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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 117 132
Rank change year-on-year -25 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 851 660 619
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.39% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 6.39% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 477 439
10th Percentile £399 £394 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -1.87% -5.52%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £722 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £76.63 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 15,772 10,323 11,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,539 6,986 8,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 261
10th Percentile £16.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -17 494 £550 - 136
North of England -32 141 £500 - 59
Midlands -8 80 £475 +5.50% 22
North West -33 75 £538 +7.50% 30
West Midlands -7 64 £469 +4.22% 15
Yorkshire -32 48 £500 +3.90% 14
South East -67 47 £600 +21.95% 36
South West -22 45 £550 +8.64% 27
East of England -14 28 £550 +3.53% 8
North East -29 19 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -10 16 £488 +8.32% 7
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 46 (5.41%) Confluence
2 39 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.47%) Apache
5 16 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (77.56%) AWS
2 525 (61.69%) AWS Lambda
3 373 (43.83%) Amazon S3
4 307 (36.08%) Azure
5 164 (19.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (18.33%) GitHub
7 155 (18.21%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (17.98%) Amazon EC2
9 151 (17.74%) Azure Functions
10 133 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (12.46%) Power Platform
14 97 (11.40%) Amazon SQS
15 94 (11.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 91 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
17 83 (9.75%) AWS Step Functions
18 75 (8.81%) GCP
19 67 (7.87%) Azure Logic Apps
20 52 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.88%) Firewall
2 25 (2.94%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
4 18 (2.12%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 5 (0.59%) MQTT
8 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 4 (0.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) CTI
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.24%) AMQP
11 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.12%) 5G
12 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.16%) DynamoDB
2 120 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (11.05%) Amazon Athena
4 84 (9.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (9.17%) Power BI
6 76 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.17%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.88%) Data Lake
10 41 (4.82%) SQL Server
11 34 (4.00%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.17%) Metadata
14 25 (2.94%) Tableau
15 21 (2.47%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.12%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.88%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.88%) MySQL
18 15 (1.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 146 (17.16%) Git
2 116 (13.63%) Jenkins
3 111 (13.04%) GitLab
4 68 (7.99%) JIRA
5 23 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.29%) JUnit
8 11 (1.29%) Postman
8 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.06%) Selenium
10 8 (0.94%) Mocha
10 8 (0.94%) MSTest
11 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
13 5 (0.59%) Gatling
13 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 201 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.63%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.39%) Finance
4 63 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.53%) Banking
6 22 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.06%) Billing
10 9 (1.06%) Retail
11 8 (0.94%) Legal
11 8 (0.94%) Marketing
12 7 (0.82%) Back Office
12 7 (0.82%) Front Office
12 7 (0.82%) Military
13 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 195 (22.91%) Developer
2 164 (19.27%) Senior
3 156 (18.33%) Architect
4 120 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.52%) Data Engineer
6 97 (11.40%) Lead
7 57 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 54 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.23%) Software Engineer
10 49 (5.76%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.94%) Senior Developer
14 40 (4.70%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.35%) AWS Developer
16 36 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
17 35 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (3.76%) Technical Architect
19 30 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
20 29 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (13.04%) REST
2 106 (12.46%) Node.js
3 105 (12.34%) React
4 95 (11.16%) Kafka
4 95 (11.16%) RESTful
5 73 (8.58%) .NET
6 61 (7.17%) Spring Boot
7 59 (6.93%) PySpark
7 59 (6.93%) Spring
8 53 (6.23%) GraphQL
9 44 (5.17%) OAuth
10 40 (4.70%) JSON
11 39 (4.58%) AWS CDK
11 39 (4.58%) FastAPI
12 35 (4.11%) AngularJS
13 32 (3.76%) OpenID
14 30 (3.53%) Flask
15 29 (3.41%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.17%) CSS
17 25 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.29%) NHS
6 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.29%) IoT
12 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.82%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.11%) Linux
2 23 (2.70%) Unix
3 15 (1.76%) Windows
4 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 382 (44.89%) DevOps
3 322 (37.84%) Agile
4 319 (37.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (24.21%) Microservices
6 194 (22.80%) AI
7 190 (22.33%) Containerisation
8 156 (18.33%) Event-Driven
9 144 (16.92%) Analytics
10 142 (16.69%) Test Automation
11 136 (15.98%) Observability
12 134 (15.75%) Data Modelling
13 124 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
14 120 (14.10%) Software Engineering
15 117 (13.75%) Data Engineering
16 116 (13.63%) ETL
17 113 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
18 107 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (12.34%) Migration
20 104 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 400 (47.00%) Python
2 275 (32.31%) SQL
3 129 (15.16%) TypeScript
4 120 (14.10%) Java
5 118 (13.87%) JavaScript
6 105 (12.34%) C#
7 64 (7.52%) Bash
8 36 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.76%) Bicep
10 30 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.88%) Scala
12 11 (1.29%) Go
13 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.94%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Gremlin
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 239 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.47%) Degree
5 36 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.52%) QA
3 29 (3.41%) GDPR
4 27 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.53%) WCAG
7 12 (1.41%) NIST
7 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 236 (27.73%) Docker
2 31 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 337 (39.60%) Terraform
2 204 (23.97%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.76%) Grafana
4 62 (7.29%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.05%) Ansible
6 18 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.88%) Puppet
8 8 (0.94%) Istio
8 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Podman
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.35%) Consul
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 141 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.99%) Databricks
3 36 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.41%) Oracle
5 23 (2.70%) Google
6 19 (2.23%) Informatica
6 19 (2.23%) Splunk
7 18 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.06%) Brio
10 8 (0.94%) Foundry
10 8 (0.94%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.59%) Confluent
12 5 (0.59%) New Relic
12 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.59%) Sybase
12 5 (0.59%) Workday