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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 111 140
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 823 604 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.31% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.54% 6.16% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 426 485
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £831 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 12,579 9,803 12,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 37.43% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,700 6,519 9,245
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 140 303
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% +22.22% -6.25%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +2 485 £513 -10.87% 150
North of England +16 167 £500 -7.75% 82
Yorkshire +11 85 £500 - 29
North West -5 70 £450 -18.18% 46
Midlands -10 66 £506 +7.66% 22
West Midlands -7 54 £525 +2.54% 12
South East -51 51 £500 -13.04% 50
East of England -2 28 £550 -3.93% 8
South West -33 23 £650 - 38
North East -8 13 £500 -16.32% 7
East Midlands -22 12 £434 -7.71% 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 30 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
1 30 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.40%) Apache
3 26 (3.16%) Confluence
4 23 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.22%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.09%) Mendix
6 9 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.85%) nginx
8 5 (0.61%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 573 (69.62%) AWS
2 459 (55.77%) AWS Lambda
3 311 (37.79%) Azure
4 284 (34.51%) Amazon S3
5 198 (24.06%) Azure Functions
6 177 (21.51%) GitHub
7 133 (16.16%) Amazon ECS
8 130 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
9 129 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 125 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
11 123 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
12 122 (14.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 105 (12.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 99 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
15 88 (10.69%) Power Platform
16 81 (9.84%) GCP
17 65 (7.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 65 (7.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 58 (7.05%) Azure AKS
19 55 (6.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.52%) DNS
2 26 (3.16%) Firewall
3 23 (2.79%) VPN
4 14 (1.70%) Network Security
5 9 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.09%) SSL
6 7 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.73%) HTTP
7 6 (0.73%) OpenVPN
7 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (0.73%) SMS
8 5 (0.61%) IPsec
9 3 (0.36%) LAN
9 3 (0.36%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) MPLS
11 1 (0.12%) DKIM
11 1 (0.12%) Internet
11 1 (0.12%) MQTT
11 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (13.61%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (11.30%) DynamoDB
4 84 (10.21%) NoSQL
5 61 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (6.44%) Power BI
7 50 (6.08%) Data Lake
8 41 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (4.98%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (3.77%) MongoDB
11 30 (3.65%) Redis
12 25 (3.04%) Big Data
13 22 (2.67%) DocumentDB
14 21 (2.55%) Tableau
15 19 (2.31%) MySQL
16 16 (1.94%) Metadata
17 14 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 140 (17.01%) Git
2 128 (15.55%) Jenkins
3 112 (13.61%) GitLab
4 43 (5.22%) JIRA
5 24 (2.92%) Liquibase
6 16 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.82%) JUnit
8 13 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.58%) Postman
9 12 (1.46%) Mockito
10 11 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (1.22%) Maven
11 10 (1.22%) Selenium
12 7 (0.85%) Mocha
13 6 (0.73%) Gradle
13 6 (0.73%) MLflow
13 6 (0.73%) Storybook
14 4 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 203 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 150 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 116 (14.09%) Finance
4 66 (8.02%) Banking
5 58 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.52%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.19%) Marketing
9 11 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.09%) Military
11 8 (0.97%) Front Office
11 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Retail
13 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.49%) Aviation
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Legal
15 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (26.37%) Developer
2 113 (13.73%) Architect
2 113 (13.73%) Senior
3 101 (12.27%) AWS Engineer
4 87 (10.57%) Data Engineer
5 77 (9.36%) Software Engineer
6 71 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 65 (7.90%) Lead
8 50 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (4.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 35 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
12 32 (3.89%) AWS Architect
13 30 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
15 28 (3.40%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.16%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.04%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (17.50%) Node.js
2 125 (15.19%) React
3 122 (14.82%) REST
4 119 (14.46%) Kafka
5 118 (14.34%) RESTful
6 110 (13.37%) .NET
7 57 (6.93%) Spring
7 57 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 46 (5.59%) OAuth
9 45 (5.47%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (4.37%) GraphQL
12 35 (4.25%) FastAPI
12 35 (4.25%) JSON
13 31 (3.77%) .NET Core
14 29 (3.52%) CSS
15 28 (3.40%) Flask
16 27 (3.28%) Next.js
17 25 (3.04%) HTML
18 24 (2.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 209 (25.39%) Cloud Native
2 77 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.01%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (1.94%) NHS
5 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.70%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.58%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.34%) Replication
10 10 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.97%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.33%) Linux
2 11 (1.34%) Unix
3 8 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
4 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (58.32%) CI/CD
2 423 (51.40%) DevOps
3 286 (34.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 275 (33.41%) Agile
5 234 (28.43%) Microservices
6 182 (22.11%) Containerisation
7 151 (18.35%) Software Engineering
8 148 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (15.19%) AI
10 124 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
11 123 (14.95%) Analytics
12 112 (13.61%) Event-Driven
13 105 (12.76%) Test Automation
14 103 (12.52%) Data Modelling
15 95 (11.54%) ETL
16 91 (11.06%) Observability
17 88 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
18 83 (10.09%) Data Engineering
18 83 (10.09%) Mentoring
19 67 (8.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 397 (48.24%) Python
2 244 (29.65%) SQL
3 130 (15.80%) JavaScript
4 124 (15.07%) Java
5 123 (14.95%) C#
6 119 (14.46%) TypeScript
7 50 (6.08%) Go
8 48 (5.83%) Bash
9 42 (5.10%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.77%) Bicep
11 19 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.94%) Ruby
13 10 (1.22%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.22%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.22%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.09%) C++
15 7 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.85%) Korn
15 7 (0.85%) Scala
16 6 (0.73%) JSX
Qualifications
1 216 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 176 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.80%) AWS Certification
3 56 (6.80%) Degree
4 47 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 14 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.25%) QA
3 28 (3.40%) GDPR
4 20 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.43%) NIST
5 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.09%) EU AI Act
6 9 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.97%) WCAG
8 4 (0.49%) HL7
8 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.24%) GRC
9 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 211 (25.64%) Docker
2 26 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.73%) Squid
6 5 (0.61%) RACF
7 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 337 (40.95%) Terraform
2 223 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 78 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 75 (9.11%) Ansible
5 73 (8.87%) Grafana
6 16 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.46%) Puppet
9 7 (0.85%) Kibana
10 6 (0.73%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.61%) Consul
12 4 (0.49%) Rancher
13 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.36%) Packer
14 2 (0.24%) Knative
14 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 168 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.80%) Databricks
3 41 (4.98%) Google
3 41 (4.98%) OpenAI
4 39 (4.74%) Splunk
5 26 (3.16%) Oracle
6 25 (3.04%) Foundry
7 14 (1.70%) Confluent
7 14 (1.70%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.58%) IBM
9 10 (1.22%) Cloudera
9 10 (1.22%) Lotus
9 10 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.09%) Kofax
10 9 (1.09%) Palantir
11 7 (0.85%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.73%) Brio
12 6 (0.73%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.73%) Sybase