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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 834 587 631
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.47% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.70% 6.59% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 439 472
10th Percentile £384 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £782 £720
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.48% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £59.20 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £92.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +111.43% - -

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 14,623 8,910 11,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.48% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,970 6,152 8,466
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
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 £746
UK median daily rate £508 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 196 321
10th Percentile £15.59 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.75 £37.56 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.08 £68.75 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -16 507 £525 -4.55% 151
North of England -19 144 £500 - 50
North West -15 83 £508 +1.50% 29
Midlands -40 57 £491 -1.75% 22
South East -39 53 £575 +15.00% 38
Yorkshire -24 47 £500 - 16
West Midlands -33 45 £488 -4.79% 13
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 26
East of England -18 25 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -20 15 £475 - 5
East Midlands -27 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 44 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.92%) Confluence
3 35 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.88%) SharePoint
5 20 (2.40%) Apache
6 11 (1.32%) nginx
7 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.20%) Mendix
8 6 (0.72%) CICS
9 5 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) 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
1 630 (75.54%) AWS
2 501 (60.07%) AWS Lambda
3 351 (42.09%) Amazon S3
4 309 (37.05%) Azure
5 181 (21.70%) GitHub
6 170 (20.38%) Azure Functions
7 154 (18.47%) Amazon EC2
8 137 (16.43%) Amazon ECS
9 133 (15.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 125 (14.99%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
11 105 (12.59%) Power Platform
12 104 (12.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 101 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
14 88 (10.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 85 (10.19%) Amazon SQS
16 83 (9.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 79 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
18 71 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (7.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.84%) DNS
2 27 (3.24%) Firewall
3 19 (2.28%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.32%) Network Security
6 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.08%) SSL
7 8 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
8 7 (0.84%) SMS
9 6 (0.72%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.60%) HTTP
10 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 5 (0.60%) WAN
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.24%) MQTT
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.63%) DynamoDB
2 106 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (8.39%) Amazon Athena
5 67 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 67 (8.03%) Power BI
6 62 (7.43%) NoSQL
7 48 (5.76%) Data Lake
8 35 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 35 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.08%) Relational Database
10 32 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (3.84%) SQL Server
11 29 (3.48%) Tableau
12 23 (2.76%) Metadata
12 23 (2.76%) MongoDB
13 22 (2.64%) Redis
14 20 (2.40%) Big Data
15 19 (2.28%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 129 (15.47%) Git
2 110 (13.19%) GitLab
3 109 (13.07%) Jenkins
4 56 (6.71%) JIRA
5 24 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.20%) JUnit
9 7 (0.84%) Mocha
9 7 (0.84%) MSTest
10 6 (0.72%) Postman
10 6 (0.72%) Vite
11 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.60%) Mockito
11 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.60%) Snyk
11 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
12 4 (0.48%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 195 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 132 (15.83%) Public Sector
3 126 (15.11%) Finance
4 51 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.24%) Banking
7 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (0.96%) Marketing
9 8 (0.96%) Military
9 8 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.84%) Law
10 7 (0.84%) Legal
11 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.60%) Police
13 4 (0.48%) Billing
13 4 (0.48%) Front Office
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (24.34%) Developer
2 159 (19.06%) Architect
3 117 (14.03%) Senior
4 100 (11.99%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (10.67%) Data Engineer
6 81 (9.71%) Lead
7 51 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.88%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.04%) AWS Developer
11 42 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
13 38 (4.56%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
15 34 (4.08%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.96%) Technical Architect
17 31 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 28 (3.36%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.75%) Kafka
2 118 (14.15%) React
3 105 (12.59%) Node.js
4 97 (11.63%) REST
5 92 (11.03%) RESTful
6 83 (9.95%) .NET
7 68 (8.15%) Spring Boot
8 67 (8.03%) Spring
9 55 (6.59%) PySpark
10 52 (6.24%) OAuth
11 43 (5.16%) AngularJS
12 41 (4.92%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.92%) JSON
13 40 (4.80%) OpenID
14 34 (4.08%) AWS CDK
15 33 (3.96%) FastAPI
16 28 (3.36%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.24%) CSS
17 27 (3.24%) Flask
18 26 (3.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 236 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.76%) AI Agents
4 23 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.40%) NHS
6 14 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.84%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.84%) IoT
13 7 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.52%) Linux
2 22 (2.64%) Unix
3 10 (1.20%) Windows
4 6 (0.72%) 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
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (59.35%) CI/CD
2 389 (46.64%) DevOps
3 304 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 270 (32.37%) Agile
5 191 (22.90%) Microservices
6 176 (21.10%) Containerisation
7 149 (17.87%) Event-Driven
8 147 (17.63%) AI
9 123 (14.75%) Analytics
10 122 (14.63%) Observability
11 121 (14.51%) Data Modelling
12 115 (13.79%) Test Automation
13 114 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
15 108 (12.95%) Software Engineering
16 107 (12.83%) ETL
17 97 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 93 (11.15%) Data Engineering
19 91 (10.91%) Mentoring
20 87 (10.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 370 (44.36%) Python
2 250 (29.98%) SQL
3 125 (14.99%) Java
4 124 (14.87%) JavaScript
5 121 (14.51%) C#
5 121 (14.51%) TypeScript
6 42 (5.04%) Bash
7 33 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.84%) Bicep
9 26 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.28%) Scala
11 18 (2.16%) Go
12 11 (1.32%) Ruby
13 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 6 (0.72%) JCL
17 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 226 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 182 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.84%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.00%) Degree
5 25 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 10 (1.20%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.80%) QA
3 24 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.64%) GDPR
5 17 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.80%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
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
1 224 (26.86%) Docker
2 27 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.44%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 335 (40.17%) Terraform
2 199 (23.86%) Kubernetes
3 65 (7.79%) Grafana
4 61 (7.31%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.44%) Ansible
6 27 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.80%) Puppet
8 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.96%) Consul
9 8 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.72%) Kibana
11 5 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.60%) linkerd
11 5 (0.60%) Podman
12 4 (0.48%) Salt
13 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 140 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.95%) Databricks
3 47 (5.64%) OpenAI
4 37 (4.44%) Oracle
5 21 (2.52%) Splunk
6 19 (2.28%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.80%) Google
8 12 (1.44%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.20%) Confluent
10 10 (1.20%) Kofax
10 10 (1.20%) Lotus
10 10 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.08%) Brio
11 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.96%) SAP
13 7 (0.84%) Informatica
13 7 (0.84%) Tenable
14 6 (0.72%) Sybase