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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 105 130
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 880 609 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.50% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.38% 6.61% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 456 489
10th Percentile £368 £400 £381
25th Percentile £416 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.41%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £523
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.35% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 13,785 9,218 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.82% 37.90% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,506 6,476 8,749
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 173 332
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.75 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +42.31% +23.81% -18.69%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 0 527 £513 -6.82% 152
North of England +10 169 £500 - 100
North West -11 80 £455 -4.21% 50
Yorkshire 0 76 £500 - 43
Midlands -21 70 £513 +14.00% 23
West Midlands -19 55 £525 +16.67% 19
South East -65 50 £525 -8.70% 67
South West -23 31 £600 -2.10% 32
East of England -6 25 £573 -21.09% 22
East Midlands -26 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -10 14 £475 -23.91% 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 44 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.75%) Confluence
4 30 (3.41%) Apache
5 25 (2.84%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.25%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.14%) Mendix
7 10 (1.14%) nginx
8 9 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 631 (71.70%) AWS
2 503 (57.16%) AWS Lambda
3 337 (38.30%) Amazon S3
3 337 (38.30%) Azure
4 207 (23.52%) Azure Functions
5 200 (22.73%) GitHub
6 159 (18.07%) Amazon EC2
7 158 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
8 140 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 140 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
9 135 (15.34%) Azure DevOps
10 129 (14.66%) Amazon EKS
11 127 (14.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 109 (12.39%) Power Platform
13 103 (11.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 91 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 76 (8.64%) GCP
16 74 (8.41%) Azure Service Bus
17 66 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
18 60 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.98%) Firewall
2 32 (3.64%) DNS
3 25 (2.84%) VPN
4 13 (1.48%) Network Security
5 11 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) HTTP
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 4 (0.45%) WAN
11 3 (0.34%) LAN
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) Internet
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
13 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
2 112 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (11.93%) DynamoDB
4 83 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.73%) Power BI
6 62 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.91%) Data Lake
8 50 (5.68%) Relational Database
9 47 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (3.75%) Redis
13 31 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 30 (3.41%) MongoDB
15 29 (3.30%) Tableau
16 23 (2.61%) Metadata
17 22 (2.50%) SQL Server
18 21 (2.39%) Big Data
19 20 (2.27%) DocumentDB
20 18 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 158 (17.95%) Git
2 134 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 123 (13.98%) GitLab
4 50 (5.68%) JIRA
5 25 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.16%) JUnit
8 15 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.70%) Liquibase
8 15 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.59%) Mockito
10 10 (1.14%) Maven
11 8 (0.91%) Postman
11 8 (0.91%) Selenium
12 7 (0.80%) MLflow
12 7 (0.80%) Mocha
13 6 (0.68%) Gradle
13 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.68%) Vite
14 5 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 216 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 172 (19.55%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.57%) Finance
4 69 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.59%) Banking
6 28 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.84%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.59%) Marketing
9 10 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.02%) Military
10 9 (1.02%) Retail
11 6 (0.68%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.57%) Billing
13 4 (0.45%) Aviation
13 4 (0.45%) Law
13 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (26.02%) Developer
2 133 (15.11%) Architect
3 119 (13.52%) Senior
4 104 (11.82%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.39%) Lead
7 64 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 64 (7.27%) Software Engineer
8 57 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 42 (4.77%) AWS Architect
9 42 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 40 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 35 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (3.86%) AWS Developer
14 33 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 31 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
15 31 (3.52%) Python Developer
16 29 (3.30%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (15.23%) Node.js
2 123 (13.98%) REST
3 122 (13.86%) React
4 121 (13.75%) Kafka
5 120 (13.64%) RESTful
6 106 (12.05%) .NET
7 75 (8.52%) Spring
8 74 (8.41%) Spring Boot
9 58 (6.59%) OAuth
10 50 (5.68%) AngularJS
11 39 (4.43%) JSON
12 38 (4.32%) GraphQL
13 37 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (4.20%) FastAPI
14 36 (4.09%) PySpark
15 34 (3.86%) OpenID
16 32 (3.64%) CSS
17 31 (3.52%) AWS CDK
18 30 (3.41%) Flask
19 29 (3.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 224 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.82%) NHS
9 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.14%) Replication
14 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.91%) IoT
16 7 (0.80%) DataPower
16 7 (0.80%) Mainframe
16 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 6 (0.68%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.64%) Linux
2 15 (1.70%) Unix
3 11 (1.25%) Windows
4 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (59.77%) CI/CD
2 456 (51.82%) DevOps
3 320 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 298 (33.86%) Agile
5 243 (27.61%) Microservices
6 206 (23.41%) Containerisation
7 158 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (16.36%) AI
9 134 (15.23%) Analytics
10 130 (14.77%) Software Engineering
11 128 (14.55%) Event-Driven
12 127 (14.43%) Data Modelling
13 120 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
14 117 (13.30%) Observability
15 116 (13.18%) Test Automation
16 108 (12.27%) ETL
17 100 (11.36%) Data Engineering
18 89 (10.11%) Mentoring
19 86 (9.77%) Full-Stack Development
20 79 (8.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 417 (47.39%) Python
2 275 (31.25%) SQL
3 137 (15.57%) Java
3 137 (15.57%) JavaScript
4 127 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 124 (14.09%) C#
6 54 (6.14%) Bash
7 43 (4.89%) PowerShell
8 42 (4.77%) Go
9 39 (4.43%) Bicep
10 23 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.05%) Ruby
12 11 (1.25%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.25%) LotusScript
12 11 (1.25%) Scala
13 8 (0.91%) C++
13 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.80%) Korn
15 6 (0.68%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 250 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 47 (5.34%) Degree
5 38 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.95%) Master's Degree
9 21 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.45%) PhD
14 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
15 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.66%) QA
3 25 (2.84%) GDPR
4 24 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.16%) NIST
7 14 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.14%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.45%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.45%) HL7
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 244 (27.73%) Docker
2 31 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.02%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 375 (42.61%) Terraform
2 229 (26.02%) Kubernetes
3 85 (9.66%) Prometheus
4 79 (8.98%) Grafana
5 68 (7.73%) Ansible
6 23 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.36%) Puppet
9 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.80%) Consul
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 5 (0.57%) Rancher
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.45%) Istio
12 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.45%) linkerd
13 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 165 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.30%) Databricks
3 41 (4.66%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.55%) Splunk
5 33 (3.75%) Oracle
6 26 (2.95%) Google
7 20 (2.27%) Foundry
8 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.14%) Kofax
12 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.02%) Palantir
12 9 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.91%) Brio
13 8 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.91%) Confluent
13 8 (0.91%) IBM
13 8 (0.91%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) SAP