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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 120 134
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 851 657 619
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.39% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.39% 6.40% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 474 439
10th Percentile £399 £390 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -1.87% -4.89%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £718 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £37.93 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £74.70 £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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -21 498 £550 - 144
North of England -32 140 £500 - 63
Midlands -8 78 £476 +5.78% 24
North West -32 73 £538 +7.50% 31
West Midlands -10 62 £472 +4.89% 17
Yorkshire -25 49 £500 +3.90% 16
South East -62 47 £600 +26.72% 34
South West -17 45 £550 +8.64% 24
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 11
North East -30 19 £463 +0.54% 16
East Midlands -9 16 £488 +17.52% 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 46 (5.41%) Confluence
2 39 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.47%) Apache
5 17 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 659 (77.44%) AWS
2 521 (61.22%) AWS Lambda
3 371 (43.60%) Amazon S3
4 310 (36.43%) Azure
5 163 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (18.45%) GitHub
7 152 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
7 152 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
7 152 (17.86%) Azure Functions
8 131 (15.39%) Amazon EKS
9 112 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
10 109 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 108 (12.69%) Power Platform
12 97 (11.40%) Amazon SQS
13 93 (10.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 92 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
15 83 (9.75%) AWS Step Functions
16 76 (8.93%) GCP
17 68 (7.99%) Azure Logic Apps
18 52 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.88%) Firewall
2 25 (2.94%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
4 18 (2.12%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) SSL
8 5 (0.59%) MQTT
8 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 4 (0.47%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) CTI
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.24%) AMQP
11 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.16%) DynamoDB
2 117 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (11.16%) Amazon Athena
4 83 (9.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (9.40%) Power BI
6 76 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.17%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.88%) Data Lake
10 42 (4.94%) SQL Server
11 34 (4.00%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.06%) Metadata
15 25 (2.94%) Tableau
16 21 (2.47%) MongoDB
17 18 (2.12%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.88%) BigQuery
18 16 (1.88%) MySQL
19 15 (1.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 147 (17.27%) Git
2 115 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 112 (13.16%) GitLab
4 68 (7.99%) JIRA
5 23 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.29%) JUnit
8 11 (1.29%) Postman
8 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.06%) Selenium
10 8 (0.94%) Mocha
10 8 (0.94%) MSTest
11 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Gatling
12 6 (0.71%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
13 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 201 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.74%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.51%) Finance
4 64 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.64%) Banking
6 22 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.41%) Law
8 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.06%) Billing
9 9 (1.06%) Marketing
9 9 (1.06%) Retail
10 8 (0.94%) Legal
11 7 (0.82%) Back Office
11 7 (0.82%) Front Office
11 7 (0.82%) Military
12 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 195 (22.91%) Developer
2 163 (19.15%) Senior
3 156 (18.33%) Architect
4 119 (13.98%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (11.63%) Data Engineer
5 99 (11.63%) Lead
6 57 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.11%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.76%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.82%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.35%) AWS Developer
15 36 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
16 35 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.76%) Technical Architect
18 31 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
19 29 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (13.04%) REST
2 106 (12.46%) Node.js
3 105 (12.34%) React
4 96 (11.28%) Kafka
5 95 (11.16%) RESTful
6 73 (8.58%) .NET
7 59 (6.93%) PySpark
8 58 (6.82%) Spring Boot
9 56 (6.58%) Spring
10 52 (6.11%) GraphQL
11 44 (5.17%) OAuth
12 40 (4.70%) JSON
13 39 (4.58%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.58%) FastAPI
14 35 (4.11%) AngularJS
15 32 (3.76%) OpenID
16 31 (3.64%) Flask
17 29 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.29%) CSS
19 26 (3.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 254 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.11%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.29%) NHS
6 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.29%) IoT
12 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.11%) Linux
2 23 (2.70%) Unix
3 15 (1.76%) Windows
4 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 382 (44.89%) DevOps
3 325 (38.19%) Agile
4 320 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (24.21%) Microservices
6 194 (22.80%) AI
7 190 (22.33%) Containerisation
8 159 (18.68%) Event-Driven
9 144 (16.92%) Analytics
10 143 (16.80%) Test Automation
11 137 (16.10%) Observability
12 135 (15.86%) Data Modelling
13 125 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
14 119 (13.98%) Software Engineering
15 118 (13.87%) Data Engineering
16 117 (13.75%) ETL
17 113 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
18 109 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (12.34%) Mentoring
20 104 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 402 (47.24%) Python
2 276 (32.43%) SQL
3 129 (15.16%) TypeScript
4 119 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 118 (13.87%) Java
6 105 (12.34%) C#
7 64 (7.52%) Bash
8 36 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.76%) Bicep
10 30 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.88%) Scala
12 11 (1.29%) Go
13 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.94%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 241 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.47%) Degree
5 36 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.22%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.64%) QA
3 29 (3.41%) GDPR
4 28 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.53%) WCAG
7 12 (1.41%) NIST
7 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 236 (27.73%) Docker
2 32 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 337 (39.60%) Terraform
2 205 (24.09%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.76%) Grafana
4 61 (7.17%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.05%) Ansible
6 18 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.88%) Puppet
8 8 (0.94%) Istio
8 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Podman
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.35%) Consul
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 142 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.99%) Databricks
3 36 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.41%) Oracle
5 24 (2.82%) Google
6 20 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.23%) Informatica
7 19 (2.23%) Splunk
8 18 (2.12%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.06%) Brio
11 8 (0.94%) Foundry
11 8 (0.94%) SAP
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.59%) Confluent
13 5 (0.59%) New Relic
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Sybase
13 5 (0.59%) Workday