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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 120 130
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 859 664 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.39% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 6.41% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 471 412
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 15,887 10,359 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.78% 37.34% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,010 7,887
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 200
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -23 500 £550 - 90
North of England -38 135 £500 +5.26% 53
Midlands -1 88 £449 -0.33% 18
North West -29 69 £575 +21.05% 26
West Midlands -10 65 £477 +6.00% 12
South East -56 49 £600 +35.59% 33
South West -25 46 £538 +5.39% 30
Yorkshire -40 43 £500 +5.26% 17
East Midlands 0 23 £413 -0.66% 6
North East -23 23 £463 +4.52% 10
East of England -23 23 £525 - 8
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 49 (5.70%) Confluence
2 41 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.56%) Apache
5 19 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 7 (0.81%) SAS
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (76.48%) AWS
2 526 (61.23%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (41.56%) Amazon S3
4 319 (37.14%) Azure
5 171 (19.91%) GitHub
6 167 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 156 (18.16%) Azure Functions
8 151 (17.58%) Amazon ECS
9 142 (16.53%) Amazon EC2
10 126 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
12 106 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 105 (12.22%) Amazon SQS
14 104 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
14 104 (12.11%) Power Platform
15 86 (10.01%) AWS Step Functions
16 83 (9.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.38%) GCP
18 67 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
19 59 (6.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.84%) Firewall
2 26 (3.03%) Network Security
3 22 (2.56%) DNS
4 18 (2.10%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) SSL
6 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (15.13%) DynamoDB
2 121 (14.09%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.41%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
5 78 (9.08%) Power BI
6 76 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.75%) NoSQL
9 44 (5.12%) SQL Server
10 43 (5.01%) Data Lake
11 31 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 28 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (3.14%) MongoDB
15 26 (3.03%) Metadata
16 24 (2.79%) MySQL
17 23 (2.68%) Delta Lake
18 22 (2.56%) Tableau
19 18 (2.10%) BigQuery
20 17 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 149 (17.35%) Git
2 122 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 118 (13.74%) GitLab
4 70 (8.15%) JIRA
5 22 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.63%) Selenium
9 13 (1.51%) Postman
10 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.05%) JUnit
12 7 (0.81%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) MSTest
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) RStudio
13 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 197 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.72%) Finance
4 68 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.19%) Banking
6 26 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Billing
8 12 (1.40%) Law
8 12 (1.40%) Marketing
9 11 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.16%) Retail
11 8 (0.93%) Back Office
12 7 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Military
13 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Games
15 4 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 195 (22.70%) Developer
2 168 (19.56%) Architect
3 162 (18.86%) Senior
4 120 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.87%) Data Engineer
6 98 (11.41%) Lead
7 61 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.17%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.70%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.89%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.31%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.19%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
18 31 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
18 31 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (3.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (41.09%) Terraform
2 123 (14.32%) REST
3 110 (12.81%) React
4 94 (10.94%) Node.js
5 93 (10.83%) Kafka
6 91 (10.59%) RESTful
7 81 (9.43%) .NET
8 64 (7.45%) PySpark
9 51 (5.94%) GraphQL
9 51 (5.94%) Spring
9 51 (5.94%) Spring Boot
10 43 (5.01%) FastAPI
11 41 (4.77%) OAuth
12 40 (4.66%) AWS CDK
13 36 (4.19%) AngularJS
13 36 (4.19%) Flask
14 35 (4.07%) JSON
15 34 (3.96%) CSS
16 29 (3.38%) HTML
16 29 (3.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 267 (31.08%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.89%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.26%) NHS
6 25 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.28%) IoT
12 11 (1.28%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.40%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Unix
3 17 (1.98%) Windows
4 13 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 4 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (61.58%) CI/CD
2 389 (45.29%) DevOps
3 334 (38.88%) Agile
4 332 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (23.40%) AI
6 196 (22.82%) Microservices
7 186 (21.65%) Containerisation
8 168 (19.56%) Event-Driven
9 158 (18.39%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.11%) Observability
11 142 (16.53%) Analytics
12 127 (14.78%) Data Modelling
13 125 (14.55%) Software Engineering
14 124 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
15 117 (13.62%) Migration
16 116 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 116 (13.50%) Data Engineering
17 115 (13.39%) Technical Leadership
18 114 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
19 111 (12.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 401 (46.68%) Python
2 276 (32.13%) SQL
3 134 (15.60%) TypeScript
4 128 (14.90%) JavaScript
5 113 (13.15%) Java
6 102 (11.87%) C#
7 66 (7.68%) Bash
8 38 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.19%) Bicep
10 29 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.75%) Scala
12 9 (1.05%) Go
12 9 (1.05%) Groovy
13 7 (0.81%) R
14 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 205 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.10%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.01%) Degree
5 37 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.52%) QA
3 31 (3.61%) GDPR
4 29 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.63%) WCAG
7 12 (1.40%) NIST
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.05%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 248 (28.87%) Docker
2 34 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.52%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.92%) Grafana
3 55 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 47 (5.47%) Ansible
5 15 (1.75%) Puppet
6 13 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.16%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.70%) linkerd
9 6 (0.70%) Packer
9 6 (0.70%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
11 4 (0.47%) Salt
12 3 (0.35%) Consul
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 156 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.29%) Databricks
3 36 (4.19%) Oracle
4 29 (3.38%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.79%) Informatica
6 23 (2.68%) Google
7 21 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.98%) Splunk
10 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.05%) SAP
12 8 (0.93%) Brio
13 6 (0.70%) Confluent
13 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.70%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) New Relic
14 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.58%) Workday
15 4 (0.47%) Denodo
15 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA