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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 117 138
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 830 594 672
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.24% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.68% 6.04% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 410 491
10th Percentile £372 £400 £388
25th Percentile £415 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £685 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £69.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +190.38% - -

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 12,432 9,835 12,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.80% 37.12% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,617 6,513 9,250
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 142 298
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.57
Median hourly rate £33.32 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.48 £68.75 £66.29
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +19.09% +20.88% -5.21%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +11 482 £513 -8.48% 149
North of England +27 174 £500 - 65
Yorkshire +13 83 £500 - 25
North West +9 80 £450 -6.74% 37
Midlands -15 67 £505 +12.22% 29
West Midlands -2 56 £525 +2.54% 20
South East -42 50 £500 -14.53% 58
South West -33 27 £650 - 28
East of England -3 26 £550 -3.93% 7
North East -11 11 £525 -12.13% 3
East Midlands -21 11 £434 -3.61% 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 29 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.37%) Apache
2 28 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.01%) Confluence
4 23 (2.77%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.45%) nginx
6 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.08%) Mendix
7 9 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.60%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 584 (70.36%) AWS
2 473 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
3 307 (36.99%) Azure
4 287 (34.58%) Amazon S3
5 193 (23.25%) Azure Functions
6 192 (23.13%) GitHub
7 145 (17.47%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (16.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 131 (15.78%) Azure DevOps
10 130 (15.66%) GitHub Actions
11 128 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
12 125 (15.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 102 (12.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 97 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
15 89 (10.72%) GCP
16 83 (10.00%) Power Platform
17 66 (7.95%) Amazon SQS
18 65 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (7.47%) AWS Step Functions
19 62 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.25%) DNS
2 24 (2.89%) Firewall
3 22 (2.65%) VPN
4 14 (1.69%) Network Security
5 6 (0.72%) HTTP
5 6 (0.72%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.72%) SMS
5 6 (0.72%) SSL
6 5 (0.60%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) IPsec
8 2 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (12.41%) DynamoDB
4 90 (10.84%) NoSQL
5 58 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (6.39%) Relational Database
7 51 (6.14%) Power BI
8 44 (5.30%) Data Lake
9 41 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 36 (4.34%) Redis
12 31 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (3.73%) MongoDB
13 25 (3.01%) Big Data
14 24 (2.89%) MySQL
15 23 (2.77%) Tableau
16 21 (2.53%) DocumentDB
17 15 (1.81%) RDBMS
18 14 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 146 (17.59%) Git
2 136 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 112 (13.49%) GitLab
4 50 (6.02%) JIRA
5 24 (2.89%) Liquibase
6 22 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.93%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.69%) JUnit
8 14 (1.69%) Maven
9 13 (1.57%) Postman
10 12 (1.45%) Mockito
11 11 (1.33%) Gradle
11 11 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.20%) Selenium
13 6 (0.72%) MLflow
13 6 (0.72%) Mocha
13 6 (0.72%) Storybook
14 5 (0.60%) SonarLint
General
1 210 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 153 (18.43%) Public Sector
3 115 (13.86%) Finance
4 66 (7.95%) Banking
5 56 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 20 (2.41%) Marketing
8 19 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.96%) Front Office
10 8 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.96%) Military
11 7 (0.84%) Retail
12 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.48%) Aviation
14 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 221 (26.63%) Developer
2 114 (13.73%) Architect
3 111 (13.37%) Senior
4 105 (12.65%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.60%) Data Engineer
6 80 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 72 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (7.59%) Lead
9 47 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
12 34 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 34 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.61%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.49%) AWS Architect
14 29 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (3.37%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (18.07%) Node.js
2 131 (15.78%) React
3 130 (15.66%) RESTful
4 128 (15.42%) REST
5 116 (13.98%) Kafka
6 111 (13.37%) .NET
7 60 (7.23%) Spring Boot
8 55 (6.63%) Spring
9 49 (5.90%) OAuth
10 46 (5.54%) AngularJS
11 45 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (5.06%) GraphQL
13 39 (4.70%) JSON
14 36 (4.34%) FastAPI
15 32 (3.86%) .NET Core
16 30 (3.61%) HTML
16 30 (3.61%) Next.js
17 28 (3.37%) CSS
17 28 (3.37%) Flask
18 25 (3.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 220 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.93%) NHS
8 14 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.33%) Replication
12 10 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.96%) Data Fabric
14 8 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.72%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.24%) Linux
2 11 (1.33%) Unix
3 8 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) VMS
4 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (59.16%) CI/CD
2 424 (51.08%) DevOps
3 284 (34.22%) Agile
4 283 (34.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 243 (29.28%) Microservices
6 196 (23.61%) Containerisation
7 156 (18.80%) Software Engineering
8 151 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.18%) AI
10 120 (14.46%) Event-Driven
11 119 (14.34%) Analytics
11 119 (14.34%) Data Pipeline
12 108 (13.01%) Test Automation
13 99 (11.93%) Data Modelling
14 95 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
15 91 (10.96%) ETL
16 87 (10.48%) Observability
17 86 (10.36%) Mentoring
18 77 (9.28%) Data Engineering
19 71 (8.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 404 (48.67%) Python
2 237 (28.55%) SQL
3 133 (16.02%) Java
3 133 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 125 (15.06%) TypeScript
5 123 (14.82%) C#
6 50 (6.02%) Go
7 47 (5.66%) Bash
8 39 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.49%) Bicep
10 19 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.93%) Ruby
12 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.08%) C++
14 7 (0.84%) Korn
14 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.72%) PHP
15 6 (0.72%) Scala
15 6 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 218 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 172 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.35%) Degree
4 56 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 34 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 28 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 14 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.36%) PhD
17 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.98%) QA
3 27 (3.25%) GDPR
4 20 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.29%) NIST
6 10 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.08%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.08%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.96%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) HL7
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 230 (27.71%) Docker
2 24 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.60%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
7 2 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 345 (41.57%) Terraform
2 228 (27.47%) Kubernetes
3 76 (9.16%) Prometheus
4 75 (9.04%) Ansible
5 73 (8.80%) Grafana
6 15 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.45%) Puppet
8 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.84%) Kibana
10 5 (0.60%) Consul
10 5 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.48%) Rancher
12 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.24%) Knative
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 160 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.51%) Databricks
3 40 (4.82%) Splunk
4 39 (4.70%) Google
5 37 (4.46%) OpenAI
6 26 (3.13%) Oracle
7 25 (3.01%) Foundry
8 15 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.69%) Confluent
10 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.45%) IBM
12 10 (1.20%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.20%) Lotus
12 10 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.08%) Kofax
13 9 (1.08%) Palantir
14 6 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.72%) Brio
14 6 (0.72%) Gigya
15 5 (0.60%) Pega