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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 113 133
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 860 597 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.37% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 6.28% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 431 481
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +4.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £680 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
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 13,431 9,509 12,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.35% 37.78% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,261 6,488 8,860
10th Percentile £310 £313 £274
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 145 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.25 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +27.52% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.05 £71.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.49% +26.93% -14.52%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -3 505 £513 -10.09% 188
North of England +18 172 £500 -0.15% 115
North West -7 81 £450 -10.13% 59
Yorkshire -1 78 £500 - 45
Midlands -23 68 £525 +16.67% 41
West Midlands -19 51 £525 +9.15% 20
South East -54 50 £500 -13.04% 125
South West -30 29 £650 +1.96% 79
East of England -4 28 £560 -12.16% 52
East Midlands -25 17 £479 +5.39% 21
North East -7 14 £525 -13.93% 12
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 40 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.49%) Apache
4 26 (3.02%) Confluence
5 23 (2.67%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.16%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (1.05%) Mendix
7 9 (1.05%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 612 (71.16%) AWS
2 489 (56.86%) AWS Lambda
3 318 (36.98%) Azure
4 317 (36.86%) Amazon S3
5 204 (23.72%) Azure Functions
6 187 (21.74%) GitHub
7 146 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (16.86%) Amazon ECS
9 136 (15.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 130 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
11 129 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 127 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
13 119 (13.84%) Amazon EKS
14 102 (11.86%) Power Platform
15 98 (11.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 81 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 79 (9.19%) GCP
18 71 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
19 57 (6.63%) Azure AKS
20 56 (6.51%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.49%) DNS
2 29 (3.37%) Firewall
3 24 (2.79%) VPN
4 11 (1.28%) Network Security
5 9 (1.05%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.93%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.81%) SSL
8 6 (0.70%) HTTP
8 6 (0.70%) SMS
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) LAN
10 3 (0.35%) WAN
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) 5G
12 1 (0.12%) AMQP
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.72%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (12.21%) DynamoDB
4 86 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 66 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 61 (7.09%) Power BI
7 52 (6.05%) Data Lake
8 48 (5.58%) Relational Database
9 41 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (3.60%) MongoDB
12 30 (3.49%) Redis
13 28 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (3.14%) Tableau
15 22 (2.56%) Big Data
16 21 (2.44%) DocumentDB
17 20 (2.33%) Metadata
18 17 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
19 16 (1.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 143 (16.63%) Git
2 126 (14.65%) Jenkins
3 121 (14.07%) GitLab
4 43 (5.00%) JIRA
5 22 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.33%) Liquibase
7 19 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.09%) JUnit
9 16 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.51%) Mockito
11 12 (1.40%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.16%) Maven
12 10 (1.16%) Selenium
13 9 (1.05%) Mocha
13 9 (1.05%) Postman
13 9 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.81%) MLflow
15 6 (0.70%) Gradle
16 5 (0.58%) Snyk
17 4 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 217 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 161 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 127 (14.77%) Finance
4 64 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.98%) Banking
6 27 (3.14%) Financial Institution
7 23 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.63%) Marketing
9 9 (1.05%) Military
10 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.70%) Front Office
11 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.70%) Retail
12 4 (0.47%) Aviation
13 3 (0.35%) Billing
13 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.35%) Law
13 3 (0.35%) Legal
13 3 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (25.47%) Developer
2 117 (13.60%) Senior
3 115 (13.37%) Architect
4 105 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.47%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.26%) Lead
7 68 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 67 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 58 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 36 (4.19%) AWS Architect
12 35 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 31 (3.60%) AWS Developer
14 30 (3.49%) Java Developer
15 29 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
16 28 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (3.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (16.16%) Node.js
2 123 (14.30%) REST
3 119 (13.84%) RESTful
4 118 (13.72%) Kafka
5 114 (13.26%) React
6 105 (12.21%) .NET
7 67 (7.79%) Spring
7 67 (7.79%) Spring Boot
8 54 (6.28%) OAuth
9 45 (5.23%) AngularJS
10 41 (4.77%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (4.30%) FastAPI
13 36 (4.19%) JSON
14 32 (3.72%) OpenID
15 30 (3.49%) PySpark
16 29 (3.37%) CSS
17 28 (3.26%) AWS CDK
17 28 (3.26%) Flask
17 28 (3.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 218 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 18 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.86%) NHS
8 14 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.16%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 8 (0.93%) Replication
13 7 (0.81%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.81%) DataPower
13 7 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.19%) Linux
2 14 (1.63%) Unix
3 8 (0.93%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 443 (51.51%) DevOps
3 303 (35.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 291 (33.84%) Agile
5 242 (28.14%) Microservices
6 199 (23.14%) Containerisation
7 157 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (16.51%) Software Engineering
9 141 (16.40%) AI
10 127 (14.77%) Data Modelling
11 125 (14.53%) Analytics
12 124 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
13 114 (13.26%) Event-Driven
14 110 (12.79%) Test Automation
15 107 (12.44%) Observability
16 98 (11.40%) ETL
17 95 (11.05%) Data Engineering
18 92 (10.70%) Mentoring
19 82 (9.53%) Full-Stack Development
20 74 (8.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 422 (49.07%) Python
2 266 (30.93%) SQL
3 134 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 133 (15.47%) Java
5 119 (13.84%) C#
5 119 (13.84%) TypeScript
6 50 (5.81%) Bash
7 48 (5.58%) Go
8 41 (4.77%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.07%) Bicep
10 22 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.98%) Ruby
12 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.16%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.16%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.93%) C++
15 7 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.81%) Korn
15 7 (0.81%) Scala
16 6 (0.70%) JSX
Qualifications
1 234 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 184 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.63%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.93%) Degree
5 42 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.60%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.49%) Master's Degree
9 26 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.35%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.30%) QA
3 25 (2.91%) GDPR
4 23 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.44%) NIST
6 13 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.05%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.93%) WCAG
10 4 (0.47%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.47%) PMO
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 232 (26.98%) Docker
2 27 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.93%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) RACF
6 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 356 (41.40%) Terraform
2 226 (26.28%) Kubernetes
3 87 (10.12%) Prometheus
4 80 (9.30%) Grafana
5 73 (8.49%) Ansible
6 20 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.63%) Puppet
8 8 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.81%) Consul
9 7 (0.81%) Kibana
10 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.35%) Istio
11 3 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.35%) linkerd
11 3 (0.35%) Packer
11 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 165 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.79%) Databricks
3 40 (4.65%) OpenAI
3 40 (4.65%) Splunk
4 33 (3.84%) Google
5 29 (3.37%) Oracle
6 26 (3.02%) Foundry
7 15 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.28%) Confluent
8 11 (1.28%) IBM
8 11 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.16%) Lotus
9 10 (1.16%) Palantir
9 10 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.05%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.05%) Kofax
11 8 (0.93%) Brio
11 8 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.93%) Sybase