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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 827 581 647
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.41% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 6.48% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 436 485
10th Percentile £380 £400 £375
25th Percentile £434 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 14,284 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.16% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,786 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 194 323
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.67 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -15 499 £525 -4.55% 138
North of England -14 144 £500 - 69
North West -9 85 £500 - 37
Midlands -26 61 £497 -1.88% 24
South East -35 53 £563 +12.50% 58
West Midlands -24 49 £488 -4.83% 15
Yorkshire -24 45 £500 - 25
South West -22 30 £591 +7.43% 27
East of England -17 23 £550 -18.52% 8
North East -13 15 £475 - 8
East Midlands -26 12 £500 - 9
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.84%) Confluence
3 30 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 22 (2.66%) Apache
6 11 (1.33%) nginx
7 10 (1.21%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.21%) Mendix
8 6 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 617 (74.61%) AWS
2 490 (59.25%) AWS Lambda
3 350 (42.32%) Amazon S3
4 313 (37.85%) Azure
5 180 (21.77%) GitHub
6 173 (20.92%) Azure Functions
7 151 (18.26%) Amazon EC2
8 150 (18.14%) Amazon ECS
9 129 (15.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 129 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
10 123 (14.87%) Amazon EKS
11 117 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 107 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
12 107 (12.94%) Power Platform
13 88 (10.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 86 (10.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 81 (9.79%) AWS Step Functions
16 79 (9.55%) Amazon SQS
17 73 (8.83%) Azure Service Bus
18 59 (7.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.99%) DNS
2 29 (3.51%) Firewall
3 19 (2.30%) VPN
4 13 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.09%) OpenVPN
7 8 (0.97%) Network Security
8 7 (0.85%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.85%) SMS
8 7 (0.85%) SSL
9 6 (0.73%) HTTP
10 5 (0.60%) IPsec
11 4 (0.48%) WAN
12 3 (0.36%) FTP
13 2 (0.24%) AMQP
13 2 (0.24%) LAN
14 1 (0.12%) 4G
14 1 (0.12%) Internet
14 1 (0.12%) MPLS
14 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (14.03%) DynamoDB
2 104 (12.58%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (8.59%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.34%) Power BI
7 67 (8.10%) NoSQL
8 47 (5.68%) Data Lake
9 39 (4.72%) Relational Database
10 35 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (3.51%) SQL Server
13 29 (3.51%) Tableau
14 27 (3.26%) MongoDB
15 26 (3.14%) Redis
16 24 (2.90%) Big Data
16 24 (2.90%) Metadata
17 18 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (2.18%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (16.44%) Git
2 112 (13.54%) GitLab
3 107 (12.94%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.05%) JIRA
5 26 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 16 (1.93%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.21%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.09%) JUnit
9 8 (0.97%) Maven
9 8 (0.97%) Mocha
10 7 (0.85%) MSTest
11 6 (0.73%) Vite
12 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.60%) Gradle
12 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.60%) MLflow
12 5 (0.60%) Selenium
12 5 (0.60%) Snyk
12 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 186 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.29%) Public Sector
3 129 (15.60%) Finance
4 54 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.75%) Banking
6 26 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.09%) Marketing
10 8 (0.97%) Military
10 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 7 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.60%) Front Office
13 5 (0.60%) Law
13 5 (0.60%) Police
13 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 212 (25.63%) Developer
2 154 (18.62%) Architect
3 116 (14.03%) Senior
4 96 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
5 87 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 74 (8.95%) Lead
7 50 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 44 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.20%) AWS Architect
11 42 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.84%) AWS Developer
13 36 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
15 34 (4.11%) Python Developer
16 33 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 32 (3.87%) Technical Architect
18 30 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
19 29 (3.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.27%) React
2 117 (14.15%) Node.js
3 115 (13.91%) Kafka
4 89 (10.76%) .NET
4 89 (10.76%) REST
5 86 (10.40%) RESTful
6 76 (9.19%) Spring Boot
7 75 (9.07%) Spring
8 53 (6.41%) OAuth
9 52 (6.29%) PySpark
10 47 (5.68%) AngularJS
11 40 (4.84%) JSON
12 39 (4.72%) OpenID
13 34 (4.11%) AWS CDK
14 31 (3.75%) FastAPI
15 29 (3.51%) GraphQL
16 28 (3.39%) CSS
16 28 (3.39%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.26%) HTML
18 25 (3.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 219 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.42%) NHS
7 13 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.97%) Replication
13 7 (0.85%) DataPower
13 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.85%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.53%) Linux
2 22 (2.66%) Unix
3 9 (1.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (59.73%) CI/CD
2 406 (49.09%) DevOps
3 308 (37.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 265 (32.04%) Agile
5 198 (23.94%) Microservices
6 187 (22.61%) Containerisation
7 143 (17.29%) AI
8 137 (16.57%) Event-Driven
9 126 (15.24%) Analytics
10 125 (15.11%) Data Modelling
11 124 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
12 119 (14.39%) Observability
13 113 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
14 110 (13.30%) Software Engineering
15 109 (13.18%) Test Automation
16 105 (12.70%) ETL
17 94 (11.37%) Data Engineering
18 93 (11.25%) Mentoring
19 88 (10.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 87 (10.52%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 378 (45.71%) Python
2 247 (29.87%) SQL
3 131 (15.84%) Java
4 129 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 128 (15.48%) C#
6 121 (14.63%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.93%) Bash
8 35 (4.23%) Bicep
9 33 (3.99%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.66%) Go
12 16 (1.93%) Scala
13 15 (1.81%) Ruby
14 10 (1.21%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.21%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.85%) Groovy
17 6 (0.73%) C++
18 4 (0.48%) JCL
18 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 235 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 185 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.47%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.99%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.14%) Degree
5 26 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.47%) QA
3 25 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.30%) GDPR
5 18 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 17 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.81%) NIST
8 7 (0.85%) PMO
9 6 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.73%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) HL7
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 224 (27.09%) Docker
2 26 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.21%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 343 (41.48%) Terraform
2 199 (24.06%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.10%) Grafana
4 62 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 39 (4.72%) Ansible
6 27 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.57%) Puppet
8 10 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.09%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.97%) Consul
11 6 (0.73%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.60%) linkerd
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Rancher
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 144 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.74%) Databricks
3 46 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.96%) Oracle
5 23 (2.78%) Splunk
6 21 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.81%) Google
8 13 (1.57%) Foundry
9 11 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.21%) Confluent
10 10 (1.21%) Kofax
10 10 (1.21%) Lotus
11 9 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.97%) Brio
13 7 (0.85%) Informatica
13 7 (0.85%) SAP
14 6 (0.73%) Palantir
14 6 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.73%) Sybase