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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 880 617 643
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.48% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 6.58% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 451 471
10th Percentile £388 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £446 £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 £522
% change year-on-year - +0.57% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
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 15,086 9,377 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.70% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,221 6,374 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -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 532 233 339
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -12 528 £538 -2.27% 107
North of England -20 144 £500 - 50
North West -18 80 £525 +5.00% 27
Midlands -24 63 £488 -2.50% 15
South East -47 54 £588 +17.50% 41
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 - 14
West Midlands -29 49 £488 -4.79% 9
South West -11 41 £575 +8.24% 23
East of England -20 26 £550 +2.33% 6
East Midlands -14 14 £497 +3.55% 6
North East -30 14 £463 -1.07% 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 52 (5.91%) Confluence
2 40 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.05%) 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%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.70%) 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
1 672 (76.36%) AWS
2 538 (61.14%) AWS Lambda
3 397 (45.11%) Amazon S3
4 322 (36.59%) Azure
5 176 (20.00%) GitHub
6 172 (19.55%) Amazon EC2
7 167 (18.98%) Azure Functions
8 155 (17.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 143 (16.25%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
11 125 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.07%) Power Platform
13 111 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
15 100 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (9.32%) AWS Step Functions
18 75 (8.52%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.73%) GCP
20 66 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.86%) Firewall
2 30 (3.41%) DNS
3 24 (2.73%) VPN
4 21 (2.39%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.36%) WAN
7 9 (1.02%) OpenVPN
7 9 (1.02%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.57%) SMS
10 4 (0.45%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.32%) DynamoDB
2 121 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.68%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 84 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (8.98%) Power BI
7 58 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (6.36%) NoSQL
9 54 (6.14%) Data Lake
10 36 (4.09%) SQL Server
11 34 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.64%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.07%) Tableau
14 24 (2.73%) Metadata
15 21 (2.39%) Redis
16 20 (2.27%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.93%) Apache Iceberg
19 16 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 144 (16.36%) Git
2 122 (13.86%) GitLab
3 118 (13.41%) Jenkins
4 73 (8.30%) JIRA
5 26 (2.95%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.02%) JUnit
9 9 (1.02%) Mocha
10 8 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.91%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Postman
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 156 (17.73%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.34%) Finance
4 59 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.95%) Banking
7 15 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.36%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
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%) Local Government
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.73%) Developer
2 168 (19.09%) Architect
3 144 (16.36%) Senior
4 117 (13.30%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (12.05%) Data Engineer
6 85 (9.66%) Lead
7 59 (6.70%) Software Engineer
8 57 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 56 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (6.25%) AWS Architect
11 44 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.66%) Python Developer
13 39 (4.43%) Technical Architect
14 38 (4.32%) AWS Developer
14 38 (4.32%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
16 33 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 33 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (13.18%) Kafka
2 115 (13.07%) React
3 107 (12.16%) REST
4 98 (11.14%) Node.js
4 98 (11.14%) RESTful
5 76 (8.64%) .NET
6 65 (7.39%) Spring Boot
7 63 (7.16%) Spring
8 61 (6.93%) PySpark
9 55 (6.25%) OAuth
10 46 (5.23%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.77%) OpenID
12 40 (4.55%) FastAPI
13 39 (4.43%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.43%) JSON
14 36 (4.09%) AWS CDK
15 31 (3.52%) Flask
15 31 (3.52%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.07%) Next.js
17 25 (2.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 260 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.07%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.61%) NHS
7 15 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.80%) IoT
12 7 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.00%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) 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 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 407 (46.25%) DevOps
3 328 (37.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 298 (33.86%) Agile
5 196 (22.27%) Containerisation
6 195 (22.16%) Microservices
7 184 (20.91%) AI
8 159 (18.07%) Event-Driven
9 140 (15.91%) Analytics
10 135 (15.34%) Test Automation
11 134 (15.23%) Data Modelling
12 133 (15.11%) Observability
13 129 (14.66%) Data Pipeline
14 125 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
15 123 (13.98%) Software Engineering
16 116 (13.18%) ETL
17 109 (12.39%) Data Engineering
18 100 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 100 (11.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 416 (47.27%) Python
2 282 (32.05%) SQL
3 125 (14.20%) JavaScript
3 125 (14.20%) TypeScript
4 123 (13.98%) Java
5 114 (12.95%) C#
6 52 (5.91%) Bash
7 33 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 29 (3.30%) Bicep
9 27 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.05%) Scala
11 17 (1.93%) Go
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) 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%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 244 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 197 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.34%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.75%) Degree
4 33 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.80%) 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 81 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.89%) QA
3 27 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.73%) GDPR
5 19 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.70%) NIST
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 7 (0.80%) WCAG
9 5 (0.57%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 242 (27.50%) Docker
2 31 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.36%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 373 (42.39%) Terraform
2 215 (24.43%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.07%) Grafana
4 69 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.00%) Ansible
6 27 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.27%) Puppet
8 9 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) 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
1 142 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.48%) Databricks
3 47 (5.34%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.52%) Oracle
5 22 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.16%) Google
6 19 (2.16%) Splunk
7 16 (1.82%) Informatica
8 14 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.02%) Confluent
11 9 (1.02%) SAP
12 8 (0.91%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Lotus
15 5 (0.57%) Workday