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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 117 137
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 884 603 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.42% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.47% 6.41% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 448 482
10th Percentile £368 £400 £381
25th Percentile £415 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 13,669 9,403 12,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.06% 37.78% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,402 6,522 8,821
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 166 326
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -2 521 £513 -6.82% 158
North of England +17 175 £500 - 91
North West +1 83 £450 -6.74% 49
Yorkshire +3 76 £500 - 30
Midlands -12 72 £523 +14.96% 21
West Midlands -24 54 £525 +9.15% 18
South East -73 50 £525 -8.70% 65
South West -28 30 £625 - 35
East of England -2 28 £560 -22.81% 12
East Midlands -23 18 £460 +0.22% 3
North East -2 17 £500 -19.91% 14
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 44 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.73%) Apache
4 30 (3.39%) Confluence
5 25 (2.83%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.24%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.13%) Mendix
7 10 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (1.02%) nginx
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 626 (70.81%) AWS
2 498 (56.33%) AWS Lambda
3 340 (38.46%) Azure
4 327 (36.99%) Amazon S3
5 212 (23.98%) Azure Functions
6 196 (22.17%) GitHub
7 152 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
8 151 (17.08%) Amazon EC2
9 138 (15.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 138 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
10 134 (15.16%) GitHub Actions
11 126 (14.25%) Amazon EKS
12 125 (14.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (11.99%) Power Platform
14 101 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 85 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (8.94%) GCP
17 71 (8.03%) Azure Service Bus
18 62 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
19 58 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.62%) Firewall
2 29 (3.28%) DNS
3 24 (2.71%) VPN
4 12 (1.36%) Network Security
5 9 (1.02%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.90%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.79%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) HTTP
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 4 (0.45%) WAN
11 3 (0.34%) LAN
12 2 (0.23%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
13 1 (0.11%) AMQP
13 1 (0.11%) Internet
13 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (13.57%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (11.99%) DynamoDB
4 86 (9.73%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 63 (7.13%) Power BI
7 52 (5.88%) Data Lake
8 51 (5.77%) Relational Database
9 47 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
10 36 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (3.96%) Redis
12 30 (3.39%) MongoDB
13 29 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 28 (3.17%) Tableau
15 23 (2.60%) Big Data
16 21 (2.38%) DocumentDB
16 21 (2.38%) Metadata
16 21 (2.38%) SQL Server
17 18 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 156 (17.65%) Git
2 129 (14.59%) Jenkins
3 122 (13.80%) GitLab
4 46 (5.20%) JIRA
5 22 (2.49%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.15%) JUnit
8 16 (1.81%) Liquibase
8 16 (1.81%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.58%) Mockito
10 13 (1.47%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.13%) Maven
12 9 (1.02%) Mocha
13 8 (0.90%) MLflow
13 8 (0.90%) Postman
13 8 (0.90%) Selenium
14 6 (0.68%) Gradle
14 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.68%) Vite
15 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 216 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 171 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 131 (14.82%) Finance
4 67 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.67%) Banking
6 25 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.58%) Marketing
8 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.02%) Military
9 9 (1.02%) Retail
10 6 (0.68%) Front Office
10 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.45%) Aviation
12 4 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.45%) Law
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (26.13%) Developer
2 128 (14.48%) Architect
3 117 (13.24%) Senior
4 105 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 70 (7.92%) Lead
7 65 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (7.24%) Software Engineer
9 57 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (4.41%) AWS Architect
11 39 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 36 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 34 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.73%) Java Developer
15 32 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
16 29 (3.28%) AWS Developer
17 28 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.17%) Python Developer
18 27 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (15.95%) Node.js
2 128 (14.48%) REST
3 124 (14.03%) Kafka
4 123 (13.91%) React
5 121 (13.69%) RESTful
6 111 (12.56%) .NET
7 75 (8.48%) Spring
8 74 (8.37%) Spring Boot
9 59 (6.67%) OAuth
10 48 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 44 (4.98%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (4.19%) JSON
13 36 (4.07%) FastAPI
14 34 (3.85%) CSS
14 34 (3.85%) OpenID
14 34 (3.85%) PySpark
15 30 (3.39%) OAuth2
16 29 (3.28%) Flask
16 29 (3.28%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 230 (26.02%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.71%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 18 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.81%) NHS
9 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.36%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.90%) Replication
15 7 (0.79%) Data Fabric
15 7 (0.79%) DataPower
15 7 (0.79%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.14%) Linux
2 12 (1.36%) Unix
3 9 (1.02%) Windows
4 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (59.05%) CI/CD
2 456 (51.58%) DevOps
3 309 (34.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (34.28%) Agile
5 252 (28.51%) Microservices
6 206 (23.30%) Containerisation
7 165 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (17.08%) AI
9 136 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 130 (14.71%) Analytics
11 126 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
12 125 (14.14%) Event-Driven
13 124 (14.03%) Data Modelling
14 116 (13.12%) Test Automation
15 114 (12.90%) Observability
16 104 (11.76%) ETL
17 100 (11.31%) Data Engineering
18 92 (10.41%) Mentoring
19 86 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
20 78 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 423 (47.85%) Python
2 278 (31.45%) SQL
3 140 (15.84%) Java
3 140 (15.84%) JavaScript
4 126 (14.25%) C#
5 124 (14.03%) TypeScript
6 50 (5.66%) Bash
7 45 (5.09%) Go
8 43 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.30%) Bicep
10 19 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.04%) Ruby
12 11 (1.24%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.24%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.13%) Scala
13 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.02%) C++
15 7 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.79%) Korn
16 6 (0.68%) JSX
Qualifications
1 244 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 189 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.33%) AWS Certification
4 48 (5.43%) Degree
5 39 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (3.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 13 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.45%) PhD
16 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
18 1 (0.11%) CCSP
18 1 (0.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.52%) QA
3 25 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.71%) GDPR
4 24 (2.71%) NIST
5 20 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.13%) WCAG
8 9 (1.02%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.57%) PMO
11 4 (0.45%) HL7
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 243 (27.49%) Docker
2 29 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.90%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 365 (41.29%) Terraform
2 234 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 84 (9.50%) Prometheus
4 78 (8.82%) Grafana
5 68 (7.69%) Ansible
6 22 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.36%) Puppet
8 8 (0.90%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.79%) Consul
9 7 (0.79%) Kibana
10 4 (0.45%) Istio
10 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.45%) linkerd
10 4 (0.45%) Rancher
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 171 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.92%) Databricks
3 44 (4.98%) OpenAI
4 38 (4.30%) Splunk
5 31 (3.51%) Google
5 31 (3.51%) Oracle
6 26 (2.94%) Foundry
7 16 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.24%) Lotus
10 10 (1.13%) Kofax
10 10 (1.13%) Palantir
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.02%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.90%) Brio
12 8 (0.90%) Confluent
12 8 (0.90%) IBM
12 8 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.90%) Sybase