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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 118 133
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 871 648 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.40% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.55% 6.41% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 473 465
10th Percentile £393 £400 £365
25th Percentile £453 £428 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £626
90th Percentile £735 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.25% -5.73%
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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 517 £550 - 103
North of England -36 143 £500 - 44
North West -24 80 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -21 71 £488 +7.20% 24
West Midlands -31 57 £477 +0.95% 13
Yorkshire -22 50 £500 - 11
South East -51 48 £575 +15.93% 32
South West -18 42 £575 +8.24% 24
East of England -27 27 £550 +3.53% 4
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +9.18% 11
North East -32 14 £463 -1.07% 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 51 (5.86%) Confluence
2 40 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.48%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.30%) Apache
5 16 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.23%) Mendix
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 676 (77.61%) AWS
2 535 (61.42%) AWS Lambda
3 393 (45.12%) Amazon S3
4 314 (36.05%) Azure
5 170 (19.52%) Amazon EC2
6 166 (19.06%) GitHub
7 155 (17.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 153 (17.57%) Azure Functions
9 150 (17.22%) Amazon ECS
10 133 (15.27%) Amazon EKS
11 120 (13.78%) GitHub Actions
12 108 (12.40%) Power Platform
13 106 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 98 (11.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 96 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.56%) Amazon SQS
17 75 (8.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.61%) GCP
18 69 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
19 57 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.02%) Firewall
2 26 (2.99%) DNS
3 25 (2.87%) VPN
4 23 (2.64%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.38%) WAN
7 10 (1.15%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 5 (0.57%) MQTT
11 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.34%) AMQP
12 3 (0.34%) CTI
12 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.23%) SMS
14 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.47%) DynamoDB
2 123 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (8.96%) Power BI
7 61 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.77%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.40%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.59%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.79%) Relational Database
12 30 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (2.99%) Tableau
15 23 (2.64%) Metadata
16 22 (2.53%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.95%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.95%) Redis
19 16 (1.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 148 (16.99%) Git
2 120 (13.78%) GitLab
3 119 (13.66%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.50%) JIRA
5 28 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.38%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Postman
10 9 (1.03%) Mocha
11 8 (0.92%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.92%) MSTest
12 7 (0.80%) Selenium
13 6 (0.69%) Mockito
13 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.69%) Vite
14 5 (0.57%) Gatling
15 4 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 210 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.50%) Finance
4 57 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.21%) Banking
7 17 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 9 (1.03%) Legal
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Billing
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Back Office
13 5 (0.57%) Front Office
13 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (21.81%) Developer
2 169 (19.40%) Architect
3 157 (18.03%) Senior
4 121 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (11.94%) Data Engineer
6 94 (10.79%) Lead
7 59 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 50 (5.74%) AWS Architect
11 47 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
12 42 (4.82%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
14 38 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (4.36%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.36%) Technical Architect
15 36 (4.13%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
17 34 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
18 33 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (12.40%) Kafka
2 107 (12.28%) Node.js
3 106 (12.17%) React
4 100 (11.48%) REST
5 96 (11.02%) RESTful
6 71 (8.15%) .NET
7 63 (7.23%) Spring Boot
8 61 (7.00%) PySpark
8 61 (7.00%) Spring
9 54 (6.20%) GraphQL
10 48 (5.51%) OAuth
11 40 (4.59%) JSON
12 39 (4.48%) OpenID
13 37 (4.25%) AWS CDK
14 35 (4.02%) FastAPI
15 34 (3.90%) AngularJS
16 28 (3.21%) OAuth2
17 25 (2.87%) Flask
17 25 (2.87%) Web Services
18 24 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 267 (30.65%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.87%) NHS
6 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.03%) IoT
10 9 (1.03%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.51%) Linux
2 21 (2.41%) Unix
3 12 (1.38%) Windows
4 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (60.96%) CI/CD
2 406 (46.61%) DevOps
3 319 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 309 (35.48%) Agile
5 204 (23.42%) Microservices
6 196 (22.50%) Containerisation
7 186 (21.35%) AI
8 160 (18.37%) Event-Driven
9 142 (16.30%) Analytics
10 138 (15.84%) Test Automation
11 134 (15.38%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
13 126 (14.47%) Observability
14 122 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (13.55%) Data Engineering
16 117 (13.43%) Software Engineering
17 116 (13.32%) ETL
18 103 (11.83%) Migration
19 102 (11.71%) Mentoring
20 100 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.61%) Python
2 277 (31.80%) SQL
3 127 (14.58%) TypeScript
4 121 (13.89%) Java
5 112 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 104 (11.94%) C#
7 59 (6.77%) Bash
8 35 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.44%) Bicep
10 28 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.95%) Go
11 17 (1.95%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 241 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.97%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.36%) Degree
5 35 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.82%) QA
3 24 (2.76%) GDPR
3 24 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.49%) NIST
7 9 (1.03%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) HL7
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 242 (27.78%) Docker
2 30 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 360 (41.33%) Terraform
2 218 (25.03%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.15%) Grafana
4 69 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.40%) Ansible
6 24 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.30%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.92%) Consul
10 6 (0.69%) Istio
10 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 6 (0.69%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 139 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.43%) Databricks
3 39 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.33%) Oracle
5 22 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.53%) Google
6 19 (2.18%) Splunk
7 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 17 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.03%) Foundry
11 8 (0.92%) Brio
11 8 (0.92%) SAP
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.80%) Sybase
13 6 (0.69%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.69%) Tenable
14 5 (0.57%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.57%) Teradata