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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 850 660 603
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.37% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 6.39% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 468 424
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.02%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £644
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £37.93 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 15,983 10,336 11,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,998 7,938
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 274 221
10th Percentile £15.53 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.00% -28.15%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -22 491 £550 - 257
North of England -47 138 £500 +5.26% 85
Midlands -2 82 £479 +12.71% 21
North West -25 71 £563 +18.42% 43
West Midlands -8 66 £477 +12.24% 13
South West -24 48 £542 +5.97% 37
South East -52 48 £600 +37.93% 39
Yorkshire -34 45 £500 +3.90% 24
East of England -18 24 £525 - 15
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 18
East Midlands -11 16 £481 +15.83% 8
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 46 (5.41%) Confluence
2 38 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.71%) Apache
5 19 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 653 (76.82%) AWS
2 521 (61.29%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (42.47%) Amazon S3
4 307 (36.12%) Azure
5 169 (19.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (19.06%) GitHub
7 158 (18.59%) Azure Functions
8 156 (18.35%) Amazon ECS
9 146 (17.18%) Amazon EC2
10 128 (15.06%) Amazon EKS
11 118 (13.88%) GitHub Actions
12 109 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 103 (12.12%) Power Platform
14 101 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
15 99 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
16 87 (10.24%) AWS Step Functions
17 86 (10.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 70 (8.24%) GCP
19 68 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
20 58 (6.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.88%) Firewall
2 25 (2.94%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
4 18 (2.12%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) HTTP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) AMQP
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.18%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.35%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.53%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (9.06%) Power BI
5 75 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 74 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.94%) NoSQL
9 45 (5.29%) Data Lake
10 41 (4.82%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.41%) Relational Database
13 28 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.06%) Metadata
15 23 (2.71%) MongoDB
16 22 (2.59%) Tableau
17 19 (2.24%) Delta Lake
18 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
18 17 (2.00%) MySQL
19 16 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 146 (17.18%) Git
2 120 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.29%) GitLab
4 68 (8.00%) JIRA
5 23 (2.71%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.41%) Postman
8 12 (1.41%) Selenium
9 11 (1.29%) JUnit
10 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.82%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.71%) Gatling
12 6 (0.71%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 190 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.94%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.65%) Finance
4 61 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (4.00%) Banking
6 26 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 10 (1.18%) Marketing
11 8 (0.94%) Back Office
11 8 (0.94%) Billing
12 7 (0.82%) Front Office
12 7 (0.82%) Legal
13 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.71%) Military
14 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Games
15 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (23.53%) Developer
2 163 (19.18%) Senior
3 157 (18.47%) Architect
4 127 (14.94%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.88%) Data Engineer
6 99 (11.65%) Lead
7 59 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.76%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.41%) Python Developer
11 46 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (4.71%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.59%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
16 33 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (3.76%) AWS Data Engineer
17 32 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
18 29 (3.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.29%) REST
2 107 (12.59%) React
3 96 (11.29%) Node.js
4 94 (11.06%) Kafka
5 91 (10.71%) RESTful
6 76 (8.94%) .NET
7 58 (6.82%) PySpark
8 52 (6.12%) Spring
8 52 (6.12%) Spring Boot
9 50 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 42 (4.94%) AWS CDK
11 40 (4.71%) FastAPI
12 37 (4.35%) Flask
12 37 (4.35%) OAuth
13 35 (4.12%) AngularJS
13 35 (4.12%) JSON
14 31 (3.65%) CSS
15 29 (3.41%) HTML
16 27 (3.18%) OpenID
17 23 (2.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 263 (30.94%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.82%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.18%) NHS
6 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.29%) IoT
11 11 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.47%) Linux
2 22 (2.59%) Unix
3 17 (2.00%) Windows
4 13 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (60.47%) CI/CD
2 380 (44.71%) DevOps
3 330 (38.82%) Agile
4 329 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 197 (23.18%) Microservices
6 190 (22.35%) AI
7 185 (21.76%) Containerisation
8 165 (19.41%) Event-Driven
9 151 (17.76%) Test Automation
10 146 (17.18%) Observability
11 137 (16.12%) Analytics
12 128 (15.06%) Data Modelling
13 125 (14.71%) Software Engineering
14 120 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
15 112 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (13.06%) Data Engineering
17 110 (12.94%) ETL
17 110 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
18 109 (12.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 391 (46.00%) Python
2 270 (31.76%) SQL
3 130 (15.29%) TypeScript
4 127 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.65%) Java
6 101 (11.88%) C#
7 64 (7.53%) Bash
8 35 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 34 (4.00%) Bicep
10 27 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.76%) Scala
12 10 (1.18%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
14 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.59%) Ruby
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
15 5 (0.59%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 245 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 203 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 41 (4.82%) Degree
5 39 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.00%) QA
3 31 (3.65%) GDPR
4 29 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 27 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.65%) WCAG
7 13 (1.53%) NIST
7 13 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) PMO
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 239 (28.12%) Docker
2 34 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 347 (40.82%) Terraform
2 200 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.12%) Grafana
4 58 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.18%) Ansible
6 16 (1.88%) Puppet
7 12 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.18%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.71%) linkerd
11 6 (0.71%) Packer
11 6 (0.71%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Argo
14 3 (0.35%) Consul
14 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 150 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.65%) Databricks
3 34 (4.00%) Oracle
4 25 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.59%) Google
5 22 (2.59%) Informatica
6 21 (2.47%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.24%) Splunk
8 9 (1.06%) Brio
8 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.06%) SAP
9 7 (0.82%) New Relic
9 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.82%) Tenable
10 6 (0.71%) Confluent
11 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.59%) Workday
12 4 (0.47%) Denodo
12 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA