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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 118 137
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 853 650 596
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.35% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 6.32% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 465 422
10th Percentile £400 £382 £363
25th Percentile £455 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £642
90th Percentile £736 £688 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £37.60 £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 - £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 15,950 10,289 11,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.17% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,644 6,980 7,945
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 232
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.68 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -25 497 £548 -0.45% 443
North of England -37 138 £500 +5.26% 104
Midlands -7 82 £479 +12.71% 38
North West -33 70 £563 +18.42% 54
West Midlands -2 66 £477 +12.24% 24
South West -24 47 £542 +5.97% 45
Yorkshire -37 46 £500 +3.90% 28
South East -58 46 £600 +39.53% 55
East of England -16 24 £525 - 19
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 22
East Midlands -4 16 £481 +15.83% 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 46 (5.39%) Confluence
2 39 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.81%) Apache
5 18 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (77.37%) AWS
2 528 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
3 369 (43.26%) Amazon S3
4 301 (35.29%) Azure
5 174 (20.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (19.11%) GitHub
7 161 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (18.05%) Amazon EC2
9 151 (17.70%) Azure Functions
10 132 (15.47%) Amazon EKS
11 120 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 103 (12.08%) Power Platform
14 100 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
15 97 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
16 93 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 86 (10.08%) AWS Step Functions
18 71 (8.32%) GCP
19 65 (7.62%) Azure Logic Apps
20 56 (6.57%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.75%) Firewall
2 25 (2.93%) Network Security
3 21 (2.46%) DNS
4 17 (1.99%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.70%) 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
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) IPsec
10 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.12%) DynamoDB
2 123 (14.42%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (11.25%) Amazon Athena
4 79 (9.26%) Power BI
5 76 (8.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 73 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (7.03%) NoSQL
9 46 (5.39%) Data Lake
10 41 (4.81%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (3.52%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (3.05%) Metadata
14 25 (2.93%) Tableau
15 23 (2.70%) MongoDB
16 19 (2.23%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.88%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.88%) MySQL
18 15 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 146 (17.12%) Git
2 122 (14.30%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.36%) GitLab
4 68 (7.97%) JIRA
5 26 (3.05%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.46%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.41%) Postman
9 11 (1.29%) JUnit
9 11 (1.29%) Selenium
10 10 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.82%) Mockito
11 7 (0.82%) MSTest
12 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.70%) Gatling
12 6 (0.70%) Mocha
12 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 197 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.47%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.83%) Finance
4 66 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.87%) Banking
6 25 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 10 (1.17%) Marketing
11 9 (1.06%) Billing
12 8 (0.94%) Back Office
13 7 (0.82%) Front Office
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
14 6 (0.70%) Military
14 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (23.21%) Developer
2 165 (19.34%) Senior
3 151 (17.70%) Architect
4 126 (14.77%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.49%) Data Engineer
5 98 (11.49%) Lead
6 59 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 52 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 47 (5.51%) AWS Architect
10 46 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
11 45 (5.28%) Python Developer
12 44 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (4.69%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.57%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 32 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
17 31 (3.63%) AWS Data Engineer
17 31 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
18 28 (3.28%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.36%) REST
2 108 (12.66%) React
3 98 (11.49%) Node.js
4 95 (11.14%) Kafka
5 94 (11.02%) RESTful
6 75 (8.79%) .NET
7 58 (6.80%) PySpark
8 53 (6.21%) Spring
8 53 (6.21%) Spring Boot
9 51 (5.98%) GraphQL
10 45 (5.28%) AWS CDK
11 40 (4.69%) FastAPI
12 38 (4.45%) OAuth
13 36 (4.22%) AngularJS
14 35 (4.10%) Flask
14 35 (4.10%) JSON
15 30 (3.52%) CSS
16 28 (3.28%) HTML
16 28 (3.28%) OpenID
17 24 (2.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 260 (30.48%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.17%) NHS
6 22 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.29%) IoT
10 11 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.17%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.57%) Linux
2 20 (2.34%) Unix
3 14 (1.64%) Windows
4 13 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 383 (44.90%) DevOps
3 334 (39.16%) Agile
4 329 (38.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (23.56%) Microservices
6 193 (22.63%) AI
7 186 (21.81%) Containerisation
8 166 (19.46%) Event-Driven
9 152 (17.82%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.23%) Observability
11 137 (16.06%) Analytics
12 134 (15.71%) Data Modelling
13 123 (14.42%) Software Engineering
14 122 (14.30%) Data Pipeline
15 117 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 114 (13.36%) ETL
16 114 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (12.90%) Data Engineering
18 108 (12.66%) Migration
19 107 (12.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 392 (45.96%) Python
2 274 (32.12%) SQL
3 134 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 126 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 115 (13.48%) Java
6 100 (11.72%) C#
7 64 (7.50%) Bash
8 35 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.99%) Bicep
10 30 (3.52%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.76%) Scala
12 10 (1.17%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.70%) JCL
15 6 (0.70%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Ruby
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 252 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 210 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.57%) Degree
4 39 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.98%) QA
3 31 (3.63%) GDPR
4 29 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.76%) WCAG
7 13 (1.52%) NIST
8 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.82%) PMO
10 6 (0.70%) HL7
11 5 (0.59%) SLA
12 4 (0.47%) NCSC
13 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 243 (28.49%) Docker
2 31 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 347 (40.68%) Terraform
2 202 (23.68%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.09%) Grafana
4 59 (6.92%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.04%) Ansible
6 16 (1.88%) Puppet
7 13 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.17%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.70%) linkerd
11 6 (0.70%) Packer
11 6 (0.70%) 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%) Rancher
15 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 144 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.63%) Databricks
3 31 (3.63%) Oracle
4 25 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.58%) Google
6 20 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.34%) Informatica
6 20 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.23%) Splunk
8 10 (1.17%) Brio
9 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.06%) SAP
10 7 (0.82%) New Relic
10 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.70%) Confluent
11 6 (0.70%) Tenable
12 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.59%) Workday
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.47%) Sybase