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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 114 135
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 871 653 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 2.42% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.57% 6.45% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 473 471
10th Percentile £390 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £625
90th Percentile £735 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £514
% change year-on-year - +2.19% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,642 10,119 12,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.50% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,520 6,814 8,731
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 268 329
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.15
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.33 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -18 520 £550 - 130
North of England -34 143 £500 - 66
North West -21 80 £525 +5.00% 33
Midlands -24 71 £488 +6.21% 29
West Midlands -29 57 £477 +0.95% 17
Yorkshire -24 50 £500 - 17
South East -50 48 £575 +15.93% 31
South West -23 40 £575 +8.24% 47
East of England -18 27 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -11 14 £497 +8.17% 12
North East -27 14 £463 -1.07% 16
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 51 (5.86%) Confluence
2 40 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.48%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.30%) Apache
5 16 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.23%) Mendix
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 675 (77.50%) AWS
2 535 (61.42%) AWS Lambda
3 393 (45.12%) Amazon S3
4 315 (36.17%) Azure
5 171 (19.63%) Amazon EC2
6 169 (19.40%) GitHub
7 155 (17.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 154 (17.68%) Azure Functions
9 151 (17.34%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
12 109 (12.51%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 99 (11.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 96 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
16 93 (10.68%) Amazon SQS
17 75 (8.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.61%) GCP
18 69 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
19 58 (6.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.02%) Firewall
2 27 (3.10%) DNS
3 25 (2.87%) VPN
4 23 (2.64%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.38%) WAN
7 10 (1.15%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 5 (0.57%) MQTT
11 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.34%) AMQP
12 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 3 (0.34%) SMS
13 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.11%) CTI
14 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.24%) DynamoDB
2 123 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 81 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (8.96%) Power BI
7 61 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (6.89%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.40%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.59%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.79%) Relational Database
12 30 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (2.99%) Tableau
15 23 (2.64%) Metadata
16 22 (2.53%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (2.07%) Redis
19 17 (1.95%) Delta Lake
20 16 (1.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 148 (16.99%) Git
2 122 (14.01%) GitLab
3 121 (13.89%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.50%) JIRA
5 28 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.38%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Postman
10 9 (1.03%) Mocha
11 8 (0.92%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.92%) MSTest
12 7 (0.80%) Selenium
13 6 (0.69%) Mockito
13 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.69%) Vite
14 5 (0.57%) Gatling
15 4 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 209 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.38%) Finance
4 57 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.21%) Banking
7 17 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 9 (1.03%) Legal
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Billing
10 8 (0.92%) Marketing
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.57%) Back Office
12 5 (0.57%) Front Office
12 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (21.47%) Developer
2 170 (19.52%) Architect
3 156 (17.91%) Senior
4 121 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 105 (12.06%) Data Engineer
6 92 (10.56%) Lead
7 59 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.86%) AWS Architect
11 47 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
14 38 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (4.36%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.36%) Technical Architect
15 36 (4.13%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
17 34 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
17 34 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (12.86%) Kafka
2 105 (12.06%) Node.js
3 104 (11.94%) React
4 100 (11.48%) REST
5 97 (11.14%) RESTful
6 71 (8.15%) .NET
7 64 (7.35%) Spring Boot
8 62 (7.12%) Spring
9 61 (7.00%) PySpark
10 54 (6.20%) GraphQL
11 49 (5.63%) OAuth
12 40 (4.59%) JSON
12 40 (4.59%) OpenID
13 36 (4.13%) AWS CDK
14 34 (3.90%) AngularJS
14 34 (3.90%) FastAPI
15 29 (3.33%) OAuth2
16 25 (2.87%) Flask
16 25 (2.87%) Web Services
17 24 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 268 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 50 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.87%) NHS
6 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.03%) IoT
10 9 (1.03%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.63%) Linux
2 21 (2.41%) Unix
3 12 (1.38%) Windows
4 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (60.96%) CI/CD
2 405 (46.50%) DevOps
3 318 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 307 (35.25%) Agile
5 205 (23.54%) Microservices
6 196 (22.50%) Containerisation
7 184 (21.13%) AI
8 162 (18.60%) Event-Driven
9 141 (16.19%) Analytics
10 138 (15.84%) Test Automation
11 134 (15.38%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
12 127 (14.58%) Observability
13 122 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (13.55%) Data Engineering
15 116 (13.32%) ETL
15 116 (13.32%) Software Engineering
16 103 (11.83%) Migration
17 102 (11.71%) Mentoring
18 101 (11.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 404 (46.38%) Python
2 278 (31.92%) SQL
3 126 (14.47%) TypeScript
4 122 (14.01%) Java
5 110 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 105 (12.06%) C#
7 60 (6.89%) Bash
8 36 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.44%) Bicep
10 28 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.95%) Go
11 17 (1.95%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 194 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.74%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.36%) Degree
5 35 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 3 (0.34%) CCSP
18 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.94%) QA
3 25 (2.87%) GDPR
3 25 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.61%) NIST
7 9 (1.03%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) HL7
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 244 (28.01%) Docker
2 30 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 361 (41.45%) Terraform
2 220 (25.26%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.15%) Grafana
4 69 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.40%) Ansible
6 24 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.30%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.92%) Consul
10 6 (0.69%) Istio
10 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 6 (0.69%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 139 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.43%) Databricks
3 39 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.33%) Oracle
5 22 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.53%) Google
6 19 (2.18%) Splunk
7 18 (2.07%) Informatica
8 17 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.03%) Foundry
11 8 (0.92%) Brio
11 8 (0.92%) SAP
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.80%) Sybase
13 6 (0.69%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.69%) Tenable
14 5 (0.57%) Confluent
14 5 (0.57%) Workday