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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 110 135
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 881 626 643
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.49% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 6.58% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 456 470
10th Percentile £399 £400 £374
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £521
% change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,223 9,508 12,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.88% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,307 6,455 8,632
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 339
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -16 528 £535 -2.73% 89
North of England -24 144 £500 - 45
North West -20 82 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -25 64 £488 -2.50% 17
South East -45 54 £575 +15.00% 47
West Midlands -25 50 £482 -5.81% 11
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 15
South West -32 41 £575 +8.24% 21
East of England -22 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 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 52 (5.90%) Confluence
2 39 (4.43%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.16%) Apache
6 12 (1.36%) nginx
7 6 (0.68%) CICS
8 5 (0.57%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.57%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (76.05%) AWS
2 538 (61.07%) AWS Lambda
3 394 (44.72%) Amazon S3
4 323 (36.66%) Azure
5 176 (19.98%) GitHub
6 170 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
7 169 (19.18%) Azure Functions
8 155 (17.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 145 (16.46%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (15.44%) Amazon EKS
11 125 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
12 117 (13.28%) Power Platform
13 109 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 103 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
15 101 (11.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 92 (10.44%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
18 76 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.72%) Azure Service Bus
19 68 (7.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.86%) Firewall
2 30 (3.41%) DNS
3 24 (2.72%) VPN
4 21 (2.38%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.36%) WAN
7 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.91%) SSL
9 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.57%) SMS
11 4 (0.45%) IPsec
11 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.45%) MQTT
12 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 2 (0.23%) AMQP
13 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.11%) 5G
14 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.30%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.62%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (10.90%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (10.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (9.31%) Power BI
7 59 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.47%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.68%) Data Lake
10 37 (4.20%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (3.63%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.06%) Tableau
14 23 (2.61%) Metadata
15 21 (2.38%) MongoDB
15 21 (2.38%) Redis
16 19 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
17 16 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 147 (16.69%) Git
2 123 (13.96%) GitLab
3 120 (13.62%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.40%) JIRA
5 26 (2.95%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.14%) JUnit
10 9 (1.02%) Mocha
10 9 (1.02%) Postman
11 8 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.91%) MSTest
12 6 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) Selenium
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 209 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.32%) Finance
4 60 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.06%) Banking
7 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.36%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Marketing
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.79%) Legal
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.45%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.70%) Developer
2 170 (19.30%) Architect
3 145 (16.46%) Senior
4 117 (13.28%) AWS Engineer
5 103 (11.69%) Data Engineer
6 89 (10.10%) Lead
7 57 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.36%) Software Engineer
9 55 (6.24%) AWS Architect
10 44 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (4.31%) Python Developer
13 38 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 38 (4.31%) Technical Architect
14 37 (4.20%) AWS Developer
15 35 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (13.28%) Kafka
2 112 (12.71%) React
3 105 (11.92%) REST
4 103 (11.69%) Node.js
5 100 (11.35%) RESTful
6 81 (9.19%) .NET
7 65 (7.38%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.15%) Spring
9 61 (6.92%) PySpark
10 54 (6.13%) OAuth
11 48 (5.45%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.88%) OpenID
13 39 (4.43%) JSON
14 37 (4.20%) FastAPI
15 36 (4.09%) AWS CDK
16 35 (3.97%) AngularJS
17 31 (3.52%) OAuth2
18 27 (3.06%) Flask
19 25 (2.84%) Next.js
20 24 (2.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 260 (29.51%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.95%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.61%) NHS
6 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
9 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.79%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.79%) IoT
10 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 7 (0.79%) Replication
11 6 (0.68%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.99%) Linux
2 21 (2.38%) Unix
3 12 (1.36%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.68%) zOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (60.16%) CI/CD
2 408 (46.31%) DevOps
3 319 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 300 (34.05%) Agile
5 196 (22.25%) Microservices
6 194 (22.02%) Containerisation
7 178 (20.20%) AI
8 158 (17.93%) Event-Driven
9 137 (15.55%) Analytics
10 133 (15.10%) Test Automation
11 132 (14.98%) Observability
12 131 (14.87%) Data Modelling
13 126 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
15 120 (13.62%) Software Engineering
16 114 (12.94%) ETL
17 111 (12.60%) Data Engineering
18 103 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
19 102 (11.58%) Migration
20 99 (11.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 407 (46.20%) Python
2 277 (31.44%) SQL
3 128 (14.53%) TypeScript
4 123 (13.96%) Java
4 123 (13.96%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.62%) C#
6 53 (6.02%) Bash
7 34 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 28 (3.18%) Bicep
9 27 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.93%) Go
10 17 (1.93%) Scala
11 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.79%) Groovy
13 6 (0.68%) JCL
13 6 (0.68%) Ruby
14 5 (0.57%) Formula Language
14 5 (0.57%) LotusScript
14 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 248 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 199 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 34 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.86%) Degree
5 31 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.88%) QA
3 27 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.84%) GDPR
5 19 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.70%) NIST
8 8 (0.91%) WCAG
9 7 (0.79%) PMO
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 240 (27.24%) Docker
2 32 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.36%) Squid
5 4 (0.45%) RACF
5 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 366 (41.54%) Terraform
2 214 (24.29%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.06%) Grafana
4 69 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.99%) Ansible
6 24 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.27%) Puppet
8 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) Consul
10 6 (0.68%) Istio
10 6 (0.68%) Podman
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 142 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.36%) Databricks
3 45 (5.11%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.52%) Oracle
5 22 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.16%) Google
6 19 (2.16%) Splunk
7 17 (1.93%) Informatica
8 14 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.91%) Brio
12 8 (0.91%) Confluent
13 7 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.79%) SAP
13 7 (0.79%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Workday