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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 107 132
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 840 601 633
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.50% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 6.61% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 444 472
10th Percentile £381 £400 £369
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 £751 £712
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -0.24% +1.25% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £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 14,717 9,086 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.73% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,002 6,201 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 218 323
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £17.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.69 £39.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £68.75 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -13 508 £525 -4.55% 184
North of England -23 141 £500 - 74
North West -15 79 £518 +3.50% 44
Midlands -19 60 £488 -2.01% 25
South East -46 54 £575 +15.00% 51
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 - 18
West Midlands -25 47 £488 -4.79% 16
South West -19 31 £575 +4.55% 30
East of England -17 26 £550 -2.22% 9
North East -22 15 £475 - 12
East Midlands -20 13 £498 +3.86% 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 47 (5.60%) Confluence
2 42 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.26%) Apache
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 8 (0.95%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.95%) Mendix
8 6 (0.71%) CICS
9 5 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.60%) SAS
10 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (76.31%) AWS
2 513 (61.07%) AWS Lambda
3 364 (43.33%) Amazon S3
4 310 (36.90%) Azure
5 181 (21.55%) GitHub
6 164 (19.52%) Amazon EC2
7 163 (19.40%) Azure Functions
8 145 (17.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 136 (16.19%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (16.07%) Amazon EKS
11 128 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (12.74%) Power Platform
13 103 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 101 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (11.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 88 (10.48%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (9.40%) AWS Step Functions
17 79 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (8.21%) Azure Service Bus
19 68 (8.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.57%) DNS
2 29 (3.45%) Firewall
3 22 (2.62%) VPN
4 16 (1.90%) Network Security
5 13 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.07%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.07%) SSL
7 7 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.83%) SMS
8 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.71%) WAN
9 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 4 (0.48%) HTTP
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
11 3 (0.36%) MQTT
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.52%) DynamoDB
2 118 (14.05%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (9.05%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 71 (8.45%) Power BI
7 55 (6.55%) NoSQL
8 42 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 38 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (4.17%) SQL Server
11 34 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
12 33 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (3.81%) Relational Database
14 29 (3.45%) Tableau
15 22 (2.62%) Metadata
16 20 (2.38%) Big Data
16 20 (2.38%) MongoDB
16 20 (2.38%) Redis
17 19 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 129 (15.36%) Git
2 116 (13.81%) GitLab
3 114 (13.57%) Jenkins
4 63 (7.50%) JIRA
5 25 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.07%) JUnit
9 9 (1.07%) Mocha
10 8 (0.95%) MSTest
11 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Postman
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.71%) Vite
13 5 (0.60%) Gatling
13 5 (0.60%) Mockito
13 5 (0.60%) Snyk
14 4 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 204 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 132 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 126 (15.00%) Finance
4 50 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.86%) Banking
7 13 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.07%) Law
11 8 (0.95%) Marketing
11 8 (0.95%) Retail
12 7 (0.83%) Legal
12 7 (0.83%) Military
13 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.48%) Billing
14 4 (0.48%) Police
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Back Office
15 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (23.21%) Developer
2 164 (19.52%) Architect
3 124 (14.76%) Senior
4 104 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
5 92 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 82 (9.76%) Lead
7 55 (6.55%) AWS Architect
7 55 (6.55%) Software Engineer
8 51 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 50 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 42 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 42 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (4.52%) Cloud Architect
11 38 (4.52%) Python Developer
11 38 (4.52%) Technical Architect
12 34 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 29 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 27 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (14.17%) Kafka
2 118 (14.05%) React
3 104 (12.38%) Node.js
4 101 (12.02%) REST
5 92 (10.95%) RESTful
6 80 (9.52%) .NET
7 66 (7.86%) Spring Boot
8 64 (7.62%) Spring
9 56 (6.67%) PySpark
10 54 (6.43%) OAuth
11 43 (5.12%) AngularJS
12 42 (5.00%) OpenID
13 41 (4.88%) GraphQL
14 38 (4.52%) JSON
15 37 (4.40%) AWS CDK
16 35 (4.17%) FastAPI
17 30 (3.57%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.33%) Flask
19 26 (3.10%) CSS
19 26 (3.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 250 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.38%) NHS
7 13 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.95%) IoT
11 7 (0.83%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.36%) Linux
2 21 (2.50%) Unix
3 10 (1.19%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) zOS
5 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (60.36%) CI/CD
2 394 (46.90%) DevOps
3 318 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (33.10%) Agile
5 188 (22.38%) Microservices
6 178 (21.19%) Containerisation
7 155 (18.45%) Event-Driven
8 153 (18.21%) AI
9 129 (15.36%) Observability
10 124 (14.76%) Test Automation
11 123 (14.64%) Analytics
11 123 (14.64%) Data Modelling
12 117 (13.93%) Software Engineering
13 116 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (13.21%) ETL
16 101 (12.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 95 (11.31%) Mentoring
18 94 (11.19%) Migration
19 92 (10.95%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 374 (44.52%) Python
2 254 (30.24%) SQL
3 124 (14.76%) Java
3 124 (14.76%) TypeScript
4 123 (14.64%) JavaScript
5 115 (13.69%) C#
6 46 (5.48%) Bash
7 35 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 31 (3.69%) Bicep
9 27 (3.21%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.26%) Go
10 19 (2.26%) Scala
11 11 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.95%) Formula Language
12 8 (0.95%) LotusScript
13 7 (0.83%) Groovy
13 7 (0.83%) Ruby
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 234 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 188 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 31 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.10%) Degree
7 25 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
19 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.12%) QA
3 26 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.86%) GDPR
5 17 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.90%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
8 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 228 (27.14%) Docker
2 29 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.43%) Squid
3 12 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.60%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 351 (41.79%) Terraform
2 199 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.21%) Grafana
4 66 (7.86%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.00%) Ansible
6 27 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.02%) Puppet
8 10 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.95%) Consul
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
12 5 (0.60%) Podman
12 5 (0.60%) Salt
13 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 135 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.55%) Databricks
3 46 (5.48%) OpenAI
4 34 (4.05%) Oracle
5 22 (2.62%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.26%) Splunk
7 17 (2.02%) Google
8 14 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.43%) Foundry
10 11 (1.31%) Confluent
10 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.19%) Informatica
11 10 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.07%) Brio
12 9 (1.07%) SAP
13 8 (0.95%) Kofax
13 8 (0.95%) Lotus
14 7 (0.83%) Sybase
14 7 (0.83%) Tenable