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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 121 134
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 867 665 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.39% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 6.30% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 467 390
10th Percentile £400 £384 £362
25th Percentile £450 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -0.45%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.20 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 16,062 10,549 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.91% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,699 7,136 7,593
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -9 513 £550 - 525
North of England -46 133 £500 +5.15% 148
Midlands -17 87 £428 -14.07% 50
West Midlands -17 68 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -36 67 £563 +17.19% 98
South East -54 52 £600 +41.18% 87
Yorkshire -44 46 £500 +5.04% 38
South West -24 45 £500 -9.09% 72
North East -34 20 £463 -0.11% 12
East of England -40 20 £515 +1.98% 27
East Midlands -15 19 £419 -5.42% 24
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 41 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.50%) Confluence
3 33 (3.81%) SharePoint
4 30 (3.46%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.00%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 6 (0.69%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 656 (75.66%) AWS
2 523 (60.32%) AWS Lambda
3 355 (40.95%) Amazon S3
4 340 (39.22%) Azure
5 186 (21.45%) GitHub
6 181 (20.88%) Azure Functions
7 180 (20.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 152 (17.53%) Amazon ECS
9 133 (15.34%) Amazon EC2
10 131 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
11 122 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
13 117 (13.49%) Power Platform
14 116 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 112 (12.92%) Amazon SQS
16 86 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
17 77 (8.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 74 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.84%) Amazon EventBridge
20 67 (7.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.23%) Firewall
2 27 (3.11%) Network Security
3 19 (2.19%) DNS
4 15 (1.73%) VPN
5 11 (1.27%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.76%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.07%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.30%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 75 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (8.19%) Power BI
7 59 (6.81%) NoSQL
8 51 (5.88%) SQL Server
9 50 (5.77%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.34%) MongoDB
10 29 (3.34%) MySQL
11 28 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 26 (3.00%) Metadata
13 23 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (2.54%) Relational Database
15 21 (2.42%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
16 18 (2.08%) Tableau
17 14 (1.61%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 158 (18.22%) Git
2 116 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.15%) GitLab
4 59 (6.81%) JIRA
5 26 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.08%) Selenium
9 13 (1.50%) JUnit
9 13 (1.50%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.27%) RStudio
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.04%) Maven
12 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.69%) Gatling
14 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 212 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.96%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.26%) Finance
4 75 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.27%) Banking
7 14 (1.61%) Marketing
7 14 (1.61%) Military
8 13 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Back Office
9 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 11 (1.27%) Billing
11 9 (1.04%) Front Office
12 8 (0.92%) Retail
13 7 (0.81%) Legal
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 194 (22.38%) Developer
2 178 (20.53%) Senior
3 156 (17.99%) Architect
4 125 (14.42%) AWS Engineer
5 115 (13.26%) Data Engineer
6 112 (12.92%) Lead
7 66 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.31%) AWS Architect
10 44 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 36 (4.15%) Senior Developer
14 35 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
15 34 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (3.81%) Python Developer
17 32 (3.69%) Technical Architect
17 32 (3.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.25%) Terraform
2 145 (16.72%) REST
3 105 (12.11%) React
4 96 (11.07%) .NET
5 94 (10.84%) Kafka
5 94 (10.84%) Node.js
6 87 (10.03%) RESTful
7 62 (7.15%) PySpark
8 57 (6.57%) Spring Boot
9 56 (6.46%) Spring
10 55 (6.34%) GraphQL
11 45 (5.19%) FastAPI
12 43 (4.96%) OAuth
13 40 (4.61%) AWS CDK
14 39 (4.50%) JSON
15 38 (4.38%) AngularJS
16 31 (3.58%) CSS
16 31 (3.58%) Flask
17 30 (3.46%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 276 (31.83%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (6.23%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.23%) NHS
7 24 (2.77%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.92%) Linux
2 21 (2.42%) Unix
3 15 (1.73%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (62.98%) CI/CD
2 400 (46.14%) DevOps
3 341 (39.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (38.75%) Agile
5 218 (25.14%) AI
6 190 (21.91%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.22%) Microservices
8 180 (20.76%) Containerisation
9 165 (19.03%) Observability
10 158 (18.22%) Test Automation
11 145 (16.72%) Data Modelling
12 144 (16.61%) Analytics
12 144 (16.61%) Software Engineering
13 140 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (15.92%) Technical Leadership
15 131 (15.11%) Data Pipeline
16 130 (14.99%) Data Engineering
17 129 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 124 (14.30%) Mentoring
19 118 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 418 (48.21%) Python
2 272 (31.37%) SQL
3 145 (16.72%) TypeScript
4 140 (16.15%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.07%) Java
6 121 (13.96%) C#
7 68 (7.84%) Bash
8 43 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.38%) Bicep
10 27 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.73%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 235 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 201 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.07%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.11%) Degree
5 36 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.81%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.81%) CISSP
17 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.54%) QA
3 38 (4.38%) GDPR
4 36 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.65%) WCAG
6 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.15%) NIST
7 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (27.68%) Docker
2 33 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.35%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.41%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.04%) Grafana
3 51 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.65%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 191 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.61%) Databricks
3 40 (4.61%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.92%) Oracle
5 27 (3.11%) Google
6 22 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.31%) Informatica
9 17 (1.96%) Splunk
10 11 (1.27%) Brio
10 11 (1.27%) Foundry
11 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.92%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
15 4 (0.46%) Adyen
15 4 (0.46%) New Relic
15 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.46%) Workday