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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 123 140
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 868 657 577
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.38% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 6.28% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 462 387
10th Percentile £400 £385 £360
25th Percentile £450 £424 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £76.20 £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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -10 516 £550 - 561
North of England -56 132 £500 +4.06% 152
Midlands -21 86 £428 -13.64% 55
West Midlands -13 67 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -33 67 £563 +17.19% 100
South East -54 52 £600 +41.18% 90
South West -21 46 £500 -8.05% 73
Yorkshire -55 46 £500 +5.04% 38
East of England -37 20 £515 - 28
East Midlands -16 19 £419 -5.42% 29
North East -27 19 £463 -10.63% 14
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 41 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.49%) Confluence
3 33 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.34%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.00%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 6 (0.69%) 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%) Camunda
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%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.15%) 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 (75.69%) AWS
2 525 (60.48%) AWS Lambda
3 358 (41.24%) Amazon S3
4 340 (39.17%) Azure
5 186 (21.43%) GitHub
6 180 (20.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 180 (20.74%) Azure Functions
7 153 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (15.67%) Amazon EC2
9 130 (14.98%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
11 120 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
12 116 (13.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 116 (13.36%) Power Platform
13 109 (12.56%) Amazon SQS
14 88 (10.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 78 (8.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 74 (8.53%) Azure Logic Apps
17 67 (7.72%) Amazon EventBridge
17 67 (7.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.23%) Firewall
1 28 (3.23%) Network Security
2 19 (2.19%) DNS
3 15 (1.73%) VPN
4 11 (1.27%) WAN
5 6 (0.69%) SSL
6 5 (0.58%) HTTP
6 5 (0.58%) MQTT
6 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.35%) CTI
7 3 (0.35%) FTP
7 3 (0.35%) IPv4
7 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.75%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.40%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.29%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 75 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
6 72 (8.29%) Power BI
7 57 (6.57%) NoSQL
8 51 (5.88%) SQL Server
9 49 (5.65%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 29 (3.34%) MySQL
11 28 (3.23%) Metadata
12 27 (3.11%) MongoDB
13 23 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (2.53%) Relational Database
15 21 (2.42%) Delta Lake
16 19 (2.19%) Tableau
17 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
18 14 (1.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 157 (18.09%) Git
2 118 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.13%) GitLab
4 59 (6.80%) JIRA
5 26 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.30%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.07%) Selenium
9 13 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.50%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.27%) RStudio
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.04%) Maven
12 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.69%) Gatling
14 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 213 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.94%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.24%) Finance
4 77 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.26%) Banking
7 14 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.61%) Marketing
7 14 (1.61%) Military
8 12 (1.38%) Back Office
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 11 (1.27%) Billing
10 9 (1.04%) Front Office
11 8 (0.92%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 195 (22.47%) Developer
2 175 (20.16%) Senior
3 157 (18.09%) Architect
4 126 (14.52%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (13.25%) Data Engineer
6 112 (12.90%) Lead
7 67 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.30%) AWS Architect
11 44 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
14 36 (4.15%) Senior Developer
15 35 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
15 35 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (3.92%) Python Developer
17 32 (3.69%) Technical Architect
17 32 (3.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.21%) Terraform
2 144 (16.59%) REST
3 106 (12.21%) React
4 95 (10.94%) .NET
5 93 (10.71%) Node.js
6 91 (10.48%) Kafka
7 87 (10.02%) RESTful
8 62 (7.14%) PySpark
9 57 (6.57%) Spring Boot
10 56 (6.45%) Spring
11 55 (6.34%) GraphQL
12 46 (5.30%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.95%) OAuth
14 40 (4.61%) AWS CDK
15 38 (4.38%) JSON
16 37 (4.26%) AngularJS
17 32 (3.69%) Flask
18 31 (3.57%) CSS
19 30 (3.46%) OAuth2
20 28 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (31.68%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (6.11%) AI Agents
5 31 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.23%) NHS
7 23 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.03%) Linux
2 22 (2.53%) Unix
3 15 (1.73%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) 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
1 547 (63.02%) CI/CD
2 400 (46.08%) DevOps
3 342 (39.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (38.59%) Agile
5 216 (24.88%) AI
6 192 (22.12%) Event-Driven
7 185 (21.31%) Microservices
8 180 (20.74%) Containerisation
9 166 (19.12%) Observability
10 157 (18.09%) Test Automation
11 147 (16.94%) Analytics
11 147 (16.94%) Data Modelling
12 144 (16.59%) Software Engineering
13 140 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (15.90%) Technical Leadership
15 133 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
16 130 (14.98%) Data Engineering
17 129 (14.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 123 (14.17%) Mentoring
19 119 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 418 (48.16%) Python
2 273 (31.45%) SQL
3 144 (16.59%) TypeScript
4 139 (16.01%) JavaScript
5 123 (14.17%) Java
6 122 (14.06%) C#
7 68 (7.83%) Bash
8 43 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.38%) Bicep
10 29 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.73%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 236 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 201 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.18%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.11%) Degree
5 36 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.81%) CISSP
17 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.98%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.41%) QA
3 38 (4.38%) GDPR
4 36 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.65%) WCAG
6 16 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.15%) NIST
7 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 241 (27.76%) Docker
2 34 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.14%) Grafana
3 52 (5.99%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.76%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 189 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.60%) Databricks
3 39 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.03%) Oracle
5 27 (3.11%) Google
6 22 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.42%) Informatica
8 20 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.96%) Splunk
10 11 (1.27%) Brio
10 11 (1.27%) Foundry
11 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.81%) Confluent
12 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.81%) Tenable
13 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.58%) SAP
14 4 (0.46%) IBM
14 4 (0.46%) New Relic
14 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA