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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 119 137
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 865 695 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.47% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 6.39% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 489 405
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.13 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.80 £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 16,178 10,882 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.66% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 7,357 7,545
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 264 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £16.27
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -14 519 £550 +2.47% 73
North of England -65 129 £500 +2.56% 42
Midlands -33 85 £430 -14.85% 10
North West -37 65 £525 +10.53% 26
West Midlands -32 64 £460 -10.90% 8
South East -53 57 £600 +41.18% 28
South West -24 45 £534 -5.11% 19
Yorkshire -66 44 £500 +2.04% 13
East Midlands -8 21 £425 -2.30% 2
North East -24 20 £463 -11.14% 3
East of England -50 15 £515 -1.90% 9
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 42 (4.86%) Confluence
2 39 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.12%) Apache
3 27 (3.12%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.04%) CMS
5 8 (0.92%) SAS
6 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.69%) nginx
8 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.35%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 636 (73.53%) AWS
2 507 (58.61%) AWS Lambda
3 348 (40.23%) Azure
4 340 (39.31%) Amazon S3
5 198 (22.89%) Azure Functions
6 194 (22.43%) GitHub
7 187 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 167 (19.31%) Amazon ECS
9 139 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
10 138 (15.95%) Amazon EKS
11 129 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
12 120 (13.87%) Power Platform
13 119 (13.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 119 (13.76%) GitHub Actions
14 107 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
15 81 (9.36%) Azure Logic Apps
16 77 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 76 (8.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 70 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
19 67 (7.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.82%) Network Security
2 24 (2.77%) Firewall
3 18 (2.08%) DNS
4 13 (1.50%) VPN
5 10 (1.16%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
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%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (15.14%) Amazon RDS
2 125 (14.45%) DynamoDB
3 84 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
5 70 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
6 69 (7.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 65 (7.51%) Power BI
8 55 (6.36%) Data Lake
9 54 (6.24%) SQL Server
10 51 (5.90%) NoSQL
11 33 (3.82%) MongoDB
12 30 (3.47%) Metadata
13 29 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.77%) MySQL
15 23 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 23 (2.66%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.31%) Relational Database
17 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
18 15 (1.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (18.15%) Git
2 121 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.06%) GitLab
4 64 (7.40%) JIRA
5 29 (3.35%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.54%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.20%) Selenium
9 14 (1.62%) JUnit
9 14 (1.62%) Postman
10 12 (1.39%) Mockito
11 11 (1.27%) Maven
11 11 (1.27%) RStudio
12 9 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.69%) Gatling
15 6 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 210 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.99%) Finance
3 142 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 79 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.62%) Banking
7 17 (1.97%) Marketing
8 14 (1.62%) Back Office
9 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.50%) Retail
10 11 (1.27%) Billing
10 11 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.27%) Law
10 11 (1.27%) Military
11 8 (0.92%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (21.73%) Developer
2 176 (20.35%) Senior
3 151 (17.46%) Architect
4 118 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (12.83%) Data Engineer
6 108 (12.49%) Lead
7 69 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.01%) AWS Architect
10 47 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
13 36 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.05%) Senior Developer
15 34 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
16 31 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
16 31 (3.58%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
17 30 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.35%) Terraform
2 158 (18.27%) REST
3 100 (11.56%) .NET
4 90 (10.40%) Kafka
4 90 (10.40%) React
4 90 (10.40%) RESTful
5 84 (9.71%) Node.js
6 58 (6.71%) PySpark
7 57 (6.59%) GraphQL
8 55 (6.36%) Spring Boot
9 54 (6.24%) Spring
10 51 (5.90%) FastAPI
11 48 (5.55%) OAuth
12 47 (5.43%) AWS CDK
13 40 (4.62%) AngularJS
14 38 (4.39%) JSON
15 32 (3.70%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.47%) Flask
17 28 (3.24%) CSS
17 28 (3.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 290 (33.53%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.98%) Product Ownership
4 60 (6.94%) AI Agents
5 36 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.54%) NHS
9 18 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.17%) Linux
2 21 (2.43%) Unix
3 20 (2.31%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.35%) zOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (65.32%) CI/CD
2 422 (48.79%) DevOps
3 354 (40.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (38.96%) Agile
5 240 (27.75%) AI
6 193 (22.31%) Event-Driven
7 188 (21.73%) Microservices
8 179 (20.69%) Containerisation
9 175 (20.23%) Observability
10 169 (19.54%) Test Automation
11 155 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (17.46%) Software Engineering
13 140 (16.18%) Analytics
13 140 (16.18%) Data Modelling
14 139 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
15 130 (15.03%) Data Engineering
15 130 (15.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 128 (14.80%) Data Pipeline
17 126 (14.57%) Migration
18 122 (14.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 412 (47.63%) Python
2 264 (30.52%) SQL
3 149 (17.23%) TypeScript
4 135 (15.61%) JavaScript
5 125 (14.45%) C#
6 119 (13.76%) Java
7 63 (7.28%) Bash
8 42 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.51%) Bicep
10 28 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.16%) Scala
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.81%) Rust
14 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 5 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 227 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 197 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.25%) AWS Certification
4 55 (6.36%) Degree
5 38 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (3.58%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.81%) CISSP
17 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.37%) Data Quality
2 75 (8.67%) QA
3 35 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.82%) GDPR
5 22 (2.54%) WCAG
6 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GLBA
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (27.75%) Docker
2 32 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.47%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.05%) Grafana
3 51 (5.90%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.78%) Ansible
5 13 (1.50%) Puppet
6 11 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
9 5 (0.58%) Istio
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.58%) Podman
10 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.35%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 200 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.21%) Databricks
3 43 (4.97%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.47%) Oracle
5 28 (3.24%) Google
6 25 (2.89%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.31%) Informatica
9 17 (1.97%) Splunk
10 14 (1.62%) Foundry
11 12 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.16%) Brio
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
15 5 (0.58%) UiPath
16 4 (0.46%) Adyen
16 4 (0.46%) New Relic
16 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
16 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty