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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 119 131
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 866 661 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 2.40% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 6.42% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 470 415
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £641
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 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 - £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 16,032 10,294 11,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.31% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,712 6,972 7,902
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.29 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -22 503 £550 - 273
North of England -39 135 £500 +5.26% 96
Midlands -2 92 £463 +2.78% 30
North West -33 69 £575 +21.05% 52
West Midlands -11 66 £482 +7.17% 19
South East -57 49 £600 +35.59% 39
South West -23 47 £542 +6.23% 41
Yorkshire -40 43 £500 +5.26% 25
East Midlands -2 26 £425 +2.35% 11
East of England -20 23 £525 - 16
North East -27 23 £463 +4.52% 19
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 49 (5.66%) Confluence
2 41 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.66%) Apache
5 19 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 7 (0.81%) SAS
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (76.21%) AWS
2 529 (61.09%) AWS Lambda
3 360 (41.57%) Amazon S3
4 323 (37.30%) Azure
5 172 (19.86%) GitHub
6 169 (19.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 160 (18.48%) Azure Functions
8 153 (17.67%) Amazon ECS
9 143 (16.51%) Amazon EC2
10 126 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.43%) Amazon EKS
12 108 (12.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 106 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (12.24%) Power Platform
14 105 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
15 86 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 84 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.31%) GCP
18 69 (7.97%) Azure Logic Apps
19 60 (6.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.93%) Firewall
2 26 (3.00%) Network Security
3 22 (2.54%) DNS
4 18 (2.08%) VPN
5 12 (1.39%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
6 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (15.13%) DynamoDB
2 121 (13.97%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
5 78 (9.01%) Power BI
6 77 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 71 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.58%) NoSQL
9 43 (4.97%) Data Lake
9 43 (4.97%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.35%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (3.00%) Metadata
13 26 (3.00%) MongoDB
14 23 (2.66%) Delta Lake
14 23 (2.66%) MySQL
15 22 (2.54%) Tableau
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
16 18 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 152 (17.55%) Git
2 121 (13.97%) Jenkins
3 119 (13.74%) GitLab
4 71 (8.20%) JIRA
5 24 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.62%) Selenium
9 13 (1.50%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.04%) JUnit
12 7 (0.81%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.69%) Gatling
13 6 (0.69%) MSTest
13 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.69%) RStudio
13 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 198 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 148 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.59%) Finance
4 67 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.16%) Banking
6 26 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.39%) Billing
8 12 (1.39%) Law
8 12 (1.39%) Marketing
9 11 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.15%) Retail
11 8 (0.92%) Back Office
12 7 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Military
13 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.46%) Games
15 4 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 196 (22.63%) Developer
2 168 (19.40%) Architect
3 161 (18.59%) Senior
4 123 (14.20%) AWS Engineer
5 103 (11.89%) Data Engineer
6 99 (11.43%) Lead
7 63 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.66%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (4.97%) Python Developer
14 37 (4.27%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.16%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
18 31 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
18 31 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (3.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (41.22%) Terraform
2 125 (14.43%) REST
3 109 (12.59%) React
4 95 (10.97%) Node.js
5 93 (10.74%) Kafka
6 91 (10.51%) RESTful
7 80 (9.24%) .NET
8 65 (7.51%) PySpark
9 51 (5.89%) GraphQL
9 51 (5.89%) Spring
9 51 (5.89%) Spring Boot
10 44 (5.08%) FastAPI
11 40 (4.62%) AWS CDK
11 40 (4.62%) OAuth
12 37 (4.27%) Flask
13 35 (4.04%) AngularJS
13 35 (4.04%) JSON
14 33 (3.81%) CSS
15 29 (3.35%) HTML
15 29 (3.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 269 (31.06%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.85%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.23%) NHS
6 25 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.27%) IoT
11 11 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.92%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.35%) Linux
2 22 (2.54%) Unix
3 17 (1.96%) Windows
4 13 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 4 (0.46%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (61.89%) CI/CD
2 396 (45.73%) DevOps
3 335 (38.68%) Agile
3 335 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 202 (23.33%) AI
5 199 (22.98%) Microservices
6 188 (21.71%) Containerisation
7 169 (19.52%) Event-Driven
8 159 (18.36%) Test Automation
9 147 (16.97%) Observability
10 143 (16.51%) Analytics
11 128 (14.78%) Data Modelling
11 128 (14.78%) Software Engineering
12 125 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
13 117 (13.51%) Data Engineering
13 117 (13.51%) Migration
14 116 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 115 (13.28%) Technical Leadership
16 113 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (12.82%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 405 (46.77%) Python
2 277 (31.99%) SQL
3 135 (15.59%) TypeScript
4 128 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 112 (12.93%) Java
6 102 (11.78%) C#
7 67 (7.74%) Bash
8 38 (4.39%) Bicep
8 38 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.35%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.73%) Scala
11 10 (1.15%) Go
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 7 (0.81%) R
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 246 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 207 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 43 (4.97%) Degree
5 38 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 36 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.97%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.47%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) GDPR
4 29 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.62%) WCAG
7 12 (1.39%) NIST
7 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.04%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 249 (28.75%) Docker
2 35 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 70 (8.08%) Grafana
3 57 (6.58%) Prometheus
4 48 (5.54%) Ansible
5 16 (1.85%) Puppet
6 13 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.15%) Istio
8 8 (0.92%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.69%) linkerd
9 6 (0.69%) Packer
9 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) Salt
11 4 (0.46%) Argo
12 3 (0.35%) Consul
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 160 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.24%) Databricks
3 36 (4.16%) Oracle
4 29 (3.35%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.77%) Informatica
6 23 (2.66%) Google
7 21 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.96%) Splunk
10 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.04%) SAP
12 8 (0.92%) Brio
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
14 6 (0.69%) Tenable
15 5 (0.58%) New Relic
15 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.58%) Workday
16 4 (0.46%) Fortinet
16 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA