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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 114 133
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 858 693 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 2.48% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.34% 6.43% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 485 399
10th Percentile £400 £382 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.73% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 16,067 10,775 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.60% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,284 7,497
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 260 159
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -13 512 £550 +2.09% 453
North of England -59 128 £500 +2.04% 142
Midlands -28 85 £430 -14.85% 57
North West -35 65 £525 +9.38% 88
West Midlands -38 64 £460 -10.24% 29
South East -54 55 £600 +41.18% 55
South West -17 47 £534 -2.95% 46
Yorkshire -65 43 £500 +1.01% 39
East Midlands -7 21 £425 -4.01% 28
North East -29 20 £463 -11.14% 15
East of England -45 15 £515 - 32
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 42 (4.90%) Confluence
2 41 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (4.20%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.61%) Apache Spark
5 28 (3.26%) Apache
6 9 (1.05%) CMS
7 8 (0.93%) SAS
8 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.82%) nginx
9 3 (0.35%) CICS
9 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) 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
1 635 (74.01%) AWS
2 505 (58.86%) AWS Lambda
3 344 (40.09%) Amazon S3
4 342 (39.86%) Azure
5 192 (22.38%) Azure Functions
6 191 (22.26%) GitHub
7 185 (21.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 165 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
9 138 (16.08%) Amazon EC2
10 137 (15.97%) Amazon EKS
11 125 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
12 119 (13.87%) GitHub Actions
13 115 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 115 (13.40%) Power Platform
14 104 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
15 78 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
16 76 (8.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 76 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (7.93%) Azure Service Bus
18 65 (7.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.85%) Network Security
2 24 (2.80%) Firewall
3 18 (2.10%) DNS
4 13 (1.52%) VPN
5 10 (1.17%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) CTI
9 3 (0.35%) IPv4
9 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.23%) AMQP
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) Internet
10 2 (0.23%) SAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
11 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.03%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (14.45%) DynamoDB
3 87 (10.14%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (8.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (7.58%) Power BI
8 53 (6.18%) Data Lake
8 53 (6.18%) NoSQL
8 53 (6.18%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.96%) MongoDB
10 30 (3.50%) Metadata
11 28 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 24 (2.80%) Delta Lake
13 24 (2.80%) MySQL
14 20 (2.33%) Relational Database
15 18 (2.10%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
17 14 (1.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 156 (18.18%) Git
2 122 (14.22%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.29%) GitLab
4 64 (7.46%) JIRA
5 29 (3.38%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.45%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.21%) Selenium
8 14 (1.63%) JUnit
8 14 (1.63%) Postman
9 12 (1.40%) Mockito
10 11 (1.28%) Maven
10 11 (1.28%) RStudio
11 9 (1.05%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 6 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 209 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.02%) Finance
3 141 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 80 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.43%) Banking
7 17 (1.98%) Marketing
8 14 (1.63%) Back Office
9 13 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.28%) Billing
10 11 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.28%) Law
10 11 (1.28%) Military
10 11 (1.28%) Retail
11 8 (0.93%) Front Office
12 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Legal
14 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (21.56%) Developer
2 175 (20.40%) Senior
3 152 (17.72%) Architect
4 119 (13.87%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (13.05%) Data Engineer
6 108 (12.59%) Lead
7 70 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.41%) Software Engineer
9 53 (6.18%) AWS Architect
10 48 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 33 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (3.73%) AWS Data Engineer
15 32 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
16 30 (3.50%) Platform Architect
16 30 (3.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (40.44%) Terraform
2 153 (17.83%) REST
3 96 (11.19%) .NET
4 92 (10.72%) React
5 90 (10.49%) Kafka
6 88 (10.26%) RESTful
7 83 (9.67%) Node.js
8 57 (6.64%) GraphQL
8 57 (6.64%) PySpark
9 52 (6.06%) Spring Boot
10 51 (5.94%) Spring
11 50 (5.83%) FastAPI
12 47 (5.48%) OAuth
13 46 (5.36%) AWS CDK
14 40 (4.66%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.31%) JSON
16 31 (3.61%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.50%) CSS
17 30 (3.50%) Flask
18 28 (3.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 287 (33.45%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 69 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (6.76%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.56%) NHS
9 18 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.40%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.40%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.34%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Unix
3 20 (2.33%) Windows
4 14 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.35%) zOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (65.27%) CI/CD
2 416 (48.48%) DevOps
3 354 (41.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 338 (39.39%) Agile
5 235 (27.39%) AI
6 190 (22.14%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.45%) Microservices
8 178 (20.75%) Containerisation
9 174 (20.28%) Observability
10 170 (19.81%) Test Automation
11 153 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 149 (17.37%) Software Engineering
13 141 (16.43%) Analytics
14 139 (16.20%) Data Modelling
15 138 (16.08%) Technical Leadership
16 131 (15.27%) Data Engineering
17 129 (15.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 128 (14.92%) Data Pipeline
19 124 (14.45%) Migration
20 120 (13.99%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 410 (47.79%) Python
2 265 (30.89%) SQL
3 145 (16.90%) TypeScript
4 133 (15.50%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.99%) C#
6 117 (13.64%) Java
7 64 (7.46%) Bash
8 43 (5.01%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.55%) Bicep
10 28 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.63%) Scala
12 9 (1.05%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.82%) Go
14 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.82%) Rust
15 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.70%) R
15 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 229 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 197 (22.96%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 55 (6.41%) Degree
5 39 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.17%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.82%) CISSP
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.62%) QA
3 35 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.85%) GDPR
5 22 (2.56%) WCAG
6 17 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.17%) NIST
9 7 (0.82%) SLA
10 6 (0.70%) HL7
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.12%) GLBA
14 1 (0.12%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 239 (27.86%) Docker
2 32 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.23%) Grafana
3 50 (5.83%) Ansible
3 50 (5.83%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.52%) Puppet
5 11 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.70%) Packer
7 6 (0.70%) Podman
8 5 (0.58%) Istio
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) Argo
10 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Salt
11 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 194 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.16%) Databricks
3 40 (4.66%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.50%) Oracle
5 29 (3.38%) Google
6 24 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.33%) Informatica
9 18 (2.10%) Splunk
10 12 (1.40%) Foundry
10 12 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.17%) Brio
12 7 (0.82%) Confluent
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.82%) Tenable
13 5 (0.58%) UiPath
14 4 (0.47%) Adyen
14 4 (0.47%) New Relic
14 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty