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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 118 134
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 857 659 625
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 2.41% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 6.44% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 477 441
10th Percentile £399 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £722 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 15,839 10,232 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.34% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,573 6,915 8,251
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 267 270
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £45.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -17 495 £550 - 139
North of England -35 145 £500 - 58
Midlands -9 80 £475 +5.50% 22
North West -33 78 £538 +7.50% 29
West Midlands -10 64 £469 +4.22% 15
Yorkshire -35 49 £500 +2.56% 14
South East -65 47 £600 +21.95% 35
South West -11 46 £548 +6.93% 26
East of England -13 28 £550 +3.53% 7
North East -31 19 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -12 16 £488 +8.32% 7
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 46 (5.37%) Confluence
2 38 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.32%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.33%) Apache
5 16 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 665 (77.60%) AWS
2 529 (61.73%) AWS Lambda
3 377 (43.99%) Amazon S3
4 309 (36.06%) Azure
5 165 (19.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (18.55%) Amazon ECS
7 156 (18.20%) Amazon EC2
7 156 (18.20%) GitHub
8 151 (17.62%) Azure Functions
9 133 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
11 111 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 106 (12.37%) Power Platform
13 98 (11.44%) Amazon SQS
14 94 (10.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 91 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
16 82 (9.57%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.75%) GCP
18 67 (7.82%) Azure Logic Apps
19 52 (6.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.85%) Firewall
2 25 (2.92%) Network Security
3 22 (2.57%) DNS
4 18 (2.10%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 8 (0.93%) SSL
6 8 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) IPsec
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.47%) HTTP
8 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.35%) CTI
9 3 (0.35%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 2 (0.23%) AMQP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (15.40%) DynamoDB
2 123 (14.35%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (10.85%) Amazon Athena
4 84 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (9.10%) Power BI
6 76 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.12%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.83%) Data Lake
10 41 (4.78%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.03%) Metadata
15 25 (2.92%) Tableau
16 22 (2.57%) MongoDB
17 18 (2.10%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.87%) BigQuery
18 16 (1.87%) MySQL
19 15 (1.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 150 (17.50%) Git
2 116 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 111 (12.95%) GitLab
4 68 (7.93%) JIRA
5 23 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.28%) JUnit
8 11 (1.28%) Postman
8 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.05%) Selenium
10 8 (0.93%) Mocha
10 8 (0.93%) MSTest
11 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.82%) Mockito
12 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
13 5 (0.58%) Gatling
13 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 201 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.62%) Public Sector
3 130 (15.17%) Finance
4 63 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.38%) Banking
6 22 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.05%) Billing
10 9 (1.05%) Retail
11 8 (0.93%) Legal
11 8 (0.93%) Marketing
12 7 (0.82%) Back Office
12 7 (0.82%) Front Office
12 7 (0.82%) Military
13 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 196 (22.87%) Developer
2 166 (19.37%) Senior
3 157 (18.32%) Architect
4 120 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (11.32%) Data Engineer
5 97 (11.32%) Lead
6 58 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (6.42%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 49 (5.72%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.90%) Senior Developer
13 40 (4.67%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.32%) AWS Developer
15 36 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
16 35 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (3.85%) Technical Architect
18 30 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
19 29 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (12.95%) REST
2 109 (12.72%) React
3 107 (12.49%) Node.js
4 96 (11.20%) RESTful
5 95 (11.09%) Kafka
6 73 (8.52%) .NET
7 64 (7.47%) Spring Boot
8 62 (7.23%) Spring
9 59 (6.88%) PySpark
10 56 (6.53%) GraphQL
11 46 (5.37%) OAuth
12 40 (4.67%) JSON
13 39 (4.55%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.55%) FastAPI
14 35 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 33 (3.85%) OpenID
16 30 (3.50%) Flask
16 30 (3.50%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.15%) CSS
18 26 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 257 (29.99%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.27%) NHS
6 25 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.28%) IoT
11 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.17%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.82%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.07%) Linux
2 23 (2.68%) Unix
3 15 (1.75%) Windows
4 12 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 388 (45.27%) DevOps
3 323 (37.69%) Agile
4 322 (37.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 208 (24.27%) Microservices
6 194 (22.64%) AI
7 191 (22.29%) Containerisation
8 156 (18.20%) Event-Driven
9 145 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.69%) Analytics
11 136 (15.87%) Observability
12 134 (15.64%) Data Modelling
13 123 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
13 123 (14.35%) Software Engineering
14 117 (13.65%) Data Engineering
15 116 (13.54%) ETL
16 114 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
17 108 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (12.49%) Migration
19 105 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 400 (46.67%) Python
2 276 (32.21%) SQL
3 130 (15.17%) TypeScript
4 123 (14.35%) Java
5 119 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 105 (12.25%) C#
7 64 (7.47%) Bash
8 36 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.73%) Bicep
10 30 (3.50%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.87%) Scala
12 12 (1.40%) Go
13 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.93%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) JCL
15 6 (0.70%) Ruby
15 6 (0.70%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.58%) Gremlin
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 239 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 197 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.55%) Degree
5 36 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (3.27%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.48%) QA
3 29 (3.38%) GDPR
4 27 (3.15%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.52%) WCAG
7 12 (1.40%) NIST
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.58%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 240 (28.00%) Docker
2 31 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) RACF
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 340 (39.67%) Terraform
2 206 (24.04%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.70%) Grafana
4 62 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.02%) Ansible
6 19 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.87%) Puppet
8 8 (0.93%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) Podman
11 5 (0.58%) linkerd
11 5 (0.58%) Packer
11 5 (0.58%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.35%) Consul
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 142 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.95%) Databricks
3 36 (4.20%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.38%) Oracle
5 23 (2.68%) Google
6 19 (2.22%) Informatica
6 19 (2.22%) Splunk
7 18 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.05%) Brio
10 8 (0.93%) Foundry
10 8 (0.93%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.58%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.58%) Confluent
12 5 (0.58%) New Relic
12 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.58%) Sybase
12 5 (0.58%) Workday