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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 117 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 758 617 727
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.45% 2.03% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.41% 5.60% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 411 518
10th Percentile £375 £384 £404
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £505 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.05% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%

All Cloud 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 11,827 11,024 13,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.28% 36.21% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,094 7,350 9,793
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 148 268
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £56.31 £55.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +5 408 £523 -5.09% 133
North of England +32 161 £475 -4.04% 98
Yorkshire +31 92 £500 -5.57% 37
Midlands +13 71 £500 +1.01% 40
North West -2 61 £450 +1.12% 52
West Midlands +8 54 £525 +5.00% 20
South East -43 44 £430 -31.20% 116
South West -8 33 £625 -2.72% 33
East of England +4 30 £538 -5.70% 29
East Midlands -10 17 £390 -13.33% 18
North East -2 9 £475 -22.13% 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 38 (5.01%) Apache
2 27 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.56%) Confluence
3 22 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.06%) CMS
5 8 (1.06%) nginx
6 4 (0.53%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.40%) Mendix
8 2 (0.26%) FileNet
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Documentum
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.58%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.92%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.53%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 536 (70.71%) AWS
2 430 (56.73%) AWS Lambda
3 259 (34.17%) Azure
4 255 (33.64%) Amazon S3
5 158 (20.84%) GitHub
6 152 (20.05%) Azure Functions
7 137 (18.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 121 (15.96%) Amazon ECS
9 117 (15.44%) Amazon EC2
10 113 (14.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 106 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (10.55%) GCP
14 79 (10.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 66 (8.71%) Amazon SQS
16 62 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (7.52%) Azure AKS
18 55 (7.26%) AWS Step Functions
19 53 (6.99%) Power Platform
20 51 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.90%) Firewall
2 20 (2.64%) DNS
3 18 (2.37%) VPN
4 11 (1.45%) Network Security
5 6 (0.79%) DHCP
5 6 (0.79%) SSL
6 5 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.53%) HTTP
7 4 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.40%) LAN
8 3 (0.40%) WAN
9 2 (0.26%) MPLS
10 1 (0.13%) DKIM
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
10 1 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) NAS
10 1 (0.13%) VSAN
10 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (15.70%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (13.32%) DynamoDB
4 88 (11.61%) NoSQL
5 59 (7.78%) Relational Database
6 45 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (5.01%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (4.75%) Power BI
9 34 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 33 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (4.22%) Redis
12 31 (4.09%) Big Data
13 29 (3.83%) Data Lake
14 27 (3.56%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (2.90%) MySQL
16 22 (2.90%) RDBMS
16 22 (2.90%) SQL Server
17 16 (2.11%) Tableau
18 13 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 134 (17.68%) Git
2 118 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 91 (12.01%) GitLab
4 68 (8.97%) JIRA
5 31 (4.09%) Liquibase
6 22 (2.90%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.24%) JUnit
9 15 (1.98%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.85%) Postman
11 13 (1.72%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.72%) Maven
11 13 (1.72%) Selenium
12 12 (1.58%) Mockito
13 8 (1.06%) Gradle
13 8 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.79%) MLflow
15 5 (0.66%) SonarLint
15 5 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.66%) Storybook
General
1 203 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 132 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 100 (13.19%) Finance
4 68 (8.97%) Banking
5 48 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.83%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.85%) Marketing
8 11 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.19%) Front Office
11 8 (1.06%) Retail
12 6 (0.79%) Military
13 5 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.66%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.26%) Aviation
14 2 (0.26%) Billing
14 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (28.23%) Developer
2 118 (15.57%) Senior
3 110 (14.51%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (11.74%) Architect
5 84 (11.08%) Software Engineer
6 80 (10.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (7.92%) Data Engineer
8 58 (7.65%) Lead
9 37 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
9 37 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (4.35%) AWS Developer
11 31 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 29 (3.83%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 28 (3.69%) Python Engineer
15 26 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.30%) Technical Architect
17 24 (3.17%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (18.34%) Node.js
2 136 (17.94%) RESTful
3 118 (15.57%) React
3 118 (15.57%) REST
4 95 (12.53%) .NET
5 88 (11.61%) Kafka
6 47 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
7 46 (6.07%) Spring Boot
8 44 (5.80%) AngularJS
9 41 (5.41%) GraphQL
10 39 (5.15%) Spring
11 37 (4.88%) OAuth
12 32 (4.22%) AWS CDK
13 31 (4.09%) FastAPI
14 30 (3.96%) .NET Core
14 30 (3.96%) JSON
15 28 (3.69%) HTML
16 25 (3.30%) PyTorch
17 24 (3.17%) CSS
17 24 (3.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 192 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 76 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.72%) Replication
7 12 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.58%) NHS
8 11 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.19%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) Derivative
12 7 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 86 (11.35%) Linux
2 12 (1.58%) Windows
3 10 (1.32%) Unix
4 5 (0.66%) VMS
4 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) SUSE
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (55.01%) CI/CD
2 389 (51.32%) DevOps
3 311 (41.03%) Agile
4 256 (33.77%) Microservices
5 236 (31.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 179 (23.61%) Containerisation
7 163 (21.50%) Software Engineering
8 139 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (13.85%) Test Automation
10 102 (13.46%) Analytics
11 101 (13.32%) AI
12 93 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
13 92 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
14 91 (12.01%) Event-Driven
15 85 (11.21%) Mentoring
16 78 (10.29%) Data Modelling
17 74 (9.76%) High Availability
18 72 (9.50%) ETL
19 64 (8.44%) Data Engineering
20 63 (8.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 366 (48.28%) Python
2 206 (27.18%) SQL
3 139 (18.34%) Java
4 125 (16.49%) TypeScript
5 124 (16.36%) JavaScript
6 92 (12.14%) C#
7 59 (7.78%) Go
8 45 (5.94%) Bash
9 34 (4.49%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.90%) Bicep
11 17 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.72%) Ruby
13 12 (1.58%) C++
14 10 (1.32%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.79%) Groovy
15 6 (0.79%) JSX
15 6 (0.79%) Korn
15 6 (0.79%) VBA
16 5 (0.66%) Scala
16 5 (0.66%) X++
Qualifications
1 194 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 156 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.71%) Degree
4 61 (8.05%) AWS Certification
5 59 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (5.28%) DV Cleared
7 36 (4.75%) Master's Degree
8 26 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.19%) MCP
12 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.26%) PhD
15 1 (0.13%) CISM
15 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.88%) QA
2 28 (3.69%) GDPR
3 25 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.85%) NIST
6 13 (1.72%) WCAG
7 9 (1.19%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.53%) HL7
10 4 (0.53%) MiFID
11 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 203 (26.78%) Docker
2 32 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 289 (38.13%) Terraform
2 205 (27.04%) Kubernetes
3 77 (10.16%) Ansible
4 74 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 71 (9.37%) Grafana
6 15 (1.98%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.32%) Puppet
8 5 (0.66%) Kibana
9 4 (0.53%) Packer
9 4 (0.53%) Rancher
9 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.26%) Control-M
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.26%) Podman
11 2 (0.26%) SELinux
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 141 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.20%) Splunk
3 40 (5.28%) Google
4 39 (5.15%) Databricks
5 27 (3.56%) Oracle
6 19 (2.51%) Foundry
7 15 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.58%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.58%) IBM
11 10 (1.32%) Palantir
12 8 (1.06%) Pega
13 7 (0.92%) Confluent
14 6 (0.79%) Gigya
15 5 (0.66%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.66%) Brio
15 5 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
15 5 (0.66%) StreamSets