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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 862 605 639
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.48% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 6.57% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 447 473
10th Percentile £383 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £751 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £516
% change year-on-year - +1.74% -6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £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 14,873 9,206 11,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.77% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,111 6,274 8,526
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 224 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%

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 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 9 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 9 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 -8 524 £525 -4.55% 105
North of England -21 143 £500 - 68
North West -18 79 £518 +3.50% 38
Midlands -27 59 £491 -1.75% 15
South East -40 54 £575 +15.00% 45
Yorkshire -27 50 £500 - 21
West Midlands -28 46 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -15 34 £563 +2.27% 25
East of England -20 26 £550 -2.22% 6
North East -19 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -24 13 £498 +3.86% 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 47 (5.45%) Confluence
2 42 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.90%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.20%) Apache
6 11 (1.28%) nginx
7 8 (0.93%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.93%) Mendix
8 6 (0.70%) CICS
9 5 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.58%) SAS
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 659 (76.45%) AWS
2 530 (61.48%) AWS Lambda
3 380 (44.08%) Amazon S3
4 314 (36.43%) Azure
5 182 (21.11%) GitHub
6 165 (19.14%) Amazon EC2
6 165 (19.14%) Azure Functions
7 147 (17.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 138 (16.01%) Amazon ECS
9 136 (15.78%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
11 110 (12.76%) Power Platform
12 107 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 103 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
14 100 (11.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 88 (10.21%) Amazon SQS
16 83 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
17 79 (9.16%) Azure Logic Apps
18 70 (8.12%) GCP
19 69 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.48%) DNS
2 29 (3.36%) Firewall
3 22 (2.55%) VPN
4 16 (1.86%) Network Security
5 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.04%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.04%) SSL
7 7 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.81%) SMS
8 6 (0.70%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.70%) WAN
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) HTTP
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) MQTT
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.23%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) CTI
13 1 (0.12%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.50%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.15%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (10.32%) Amazon Athena
4 84 (9.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 82 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (8.58%) Power BI
7 55 (6.38%) NoSQL
8 50 (5.80%) Data Lake
9 45 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (4.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (4.06%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.71%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.36%) Tableau
14 23 (2.67%) Metadata
15 20 (2.32%) Big Data
15 20 (2.32%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.32%) Redis
16 19 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.09%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 133 (15.43%) Git
2 117 (13.57%) GitLab
3 116 (13.46%) Jenkins
4 64 (7.42%) JIRA
5 25 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.62%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.04%) JUnit
9 9 (1.04%) Mocha
10 8 (0.93%) MSTest
11 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.70%) Postman
12 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.70%) Vite
13 5 (0.58%) Gatling
13 5 (0.58%) Mockito
13 5 (0.58%) Snyk
13 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 141 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 129 (14.97%) Finance
4 50 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.90%) Banking
7 14 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.16%) Law
10 8 (0.93%) Marketing
10 8 (0.93%) Military
10 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Billing
13 4 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (23.09%) Developer
2 166 (19.26%) Architect
3 125 (14.50%) Senior
4 111 (12.88%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (11.25%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.74%) Lead
7 56 (6.50%) AWS Architect
8 55 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 53 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (4.87%) AWS Developer
11 42 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
12 39 (4.52%) Python Developer
13 38 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
13 38 (4.41%) Technical Architect
14 35 (4.06%) Senior Developer
15 31 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (13.92%) Kafka
2 119 (13.81%) React
3 104 (12.06%) Node.js
4 102 (11.83%) REST
5 93 (10.79%) RESTful
6 80 (9.28%) .NET
7 66 (7.66%) Spring Boot
8 64 (7.42%) Spring
9 57 (6.61%) PySpark
10 54 (6.26%) OAuth
11 43 (4.99%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.87%) GraphQL
12 42 (4.87%) OpenID
13 40 (4.64%) JSON
14 37 (4.29%) AWS CDK
15 36 (4.18%) FastAPI
16 30 (3.48%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.25%) Flask
18 26 (3.02%) CSS
18 26 (3.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 24 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.44%) NHS
6 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
7 10 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.93%) IoT
10 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.22%) Linux
2 21 (2.44%) Unix
3 10 (1.16%) Windows
4 6 (0.70%) zOS
5 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 400 (46.40%) DevOps
3 324 (37.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 281 (32.60%) Agile
5 191 (22.16%) Microservices
6 181 (21.00%) Containerisation
7 170 (19.72%) AI
8 156 (18.10%) Event-Driven
9 135 (15.66%) Analytics
10 132 (15.31%) Observability
11 125 (14.50%) Test Automation
12 124 (14.39%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
13 122 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (13.81%) Software Engineering
15 113 (13.11%) ETL
16 104 (12.06%) Data Engineering
17 101 (11.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 96 (11.14%) Mentoring
19 95 (11.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 392 (45.48%) Python
2 268 (31.09%) SQL
3 126 (14.62%) Java
3 126 (14.62%) JavaScript
3 126 (14.62%) TypeScript
4 117 (13.57%) C#
5 47 (5.45%) Bash
6 35 (4.06%) PowerShell
7 31 (3.60%) Bicep
8 27 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.20%) Go
9 19 (2.20%) Scala
10 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.93%) Formula Language
11 8 (0.93%) LotusScript
12 7 (0.81%) Groovy
12 7 (0.81%) Ruby
13 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 235 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 188 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.99%) AWS Certification
4 31 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.36%) Degree
6 28 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.81%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.99%) QA
3 26 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.78%) GDPR
5 17 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.86%) NIST
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
8 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 231 (26.80%) Docker
2 29 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.39%) Squid
3 12 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 366 (42.46%) Terraform
2 203 (23.55%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.00%) Grafana
4 67 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.99%) Ansible
6 27 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.97%) Puppet
8 10 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.93%) Consul
11 6 (0.70%) Istio
11 6 (0.70%) Kibana
12 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.58%) Podman
12 5 (0.58%) Salt
13 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.35%) Packer
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 137 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.50%) Databricks
3 47 (5.45%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.06%) Oracle
5 22 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.20%) Splunk
7 18 (2.09%) Google
8 14 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.39%) Foundry
10 11 (1.28%) Confluent
10 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.16%) Informatica
11 10 (1.16%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.04%) Brio
12 9 (1.04%) SAP
13 8 (0.93%) Kofax
13 8 (0.93%) Lotus
14 7 (0.81%) Sybase
14 7 (0.81%) Tenable