Serverless Contracts in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 136 118
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 652 645 1,064
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.46% 1.73% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.53% 5.30% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 468 793
10th Percentile £400 £363 £431
25th Percentile £428 £431 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £669
90th Percentile £738 £702 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £36.50 - £40.25
25th Percentile £38.75 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £66.25
75th Percentile £51.25 - £78.75
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £66.25
% change year-on-year - - -11.67%

All Cloud 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 9,988 12,162 17,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.61% 32.68% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,733 8,677 12,840
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 327 302
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Serverless in England

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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 6 July 2025. 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 +12 396 £550 +5.26% 522
North of England +13 91 £500 -1.96% 159
North West +20 59 £500 -1.96% 97
South East +23 42 £492 -21.28% 88
Midlands +25 35 £459 -8.20% 44
South West +46 29 £531 -3.41% 58
Yorkshire +4 24 £500 -6.54% 48
East of England +42 22 £531 -15.00% 34
West Midlands +14 22 £473 -7.80% 31
East Midlands +5 12 £459 +2.00% 11
North East +1 9 £468 -28.08% 14
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.37%) Apache
3 29 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (3.83%) Confluence
5 9 (1.38%) CMS
5 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.07%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.61%) Documentum
8 4 (0.61%) FileNet
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.46%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 14 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.46%) Endur
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.31%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.31%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.31%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 488 (74.85%) AWS
2 380 (58.28%) AWS Lambda
3 223 (34.20%) Amazon S3
4 181 (27.76%) Azure
5 116 (17.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 101 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
7 99 (15.18%) Azure Functions
8 95 (14.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 83 (12.73%) GitHub
10 75 (11.50%) Amazon ECS
11 74 (11.35%) Amazon SQS
12 67 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
13 62 (9.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 60 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
15 54 (8.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 42 (6.44%) PaaS
16 42 (6.44%) Power Platform
16 42 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (5.83%) SaaS
18 36 (5.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.37%) Firewall
2 29 (4.45%) VPN
3 16 (2.45%) DNS
4 12 (1.84%) HTTP
5 10 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.38%) DHCP
7 8 (1.23%) Network Security
7 8 (1.23%) SSL
8 4 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.46%) VLAN
9 3 (0.46%) WAN
10 2 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) SSH
10 2 (0.31%) Wireless
11 1 (0.15%) Broadband
11 1 (0.15%) LAN
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (17.18%) DynamoDB
2 96 (14.72%) Amazon RDS
3 65 (9.97%) NoSQL
4 64 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (9.20%) Amazon Athena
6 48 (7.36%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (4.91%) SQL Server
9 29 (4.45%) Big Data
10 26 (3.99%) MongoDB
11 25 (3.83%) Data Lake
11 25 (3.83%) Power BI
12 23 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (2.91%) MySQL
14 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
15 16 (2.45%) Apache Iceberg
16 14 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (2.15%) Apache Arrow
16 14 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 78 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.82%) Git
3 42 (6.44%) JIRA
4 33 (5.06%) GitLab
5 21 (3.22%) Artifactory
6 19 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.53%) git-flow
9 10 (1.53%) JUnit
10 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.07%) Maven
12 7 (1.07%) Selenium
13 6 (0.92%) Postman
13 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.77%) Gradle
15 4 (0.61%) JMeter
15 4 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 136 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 72 (11.04%) Finance
4 57 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.60%) Banking
6 17 (2.61%) Front Office
7 15 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.99%) Marketing
9 8 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.23%) Retail
10 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.61%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.61%) Publishing
11 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.46%) Aviation
13 2 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (30.06%) Developer
2 131 (20.09%) Architect
3 109 (16.72%) Senior
4 101 (15.49%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (9.82%) Data Engineer
6 55 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (7.67%) AWS Architect
8 49 (7.52%) Lead
8 49 (7.52%) Senior Developer
9 47 (7.21%) AWS Developer
10 45 (6.90%) Software Engineer
10 45 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
12 33 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 29 (4.45%) Java Developer
14 29 (4.45%) Python Engineer
15 27 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
16 25 (3.83%) Azure Architect
16 25 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (16.87%) Node.js
2 82 (12.58%) Kafka
3 80 (12.27%) React
4 64 (9.82%) .NET
5 55 (8.44%) RESTful
6 44 (6.75%) AWS CDK
7 37 (5.67%) JSON
8 35 (5.37%) GraphQL
9 34 (5.21%) REST
10 28 (4.29%) AngularJS
10 28 (4.29%) Spring
11 27 (4.14%) .NET Framework
11 27 (4.14%) HTML
12 26 (3.99%) PySpark
13 25 (3.83%) CSS
14 23 (3.53%) Spring Boot
15 22 (3.37%) XML
16 21 (3.22%) ARM Templates
17 20 (3.07%) Web Services
18 19 (2.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.99%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.77%) PKI
10 4 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.61%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.61%) NHS
11 3 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.46%) IoT
11 3 (0.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.29%) Linux
2 14 (2.15%) Windows
3 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.07%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) SUSE
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (41.87%) DevOps
2 262 (40.18%) CI/CD
3 235 (36.04%) Agile
4 156 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (18.87%) Microservices
7 119 (18.25%) Containerisation
8 105 (16.10%) Software Engineering
9 84 (12.88%) Mentoring
10 72 (11.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (10.58%) Event-Driven
12 67 (10.28%) ETL
13 65 (9.97%) Data Engineering
14 64 (9.82%) Test Automation
15 58 (8.90%) High Availability
16 54 (8.28%) Scrum
17 53 (8.13%) Clean Code
17 53 (8.13%) Migration
18 52 (7.98%) Analytics
19 49 (7.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 252 (38.65%) Python
2 143 (21.93%) SQL
3 140 (21.47%) JavaScript
4 127 (19.48%) Java
5 122 (18.71%) TypeScript
6 64 (9.82%) C#
7 39 (5.98%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.45%) Bicep
8 29 (4.45%) Go
9 24 (3.68%) Bash
10 18 (2.76%) Scala
11 15 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.15%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.07%) C++
13 7 (1.07%) Ruby
14 6 (0.92%) Rust
15 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.61%) R
17 3 (0.46%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 146 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 134 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 87 (13.34%) AWS Certification
4 49 (7.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (5.06%) Degree
6 18 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.77%) OCP
11 5 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.31%) CCIE
14 2 (0.31%) CCNP
14 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.31%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.68%) QA
3 23 (3.53%) GDPR
4 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.84%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.69%) NIST
7 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.61%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.46%) HL7
10 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (20.25%) Docker
2 27 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 220 (33.74%) Terraform
2 149 (22.85%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.29%) Ansible
4 24 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.76%) Grafana
6 10 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.92%) Puppet
8 5 (0.77%) Kibana
8 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.46%) Packer
10 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.31%) SELinux
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.83%) Oracle
3 22 (3.37%) Splunk
4 18 (2.76%) Google
5 10 (1.53%) Databricks
6 9 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.38%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.38%) Virgin Media
7 8 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
7 8 (1.23%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.92%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.92%) Foundry
8 6 (0.92%) Palantir
9 5 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.77%) SAP
10 4 (0.61%) Cisco
10 4 (0.61%) Qualys
10 4 (0.61%) VMware