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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 116 132
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 879 658 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 2.37% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.48% 6.31% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 464 414
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £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 16,038 10,427 11,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.60% 37.48% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,779
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £640
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 260 183
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £19.97
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.38 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.61 £61.78
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.51 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -13 522 £550 - 364
North of England -50 135 £500 +4.06% 68
Midlands -13 89 £444 -7.36% 22
West Midlands -15 70 £461 -7.29% 11
North West -27 68 £600 +23.71% 45
South East -52 51 £600 +39.53% 50
Yorkshire -54 46 £500 +3.79% 16
South West -27 45 £520 -2.12% 37
East of England -26 21 £525 +1.94% 17
North East -30 21 £463 +4.52% 7
East Midlands -11 19 £419 +0.84% 11
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 46 (5.23%) Confluence
2 39 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 30 (3.41%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.62%) Apache
6 8 (0.91%) CMS
6 8 (0.91%) SAS
7 7 (0.80%) nginx
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) CICS
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 668 (76.00%) AWS
2 533 (60.64%) AWS Lambda
3 364 (41.41%) Amazon S3
4 344 (39.14%) Azure
5 190 (21.62%) GitHub
6 183 (20.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 181 (20.59%) Azure Functions
8 156 (17.75%) Amazon ECS
9 144 (16.38%) Amazon EC2
10 130 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
11 128 (14.56%) Amazon EKS
12 119 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
12 119 (13.54%) Power Platform
13 116 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 105 (11.95%) Amazon SQS
15 90 (10.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 83 (9.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (8.30%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (7.74%) GCP
19 64 (7.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.53%) Firewall
2 28 (3.19%) Network Security
3 21 (2.39%) DNS
4 16 (1.82%) VPN
5 12 (1.37%) WAN
6 6 (0.68%) SSL
7 5 (0.57%) HTTP
7 5 (0.57%) MQTT
7 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.34%) CTI
8 3 (0.34%) FTP
8 3 (0.34%) IPv4
8 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (14.79%) DynamoDB
2 126 (14.33%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.26%) Amazon Athena
4 78 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (8.87%) Power BI
5 75 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 73 (8.30%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (6.71%) NoSQL
8 51 (5.80%) SQL Server
9 48 (5.46%) Data Lake
10 31 (3.53%) MySQL
11 30 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (3.19%) Metadata
13 27 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.84%) MongoDB
15 22 (2.50%) Relational Database
16 21 (2.39%) Delta Lake
17 20 (2.28%) Tableau
18 18 (2.05%) BigQuery
19 15 (1.71%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 156 (17.75%) Git
2 121 (13.77%) Jenkins
3 114 (12.97%) GitLab
4 65 (7.39%) JIRA
5 23 (2.62%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.93%) Selenium
8 13 (1.48%) Postman
9 11 (1.25%) JUnit
9 11 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.02%) Mockito
10 9 (1.02%) RStudio
11 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.80%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.68%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 215 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 142 (16.15%) Finance
4 74 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.75%) Banking
7 16 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.48%) Law
8 13 (1.48%) Marketing
8 13 (1.48%) Military
9 12 (1.37%) Billing
9 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.14%) Back Office
11 9 (1.02%) Retail
12 8 (0.91%) Front Office
13 7 (0.80%) Legal
13 7 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 200 (22.75%) Developer
2 176 (20.02%) Senior
3 165 (18.77%) Architect
4 122 (13.88%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (12.63%) Data Engineer
6 109 (12.40%) Lead
7 64 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (5.69%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
13 41 (4.66%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.44%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
16 35 (3.98%) AWS Developer
17 34 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
18 33 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
18 33 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (3.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (41.41%) Terraform
2 141 (16.04%) REST
3 110 (12.51%) React
4 95 (10.81%) Node.js
5 94 (10.69%) .NET
6 89 (10.13%) Kafka
6 89 (10.13%) RESTful
7 65 (7.39%) PySpark
8 54 (6.14%) Spring Boot
9 53 (6.03%) Spring
10 52 (5.92%) GraphQL
11 46 (5.23%) FastAPI
12 45 (5.12%) OAuth
13 42 (4.78%) AWS CDK
14 39 (4.44%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.21%) JSON
16 35 (3.98%) Flask
17 33 (3.75%) CSS
18 30 (3.41%) HTML
18 30 (3.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 271 (30.83%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.46%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.19%) NHS
6 27 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.14%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.02%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.02%) IoT
13 9 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.02%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.02%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.94%) Linux
2 24 (2.73%) Unix
3 17 (1.93%) Windows
4 14 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (62.46%) CI/CD
2 407 (46.30%) DevOps
3 354 (40.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (38.68%) Agile
5 216 (24.57%) AI
6 190 (21.62%) Microservices
7 189 (21.50%) Event-Driven
8 187 (21.27%) Containerisation
9 165 (18.77%) Test Automation
10 160 (18.20%) Observability
11 149 (16.95%) Analytics
12 143 (16.27%) Software Engineering
13 142 (16.15%) Data Modelling
14 134 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 133 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
16 132 (15.02%) Data Pipeline
17 124 (14.11%) Data Engineering
17 124 (14.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 120 (13.65%) Mentoring
19 119 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 423 (48.12%) Python
2 277 (31.51%) SQL
3 145 (16.50%) TypeScript
4 138 (15.70%) JavaScript
5 121 (13.77%) Java
6 119 (13.54%) C#
7 69 (7.85%) Bash
8 43 (4.89%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.44%) Bicep
10 29 (3.30%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.82%) Scala
12 10 (1.14%) Groovy
13 8 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.91%) R
14 6 (0.68%) Go
14 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.57%) Cypher
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 248 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 209 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.51%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.69%) Degree
5 36 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.91%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.68%) CISSP
15 6 (0.68%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 71 (8.08%) QA
3 37 (4.21%) GDPR
4 34 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.39%) WCAG
7 13 (1.48%) NIST
8 11 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.80%) SLA
10 6 (0.68%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 246 (27.99%) Docker
2 34 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 204 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.39%) Grafana
3 53 (6.03%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.57%) Ansible
5 14 (1.59%) Puppet
6 11 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.68%) Istio
8 6 (0.68%) Packer
8 6 (0.68%) Podman
9 5 (0.57%) Kibana
9 5 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Argo
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 183 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.05%) Databricks
3 33 (3.75%) OpenAI
3 33 (3.75%) Oracle
4 24 (2.73%) Google
5 23 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.50%) Informatica
7 20 (2.28%) Splunk
8 10 (1.14%) Brio
8 10 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 8 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.80%) Confluent
10 7 (0.80%) Foundry
10 7 (0.80%) SAP
10 7 (0.80%) Tenable
11 5 (0.57%) New Relic
11 5 (0.57%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.57%) Workday
12 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA