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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 119 135
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 857 649 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.35% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.31% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 468 434
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.55%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £638
90th Percentile £735 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £37.93 £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 £73.80 £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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -15 502 £550 - 211
North of England -32 137 £500 +2.30% 79
Midlands -10 80 £479 +6.39% 25
North West -36 69 £550 +10.00% 42
West Midlands -18 64 £476 +5.78% 18
South West -16 49 £538 +8.86% 32
Yorkshire -27 48 £500 +3.90% 22
South East -58 45 £600 +27.39% 39
East of England -14 25 £550 +4.76% 12
North East -26 21 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -13 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 (5.37%) Confluence
2 37 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.45%) Apache
5 17 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
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%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (77.01%) AWS
2 522 (60.91%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (42.82%) Amazon S3
4 312 (36.41%) Azure
5 167 (19.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (18.44%) GitHub
7 155 (18.09%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (17.97%) Azure Functions
9 153 (17.85%) Amazon EC2
10 133 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
11 112 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 105 (12.25%) Power Platform
14 97 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
15 95 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 82 (9.57%) AWS Step Functions
18 74 (8.63%) GCP
19 64 (7.47%) Azure Logic Apps
20 56 (6.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.97%) Firewall
2 24 (2.80%) Network Security
3 23 (2.68%) DNS
4 19 (2.22%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 8 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 5 (0.58%) MQTT
8 5 (0.58%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (15.52%) DynamoDB
2 116 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (11.09%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (9.33%) Power BI
6 76 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.12%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.83%) Data Lake
10 44 (5.13%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.73%) Relational Database
12 30 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.92%) Metadata
15 24 (2.80%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.80%) Tableau
16 18 (2.10%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.87%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.87%) MySQL
18 14 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 148 (17.27%) Git
2 116 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 110 (12.84%) GitLab
4 68 (7.93%) JIRA
5 23 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.40%) JUnit
8 12 (1.40%) Postman
9 11 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.17%) Selenium
11 8 (0.93%) MSTest
12 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) Mockito
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 198 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 148 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.29%) Finance
4 67 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.73%) Banking
6 24 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 11 (1.28%) Retail
10 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.17%) Marketing
11 9 (1.05%) Billing
12 8 (0.93%) Legal
13 7 (0.82%) Back Office
13 7 (0.82%) Front Office
13 7 (0.82%) Military
14 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (23.22%) Developer
2 166 (19.37%) Senior
3 158 (18.44%) Architect
4 123 (14.35%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.44%) Lead
6 96 (11.20%) Data Engineer
7 57 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.18%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.72%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.90%) Python Developer
14 41 (4.78%) Senior Developer
15 38 (4.43%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
17 32 (3.73%) Technical Architect
18 31 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
19 30 (3.50%) AWS Data Engineer
19 30 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (12.95%) REST
2 107 (12.49%) React
3 101 (11.79%) Node.js
4 96 (11.20%) Kafka
4 96 (11.20%) RESTful
5 76 (8.87%) .NET
6 59 (6.88%) PySpark
7 58 (6.77%) Spring Boot
8 56 (6.53%) Spring
9 51 (5.95%) GraphQL
10 44 (5.13%) OAuth
11 40 (4.67%) AWS CDK
12 39 (4.55%) FastAPI
13 37 (4.32%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.20%) JSON
15 32 (3.73%) Flask
15 32 (3.73%) OpenID
16 29 (3.38%) CSS
16 29 (3.38%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 256 (29.87%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.20%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.03%) NHS
6 24 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.17%) IoT
11 10 (1.17%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.83%) Linux
2 23 (2.68%) Unix
3 15 (1.75%) Windows
4 12 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) 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
1 522 (60.91%) CI/CD
2 385 (44.92%) DevOps
3 334 (38.97%) Agile
4 325 (37.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 210 (24.50%) Microservices
6 191 (22.29%) AI
7 186 (21.70%) Containerisation
8 162 (18.90%) Event-Driven
9 148 (17.27%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.69%) Observability
11 139 (16.22%) Analytics
12 135 (15.75%) Data Modelling
13 121 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
14 118 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
15 116 (13.54%) Software Engineering
16 115 (13.42%) ETL
17 114 (13.30%) Data Engineering
18 113 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 107 (12.49%) Technical Leadership
20 106 (12.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 393 (45.86%) Python
2 275 (32.09%) SQL
3 133 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 128 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 119 (13.89%) Java
6 103 (12.02%) C#
7 63 (7.35%) Bash
8 35 (4.08%) Bicep
8 35 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.50%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.87%) Scala
11 10 (1.17%) Go
11 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.93%) Groovy
13 6 (0.70%) JCL
13 6 (0.70%) Ruby
13 6 (0.70%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.58%) Cypher
14 5 (0.58%) Rust
14 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 250 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 209 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.77%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.55%) Degree
5 36 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.70%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.83%) QA
3 30 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.50%) GDPR
4 24 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.75%) WCAG
6 12 (1.40%) NIST
6 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.82%) PMO
8 5 (0.58%) HL7
8 5 (0.58%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.65%) Docker
2 32 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.35%) RACF
7 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (39.44%) Terraform
2 203 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 65 (7.58%) Grafana
4 60 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.90%) Ansible
6 18 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.87%) Puppet
8 8 (0.93%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) Podman
11 5 (0.58%) linkerd
11 5 (0.58%) Packer
11 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 145 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.83%) Databricks
3 30 (3.50%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.38%) Oracle
5 24 (2.80%) Google
6 20 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.22%) Informatica
8 18 (2.10%) Splunk
9 10 (1.17%) Brio
9 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.93%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) New Relic
11 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.70%) Confluent
12 6 (0.70%) Tenable
13 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.58%) Sybase
13 5 (0.58%) Workday
14 4 (0.47%) Ab Initio