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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 -21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 837 597 631
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.49% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 6.65% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 446 472
10th Percentile £385 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £788 £720
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.48% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +179.25% - -

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 14,467 8,974 11,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.43% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,878 6,201 8,465
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 198 322
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%

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 25 May 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 May 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 May 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 -14 507 £525 -4.55% 141
North of England -22 149 £500 - 62
North West -17 85 £503 +0.50% 35
Midlands -34 57 £491 -1.75% 20
South East -39 52 £575 +15.00% 37
Yorkshire -29 50 £500 - 22
West Midlands -37 45 £488 -4.79% 11
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 26
East of England -20 26 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -21 15 £475 - 5
East Midlands -20 12 £500 - 9
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 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.90%) Confluence
3 33 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.15%) Apache
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 10 (1.19%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.19%) Mendix
8 5 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 628 (75.03%) AWS
2 498 (59.50%) AWS Lambda
3 349 (41.70%) Amazon S3
4 311 (37.16%) Azure
5 184 (21.98%) GitHub
6 174 (20.79%) Azure Functions
7 156 (18.64%) Amazon EC2
8 140 (16.73%) Amazon ECS
9 129 (15.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 129 (15.41%) GitHub Actions
10 126 (15.05%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (12.66%) Power Platform
12 104 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 104 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
13 87 (10.39%) Amazon SQS
13 87 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 86 (10.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 81 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
16 72 (8.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 64 (7.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.70%) DNS
2 26 (3.11%) Firewall
3 18 (2.15%) VPN
4 13 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.31%) Network Security
6 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
7 8 (0.96%) SSL
8 7 (0.84%) SMS
9 6 (0.72%) HTTP
9 6 (0.72%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.60%) IPsec
11 4 (0.48%) WAN
12 3 (0.36%) FTP
13 2 (0.24%) AMQP
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.24%) MQTT
14 1 (0.12%) 4G
14 1 (0.12%) 5G
14 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (14.34%) DynamoDB
2 106 (12.66%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (8.36%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (8.12%) Power BI
6 67 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (7.89%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.50%) Data Lake
9 37 (4.42%) Relational Database
10 35 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.06%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.82%) SQL Server
13 29 (3.46%) Tableau
14 26 (3.11%) MongoDB
15 23 (2.75%) Metadata
15 23 (2.75%) Redis
16 20 (2.39%) Big Data
17 18 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (2.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 129 (15.41%) Git
2 109 (13.02%) GitLab
3 108 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 56 (6.69%) JIRA
5 24 (2.87%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.19%) JUnit
10 7 (0.84%) Mocha
10 7 (0.84%) MSTest
11 6 (0.72%) Postman
11 6 (0.72%) Vite
12 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.60%) Maven
12 5 (0.60%) Mockito
12 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.60%) Selenium
12 5 (0.60%) Snyk
12 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 191 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 136 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 128 (15.29%) Finance
4 51 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.23%) Banking
7 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.08%) Marketing
10 8 (0.96%) Military
10 8 (0.96%) Retail
11 7 (0.84%) Law
11 7 (0.84%) Legal
12 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.60%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Billing
14 4 (0.48%) Front Office
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (25.09%) Developer
2 156 (18.64%) Architect
3 119 (14.22%) Senior
4 100 (11.95%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 79 (9.44%) Lead
7 51 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 51 (6.09%) Software Engineer
8 47 (5.62%) AWS Architect
9 46 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.14%) AWS Developer
11 42 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.54%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.42%) Cloud Architect
16 35 (4.18%) Senior Developer
17 32 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 32 (3.82%) Technical Architect
18 29 (3.46%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.70%) Kafka
2 121 (14.46%) React
3 112 (13.38%) Node.js
4 99 (11.83%) REST
5 90 (10.75%) RESTful
6 88 (10.51%) .NET
7 71 (8.48%) Spring Boot
8 70 (8.36%) Spring
9 53 (6.33%) OAuth
10 52 (6.21%) PySpark
11 46 (5.50%) AngularJS
12 42 (5.02%) JSON
13 40 (4.78%) GraphQL
13 40 (4.78%) OpenID
14 36 (4.30%) AWS CDK
15 33 (3.94%) FastAPI
16 29 (3.46%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.35%) CSS
18 27 (3.23%) Flask
18 27 (3.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 233 (27.84%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.63%) NHS
6 14 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.84%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.84%) IoT
12 7 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.38%) Linux
2 22 (2.63%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 398 (47.55%) DevOps
3 306 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (32.97%) Agile
5 195 (23.30%) Microservices
6 180 (21.51%) Containerisation
7 147 (17.56%) AI
7 147 (17.56%) Event-Driven
8 123 (14.70%) Analytics
8 123 (14.70%) Data Modelling
9 122 (14.58%) Observability
10 117 (13.98%) Test Automation
11 116 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
13 108 (12.90%) Software Engineering
14 105 (12.54%) ETL
15 94 (11.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 92 (10.99%) Data Engineering
16 92 (10.99%) Mentoring
17 86 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 369 (44.09%) Python
2 247 (29.51%) SQL
3 129 (15.41%) Java
3 129 (15.41%) JavaScript
4 126 (15.05%) C#
4 126 (15.05%) TypeScript
5 41 (4.90%) Bash
6 33 (3.94%) Bicep
7 31 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.27%) Go
9 19 (2.27%) Scala
10 11 (1.31%) Ruby
11 10 (1.19%) Formula Language
11 10 (1.19%) LotusScript
12 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.72%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) JCL
14 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 224 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 180 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.42%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 25 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (2.99%) Degree
5 25 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 10 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.90%) QA
3 25 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.51%) GDPR
5 17 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.79%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
7 7 (0.84%) WCAG
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HL7
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 225 (26.88%) Docker
2 27 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.31%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 336 (40.14%) Terraform
2 199 (23.78%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.00%) Grafana
4 62 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.42%) Ansible
6 27 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.55%) Puppet
8 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.96%) Consul
10 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.72%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
12 5 (0.60%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.36%) Rancher
15 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 143 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.93%) Databricks
3 47 (5.62%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.78%) Oracle
5 22 (2.63%) Splunk
6 19 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.67%) Google
8 12 (1.43%) Foundry
9 10 (1.19%) Brio
9 10 (1.19%) Confluent
9 10 (1.19%) Kofax
9 10 (1.19%) Lotus
9 10 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.96%) SAP
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
13 6 (0.72%) Qualys
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase