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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 884 622 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.48% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.81% 6.58% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 454 468
10th Percentile £395 £400 £373
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 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £521
% change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
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 15,211 9,449 12,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.73% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,308 6,418 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 239 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £17.14 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -14 532 £538 -2.27% 88
North of England -28 143 £500 - 43
North West -29 81 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -20 64 £488 -2.50% 17
South East -42 55 £575 +15.00% 47
West Midlands -24 50 £482 -5.81% 11
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 - 14
South West -18 41 £575 +8.24% 21
East of England -21 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 6
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 52 (5.88%) Confluence
2 40 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.15%) Apache
6 12 (1.36%) nginx
7 6 (0.68%) CICS
8 5 (0.57%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.57%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 671 (75.90%) AWS
2 536 (60.63%) AWS Lambda
3 394 (44.57%) Amazon S3
4 327 (36.99%) Azure
5 179 (20.25%) GitHub
6 172 (19.46%) Azure Functions
7 170 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
8 155 (17.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 143 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
11 126 (14.25%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (13.57%) Power Platform
13 109 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 105 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
15 101 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (10.18%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (8.94%) AWS Step Functions
18 78 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 68 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.85%) Firewall
2 30 (3.39%) DNS
3 24 (2.71%) VPN
4 21 (2.38%) Network Security
5 13 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.36%) WAN
7 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.90%) SSL
9 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.57%) SMS
11 4 (0.45%) IPsec
11 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.45%) MQTT
12 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 2 (0.23%) AMQP
13 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.11%) 4G
14 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.25%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.57%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (10.86%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (10.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
5 83 (9.39%) Power BI
6 60 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (6.45%) NoSQL
8 53 (6.00%) Data Lake
9 37 (4.19%) SQL Server
10 34 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (3.62%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.05%) Tableau
13 23 (2.60%) Metadata
14 21 (2.38%) MongoDB
14 21 (2.38%) Redis
15 19 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.81%) Apache Iceberg
16 16 (1.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 148 (16.74%) Git
2 123 (13.91%) GitLab
3 120 (13.57%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.37%) JIRA
5 26 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.13%) JUnit
10 9 (1.02%) Mocha
10 9 (1.02%) Postman
11 8 (0.90%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.90%) MSTest
12 6 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) Selenium
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 210 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.50%) Finance
4 61 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.05%) Banking
7 16 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.36%) Law
9 10 (1.13%) Military
10 8 (0.90%) Marketing
10 8 (0.90%) Retail
11 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.79%) Legal
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.45%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.62%) Developer
2 168 (19.00%) Architect
3 146 (16.52%) Senior
4 117 (13.24%) AWS Engineer
5 104 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 89 (10.07%) Lead
7 57 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.22%) AWS Architect
9 44 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.30%) Python Developer
11 38 (4.30%) Senior Developer
11 38 (4.30%) Technical Architect
12 37 (4.19%) AWS Developer
13 35 (3.96%) Cloud Architect
14 34 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
15 32 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.12%) Kafka
2 113 (12.78%) React
3 105 (11.88%) REST
4 101 (11.43%) Node.js
5 100 (11.31%) RESTful
6 81 (9.16%) .NET
7 65 (7.35%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.13%) Spring
9 62 (7.01%) PySpark
10 54 (6.11%) OAuth
11 48 (5.43%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.86%) OpenID
13 39 (4.41%) JSON
14 38 (4.30%) FastAPI
15 36 (4.07%) AWS CDK
16 35 (3.96%) AngularJS
17 31 (3.51%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.17%) Flask
19 26 (2.94%) Next.js
20 24 (2.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 260 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.60%) NHS
7 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.13%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.90%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.79%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.79%) IoT
11 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.79%) Replication
12 6 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.98%) Linux
2 21 (2.38%) Unix
3 12 (1.36%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.68%) zOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (60.52%) CI/CD
2 411 (46.49%) DevOps
3 322 (36.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 302 (34.16%) Agile
5 195 (22.06%) Microservices
6 194 (21.95%) Containerisation
7 183 (20.70%) AI
8 156 (17.65%) Event-Driven
9 138 (15.61%) Analytics
10 135 (15.27%) Test Automation
11 133 (15.05%) Observability
12 132 (14.93%) Data Modelling
13 127 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
15 121 (13.69%) Software Engineering
16 115 (13.01%) ETL
17 111 (12.56%) Data Engineering
18 104 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (11.43%) Mentoring
19 101 (11.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 411 (46.49%) Python
2 279 (31.56%) SQL
3 130 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 125 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 123 (13.91%) Java
6 120 (13.57%) C#
7 53 (6.00%) Bash
8 34 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.39%) Bicep
10 27 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.92%) Go
11 17 (1.92%) Scala
12 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.79%) Groovy
14 6 (0.68%) JCL
14 6 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.57%) LotusScript
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 246 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 199 (22.51%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 34 (3.85%) Degree
5 33 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.24%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
18 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.98%) QA
3 27 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.83%) GDPR
5 19 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.70%) NIST
8 8 (0.90%) WCAG
9 7 (0.79%) PMO
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 240 (27.15%) Docker
2 32 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.36%) Squid
5 4 (0.45%) RACF
5 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 368 (41.63%) Terraform
2 214 (24.21%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.03%) Grafana
4 69 (7.81%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.98%) Ansible
6 24 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.26%) Puppet
8 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.90%) Consul
10 6 (0.68%) Istio
10 6 (0.68%) Podman
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 145 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.45%) Databricks
3 48 (5.43%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.51%) Oracle
5 22 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.15%) Google
6 19 (2.15%) Splunk
7 17 (1.92%) Informatica
8 14 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.24%) Foundry
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.90%) Brio
12 8 (0.90%) Confluent
13 7 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.79%) SAP
13 7 (0.79%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Teradata