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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 117 139
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 864 648 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.38% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 6.36% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 470 453
10th Percentile £395 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.15%
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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -6 512 £550 - 84
North of England -36 140 £510 +2.00% 49
North West -36 77 £550 +10.00% 23
Midlands -17 76 £477 +5.94% 21
West Midlands -19 62 £475 +5.56% 13
Yorkshire -24 48 £500 +2.30% 11
South East -52 45 £588 +19.41% 36
South West -21 43 £575 +9.52% 23
East of England -14 28 £550 +3.53% 5
North East -25 16 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -12 14 £497 +10.21% 8
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 50 (5.79%) Confluence
2 40 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.40%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.43%) Apache
5 16 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.39%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (78.01%) AWS
2 537 (62.15%) AWS Lambda
3 395 (45.72%) Amazon S3
4 308 (35.65%) Azure
5 169 (19.56%) Amazon EC2
6 162 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 160 (18.52%) GitHub
8 155 (17.94%) Amazon ECS
9 148 (17.13%) Azure Functions
10 136 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
11 115 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (12.27%) Power Platform
14 98 (11.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 97 (11.23%) Amazon SQS
16 90 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
17 79 (9.14%) AWS Step Functions
18 73 (8.45%) GCP
19 64 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
20 50 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.28%) Firewall
2 27 (3.13%) DNS
3 24 (2.78%) Network Security
4 23 (2.66%) VPN
5 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.39%) WAN
7 10 (1.16%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.93%) SSL
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
9 5 (0.58%) MQTT
9 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) HTTP
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.35%) AMQP
11 3 (0.35%) CTI
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.12%) BGP
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 123 (14.24%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.65%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (9.03%) Power BI
6 76 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.60%) NoSQL
9 49 (5.67%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.63%) SQL Server
11 34 (3.94%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.89%) Metadata
14 25 (2.89%) Tableau
15 22 (2.55%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.97%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.97%) Delta Lake
17 17 (1.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 150 (17.36%) Git
2 121 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 117 (13.54%) GitLab
4 73 (8.45%) JIRA
5 28 (3.24%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.55%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.27%) Postman
10 10 (1.16%) JUnit
11 9 (1.04%) Mocha
12 8 (0.93%) MSTest
12 8 (0.93%) Selenium
13 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.69%) Mockito
14 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
14 6 (0.69%) Vite
15 5 (0.58%) Gatling
15 5 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 205 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.28%) Finance
4 60 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.47%) Banking
6 28 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.39%) Law
9 11 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.04%) Billing
10 9 (1.04%) Legal
11 8 (0.93%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Marketing
12 7 (0.81%) Military
13 6 (0.69%) Back Office
13 6 (0.69%) Front Office
13 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 191 (22.11%) Developer
2 163 (18.87%) Architect
3 161 (18.63%) Senior
4 120 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (12.04%) Data Engineer
6 97 (11.23%) Lead
7 58 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (6.13%) Software Engineer
10 47 (5.44%) AWS Architect
10 47 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (4.28%) AWS Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Technical Architect
14 35 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
15 31 (3.59%) AWS Data Engineer
15 31 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (12.73%) Node.js
1 110 (12.73%) React
2 103 (11.92%) REST
3 98 (11.34%) Kafka
4 95 (11.00%) RESTful
5 70 (8.10%) .NET
6 62 (7.18%) Spring Boot
7 60 (6.94%) PySpark
8 59 (6.83%) Spring
9 57 (6.60%) GraphQL
10 48 (5.56%) OAuth
11 40 (4.63%) JSON
12 39 (4.51%) AWS CDK
12 39 (4.51%) FastAPI
12 39 (4.51%) OpenID
13 35 (4.05%) AngularJS
14 28 (3.24%) OAuth2
15 27 (3.13%) Flask
16 26 (3.01%) Web Services
17 24 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 258 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 53 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.89%) NHS
6 15 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.16%) IoT
10 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.02%) Linux
2 21 (2.43%) Unix
3 14 (1.62%) Windows
4 11 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) 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
1 522 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 396 (45.83%) DevOps
3 316 (36.57%) Agile
3 316 (36.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (23.73%) Microservices
5 192 (22.22%) AI
6 191 (22.11%) Containerisation
7 157 (18.17%) Event-Driven
8 144 (16.67%) Analytics
9 140 (16.20%) Test Automation
10 133 (15.39%) Data Modelling
11 126 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (14.58%) Observability
12 121 (14.00%) Software Engineering
13 118 (13.66%) Data Engineering
13 118 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (13.54%) ETL
15 107 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (12.27%) Mentoring
16 106 (12.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 405 (46.88%) Python
2 274 (31.71%) SQL
3 131 (15.16%) TypeScript
4 120 (13.89%) Java
5 113 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 102 (11.81%) C#
7 61 (7.06%) Bash
8 37 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.36%) Bicep
9 29 (3.36%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.97%) Go
11 16 (1.85%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.93%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
14 6 (0.69%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 242 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 198 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.48%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.28%) Degree
5 34 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (3.24%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
18 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.86%) QA
3 26 (3.01%) GDPR
4 24 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.39%) NIST
5 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.27%) WCAG
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
8 5 (0.58%) HL7
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 246 (28.47%) Docker
2 30 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.39%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 353 (40.86%) Terraform
2 213 (24.65%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.22%) Grafana
4 68 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.09%) Ansible
6 24 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.85%) Puppet
8 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.93%) Consul
9 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.69%) Istio
11 6 (0.69%) Podman
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.58%) Packer
12 5 (0.58%) Salt
13 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
15 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 138 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.25%) Databricks
3 39 (4.51%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.24%) Oracle
5 24 (2.78%) Google
6 22 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.20%) Splunk
8 18 (2.08%) Informatica
8 18 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.04%) Brio
11 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.93%) Foundry
11 8 (0.93%) SAP
12 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.58%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.58%) Sybase
13 5 (0.58%) Tenable
13 5 (0.58%) Workday