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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 117 134
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 801 575 666
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 2.15% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 5.83% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 393 485
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 £625 £685 £638
90th Percentile £696 £788 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

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 12,032 9,860 12,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.02% 36.81% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 6,568 8,971
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £421 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 135 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.36 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.84 £50.40
90th Percentile £78.45 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £27.61 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +0.38% +19.57% +2.22%

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 14 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
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 14 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 +8 472 £513 -6.82% 120
North of England +28 164 £478 -2.45% 93
Yorkshire +17 87 £500 - 40
North West +9 67 £450 +0.45% 42
Midlands 0 66 £506 +13.96% 33
West Midlands +1 52 £525 +13.51% 19
South East -54 45 £475 -24.00% 123
South West -25 27 £650 - 50
East of England 0 24 £550 -3.51% 53
East Midlands -17 14 £433 -3.24% 13
North East -7 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 33 (4.12%) Apache
2 27 (3.37%) Confluence
3 26 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.25%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.12%) Mendix
8 7 (0.87%) nginx
9 6 (0.75%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 558 (69.66%) AWS
2 454 (56.68%) AWS Lambda
3 291 (36.33%) Azure
4 267 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 192 (23.97%) GitHub
6 186 (23.22%) Azure Functions
7 137 (17.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 133 (16.60%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (16.35%) Amazon ECS
10 127 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 115 (14.36%) Amazon EC2
13 96 (11.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 81 (10.11%) GCP
15 78 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (9.24%) Power Platform
17 63 (7.87%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
18 62 (7.74%) Azure AKS
19 60 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.12%) DNS
2 18 (2.25%) Firewall
3 14 (1.75%) VPN
4 13 (1.62%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) HTTP
6 5 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.62%) SMS
6 5 (0.62%) SSL
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) DKIM
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (14.86%) Amazon RDS
2 115 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (12.73%) DynamoDB
4 90 (11.24%) NoSQL
5 54 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (6.37%) Relational Database
7 48 (5.99%) Power BI
8 43 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
8 43 (5.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (5.24%) Data Lake
10 36 (4.49%) Redis
11 33 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (3.75%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
14 27 (3.37%) Big Data
15 24 (3.00%) MySQL
16 21 (2.62%) Tableau
17 17 (2.12%) DocumentDB
17 17 (2.12%) SQL Server
18 16 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 143 (17.85%) Git
2 127 (15.86%) Jenkins
3 103 (12.86%) GitLab
4 55 (6.87%) JIRA
5 27 (3.37%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.87%) JUnit
8 14 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.62%) Postman
10 12 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.50%) Mockito
11 11 (1.37%) Maven
11 11 (1.37%) Selenium
11 11 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (1.00%) Gradle
13 7 (0.87%) Storybook
14 6 (0.75%) MLflow
15 5 (0.62%) SonarLint
16 4 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 205 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 139 (17.35%) Public Sector
3 111 (13.86%) Finance
4 63 (7.87%) Banking
5 49 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.37%) Marketing
8 12 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.00%) Front Office
10 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.00%) Military
11 7 (0.87%) Retail
12 6 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.50%) Aviation
15 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Billing
16 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 220 (27.47%) Developer
2 113 (14.11%) Senior
3 104 (12.98%) AWS Engineer
4 97 (12.11%) Architect
5 86 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 78 (9.74%) Data Engineer
7 76 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (7.74%) Lead
9 44 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.87%) AWS Developer
13 30 (3.75%) Python Engineer
13 30 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 27 (3.37%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (18.48%) Node.js
2 139 (17.35%) React
3 138 (17.23%) RESTful
4 133 (16.60%) REST
5 112 (13.98%) .NET
5 112 (13.98%) Kafka
6 52 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 49 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 47 (5.87%) Elastic Stack
8 47 (5.87%) Spring
9 43 (5.37%) OAuth
10 37 (4.62%) GraphQL
11 36 (4.49%) FastAPI
12 34 (4.24%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.12%) JSON
14 32 (4.00%) HTML
14 32 (4.00%) Next.js
15 29 (3.62%) CSS
15 29 (3.62%) Flask
16 26 (3.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 203 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.12%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.87%) AI Agents
5 15 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.75%) NHS
7 13 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.50%) Replication
9 11 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.00%) Data Fabric
12 7 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 84 (10.49%) Linux
2 10 (1.25%) Unix
3 7 (0.87%) Windows
4 5 (0.62%) VMS
5 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) 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
1 469 (58.55%) CI/CD
2 410 (51.19%) DevOps
3 295 (36.83%) Agile
4 272 (33.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (32.08%) Microservices
6 185 (23.10%) Containerisation
7 157 (19.60%) Software Engineering
8 145 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (15.36%) AI
10 111 (13.86%) Analytics
10 111 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
11 110 (13.73%) Event-Driven
12 102 (12.73%) Test Automation
13 96 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 89 (11.11%) Data Modelling
15 88 (10.99%) Observability
16 86 (10.74%) ETL
17 80 (9.99%) Mentoring
18 69 (8.61%) Data Engineering
19 67 (8.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 393 (49.06%) Python
2 228 (28.46%) SQL
3 138 (17.23%) JavaScript
4 134 (16.73%) Java
5 128 (15.98%) TypeScript
6 114 (14.23%) C#
7 54 (6.74%) Go
8 46 (5.74%) Bash
9 35 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.12%) Bicep
11 19 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.25%) Ruby
13 11 (1.37%) C++
14 10 (1.25%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.25%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.87%) Korn
17 6 (0.75%) PHP
17 6 (0.75%) Scala
17 6 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 210 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 172 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.62%) Degree
4 54 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (6.49%) AWS Certification
6 39 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.12%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.12%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.50%) MCP
11 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.37%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.37%) QA
2 32 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.50%) GDPR
4 20 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.25%) NIST
6 11 (1.37%) WCAG
7 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.12%) EU AI Act
9 8 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.62%) HL7
11 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 214 (26.72%) Docker
2 30 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 326 (40.70%) Terraform
2 219 (27.34%) Kubernetes
3 76 (9.49%) Ansible
4 71 (8.86%) Grafana
4 71 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.87%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.25%) Puppet
7 9 (1.12%) Kibana
8 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.50%) Rancher
10 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.37%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.37%) Packer
11 2 (0.25%) Control-M
11 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Knative
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Podman
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 157 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.87%) Databricks
3 44 (5.49%) Splunk
4 35 (4.37%) Google
5 29 (3.62%) Oracle
6 28 (3.50%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.50%) Foundry
8 17 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.75%) Confluent
10 12 (1.50%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.50%) IBM
11 10 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.12%) Kofax
12 9 (1.12%) Palantir
13 6 (0.75%) Brio
13 6 (0.75%) Gigya
14 5 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.62%) Sybase