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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 120 137
Rank change year-on-year -35 +17 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 850 667 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 2.39% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 6.23% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 459 394
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £749 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +2.52% -1.90% -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 16,054 10,705 11,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 38.30% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,690 7,236 7,464
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
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 572 255 161
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +6.06%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -14 510 £550 +1.85% 567
North of England -53 128 £500 +4.06% 203
Midlands -21 85 £430 -14.00% 85
North West -24 66 £525 +10.53% 121
West Midlands -27 64 £460 -10.24% 46
South East -55 52 £600 +41.18% 122
South West -27 46 £510 -7.27% 86
Yorkshire -55 42 £500 +3.79% 57
East Midlands -13 21 £425 -4.01% 39
North East -27 20 £463 -11.14% 25
East of England -41 16 £525 - 53
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 40 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
1 40 (4.71%) Confluence
2 35 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.29%) Apache
5 9 (1.06%) CMS
6 8 (0.94%) SAS
7 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.82%) nginx
8 3 (0.35%) CICS
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Camunda
9 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
9 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 632 (74.35%) AWS
2 501 (58.94%) AWS Lambda
3 339 (39.88%) Azure
4 338 (39.76%) Amazon S3
5 190 (22.35%) Azure Functions
5 190 (22.35%) GitHub
6 177 (20.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 158 (18.59%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
9 136 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
11 120 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.53%) Power Platform
13 113 (13.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 100 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
15 78 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (8.94%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
19 66 (7.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.65%) Network Security
2 25 (2.94%) Firewall
3 18 (2.12%) DNS
4 13 (1.53%) VPN
5 10 (1.18%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) HTTP
6 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) AMQP
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.59%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (14.00%) DynamoDB
3 86 (10.12%) Amazon Athena
4 73 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (8.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 70 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
7 64 (7.53%) Power BI
8 54 (6.35%) SQL Server
9 51 (6.00%) Data Lake
9 51 (6.00%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.53%) MongoDB
11 28 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (3.29%) Metadata
12 26 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 24 (2.82%) MySQL
14 22 (2.59%) Delta Lake
15 20 (2.35%) Relational Database
16 18 (2.12%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
18 14 (1.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (18.47%) Git
2 120 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 117 (13.76%) GitLab
4 60 (7.06%) JIRA
5 28 (3.29%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.24%) Selenium
9 14 (1.65%) Postman
10 13 (1.53%) JUnit
11 11 (1.29%) Mockito
11 11 (1.29%) RStudio
12 10 (1.18%) Maven
12 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.71%) Gatling
15 6 (0.71%) JMeter
General
1 205 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.18%) Public Sector
3 145 (17.06%) Finance
4 77 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.35%) Banking
7 16 (1.88%) Marketing
8 14 (1.65%) Back Office
8 14 (1.65%) Military
9 13 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.53%) Law
10 12 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.29%) Billing
12 10 (1.18%) Retail
13 8 (0.94%) Front Office
14 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Police
16 5 (0.59%) Legal
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 186 (21.88%) Developer
2 174 (20.47%) Senior
3 148 (17.41%) Architect
4 121 (14.24%) AWS Engineer
5 109 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 109 (12.82%) Lead
6 69 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (6.47%) Software Engineer
8 50 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.76%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
14 33 (3.88%) Senior Developer
15 32 (3.76%) AWS Data Engineer
15 32 (3.76%) Python Developer
16 30 (3.53%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (40.71%) Terraform
2 150 (17.65%) REST
3 97 (11.41%) .NET
4 95 (11.18%) React
5 90 (10.59%) Kafka
6 87 (10.24%) RESTful
7 84 (9.88%) Node.js
8 55 (6.47%) GraphQL
9 54 (6.35%) PySpark
10 51 (6.00%) Spring Boot
11 50 (5.88%) Spring
12 48 (5.65%) FastAPI
13 44 (5.18%) AWS CDK
13 44 (5.18%) OAuth
14 41 (4.82%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.35%) JSON
16 31 (3.65%) Flask
16 31 (3.65%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.53%) CSS
18 27 (3.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 282 (33.18%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 66 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.71%) AI Agents
5 35 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.29%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.82%) NHS
9 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.41%) Linux
2 21 (2.47%) Unix
3 18 (2.12%) Windows
4 14 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.35%) zOS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (65.53%) CI/CD
2 405 (47.65%) DevOps
3 350 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (39.29%) Agile
5 233 (27.41%) AI
6 188 (22.12%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.65%) Microservices
8 179 (21.06%) Containerisation
9 172 (20.24%) Observability
10 170 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 149 (17.53%) Software Engineering
12 147 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 143 (16.82%) Analytics
14 136 (16.00%) Data Modelling
15 135 (15.88%) Technical Leadership
16 128 (15.06%) Data Engineering
16 128 (15.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 127 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
18 120 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
19 119 (14.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 409 (48.12%) Python
2 261 (30.71%) SQL
3 141 (16.59%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 121 (14.24%) C#
6 114 (13.41%) Java
7 67 (7.88%) Bash
8 42 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.59%) Bicep
10 27 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.65%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) Groovy
13 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.82%) Go
14 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.82%) R
15 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.71%) Rust
15 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 231 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.71%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.24%) Degree
5 38 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 34 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.65%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.18%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.82%) CISSP
16 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.71%) QA
3 36 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.88%) GDPR
5 22 (2.59%) WCAG
6 15 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) NIST
7 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) HL7
10 5 (0.59%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GLBA
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (28.24%) Docker
2 33 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Squid
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.65%) Grafana
3 54 (6.35%) Prometheus
4 53 (6.24%) Ansible
5 15 (1.76%) Puppet
6 11 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.71%) Istio
8 6 (0.71%) Packer
8 6 (0.71%) Podman
9 5 (0.59%) Kibana
9 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 4 (0.47%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.24%) CASB
12 2 (0.24%) Consul
12 2 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 194 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.76%) Databricks
3 40 (4.71%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.41%) Google
4 29 (3.41%) Oracle
5 24 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.35%) Informatica
8 18 (2.12%) Splunk
9 12 (1.41%) Foundry
10 11 (1.29%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.18%) Brio
12 7 (0.82%) Confluent
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.82%) Tenable
13 5 (0.59%) UiPath
14 4 (0.47%) Adyen
14 4 (0.47%) New Relic
14 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty