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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 110 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 866 587 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.40% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 6.43% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 441 484
10th Percentile £370 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £713 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £58.98 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £69.63 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.91% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 14,256 9,136 11,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.68% 37.34% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,825 6,406 8,547
10th Percentile £316 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £715 £741 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 194 322
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -30.63%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.35
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.42% +30.95% -40.00%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -13 519 £513 -6.82% 114
North of England -2 156 £500 - 61
North West -9 84 £500 - 42
Midlands -17 59 £500 +10.01% 17
Yorkshire -15 56 £500 - 16
South East -48 55 £525 +5.00% 41
West Midlands -23 46 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -15 34 £578 +5.16% 23
East of England -15 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -10 17 £475 - 3
East Midlands -30 13 £499 +8.71% 9
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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.70%) Confluence
4 29 (3.35%) Apache
5 25 (2.89%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.27%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.27%) nginx
7 10 (1.15%) Mendix
8 7 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
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 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 637 (73.56%) AWS
2 509 (58.78%) AWS Lambda
3 355 (40.99%) Amazon S3
4 333 (38.45%) Azure
5 197 (22.75%) GitHub
6 189 (21.82%) Azure Functions
7 159 (18.36%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (17.21%) Amazon EC2
9 140 (16.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 135 (15.59%) GitHub Actions
11 126 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
12 125 (14.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 124 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
14 114 (13.16%) Power Platform
15 96 (11.09%) Azure Logic Apps
16 87 (10.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 83 (9.58%) AWS Step Functions
18 74 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
19 73 (8.43%) Azure Service Bus
20 60 (6.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.16%) DNS
2 34 (3.93%) Firewall
3 21 (2.42%) VPN
4 13 (1.50%) Network Security
4 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.04%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.04%) SSL
7 8 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.81%) HTTP
8 7 (0.81%) SMS
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) WAN
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) MPLS
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (13.74%) DynamoDB
2 112 (12.93%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
4 75 (8.66%) Power BI
5 74 (8.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 73 (8.43%) NoSQL
7 68 (7.85%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.77%) Data Lake
9 46 (5.31%) Relational Database
10 36 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (3.81%) Tableau
12 32 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (3.35%) MongoDB
14 27 (3.12%) Redis
15 26 (3.00%) SQL Server
16 25 (2.89%) Big Data
16 25 (2.89%) Metadata
17 17 (1.96%) DocumentDB
17 17 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 155 (17.90%) Git
2 113 (13.05%) Jenkins
3 110 (12.70%) GitLab
4 46 (5.31%) JIRA
5 24 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.96%) Cucumber
6 17 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.50%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Mockito
10 9 (1.04%) Maven
11 8 (0.92%) Selenium
12 7 (0.81%) Mocha
13 6 (0.69%) Gradle
13 6 (0.69%) Vite
14 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.58%) Liquibase
14 5 (0.58%) MLflow
14 5 (0.58%) Postman
14 5 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 201 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 166 (19.17%) Public Sector
3 126 (14.55%) Finance
4 64 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.39%) Banking
6 29 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.39%) Marketing
8 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (0.92%) Military
9 8 (0.92%) Retail
10 6 (0.69%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.69%) Legal
11 5 (0.58%) Billing
11 5 (0.58%) Front Office
11 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.58%) Law
11 5 (0.58%) Police
11 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (26.10%) Developer
2 154 (17.78%) Architect
3 115 (13.28%) Senior
4 106 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.31%) Lead
7 62 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (5.89%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (5.08%) AWS Architect
12 42 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.62%) AWS Developer
14 35 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 35 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
14 35 (4.04%) Technical Architect
15 34 (3.93%) Python Developer
16 33 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (3.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (16.28%) Node.js
2 128 (14.78%) React
3 116 (13.39%) Kafka
4 102 (11.78%) REST
5 97 (11.20%) .NET
6 96 (11.09%) RESTful
7 78 (9.01%) Spring
7 78 (9.01%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.62%) OAuth
9 50 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.43%) PySpark
11 41 (4.73%) JSON
11 41 (4.73%) OpenID
12 36 (4.16%) GraphQL
13 33 (3.81%) AWS CDK
13 33 (3.81%) OAuth2
14 31 (3.58%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.46%) CSS
16 28 (3.23%) .NET Core
17 27 (3.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.42%) NHS
5 16 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.73%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.92%) Replication
10 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.81%) DataPower
11 7 (0.81%) IoT
11 7 (0.81%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.81%) Linux
2 20 (2.31%) Unix
3 9 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) zOS
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (59.58%) CI/CD
2 436 (50.35%) DevOps
3 318 (36.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 286 (33.03%) Agile
5 221 (25.52%) Microservices
6 195 (22.52%) Containerisation
7 144 (16.63%) AI
8 142 (16.40%) Analytics
9 138 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
10 136 (15.70%) Event-Driven
11 132 (15.24%) Data Modelling
12 120 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
12 120 (13.86%) Software Engineering
13 117 (13.51%) Observability
14 113 (13.05%) Test Automation
15 112 (12.93%) ETL
16 96 (11.09%) Data Engineering
16 96 (11.09%) Full-Stack Development
17 89 (10.28%) Mentoring
18 86 (9.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.88%) Python
2 266 (30.72%) SQL
3 144 (16.63%) JavaScript
4 141 (16.28%) Java
5 134 (15.47%) C#
6 129 (14.90%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.24%) Bash
8 40 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.50%) Bicep
10 27 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.66%) Go
12 19 (2.19%) Ruby
13 16 (1.85%) Scala
14 11 (1.27%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.27%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.69%) C++
16 6 (0.69%) PHP
17 4 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 262 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 211 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.12%) Degree
7 20 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 4 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.39%) QA
3 25 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.66%) GDPR
5 21 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.85%) NIST
6 16 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.92%) WCAG
8 7 (0.81%) PMO
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.46%) HL7
11 4 (0.46%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 239 (27.60%) Docker
2 32 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.15%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) RACF
6 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 369 (42.61%) Terraform
2 215 (24.83%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.85%) Grafana
4 66 (7.62%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.66%) Ansible
6 27 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.50%) Puppet
8 11 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.92%) Consul
11 6 (0.69%) Kibana
12 5 (0.58%) Istio
12 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
13 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.46%) Podman
13 4 (0.46%) Rancher
13 4 (0.46%) Salt
14 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 159 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.08%) Databricks
3 46 (5.31%) OpenAI
4 42 (4.85%) Oracle
5 28 (3.23%) Splunk
6 18 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.96%) Google
8 14 (1.62%) Foundry
9 11 (1.27%) Lotus
10 10 (1.15%) Brio
10 10 (1.15%) Confluent
10 10 (1.15%) Kofax
10 10 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.81%) Palantir
12 7 (0.81%) SAP
13 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.69%) Informatica
13 6 (0.69%) Salesforce