Serverless Contracts in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 129 108
Rank change year-on-year +15 -21 -9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 584 653 1,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.40% 1.76% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.44% 5.51% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 485 853
10th Percentile £400 £375 £438
25th Percentile £450 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £680
90th Percentile £838 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +2.51% -6.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £25.50 - £42.00
25th Percentile £25.88 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile £33.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Cloud 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +3 391 £550 +7.32% 474
North of England +18 78 £500 -4.76% 147
North West +16 57 £500 -1.96% 96
South East +33 39 £500 -16.67% 147
Midlands +16 21 £480 +6.56% 46
South West +44 19 £550 - 40
West Midlands +5 12 £481 +6.89% 28
Yorkshire +3 12 £500 -16.67% 39
North East +5 9 £475 -26.92% 17
East Midlands +12 8 £500 +11.11% 13
East of England +24 4 £675 +3.85% 19
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 42 (7.19%) Apache
3 38 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.42%) Confluence
5 17 (2.91%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.86%) InfoPath
1 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.51%) Endur
3 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 427 (73.12%) AWS
2 349 (59.76%) AWS Lambda
3 190 (32.53%) Amazon S3
4 171 (29.28%) Azure
5 115 (19.69%) Azure Functions
6 103 (17.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
8 77 (13.18%) Amazon ECS
9 73 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
10 70 (11.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (10.79%) GitHub
12 59 (10.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 53 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (9.08%) Power Platform
14 51 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (8.05%) PaaS
16 41 (7.02%) OpenShift
17 39 (6.68%) Azure AKS
18 35 (5.99%) AWS Step Functions
18 35 (5.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.48%) Firewall
2 22 (3.77%) VPN
3 12 (2.05%) HTTP
4 8 (1.37%) DNS
5 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.86%) SSL
7 4 (0.68%) Network Security
8 3 (0.51%) DHCP
8 3 (0.51%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.34%) IPsec
9 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.34%) SMS
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.34%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) Broadband
10 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.10%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (13.70%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (13.18%) DynamoDB
4 66 (11.30%) NoSQL
5 64 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (6.68%) Relational Database
8 33 (5.65%) Power BI
9 32 (5.48%) MongoDB
10 30 (5.14%) Apache Iceberg
11 28 (4.79%) Apache Arrow
11 28 (4.79%) Apache Ignite
11 28 (4.79%) Dremio
12 27 (4.62%) SQL Server
13 25 (4.28%) Data Lake
14 24 (4.11%) Big Data
15 23 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (3.94%) Tableau
16 21 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
17 19 (3.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 46 (7.88%) Git
3 40 (6.85%) Artifactory
4 30 (5.14%) GitLab
5 23 (3.94%) JIRA
6 12 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.54%) Selenium
9 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.37%) git-flow
9 8 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.03%) Postman
11 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.86%) Gradle
12 4 (0.68%) JMeter
12 4 (0.68%) Maven
13 3 (0.51%) Mocha
13 3 (0.51%) Mockito
13 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 92 (15.75%) Finance
4 51 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.71%) Front Office
6 32 (5.48%) Banking
7 14 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.88%) Marketing
9 8 (1.37%) Retail
10 6 (1.03%) Military
11 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.51%) Aviation
13 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Back Office
14 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Publishing
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (26.20%) Developer
2 117 (20.03%) AWS Engineer
3 115 (19.69%) Architect
4 99 (16.95%) Senior
5 84 (14.38%) Data Engineer
6 77 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 61 (10.45%) AWS DevOps
7 61 (10.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 47 (8.05%) Python Engineer
9 46 (7.88%) Lead
10 45 (7.71%) Senior Developer
11 37 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (5.48%) AWS Developer
13 31 (5.31%) AWS Architect
13 31 (5.31%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
15 25 (4.28%) Azure Architect
15 25 (4.28%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (3.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (16.27%) Node.js
2 86 (14.73%) Kafka
3 70 (11.99%) React
4 65 (11.13%) .NET
5 42 (7.19%) PySpark
6 41 (7.02%) JSON
7 36 (6.16%) RESTful
8 34 (5.82%) AWS CDK
8 34 (5.82%) J2EE
9 28 (4.79%) HTML
10 25 (4.28%) .NET Framework
10 25 (4.28%) CSS
10 25 (4.28%) GraphQL
10 25 (4.28%) REST
11 20 (3.42%) Spring Boot
11 20 (3.42%) XML
12 19 (3.25%) Spring
13 18 (3.08%) ARM Templates
14 16 (2.74%) .NET Core
15 15 (2.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (3.25%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 17 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.88%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.86%) Tandem
11 4 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.68%) TWAP
11 4 (0.68%) VWAP
12 3 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.31%) Linux
2 14 (2.40%) Windows
3 13 (2.23%) Unix
4 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (46.75%) DevOps
2 257 (44.01%) CI/CD
3 200 (34.25%) Agile
4 126 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (21.23%) Microservices
6 108 (18.49%) Software Engineering
7 98 (16.78%) Containerisation
8 81 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (11.99%) Data Engineering
10 62 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 59 (10.10%) Event-Driven
12 55 (9.42%) Mentoring
13 54 (9.25%) ETL
13 54 (9.25%) Open Source
14 51 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
15 48 (8.22%) High Availability
16 47 (8.05%) Migration
17 46 (7.88%) Asset Management
18 44 (7.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 253 (43.32%) Python
2 132 (22.60%) SQL
3 120 (20.55%) Java
4 116 (19.86%) JavaScript
5 90 (15.41%) TypeScript
6 56 (9.59%) C#
7 45 (7.71%) Go
8 35 (5.99%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.45%) Bash
9 26 (4.45%) Bicep
10 14 (2.40%) Scala
11 13 (2.23%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.37%) C++
13 8 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.20%) R
15 6 (1.03%) Perl
16 5 (0.86%) Ruby
17 4 (0.68%) PHP
18 3 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 150 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 141 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.67%) AWS Certification
4 45 (7.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (4.28%) Degree
6 16 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.86%) OCP
12 5 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.34%) CCIE
14 2 (0.34%) CCNP
14 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.91%) Data Quality
1 17 (2.91%) QA
2 14 (2.40%) GDPR
3 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.86%) NIST
6 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.51%) HL7
7 3 (0.51%) WCAG
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 150 (25.68%) Docker
2 28 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.34%) HDFS
4 2 (0.34%) RACF
4 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 223 (38.18%) Terraform
2 175 (29.97%) Kubernetes
3 33 (5.65%) Ansible
4 16 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.88%) Grafana
6 9 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 94 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.53%) Oracle
3 20 (3.42%) Splunk
4 16 (2.74%) Google
5 14 (2.40%) Databricks
6 11 (1.88%) MuleSoft
6 11 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.54%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.03%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco
10 4 (0.68%) SAP
11 3 (0.51%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.51%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.51%) Qualys
11 3 (0.51%) StreamSets
11 3 (0.51%) Tenable
11 3 (0.51%) VMware
12 2 (0.34%) Spotify