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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -27 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 843 608 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.53% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 6.71% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 451 480
10th Percentile £382 £400 £368
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £751 £707
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £53.00 -
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 14,624 9,063 11,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.64% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,948 6,208 8,509
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +0.69% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 216 324
10th Percentile £15.52 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.68 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.17 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.20 £68.13 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -43.53%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -8 513 £525 -4.55% 185
North of England -23 143 £500 - 67
North West -20 81 £525 +5.00% 35
Midlands -27 59 £488 -1.52% 19
South East -43 53 £563 +12.50% 46
Yorkshire -31 48 £500 - 21
West Midlands -33 45 £488 -3.18% 11
South West -19 31 £575 +4.55% 38
East of England -24 25 £550 -2.22% 7
North East -22 15 £475 - 11
East Midlands -23 14 £498 +3.86% 8
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 45 (5.34%) Confluence
2 42 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 36 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.97%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.25%) Apache
6 11 (1.30%) nginx
7 8 (0.95%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.95%) Mendix
8 6 (0.71%) CICS
9 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.47%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (76.04%) AWS
2 513 (60.85%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (42.82%) Amazon S3
4 311 (36.89%) Azure
5 185 (21.95%) GitHub
6 168 (19.93%) Azure Functions
7 164 (19.45%) Amazon EC2
8 143 (16.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 142 (16.84%) Amazon ECS
10 131 (15.54%) Amazon EKS
11 130 (15.42%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 105 (12.46%) Power Platform
14 103 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
15 97 (11.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 85 (10.08%) Amazon SQS
17 83 (9.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 79 (9.37%) AWS Step Functions
19 70 (8.30%) Azure Service Bus
20 67 (7.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.80%) DNS
2 28 (3.32%) Firewall
3 21 (2.49%) VPN
4 15 (1.78%) Network Security
5 13 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.07%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.07%) SSL
7 8 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
8 7 (0.83%) SMS
9 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.71%) WAN
10 5 (0.59%) HTTP
10 5 (0.59%) IPsec
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
12 2 (0.24%) MQTT
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 118 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (8.66%) Amazon Athena
5 70 (8.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 67 (7.95%) Power BI
7 57 (6.76%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.46%) Data Lake
9 35 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (4.03%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.80%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.44%) Tableau
14 22 (2.61%) Metadata
15 20 (2.37%) Big Data
15 20 (2.37%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.37%) Redis
16 18 (2.14%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 130 (15.42%) Git
2 112 (13.29%) GitLab
2 112 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 60 (7.12%) JIRA
4 25 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 18 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 13 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.07%) JUnit
9 8 (0.95%) Mocha
10 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.83%) MSTest
11 6 (0.71%) Postman
11 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.71%) Vite
12 5 (0.59%) Gatling
12 5 (0.59%) Mockito
12 5 (0.59%) Snyk
12 5 (0.59%) tSQLt
13 4 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 200 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 134 (15.90%) Public Sector
3 128 (15.18%) Finance
4 49 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (3.08%) Banking
7 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.07%) Law
10 8 (0.95%) Marketing
10 8 (0.95%) Retail
11 7 (0.83%) Legal
11 7 (0.83%) Military
12 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 4 (0.47%) Police
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Front Office
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (23.37%) Developer
2 163 (19.34%) Architect
3 118 (14.00%) Senior
4 103 (12.22%) AWS Engineer
5 92 (10.91%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.96%) Lead
7 53 (6.29%) AWS Architect
7 53 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 48 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 42 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 42 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 41 (4.86%) AWS Developer
11 38 (4.51%) Python Developer
12 37 (4.39%) Cloud Architect
12 37 (4.39%) Technical Architect
13 33 (3.91%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.20%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (14.12%) React
2 118 (14.00%) Kafka
3 107 (12.69%) Node.js
4 99 (11.74%) REST
5 92 (10.91%) RESTful
6 81 (9.61%) .NET
7 65 (7.71%) Spring
7 65 (7.71%) Spring Boot
8 56 (6.64%) PySpark
9 54 (6.41%) OAuth
10 43 (5.10%) AngularJS
11 42 (4.98%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.98%) OpenID
12 38 (4.51%) JSON
13 36 (4.27%) AWS CDK
14 33 (3.91%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.56%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.20%) Flask
16 27 (3.20%) Next.js
17 26 (3.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 245 (29.06%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 24 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.37%) NHS
7 14 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.19%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.83%) IoT
12 7 (0.83%) Replication
13 6 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.69%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 10 (1.19%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) zOS
5 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 395 (46.86%) DevOps
3 318 (37.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 276 (32.74%) Agile
5 189 (22.42%) Microservices
6 178 (21.12%) Containerisation
7 152 (18.03%) AI
8 150 (17.79%) Event-Driven
9 129 (15.30%) Observability
10 124 (14.71%) Analytics
11 121 (14.35%) Test Automation
12 120 (14.23%) Data Modelling
13 116 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (13.52%) Software Engineering
15 111 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
16 109 (12.93%) ETL
17 97 (11.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 96 (11.39%) Mentoring
19 91 (10.79%) Data Engineering
20 90 (10.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 376 (44.60%) Python
2 250 (29.66%) SQL
3 124 (14.71%) Java
3 124 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 122 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 117 (13.88%) C#
6 47 (5.58%) Bash
7 36 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.80%) Bicep
9 26 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.25%) Go
10 19 (2.25%) Scala
11 11 (1.30%) Ruby
12 10 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.95%) Formula Language
13 8 (0.95%) LotusScript
14 7 (0.83%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
16 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 231 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 186 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.74%) AWS Certification
4 31 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.08%) Degree
6 25 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.98%) QA
3 25 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.85%) GDPR
5 17 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.90%) NIST
6 16 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
8 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 227 (26.93%) Docker
2 30 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.42%) Squid
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 349 (41.40%) Terraform
2 200 (23.72%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.07%) Grafana
4 65 (7.71%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.74%) Ansible
6 27 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.90%) Puppet
8 10 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.95%) Consul
11 6 (0.71%) Istio
11 6 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.47%) Podman
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.36%) Packer
14 3 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 139 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.52%) Databricks
3 49 (5.81%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.91%) Oracle
5 21 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.37%) Splunk
7 17 (2.02%) Google
8 13 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.42%) Foundry
10 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.19%) Confluent
12 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.07%) Brio
12 9 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.07%) SAP
13 8 (0.95%) Informatica
13 8 (0.95%) Kofax
13 8 (0.95%) Lotus
14 6 (0.71%) Qualys
14 6 (0.71%) Sybase