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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 836 589 653
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.41% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 6.47% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 442 487
10th Percentile £379 £400 £375
25th Percentile £434 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £721 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -3.52% +0.77% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 14,317 9,110 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.20% 37.21% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,819 6,350 8,477
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 198 323
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.50 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.17% +23.69% -35.19%
75th Percentile £68.63 £39.69 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.36% +28.69% -38.94%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -11 503 £525 -4.55% 137
North of England -15 147 £500 - 72
North West -15 85 £500 - 42
Midlands -30 62 £498 -0.40% 21
South East -38 52 £550 +10.00% 45
West Midlands -27 50 £488 -4.79% 10
Yorkshire -20 47 £500 - 24
South West -22 32 £578 +5.16% 33
East of England -12 23 £550 -18.52% 8
North East -12 16 £475 - 6
East Midlands -29 12 £500 - 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 46 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.78%) Confluence
3 30 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.75%) Apache
4 23 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.32%) nginx
6 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.20%) Mendix
7 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.48%) CICS
8 4 (0.48%) SAS
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.84%) 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
1 621 (74.28%) AWS
2 494 (59.09%) AWS Lambda
3 349 (41.75%) Amazon S3
4 316 (37.80%) Azure
5 183 (21.89%) GitHub
6 174 (20.81%) Azure Functions
7 152 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
8 149 (17.82%) Amazon ECS
9 131 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 129 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
11 123 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
12 116 (13.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 110 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
14 107 (12.80%) Power Platform
15 91 (10.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 87 (10.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 81 (9.69%) AWS Step Functions
18 78 (9.33%) Amazon SQS
19 74 (8.85%) Azure Service Bus
20 59 (7.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.95%) DNS
2 29 (3.47%) Firewall
3 19 (2.27%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.20%) Network Security
5 10 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.84%) HTTP
7 7 (0.84%) Kerberos
7 7 (0.84%) SMS
7 7 (0.84%) SSL
8 5 (0.60%) IPsec
9 4 (0.48%) WAN
10 3 (0.36%) FTP
11 2 (0.24%) AMQP
11 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) 5G
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.76%) DynamoDB
2 104 (12.44%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.61%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (8.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.25%) Power BI
7 68 (8.13%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.50%) Data Lake
9 41 (4.90%) Relational Database
10 35 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.47%) SQL Server
13 29 (3.47%) Tableau
14 28 (3.35%) MongoDB
15 27 (3.23%) Redis
16 24 (2.87%) Big Data
16 24 (2.87%) Metadata
17 18 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (2.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (16.87%) Git
2 116 (13.88%) GitLab
3 108 (12.92%) Jenkins
4 49 (5.86%) JIRA
5 26 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.03%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.20%) JUnit
9 9 (1.08%) Mocha
10 8 (0.96%) Maven
11 7 (0.84%) MSTest
12 6 (0.72%) Vite
13 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.60%) Gradle
13 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.60%) Mockito
13 5 (0.60%) Selenium
13 5 (0.60%) Snyk
13 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 188 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 129 (15.43%) Finance
4 56 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.95%) Banking
6 26 (3.11%) 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 5 (0.60%) Front Office
11 5 (0.60%) Law
11 5 (0.60%) Police
11 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (26.20%) Developer
2 153 (18.30%) Architect
3 117 (14.00%) Senior
4 100 (11.96%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.61%) Lead
7 52 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.86%) Software Engineer
9 45 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 44 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (5.02%) AWS Architect
11 42 (5.02%) AWS Developer
11 42 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
12 35 (4.19%) Python Developer
12 35 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
14 32 (3.83%) Technical Architect
15 29 (3.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (14.47%) Node.js
2 118 (14.11%) React
3 115 (13.76%) Kafka
4 93 (11.12%) .NET
5 92 (11.00%) REST
6 87 (10.41%) RESTful
7 77 (9.21%) Spring Boot
8 76 (9.09%) Spring
9 55 (6.58%) OAuth
10 51 (6.10%) PySpark
11 47 (5.62%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.78%) JSON
13 39 (4.67%) OpenID
14 35 (4.19%) AWS CDK
15 31 (3.71%) FastAPI
15 31 (3.71%) GraphQL
16 29 (3.47%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.35%) CSS
17 28 (3.35%) HTML
18 25 (2.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 222 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.39%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.39%) NHS
6 15 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.96%) Replication
12 7 (0.84%) DataPower
12 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.84%) IoT
12 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.46%) Linux
2 22 (2.63%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (59.93%) CI/CD
2 414 (49.52%) DevOps
3 311 (37.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (32.18%) Agile
5 205 (24.52%) Microservices
6 192 (22.97%) Containerisation
7 142 (16.99%) AI
8 137 (16.39%) Event-Driven
9 128 (15.31%) Data Modelling
10 126 (15.07%) Analytics
11 125 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
12 119 (14.23%) Observability
13 116 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
14 114 (13.64%) Test Automation
15 111 (13.28%) Software Engineering
16 105 (12.56%) ETL
17 94 (11.24%) Data Engineering
18 92 (11.00%) Mentoring
19 88 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
20 87 (10.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 384 (45.93%) Python
2 250 (29.90%) SQL
3 134 (16.03%) Java
3 134 (16.03%) JavaScript
4 132 (15.79%) C#
5 124 (14.83%) TypeScript
6 49 (5.86%) Bash
7 37 (4.43%) Bicep
8 33 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.35%) Shell Script
10 23 (2.75%) Go
11 16 (1.91%) Scala
12 15 (1.79%) Ruby
13 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 6 (0.72%) C++
17 4 (0.48%) JCL
17 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 243 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.19%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.23%) Degree
7 18 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 10 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (0.84%) 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 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.55%) QA
3 24 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.27%) GDPR
5 18 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.79%) NIST
8 7 (0.84%) PMO
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.72%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) HL7
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 228 (27.27%) Docker
2 28 (3.35%) 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
2 206 (24.64%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.37%) Grafana
4 64 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.90%) 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
1 146 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.66%) Databricks
3 45 (5.38%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.90%) Oracle
5 24 (2.87%) Splunk
6 21 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.91%) Google
8 13 (1.56%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.20%) Confluent
10 10 (1.20%) Kofax
10 10 (1.20%) Lotus
11 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.84%) Brio
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) Palantir
13 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase