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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 118 134
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 835 583 646
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.41% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 6.47% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 438 482
10th Percentile £378 £400 £375
25th Percentile £433 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £625
90th Percentile £716 £808 £725
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -4.29% +0.53% -5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 14,303 9,016 11,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.30% 37.21% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 6,286 8,486
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 196 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £18.04 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.62 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.13 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
% change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -14 501 £525 -4.55% 139
North of England -10 146 £500 - 78
North West -14 84 £500 - 48
Midlands -32 62 £499 -0.20% 21
South East -47 52 £550 +10.00% 38
West Midlands -22 50 £488 -4.79% 8
Yorkshire -15 47 £500 - 24
South West -23 33 £578 +5.16% 30
East of England -11 24 £550 -18.52% 10
North East -10 16 £475 +1.60% 6
East Midlands -24 12 £500 - 13
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 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.67%) Confluence
3 30 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.87%) Apache
5 23 (2.75%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.32%) nginx
7 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.20%) Mendix
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 619 (74.13%) AWS
2 492 (58.92%) AWS Lambda
3 348 (41.68%) Amazon S3
4 317 (37.96%) Azure
5 182 (21.80%) GitHub
6 175 (20.96%) Azure Functions
7 151 (18.08%) Amazon EC2
8 149 (17.84%) Amazon ECS
9 131 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 129 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
11 123 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
12 114 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 110 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
14 109 (13.05%) Power Platform
15 92 (11.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 86 (10.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 81 (9.70%) AWS Step Functions
18 77 (9.22%) Amazon SQS
19 74 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
20 59 (7.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.95%) DNS
2 29 (3.47%) Firewall
3 19 (2.28%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.32%) Network Security
6 10 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.84%) HTTP
8 7 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.84%) SMS
8 7 (0.84%) SSL
9 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 4 (0.48%) WAN
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
13 1 (0.12%) MPLS
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.89%) DynamoDB
2 105 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (8.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 70 (8.38%) Power BI
6 69 (8.26%) NoSQL
7 47 (5.63%) Data Lake
8 41 (4.91%) Relational Database
9 35 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.47%) Tableau
13 28 (3.35%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.35%) SQL Server
14 27 (3.23%) Redis
15 24 (2.87%) Big Data
15 24 (2.87%) Metadata
16 18 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
16 18 (2.16%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 140 (16.77%) Git
2 115 (13.77%) GitLab
3 107 (12.81%) Jenkins
4 48 (5.75%) JIRA
5 25 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.20%) JUnit
9 9 (1.08%) Mocha
10 8 (0.96%) Maven
11 7 (0.84%) MSTest
12 6 (0.72%) Vite
13 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.60%) Gradle
13 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.60%) Mockito
13 5 (0.60%) Selenium
13 5 (0.60%) Snyk
13 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 188 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 153 (18.32%) Public Sector
3 127 (15.21%) Finance
4 57 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.95%) Banking
6 26 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.20%) Marketing
9 8 (0.96%) Military
9 8 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.84%) Legal
11 5 (0.60%) Front Office
11 5 (0.60%) Law
11 5 (0.60%) Police
11 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (26.47%) Developer
2 153 (18.32%) Architect
3 115 (13.77%) Senior
4 98 (11.74%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.74%) Lead
7 52 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.87%) Software Engineer
9 45 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.03%) AWS Architect
11 42 (5.03%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.31%) Python Developer
14 35 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
14 35 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 32 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
16 32 (3.83%) Technical Architect
17 29 (3.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.73%) Node.js
2 121 (14.49%) React
3 115 (13.77%) Kafka
4 92 (11.02%) .NET
5 91 (10.90%) REST
6 87 (10.42%) RESTful
7 77 (9.22%) Spring Boot
8 76 (9.10%) Spring
9 55 (6.59%) OAuth
10 51 (6.11%) PySpark
11 49 (5.87%) AngularJS
12 39 (4.67%) JSON
12 39 (4.67%) OpenID
13 34 (4.07%) AWS CDK
14 32 (3.83%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.59%) GraphQL
16 29 (3.47%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.35%) CSS
17 28 (3.35%) HTML
18 25 (2.99%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 223 (26.71%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.40%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.40%) NHS
6 15 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.96%) Replication
11 7 (0.84%) DataPower
11 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.84%) IoT
11 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.47%) Linux
2 22 (2.63%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (59.64%) CI/CD
2 414 (49.58%) DevOps
3 309 (37.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 271 (32.46%) Agile
5 206 (24.67%) Microservices
6 192 (22.99%) Containerisation
7 143 (17.13%) AI
8 137 (16.41%) Event-Driven
9 129 (15.45%) Analytics
10 128 (15.33%) Data Modelling
11 126 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 119 (14.25%) Observability
13 117 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
14 114 (13.65%) Test Automation
15 113 (13.53%) Software Engineering
16 106 (12.69%) ETL
17 95 (11.38%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.90%) Mentoring
19 90 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
20 87 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 386 (46.23%) Python
2 252 (30.18%) SQL
3 135 (16.17%) JavaScript
4 133 (15.93%) Java
5 131 (15.69%) C#
6 125 (14.97%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.87%) Bash
8 38 (4.55%) Bicep
9 33 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 28 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.75%) Go
12 16 (1.92%) Scala
13 15 (1.80%) Ruby
14 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.84%) Groovy
17 6 (0.72%) C++
18 4 (0.48%) JCL
18 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 244 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.19%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.11%) Degree
7 18 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 9 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.55%) QA
3 24 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.28%) GDPR
5 16 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.80%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HL7
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 228 (27.31%) Docker
2 29 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.20%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (41.56%) Terraform
2 207 (24.79%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.38%) Grafana
4 64 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.91%) Ansible
6 27 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.56%) Puppet
8 11 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.96%) Consul
11 6 (0.72%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Rancher
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 147 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.78%) Databricks
3 46 (5.51%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.91%) Oracle
5 24 (2.87%) Splunk
6 21 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.92%) Google
8 13 (1.56%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.20%) Confluent
10 10 (1.20%) Kofax
10 10 (1.20%) Lotus
11 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.84%) Brio
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) Palantir
13 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase