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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 121 135
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 865 657 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.37% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 6.28% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 463 402
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 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 - £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 15,915 10,455 11,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.65% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,616 7,071 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 252 177
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -21 514 £550 - 664
North of England -51 131 £500 +5.04% 157
Midlands -6 87 £430 -13.13% 63
West Midlands -20 68 £460 -8.00% 31
North West -30 64 £588 +21.13% 102
South East -61 51 £600 +41.18% 81
South West -30 47 £505 -6.05% 77
Yorkshire -54 47 £500 +5.04% 35
North East -25 20 £463 +4.52% 20
East Midlands -4 19 £419 +0.84% 32
East of England -29 19 £525 +1.94% 31
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 42 (4.86%) Confluence
2 40 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.35%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.01%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 7 (0.81%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 657 (75.95%) AWS
2 524 (60.58%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (41.73%) Amazon S3
4 334 (38.61%) Azure
5 181 (20.92%) GitHub
6 179 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 176 (20.35%) Azure Functions
8 152 (17.57%) Amazon ECS
9 139 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
10 126 (14.57%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
12 119 (13.76%) Power Platform
13 117 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
14 114 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 107 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
16 90 (10.40%) AWS Step Functions
17 81 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
19 65 (7.51%) Amazon EventBridge
20 64 (7.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.47%) Firewall
2 27 (3.12%) Network Security
3 21 (2.43%) DNS
4 16 (1.85%) VPN
5 11 (1.27%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
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
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (14.91%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.45%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (8.90%) Power BI
5 75 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 74 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (6.47%) NoSQL
8 50 (5.78%) SQL Server
9 48 (5.55%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.47%) MySQL
11 29 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (3.24%) Metadata
13 23 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.66%) MongoDB
14 21 (2.43%) Relational Database
15 20 (2.31%) Delta Lake
15 20 (2.31%) Tableau
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
17 14 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 155 (17.92%) Git
2 116 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 111 (12.83%) GitLab
4 61 (7.05%) JIRA
5 22 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.43%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.97%) Selenium
8 12 (1.39%) Postman
9 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.16%) JUnit
10 10 (1.16%) RStudio
11 8 (0.92%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.81%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.69%) Gatling
13 6 (0.69%) Maven
14 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 216 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 142 (16.42%) Finance
4 77 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.05%) Banking
7 16 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.62%) Marketing
9 13 (1.50%) Military
10 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.39%) Law
11 11 (1.27%) Back Office
11 11 (1.27%) Billing
12 9 (1.04%) Front Office
13 8 (0.92%) Retail
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (22.89%) Developer
2 172 (19.88%) Senior
3 159 (18.38%) Architect
4 120 (13.87%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (13.06%) Data Engineer
6 110 (12.72%) Lead
7 64 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (6.01%) Software Engineer
9 48 (5.55%) AWS Architect
10 46 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.16%) Python Developer
13 36 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
14 35 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.93%) AWS Data Engineer
15 34 (3.93%) AWS Developer
16 33 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (40.69%) Terraform
2 137 (15.84%) REST
3 106 (12.25%) React
4 94 (10.87%) Node.js
5 91 (10.52%) .NET
6 86 (9.94%) Kafka
6 86 (9.94%) RESTful
7 62 (7.17%) PySpark
8 54 (6.24%) Spring Boot
9 53 (6.13%) Spring
10 49 (5.66%) GraphQL
11 44 (5.09%) FastAPI
12 41 (4.74%) OAuth
13 40 (4.62%) AWS CDK
14 38 (4.39%) AngularJS
14 38 (4.39%) JSON
15 32 (3.70%) Flask
16 31 (3.58%) CSS
17 29 (3.35%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 270 (31.21%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.98%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.55%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.24%) NHS
6 22 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.82%) Linux
2 23 (2.66%) Unix
3 16 (1.85%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (62.54%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.01%) DevOps
3 343 (39.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (38.61%) Agile
5 213 (24.62%) AI
6 185 (21.39%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.27%) Microservices
8 180 (20.81%) Containerisation
9 160 (18.50%) Observability
10 158 (18.27%) Test Automation
11 147 (16.99%) Analytics
12 146 (16.88%) Data Modelling
13 143 (16.53%) Software Engineering
14 138 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (15.72%) Technical Leadership
16 131 (15.14%) Data Pipeline
17 127 (14.68%) Data Engineering
18 122 (14.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 120 (13.87%) Mentoring
19 120 (13.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 418 (48.32%) Python
2 271 (31.33%) SQL
3 145 (16.76%) TypeScript
4 137 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 119 (13.76%) Java
6 116 (13.41%) C#
7 69 (7.98%) Bash
8 42 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.39%) Bicep
10 28 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.62%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 240 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.86%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.90%) Degree
5 35 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.82%) Azure Certification
8 31 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
15 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.81%) CISSP
17 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 71 (8.21%) QA
3 38 (4.39%) GDPR
4 35 (4.05%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.54%) WCAG
6 18 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.40%) Docker
2 35 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 200 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.40%) Grafana
3 52 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.66%) Ansible
5 14 (1.62%) Puppet
6 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.69%) Istio
7 6 (0.69%) Packer
7 6 (0.69%) Podman
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
8 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
9 4 (0.46%) Salt
10 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 183 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.17%) Databricks
3 34 (3.93%) OpenAI
4 32 (3.70%) Oracle
5 24 (2.77%) Google
6 22 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.43%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.43%) Informatica
8 20 (2.31%) Splunk
9 11 (1.27%) Brio
10 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.81%) Confluent
11 7 (0.81%) Foundry
11 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.81%) Tenable
12 6 (0.69%) SAP
13 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.46%) New Relic
14 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.46%) Workday