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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 103 132
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 891 614 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.52% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 6.66% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 458 497
10th Percentile £368 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £513
% change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +190.38% - -

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 14,062 9,221 11,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.37% 37.83% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,696 6,498 8,621
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 182 321
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -9 532 £513 -10.87% 153
North of England -1 169 £500 - 90
North West -13 81 £500 - 47
Yorkshire +9 75 £500 - 34
Midlands -22 69 £500 +11.11% 22
West Midlands -14 55 £506 +5.20% 18
South East -55 53 £525 +5.00% 61
South West -16 32 £582 -5.02% 31
East of England -10 25 £575 -17.86% 20
North East -9 14 £475 - 11
East Midlands -28 14 £460 +2.22% 4
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 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.59%) Apache
3 32 (3.59%) Confluence
4 25 (2.81%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.23%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.12%) Mendix
6 10 (1.12%) nginx
7 9 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 650 (72.95%) AWS
2 523 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
3 353 (39.62%) Amazon S3
4 335 (37.60%) Azure
5 200 (22.45%) GitHub
6 197 (22.11%) Azure Functions
7 159 (17.85%) Amazon ECS
8 158 (17.73%) Amazon EC2
9 150 (16.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 139 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
11 134 (15.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 134 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
12 125 (14.03%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (12.68%) Power Platform
14 97 (10.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 89 (9.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 77 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (8.31%) Amazon SQS
18 71 (7.97%) Azure Service Bus
18 71 (7.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.15%) Firewall
2 36 (4.04%) DNS
3 26 (2.92%) VPN
4 13 (1.46%) Network Security
5 12 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.01%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.01%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.90%) SSL
8 7 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 7 (0.79%) SMS
9 6 (0.67%) HTTP
10 5 (0.56%) IPsec
11 4 (0.45%) WAN
12 2 (0.22%) AMQP
12 2 (0.22%) FTP
12 2 (0.22%) LAN
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
13 1 (0.11%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.03%) Amazon RDS
2 120 (13.47%) DynamoDB
3 107 (12.01%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (9.32%) NoSQL
5 74 (8.31%) Power BI
6 67 (7.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 61 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.72%) Data Lake
8 51 (5.72%) Relational Database
9 42 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (3.93%) Tableau
11 34 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (3.37%) Redis
13 28 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 28 (3.14%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.69%) Metadata
15 23 (2.58%) Big Data
16 22 (2.47%) SQL Server
17 18 (2.02%) DocumentDB
17 18 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 159 (17.85%) Git
2 128 (14.37%) Jenkins
3 119 (13.36%) GitLab
4 49 (5.50%) JIRA
5 23 (2.58%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.02%) JUnit
8 16 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.57%) Mockito
10 11 (1.23%) Liquibase
11 10 (1.12%) Maven
12 9 (1.01%) Selenium
13 7 (0.79%) Mocha
13 7 (0.79%) Postman
14 6 (0.67%) Gradle
14 6 (0.67%) Vite
15 5 (0.56%) MSTest
15 5 (0.56%) Snyk
15 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 220 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 174 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 132 (14.81%) Finance
4 70 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (5.84%) Banking
6 30 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.57%) Marketing
9 7 (0.79%) Retail
10 6 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.67%) Military
11 5 (0.56%) Billing
11 5 (0.56%) Front Office
11 5 (0.56%) Legal
11 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.45%) Aviation
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (26.15%) Developer
2 144 (16.16%) Architect
3 119 (13.36%) Senior
4 109 (12.23%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.21%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.52%) Lead
7 65 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 53 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (4.83%) AWS Architect
10 43 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (4.38%) AWS Developer
13 36 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 33 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 33 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
15 33 (3.70%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.59%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (15.71%) Node.js
2 127 (14.25%) React
3 122 (13.69%) Kafka
4 119 (13.36%) REST
5 116 (13.02%) RESTful
6 102 (11.45%) .NET
7 82 (9.20%) Spring
8 81 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 59 (6.62%) OAuth
10 49 (5.50%) AngularJS
11 43 (4.83%) PySpark
12 41 (4.60%) JSON
13 36 (4.04%) GraphQL
14 34 (3.82%) OpenID
15 33 (3.70%) FastAPI
16 32 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.48%) AWS CDK
17 31 (3.48%) CSS
18 29 (3.25%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.14%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 218 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.24%) AI Agents
4 20 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.24%) NHS
5 18 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.90%) DataPower
11 8 (0.90%) IoT
11 8 (0.90%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.90%) Replication
12 7 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.86%) Linux
2 17 (1.91%) Unix
3 11 (1.23%) Windows
4 5 (0.56%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.34%) zOS
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 464 (52.08%) DevOps
3 327 (36.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (34.01%) Agile
5 241 (27.05%) Microservices
6 206 (23.12%) Containerisation
7 151 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (15.82%) AI
9 136 (15.26%) Event-Driven
10 133 (14.93%) Analytics
11 130 (14.59%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.03%) Software Engineering
13 118 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
14 115 (12.91%) Observability
15 114 (12.79%) ETL
16 108 (12.12%) Test Automation
17 96 (10.77%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.21%) Mentoring
19 88 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
20 84 (9.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 416 (46.69%) Python
2 274 (30.75%) SQL
3 146 (16.39%) Java
4 139 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 130 (14.59%) TypeScript
6 129 (14.48%) C#
7 55 (6.17%) Bash
8 44 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.38%) Bicep
10 37 (4.15%) Go
11 25 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.13%) Ruby
13 12 (1.35%) Scala
14 11 (1.23%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.23%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.90%) C++
16 7 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.67%) Korn
17 6 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 262 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 206 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.16%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.38%) Degree
5 33 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 33 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.38%) QA
3 26 (2.92%) GDPR
3 26 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.02%) NIST
6 17 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.12%) WCAG
8 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.79%) PMO
9 4 (0.45%) HL7
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.22%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 244 (27.38%) Docker
2 32 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.12%) Squid
5 5 (0.56%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.22%) HDFS
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 385 (43.21%) Terraform
2 235 (26.37%) Kubernetes
3 77 (8.64%) Prometheus
4 74 (8.31%) Grafana
5 63 (7.07%) Ansible
6 25 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.35%) Puppet
9 9 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.79%) Consul
10 7 (0.79%) Kibana
11 5 (0.56%) Rancher
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.45%) Istio
12 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.45%) linkerd
13 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 163 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.31%) Databricks
3 42 (4.71%) OpenAI
4 38 (4.26%) Oracle
5 35 (3.93%) Splunk
6 22 (2.47%) Google
7 18 (2.02%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.91%) Foundry
9 15 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.23%) Lotus
11 10 (1.12%) Brio
11 10 (1.12%) Kofax
12 9 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.01%) Palantir
12 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.90%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.90%) Confluent
13 8 (0.90%) Sybase
14 7 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.79%) SAP