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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 844 606 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.33% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.55% 6.20% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 432 485
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £626
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 12,882 9,767 12,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.74% 37.48% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 6,533 9,091
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 141 301
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.48 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +10 500 £513 -10.87% 144
North of England +22 168 £500 -7.75% 81
Yorkshire +3 85 £500 - 33
North West -7 71 £450 -18.18% 45
Midlands -18 66 £506 +10.24% 21
West Midlands -12 54 £525 +2.54% 13
South East -60 52 £500 -13.04% 52
East of England -4 28 £550 -3.93% 7
South West -27 26 £650 - 36
North East -7 13 £500 -16.32% 3
East Midlands -29 12 £434 -5.50% 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 33 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.32%) Apache
4 27 (3.20%) Confluence
5 23 (2.73%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (1.07%) Mendix
8 8 (0.95%) nginx
9 5 (0.59%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 591 (70.02%) AWS
2 473 (56.04%) AWS Lambda
3 318 (37.68%) Azure
4 297 (35.19%) Amazon S3
5 199 (23.58%) Azure Functions
6 182 (21.56%) GitHub
7 138 (16.35%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 133 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
10 130 (15.40%) Amazon EC2
11 126 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
12 124 (14.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 105 (12.44%) Amazon EKS
13 105 (12.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 94 (11.14%) Power Platform
15 84 (9.95%) GCP
16 71 (8.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 67 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
18 58 (6.87%) Azure AKS
19 56 (6.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.55%) DNS
2 27 (3.20%) Firewall
3 24 (2.84%) VPN
4 14 (1.66%) Network Security
5 9 (1.07%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.07%) SSL
6 8 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.71%) HTTP
8 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.71%) SMS
9 5 (0.59%) IPsec
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
10 3 (0.36%) WAN
11 2 (0.24%) MPLS
12 1 (0.12%) AMQP
12 1 (0.12%) DKIM
12 1 (0.12%) MQTT
12 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (11.37%) DynamoDB
4 87 (10.31%) NoSQL
5 62 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (6.87%) Power BI
7 48 (5.69%) Data Lake
8 44 (5.21%) Relational Database
9 40 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.79%) MongoDB
12 31 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (3.55%) Redis
14 26 (3.08%) Big Data
15 24 (2.84%) Tableau
16 21 (2.49%) DocumentDB
17 19 (2.25%) MySQL
18 16 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (1.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (16.71%) Git
2 131 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 115 (13.63%) GitLab
4 44 (5.21%) JIRA
5 24 (2.84%) Liquibase
6 19 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.90%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.78%) JUnit
9 13 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.42%) Mockito
10 12 (1.42%) Postman
11 11 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.18%) Maven
12 10 (1.18%) Selenium
13 7 (0.83%) Mocha
14 6 (0.71%) Gradle
14 6 (0.71%) MLflow
14 6 (0.71%) Storybook
15 4 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 210 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 154 (18.25%) Public Sector
3 120 (14.22%) Finance
4 66 (7.82%) Banking
5 61 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.44%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.13%) Marketing
9 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.07%) Military
11 8 (0.95%) Front Office
11 8 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.95%) Retail
12 6 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.47%) Aviation
13 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.47%) Law
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Legal
15 2 (0.24%) Billing
Job Titles
1 223 (26.42%) Developer
2 116 (13.74%) Senior
3 114 (13.51%) Architect
4 101 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 77 (9.12%) Software Engineer
7 71 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (8.06%) Lead
9 53 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 35 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (3.79%) AWS Architect
14 31 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
16 28 (3.32%) AWS Developer
16 28 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.08%) Azure Developer
17 26 (3.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (17.30%) Node.js
2 125 (14.81%) React
3 123 (14.57%) REST
4 120 (14.22%) RESTful
5 119 (14.10%) Kafka
6 113 (13.39%) .NET
7 60 (7.11%) Spring
7 60 (7.11%) Spring Boot
8 48 (5.69%) OAuth
9 45 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 45 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
10 36 (4.27%) GraphQL
11 35 (4.15%) FastAPI
11 35 (4.15%) JSON
12 31 (3.67%) .NET Core
13 29 (3.44%) CSS
14 28 (3.32%) Flask
15 27 (3.20%) Next.js
16 26 (3.08%) OpenID
17 25 (2.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 77 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.91%) Public Cloud
4 32 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (1.90%) NHS
5 16 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.66%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.66%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.30%) Replication
10 10 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.83%) Data Fabric
12 7 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.83%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.43%) Linux
2 15 (1.78%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
4 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (58.77%) CI/CD
2 432 (51.18%) DevOps
3 297 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 282 (33.41%) Agile
5 239 (28.32%) Microservices
6 190 (22.51%) Containerisation
7 151 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 151 (17.89%) Software Engineering
8 127 (15.05%) AI
8 127 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
9 125 (14.81%) Analytics
10 113 (13.39%) Event-Driven
11 110 (13.03%) Data Modelling
12 108 (12.80%) Test Automation
13 98 (11.61%) ETL
14 94 (11.14%) Observability
15 89 (10.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 86 (10.19%) Data Engineering
17 85 (10.07%) Mentoring
18 69 (8.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 411 (48.70%) Python
2 255 (30.21%) SQL
3 136 (16.11%) JavaScript
4 127 (15.05%) Java
5 126 (14.93%) C#
6 119 (14.10%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.04%) Go
8 49 (5.81%) Bash
9 42 (4.98%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.67%) Bicep
11 22 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.01%) Ruby
13 10 (1.18%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.18%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.07%) C++
15 7 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.83%) Korn
15 7 (0.83%) Scala
16 6 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 225 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 184 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.64%) AWS Certification
3 56 (6.64%) Degree
4 47 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 14 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.03%) QA
3 26 (3.08%) GDPR
4 21 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.37%) NIST
6 11 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.07%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.83%) WCAG
11 4 (0.47%) HL7
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.36%) PMO
13 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 218 (25.83%) Docker
2 25 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.83%) Squid
4 7 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (41.11%) Terraform
2 229 (27.13%) Kubernetes
3 81 (9.60%) Prometheus
4 75 (8.89%) Ansible
5 74 (8.77%) Grafana
6 18 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.42%) Puppet
9 7 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.83%) Kibana
10 6 (0.71%) Consul
11 4 (0.47%) Rancher
12 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) Control-M
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 167 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.11%) Databricks
3 42 (4.98%) Google
4 40 (4.74%) OpenAI
5 39 (4.62%) Splunk
6 26 (3.08%) Foundry
6 26 (3.08%) Oracle
7 15 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.66%) Confluent
8 14 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.54%) IBM
10 10 (1.18%) Cloudera
10 10 (1.18%) Lotus
10 10 (1.18%) Palantir
10 10 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.07%) Kofax
12 8 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.83%) Brio
13 7 (0.83%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.71%) Sybase