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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 120 138
Rank change year-on-year -30 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 860 662 591
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.40% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 6.34% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 466 397
10th Percentile £400 £385 £360
25th Percentile £450 £424 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
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% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £76.20 £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 15,850 10,440 11,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.38% 37.86% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,568 7,059 7,708
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 245 173
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -14 513 £550 - 649
North of England -49 130 £500 +5.04% 164
Midlands -19 85 £428 -13.64% 61
West Midlands -19 66 £450 -10.00% 32
North West -34 65 £588 +21.13% 109
South East -55 51 £600 +41.18% 83
Yorkshire -49 46 £500 +5.04% 35
South West -24 45 £500 -8.05% 82
East of England -35 20 £515 - 25
East Midlands -11 19 £419 -5.42% 29
North East -27 19 £463 +4.52% 20
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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.53%) Confluence
3 32 (3.72%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.37%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.02%) Apache
6 9 (1.05%) CMS
7 8 (0.93%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.47%) CICS
10 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.47%) 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
1 652 (75.81%) AWS
2 520 (60.47%) AWS Lambda
3 355 (41.28%) Amazon S3
4 337 (39.19%) Azure
5 183 (21.28%) GitHub
6 178 (20.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 177 (20.58%) Azure Functions
8 149 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
9 136 (15.81%) Amazon EC2
10 127 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
11 121 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
12 119 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
13 114 (13.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 114 (13.26%) Power Platform
14 106 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
15 88 (10.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 78 (9.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (8.49%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (7.79%) GCP
19 66 (7.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.26%) Firewall
1 28 (3.26%) Network Security
2 18 (2.09%) DNS
3 15 (1.74%) VPN
4 11 (1.28%) WAN
5 6 (0.70%) SSL
6 5 (0.58%) HTTP
6 5 (0.58%) MQTT
6 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.35%) CTI
7 3 (0.35%) FTP
7 3 (0.35%) IPv4
7 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.88%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.40%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (8.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 75 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
5 73 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
6 72 (8.37%) Power BI
7 57 (6.63%) NoSQL
8 50 (5.81%) SQL Server
9 49 (5.70%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 29 (3.37%) MySQL
11 28 (3.26%) Metadata
12 26 (3.02%) MongoDB
13 23 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (2.44%) Delta Lake
14 21 (2.44%) Relational Database
15 19 (2.21%) Tableau
16 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
17 14 (1.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 154 (17.91%) Git
2 116 (13.49%) Jenkins
3 111 (12.91%) GitLab
4 59 (6.86%) JIRA
5 26 (3.02%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.09%) Selenium
9 13 (1.51%) JUnit
9 13 (1.51%) Postman
10 11 (1.28%) Mockito
10 11 (1.28%) RStudio
10 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.05%) Maven
12 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 213 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 140 (16.28%) Finance
4 77 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.19%) Banking
7 14 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.63%) Marketing
7 14 (1.63%) Military
8 12 (1.40%) Back Office
8 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 11 (1.28%) Billing
10 9 (1.05%) Front Office
11 8 (0.93%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 194 (22.56%) Developer
2 171 (19.88%) Senior
3 157 (18.26%) Architect
4 124 (14.42%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (13.26%) Data Engineer
6 111 (12.91%) Lead
7 64 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (5.93%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.35%) AWS Architect
11 43 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
14 36 (4.19%) Senior Developer
15 35 (4.07%) AWS Data Engineer
15 35 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (3.95%) Python Developer
17 32 (3.72%) Technical Architect
17 32 (3.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (40.35%) Terraform
2 140 (16.28%) REST
3 103 (11.98%) React
4 93 (10.81%) .NET
5 92 (10.70%) Node.js
6 88 (10.23%) Kafka
7 86 (10.00%) RESTful
8 62 (7.21%) PySpark
9 56 (6.51%) Spring Boot
10 55 (6.40%) Spring
11 54 (6.28%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.23%) FastAPI
13 43 (5.00%) OAuth
14 40 (4.65%) AWS CDK
15 37 (4.30%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.30%) JSON
16 31 (3.60%) CSS
16 31 (3.60%) Flask
17 30 (3.49%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (6.05%) AI Agents
5 29 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.26%) NHS
7 23 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.40%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.40%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.05%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.98%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Unix
3 15 (1.74%) Windows
4 14 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 4 (0.47%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (62.79%) CI/CD
2 396 (46.05%) DevOps
3 338 (39.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 332 (38.60%) Agile
5 215 (25.00%) AI
6 188 (21.86%) Event-Driven
7 182 (21.16%) Microservices
8 178 (20.70%) Containerisation
9 163 (18.95%) Observability
10 157 (18.26%) Test Automation
11 147 (17.09%) Analytics
12 146 (16.98%) Data Modelling
13 142 (16.51%) Software Engineering
14 139 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (15.81%) Technical Leadership
16 132 (15.35%) Data Pipeline
17 129 (15.00%) Data Engineering
18 127 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 121 (14.07%) Mentoring
20 118 (13.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 415 (48.26%) Python
2 272 (31.63%) SQL
3 142 (16.51%) TypeScript
4 138 (16.05%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.19%) Java
6 120 (13.95%) C#
7 67 (7.79%) Bash
8 41 (4.77%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.42%) Bicep
10 29 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.74%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.93%) R
14 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 234 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.14%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.16%) Degree
5 35 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (3.84%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.05%) 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
16 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.98%) Data Quality
2 73 (8.49%) QA
3 38 (4.42%) GDPR
4 36 (4.19%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.67%) WCAG
6 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.16%) NIST
7 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.56%) Docker
2 34 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 200 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.09%) Grafana
3 51 (5.93%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.70%) Ansible
5 14 (1.63%) Puppet
6 10 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.05%) 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
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 4 (0.47%) 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
1 186 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.67%) Databricks
3 38 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.07%) Oracle
5 27 (3.14%) Google
6 21 (2.44%) Informatica
6 21 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.98%) Splunk
9 11 (1.28%) Brio
10 10 (1.16%) Foundry
10 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.81%) Confluent
11 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.81%) Tenable
12 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.58%) SAP
13 4 (0.47%) New Relic
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.47%) Workday