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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 120 136
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 861 667 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.39% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.36% 6.25% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 464 391
10th Percentile £400 £382 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -9 512 £550 - 573
North of England -53 132 £500 +4.06% 158
Midlands -26 86 £430 -14.00% 67
North West -31 68 £550 +14.58% 105
West Midlands -16 67 £460 -10.24% 34
South East -48 55 £600 +41.18% 101
South West -21 47 £520 -5.45% 77
Yorkshire -52 44 £500 +5.04% 39
North East -25 20 £463 -11.14% 14
East Midlands -12 19 £419 -5.42% 33
East of England -39 16 £525 +1.94% 26
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 40 (4.65%) Confluence
2 39 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.60%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.02%) Apache
6 9 (1.05%) CMS
7 8 (0.93%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.35%) CICS
12 2 (0.23%) Camunda
12 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) 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
1 647 (75.15%) AWS
2 518 (60.16%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (41.00%) Amazon S3
4 340 (39.49%) Azure
5 183 (21.25%) Azure Functions
5 183 (21.25%) GitHub
6 182 (21.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 155 (18.00%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (16.03%) Amazon EC2
9 133 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
10 122 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
11 119 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 112 (13.01%) Power Platform
14 104 (12.08%) Amazon SQS
15 83 (9.64%) AWS Step Functions
16 77 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 74 (8.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (7.78%) GCP
19 65 (7.55%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.37%) Network Security
2 25 (2.90%) Firewall
3 17 (1.97%) DNS
4 14 (1.63%) VPN
5 10 (1.16%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.52%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.17%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.92%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (7.55%) Power BI
8 55 (6.39%) NoSQL
9 51 (5.92%) Data Lake
9 51 (5.92%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.25%) Metadata
10 28 (3.25%) MongoDB
11 25 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (2.79%) MySQL
13 22 (2.56%) Delta Lake
14 20 (2.32%) Relational Database
15 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.97%) Tableau
17 15 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 156 (18.12%) Git
2 117 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.24%) GitLab
4 58 (6.74%) JIRA
5 27 (3.14%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.21%) Selenium
8 14 (1.63%) Postman
9 13 (1.51%) JUnit
10 11 (1.28%) Mockito
10 11 (1.28%) RStudio
11 10 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.05%) Maven
13 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.70%) Gatling
15 6 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 206 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 148 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 144 (16.72%) Finance
4 76 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.30%) Banking
7 15 (1.74%) Marketing
8 14 (1.63%) Military
9 13 (1.51%) Back Office
10 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.39%) Law
11 11 (1.28%) Billing
11 11 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.05%) Front Office
12 9 (1.05%) Retail
13 7 (0.81%) Legal
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 192 (22.30%) Developer
2 171 (19.86%) Senior
3 153 (17.77%) Architect
4 123 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (13.24%) Data Engineer
6 111 (12.89%) Lead
7 68 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.04%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.69%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 33 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.83%) Python Developer
14 33 (3.83%) Senior Developer
15 31 (3.60%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (40.19%) Terraform
2 146 (16.96%) REST
3 96 (11.15%) .NET
3 96 (11.15%) React
4 92 (10.69%) Kafka
5 88 (10.22%) Node.js
6 86 (9.99%) RESTful
7 59 (6.85%) PySpark
8 54 (6.27%) GraphQL
8 54 (6.27%) Spring Boot
9 53 (6.16%) Spring
10 46 (5.34%) FastAPI
11 42 (4.88%) OAuth
12 41 (4.76%) AWS CDK
13 38 (4.41%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.18%) JSON
15 30 (3.48%) CSS
15 30 (3.48%) Flask
15 30 (3.48%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 285 (33.10%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 64 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.62%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (3.02%) NHS
7 25 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.39%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.08%) Linux
2 23 (2.67%) Unix
3 17 (1.97%) Windows
4 14 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.35%) zOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (64.34%) CI/CD
2 404 (46.92%) DevOps
3 350 (40.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 333 (38.68%) Agile
5 228 (26.48%) AI
6 189 (21.95%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.37%) Containerisation
8 183 (21.25%) Microservices
9 168 (19.51%) Observability
10 165 (19.16%) Test Automation
11 144 (16.72%) Analytics
11 144 (16.72%) Software Engineering
12 142 (16.49%) Data Modelling
13 141 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (16.03%) Technical Leadership
15 132 (15.33%) Data Engineering
16 128 (14.87%) Data Pipeline
16 128 (14.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 122 (14.17%) Mentoring
18 119 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 412 (47.85%) Python
2 263 (30.55%) SQL
3 137 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 135 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.94%) C#
6 117 (13.59%) Java
7 65 (7.55%) Bash
8 39 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.41%) Bicep
10 27 (3.14%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.63%) Scala
12 9 (1.05%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.81%) R
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 233 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 200 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.25%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.16%) Degree
5 37 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.60%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.81%) CISSP
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.08%) Data Quality
2 72 (8.36%) QA
3 35 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.07%) GDPR
4 22 (2.56%) WCAG
5 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.05%) NIST
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
9 6 (0.70%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 239 (27.76%) Docker
2 32 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (24.04%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.20%) Grafana
3 53 (6.16%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.81%) Ansible
5 14 (1.63%) Puppet
6 10 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.70%) Istio
8 6 (0.70%) Packer
8 6 (0.70%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 190 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.55%) Databricks
3 41 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.37%) Oracle
5 27 (3.14%) Google
6 22 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.32%) Informatica
9 18 (2.09%) Splunk
10 12 (1.39%) Foundry
11 11 (1.28%) Brio
12 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.81%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 4 (0.46%) Adyen
14 4 (0.46%) New Relic
14 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.46%) UiPath
14 4 (0.46%) Workday