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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 113 132
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 875 607 644
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.48% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 6.57% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 447 477
10th Percentile £383 £400 £366
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
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 14,936 9,233 11,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.66% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 6,286 8,600
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 225 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -8 525 £525 -4.55% 126
North of England -22 143 £500 - 51
North West -13 79 £510 +2.00% 29
Midlands -31 60 £488 -2.50% 15
South East -51 57 £575 +15.00% 41
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 - 17
West Midlands -27 47 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -5 40 £575 +4.55% 42
East of England -10 27 £550 -2.22% 6
North East -27 16 £475 - 5
East Midlands -20 13 £498 +3.86% 7
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 49 (5.60%) Confluence
2 42 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.06%) Apache
6 11 (1.26%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.69%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (76.11%) AWS
2 533 (60.91%) AWS Lambda
3 387 (44.23%) Amazon S3
4 320 (36.57%) Azure
5 176 (20.11%) GitHub
6 169 (19.31%) Azure Functions
7 165 (18.86%) Amazon EC2
8 151 (17.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 140 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (15.43%) Amazon EKS
11 124 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
12 113 (12.91%) Power Platform
13 110 (12.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (11.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (10.29%) Amazon SQS
17 84 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
18 76 (8.69%) Azure Logic Apps
19 69 (7.89%) GCP
20 65 (7.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.54%) DNS
1 31 (3.54%) Firewall
2 21 (2.40%) VPN
3 17 (1.94%) Network Security
4 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.14%) WAN
6 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.03%) SSL
7 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (0.69%) SMS
8 5 (0.57%) IPsec
8 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.46%) MQTT
10 3 (0.34%) FTP
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 2 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.23%) IPv4
12 1 (0.11%) 4G
12 1 (0.11%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 118 (13.49%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.74%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (8.80%) Power BI
7 55 (6.29%) Data Lake
7 55 (6.29%) NoSQL
8 53 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (3.89%) SQL Server
11 31 (3.54%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.31%) Tableau
13 24 (2.74%) Metadata
14 20 (2.29%) Redis
15 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (2.17%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.06%) Apache Iceberg
16 18 (2.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 142 (16.23%) Git
2 119 (13.60%) GitLab
3 112 (12.80%) Jenkins
4 68 (7.77%) JIRA
5 25 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
9 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 8 (0.91%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.69%) Postman
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Snyk
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.80%) Public Sector
3 130 (14.86%) Finance
4 55 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.86%) Banking
7 14 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.91%) Marketing
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Billing
13 4 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.86%) Developer
2 165 (18.86%) Architect
3 140 (16.00%) Senior
4 115 (13.14%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 86 (9.83%) Lead
7 56 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.17%) AWS Architect
8 54 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (4.57%) Python Developer
13 39 (4.46%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.34%) AWS Developer
14 38 (4.34%) Technical Architect
15 35 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
16 32 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 30 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (13.60%) Kafka
2 118 (13.49%) React
3 105 (12.00%) REST
4 101 (11.54%) Node.js
5 94 (10.74%) RESTful
6 77 (8.80%) .NET
7 65 (7.43%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.20%) Spring
9 60 (6.86%) PySpark
10 55 (6.29%) OAuth
11 43 (4.91%) GraphQL
12 42 (4.80%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.80%) OpenID
13 40 (4.57%) AWS CDK
14 39 (4.46%) JSON
15 36 (4.11%) FastAPI
16 31 (3.54%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.20%) Flask
18 26 (2.97%) Next.js
19 25 (2.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 254 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 24 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.40%) NHS
7 14 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
11 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.91%) IoT
11 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.14%) Linux
2 21 (2.40%) Unix
3 11 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.69%) zOS
5 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 401 (45.83%) DevOps
3 327 (37.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 288 (32.91%) Agile
5 191 (21.83%) Microservices
6 189 (21.60%) Containerisation
7 177 (20.23%) AI
8 159 (18.17%) Event-Driven
9 139 (15.89%) Analytics
10 134 (15.31%) Observability
11 131 (14.97%) Test Automation
12 129 (14.74%) Data Modelling
12 129 (14.74%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (13.83%) Software Engineering
15 116 (13.26%) ETL
16 109 (12.46%) Data Engineering
17 100 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 99 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
19 96 (10.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 407 (46.51%) Python
2 279 (31.89%) SQL
3 126 (14.40%) JavaScript
4 125 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 124 (14.17%) Java
6 116 (13.26%) C#
7 48 (5.49%) Bash
8 35 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.31%) Bicep
10 27 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.17%) Scala
12 18 (2.06%) Go
13 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.69%) JCL
15 6 (0.69%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.69%) Ruby
16 4 (0.46%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 239 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 191 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.60%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.66%) Degree
6 31 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.03%) QA
3 25 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.63%) GDPR
5 17 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.83%) NIST
7 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.69%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 233 (26.63%) Docker
2 28 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 372 (42.51%) Terraform
2 206 (23.54%) Kubernetes
3 69 (7.89%) Grafana
4 67 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.80%) Ansible
6 27 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (2.06%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) Consul
10 6 (0.69%) Istio
10 6 (0.69%) Podman
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Salt
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 3 (0.34%) Kibana
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 139 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.74%) Databricks
3 47 (5.37%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.77%) Oracle
5 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.17%) Google
7 18 (2.06%) Splunk
8 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.49%) Informatica
10 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.26%) Confluent
11 11 (1.26%) Foundry
12 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.03%) Brio
12 9 (1.03%) SAP
13 8 (0.91%) Tenable
14 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.80%) Sybase
15 6 (0.69%) Kofax
15 6 (0.69%) Lotus