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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 117 135
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 860 654 600
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.37% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.39% 6.37% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 467 416
10th Percentile £400 £383 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £639
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 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 - £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 15,947 10,270 11,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 6,955 7,908
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 276 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -18 500 £550 - 84
North of England -50 136 £500 +5.26% 54
Midlands +1 90 £463 +5.71% 19
North West -28 70 £563 +18.42% 27
West Midlands -10 66 £482 +10.23% 13
South East -55 48 £600 +35.59% 29
South West -32 46 £542 +5.97% 25
Yorkshire -44 43 £500 +5.26% 16
East Midlands -5 24 £425 +2.35% 6
East of England -13 23 £525 - 9
North East -20 23 £463 +4.52% 11
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 49 (5.70%) Confluence
2 41 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.67%) Apache
5 19 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 7 (0.81%) SAS
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (76.40%) AWS
2 526 (61.16%) AWS Lambda
3 359 (41.74%) Amazon S3
4 320 (37.21%) Azure
5 171 (19.88%) GitHub
6 169 (19.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 159 (18.49%) Azure Functions
8 151 (17.56%) Amazon ECS
9 143 (16.63%) Amazon EC2
10 125 (14.53%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
11 107 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 106 (12.33%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
14 104 (12.09%) Amazon SQS
15 85 (9.88%) AWS Step Functions
16 84 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.37%) GCP
18 68 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
19 59 (6.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.95%) Firewall
2 26 (3.02%) Network Security
3 22 (2.56%) DNS
4 18 (2.09%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (15.12%) DynamoDB
2 121 (14.07%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.51%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
5 78 (9.07%) Power BI
6 77 (8.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (6.40%) NoSQL
9 43 (5.00%) Data Lake
10 42 (4.88%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.14%) Relational Database
14 26 (3.02%) Metadata
15 25 (2.91%) MongoDB
16 22 (2.56%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.56%) MySQL
16 22 (2.56%) Tableau
17 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
17 18 (2.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 152 (17.67%) Git
2 120 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 118 (13.72%) GitLab
4 71 (8.26%) JIRA
5 24 (2.79%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.63%) Selenium
9 13 (1.51%) Postman
10 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.05%) JUnit
12 7 (0.81%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) MSTest
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.58%) Finance
4 66 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.07%) Banking
6 26 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 11 (1.28%) Billing
9 11 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.28%) Marketing
10 10 (1.16%) Retail
11 8 (0.93%) Back Office
12 7 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Military
13 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Games
15 4 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 193 (22.44%) Developer
2 166 (19.30%) Architect
3 161 (18.72%) Senior
4 123 (14.30%) AWS Engineer
5 103 (11.98%) Data Engineer
6 99 (11.51%) Lead
7 63 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.70%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (5.00%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.30%) Senior Developer
14 36 (4.19%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 33 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) AWS Data Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
18 30 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (41.28%) Terraform
2 121 (14.07%) REST
3 108 (12.56%) React
4 93 (10.81%) Node.js
5 92 (10.70%) Kafka
6 91 (10.58%) RESTful
7 78 (9.07%) .NET
8 64 (7.44%) PySpark
9 50 (5.81%) GraphQL
10 49 (5.70%) Spring
10 49 (5.70%) Spring Boot
11 44 (5.12%) FastAPI
12 40 (4.65%) AWS CDK
13 38 (4.42%) OAuth
14 37 (4.30%) Flask
15 35 (4.07%) JSON
16 34 (3.95%) AngularJS
17 32 (3.72%) CSS
18 28 (3.26%) HTML
18 28 (3.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 267 (31.05%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.65%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.26%) NHS
6 25 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.28%) IoT
12 11 (1.28%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.40%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Unix
3 17 (1.98%) Windows
4 13 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 4 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (61.86%) CI/CD
2 395 (45.93%) DevOps
3 335 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (38.37%) Agile
5 199 (23.14%) AI
6 196 (22.79%) Microservices
7 186 (21.63%) Containerisation
8 166 (19.30%) Event-Driven
9 159 (18.49%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.09%) Observability
11 142 (16.51%) Analytics
12 129 (15.00%) Data Modelling
13 128 (14.88%) Software Engineering
14 124 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
15 116 (13.49%) Data Engineering
15 116 (13.49%) Migration
16 115 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 114 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
18 113 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
19 111 (12.91%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 401 (46.63%) Python
2 274 (31.86%) SQL
3 132 (15.35%) TypeScript
4 127 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 109 (12.67%) Java
6 101 (11.74%) C#
7 66 (7.67%) Bash
8 38 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.30%) Bicep
10 29 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.74%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) Go
13 9 (1.05%) Groovy
14 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.70%) R
14 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 245 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 206 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.88%) Degree
5 38 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 36 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.58%) CISSP
16 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.93%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.40%) QA
3 31 (3.60%) GDPR
4 29 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.63%) WCAG
7 12 (1.40%) NIST
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.93%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 246 (28.60%) Docker
2 35 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 200 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 70 (8.14%) Grafana
3 57 (6.63%) Prometheus
4 48 (5.58%) Ansible
5 16 (1.86%) Puppet
6 13 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.16%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.70%) linkerd
9 6 (0.70%) Packer
9 6 (0.70%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) Salt
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 3 (0.35%) Consul
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 159 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.05%) Databricks
3 36 (4.19%) Oracle
4 28 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.79%) Informatica
6 23 (2.67%) Google
7 21 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.98%) Splunk
10 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.05%) SAP
12 8 (0.93%) Brio
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.70%) Confluent
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable
15 5 (0.58%) New Relic
15 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.58%) Workday
16 4 (0.47%) Fortinet
16 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA