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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 116 130
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 848 666 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.41% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 6.48% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 481 430
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £736 £700 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £37.60 £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 15,933 10,283 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.22% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,621 6,982 8,009
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 265 240
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.28
Median hourly rate £37.12 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -20 495 £550 - 284
North of England -37 135 £500 +4.17% 72
Midlands -10 81 £481 +9.94% 22
North West -38 69 £550 +15.79% 37
West Midlands -12 66 £477 +12.24% 13
South West -28 48 £542 +5.71% 31
South East -51 46 £600 +33.33% 46
Yorkshire -41 45 £500 +2.56% 21
East of England -17 24 £525 - 10
North East -27 21 £463 +0.54% 14
East Midlands -6 15 £488 +8.32% 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 45 (5.31%) Confluence
2 38 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.71%) Apache
5 18 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 653 (77.00%) AWS
2 524 (61.79%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (43.28%) Amazon S3
4 303 (35.73%) Azure
5 171 (20.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 161 (18.99%) GitHub
7 157 (18.51%) Amazon ECS
8 156 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
9 151 (17.81%) Azure Functions
10 133 (15.68%) Amazon EKS
11 116 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 101 (11.91%) Power Platform
14 98 (11.56%) Amazon SQS
15 96 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
16 94 (11.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 85 (10.02%) AWS Step Functions
18 72 (8.49%) GCP
19 64 (7.55%) Azure Logic Apps
20 57 (6.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.89%) Firewall
2 24 (2.83%) DNS
2 24 (2.83%) Network Security
3 19 (2.24%) VPN
4 12 (1.42%) WAN
5 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.59%) HTTP
6 5 (0.59%) MQTT
6 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.59%) SSL
7 3 (0.35%) CTI
7 3 (0.35%) FTP
7 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 2 (0.24%) AMQP
8 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.12%) 4G
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (15.57%) DynamoDB
2 120 (14.15%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (11.32%) Amazon Athena
4 79 (9.32%) Power BI
5 77 (9.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 75 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (7.19%) NoSQL
8 45 (5.31%) Data Lake
9 41 (4.83%) SQL Server
10 32 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 30 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 24 (2.83%) Metadata
13 24 (2.83%) MongoDB
13 24 (2.83%) Tableau
14 19 (2.24%) Delta Lake
15 16 (1.89%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.89%) MySQL
16 15 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 145 (17.10%) Git
2 116 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 110 (12.97%) GitLab
4 67 (7.90%) JIRA
5 24 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.48%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.42%) Postman
9 11 (1.30%) JUnit
9 11 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.18%) Selenium
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
11 7 (0.83%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.71%) Gatling
12 6 (0.71%) Mocha
12 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.10%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.68%) Finance
4 66 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.77%) Banking
6 25 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.30%) Law
8 11 (1.30%) Retail
9 10 (1.18%) Marketing
10 9 (1.06%) Billing
11 8 (0.94%) Back Office
11 8 (0.94%) Legal
12 7 (0.83%) Front Office
13 6 (0.71%) Military
13 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (23.58%) Developer
2 159 (18.75%) Senior
3 156 (18.40%) Architect
4 123 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
5 96 (11.32%) Lead
6 95 (11.20%) Data Engineer
7 54 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.78%) AWS Architect
10 47 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.95%) Python Developer
13 40 (4.72%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.48%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
16 31 (3.66%) AWS Data Engineer
17 29 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
17 29 (3.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.33%) REST
2 107 (12.62%) React
3 100 (11.79%) Node.js
4 96 (11.32%) RESTful
5 95 (11.20%) Kafka
6 76 (8.96%) .NET
7 57 (6.72%) PySpark
8 55 (6.49%) Spring
8 55 (6.49%) Spring Boot
9 51 (6.01%) GraphQL
10 43 (5.07%) AWS CDK
11 39 (4.60%) FastAPI
11 39 (4.60%) OAuth
12 36 (4.25%) AngularJS
13 35 (4.13%) JSON
14 32 (3.77%) Flask
15 29 (3.42%) OpenID
16 28 (3.30%) CSS
17 26 (3.07%) HTML
18 24 (2.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 255 (30.07%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (4.36%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.18%) NHS
6 23 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.30%) IoT
10 11 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.01%) Linux
2 24 (2.83%) Unix
3 15 (1.77%) Windows
4 12 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 376 (44.34%) DevOps
3 326 (38.44%) Agile
4 325 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (23.94%) Microservices
6 189 (22.29%) AI
7 185 (21.82%) Containerisation
8 163 (19.22%) Event-Driven
9 152 (17.92%) Test Automation
10 146 (17.22%) Observability
11 137 (16.16%) Analytics
12 133 (15.68%) Data Modelling
13 119 (14.03%) Data Pipeline
14 118 (13.92%) Software Engineering
15 116 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
16 112 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 111 (13.09%) ETL
18 108 (12.74%) Data Engineering
18 108 (12.74%) Migration
19 105 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 387 (45.64%) Python
2 269 (31.72%) SQL
3 134 (15.80%) TypeScript
4 128 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.68%) Java
6 101 (11.91%) C#
7 64 (7.55%) Bash
8 35 (4.13%) Bicep
9 33 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.66%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.77%) Scala
12 11 (1.30%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 251 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 208 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.48%) Degree
5 36 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.95%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.78%) QA
3 30 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.54%) GDPR
4 25 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.77%) WCAG
6 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.30%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.71%) HL7
10 5 (0.59%) SLA
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 237 (27.95%) Docker
2 30 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.83%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 340 (40.09%) Terraform
2 201 (23.70%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.78%) Grafana
4 59 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.95%) Ansible
6 16 (1.89%) Puppet
7 15 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.06%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.71%) linkerd
11 6 (0.71%) Packer
11 6 (0.71%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Argo
13 4 (0.47%) Consul
13 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
15 2 (0.24%) CASB
Vendors
1 140 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.78%) Databricks
3 31 (3.66%) Oracle
4 27 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.71%) Google
6 22 (2.59%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.36%) Informatica
7 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.24%) Splunk
9 10 (1.18%) Brio
9 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.06%) SAP
11 7 (0.83%) New Relic
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.71%) Confluent
12 6 (0.71%) Tenable
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Workday
14 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.47%) Sybase