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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 113 131
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 839 586 646
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.42% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.82% 6.49% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 440 482
10th Percentile £391 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -1.23% +2.19% -6.59%
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 14,423 9,023 11,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.26% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,870 6,247 8,432
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 200 326
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -10 502 £525 -4.55% 127
North of England -19 151 £500 - 69
North West -10 86 £500 - 36
Midlands -27 58 £488 -3.66% 19
South East -32 54 £563 +12.50% 46
Yorkshire -19 51 £500 - 24
West Midlands -29 46 £481 -6.05% 13
South West -21 32 £578 +5.16% 27
East of England -5 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -19 15 £475 - 10
East Midlands -23 12 £500 - 6
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 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.89%) Confluence
3 30 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.26%) Apache
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 10 (1.19%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.19%) Mendix
8 5 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.55%) 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
1 630 (75.09%) AWS
2 498 (59.36%) AWS Lambda
3 349 (41.60%) Amazon S3
4 314 (37.43%) Azure
5 186 (22.17%) GitHub
6 175 (20.86%) Azure Functions
7 154 (18.36%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (17.28%) Amazon ECS
9 132 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
10 126 (15.02%) Amazon EKS
11 125 (14.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 111 (13.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 107 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
13 107 (12.75%) Power Platform
14 86 (10.25%) Amazon SQS
14 86 (10.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 86 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 84 (10.01%) AWS Step Functions
16 72 (8.58%) Azure Service Bus
17 63 (7.51%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.93%) DNS
2 27 (3.22%) Firewall
3 18 (2.15%) VPN
4 13 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.31%) Network Security
6 10 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.07%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.95%) SSL
9 7 (0.83%) SMS
10 6 (0.72%) HTTP
10 6 (0.72%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.60%) IPsec
12 4 (0.48%) WAN
13 3 (0.36%) FTP
14 2 (0.24%) AMQP
14 2 (0.24%) MQTT
15 1 (0.12%) 4G
15 1 (0.12%) 5G
15 1 (0.12%) NaaS
15 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (13.59%) DynamoDB
2 107 (12.75%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (8.34%) Amazon Athena
5 69 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 69 (8.22%) Power BI
6 67 (7.99%) NoSQL
7 46 (5.48%) Data Lake
8 37 (4.41%) Relational Database
9 35 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.81%) SQL Server
12 29 (3.46%) Tableau
13 26 (3.10%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.86%) Metadata
14 24 (2.86%) Redis
15 20 (2.38%) Big Data
16 18 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
16 18 (2.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 137 (16.33%) Git
2 109 (12.99%) GitLab
3 107 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 55 (6.56%) JIRA
5 25 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 15 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.07%) JUnit
9 7 (0.83%) Maven
9 7 (0.83%) Mocha
9 7 (0.83%) MSTest
10 6 (0.72%) Selenium
10 6 (0.72%) Vite
11 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.60%) MLflow
11 5 (0.60%) Postman
11 5 (0.60%) Snyk
11 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 194 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.69%) Public Sector
3 127 (15.14%) Finance
4 55 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.34%) Banking
7 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.07%) Marketing
10 8 (0.95%) Military
10 8 (0.95%) Retail
11 7 (0.83%) Law
11 7 (0.83%) Legal
12 5 (0.60%) Front Office
12 5 (0.60%) Police
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Billing
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (25.63%) Developer
2 157 (18.71%) Architect
3 118 (14.06%) Senior
4 100 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.49%) Data Engineer
6 77 (9.18%) Lead
7 55 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.60%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (5.13%) AWS Developer
11 43 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
13 37 (4.41%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (4.17%) Technical Architect
15 34 (4.05%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 30 (3.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (14.54%) Kafka
1 122 (14.54%) React
2 112 (13.35%) Node.js
3 98 (11.68%) REST
4 91 (10.85%) .NET
5 90 (10.73%) RESTful
6 74 (8.82%) Spring Boot
7 73 (8.70%) Spring
8 53 (6.32%) PySpark
9 52 (6.20%) OAuth
10 50 (5.96%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.89%) JSON
12 40 (4.77%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.77%) OpenID
13 36 (4.29%) AWS CDK
14 34 (4.05%) FastAPI
15 29 (3.46%) CSS
16 28 (3.34%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.22%) HTML
17 27 (3.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 229 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.62%) NHS
6 21 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.83%) IoT
13 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.96%) Linux
2 22 (2.62%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (59.71%) CI/CD
2 406 (48.39%) DevOps
3 307 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 277 (33.02%) Agile
5 198 (23.60%) Microservices
6 186 (22.17%) Containerisation
7 148 (17.64%) AI
8 146 (17.40%) Event-Driven
9 126 (15.02%) Data Modelling
10 124 (14.78%) Analytics
11 121 (14.42%) Observability
11 121 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
12 114 (13.59%) Test Automation
13 108 (12.87%) Software Engineering
14 106 (12.63%) ETL
15 94 (11.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 93 (11.08%) Data Engineering
17 92 (10.97%) Mentoring
18 88 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 372 (44.34%) Python
2 250 (29.80%) SQL
3 129 (15.38%) C#
3 129 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 128 (15.26%) TypeScript
5 126 (15.02%) Java
6 46 (5.48%) Bash
7 35 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 33 (3.93%) Bicep
9 23 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.26%) Go
11 16 (1.91%) Scala
12 14 (1.67%) Ruby
13 10 (1.19%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.19%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.83%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.48%) JCL
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 232 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 185 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.98%) Degree
8 16 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.53%) QA
3 25 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.38%) GDPR
5 17 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.79%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
7 7 (0.83%) WCAG
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HL7
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 229 (27.29%) Docker
2 27 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.31%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 339 (40.41%) Terraform
2 206 (24.55%) Kubernetes
3 67 (7.99%) Grafana
4 62 (7.39%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.77%) Ansible
6 27 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.67%) Puppet
8 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.07%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.95%) Consul
9 8 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.72%) Kibana
11 5 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.60%) linkerd
11 5 (0.60%) Podman
12 4 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 143 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.15%) Databricks
3 47 (5.60%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.77%) Oracle
5 23 (2.74%) Splunk
6 19 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.67%) Google
8 12 (1.43%) Foundry
9 11 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.19%) Brio
10 10 (1.19%) Confluent
10 10 (1.19%) Kofax
10 10 (1.19%) Lotus
10 10 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.95%) SAP
13 7 (0.83%) Informatica
14 6 (0.72%) Qualys
14 6 (0.72%) Sybase