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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 120 134
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 865 666 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.40% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 6.33% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 470 402
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £424 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £76.20 £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 15,949 10,519 11,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.44% 37.87% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,632 7,122 7,740
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -16 517 £550 - 557
North of England -51 130 £500 +5.15% 144
Midlands -22 86 £428 -13.64% 52
West Midlands -20 67 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -32 65 £588 +22.40% 97
South East -53 51 £600 +41.18% 76
Yorkshire -53 46 £500 +5.04% 31
South West -20 45 £500 -8.05% 68
East of England -35 20 £515 - 24
East Midlands -15 19 £419 -5.42% 26
North East -29 19 £463 +4.52% 16
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 41 (4.74%) Confluence
2 40 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.35%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.01%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 6 (0.69%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 657 (75.95%) AWS
2 524 (60.58%) AWS Lambda
3 358 (41.39%) Amazon S3
4 338 (39.08%) Azure
5 186 (21.50%) GitHub
6 178 (20.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 178 (20.58%) Azure Functions
7 152 (17.57%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (15.84%) Amazon EC2
9 127 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
11 120 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
12 115 (13.29%) Power Platform
13 114 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 108 (12.49%) Amazon SQS
15 90 (10.40%) AWS Step Functions
16 79 (9.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 74 (8.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (7.86%) GCP
19 66 (7.63%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.24%) Firewall
1 28 (3.24%) Network Security
2 19 (2.20%) DNS
3 15 (1.73%) VPN
4 11 (1.27%) WAN
5 6 (0.69%) SSL
6 5 (0.58%) HTTP
6 5 (0.58%) MQTT
6 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.46%) 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%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (15.03%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
3 100 (11.56%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 73 (8.44%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (8.44%) Power BI
7 57 (6.59%) NoSQL
8 50 (5.78%) SQL Server
9 49 (5.66%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 29 (3.35%) MySQL
11 28 (3.24%) Metadata
12 26 (3.01%) MongoDB
13 23 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (2.43%) Delta Lake
14 21 (2.43%) Relational Database
15 19 (2.20%) Tableau
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
17 14 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 156 (18.03%) Git
2 116 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 111 (12.83%) GitLab
4 61 (7.05%) JIRA
5 26 (3.01%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.54%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.08%) Selenium
9 13 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.50%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.16%) RStudio
12 9 (1.04%) Maven
13 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.69%) Gatling
16 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 215 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.99%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.30%) Finance
4 78 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.16%) Banking
7 15 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.62%) Marketing
8 14 (1.62%) Military
9 12 (1.39%) Back Office
9 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.39%) Law
10 11 (1.27%) Billing
11 9 (1.04%) Front Office
12 8 (0.92%) Retail
13 7 (0.81%) Legal
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 196 (22.66%) Developer
2 174 (20.12%) Senior
3 158 (18.27%) Architect
4 124 (14.34%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (13.18%) Data Engineer
6 110 (12.72%) Lead
7 64 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (6.01%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.43%) AWS Architect
10 44 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 38 (4.39%) Senior Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 35 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
14 35 (4.05%) Python Developer
15 34 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
16 33 (3.82%) AWS Developer
16 33 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.35%) Terraform
2 141 (16.30%) REST
3 105 (12.14%) React
4 93 (10.75%) .NET
5 92 (10.64%) Node.js
6 88 (10.17%) Kafka
7 86 (9.94%) RESTful
8 62 (7.17%) PySpark
9 56 (6.47%) Spring Boot
10 55 (6.36%) Spring
11 54 (6.24%) GraphQL
12 46 (5.32%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.97%) OAuth
14 40 (4.62%) AWS CDK
15 37 (4.28%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.28%) JSON
16 32 (3.70%) Flask
17 31 (3.58%) CSS
18 30 (3.47%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (31.33%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (6.01%) AI Agents
5 29 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.24%) NHS
7 23 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.43%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.94%) Linux
2 22 (2.54%) Unix
3 15 (1.73%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) 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%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (62.54%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.01%) DevOps
3 340 (39.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (38.73%) Agile
5 217 (25.09%) AI
6 188 (21.73%) Event-Driven
7 182 (21.04%) Microservices
8 179 (20.69%) Containerisation
9 163 (18.84%) Observability
10 160 (18.50%) Test Automation
11 147 (16.99%) Analytics
12 146 (16.88%) Data Modelling
13 143 (16.53%) Software Engineering
14 140 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (15.72%) Technical Leadership
16 132 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
17 129 (14.91%) Data Engineering
18 127 (14.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 121 (13.99%) Mentoring
20 117 (13.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 419 (48.44%) Python
2 273 (31.56%) SQL
3 144 (16.65%) TypeScript
4 140 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.10%) Java
6 120 (13.87%) C#
7 68 (7.86%) Bash
8 42 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.39%) Bicep
10 29 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.73%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 235 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 200 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.09%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.13%) Degree
5 35 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.04%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.81%) CISSP
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.44%) QA
3 39 (4.51%) GDPR
4 36 (4.16%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.66%) WCAG
6 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.16%) NIST
7 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 239 (27.63%) Docker
2 35 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.35%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.17%) Grafana
3 51 (5.90%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.66%) Ansible
5 14 (1.62%) Puppet
6 10 (1.16%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 187 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.51%) Databricks
3 38 (4.39%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.05%) Oracle
5 27 (3.12%) Google
6 21 (2.43%) Informatica
6 21 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.31%) Splunk
8 11 (1.27%) Brio
9 10 (1.16%) Foundry
9 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.81%) Confluent
10 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.81%) Tenable
11 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) SAP
12 4 (0.46%) New Relic
12 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.46%) Workday