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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 116 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 785 570 679
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 2.13% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 5.81% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 389 489
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £638
90th Percentile £696 £788 £722
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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 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 12 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 +9 458 £513 -6.82% 130
North of England +39 162 £478 -3.43% 112
Yorkshire +26 86 £500 -3.29% 48
North West +4 66 £450 +0.45% 50
Midlands -4 66 £506 +13.96% 53
West Midlands +1 52 £525 +13.51% 23
South East -53 45 £475 -24.00% 158
South West -23 27 £650 - 72
East of England -4 24 £550 -3.51% 70
East Midlands -14 14 £433 -3.24% 30
North East -2 11 £525 -13.93% 14
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 33 (4.20%) Apache
2 27 (3.44%) Confluence
3 25 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.93%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.27%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.15%) Mendix
8 7 (0.89%) nginx
9 6 (0.76%) CMS
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.51%) 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
1 545 (69.43%) AWS
2 443 (56.43%) AWS Lambda
3 285 (36.31%) Azure
4 259 (32.99%) Amazon S3
5 187 (23.82%) GitHub
6 183 (23.31%) Azure Functions
7 134 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 128 (16.31%) Amazon ECS
8 128 (16.31%) GitHub Actions
9 124 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
10 116 (14.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 113 (14.39%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (11.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 80 (10.19%) GCP
14 76 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
15 74 (9.43%) Power Platform
16 62 (7.90%) Azure AKS
17 61 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (7.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 57 (7.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.18%) DNS
2 18 (2.29%) Firewall
3 14 (1.78%) VPN
4 13 (1.66%) Network Security
5 6 (0.76%) HTTP
6 5 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.64%) SMS
6 5 (0.64%) 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
1 117 (14.90%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (12.74%) DynamoDB
4 88 (11.21%) NoSQL
5 51 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 51 (6.50%) Relational Database
6 48 (6.11%) Power BI
7 42 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 42 (5.35%) Data Lake
8 41 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (4.59%) Redis
10 33 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (3.82%) MongoDB
12 28 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (3.31%) Big Data
14 24 (3.06%) MySQL
15 20 (2.55%) Tableau
16 17 (2.17%) DocumentDB
16 17 (2.17%) SQL Server
17 16 (2.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 142 (18.09%) Git
2 126 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 102 (12.99%) GitLab
4 55 (7.01%) JIRA
5 27 (3.44%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.66%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.66%) JUnit
8 13 (1.66%) Postman
9 12 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.53%) Mockito
10 11 (1.40%) Maven
10 11 (1.40%) Selenium
10 11 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (1.02%) Gradle
12 7 (0.89%) Storybook
13 6 (0.76%) MLflow
14 5 (0.64%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 200 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 109 (13.89%) Finance
4 63 (8.03%) Banking
5 49 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.82%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.42%) Marketing
8 12 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.02%) Front Office
10 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.89%) Military
11 7 (0.89%) Retail
12 6 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.51%) Aviation
15 3 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Billing
16 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 218 (27.77%) Developer
2 110 (14.01%) Senior
3 103 (13.12%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (11.97%) Architect
5 86 (10.96%) Software Engineer
6 75 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 74 (9.43%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.77%) Lead
9 41 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (3.82%) AWS Developer
12 30 (3.82%) Python Engineer
12 30 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 26 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.31%) Technical Architect
15 25 (3.18%) Azure Developer
15 25 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (18.73%) Node.js
2 139 (17.71%) React
3 136 (17.32%) RESTful
4 132 (16.82%) REST
5 112 (14.27%) .NET
6 106 (13.50%) Kafka
7 49 (6.24%) AngularJS
7 49 (6.24%) Spring Boot
8 47 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
9 44 (5.61%) Spring
10 42 (5.35%) OAuth
11 37 (4.71%) GraphQL
12 36 (4.59%) FastAPI
13 34 (4.33%) .NET Core
14 32 (4.08%) HTML
14 32 (4.08%) JSON
14 32 (4.08%) Next.js
15 29 (3.69%) CSS
15 29 (3.69%) Flask
16 25 (3.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 196 (24.97%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.20%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.91%) AI Agents
5 15 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.78%) NHS
7 13 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.53%) Replication
9 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.02%) Data Fabric
12 7 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.76%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 84 (10.70%) Linux
2 10 (1.27%) Unix
3 7 (0.89%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
5 4 (0.51%) 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
1 457 (58.22%) CI/CD
2 402 (51.21%) DevOps
3 291 (37.07%) Agile
4 266 (33.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (32.23%) Microservices
6 181 (23.06%) Containerisation
7 157 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 141 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (15.41%) AI
10 108 (13.76%) Data Pipeline
11 107 (13.63%) Analytics
12 106 (13.50%) Event-Driven
13 101 (12.87%) Test Automation
14 96 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 86 (10.96%) Data Modelling
15 86 (10.96%) Observability
16 83 (10.57%) ETL
17 79 (10.06%) Mentoring
18 66 (8.41%) Data Engineering
18 66 (8.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 387 (49.30%) Python
2 223 (28.41%) SQL
3 138 (17.58%) JavaScript
4 130 (16.56%) Java
5 128 (16.31%) TypeScript
6 114 (14.52%) C#
7 54 (6.88%) Go
8 45 (5.73%) Bash
9 34 (4.33%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.82%) Bicep
11 19 (2.42%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.29%) Ruby
13 11 (1.40%) C++
14 10 (1.27%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.27%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.76%) JSX
16 6 (0.76%) Korn
16 6 (0.76%) PHP
16 6 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 206 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 169 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.77%) Degree
4 54 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (6.50%) AWS Certification
6 39 (4.97%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 24 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (2.42%) MCP
11 12 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.13%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.35%) QA
2 30 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.57%) GDPR
4 20 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.29%) NIST
6 11 (1.40%) WCAG
7 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.15%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.64%) HL7
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
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
1 210 (26.75%) Docker
2 30 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 317 (40.38%) Terraform
2 214 (27.26%) Kubernetes
3 76 (9.68%) Ansible
4 71 (9.04%) Grafana
5 70 (8.92%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.91%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.27%) Puppet
8 9 (1.15%) Kibana
9 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.51%) Rancher
11 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.38%) Packer
12 2 (0.25%) Control-M
12 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Knative
12 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 154 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.99%) Databricks
3 44 (5.61%) Splunk
4 34 (4.33%) Google
5 29 (3.69%) Oracle
6 27 (3.44%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.55%) Foundry
8 16 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.66%) Confluent
10 12 (1.53%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.53%) IBM
11 10 (1.27%) Lotus
11 10 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.15%) Kofax
12 9 (1.15%) Palantir
13 6 (0.76%) Brio
13 6 (0.76%) Gigya
14 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.64%) Pega