13
South West -25 31 £575 +4.55% 23
East of England -19 26 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -20 15 £475 - 6
East Midlands -18 14 £498 +3.86% 9
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 44 (5.19%) Confluence
2 42 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (3.18%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.24%) Apache
6 11 (1.30%) nginx
7 10 (1.18%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.18%) Mendix
8 6 (0.71%) CICS
9 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.47%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 642 (75.71%) AWS
2 511 (60.26%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (42.57%) Amazon S3
4 315 (37.15%) Azure
5 186 (21.93%) GitHub
6 172 (20.28%) Azure Functions
7 163 (19.22%) Amazon EC2
8 142 (16.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 142 (16.75%) Amazon ECS
9 131 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
11 107 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 106 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
12 106 (12.50%) Power Platform
13 97 (11.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 87 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 85 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
16 80 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
17 72 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
18 67 (7.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.77%) DNS
2 28 (3.30%) Firewall
3 21 (2.48%) VPN
4 15 (1.77%) Network Security
5 13 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.06%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.06%) SSL
7 8 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 7 (0.83%) SMS
9 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.71%) WAN
10 5 (0.59%) HTTP
10 5 (0.59%) IPsec
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) MQTT
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.74%) DynamoDB
2 118 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
5 69 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 68 (8.02%) Power BI
7 59 (6.96%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.42%) Data Lake
9 35 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (4.01%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.77%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.42%) Tableau
14 23 (2.71%) Metadata
15 21 (2.48%) MongoDB
15 21 (2.48%) Redis
16 20 (2.36%) Big Data
17 18 (2.12%) Delta Lake
17 18 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 130 (15.33%) Git
2 112 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 111 (13.09%) GitLab
4 59 (6.96%) JIRA
5 25 (2.95%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.53%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.06%) JUnit
10 8 (0.94%) Mocha
11 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.83%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Postman
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) Vite
13 5 (0.59%) Gatling
13 5 (0.59%) Mockito
13 5 (0.59%) Snyk
13 5 (0.59%) tSQLt
14 4 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 201 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 133 (15.68%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.45%) Finance
4 49 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (3.07%) Banking
7 12 (1.42%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.06%) Law
9 8 (0.94%) Marketing
9 8 (0.94%) Retail
10 7 (0.83%) Legal
10 7 (0.83%) Military
11 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.47%) Billing
12 4 (0.47%) Police
12 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.35%) Front Office
13 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (23.58%) Developer
2 164 (19.34%) Architect
3 117 (13.80%) Senior
4 103 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.73%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.91%) Lead
7 53 (6.25%) AWS Architect
7 53 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 48 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 42 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 42 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
10 41 (4.83%) AWS Developer
11 38 (4.48%) Python Developer
12 37 (4.36%) Cloud Architect
12 37 (4.36%) Technical Architect
13 33 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 31 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.18%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (14.27%) React
2 118 (13.92%) Kafka
3 108 (12.74%) Node.js
4 99 (11.67%) REST
5 93 (10.97%) RESTful
6 84 (9.91%) .NET
7 66 (7.78%) Spring
7 66 (7.78%) Spring Boot
8 54 (6.37%) OAuth
8 54 (6.37%) PySpark
9 44 (5.19%) AngularJS
10 42 (4.95%) GraphQL
10 42 (4.95%) OpenID
11 38 (4.48%) JSON
12 36 (4.25%) AWS CDK
13 34 (4.01%) FastAPI
14 30 (3.54%) OAuth2
15 27 (3.18%) CSS
15 27 (3.18%) Flask
15 27 (3.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 246 (29.01%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.83%) AI Agents
4 24 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.36%) NHS
6 14 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.94%) IoT
12 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.83%) Replication
13 6 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.78%) Linux
2 21 (2.48%) Unix
3 10 (1.18%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) zOS
5 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (60.02%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.93%) DevOps
3 317 (37.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (32.55%) Agile
5 191 (22.52%) Microservices
6 179 (21.11%) Containerisation
7 151 (17.81%) AI
8 150 (17.69%) Event-Driven
9 129 (15.21%) Observability
10 123 (14.50%) Analytics
11 121 (14.27%) Data Modelling
11 121 (14.27%) Test Automation
12 116 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (13.44%) Software Engineering
14 111 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
15 108 (12.74%) ETL
16 97 (11.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 95 (11.20%) Mentoring
18 91 (10.73%) Data Engineering
19 89 (10.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 377 (44.46%) Python
2 253 (29.83%) SQL
3 125 (14.74%) Java
3 125 (14.74%) TypeScript
4 124 (14.62%) JavaScript
5 120 (14.15%) C#
6 48 (5.66%) Bash
7 37 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.77%) Bicep
9 26 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.24%) Go
10 19 (2.24%) Scala
11 11 (1.30%) Ruby
12 10 (1.18%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.18%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.83%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 230 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 185 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.72%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.07%) Degree
6 25 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.95%) QA
3 26 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.83%) GDPR
5 17 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.00%) NIST
5 17 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.83%) PMO
7 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.71%) WCAG
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 228 (26.89%) Docker
2 30 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.42%) Squid
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (40.92%) Terraform
2 202 (23.82%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.02%) Grafana
4 65 (7.67%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.72%) Ansible
6 27 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.89%) Puppet
8 10 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.94%) Consul
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.47%) Podman
14 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.35%) Packer
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 143 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.72%) Databricks
3 49 (5.78%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.13%) Oracle
5 21 (2.48%) Dynatrace
5 21 (2.48%) Splunk
6 18 (2.12%) Google
7 13 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.42%) Foundry
9 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.18%) Confluent
10 10 (1.18%) Kofax
10 10 (1.18%) Lotus
11 9 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.06%) Brio
11 9 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.06%) SAP
12 7 (0.83%) Informatica
13 6 (0.71%) Qualys
13 6 (0.71%) Sybase