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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 123 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 814 583 660
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 2.17% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.63% 5.90% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 403 482
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%
75th Percentile £624 £685 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £60.48 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £63.06 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £69.25 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.35% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £75.03 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +140.38% - -

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 12,283 9,875 12,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.80% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,535 6,574 8,993
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 140 267
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.40 £68.75 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +5 480 £510 -9.73% 121
North of England +20 166 £500 +5.26% 111
Yorkshire +10 84 £500 - 47
North West +6 72 £450 +0.78% 52
Midlands -13 66 £513 +14.77% 46
West Midlands -10 53 £525 +3.75% 22
South East -56 48 £475 -23.39% 133
South West -21 27 £650 - 55
East of England -2 24 £550 -3.51% 60
East Midlands -18 13 £434 -2.31% 22
North East -8 11 £525 -12.13% 12
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 29 (3.56%) Apache
2 26 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 20 (2.46%) Confluence
6 10 (1.23%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.11%) Mendix
8 7 (0.86%) nginx
9 5 (0.61%) CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 571 (70.15%) AWS
2 459 (56.39%) AWS Lambda
3 305 (37.47%) Azure
4 276 (33.91%) Amazon S3
5 193 (23.71%) GitHub
6 190 (23.34%) Azure Functions
7 138 (16.95%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (16.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 131 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
10 125 (15.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 117 (14.37%) Amazon EC2
12 99 (12.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 87 (10.69%) GCP
14 85 (10.44%) Amazon EKS
15 78 (9.58%) Power Platform
16 65 (7.99%) Azure Service Bus
17 64 (7.86%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (7.86%) AWS Step Functions
18 59 (7.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.95%) DNS
2 19 (2.33%) Firewall
3 17 (2.09%) VPN
4 13 (1.60%) Network Security
5 6 (0.74%) HTTP
5 6 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.74%) SMS
6 5 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
9 1 (0.12%) DKIM
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.86%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (12.90%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.18%) NoSQL
5 56 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (6.39%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.14%) Power BI
8 46 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (5.41%) Data Lake
10 41 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (4.18%) Redis
12 31 (3.81%) MongoDB
13 29 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (2.95%) Big Data
14 24 (2.95%) MySQL
15 21 (2.58%) Tableau
16 19 (2.33%) DocumentDB
17 16 (1.97%) Metadata
17 16 (1.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 137 (16.83%) Git
2 133 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 106 (13.02%) GitLab
4 46 (5.65%) JIRA
5 26 (3.19%) Liquibase
6 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.84%) JUnit
8 14 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.72%) Postman
9 13 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.47%) Mockito
11 11 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.35%) Maven
11 11 (1.35%) Selenium
11 11 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.98%) Gradle
13 6 (0.74%) MLflow
13 6 (0.74%) Storybook
14 5 (0.61%) Mocha
14 5 (0.61%) SonarLint
General
1 208 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.94%) Public Sector
3 113 (13.88%) Finance
4 63 (7.74%) Banking
5 52 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.81%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.33%) Marketing
8 13 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.98%) Front Office
10 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.98%) Military
11 7 (0.86%) Retail
12 6 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.49%) Aviation
14 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 223 (27.40%) Developer
2 109 (13.39%) AWS Engineer
3 108 (13.27%) Senior
4 105 (12.90%) Architect
5 83 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 78 (9.58%) Software Engineer
7 76 (9.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 64 (7.86%) Lead
9 47 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.69%) AWS Developer
13 30 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (3.32%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.19%) AWS Architect
16 26 (3.19%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.07%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (17.81%) Node.js
2 136 (16.71%) RESTful
3 131 (16.09%) React
4 128 (15.72%) REST
5 116 (14.25%) Kafka
6 112 (13.76%) .NET
7 53 (6.51%) Spring Boot
8 48 (5.90%) Spring
9 47 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (5.41%) OAuth
12 38 (4.67%) GraphQL
13 37 (4.55%) FastAPI
14 33 (4.05%) .NET Core
14 33 (4.05%) JSON
15 31 (3.81%) HTML
15 31 (3.81%) Next.js
16 29 (3.56%) Flask
17 28 (3.44%) CSS
18 26 (3.19%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 217 (26.66%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.18%) Public Cloud
4 33 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.84%) AI Agents
6 15 (1.84%) NHS
6 15 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.47%) Replication
9 11 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.23%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.98%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.74%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.44%) Linux
2 11 (1.35%) Unix
3 7 (0.86%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) VMS
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (59.58%) CI/CD
2 416 (51.11%) DevOps
3 290 (35.63%) Agile
4 289 (35.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 250 (30.71%) Microservices
6 193 (23.71%) Containerisation
7 150 (18.43%) Software Engineering
8 149 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (15.23%) AI
10 119 (14.62%) Event-Driven
11 116 (14.25%) Analytics
12 114 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
13 107 (13.14%) Test Automation
14 93 (11.43%) Data Modelling
14 93 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
15 88 (10.81%) Observability
16 86 (10.57%) ETL
17 80 (9.83%) Mentoring
18 75 (9.21%) Data Engineering
19 70 (8.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 397 (48.77%) Python
2 232 (28.50%) SQL
3 137 (16.83%) JavaScript
4 131 (16.09%) Java
5 128 (15.72%) TypeScript
6 117 (14.37%) C#
7 48 (5.90%) Go
8 47 (5.77%) Bash
9 37 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.05%) Bicep
11 19 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.97%) Ruby
13 10 (1.23%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.23%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.11%) C++
14 9 (1.11%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.86%) Korn
16 6 (0.74%) PHP
16 6 (0.74%) Scala
16 6 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 212 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 172 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.62%) Degree
4 57 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 53 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.58%) MCP
11 20 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.37%) PhD
17 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
18 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.05%) QA
3 28 (3.44%) GDPR
4 20 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.33%) NIST
6 10 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.11%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.98%) WCAG
9 5 (0.61%) HL7
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 224 (27.52%) Docker
2 25 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 344 (42.26%) Terraform
2 221 (27.15%) Kubernetes
3 80 (9.83%) Ansible
4 72 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 70 (8.60%) Grafana
6 18 (2.21%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.60%) Puppet
8 8 (0.98%) Kibana
9 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.49%) Rancher
11 3 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.37%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.37%) Packer
12 2 (0.25%) Control-M
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Knative
12 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 158 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.27%) Databricks
3 42 (5.16%) Splunk
4 36 (4.42%) Google
5 31 (3.81%) OpenAI
6 28 (3.44%) Oracle
7 20 (2.46%) Foundry
8 17 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.72%) Confluent
10 12 (1.47%) IBM
11 10 (1.23%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.23%) Lotus
11 10 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.11%) Kofax
12 9 (1.11%) Palantir
13 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.74%) Brio
14 6 (0.74%) Gigya
15 5 (0.61%) Pega
15 5 (0.61%) Sybase