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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 118 129
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 832 587 648
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.41% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 6.49% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 438 483
10th Percentile £388 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -1.90% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 14,379 9,041 11,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.17% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,260 8,438
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 202 327
10th Percentile £15.30 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £66.25 £37.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -12 502 £525 -4.55% 138
North of England -16 149 £500 - 74
North West -11 87 £500 - 43
Midlands -31 60 £495 -2.17% 21
South East -41 51 £575 +15.00% 46
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 - 23
West Midlands -27 48 £488 -4.83% 14
South West -16 30 £591 +7.43% 30
East of England -12 23 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -17 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 7
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 44 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.05%) Confluence
3 30 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.88%) SharePoint
5 21 (2.52%) Apache
6 11 (1.32%) nginx
7 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.20%) Mendix
8 6 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 624 (75.00%) AWS
2 495 (59.50%) AWS Lambda
3 348 (41.83%) Amazon S3
4 310 (37.26%) Azure
5 180 (21.63%) GitHub
6 172 (20.67%) Azure Functions
7 153 (18.39%) Amazon EC2
8 144 (17.31%) Amazon ECS
9 128 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
10 124 (14.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 122 (14.66%) Amazon EKS
12 111 (13.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 108 (12.98%) Power Platform
14 105 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
15 86 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
16 83 (9.98%) Amazon SQS
16 83 (9.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 81 (9.74%) AWS Step Functions
18 69 (8.29%) Azure Service Bus
19 59 (7.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.97%) DNS
2 26 (3.13%) Firewall
3 17 (2.04%) VPN
4 13 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.08%) Network Security
6 9 (1.08%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.84%) SMS
7 7 (0.84%) SSL
8 6 (0.72%) HTTP
8 6 (0.72%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 3 (0.36%) FTP
10 3 (0.36%) WAN
11 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) 5G
12 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (13.82%) DynamoDB
2 106 (12.74%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (8.53%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (8.41%) Power BI
6 69 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 68 (8.17%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.53%) Data Lake
9 40 (4.81%) Relational Database
10 34 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (3.85%) SQL Server
13 31 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (3.49%) Tableau
15 27 (3.25%) MongoDB
16 25 (3.00%) Redis
17 24 (2.88%) Metadata
18 22 (2.64%) Big Data
19 18 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (2.16%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (16.35%) Git
2 108 (12.98%) GitLab
3 103 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 52 (6.25%) JIRA
5 25 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 15 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.08%) JUnit
9 7 (0.84%) Maven
9 7 (0.84%) Mocha
9 7 (0.84%) MSTest
10 6 (0.72%) Vite
11 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.60%) MLflow
11 5 (0.60%) Snyk
11 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
12 4 (0.48%) Postman
12 4 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 189 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 144 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 124 (14.90%) Finance
4 55 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.37%) Banking
6 27 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.20%) Marketing
9 8 (0.96%) Military
9 8 (0.96%) Retail
10 7 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (0.84%) Legal
11 6 (0.72%) Law
12 5 (0.60%) Front Office
12 5 (0.60%) Police
12 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Billing
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (25.96%) Developer
2 153 (18.39%) Architect
3 117 (14.06%) Senior
4 100 (12.02%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 74 (8.89%) Lead
7 52 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 49 (5.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 44 (5.29%) AWS Architect
10 43 (5.17%) AWS Developer
10 43 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
12 36 (4.33%) Python Developer
12 36 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
13 33 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (3.97%) Technical Architect
14 32 (3.85%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.61%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (14.66%) React
2 121 (14.54%) Kafka
3 115 (13.82%) Node.js
4 96 (11.54%) REST
5 91 (10.94%) .NET
6 84 (10.10%) RESTful
7 74 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 73 (8.77%) Spring
9 53 (6.37%) OAuth
9 53 (6.37%) PySpark
10 49 (5.89%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.05%) JSON
12 40 (4.81%) OpenID
13 37 (4.45%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.33%) AWS CDK
15 32 (3.85%) FastAPI
16 29 (3.49%) CSS
16 29 (3.49%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.37%) HTML
18 27 (3.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.64%) NHS
6 21 (2.52%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.84%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.84%) IoT
13 7 (0.84%) Replication
13 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.13%) Linux
2 22 (2.64%) Unix
3 8 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 399 (47.96%) DevOps
3 303 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (32.33%) Agile
5 191 (22.96%) Microservices
6 183 (22.00%) Containerisation
7 143 (17.19%) AI
8 140 (16.83%) Event-Driven
9 125 (15.02%) Data Modelling
10 122 (14.66%) Analytics
11 120 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (14.06%) Observability
13 111 (13.34%) Data Pipeline
14 110 (13.22%) Software Engineering
15 108 (12.98%) Test Automation
16 105 (12.62%) ETL
17 94 (11.30%) Mentoring
18 92 (11.06%) Data Engineering
19 89 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 88 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 372 (44.71%) Python
2 249 (29.93%) SQL
3 131 (15.75%) JavaScript
4 130 (15.63%) C#
5 128 (15.38%) Java
6 127 (15.26%) TypeScript
7 45 (5.41%) Bash
8 34 (4.09%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.97%) Bicep
10 26 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.52%) Go
12 16 (1.92%) Scala
13 15 (1.80%) Ruby
14 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.72%) Groovy
17 5 (0.60%) C++
18 4 (0.48%) JCL
18 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 234 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 184 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.33%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.00%) Degree
8 15 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 10 (1.20%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.21%) QA
3 25 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.40%) GDPR
5 17 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.80%) NIST
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
7 7 (0.84%) WCAG
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) HL7
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 221 (26.56%) Docker
2 26 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.20%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 336 (40.38%) Terraform
2 199 (23.92%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.93%) Grafana
4 61 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.45%) Ansible
6 27 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.56%) Puppet
8 10 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.96%) Consul
11 6 (0.72%) Kibana
11 6 (0.72%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 143 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.33%) Databricks
3 47 (5.65%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.93%) Oracle
5 23 (2.76%) Splunk
6 19 (2.28%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.68%) Google
8 13 (1.56%) Foundry
9 11 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.20%) Brio
10 10 (1.20%) Confluent
10 10 (1.20%) Kofax
10 10 (1.20%) Lotus
11 9 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.84%) Informatica
12 7 (0.84%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) Qualys
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase