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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 116 130
Rank change year-on-year -34 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 865 654 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.37% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 6.36% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 464 413
10th Percentile £400 £382 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -17 505 £550 - 93
North of England -36 136 £500 +5.26% 53
Midlands -18 88 £449 -0.33% 18
North West -21 70 £563 +18.42% 27
West Midlands -9 65 £477 +6.00% 13
South East -54 50 £600 +35.59% 31
South West -25 46 £538 +5.39% 34
Yorkshire -40 43 £500 +8.11% 16
East Midlands -6 23 £413 -0.66% 5
East of England -20 23 £525 - 7
North East -23 23 £463 +4.52% 10
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 49 (5.66%) Confluence
2 41 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.35%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.54%) Apache
5 19 (2.20%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.81%) SAS
7 6 (0.69%) nginx
8 5 (0.58%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (76.30%) AWS
2 526 (60.81%) AWS Lambda
3 358 (41.39%) Amazon S3
4 323 (37.34%) Azure
5 172 (19.88%) GitHub
6 170 (19.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 158 (18.27%) Azure Functions
8 150 (17.34%) Amazon ECS
9 142 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
10 127 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
11 126 (14.57%) Amazon EKS
12 110 (12.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (12.25%) Amazon SQS
13 106 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (12.25%) Power Platform
14 87 (10.06%) AWS Step Functions
15 86 (9.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 72 (8.32%) GCP
17 68 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (7.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.70%) Firewall
2 26 (3.01%) Network Security
3 21 (2.43%) DNS
4 17 (1.97%) VPN
5 12 (1.39%) 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
1 130 (15.03%) DynamoDB
2 121 (13.99%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (11.21%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
5 79 (9.13%) Power BI
6 76 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.71%) NoSQL
9 45 (5.20%) SQL Server
10 43 (4.97%) Data Lake
11 31 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.35%) Relational Database
13 28 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (3.12%) MongoDB
15 25 (2.89%) Metadata
15 25 (2.89%) MySQL
16 23 (2.66%) Delta Lake
17 22 (2.54%) Tableau
18 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 151 (17.46%) Git
2 122 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 117 (13.53%) GitLab
4 69 (7.98%) JIRA
5 21 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.31%) Cucumber
6 20 (2.31%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.62%) Selenium
8 12 (1.39%) Postman
9 10 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.92%) JUnit
11 7 (0.81%) RStudio
11 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.69%) Gatling
12 6 (0.69%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) MSTest
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 200 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.34%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.38%) Finance
4 69 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.93%) Banking
6 26 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.39%) Billing
8 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.39%) Law
8 12 (1.39%) Marketing
9 10 (1.16%) Retail
10 8 (0.92%) Back Office
10 8 (0.92%) Military
11 7 (0.81%) Front Office
11 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (22.89%) Developer
2 170 (19.65%) Architect
3 162 (18.73%) Senior
4 123 (14.22%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.79%) Data Engineer
6 99 (11.45%) Lead
7 63 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.90%) AWS Architect
9 51 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.86%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 36 (4.16%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
16 34 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (3.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (41.39%) Terraform
2 124 (14.34%) REST
3 110 (12.72%) React
4 95 (10.98%) Node.js
5 92 (10.64%) Kafka
6 90 (10.40%) RESTful
7 82 (9.48%) .NET
8 64 (7.40%) PySpark
9 52 (6.01%) GraphQL
10 50 (5.78%) Spring
10 50 (5.78%) Spring Boot
11 43 (4.97%) FastAPI
12 42 (4.86%) OAuth
13 40 (4.62%) AWS CDK
14 37 (4.28%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.16%) Flask
16 35 (4.05%) CSS
17 34 (3.93%) JSON
18 30 (3.47%) HTML
19 29 (3.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 270 (31.21%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.86%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.24%) NHS
6 25 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.27%) IoT
12 11 (1.27%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.36%) Linux
2 22 (2.54%) Unix
3 17 (1.97%) Windows
4 13 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.58%) zOS
6 4 (0.46%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (61.85%) CI/CD
2 396 (45.78%) DevOps
3 339 (39.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (38.84%) Agile
5 199 (23.01%) AI
6 197 (22.77%) Microservices
7 189 (21.85%) Containerisation
8 169 (19.54%) Event-Driven
9 158 (18.27%) Test Automation
10 150 (17.34%) Observability
11 142 (16.42%) Analytics
12 128 (14.80%) Software Engineering
13 127 (14.68%) Data Modelling
14 124 (14.34%) Data Pipeline
15 119 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 118 (13.64%) Migration
17 116 (13.41%) Data Engineering
18 115 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
19 114 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
20 112 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 402 (46.47%) Python
2 276 (31.91%) SQL
3 135 (15.61%) TypeScript
4 130 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 113 (13.06%) Java
6 102 (11.79%) C#
7 67 (7.75%) Bash
8 38 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.16%) Bicep
10 29 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.73%) Scala
12 9 (1.04%) Go
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 7 (0.81%) R
14 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) JCL
15 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 245 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 206 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.17%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.97%) Degree
5 36 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 57 (6.59%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) GDPR
4 29 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 27 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.62%) WCAG
7 13 (1.50%) NIST
8 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.04%) 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
1 249 (28.79%) Docker
2 34 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.86%) Grafana
3 55 (6.36%) Prometheus
4 48 (5.55%) Ansible
5 15 (1.73%) Puppet
6 12 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.16%) Istio
8 8 (0.92%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.69%) linkerd
9 6 (0.69%) Packer
9 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
11 4 (0.46%) Argo
11 4 (0.46%) Salt
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
13 2 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 159 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.47%) Databricks
3 36 (4.16%) Oracle
4 29 (3.35%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.77%) Informatica
6 23 (2.66%) Google
7 20 (2.31%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.20%) Splunk
9 9 (1.04%) Brio
9 9 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.04%) SAP
10 6 (0.69%) Confluent
10 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.69%) Tenable
11 5 (0.58%) New Relic
11 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) Workday
12 4 (0.46%) Denodo
12 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA