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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 118 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 800 579 651
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.15% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.62% 5.83% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 398 473
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £638
90th Percentile £691 £788 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

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 12,082 9,927 12,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.82% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,365 6,613 8,879
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 136 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £50.40
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 January 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
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 15 January 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 +14 471 £513 -6.82% 119
North of England +34 164 £478 -3.43% 93
Yorkshire +18 87 £500 - 39
North West +10 67 £450 -0.61% 43
Midlands +1 65 £506 +13.20% 37
West Midlands 0 51 £525 +5.00% 22
South East -49 47 £475 -24.00% 124
South West -25 27 £650 - 48
East of England -5 24 £550 -3.51% 53
East Midlands -21 14 £433 -3.24% 14
North East -6 11 £525 -12.13% 11
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 31 (3.88%) Apache
2 26 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.13%) Confluence
4 20 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.25%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.13%) Mendix
7 7 (0.88%) nginx
8 6 (0.75%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 560 (70.00%) AWS
2 456 (57.00%) AWS Lambda
3 292 (36.50%) Azure
4 269 (33.63%) Amazon S3
5 190 (23.75%) GitHub
6 185 (23.13%) Azure Functions
7 137 (17.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 132 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
9 131 (16.38%) GitHub Actions
10 126 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 114 (14.25%) Amazon EC2
13 95 (11.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 83 (10.38%) GCP
15 78 (9.75%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (9.25%) Power Platform
17 63 (7.88%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (7.75%) Amazon SQS
18 62 (7.75%) Azure AKS
19 59 (7.38%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.13%) DNS
2 19 (2.38%) Firewall
3 14 (1.75%) VPN
4 13 (1.63%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 6 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.63%) SMS
6 5 (0.63%) SSL
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.38%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) MPLS
9 1 (0.13%) DKIM
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) IPsec
9 1 (0.13%) MQTT
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
2 115 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (12.88%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.38%) NoSQL
5 56 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (6.38%) Relational Database
7 48 (6.00%) Power BI
8 45 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (5.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (5.25%) Data Lake
10 35 (4.38%) Redis
11 33 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (3.75%) MongoDB
13 29 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (3.25%) Big Data
15 24 (3.00%) MySQL
16 21 (2.63%) Tableau
17 17 (2.13%) DocumentDB
18 16 (2.00%) RDBMS
18 16 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 144 (18.00%) Git
2 126 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 103 (12.88%) GitLab
4 53 (6.63%) JIRA
5 27 (3.38%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.88%) JUnit
8 14 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.63%) Postman
10 12 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.50%) Mockito
11 11 (1.38%) Maven
11 11 (1.38%) Selenium
11 11 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (1.00%) Gradle
13 7 (0.88%) Storybook
14 6 (0.75%) MLflow
15 5 (0.63%) SonarLint
16 4 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 204 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 140 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 111 (13.88%) Finance
4 63 (7.88%) Banking
5 49 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.38%) Marketing
8 13 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.13%) Military
11 8 (1.00%) Front Office
11 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.88%) Retail
13 6 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.50%) Aviation
16 3 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.25%) Billing
17 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 220 (27.50%) Developer
2 112 (14.00%) Senior
3 105 (13.13%) AWS Engineer
4 97 (12.13%) Architect
5 84 (10.50%) Software Engineer
6 77 (9.63%) Data Engineer
7 75 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (7.75%) Lead
9 45 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.88%) AWS Developer
13 30 (3.75%) Python Engineer
14 29 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (3.38%) Technical Architect
17 26 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (18.38%) Node.js
2 137 (17.13%) React
2 137 (17.13%) RESTful
3 133 (16.63%) REST
4 113 (14.13%) Kafka
5 111 (13.88%) .NET
6 53 (6.63%) Spring Boot
7 48 (6.00%) AngularJS
7 48 (6.00%) Spring
8 46 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
9 43 (5.38%) OAuth
10 37 (4.63%) GraphQL
11 36 (4.50%) FastAPI
12 34 (4.25%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.13%) JSON
14 32 (4.00%) HTML
14 32 (4.00%) Next.js
15 29 (3.63%) CSS
15 29 (3.63%) Flask
16 26 (3.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 205 (25.63%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.88%) AI Agents
5 15 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.75%) NHS
7 13 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.50%) Replication
9 11 (1.38%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.00%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 84 (10.50%) Linux
2 11 (1.38%) Unix
3 7 (0.88%) Windows
4 5 (0.63%) VMS
5 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 409 (51.13%) DevOps
3 294 (36.75%) Agile
4 274 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (31.75%) Microservices
6 187 (23.38%) Containerisation
7 154 (19.25%) Software Engineering
8 144 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (15.38%) AI
10 111 (13.88%) Analytics
10 111 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
10 111 (13.88%) Event-Driven
11 101 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 94 (11.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 89 (11.13%) Data Modelling
14 88 (11.00%) Observability
15 86 (10.75%) ETL
16 79 (9.88%) Mentoring
17 69 (8.63%) Data Engineering
17 69 (8.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 395 (49.38%) Python
2 228 (28.50%) SQL
3 136 (17.00%) JavaScript
4 135 (16.88%) Java
5 126 (15.75%) TypeScript
6 113 (14.13%) C#
7 54 (6.75%) Go
8 47 (5.88%) Bash
9 35 (4.38%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.13%) Bicep
11 18 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.13%) Ruby
13 10 (1.25%) C++
13 10 (1.25%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.25%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.88%) Korn
16 6 (0.75%) PHP
16 6 (0.75%) Scala
16 6 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 170 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.63%) Degree
4 53 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (6.50%) AWS Certification
6 37 (4.63%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.13%) Master's Degree
8 24 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.63%) MCP
10 20 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.38%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.38%) QA
2 32 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.50%) GDPR
4 20 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.38%) NIST
6 11 (1.38%) WCAG
7 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.13%) EU AI Act
9 8 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.63%) HL7
11 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 213 (26.63%) Docker
2 31 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 326 (40.75%) Terraform
2 222 (27.75%) Kubernetes
3 76 (9.50%) Ansible
4 71 (8.88%) Grafana
4 71 (8.88%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.25%) Puppet
7 9 (1.13%) Kibana
8 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.50%) Rancher
10 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.38%) Packer
11 2 (0.25%) Control-M
11 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Knative
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 157 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.88%) Databricks
3 44 (5.50%) Splunk
4 35 (4.38%) Google
5 28 (3.50%) OpenAI
5 28 (3.50%) Oracle
6 19 (2.38%) Foundry
7 17 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.75%) Confluent
9 12 (1.50%) IBM
10 11 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.13%) Kofax
13 8 (1.00%) Palantir
14 6 (0.75%) Brio
14 6 (0.75%) Gigya
15 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.63%) Sybase