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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 107 138
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 877 620 641
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.50% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 6.63% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 453 470
10th Percentile £383 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -10 526 £533 -3.18% 107
North of England -25 141 £500 - 49
North West -18 78 £525 +5.00% 26
Midlands -20 64 £488 -2.50% 15
South East -38 54 £588 +17.50% 43
West Midlands -19 50 £488 -4.79% 9
Yorkshire -31 50 £500 - 14
South West -12 41 £575 +8.24% 25
East of England -18 27 £550 +2.33% 6
East Midlands -19 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -31 14 £463 -1.07% 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 51 (5.82%) Confluence
2 40 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.05%) Apache
6 11 (1.25%) nginx
7 6 (0.68%) CICS
7 6 (0.68%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.68%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (75.94%) AWS
2 534 (60.89%) AWS Lambda
3 393 (44.81%) Amazon S3
4 325 (37.06%) Azure
5 176 (20.07%) GitHub
6 170 (19.38%) Amazon EC2
6 170 (19.38%) Azure Functions
7 154 (17.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 142 (16.19%) Amazon ECS
9 135 (15.39%) Amazon EKS
10 124 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
11 116 (13.23%) Power Platform
12 109 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 102 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
14 98 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 90 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
16 81 (9.24%) AWS Step Functions
17 77 (8.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 70 (7.98%) GCP
19 67 (7.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.76%) Firewall
2 30 (3.42%) DNS
3 24 (2.74%) VPN
4 21 (2.39%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.25%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
7 9 (1.03%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.25%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.68%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.72%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (10.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 85 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (9.01%) Power BI
7 58 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (6.27%) NoSQL
9 54 (6.16%) Data Lake
10 35 (3.99%) SQL Server
11 34 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (3.53%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.08%) Tableau
14 24 (2.74%) Metadata
15 20 (2.28%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.28%) Redis
16 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.94%) Apache Iceberg
18 16 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 144 (16.42%) Git
2 122 (13.91%) GitLab
3 117 (13.34%) Jenkins
4 71 (8.10%) JIRA
5 26 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
9 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 8 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.91%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Postman
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.22%) Public Sector
3 136 (15.51%) Finance
4 59 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.96%) Banking
7 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.91%) Marketing
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Front Office
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.81%) Developer
2 168 (19.16%) Architect
3 143 (16.31%) Senior
4 117 (13.34%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (11.97%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.58%) Lead
7 57 (6.50%) Software Engineer
8 56 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 54 (6.16%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 38 (4.33%) Senior Developer
13 38 (4.33%) Technical Architect
14 37 (4.22%) AWS Developer
15 35 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
16 33 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 33 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (13.34%) Kafka
2 116 (13.23%) React
3 108 (12.31%) REST
4 96 (10.95%) Node.js
4 96 (10.95%) RESTful
5 76 (8.67%) .NET
6 66 (7.53%) Spring Boot
7 64 (7.30%) Spring
8 60 (6.84%) PySpark
9 55 (6.27%) OAuth
10 46 (5.25%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.79%) OpenID
12 40 (4.56%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.56%) FastAPI
13 39 (4.45%) JSON
14 36 (4.10%) AWS CDK
15 31 (3.53%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.42%) Flask
17 27 (3.08%) Next.js
18 25 (2.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 258 (29.42%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.39%) NHS
7 15 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.80%) IoT
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.90%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) Unix
3 11 (1.25%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) zOS
5 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 406 (46.29%) DevOps
3 326 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 294 (33.52%) Agile
5 195 (22.23%) Containerisation
6 193 (22.01%) Microservices
7 184 (20.98%) AI
8 158 (18.02%) Event-Driven
9 139 (15.85%) Analytics
10 135 (15.39%) Test Automation
11 134 (15.28%) Data Modelling
11 134 (15.28%) Observability
12 128 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (13.80%) Software Engineering
15 115 (13.11%) ETL
16 109 (12.43%) Data Engineering
17 100 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
17 100 (11.40%) Roadmaps
18 99 (11.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 412 (46.98%) Python
2 283 (32.27%) SQL
3 124 (14.14%) JavaScript
4 123 (14.03%) Java
5 122 (13.91%) TypeScript
6 116 (13.23%) C#
7 51 (5.82%) Bash
8 33 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.31%) Bicep
10 27 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.05%) Scala
12 17 (1.94%) Go
13 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.68%) JCL
15 6 (0.68%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.68%) Ruby
16 5 (0.57%) Rust
17 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 241 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 194 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.76%) Degree
4 33 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.79%) QA
3 27 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.85%) GDPR
5 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.71%) NIST
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 7 (0.80%) WCAG
9 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 241 (27.48%) Docker
2 31 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 370 (42.19%) Terraform
2 214 (24.40%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.10%) Grafana
4 69 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.90%) Ansible
6 27 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.17%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) Consul
10 6 (0.68%) Istio
10 6 (0.68%) Podman
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 142 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.50%) Databricks
3 47 (5.36%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.76%) Oracle
5 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.17%) Google
6 19 (2.17%) Splunk
7 15 (1.71%) Informatica
8 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.03%) Confluent
11 9 (1.03%) SAP
12 8 (0.91%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Kofax
14 6 (0.68%) Lotus
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable