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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 119 137
Rank change year-on-year -36 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 844 663 595
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 2.36% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 6.18% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 460 399
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -0.45%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £745 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 15,941 10,729 11,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.41% 38.21% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 7,259 7,549
10th Percentile £322 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 256 166
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.38 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.71% -25.71% +6.06%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -18 503 £550 +1.85% 574
North of England -52 129 £500 +5.04% 217
Midlands -22 85 £430 -14.00% 97
North West -26 67 £538 +13.16% 124
West Midlands -23 65 £460 -10.24% 49
South East -50 52 £600 +41.18% 126
South West -17 46 £510 -7.27% 96
Yorkshire -57 42 £500 +5.04% 58
East Midlands -6 20 £425 -4.01% 48
North East -27 20 £463 -11.14% 39
East of England -37 16 £525 - 59
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 40 (4.74%) Confluence
2 39 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.44%) Apache Spark
5 27 (3.20%) Apache
6 9 (1.07%) CMS
7 8 (0.95%) SAS
8 7 (0.83%) nginx
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) CICS
10 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) Camunda
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.24%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 629 (74.53%) AWS
2 499 (59.12%) AWS Lambda
3 338 (40.05%) Amazon S3
4 334 (39.57%) Azure
5 185 (21.92%) Azure Functions
5 185 (21.92%) GitHub
6 177 (20.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 153 (18.13%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (16.11%) Amazon EC2
9 133 (15.76%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
11 119 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 112 (13.27%) Power Platform
13 99 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
14 77 (9.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 77 (9.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 75 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 65 (7.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 65 (7.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.67%) Network Security
2 25 (2.96%) Firewall
3 18 (2.13%) DNS
4 13 (1.54%) VPN
5 10 (1.18%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) HTTP
6 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.36%) CTI
8 3 (0.36%) FTP
8 3 (0.36%) IPv4
8 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) AMQP
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (14.22%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (13.74%) DynamoDB
3 90 (10.66%) Amazon Athena
4 71 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 71 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (7.58%) Power BI
7 52 (6.16%) SQL Server
8 50 (5.92%) Data Lake
8 50 (5.92%) NoSQL
9 29 (3.44%) MongoDB
10 26 (3.08%) Metadata
11 25 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (2.84%) MySQL
13 22 (2.61%) Delta Lake
14 18 (2.13%) BigQuery
14 18 (2.13%) Relational Database
15 15 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
16 14 (1.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (18.36%) Git
2 118 (13.98%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.51%) GitLab
4 60 (7.11%) JIRA
5 28 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.25%) Selenium
9 14 (1.66%) Postman
10 13 (1.54%) JUnit
11 11 (1.30%) Mockito
11 11 (1.30%) RStudio
12 10 (1.18%) Maven
12 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.95%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.83%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.71%) Gatling
15 6 (0.71%) JMeter
General
1 203 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 144 (17.06%) Public Sector
3 143 (16.94%) Finance
4 77 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.38%) Banking
7 16 (1.90%) Marketing
8 14 (1.66%) Back Office
8 14 (1.66%) Military
9 13 (1.54%) Law
10 12 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.30%) Billing
12 9 (1.07%) Retail
13 8 (0.95%) Front Office
14 7 (0.83%) Legal
14 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 187 (22.16%) Developer
2 171 (20.26%) Senior
3 146 (17.30%) Architect
4 119 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (13.15%) Data Engineer
6 110 (13.03%) Lead
7 68 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.28%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (5.57%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 33 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (3.91%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.79%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
18 30 (3.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (40.40%) Terraform
2 147 (17.42%) REST
3 94 (11.14%) .NET
3 94 (11.14%) React
4 90 (10.66%) Kafka
5 86 (10.19%) RESTful
6 82 (9.72%) Node.js
7 55 (6.52%) PySpark
8 54 (6.40%) GraphQL
9 49 (5.81%) Spring Boot
10 48 (5.69%) FastAPI
10 48 (5.69%) Spring
11 44 (5.21%) AWS CDK
12 42 (4.98%) OAuth
13 40 (4.74%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.27%) JSON
15 31 (3.67%) Flask
16 30 (3.55%) CSS
16 30 (3.55%) OAuth2
17 27 (3.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 278 (32.94%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.75%) AI Agents
5 34 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.84%) NHS
8 23 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.42%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.95%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.23%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 17 (2.01%) Windows
4 14 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.36%) zOS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 398 (47.16%) DevOps
3 347 (41.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 333 (39.45%) Agile
5 231 (27.37%) AI
6 185 (21.92%) Event-Driven
7 179 (21.21%) Microservices
8 177 (20.97%) Containerisation
9 170 (20.14%) Observability
10 167 (19.79%) Test Automation
11 144 (17.06%) Analytics
11 144 (17.06%) Software Engineering
12 140 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 136 (16.11%) Data Modelling
14 135 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
15 129 (15.28%) Data Engineering
16 125 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
17 124 (14.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 118 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
19 117 (13.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 407 (48.22%) Python
2 258 (30.57%) SQL
3 138 (16.35%) TypeScript
4 133 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 119 (14.10%) C#
6 111 (13.15%) Java
7 66 (7.82%) Bash
8 40 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.27%) Bicep
10 27 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.66%) Scala
12 9 (1.07%) Groovy
13 8 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.83%) R
15 6 (0.71%) Go
15 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 229 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.28%) Degree
5 38 (4.50%) DV Cleared
6 34 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (3.55%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.18%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.83%) CISSP
17 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
18 4 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.32%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.77%) QA
3 35 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.15%) GDPR
4 22 (2.61%) WCAG
5 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.18%) NIST
6 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 6 (0.71%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GLBA
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (28.08%) Docker
2 32 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Squid
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.35%) Grafana
3 54 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 52 (6.16%) Ansible
5 14 (1.66%) Puppet
6 10 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.71%) Istio
7 6 (0.71%) Packer
7 6 (0.71%) Podman
8 5 (0.59%) Kibana
8 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Rancher
9 4 (0.47%) Salt
10 3 (0.36%) Argo
10 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) CASB
11 2 (0.24%) Consul
11 2 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 188 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.70%) Databricks
3 40 (4.74%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.44%) Oracle
5 28 (3.32%) Google
6 22 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.49%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.37%) Informatica
9 18 (2.13%) Splunk
10 12 (1.42%) Foundry
11 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.18%) Brio
13 7 (0.83%) Confluent
13 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.83%) Tenable
14 4 (0.47%) Denodo
14 4 (0.47%) IBM
14 4 (0.47%) New Relic
14 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.47%) SAP