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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 119 136
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 819 582 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.17% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.65% 5.89% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 401 487
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%
75th Percentile £618 £685 £638
90th Percentile £698 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £60.48 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £63.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £69.25 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.35% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £75.03 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +140.38% - -

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 12,315 9,877 12,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.85% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,569 6,569 9,069
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 139 273
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +18.59% +1.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £75.60 £68.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +9.70%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +12 486 £513 -8.89% 120
North of England +29 164 £500 +5.26% 120
Yorkshire +13 82 £500 - 51
North West +6 72 £450 +0.78% 58
Midlands -12 66 £513 +14.77% 59
West Midlands -13 53 £525 +9.15% 23
South East -47 48 £475 -18.80% 137
South West -17 27 £650 - 68
East of England -7 23 £550 -3.51% 60
East Midlands -23 13 £434 -2.31% 34
North East -8 11 £525 -12.13% 11
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 29 (3.54%) Apache
2 26 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.05%) Confluence
4 22 (2.69%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.47%) nginx
6 10 (1.22%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.10%) Mendix
8 5 (0.61%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 576 (70.33%) AWS
2 461 (56.29%) AWS Lambda
3 307 (37.48%) Azure
4 279 (34.07%) Amazon S3
5 191 (23.32%) GitHub
6 190 (23.20%) Azure Functions
7 137 (16.73%) Amazon ECS
8 133 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 131 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
10 129 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 123 (15.02%) Amazon EC2
13 99 (12.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 91 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
15 90 (10.99%) GCP
16 78 (9.52%) Power Platform
17 65 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
18 64 (7.81%) AWS Step Functions
19 63 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
20 61 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.54%) DNS
2 24 (2.93%) Firewall
3 22 (2.69%) VPN
4 13 (1.59%) Network Security
5 6 (0.73%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.73%) SMS
6 5 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
6 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (12.70%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 56 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (6.35%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.11%) Power BI
8 44 (5.37%) Data Lake
9 43 (5.25%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (4.15%) Redis
12 31 (3.79%) MongoDB
13 29 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (2.93%) Big Data
14 24 (2.93%) MySQL
15 21 (2.56%) Tableau
16 19 (2.32%) DocumentDB
17 16 (1.95%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 137 (16.73%) Git
2 133 (16.24%) Jenkins
3 108 (13.19%) GitLab
4 50 (6.11%) JIRA
5 26 (3.17%) Liquibase
6 22 (2.69%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.83%) JUnit
9 14 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.71%) Postman
10 13 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.47%) Mockito
12 11 (1.34%) Maven
12 11 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.22%) Selenium
14 8 (0.98%) Gradle
15 6 (0.73%) MLflow
15 6 (0.73%) Storybook
16 5 (0.61%) Mocha
16 5 (0.61%) SonarLint
General
1 212 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 148 (18.07%) Public Sector
3 113 (13.80%) Finance
4 66 (8.06%) Banking
5 52 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.79%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.32%) Marketing
8 18 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.98%) Front Office
10 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.98%) Military
11 7 (0.85%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.49%) Aviation
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 222 (27.11%) Developer
2 112 (13.68%) Architect
3 108 (13.19%) Senior
4 105 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (10.13%) Data Engineer
6 78 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 77 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (7.81%) Lead
9 47 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 31 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 30 (3.66%) AWS Developer
12 30 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (3.66%) Technical Architect
13 29 (3.54%) AWS Architect
13 29 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
14 27 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (3.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (17.70%) Node.js
2 133 (16.24%) RESTful
3 128 (15.63%) React
4 126 (15.38%) REST
5 115 (14.04%) Kafka
6 111 (13.55%) .NET
7 52 (6.35%) Spring Boot
8 47 (5.74%) AngularJS
8 47 (5.74%) OAuth
8 47 (5.74%) Spring
9 46 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
10 38 (4.64%) GraphQL
11 37 (4.52%) FastAPI
12 33 (4.03%) JSON
13 32 (3.91%) .NET Core
14 31 (3.79%) HTML
14 31 (3.79%) Next.js
15 29 (3.54%) Flask
16 28 (3.42%) CSS
17 26 (3.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 214 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 33 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.71%) NHS
9 13 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.47%) Replication
11 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.98%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.38%) Linux
2 11 (1.34%) Unix
3 7 (0.85%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) VMS
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (59.10%) CI/CD
2 419 (51.16%) DevOps
3 291 (35.53%) Agile
4 285 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 248 (30.28%) Microservices
6 195 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 153 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (18.56%) Software Engineering
9 125 (15.26%) AI
10 120 (14.65%) Event-Driven
11 116 (14.16%) Analytics
12 113 (13.80%) Data Pipeline
13 106 (12.94%) Test Automation
14 93 (11.36%) Data Modelling
15 91 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
16 88 (10.74%) Observability
17 86 (10.50%) ETL
18 80 (9.77%) Mentoring
19 73 (8.91%) Data Engineering
19 73 (8.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 398 (48.60%) Python
2 234 (28.57%) SQL
3 135 (16.48%) JavaScript
4 130 (15.87%) Java
5 127 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 116 (14.16%) C#
7 51 (6.23%) Go
8 47 (5.74%) Bash
9 37 (4.52%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.91%) Bicep
11 19 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.95%) Ruby
13 10 (1.22%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.22%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.10%) C++
14 9 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.85%) Korn
16 6 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.73%) Scala
16 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 221 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 177 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.45%) Degree
4 57 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.03%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (2.56%) MCP
11 13 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.03%) QA
2 32 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.42%) GDPR
4 20 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.32%) NIST
6 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.10%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.98%) WCAG
9 4 (0.49%) HL7
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 226 (27.59%) Docker
2 25 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.61%) Squid
6 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 348 (42.49%) Terraform
2 229 (27.96%) Kubernetes
3 80 (9.77%) Ansible
4 77 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 75 (9.16%) Grafana
6 18 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.59%) Puppet
8 11 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.98%) Kibana
10 5 (0.61%) Consul
10 5 (0.61%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.49%) Rancher
12 3 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.37%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.37%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.24%) Knative
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.23%) Databricks
3 42 (5.13%) Splunk
4 39 (4.76%) Google
5 31 (3.79%) OpenAI
6 28 (3.42%) Oracle
7 20 (2.44%) Foundry
8 17 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.71%) Confluent
10 13 (1.59%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.47%) IBM
12 10 (1.22%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.22%) Lotus
12 10 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.10%) Kofax
13 9 (1.10%) Palantir
14 6 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.73%) Brio
14 6 (0.73%) Gigya
15 5 (0.61%) Pega