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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 117 133
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 849 665 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.41% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 6.48% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 479 426
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £735 £700 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £37.60 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 15,974 10,263 11,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.20% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,659 6,965 7,964
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 239
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -22 495 £550 - 282
North of England -43 135 £500 +4.17% 70
Midlands -15 81 £481 +9.94% 23
North West -28 69 £550 +15.79% 37
West Midlands -18 66 £477 +12.24% 13
South West -16 48 £542 +5.97% 32
South East -62 46 £600 +33.33% 46
Yorkshire -35 44 £500 +2.56% 20
East of England -19 24 £525 - 8
North East -28 22 £463 +0.54% 13
East Midlands -12 15 £488 +8.32% 10
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 (5.30%) Confluence
2 39 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.71%) Apache
5 18 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.71%) CICS
6 6 (0.71%) nginx
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.59%) SAS
8 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 653 (76.91%) AWS
2 525 (61.84%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (43.23%) Amazon S3
4 304 (35.81%) Azure
5 171 (20.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 161 (18.96%) GitHub
7 157 (18.49%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (18.14%) Amazon EC2
9 151 (17.79%) Azure Functions
10 132 (15.55%) Amazon EKS
11 116 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (12.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 101 (11.90%) Power Platform
14 98 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
15 95 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 85 (10.01%) AWS Step Functions
18 72 (8.48%) GCP
19 64 (7.54%) Azure Logic Apps
20 57 (6.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.77%) Firewall
2 24 (2.83%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
4 18 (2.12%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 7 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) HTTP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.35%) CTI
9 3 (0.35%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 2 (0.24%) AMQP
10 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) IPsec
11 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (15.55%) DynamoDB
2 120 (14.13%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (11.31%) Amazon Athena
4 79 (9.31%) Power BI
5 78 (9.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 75 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.18%) NoSQL
9 45 (5.30%) Data Lake
10 42 (4.95%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.77%) Relational Database
12 31 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.06%) Metadata
15 24 (2.83%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.83%) Tableau
16 19 (2.24%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
18 16 (1.88%) MySQL
19 15 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 147 (17.31%) Git
2 116 (13.66%) Jenkins
3 110 (12.96%) GitLab
4 67 (7.89%) JIRA
5 24 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.41%) Postman
9 11 (1.30%) JUnit
9 11 (1.30%) Selenium
9 11 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.82%) Mockito
10 7 (0.82%) MSTest
11 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.71%) Gatling
11 6 (0.71%) Mocha
11 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 145 (17.08%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.67%) Finance
4 67 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.89%) Banking
6 25 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.30%) Law
8 11 (1.30%) Retail
9 10 (1.18%) Marketing
10 9 (1.06%) Billing
11 8 (0.94%) Back Office
12 7 (0.82%) Front Office
12 7 (0.82%) Legal
13 6 (0.71%) Military
13 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (23.67%) Developer
2 159 (18.73%) Senior
3 154 (18.14%) Architect
4 123 (14.49%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.54%) Lead
6 97 (11.43%) Data Engineer
7 54 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 47 (5.54%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (5.06%) Python Developer
14 40 (4.71%) Senior Developer
15 38 (4.48%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
17 31 (3.65%) AWS Data Engineer
18 30 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
19 29 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
19 29 (3.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.31%) REST
2 109 (12.84%) React
3 101 (11.90%) Node.js
4 96 (11.31%) Kafka
4 96 (11.31%) RESTful
5 76 (8.95%) .NET
6 58 (6.83%) PySpark
7 55 (6.48%) Spring
7 55 (6.48%) Spring Boot
8 51 (6.01%) GraphQL
9 43 (5.06%) AWS CDK
10 39 (4.59%) FastAPI
10 39 (4.59%) OAuth
11 36 (4.24%) AngularJS
12 35 (4.12%) JSON
13 32 (3.77%) Flask
14 28 (3.30%) CSS
14 28 (3.30%) OpenID
15 26 (3.06%) HTML
16 24 (2.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 257 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (4.36%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.18%) NHS
6 23 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.30%) IoT
10 11 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.01%) Linux
2 24 (2.83%) Unix
3 15 (1.77%) Windows
4 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 375 (44.17%) DevOps
3 328 (38.63%) Agile
4 325 (38.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (23.91%) Microservices
6 190 (22.38%) AI
7 186 (21.91%) Containerisation
8 164 (19.32%) Event-Driven
9 152 (17.90%) Test Automation
10 145 (17.08%) Observability
11 138 (16.25%) Analytics
12 135 (15.90%) Data Modelling
13 120 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
14 119 (14.02%) Software Engineering
15 115 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (13.31%) ETL
16 113 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (13.07%) Data Engineering
18 108 (12.72%) Migration
19 106 (12.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 390 (45.94%) Python
2 272 (32.04%) SQL
3 134 (15.78%) TypeScript
4 129 (15.19%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.66%) Java
6 101 (11.90%) C#
7 63 (7.42%) Bash
8 34 (4.00%) Bicep
9 32 (3.77%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.65%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.77%) Scala
12 11 (1.30%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 250 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 207 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.95%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.48%) Degree
5 37 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (10.01%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.89%) QA
3 31 (3.65%) GDPR
4 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.77%) WCAG
7 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.30%) NIST
9 7 (0.82%) PMO
10 6 (0.71%) HL7
11 5 (0.59%) SLA
12 4 (0.47%) NCSC
13 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
15 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
15 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 238 (28.03%) Docker
2 30 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.71%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 339 (39.93%) Terraform
2 199 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 65 (7.66%) Grafana
4 58 (6.83%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.06%) Ansible
6 16 (1.88%) Puppet
7 14 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.06%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.71%) linkerd
11 6 (0.71%) Packer
11 6 (0.71%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Argo
13 4 (0.47%) Consul
14 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
15 2 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 140 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.77%) Databricks
3 31 (3.65%) Oracle
4 26 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.71%) Google
6 21 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.36%) Informatica
7 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.24%) Splunk
9 10 (1.18%) Brio
10 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.06%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) New Relic
11 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.71%) Confluent
12 6 (0.71%) Tenable
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Workday
14 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.47%) Sybase