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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 122 134
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 874 665 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.39% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 6.34% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 468 402
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.20 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 16,068 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,724 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -13 524 £550 - 547
North of England -58 131 £500 +5.26% 141
Midlands -19 86 £428 -13.64% 52
West Midlands -21 67 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -40 65 £588 +23.68% 96
South East -51 51 £600 +41.18% 77
South West -19 46 £500 -8.05% 68
Yorkshire -46 46 £500 +5.04% 28
East of England -33 20 £515 - 23
North East -36 20 £463 +4.52% 17
East Midlands -11 19 £419 -5.42% 26
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 41 (4.69%) Confluence
2 40 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.78%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.32%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.97%) Apache
6 9 (1.03%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 7 (0.80%) nginx
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 664 (75.97%) AWS
2 528 (60.41%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (41.30%) Amazon S3
4 341 (39.02%) Azure
5 188 (21.51%) GitHub
6 180 (20.59%) Azure Functions
7 179 (20.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 152 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
9 138 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
10 129 (14.76%) Amazon EKS
11 124 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
13 118 (13.50%) Power Platform
14 115 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 109 (12.47%) Amazon SQS
16 90 (10.30%) AWS Step Functions
17 80 (9.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 75 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
19 69 (7.89%) GCP
20 66 (7.55%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.43%) Firewall
2 28 (3.20%) Network Security
3 21 (2.40%) DNS
4 16 (1.83%) VPN
5 11 (1.26%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.57%) HTTP
7 5 (0.57%) MQTT
7 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.34%) CTI
8 3 (0.34%) FTP
8 3 (0.34%) IPv4
8 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (14.99%) DynamoDB
2 128 (14.65%) Amazon RDS
3 100 (11.44%) Amazon Athena
4 79 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (8.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 75 (8.58%) Power BI
6 74 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (6.52%) NoSQL
8 51 (5.84%) SQL Server
9 49 (5.61%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 30 (3.43%) MySQL
11 28 (3.20%) Metadata
12 26 (2.97%) MongoDB
13 24 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (2.40%) Delta Lake
14 21 (2.40%) Relational Database
15 19 (2.17%) Tableau
16 18 (2.06%) BigQuery
17 14 (1.60%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 158 (18.08%) Git
2 117 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 112 (12.81%) GitLab
4 62 (7.09%) JIRA
5 26 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.06%) Selenium
9 13 (1.49%) JUnit
9 13 (1.49%) Postman
10 11 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.14%) RStudio
12 9 (1.03%) Maven
13 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.69%) Gatling
16 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 216 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 142 (16.25%) Finance
4 78 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.12%) Banking
7 16 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.60%) Marketing
8 14 (1.60%) Military
9 12 (1.37%) Back Office
9 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.37%) Law
10 11 (1.26%) Billing
11 9 (1.03%) Front Office
12 8 (0.92%) Retail
13 7 (0.80%) Legal
13 7 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (22.65%) Developer
2 175 (20.02%) Senior
3 159 (18.19%) Architect
4 125 (14.30%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (13.16%) Data Engineer
6 111 (12.70%) Lead
7 65 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 52 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (5.49%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (4.46%) Senior Developer
14 37 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 36 (4.12%) Python Developer
16 35 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
17 34 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
18 33 (3.78%) AWS Developer
18 33 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (3.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (40.73%) Terraform
2 143 (16.36%) REST
3 105 (12.01%) React
4 94 (10.76%) Node.js
5 93 (10.64%) .NET
6 89 (10.18%) Kafka
7 86 (9.84%) RESTful
8 62 (7.09%) PySpark
9 56 (6.41%) Spring Boot
10 55 (6.29%) Spring
11 54 (6.18%) GraphQL
12 46 (5.26%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.92%) OAuth
14 41 (4.69%) AWS CDK
15 38 (4.35%) AngularJS
15 38 (4.35%) JSON
16 32 (3.66%) Flask
17 31 (3.55%) CSS
18 30 (3.43%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 274 (31.35%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 29 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.20%) NHS
7 23 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.37%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.03%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.98%) Linux
2 23 (2.63%) Unix
3 15 (1.72%) Windows
4 14 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (62.59%) CI/CD
2 403 (46.11%) DevOps
3 345 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 338 (38.67%) Agile
5 218 (24.94%) AI
6 190 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 183 (20.94%) Microservices
8 181 (20.71%) Containerisation
9 165 (18.88%) Observability
10 161 (18.42%) Test Automation
11 149 (17.05%) Analytics
12 147 (16.82%) Data Modelling
13 144 (16.48%) Software Engineering
14 140 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
16 133 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
17 130 (14.87%) Data Engineering
18 128 (14.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 122 (13.96%) Mentoring
20 118 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 423 (48.40%) Python
2 274 (31.35%) SQL
3 145 (16.59%) TypeScript
4 140 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 124 (14.19%) Java
6 120 (13.73%) C#
7 70 (8.01%) Bash
8 42 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.35%) Bicep
10 30 (3.43%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.83%) Scala
12 11 (1.26%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Go
14 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.57%) Cypher
15 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.01%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.06%) Degree
5 35 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (3.78%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.03%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.80%) CISSP
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.47%) QA
3 39 (4.46%) GDPR
4 36 (4.12%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.63%) WCAG
6 17 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.14%) NIST
7 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.80%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 243 (27.80%) Docker
2 35 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 206 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.44%) Grafana
3 54 (6.18%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.61%) Ansible
5 14 (1.60%) Puppet
6 11 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.57%) Kibana
9 5 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.57%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Argo
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 188 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.44%) Databricks
3 38 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.00%) Oracle
5 27 (3.09%) Google
6 23 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.52%) Dynatrace
8 21 (2.40%) Informatica
9 20 (2.29%) Splunk
10 11 (1.26%) Brio
10 11 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.14%) Foundry
12 7 (0.80%) Confluent
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.80%) Tenable
13 6 (0.69%) SAP
14 5 (0.57%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.57%) Workday
15 4 (0.46%) New Relic
15 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA