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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 116 135
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 823 581 672
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 2.17% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 5.89% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 399 494
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 £620 £685 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £60.48 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £63.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £69.25 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.35% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £75.03 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +140.38% - -

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 12,355 9,857 12,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.88% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,589 6,539 9,182
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 138 279
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +12.57% +5.39%
75th Percentile £57.63 £44.90 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.75 £68.05
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.34%

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 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 24 January 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 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 +14 490 £513 -8.48% 126
North of England +23 164 £500 +5.26% 116
Yorkshire +5 82 £500 - 47
North West +1 72 £450 +0.78% 54
Midlands -11 65 £520 +16.33% 65
West Midlands -15 53 £525 +9.15% 30
South East -47 48 £475 -18.80% 160
South West -25 27 £650 - 66
East of England -2 23 £550 -3.51% 78
East Midlands -23 12 £435 -2.03% 34
North East -8 11 £525 -12.13% 15
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 29 (3.52%) Apache
2 27 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.04%) Confluence
5 22 (2.67%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.46%) nginx
7 10 (1.22%) HCL Notes
8 9 (1.09%) Mendix
9 5 (0.61%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 580 (70.47%) AWS
2 466 (56.62%) AWS Lambda
3 306 (37.18%) Azure
4 284 (34.51%) Amazon S3
5 192 (23.33%) GitHub
6 190 (23.09%) Azure Functions
7 138 (16.77%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 130 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (15.80%) GitHub Actions
10 126 (15.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 125 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
12 99 (12.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 92 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
14 90 (10.94%) GCP
15 78 (9.48%) Power Platform
16 65 (7.90%) AWS Step Functions
16 65 (7.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 63 (7.65%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.52%) DNS
2 24 (2.92%) Firewall
3 22 (2.67%) VPN
4 13 (1.58%) Network Security
5 6 (0.73%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.73%) SMS
6 5 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
6 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.36%) LAN
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (14.34%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (12.52%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.06%) NoSQL
5 57 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (6.32%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.08%) Power BI
8 44 (5.35%) Data Lake
9 43 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (4.13%) Redis
12 32 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (3.77%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.92%) Big Data
14 24 (2.92%) MySQL
15 21 (2.55%) Tableau
16 19 (2.31%) DocumentDB
17 16 (1.94%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 139 (16.89%) Git
2 134 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 110 (13.37%) GitLab
4 50 (6.08%) JIRA
5 26 (3.16%) Liquibase
6 22 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.94%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.82%) JUnit
9 14 (1.70%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.70%) Postman
10 13 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.46%) Mockito
12 11 (1.34%) Maven
12 11 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.22%) Selenium
14 8 (0.97%) Gradle
15 6 (0.73%) MLflow
15 6 (0.73%) Storybook
16 5 (0.61%) Mocha
16 5 (0.61%) SonarLint
General
1 212 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.10%) Public Sector
3 114 (13.85%) Finance
4 67 (8.14%) Banking
5 52 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.31%) Marketing
8 10 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (0.97%) Front Office
9 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 8 (0.97%) Military
10 7 (0.85%) Retail
11 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
13 4 (0.49%) Aviation
13 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Law
14 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 222 (26.97%) Developer
2 112 (13.61%) Architect
3 108 (13.12%) Senior
4 107 (13.00%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 79 (9.60%) Software Engineer
7 77 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 63 (7.65%) Lead
9 47 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 32 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 30 (3.65%) AWS Developer
13 30 (3.65%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.52%) AWS Architect
14 29 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
15 27 (3.28%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (17.62%) Node.js
2 132 (16.04%) RESTful
3 128 (15.55%) React
4 126 (15.31%) REST
5 118 (14.34%) Kafka
6 111 (13.49%) .NET
7 52 (6.32%) Spring Boot
8 47 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 47 (5.71%) OAuth
8 47 (5.71%) Spring
9 46 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (4.50%) FastAPI
10 37 (4.50%) GraphQL
11 33 (4.01%) JSON
12 32 (3.89%) .NET Core
13 31 (3.77%) HTML
13 31 (3.77%) Next.js
14 29 (3.52%) Flask
15 28 (3.40%) CSS
16 26 (3.16%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 218 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 33 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.70%) NHS
9 13 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.46%) Replication
11 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.97%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.45%) Linux
2 11 (1.34%) Unix
3 7 (0.85%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) VMS
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) 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
1 488 (59.30%) CI/CD
2 420 (51.03%) DevOps
3 290 (35.24%) Agile
4 284 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 247 (30.01%) Microservices
6 195 (23.69%) Containerisation
7 153 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (18.59%) Software Engineering
8 125 (15.19%) AI
9 122 (14.82%) Event-Driven
10 116 (14.09%) Analytics
10 116 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
11 106 (12.88%) Test Automation
12 96 (11.66%) Data Modelling
13 91 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
14 89 (10.81%) ETL
15 88 (10.69%) Observability
16 83 (10.09%) Mentoring
17 76 (9.23%) Data Engineering
18 73 (8.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 402 (48.85%) Python
2 236 (28.68%) SQL
3 135 (16.40%) JavaScript
4 131 (15.92%) Java
5 127 (15.43%) TypeScript
6 116 (14.09%) C#
7 51 (6.20%) Go
8 48 (5.83%) Bash
9 38 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.89%) Bicep
11 19 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.94%) Ruby
13 10 (1.22%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.22%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.09%) C++
14 9 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.85%) Korn
16 6 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.73%) Scala
16 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 222 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 178 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.41%) Degree
4 57 (6.93%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.01%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (2.55%) MCP
11 13 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.36%) PhD
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.13%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.01%) QA
3 28 (3.40%) GDPR
4 20 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.31%) NIST
6 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.09%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.97%) WCAG
9 4 (0.49%) HL7
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 228 (27.70%) Docker
2 25 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.61%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 349 (42.41%) Terraform
2 230 (27.95%) Kubernetes
3 79 (9.60%) Ansible
4 77 (9.36%) Prometheus
5 75 (9.11%) Grafana
6 17 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.58%) Puppet
8 11 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.97%) Kibana
10 5 (0.61%) Consul
10 5 (0.61%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.49%) Rancher
12 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.24%) Knative
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.32%) Databricks
3 42 (5.10%) Splunk
4 39 (4.74%) Google
5 31 (3.77%) OpenAI
6 28 (3.40%) Oracle
7 20 (2.43%) Foundry
8 16 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.70%) Confluent
10 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.46%) IBM
12 10 (1.22%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.22%) Lotus
12 10 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.09%) Kofax
13 9 (1.09%) Palantir
14 6 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.73%) Brio
14 6 (0.73%) Gigya
15 5 (0.61%) Pega