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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 113 136
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 879 624 638
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.45% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.73% 6.50% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 454 466
10th Percentile £394 £400 £372
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £709
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -16 528 £550 - 110
North of England -22 145 £500 - 50
North West -23 83 £525 +5.00% 27
Midlands -27 64 £488 -2.01% 21
South East -49 53 £575 +15.00% 51
West Midlands -24 50 £482 -4.22% 14
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 14
South West -18 40 £575 +8.24% 21
East of England -22 26 £550 +3.53% 6
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +3.55% 7
North East -29 14 £463 -1.07% 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 52 (5.92%) Confluence
2 40 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 39 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.28%) Apache
4 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.37%) nginx
6 6 (0.68%) CICS
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.57%) SAS
8 4 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.46%) Mendix
8 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (76.68%) AWS
2 536 (60.98%) AWS Lambda
3 393 (44.71%) Amazon S3
4 322 (36.63%) Azure
5 174 (19.80%) GitHub
6 169 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
7 164 (18.66%) Azure Functions
8 154 (17.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 150 (17.06%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (15.47%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.08%) Power Platform
13 108 (12.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
14 102 (11.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 94 (10.69%) Amazon SQS
16 78 (8.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.53%) Azure Logic Apps
18 72 (8.19%) GCP
19 65 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.87%) Firewall
2 30 (3.41%) DNS
3 24 (2.73%) VPN
4 23 (2.62%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.37%) WAN
7 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.91%) SSL
9 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
10 4 (0.46%) SMS
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (14.45%) DynamoDB
2 121 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
4 87 (9.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 85 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (9.22%) Power BI
7 60 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.71%) NoSQL
9 49 (5.57%) Data Lake
10 38 (4.32%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (3.64%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.07%) Tableau
14 23 (2.62%) Metadata
15 22 (2.50%) MongoDB
16 21 (2.39%) Redis
17 19 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.93%) MySQL
19 16 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 149 (16.95%) Git
2 123 (13.99%) GitLab
3 120 (13.65%) Jenkins
4 75 (8.53%) JIRA
5 26 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.37%) JUnit
10 9 (1.02%) Mocha
10 9 (1.02%) Postman
11 8 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.91%) MSTest
12 6 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) Selenium
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.29%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.36%) Finance
4 58 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.07%) Banking
7 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 9 (1.02%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.46%) Games
14 4 (0.46%) Police
15 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 198 (22.53%) Developer
2 172 (19.57%) Architect
3 149 (16.95%) Senior
4 119 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.49%) Data Engineer
6 89 (10.13%) Lead
7 57 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.37%) Software Engineer
9 54 (6.14%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
11 41 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.44%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.32%) AWS Developer
14 38 (4.32%) Technical Architect
15 37 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.20%) Kafka
2 110 (12.51%) React
3 108 (12.29%) REST
4 104 (11.83%) Node.js
5 101 (11.49%) RESTful
6 79 (8.99%) .NET
7 67 (7.62%) Spring Boot
8 65 (7.39%) Spring
9 61 (6.94%) PySpark
10 54 (6.14%) OAuth
11 52 (5.92%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.89%) OpenID
13 40 (4.55%) JSON
14 38 (4.32%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.10%) AWS CDK
15 36 (4.10%) FastAPI
16 32 (3.64%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.07%) Flask
18 25 (2.84%) CSS
19 24 (2.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 264 (30.03%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 51 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.07%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.73%) NHS
6 17 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.80%) IoT
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.23%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) Unix
3 12 (1.37%) Windows
4 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.68%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (60.75%) CI/CD
2 411 (46.76%) DevOps
3 324 (36.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (34.58%) Agile
5 204 (23.21%) Microservices
6 198 (22.53%) Containerisation
7 182 (20.71%) AI
8 160 (18.20%) Event-Driven
9 140 (15.93%) Analytics
10 135 (15.36%) Test Automation
11 131 (14.90%) Observability
12 127 (14.45%) Data Modelling
13 124 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
14 123 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (13.77%) Software Engineering
16 113 (12.86%) ETL
17 112 (12.74%) Data Engineering
18 103 (11.72%) Migration
19 102 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
20 100 (11.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 407 (46.30%) Python
2 277 (31.51%) SQL
3 129 (14.68%) TypeScript
4 125 (14.22%) Java
5 119 (13.54%) JavaScript
6 114 (12.97%) C#
7 58 (6.60%) Bash
8 36 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.41%) Bicep
10 28 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.93%) Go
11 17 (1.93%) Scala
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.68%) JCL
14 6 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 197 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.46%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.21%) Degree
5 35 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.34%) CISSP
17 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.12%) QA
3 27 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.73%) GDPR
5 20 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.93%) NIST
8 8 (0.91%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 245 (27.87%) Docker
2 31 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 368 (41.87%) Terraform
2 220 (25.03%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.08%) Grafana
4 69 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.23%) Ansible
6 25 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.28%) Puppet
8 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) Consul
10 6 (0.68%) Istio
10 6 (0.68%) Podman
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 145 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.26%) Databricks
3 44 (5.01%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.41%) Oracle
5 22 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.50%) Google
6 19 (2.16%) Splunk
7 17 (1.93%) Informatica
8 16 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.14%) Foundry
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.91%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Confluent
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) SAP
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Teradata