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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 115 131
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 872 629 642
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.44% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.68% 6.47% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 457 470
10th Percentile £397 £400 £374
25th Percentile £450 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £735 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,349 9,723 12,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.65% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,340 6,564 8,661
10th Percentile £325 £311 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 251 332
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.01
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.57 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.09% +26.18% -37.14%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -19 522 £550 - 191
North of England -24 143 £500 - 68
North West -26 81 £525 +5.00% 39
Midlands -15 65 £488 -2.01% 27
South East -42 52 £575 +15.00% 54
West Midlands -26 51 £488 -3.18% 15
Yorkshire -16 49 £500 - 19
South West -22 40 £575 +8.24% 41
East of England -15 27 £550 +3.53% 8
East Midlands -15 14 £497 +3.55% 12
North East -25 14 £463 -1.07% 10
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 52 (5.96%) Confluence
2 40 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.47%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.29%) Apache
4 20 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.38%) nginx
6 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.57%) SAS
8 4 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.46%) Mendix
8 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 669 (76.72%) AWS
2 534 (61.24%) AWS Lambda
3 391 (44.84%) Amazon S3
4 320 (36.70%) Azure
5 170 (19.50%) Amazon EC2
6 169 (19.38%) GitHub
7 161 (18.46%) Azure Functions
8 152 (17.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 149 (17.09%) Amazon ECS
10 134 (15.37%) Amazon EKS
11 120 (13.76%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (12.84%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 100 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
15 99 (11.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 92 (10.55%) Amazon SQS
17 75 (8.60%) AWS Step Functions
18 73 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 73 (8.37%) GCP
19 65 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.90%) Firewall
2 27 (3.10%) DNS
3 24 (2.75%) VPN
4 23 (2.64%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.38%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
10 4 (0.46%) SMS
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.33%) DynamoDB
2 119 (13.65%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.78%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (9.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 81 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (9.17%) Power BI
7 60 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.54%) NoSQL
9 46 (5.28%) Data Lake
10 39 (4.47%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.67%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (2.98%) Tableau
14 24 (2.75%) Metadata
15 22 (2.52%) MongoDB
16 19 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.06%) Redis
18 16 (1.83%) Big Data
18 16 (1.83%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 148 (16.97%) Git
2 120 (13.76%) GitLab
3 118 (13.53%) Jenkins
4 75 (8.60%) JIRA
5 26 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.38%) JUnit
10 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 9 (1.03%) Postman
11 8 (0.92%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.92%) MSTest
12 6 (0.69%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) Selenium
12 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.55%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.14%) Finance
4 57 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.21%) Banking
7 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Legal
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 6 (0.69%) Billing
12 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Games
13 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (22.48%) Developer
2 168 (19.27%) Architect
3 150 (17.20%) Senior
4 119 (13.65%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.58%) Data Engineer
6 91 (10.44%) Lead
7 58 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 56 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.85%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.59%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.47%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.36%) Technical Architect
15 37 (4.24%) AWS Developer
16 34 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
17 33 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (12.96%) Kafka
2 108 (12.39%) React
3 104 (11.93%) Node.js
3 104 (11.93%) REST
4 98 (11.24%) RESTful
5 79 (9.06%) .NET
6 63 (7.22%) Spring Boot
7 61 (7.00%) PySpark
7 61 (7.00%) Spring
8 52 (5.96%) GraphQL
9 50 (5.73%) OAuth
10 40 (4.59%) JSON
10 40 (4.59%) OpenID
11 36 (4.13%) AngularJS
11 36 (4.13%) AWS CDK
11 36 (4.13%) FastAPI
12 29 (3.33%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.98%) Flask
14 24 (2.75%) CSS
14 24 (2.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 263 (30.16%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.75%) NHS
7 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
11 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.92%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.80%) IoT
12 7 (0.80%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.39%) Linux
2 21 (2.41%) Unix
3 12 (1.38%) Windows
4 8 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 406 (46.56%) DevOps
3 317 (36.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (34.75%) Agile
5 201 (23.05%) Microservices
6 198 (22.71%) Containerisation
7 179 (20.53%) AI
8 158 (18.12%) Event-Driven
9 138 (15.83%) Analytics
10 134 (15.37%) Test Automation
11 128 (14.68%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.56%) Observability
13 124 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
14 122 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (13.76%) Software Engineering
16 113 (12.96%) Data Engineering
16 113 (12.96%) ETL
17 103 (11.81%) Migration
18 102 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (11.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 403 (46.22%) Python
2 274 (31.42%) SQL
3 128 (14.68%) TypeScript
4 121 (13.88%) Java
5 117 (13.42%) JavaScript
6 114 (13.07%) C#
7 59 (6.77%) Bash
8 37 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.33%) Bicep
10 28 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.95%) Go
11 17 (1.95%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.36%) Degree
5 35 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.98%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 3 (0.34%) CISSP
18 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.70%) QA
3 24 (2.75%) GDPR
3 24 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.61%) NIST
7 8 (0.92%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) HL7
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 243 (27.87%) Docker
2 31 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 362 (41.51%) Terraform
2 219 (25.11%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.14%) Grafana
4 69 (7.91%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.28%) Ansible
6 24 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.29%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.92%) Consul
10 6 (0.69%) Istio
10 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 6 (0.69%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 142 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.31%) Databricks
3 41 (4.70%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.44%) Oracle
5 22 (2.52%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.52%) Google
6 19 (2.18%) Splunk
7 17 (1.95%) Informatica
8 16 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.15%) Foundry
11 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.92%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) SAP
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.69%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
14 6 (0.69%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Workday