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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 123 137
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 863 671 594
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.40% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.28% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 468 398
10th Percentile £400 £381 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 16,065 10,693 11,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.21% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,236 7,555
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 253 164
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.84
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £81.85 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -13 514 £550 - 569
North of England -55 133 £500 +4.06% 158
Midlands -28 86 £430 -14.00% 67
North West -33 69 £538 +11.98% 105
West Midlands -18 66 £460 -10.24% 35
South East -53 54 £600 +41.18% 101
South West -20 47 £520 -5.45% 78
Yorkshire -50 44 £500 +5.04% 38
East Midlands -10 20 £425 -4.01% 32
North East -30 20 £463 -11.14% 15
East of England -41 16 £525 - 26
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 40 (4.63%) Confluence
2 39 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.94%) SharePoint
4 30 (3.48%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.01%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.93%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
12 2 (0.23%) Camunda
12 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 647 (74.97%) AWS
2 519 (60.14%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (40.90%) Amazon S3
4 340 (39.40%) Azure
5 185 (21.44%) GitHub
6 184 (21.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 183 (21.21%) Azure Functions
8 158 (18.31%) Amazon ECS
9 138 (15.99%) Amazon EC2
10 135 (15.64%) Amazon EKS
11 122 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
12 121 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
13 116 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 112 (12.98%) Power Platform
15 104 (12.05%) Amazon SQS
16 82 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
17 77 (8.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 73 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (7.76%) GCP
20 65 (7.53%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.48%) Network Security
2 25 (2.90%) Firewall
3 18 (2.09%) DNS
4 14 (1.62%) VPN
5 10 (1.16%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
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%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.37%) Amazon RDS
2 123 (14.25%) DynamoDB
3 94 (10.89%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (7.53%) Power BI
8 54 (6.26%) NoSQL
9 53 (6.14%) SQL Server
10 51 (5.91%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.24%) Metadata
11 28 (3.24%) MongoDB
12 26 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
13 25 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.78%) MySQL
15 22 (2.55%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.32%) Relational Database
17 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.97%) Tableau
19 15 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 157 (18.19%) Git
2 119 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 115 (13.33%) GitLab
4 59 (6.84%) JIRA
5 28 (3.24%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.43%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.32%) Selenium
8 14 (1.62%) Postman
9 13 (1.51%) JUnit
10 11 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.27%) RStudio
11 10 (1.16%) Maven
11 10 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 6 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 208 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 144 (16.69%) Finance
4 78 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.40%) Banking
7 15 (1.74%) Marketing
8 14 (1.62%) Back Office
8 14 (1.62%) Military
9 12 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.39%) Law
10 11 (1.27%) Billing
11 9 (1.04%) Front Office
11 9 (1.04%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 194 (22.48%) Developer
2 172 (19.93%) Senior
3 154 (17.84%) Architect
4 123 (14.25%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (13.21%) Data Engineer
6 111 (12.86%) Lead
7 68 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.68%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 34 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
15 33 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (3.82%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.59%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (40.32%) Terraform
2 147 (17.03%) REST
3 97 (11.24%) .NET
3 97 (11.24%) React
4 91 (10.54%) Kafka
5 89 (10.31%) RESTful
6 87 (10.08%) Node.js
7 59 (6.84%) PySpark
8 54 (6.26%) GraphQL
8 54 (6.26%) Spring Boot
9 53 (6.14%) Spring
10 47 (5.45%) FastAPI
11 42 (4.87%) AWS CDK
11 42 (4.87%) OAuth
12 40 (4.63%) AngularJS
13 36 (4.17%) JSON
14 31 (3.59%) Flask
15 30 (3.48%) CSS
15 30 (3.48%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 288 (33.37%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 65 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.60%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (3.01%) NHS
7 25 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.07%) Linux
2 23 (2.67%) Unix
3 17 (1.97%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.35%) zOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 405 (46.93%) DevOps
3 352 (40.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (39.05%) Agile
5 232 (26.88%) AI
6 189 (21.90%) Event-Driven
7 185 (21.44%) Containerisation
7 185 (21.44%) Microservices
8 170 (19.70%) Observability
9 167 (19.35%) Test Automation
10 145 (16.80%) Software Engineering
11 144 (16.69%) Analytics
12 141 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 141 (16.34%) Data Modelling
13 139 (16.11%) Technical Leadership
14 131 (15.18%) Data Engineering
15 128 (14.83%) Data Pipeline
15 128 (14.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 121 (14.02%) Mentoring
17 119 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 413 (47.86%) Python
2 264 (30.59%) SQL
3 137 (15.87%) TypeScript
4 136 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 121 (14.02%) C#
6 118 (13.67%) Java
7 65 (7.53%) Bash
8 39 (4.52%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.29%) Bicep
10 27 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.62%) Scala
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.81%) R
15 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 235 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 202 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.14%) Degree
5 38 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.81%) CISSP
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.57%) QA
3 35 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.06%) GDPR
4 22 (2.55%) WCAG
5 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.04%) NIST
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 5 (0.58%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (28.04%) Docker
2 32 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (23.99%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.18%) Grafana
3 53 (6.14%) Prometheus
4 51 (5.91%) Ansible
5 14 (1.62%) Puppet
6 10 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.70%) Istio
8 6 (0.70%) Packer
8 6 (0.70%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 191 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.65%) Databricks
3 41 (4.75%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.36%) Oracle
5 27 (3.13%) Google
6 22 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.32%) Informatica
9 18 (2.09%) Splunk
10 12 (1.39%) Foundry
11 11 (1.27%) Brio
12 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.81%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 4 (0.46%) Adyen
14 4 (0.46%) New Relic
14 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.46%) UiPath
14 4 (0.46%) Workday