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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 113 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 870 605 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.39% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 6.31% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 438 479
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -8.70%
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 13,549 9,586 12,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.31% 37.79% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,329 6,540 8,814
10th Percentile £310 £313 £274
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 148 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.38 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +44.29% +28.10% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.90 £70.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +38.54% +26.93% -14.52%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +2 513 £513 -8.07% 213
North of England +17 174 £500 - 98
North West -5 82 £450 -10.00% 55
Yorkshire -4 78 £500 - 36
Midlands -20 68 £525 +16.67% 30
West Midlands -18 51 £525 +9.15% 19
South East -68 50 £500 -13.04% 77
South West -30 29 £650 +1.96% 53
East of England -6 28 £560 -12.16% 24
East Midlands -24 17 £479 +5.39% 11
North East -3 15 £500 -18.03% 9
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 42 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.68%) Apache
4 26 (2.99%) Confluence
5 23 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.15%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (1.03%) Mendix
7 9 (1.03%) nginx
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 618 (71.03%) AWS
2 494 (56.78%) AWS Lambda
3 322 (37.01%) Azure
4 318 (36.55%) Amazon S3
5 208 (23.91%) Azure Functions
6 189 (21.72%) GitHub
7 146 (16.78%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 136 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 133 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
11 130 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 129 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
13 119 (13.68%) Amazon EKS
14 102 (11.72%) Power Platform
15 100 (11.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 81 (9.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 79 (9.08%) GCP
18 71 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
19 59 (6.78%) Azure AKS
20 58 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.45%) DNS
2 29 (3.33%) Firewall
3 24 (2.76%) VPN
4 11 (1.26%) Network Security
5 9 (1.03%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.92%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.69%) HTTP
8 6 (0.69%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 3 (0.34%) LAN
10 3 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.11%) 4G
12 1 (0.11%) Internet
12 1 (0.11%) MQTT
12 1 (0.11%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (13.68%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (12.18%) DynamoDB
4 90 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 61 (7.01%) Power BI
7 53 (6.09%) Data Lake
8 49 (5.63%) Relational Database
9 42 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.68%) MongoDB
12 30 (3.45%) Redis
13 28 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (3.10%) Tableau
15 22 (2.53%) Big Data
16 21 (2.41%) DocumentDB
17 20 (2.30%) Metadata
18 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
19 16 (1.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 147 (16.90%) Git
2 126 (14.48%) Jenkins
3 121 (13.91%) GitLab
4 43 (4.94%) JIRA
5 22 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.30%) Liquibase
7 19 (2.18%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.07%) JUnit
9 16 (1.84%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.49%) Mockito
11 12 (1.38%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.15%) Maven
12 10 (1.15%) Selenium
13 9 (1.03%) Mocha
13 9 (1.03%) Postman
13 9 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.80%) MLflow
15 6 (0.69%) Gradle
16 5 (0.57%) Snyk
17 4 (0.46%) Terragrunt
General
1 218 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 161 (18.51%) Public Sector
3 130 (14.94%) Finance
4 64 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.01%) Banking
6 27 (3.10%) Financial Institution
7 23 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Marketing
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.80%) Retail
12 6 (0.69%) Front Office
12 6 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.46%) Aviation
14 3 (0.34%) Billing
14 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Law
14 3 (0.34%) Legal
14 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (25.63%) Developer
2 118 (13.56%) Architect
2 118 (13.56%) Senior
3 106 (12.18%) AWS Engineer
4 91 (10.46%) Data Engineer
5 71 (8.16%) Lead
6 69 (7.93%) Software Engineer
7 67 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 58 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (4.48%) AWS Architect
11 36 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 36 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
13 31 (3.56%) AWS Developer
13 31 (3.56%) Java Developer
14 29 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (16.09%) Node.js
2 124 (14.25%) REST
3 121 (13.91%) RESTful
4 118 (13.56%) Kafka
5 115 (13.22%) React
6 108 (12.41%) .NET
7 69 (7.93%) Spring
8 68 (7.82%) Spring Boot
9 54 (6.21%) OAuth
10 45 (5.17%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.71%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (4.25%) FastAPI
14 36 (4.14%) JSON
15 32 (3.68%) OpenID
16 31 (3.56%) PySpark
17 29 (3.33%) CSS
18 28 (3.22%) AWS CDK
18 28 (3.22%) Flask
18 28 (3.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 222 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.22%) Public Cloud
5 19 (2.18%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.84%) NHS
8 15 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.92%) Replication
14 7 (0.80%) Data Fabric
14 7 (0.80%) DataPower
14 7 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.08%) Linux
2 14 (1.61%) Unix
3 9 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (58.51%) CI/CD
2 449 (51.61%) DevOps
3 308 (35.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 295 (33.91%) Agile
5 245 (28.16%) Microservices
6 203 (23.33%) Containerisation
7 160 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 142 (16.32%) AI
10 129 (14.83%) Analytics
11 128 (14.71%) Data Modelling
12 125 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (13.33%) Event-Driven
14 111 (12.76%) Test Automation
15 108 (12.41%) Observability
16 101 (11.61%) ETL
17 98 (11.26%) Data Engineering
18 93 (10.69%) Mentoring
19 83 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
20 75 (8.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 425 (48.85%) Python
2 270 (31.03%) SQL
3 135 (15.52%) Java
4 134 (15.40%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.02%) C#
6 120 (13.79%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.75%) Bash
8 48 (5.52%) Go
9 42 (4.83%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.14%) Bicep
11 22 (2.53%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.95%) Ruby
13 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.15%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.15%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.92%) C++
16 7 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.80%) Korn
16 7 (0.80%) Scala
17 6 (0.69%) JSX
Qualifications
1 235 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 185 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.86%) Degree
5 42 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.45%) Master's Degree
9 26 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.34%) PhD
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.37%) QA
3 25 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.87%) GDPR
4 21 (2.41%) NIST
5 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.03%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.03%) WCAG
8 8 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) HL7
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) NCSC
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 234 (26.90%) Docker
2 28 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.92%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 358 (41.15%) Terraform
2 229 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 87 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 80 (9.20%) Grafana
5 73 (8.39%) Ansible
6 20 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.61%) Puppet
8 8 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.80%) Consul
9 7 (0.80%) Kibana
10 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.34%) Istio
11 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.34%) linkerd
11 3 (0.34%) Packer
11 3 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 167 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.70%) Databricks
3 40 (4.60%) OpenAI
3 40 (4.60%) Splunk
4 33 (3.79%) Google
5 29 (3.33%) Oracle
6 26 (2.99%) Foundry
7 15 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.26%) Confluent
8 11 (1.26%) IBM
8 11 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.15%) Lotus
9 10 (1.15%) Palantir
9 10 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.03%) Kofax
11 8 (0.92%) Brio
11 8 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.92%) Sybase