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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 120 136
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 868 657 605
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.37% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 6.30% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 464 412
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
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 - - -2.55%
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 15,946 10,424 11,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.57% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,641 7,046 7,788
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -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 544 257 182
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.92 £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 £62.14
90th Percentile £82.81 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -20 517 £550 - 403
North of England -42 132 £500 +4.06% 72
Midlands -7 88 £440 -8.09% 23
West Midlands -14 69 £460 -7.54% 12
North West -39 67 £607 +25.05% 46
South East -56 50 £600 +41.18% 52
South West -27 45 £520 -2.12% 38
Yorkshire -49 45 £500 +3.79% 18
North East -27 20 £463 +4.52% 8
East of England -27 20 £525 +1.94% 16
East Midlands -10 19 £419 +0.84% 11
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 (5.18%) Confluence
2 38 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 28 (3.23%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.65%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) CMS
6 8 (0.92%) SAS
7 7 (0.81%) nginx
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) CICS
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.46%) 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 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) 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
1 661 (76.15%) AWS
2 528 (60.83%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (41.59%) Amazon S3
4 339 (39.06%) Azure
5 186 (21.43%) GitHub
6 181 (20.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 176 (20.28%) Azure Functions
8 153 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
9 142 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
10 127 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
11 119 (13.71%) Power Platform
12 117 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
13 115 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 104 (11.98%) Amazon SQS
15 89 (10.25%) AWS Step Functions
16 83 (9.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (7.72%) GCP
19 64 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.57%) Firewall
2 28 (3.23%) Network Security
3 21 (2.42%) DNS
4 16 (1.84%) VPN
5 11 (1.27%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) 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
1 128 (14.75%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.40%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.29%) Amazon Athena
4 78 (8.99%) Power BI
5 77 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.68%) NoSQL
9 48 (5.53%) Data Lake
9 48 (5.53%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 30 (3.46%) MySQL
11 28 (3.23%) Metadata
12 25 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (2.76%) MongoDB
14 22 (2.53%) Relational Database
15 21 (2.42%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.30%) Tableau
17 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 152 (17.51%) Git
2 119 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.13%) GitLab
4 64 (7.37%) JIRA
5 23 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.53%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.42%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.96%) Selenium
9 13 (1.50%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) JUnit
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.04%) Mockito
11 9 (1.04%) RStudio
12 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.81%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.69%) Gatling
14 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 215 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 142 (16.36%) Finance
4 74 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.80%) Banking
7 16 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.50%) Marketing
8 13 (1.50%) Military
9 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 11 (1.27%) Billing
11 10 (1.15%) Back Office
12 9 (1.04%) Retail
13 8 (0.92%) Front Office
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (22.58%) Developer
2 174 (20.05%) Senior
3 162 (18.66%) Architect
4 121 (13.94%) AWS Engineer
5 109 (12.56%) Data Engineer
5 109 (12.56%) Lead
6 64 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 51 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.65%) AWS Architect
10 43 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.72%) Senior Developer
13 38 (4.38%) Python Developer
14 36 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 35 (4.03%) AWS Developer
16 34 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
17 33 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
17 33 (3.80%) Technical Architect
18 32 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (41.24%) Terraform
2 137 (15.78%) REST
3 105 (12.10%) React
4 94 (10.83%) Node.js
5 92 (10.60%) .NET
6 88 (10.14%) RESTful
7 87 (10.02%) Kafka
8 63 (7.26%) PySpark
9 53 (6.11%) Spring Boot
10 52 (5.99%) Spring
11 51 (5.88%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.18%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.95%) OAuth
14 42 (4.84%) AWS CDK
15 38 (4.38%) AngularJS
16 37 (4.26%) JSON
17 34 (3.92%) Flask
18 30 (3.46%) CSS
19 29 (3.34%) OAuth2
20 27 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (30.65%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.53%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.23%) NHS
6 26 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.15%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.04%) IoT
14 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.03%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Unix
3 17 (1.96%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (62.56%) CI/CD
2 403 (46.43%) DevOps
3 350 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (38.48%) Agile
5 215 (24.77%) AI
6 186 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 186 (21.43%) Microservices
7 185 (21.31%) Containerisation
8 162 (18.66%) Test Automation
9 158 (18.20%) Observability
10 147 (16.94%) Analytics
11 142 (16.36%) Data Modelling
11 142 (16.36%) Software Engineering
12 134 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 133 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
14 131 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
15 123 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 122 (14.06%) Data Engineering
17 119 (13.71%) Mentoring
17 119 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 418 (48.16%) Python
2 272 (31.34%) SQL
3 142 (16.36%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 118 (13.59%) Java
6 117 (13.48%) C#
7 69 (7.95%) Bash
8 43 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.49%) Bicep
10 29 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.61%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 246 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 208 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.60%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.76%) Degree
5 36 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.69%) CISSP
15 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.75%) Data Quality
2 70 (8.06%) QA
3 37 (4.26%) GDPR
4 34 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.42%) WCAG
7 13 (1.50%) NIST
8 11 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) 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
1 242 (27.88%) Docker
2 34 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.37%) Grafana
3 52 (5.99%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.65%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 11 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Argo
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 180 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.14%) Databricks
3 33 (3.80%) OpenAI
3 33 (3.80%) Oracle
4 24 (2.76%) Google
5 22 (2.53%) Informatica
5 22 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.19%) Splunk
8 10 (1.15%) Brio
8 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.81%) Confluent
9 7 (0.81%) Foundry
9 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.81%) SAP
9 7 (0.81%) Tenable
10 5 (0.58%) New Relic
10 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.58%) Workday
11 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA