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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 880 609 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.50% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.19% 6.63% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 456 497
10th Percentile £368 £400 £375
25th Percentile £424 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £513
% change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +190.38% - -

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 14,208 9,180 12,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.69% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,809 6,465 8,638
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 185 322
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -7 532 £513 -10.87% 153
North of England 0 160 £500 - 90
North West -4 81 £500 - 47
Yorkshire 0 66 £500 - 34
Midlands -23 60 £500 +11.11% 22
South East -51 53 £525 +5.00% 61
West Midlands -24 46 £500 +3.95% 18
South West -17 32 £575 -8.00% 31
East of England -15 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -11 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -27 14 £460 +2.91% 4
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 45 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.41%) Confluence
4 29 (3.30%) Apache
5 24 (2.73%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.25%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.14%) Mendix
7 10 (1.14%) nginx
8 8 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 647 (73.52%) AWS
2 522 (59.32%) AWS Lambda
3 355 (40.34%) Amazon S3
4 334 (37.95%) Azure
5 199 (22.61%) GitHub
6 195 (22.16%) Azure Functions
7 160 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
8 157 (17.84%) Amazon ECS
9 148 (16.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 135 (15.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 135 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
11 131 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
12 126 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (12.84%) Power Platform
14 97 (11.02%) Azure Logic Apps
15 92 (10.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 78 (8.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.30%) Amazon SQS
18 71 (8.07%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (7.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.43%) Firewall
2 36 (4.09%) DNS
3 25 (2.84%) VPN
4 13 (1.48%) Network Security
5 12 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
7 8 (0.91%) SSL
8 7 (0.80%) SMS
9 6 (0.68%) HTTP
10 5 (0.57%) IPsec
11 4 (0.45%) WAN
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) LAN
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
13 1 (0.11%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (13.52%) DynamoDB
3 95 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (8.41%) Power BI
5 73 (8.30%) NoSQL
6 68 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 63 (7.16%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (5.91%) Data Lake
9 51 (5.80%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (3.98%) Tableau
12 33 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (3.30%) Redis
14 28 (3.18%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.73%) Metadata
16 22 (2.50%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.39%) Big Data
18 18 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (2.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 157 (17.84%) Git
2 117 (13.30%) Jenkins
3 112 (12.73%) GitLab
4 47 (5.34%) JIRA
5 23 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 18 (2.05%) JUnit
7 17 (1.93%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.48%) Mockito
9 9 (1.02%) Maven
10 8 (0.91%) Selenium
11 7 (0.80%) Liquibase
11 7 (0.80%) Mocha
11 7 (0.80%) Postman
12 6 (0.68%) Gradle
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.57%) MLflow
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 211 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 172 (19.55%) Public Sector
3 126 (14.32%) Finance
4 70 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.00%) Banking
6 31 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.59%) Marketing
8 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
9 8 (0.91%) Military
10 7 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.80%) Retail
11 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.57%) Billing
12 5 (0.57%) Front Office
12 5 (0.57%) Law
12 5 (0.57%) Legal
12 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.45%) Aviation
13 4 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 232 (26.36%) Developer
2 144 (16.36%) Architect
3 120 (13.64%) Senior
4 104 (11.82%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 70 (7.95%) Lead
7 63 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 47 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (4.89%) AWS Architect
12 42 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.55%) AWS Developer
14 35 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 35 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.98%) Java Developer
15 33 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
15 33 (3.75%) Python Developer
15 33 (3.75%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (16.02%) Node.js
2 126 (14.32%) React
3 121 (13.75%) Kafka
4 107 (12.16%) REST
5 103 (11.70%) RESTful
6 100 (11.36%) .NET
7 83 (9.43%) Spring
8 82 (9.32%) Spring Boot
9 60 (6.82%) OAuth
10 50 (5.68%) AngularJS
11 44 (5.00%) PySpark
12 41 (4.66%) JSON
13 35 (3.98%) GraphQL
13 35 (3.98%) OpenID
14 32 (3.64%) FastAPI
15 31 (3.52%) AWS CDK
16 30 (3.41%) OAuth2
17 29 (3.30%) CSS
18 27 (3.07%) .NET Core
18 27 (3.07%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 214 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.50%) NHS
5 20 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.02%) Replication
10 8 (0.91%) DataPower
10 8 (0.91%) IoT
10 8 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.82%) Linux
2 18 (2.05%) Unix
3 11 (1.25%) Windows
4 5 (0.57%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.34%) zOS
7 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (59.55%) CI/CD
2 452 (51.36%) DevOps
3 321 (36.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 285 (32.39%) Agile
5 232 (26.36%) Microservices
6 199 (22.61%) Containerisation
7 149 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (16.25%) AI
9 136 (15.45%) Event-Driven
10 135 (15.34%) Analytics
11 130 (14.77%) Data Modelling
12 121 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
13 118 (13.41%) Observability
13 118 (13.41%) Software Engineering
14 114 (12.95%) ETL
15 109 (12.39%) Test Automation
16 96 (10.91%) Data Engineering
17 92 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
17 92 (10.45%) Mentoring
18 83 (9.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.36%) Python
2 271 (30.80%) SQL
3 146 (16.59%) Java
4 137 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 129 (14.66%) C#
6 126 (14.32%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.48%) Bash
8 43 (4.89%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.43%) Bicep
10 26 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.84%) Go
12 20 (2.27%) Ruby
13 12 (1.36%) Scala
14 11 (1.25%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.25%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.80%) C++
15 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.68%) Korn
16 6 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 259 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 205 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.23%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.30%) Degree
5 29 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.66%) QA
3 26 (2.95%) GDPR
4 25 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.93%) NIST
7 16 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.02%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.45%) HL7
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 241 (27.39%) Docker
2 33 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.14%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 378 (42.95%) Terraform
2 225 (25.57%) Kubernetes
3 69 (7.84%) Prometheus
4 66 (7.50%) Grafana
5 57 (6.48%) Ansible
6 25 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.59%) Puppet
8 12 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.80%) Consul
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 5 (0.57%) Istio
11 5 (0.57%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Rancher
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.45%) Salt
13 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 163 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.41%) Databricks
3 44 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 38 (4.32%) Oracle
5 25 (2.84%) Splunk
6 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.93%) Google
8 16 (1.82%) Foundry
9 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.14%) Brio
11 10 (1.14%) Kofax
12 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.91%) Confluent
13 8 (0.91%) Palantir
13 8 (0.91%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) IBM
14 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.80%) SAP