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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 119 135
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 868 648 597
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 2.38% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.48% 6.36% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 460 418
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £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 15,845 10,186 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.42% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,613 6,888 7,730
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £639
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 261 189
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -20 513 £550 - 441
North of England -48 134 £500 +5.26% 105
Midlands -9 87 £447 -0.78% 42
North West -27 68 £605 +26.04% 69
West Midlands -13 67 £463 - 21
South East -65 49 £600 +37.93% 50
South West -29 46 £530 +2.42% 49
Yorkshire -48 44 £500 +5.15% 24
East of England -18 23 £525 +1.94% 21
North East -21 22 £463 +4.52% 12
East Midlands -14 20 £413 -0.66% 21
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 50 (5.76%) Confluence
2 40 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 24 (2.76%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) CMS
6 8 (0.92%) SAS
7 7 (0.81%) nginx
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (76.04%) AWS
2 529 (60.94%) AWS Lambda
3 363 (41.82%) Amazon S3
4 337 (38.82%) Azure
5 186 (21.43%) GitHub
6 178 (20.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 171 (19.70%) Azure Functions
8 155 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
9 139 (16.01%) Amazon EC2
10 129 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
11 124 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 114 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 113 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
14 112 (12.90%) Power Platform
15 106 (12.21%) Amazon SQS
16 92 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
17 83 (9.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 70 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
19 69 (7.95%) GCP
20 62 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.80%) Firewall
2 28 (3.23%) Network Security
3 21 (2.42%) DNS
4 16 (1.84%) VPN
5 12 (1.38%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (14.86%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.06%) Amazon RDS
3 100 (11.52%) Amazon Athena
4 80 (9.22%) Power BI
5 77 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
6 76 (8.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 73 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.80%) NoSQL
9 48 (5.53%) Data Lake
9 48 (5.53%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 30 (3.46%) MySQL
11 29 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.34%) Metadata
12 24 (2.76%) Delta Lake
13 23 (2.65%) MongoDB
14 21 (2.42%) Relational Database
14 21 (2.42%) Tableau
15 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
16 15 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 154 (17.74%) Git
2 119 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.02%) GitLab
4 70 (8.06%) JIRA
5 21 (2.42%) Bitbucket
5 21 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.73%) Selenium
8 12 (1.38%) Postman
9 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.04%) JUnit
10 9 (1.04%) RStudio
11 8 (0.92%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.69%) Gatling
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.69%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
General
1 207 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.40%) Public Sector
3 138 (15.90%) Finance
4 73 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.92%) Banking
6 32 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.50%) Billing
8 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.50%) Law
9 12 (1.38%) Marketing
9 12 (1.38%) Military
10 10 (1.15%) Retail
11 9 (1.04%) Back Office
12 7 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
13 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 199 (22.93%) Developer
2 171 (19.70%) Senior
3 168 (19.35%) Architect
4 122 (14.06%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (12.79%) Data Engineer
6 104 (11.98%) Lead
7 64 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (5.99%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (5.53%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (4.61%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.49%) Python Developer
15 36 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
16 35 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
17 34 (3.92%) AWS Developer
18 33 (3.80%) Technical Architect
19 32 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
19 32 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (41.94%) Terraform
2 133 (15.32%) REST
3 111 (12.79%) React
4 93 (10.71%) .NET
4 93 (10.71%) Node.js
5 91 (10.48%) Kafka
6 87 (10.02%) RESTful
7 66 (7.60%) PySpark
8 51 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 50 (5.76%) GraphQL
9 50 (5.76%) Spring
10 45 (5.18%) FastAPI
11 42 (4.84%) AWS CDK
12 41 (4.72%) OAuth
13 38 (4.38%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.15%) Flask
15 34 (3.92%) CSS
15 34 (3.92%) JSON
16 30 (3.46%) HTML
17 29 (3.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 274 (31.57%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.29%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (5.30%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.23%) NHS
6 25 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.27%) IoT
15 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 8 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.91%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Unix
3 17 (1.96%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (63.02%) CI/CD
2 395 (45.51%) DevOps
3 352 (40.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (38.71%) Agile
5 213 (24.54%) AI
6 188 (21.66%) Microservices
7 187 (21.54%) Event-Driven
8 184 (21.20%) Containerisation
9 161 (18.55%) Test Automation
10 157 (18.09%) Observability
11 148 (17.05%) Analytics
12 138 (15.90%) Data Modelling
13 135 (15.55%) Software Engineering
14 129 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
15 128 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 127 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
17 123 (14.17%) Data Engineering
18 122 (14.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 117 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
19 117 (13.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 419 (48.27%) Python
2 278 (32.03%) SQL
3 144 (16.59%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 115 (13.25%) C#
6 114 (13.13%) Java
7 69 (7.95%) Bash
8 40 (4.61%) Bicep
8 40 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.34%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.73%) Scala
11 10 (1.15%) Groovy
12 8 (0.92%) R
13 7 (0.81%) Go
13 7 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.58%) Cypher
14 5 (0.58%) Ruby
14 5 (0.58%) Rust
14 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 246 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 206 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.49%) AWS Certification
4 47 (5.41%) Degree
5 36 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.69%) CISSP
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.87%) Data Quality
2 64 (7.37%) QA
3 35 (4.03%) GDPR
4 31 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.07%) WCAG
7 13 (1.50%) NIST
8 11 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (27.88%) Docker
2 35 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.49%) Grafana
3 53 (6.11%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.65%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 11 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.46%) Argo
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 176 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.37%) Databricks
3 34 (3.92%) Oracle
4 30 (3.46%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.76%) Google
5 24 (2.76%) Informatica
6 22 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.42%) Splunk
8 10 (1.15%) Brio
8 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.04%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Confluent
10 7 (0.81%) Tenable
11 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.58%) Foundry
12 5 (0.58%) New Relic
12 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.58%) Workday
13 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA