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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 108 131
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 836 590 631
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.48% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 6.62% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 440 472
10th Percentile £381 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £447 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +2.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £781 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
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 £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £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 £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -17 507 £525 -4.55% 146
North of England -18 146 £500 - 51
North West -8 85 £505 +1.00% 30
Midlands -33 57 £491 -1.75% 21
South East -41 53 £588 +17.50% 39
Yorkshire -26 48 £500 - 16
West Midlands -34 45 £488 -4.79% 12
South West -21 30 £575 +4.55% 24
East of England -24 26 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -19 14 £475 - 5
East Midlands -25 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 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.87%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.15%) 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%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
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 13 (1.56%) 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
1 627 (75.00%) AWS
2 496 (59.33%) AWS Lambda
3 346 (41.39%) Amazon S3
4 312 (37.32%) Azure
5 181 (21.65%) GitHub
6 174 (20.81%) Azure Functions
7 155 (18.54%) Amazon EC2
8 137 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
9 129 (15.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 126 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.95%) Amazon EKS
12 106 (12.68%) Power Platform
13 104 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
14 103 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 87 (10.41%) Amazon SQS
15 87 (10.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 86 (10.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (9.33%) AWS Step Functions
18 72 (8.61%) Azure Service Bus
19 66 (7.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.71%) DNS
2 26 (3.11%) Firewall
3 18 (2.15%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.44%) 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
12 3 (0.36%) MQTT
13 2 (0.24%) AMQP
13 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.12%) 4G
14 1 (0.12%) Internet
14 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (14.23%) DynamoDB
2 106 (12.68%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (8.37%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (8.13%) Power BI
6 67 (8.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 65 (7.78%) NoSQL
8 47 (5.62%) Data Lake
9 36 (4.31%) Relational Database
10 35 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.83%) SQL Server
13 29 (3.47%) 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%) Delta Lake
17 18 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 130 (15.55%) Git
2 111 (13.28%) GitLab
3 107 (12.80%) Jenkins
4 56 (6.70%) JIRA
5 24 (2.87%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.03%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.67%) 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
1 194 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.03%) Public Sector
3 127 (15.19%) Finance
4 51 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.47%) Banking
5 29 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.08%) 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
1 209 (25.00%) Developer
2 157 (18.78%) Architect
3 118 (14.11%) Senior
4 99 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 78 (9.33%) Lead
7 50 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (5.98%) 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 40 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 38 (4.55%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
15 35 (4.19%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.83%) Technical Architect
17 31 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 29 (3.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.95%) Kafka
2 120 (14.35%) React
3 110 (13.16%) Node.js
4 98 (11.72%) REST
5 92 (11.00%) RESTful
6 87 (10.41%) .NET
7 68 (8.13%) Spring Boot
8 67 (8.01%) Spring
9 53 (6.34%) OAuth
9 53 (6.34%) PySpark
10 44 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.26%) JSON
11 40 (4.78%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.78%) OpenID
12 35 (4.19%) AWS CDK
13 33 (3.95%) FastAPI
14 29 (3.47%) OAuth2
15 27 (3.23%) CSS
15 27 (3.23%) Flask
16 26 (3.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 233 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 23 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.51%) NHS
6 14 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
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 46 (5.50%) Linux
2 22 (2.63%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (59.33%) CI/CD
2 395 (47.25%) DevOps
3 305 (36.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (33.01%) Agile
5 194 (23.21%) Microservices
6 179 (21.41%) Containerisation
7 148 (17.70%) AI
8 147 (17.58%) Event-Driven
9 124 (14.83%) Analytics
10 123 (14.71%) Data Modelling
11 121 (14.47%) Observability
12 116 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
12 116 (13.88%) Test Automation
13 112 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
14 107 (12.80%) Software Engineering
15 106 (12.68%) ETL
16 95 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 92 (11.00%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.89%) Mentoring
19 86 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 369 (44.14%) Python
2 250 (29.90%) SQL
3 129 (15.43%) JavaScript
4 126 (15.07%) Java
5 125 (14.95%) C#
6 122 (14.59%) TypeScript
7 41 (4.90%) Bash
8 33 (3.95%) Bicep
9 31 (3.71%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.27%) Go
11 19 (2.27%) Scala
12 11 (1.32%) Ruby
13 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.72%) Groovy
15 6 (0.72%) JCL
16 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 224 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 180 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.43%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.11%) Degree
5 26 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 10 (1.20%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.20%) 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 56 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.90%) QA
3 25 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.51%) GDPR
5 17 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.79%) NIST
8 7 (0.84%) PMO
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.72%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) HL7
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 224 (26.79%) Docker
2 27 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.32%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 336 (40.19%) Terraform
2 199 (23.80%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.01%) Grafana
4 63 (7.54%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.55%) Ansible
6 27 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.67%) 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
11 6 (0.72%) Podman
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
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 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.94%) 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 (1.44%) Foundry
9 10 (1.20%) Brio
9 10 (1.20%) Confluent
9 10 (1.20%) Kofax
9 10 (1.20%) Lotus
9 10 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.96%) SAP
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
12 7 (0.84%) Tenable
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase