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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 116 129
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 860 656 606
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.38% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 6.33% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 463 412
10th Percentile £400 £384 £360
25th Percentile £450 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 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 - £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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -15 513 £550 - 565
North of England -56 129 £500 +4.06% 104
Midlands -10 87 £435 -9.14% 35
West Midlands -13 68 £460 -7.54% 19
North West -38 64 £600 +23.71% 67
South East -48 50 £600 +41.18% 63
South West -31 45 £520 -2.12% 64
Yorkshire -45 45 £500 +3.79% 24
North East -25 20 £463 +4.52% 13
East of England -36 20 £525 +1.94% 23
East Midlands -10 19 £419 +0.84% 16
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 45 (5.23%) Confluence
2 38 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 28 (3.26%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.67%) Apache
6 8 (0.93%) CMS
6 8 (0.93%) SAS
7 7 (0.81%) nginx
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) CICS
9 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.47%) 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
5 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 654 (76.05%) AWS
2 524 (60.93%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (41.51%) Amazon S3
4 333 (38.72%) Azure
5 184 (21.40%) GitHub
6 178 (20.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 175 (20.35%) Azure Functions
8 152 (17.67%) Amazon ECS
9 139 (16.16%) Amazon EC2
10 126 (14.65%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (14.65%) GitHub Actions
11 118 (13.72%) Power Platform
12 116 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
13 115 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 104 (12.09%) Amazon SQS
15 89 (10.35%) AWS Step Functions
16 81 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 65 (7.56%) GCP
19 64 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.60%) Firewall
2 27 (3.14%) Network Security
3 21 (2.44%) DNS
4 16 (1.86%) VPN
5 11 (1.28%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (14.77%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (11.28%) Amazon Athena
4 78 (9.07%) Power BI
5 76 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
6 73 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 48 (5.58%) SQL Server
10 47 (5.47%) Data Lake
11 30 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (3.37%) MySQL
13 28 (3.26%) Metadata
14 24 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.67%) MongoDB
16 22 (2.56%) Relational Database
17 21 (2.44%) Delta Lake
18 20 (2.33%) Tableau
19 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
20 15 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 151 (17.56%) Git
2 117 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 112 (13.02%) GitLab
4 63 (7.33%) JIRA
5 22 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 22 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.98%) Selenium
8 12 (1.40%) Postman
9 10 (1.16%) JUnit
9 10 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.05%) RStudio
11 8 (0.93%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.81%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 214 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 140 (16.28%) Finance
4 74 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.72%) Banking
7 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.51%) Marketing
8 13 (1.51%) Military
9 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.40%) Law
10 11 (1.28%) Billing
11 10 (1.16%) Back Office
12 9 (1.05%) Retail
13 8 (0.93%) Front Office
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (22.67%) Developer
2 172 (20.00%) Senior
3 159 (18.49%) Architect
4 120 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
5 108 (12.56%) Data Engineer
6 107 (12.44%) Lead
7 64 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.70%) AWS Architect
11 43 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.65%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.42%) Python Developer
15 35 (4.07%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 34 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
17 33 (3.84%) AWS Data Engineer
17 33 (3.84%) Technical Architect
18 32 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (41.28%) Terraform
2 134 (15.58%) REST
3 105 (12.21%) React
4 93 (10.81%) Node.js
5 92 (10.70%) .NET
6 87 (10.12%) RESTful
7 85 (9.88%) Kafka
8 63 (7.33%) PySpark
9 51 (5.93%) Spring Boot
10 50 (5.81%) Spring
11 49 (5.70%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.23%) FastAPI
13 42 (4.88%) AWS CDK
14 41 (4.77%) OAuth
15 38 (4.42%) AngularJS
16 37 (4.30%) JSON
17 34 (3.95%) Flask
18 30 (3.49%) CSS
19 29 (3.37%) OAuth2
20 27 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (30.81%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.58%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.26%) NHS
6 26 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.05%) IoT
14 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.05%) Mainframe
14 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.09%) Linux
2 24 (2.79%) Unix
3 17 (1.98%) Windows
4 14 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 4 (0.47%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (62.44%) CI/CD
2 397 (46.16%) DevOps
3 345 (40.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 332 (38.60%) Agile
5 212 (24.65%) AI
6 183 (21.28%) Microservices
7 182 (21.16%) Containerisation
7 182 (21.16%) Event-Driven
8 159 (18.49%) Test Automation
9 158 (18.37%) Observability
10 146 (16.98%) Analytics
11 142 (16.51%) Data Modelling
11 142 (16.51%) Software Engineering
12 134 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 133 (15.47%) Technical Leadership
14 128 (14.88%) Data Pipeline
15 122 (14.19%) Data Engineering
16 119 (13.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 118 (13.72%) Mentoring
18 117 (13.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 416 (48.37%) Python
2 269 (31.28%) SQL
3 142 (16.51%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.49%) C#
5 116 (13.49%) Java
6 69 (8.02%) Bash
7 43 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.53%) Bicep
9 29 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.63%) Scala
11 10 (1.16%) Groovy
12 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.93%) R
13 6 (0.70%) Go
14 5 (0.58%) Cypher
14 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.58%) Rust
14 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 207 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.56%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.81%) Degree
5 36 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.70%) CISSP
14 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.74%) Data Quality
2 69 (8.02%) QA
3 37 (4.30%) GDPR
4 33 (3.84%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.33%) WCAG
6 19 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.70%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.56%) Docker
2 34 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Squid
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.44%) Grafana
3 52 (6.05%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.70%) Ansible
5 14 (1.63%) Puppet
6 9 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.70%) Istio
7 6 (0.70%) Packer
7 6 (0.70%) Podman
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
8 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Argo
9 4 (0.47%) Rancher
9 4 (0.47%) Salt
10 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 180 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.21%) Databricks
3 33 (3.84%) OpenAI
4 32 (3.72%) Oracle
5 24 (2.79%) Google
6 22 (2.56%) Informatica
6 22 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.21%) Splunk
9 10 (1.16%) Brio
9 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.81%) Confluent
10 7 (0.81%) Foundry
10 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.81%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Tenable
11 5 (0.58%) New Relic
11 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) Workday
12 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA