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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 115 135
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 867 648 644
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.39% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.55% 6.39% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 472 460
10th Percentile £394 £400 £368
25th Percentile £456 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £638
90th Percentile £737 £738 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.25% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -9 514 £550 - 96
North of England -27 143 £500 - 89
North West -25 80 £538 +7.50% 43
Midlands -19 73 £482 +7.05% 44
West Midlands -27 59 £476 +5.78% 23
Yorkshire -31 49 £500 +1.01% 29
South East -58 46 £575 +15.93% 54
South West -19 42 £575 +8.24% 41
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 37
North East -32 15 £463 +0.54% 17
East Midlands -11 14 £497 +9.18% 21
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 51 (5.88%) Confluence
2 39 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.31%) Apache
5 16 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.23%) Mendix
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 676 (77.97%) AWS
2 533 (61.48%) AWS Lambda
3 392 (45.21%) Amazon S3
4 311 (35.87%) Azure
5 169 (19.49%) Amazon EC2
6 163 (18.80%) GitHub
7 159 (18.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 151 (17.42%) Amazon ECS
9 150 (17.30%) Azure Functions
10 134 (15.46%) Amazon EKS
11 117 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
12 108 (12.46%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 96 (11.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 95 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
16 93 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
17 78 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
18 77 (8.88%) GCP
19 68 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
20 54 (6.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.27%) Firewall
2 27 (3.11%) DNS
3 26 (3.00%) VPN
4 24 (2.77%) Network Security
5 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.38%) WAN
7 10 (1.15%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
9 5 (0.58%) MQTT
9 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) HTTP
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.35%) AMQP
11 3 (0.35%) CTI
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.23%) SMS
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.76%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.07%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.61%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (9.00%) Power BI
6 77 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.69%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.42%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.61%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.69%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.88%) Tableau
15 24 (2.77%) Metadata
16 22 (2.54%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.96%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.96%) Redis
19 16 (1.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 146 (16.84%) Git
2 122 (14.07%) Jenkins
3 121 (13.96%) GitLab
4 74 (8.54%) JIRA
5 28 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.15%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Postman
10 9 (1.04%) Mocha
11 8 (0.92%) MSTest
12 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.81%) Selenium
13 6 (0.69%) Mockito
13 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.69%) Vite
14 5 (0.58%) Gatling
14 5 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 203 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 155 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 133 (15.34%) Finance
4 61 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.34%) Banking
6 28 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 9 (1.04%) Billing
9 9 (1.04%) Legal
10 8 (0.92%) Marketing
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 7 (0.81%) Military
12 6 (0.69%) Back Office
12 6 (0.69%) Front Office
12 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 192 (22.15%) Developer
2 167 (19.26%) Architect
3 158 (18.22%) Senior
4 121 (13.96%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.65%) Data Engineer
6 94 (10.84%) Lead
7 59 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 54 (6.23%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.88%) AWS Architect
11 47 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 40 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (4.38%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.27%) AWS Developer
15 37 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
15 37 (4.27%) Technical Architect
16 35 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (12.46%) Node.js
2 106 (12.23%) React
3 101 (11.65%) REST
4 99 (11.42%) Kafka
5 95 (10.96%) RESTful
6 71 (8.19%) .NET
7 61 (7.04%) PySpark
7 61 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 58 (6.69%) Spring
9 56 (6.46%) GraphQL
10 47 (5.42%) OAuth
11 39 (4.50%) JSON
12 38 (4.38%) AWS CDK
12 38 (4.38%) OpenID
13 37 (4.27%) FastAPI
14 35 (4.04%) AngularJS
15 27 (3.11%) Flask
15 27 (3.11%) OAuth2
16 25 (2.88%) Web Services
17 24 (2.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 261 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.15%) Product Ownership
3 52 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.34%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.88%) NHS
7 17 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.04%) IoT
12 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.77%) Linux
2 20 (2.31%) Unix
3 14 (1.61%) Windows
4 10 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) 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
1 525 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 403 (46.48%) DevOps
3 318 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 312 (35.99%) Agile
5 205 (23.64%) Microservices
6 194 (22.38%) Containerisation
7 188 (21.68%) AI
8 160 (18.45%) Event-Driven
9 143 (16.49%) Analytics
10 140 (16.15%) Test Automation
11 135 (15.57%) Data Modelling
12 126 (14.53%) Observability
13 124 (14.30%) Data Pipeline
14 122 (14.07%) Software Engineering
15 120 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
16 118 (13.61%) Data Engineering
17 114 (13.15%) ETL
18 106 (12.23%) Migration
19 104 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 104 (12.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 404 (46.60%) Python
2 275 (31.72%) SQL
3 130 (14.99%) TypeScript
4 119 (13.73%) Java
5 114 (13.15%) JavaScript
6 104 (12.00%) C#
7 59 (6.81%) Bash
8 36 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.46%) Bicep
10 28 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.96%) Go
12 16 (1.85%) Scala
13 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.92%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) JCL
15 6 (0.69%) Ruby
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 5 (0.58%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 241 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.27%) Degree
5 36 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.35%) CCSP
15 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.73%) QA
3 25 (2.88%) GDPR
4 24 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.38%) NIST
8 9 (1.04%) WCAG
9 7 (0.81%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) HL7
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 245 (28.26%) Docker
2 30 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.38%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 355 (40.95%) Terraform
2 215 (24.80%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.07%) Grafana
4 67 (7.73%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.31%) Ansible
6 24 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.19%) Puppet
8 10 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.92%) Consul
11 6 (0.69%) Istio
11 6 (0.69%) Podman
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.58%) Packer
12 5 (0.58%) Salt
13 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
15 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 137 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.34%) Databricks
3 39 (4.50%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.34%) Oracle
5 25 (2.88%) Google
6 22 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.19%) Splunk
8 18 (2.08%) Informatica
9 17 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.04%) Foundry
12 8 (0.92%) Brio
12 8 (0.92%) SAP
13 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.58%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.58%) Sybase
14 5 (0.58%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) Workday