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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 110 132
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 846 592 639
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.48% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.81% 6.65% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 443 478
10th Percentile £389 £400 £373
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -0.95% +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 £74.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +179.25% - -

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 14,551 8,905 11,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.37% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,936 6,160 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 194 323
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.13 £36.56
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.12% +30.46% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -17 511 £525 -4.55% 141
North of England -20 151 £500 - 69
North West -11 86 £500 - 38
Midlands -43 57 £491 -1.75% 21
South East -46 53 £588 +17.50% 50
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 - 23
West Midlands -37 45 £488 -4.79% 12
South West -22 32 £578 +5.16% 32
East of England -18 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -22 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 9
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 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.85%) Confluence
3 32 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.13%) Apache
6 11 (1.30%) nginx
7 10 (1.18%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.18%) Mendix
8 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.47%) CICS
9 4 (0.47%) SAS
10 3 (0.35%) 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 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.54%) 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
1 637 (75.30%) AWS
2 505 (59.69%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (41.73%) Amazon S3
4 313 (37.00%) Azure
5 189 (22.34%) GitHub
6 175 (20.69%) Azure Functions
7 155 (18.32%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
9 133 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
10 130 (15.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 126 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
12 110 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (12.53%) Power Platform
14 105 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
15 87 (10.28%) Amazon SQS
16 86 (10.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 86 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 85 (10.05%) AWS Step Functions
18 72 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
19 63 (7.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.90%) DNS
2 26 (3.07%) Firewall
3 18 (2.13%) VPN
4 13 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.30%) Network Security
6 10 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.06%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.95%) SSL
9 7 (0.83%) SMS
10 6 (0.71%) HTTP
10 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.59%) IPsec
12 4 (0.47%) WAN
13 3 (0.35%) FTP
14 2 (0.24%) AMQP
14 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.24%) MQTT
15 1 (0.12%) 4G
15 1 (0.12%) 5G
15 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.30%) DynamoDB
2 108 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
5 69 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 68 (8.04%) Power BI
7 67 (7.92%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.44%) Data Lake
9 37 (4.37%) Relational Database
10 35 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
12 33 (3.90%) SQL Server
13 32 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.43%) Tableau
15 26 (3.07%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.84%) Redis
17 23 (2.72%) Metadata
18 20 (2.36%) Big Data
19 18 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (2.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 135 (15.96%) Git
2 110 (13.00%) GitLab
3 108 (12.77%) Jenkins
4 56 (6.62%) JIRA
5 24 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.18%) JUnit
10 7 (0.83%) Mocha
10 7 (0.83%) MSTest
11 6 (0.71%) Maven
11 6 (0.71%) Postman
11 6 (0.71%) Selenium
11 6 (0.71%) Vite
12 5 (0.59%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.59%) MLflow
12 5 (0.59%) Mockito
12 5 (0.59%) Snyk
12 5 (0.59%) tSQLt
General
1 193 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.55%) Public Sector
3 129 (15.25%) Finance
4 53 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.19%) Banking
7 12 (1.42%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.06%) Marketing
10 8 (0.95%) Military
10 8 (0.95%) Retail
11 7 (0.83%) Law
11 7 (0.83%) Legal
12 5 (0.59%) Police
12 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 4 (0.47%) Front Office
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (25.30%) Developer
2 159 (18.79%) Architect
3 118 (13.95%) Senior
4 101 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.40%) Data Engineer
6 79 (9.34%) Lead
7 53 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.56%) AWS Architect
10 46 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (5.32%) AWS Developer
12 42 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.49%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
16 35 (4.14%) Senior Developer
16 35 (4.14%) Technical Architect
17 33 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 30 (3.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.54%) Kafka
2 121 (14.30%) React
3 114 (13.48%) Node.js
4 99 (11.70%) REST
5 91 (10.76%) RESTful
6 88 (10.40%) .NET
7 74 (8.75%) Spring Boot
8 73 (8.63%) Spring
9 54 (6.38%) PySpark
10 53 (6.26%) OAuth
11 48 (5.67%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.96%) JSON
13 40 (4.73%) GraphQL
13 40 (4.73%) OpenID
14 36 (4.26%) AWS CDK
15 34 (4.02%) FastAPI
16 29 (3.43%) CSS
16 29 (3.43%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.19%) Flask
17 27 (3.19%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.60%) NHS
6 15 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.30%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.95%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.83%) IoT
12 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.91%) Linux
2 22 (2.60%) Unix
3 9 (1.06%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) zOS
5 3 (0.35%) 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
1 503 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 402 (47.52%) DevOps
3 311 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (32.86%) Agile
5 199 (23.52%) Microservices
6 183 (21.63%) Containerisation
7 149 (17.61%) AI
8 148 (17.49%) Event-Driven
9 125 (14.78%) Data Modelling
10 123 (14.54%) Analytics
10 123 (14.54%) Observability
11 119 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 118 (13.95%) Test Automation
13 114 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
14 110 (13.00%) Software Engineering
15 107 (12.65%) ETL
16 95 (11.23%) Mentoring
17 94 (11.11%) Data Engineering
17 94 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 87 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.33%) Python
2 250 (29.55%) SQL
3 131 (15.48%) Java
4 129 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 128 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 126 (14.89%) C#
7 44 (5.20%) Bash
8 33 (3.90%) Bicep
8 33 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 23 (2.72%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.25%) Go
11 18 (2.13%) Scala
12 14 (1.65%) Ruby
13 10 (1.18%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.18%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.83%) Groovy
16 4 (0.47%) JCL
16 4 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 231 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 184 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.37%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.96%) Degree
8 16 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.85%) QA
3 25 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.48%) GDPR
5 17 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.77%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
7 7 (0.83%) WCAG
8 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) 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
1 227 (26.83%) Docker
2 27 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.30%) Squid
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 341 (40.31%) Terraform
2 204 (24.11%) Kubernetes
3 67 (7.92%) Grafana
4 62 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.49%) Ansible
6 27 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.65%) Puppet
8 9 (1.06%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.06%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.95%) Consul
9 8 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Kibana
11 5 (0.59%) Istio
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Podman
12 4 (0.47%) Salt
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 144 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.97%) Databricks
3 48 (5.67%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.73%) Oracle
5 23 (2.72%) Splunk
6 19 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.77%) Google
8 12 (1.42%) Foundry
9 10 (1.18%) Brio
9 10 (1.18%) Confluent
9 10 (1.18%) Kofax
9 10 (1.18%) Lotus
9 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.06%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.95%) SAP
12 7 (0.83%) Informatica
13 6 (0.71%) Qualys
13 6 (0.71%) Sybase