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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 881 617 669
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.54% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 6.73% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 462 498
10th Percentile £368 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.41%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £727
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £523
% change year-on-year -7.02% +2.92% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -8 524 £513 -10.87% 153
North of England +6 172 £500 +2.56% 90
North West -8 81 £500 +5.26% 47
Yorkshire +9 78 £500 - 34
Midlands -19 68 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -22 54 £506 +12.44% 18
South East -59 50 £525 +5.00% 61
South West -20 31 £591 -3.53% 31
East of England -12 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -8 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -29 14 £460 +2.22% 4
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 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.63%) Apache
3 32 (3.63%) Confluence
4 25 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.25%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.14%) Mendix
6 10 (1.14%) nginx
7 9 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.14%) 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 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 643 (72.99%) AWS
2 513 (58.23%) AWS Lambda
3 343 (38.93%) Amazon S3
4 331 (37.57%) Azure
5 197 (22.36%) Azure Functions
5 197 (22.36%) GitHub
6 158 (17.93%) Amazon EC2
7 157 (17.82%) Amazon ECS
8 145 (16.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 137 (15.55%) GitHub Actions
10 133 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
11 130 (14.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 125 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (12.83%) Power Platform
14 99 (11.24%) Azure Logic Apps
15 88 (9.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 75 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (8.40%) Amazon SQS
17 74 (8.40%) GCP
18 71 (8.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.20%) Firewall
2 36 (4.09%) DNS
3 26 (2.95%) VPN
4 13 (1.48%) Network Security
5 12 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.91%) SSL
8 7 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 7 (0.79%) SMS
9 6 (0.68%) HTTP
10 5 (0.57%) IPsec
11 4 (0.45%) WAN
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) LAN
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
13 1 (0.11%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
13 1 (0.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.96%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (13.17%) DynamoDB
3 110 (12.49%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (9.65%) NoSQL
5 73 (8.29%) Power BI
6 65 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.79%) Data Lake
9 50 (5.68%) Relational Database
10 40 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.63%) Tableau
13 30 (3.41%) Redis
14 29 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (3.18%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.72%) Metadata
17 21 (2.38%) Big Data
17 21 (2.38%) SQL Server
18 18 (2.04%) DocumentDB
18 18 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 161 (18.27%) Git
2 131 (14.87%) Jenkins
3 123 (13.96%) GitLab
4 50 (5.68%) JIRA
5 23 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.16%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.04%) JUnit
8 16 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.59%) Liquibase
9 14 (1.59%) Mockito
10 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.14%) Maven
12 8 (0.91%) Selenium
13 7 (0.79%) Mocha
13 7 (0.79%) Postman
14 6 (0.68%) Gradle
14 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.68%) Vite
15 5 (0.57%) MSTest
15 5 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 219 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 170 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 132 (14.98%) Finance
4 69 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.24%) Banking
6 30 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.59%) Marketing
9 8 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.79%) Retail
11 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.68%) Military
12 5 (0.57%) Billing
12 5 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.45%) Aviation
13 4 (0.45%) Front Office
13 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (25.99%) Developer
2 140 (15.89%) Architect
3 118 (13.39%) Senior
4 110 (12.49%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (9.99%) Data Engineer
6 64 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 64 (7.26%) Lead
7 60 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (4.99%) AWS Architect
10 42 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.54%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (4.31%) AWS Developer
13 36 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 33 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
15 33 (3.75%) Java Developer
16 32 (3.63%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.63%) Technical Architect
17 31 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (15.55%) Node.js
2 126 (14.30%) React
3 122 (13.85%) REST
4 120 (13.62%) Kafka
5 119 (13.51%) RESTful
6 100 (11.35%) .NET
7 79 (8.97%) Spring
8 78 (8.85%) Spring Boot
9 59 (6.70%) OAuth
10 48 (5.45%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.65%) JSON
11 41 (4.65%) PySpark
12 36 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
12 36 (4.09%) GraphQL
13 34 (3.86%) FastAPI
13 34 (3.86%) OpenID
14 31 (3.52%) CSS
15 30 (3.41%) AWS CDK
16 29 (3.29%) Flask
16 29 (3.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 216 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 21 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.27%) NHS
6 17 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.91%) DataPower
11 8 (0.91%) IoT
11 8 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.91%) Replication
12 6 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.68%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.40%) Linux
2 15 (1.70%) Unix
3 11 (1.25%) Windows
4 5 (0.57%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.34%) zOS
7 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (60.05%) CI/CD
2 460 (52.21%) DevOps
3 325 (36.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (34.17%) Agile
5 243 (27.58%) Microservices
6 206 (23.38%) Containerisation
7 151 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (15.66%) AI
9 133 (15.10%) Event-Driven
10 128 (14.53%) Analytics
10 128 (14.53%) Data Modelling
11 126 (14.30%) Software Engineering
12 116 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
13 113 (12.83%) Observability
14 112 (12.71%) ETL
15 109 (12.37%) Test Automation
16 96 (10.90%) Data Engineering
17 93 (10.56%) Mentoring
18 87 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
19 81 (9.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 414 (46.99%) Python
2 272 (30.87%) SQL
3 142 (16.12%) Java
4 137 (15.55%) JavaScript
5 129 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 126 (14.30%) C#
7 55 (6.24%) Bash
8 44 (4.99%) PowerShell
9 41 (4.65%) Go
10 38 (4.31%) Bicep
11 25 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.16%) Ruby
13 12 (1.36%) Scala
14 11 (1.25%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.25%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.91%) C++
16 7 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.68%) Korn
17 6 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 258 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 202 (22.93%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.11%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.88%) Degree
5 36 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.43%) QA
3 26 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.72%) GDPR
5 22 (2.50%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.04%) NIST
7 17 (1.93%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.14%) WCAG
9 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.79%) PMO
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
11 2 (0.23%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 244 (27.70%) Docker
2 32 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.14%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 382 (43.36%) Terraform
2 233 (26.45%) Kubernetes
3 81 (9.19%) Prometheus
4 78 (8.85%) Grafana
5 67 (7.60%) 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 (0.79%) Consul
10 7 (0.79%) 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
1 160 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.40%) Databricks
3 41 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 39 (4.43%) Splunk
5 36 (4.09%) Oracle
6 24 (2.72%) Google
7 18 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.93%) Foundry
9 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.14%) Kofax
12 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.02%) Brio
12 9 (1.02%) Palantir
12 9 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.91%) Confluent
13 8 (0.91%) Sybase
14 7 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.79%) SAP