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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 133
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 843 603 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.52% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 6.70% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 449 480
10th Percentile £381 £400 £368
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 £751 £707
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £53.00 -
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 14,634 9,001 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.60% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,956 6,168 8,515
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 216 324
10th Percentile £15.56 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £17.68 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.69 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.75 £68.13 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -42.77%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -15 515 £525 -4.55% 185
North of England -27 140 £500 - 67
North West -17 79 £518 +3.50% 37
Midlands -25 59 £488 -1.52% 20
South East -43 54 £575 +15.00% 50
Yorkshire -29 48 £500 - 20
West Midlands -29 46 £488 -3.18% 11
South West -17 31 £575 +4.55% 38
East of England -20 25 £550 -2.22% 9
North East -25 14 £475 - 10
East Midlands -23 13 £498 +3.86% 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 46 (5.46%) Confluence
2 42 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.97%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.25%) Apache
6 11 (1.30%) nginx
7 8 (0.95%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.95%) Mendix
8 6 (0.71%) CICS
9 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.59%) SAS
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.42%) 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
1 641 (76.04%) AWS
2 513 (60.85%) AWS Lambda
3 365 (43.30%) Amazon S3
4 313 (37.13%) Azure
5 180 (21.35%) GitHub
6 166 (19.69%) Azure Functions
7 165 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (17.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 137 (16.25%) Amazon ECS
10 132 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
11 127 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (12.69%) Power Platform
13 104 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (9.96%) Amazon SQS
17 81 (9.61%) Azure Logic Apps
18 79 (9.37%) AWS Step Functions
19 69 (8.19%) Azure Service Bus
20 68 (8.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.56%) DNS
2 29 (3.44%) Firewall
3 22 (2.61%) VPN
4 16 (1.90%) Network Security
5 13 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.07%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.07%) SSL
7 7 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.83%) SMS
8 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.71%) WAN
9 5 (0.59%) HTTP
9 5 (0.59%) IPsec
10 3 (0.36%) FTP
10 3 (0.36%) MQTT
11 2 (0.24%) AMQP
11 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.47%) DynamoDB
2 118 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (9.02%) Amazon Athena
5 73 (8.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (8.42%) Power BI
7 56 (6.64%) NoSQL
8 44 (5.22%) Data Lake
9 38 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (4.03%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.80%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.44%) Tableau
14 22 (2.61%) Metadata
15 20 (2.37%) Big Data
15 20 (2.37%) Redis
16 19 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (2.25%) MongoDB
17 18 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 131 (15.54%) Git
2 114 (13.52%) GitLab
2 114 (13.52%) Jenkins
3 62 (7.35%) JIRA
4 25 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 18 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.07%) JUnit
9 8 (0.95%) Mocha
10 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.83%) MSTest
11 6 (0.71%) Postman
11 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.71%) Vite
12 5 (0.59%) Gatling
12 5 (0.59%) Mockito
12 5 (0.59%) Snyk
12 5 (0.59%) tSQLt
13 4 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 203 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 130 (15.42%) Public Sector
3 128 (15.18%) Finance
4 50 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.20%) Banking
7 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.07%) Law
10 8 (0.95%) Marketing
10 8 (0.95%) Retail
11 7 (0.83%) Legal
11 7 (0.83%) Military
12 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 4 (0.47%) Police
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Games
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (23.13%) Developer
2 165 (19.57%) Architect
3 121 (14.35%) Senior
4 104 (12.34%) AWS Engineer
5 94 (11.15%) Data Engineer
6 82 (9.73%) Lead
7 55 (6.52%) AWS Architect
8 54 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.29%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.86%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
13 38 (4.51%) Python Developer
13 38 (4.51%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.91%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.00%) Kafka
1 118 (14.00%) React
2 104 (12.34%) Node.js
3 99 (11.74%) REST
4 91 (10.79%) RESTful
5 80 (9.49%) .NET
6 64 (7.59%) Spring Boot
7 63 (7.47%) Spring
8 58 (6.88%) PySpark
9 54 (6.41%) OAuth
10 42 (4.98%) OpenID
11 41 (4.86%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.86%) GraphQL
12 38 (4.51%) JSON
13 36 (4.27%) AWS CDK
14 33 (3.91%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.56%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.20%) Flask
17 26 (3.08%) Next.js
18 25 (2.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 250 (29.66%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.85%) AI Agents
4 24 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.37%) NHS
6 13 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.83%) IoT
10 7 (0.83%) Replication
11 6 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.34%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 10 (1.19%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) zOS
5 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 395 (46.86%) DevOps
3 317 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 274 (32.50%) Agile
5 188 (22.30%) Microservices
6 178 (21.12%) Containerisation
7 153 (18.15%) AI
7 153 (18.15%) Event-Driven
8 128 (15.18%) Observability
9 125 (14.83%) Analytics
10 124 (14.71%) Data Modelling
11 122 (14.47%) Test Automation
12 114 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
12 114 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (13.52%) Software Engineering
13 112 (13.29%) ETL
14 99 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (11.15%) Data Engineering
15 94 (11.15%) Mentoring
16 93 (11.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.48%) Python
2 254 (30.13%) SQL
3 123 (14.59%) TypeScript
4 122 (14.47%) Java
5 121 (14.35%) JavaScript
6 116 (13.76%) C#
7 48 (5.69%) Bash
8 36 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.68%) Bicep
10 27 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.25%) Go
11 19 (2.25%) Scala
12 10 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.95%) Formula Language
13 8 (0.95%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.83%) Groovy
14 7 (0.83%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
16 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 233 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 188 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.98%) AWS Certification
4 31 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.20%) Degree
6 26 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.98%) QA
3 26 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.85%) GDPR
5 17 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.90%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
8 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 227 (26.93%) Docker
2 29 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.42%) Squid
3 12 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 348 (41.28%) Terraform
2 198 (23.49%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.30%) Grafana
4 67 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.98%) Ansible
6 27 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.02%) Puppet
8 10 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.95%) Consul
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.59%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.36%) Packer
14 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 137 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.64%) Databricks
3 46 (5.46%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.91%) Oracle
5 21 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.25%) Splunk
7 17 (2.02%) Google
8 13 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.42%) Foundry
10 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.19%) Confluent
11 10 (1.19%) Informatica
12 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.07%) Brio
12 9 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.07%) SAP
13 8 (0.95%) Kofax
13 8 (0.95%) Lotus
14 7 (0.83%) Tenable
15 6 (0.71%) Sybase