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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 877 626 639
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 2.48% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.77% 6.57% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 456 466
10th Percentile £399 £400 £372
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £709
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £521
% change year-on-year - +0.77% -5.27%
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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -10 528 £545 -0.91% 121
North of England -14 144 £500 - 48
North West -22 82 £525 +5.00% 26
Midlands -29 64 £488 -2.50% 23
South East -44 51 £575 +15.00% 48
West Midlands -26 50 £482 -5.81% 14
Yorkshire -16 49 £500 - 15
South West -22 40 £575 +8.24% 29
East of England -25 26 £550 +3.53% 7
East Midlands -6 14 £497 +3.55% 9
North East -26 14 £463 -1.07% 7
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 52 (5.93%) Confluence
2 40 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 39 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.28%) Apache
4 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.37%) nginx
6 6 (0.68%) CICS
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.57%) SAS
8 4 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.46%) Mendix
8 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (76.40%) AWS
2 535 (61.00%) AWS Lambda
3 392 (44.70%) Amazon S3
4 323 (36.83%) Azure
5 173 (19.73%) GitHub
6 168 (19.16%) Amazon EC2
7 166 (18.93%) Azure Functions
8 154 (17.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 146 (16.65%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (15.39%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (14.03%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.11%) Power Platform
13 109 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 101 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
14 101 (11.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 92 (10.49%) Amazon SQS
16 78 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
17 76 (8.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 69 (7.87%) GCP
19 67 (7.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.88%) Firewall
2 30 (3.42%) DNS
3 24 (2.74%) VPN
4 21 (2.39%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.37%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.91%) SSL
9 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
10 4 (0.46%) SMS
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (14.37%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.68%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (10.83%) Amazon Athena
4 88 (10.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (9.24%) Power BI
7 60 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.61%) NoSQL
9 49 (5.59%) Data Lake
10 37 (4.22%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.65%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.08%) Tableau
13 23 (2.62%) Metadata
14 22 (2.51%) MongoDB
15 21 (2.39%) Redis
16 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.82%) Big Data
17 16 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 148 (16.88%) Git
2 123 (14.03%) GitLab
3 120 (13.68%) Jenkins
4 75 (8.55%) JIRA
5 26 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.25%) JUnit
10 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 9 (1.03%) Postman
11 8 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.91%) MSTest
12 6 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) Selenium
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 136 (15.51%) Finance
4 59 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.08%) Banking
7 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.46%) Police
15 3 (0.34%) Games
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (22.58%) Developer
2 170 (19.38%) Architect
3 145 (16.53%) Senior
4 117 (13.34%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 89 (10.15%) Lead
7 57 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 54 (6.16%) AWS Architect
10 45 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 42 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (4.45%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.33%) AWS Developer
14 38 (4.33%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.33%) Technical Architect
15 35 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.11%) Kafka
2 109 (12.43%) React
3 107 (12.20%) REST
4 102 (11.63%) Node.js
4 102 (11.63%) RESTful
5 79 (9.01%) .NET
6 66 (7.53%) Spring Boot
7 64 (7.30%) Spring
8 61 (6.96%) PySpark
9 54 (6.16%) OAuth
10 51 (5.82%) GraphQL
11 43 (4.90%) OpenID
12 40 (4.56%) JSON
13 37 (4.22%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.10%) AWS CDK
14 36 (4.10%) FastAPI
15 32 (3.65%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.08%) Flask
17 24 (2.74%) CSS
17 24 (2.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 263 (29.99%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 50 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.74%) NHS
6 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
9 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.80%) IoT
10 7 (0.80%) Replication
10 7 (0.80%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.13%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) Unix
3 12 (1.37%) Windows
4 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.68%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 409 (46.64%) DevOps
3 322 (36.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (34.55%) Agile
5 199 (22.69%) Microservices
6 197 (22.46%) Containerisation
7 182 (20.75%) AI
8 158 (18.02%) Event-Driven
9 139 (15.85%) Analytics
10 134 (15.28%) Test Automation
11 131 (14.94%) Observability
12 129 (14.71%) Data Modelling
13 125 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (13.68%) Software Engineering
15 114 (13.00%) ETL
16 113 (12.88%) Data Engineering
17 102 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
17 102 (11.63%) Migration
18 99 (11.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.29%) Python
2 277 (31.58%) SQL
3 128 (14.60%) TypeScript
4 124 (14.14%) Java
5 119 (13.57%) JavaScript
6 116 (13.23%) C#
7 55 (6.27%) Bash
8 33 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.42%) Bicep
10 28 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.94%) Go
11 17 (1.94%) Scala
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.68%) JCL
14 6 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 247 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 199 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 35 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (3.99%) Degree
5 32 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.02%) QA
3 27 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.74%) GDPR
5 20 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.71%) NIST
8 8 (0.91%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.34%) HL7
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 243 (27.71%) Docker
2 31 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 368 (41.96%) Terraform
2 218 (24.86%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.10%) Grafana
4 69 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.13%) Ansible
6 25 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.28%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.91%) Consul
10 6 (0.68%) Istio
10 6 (0.68%) Podman
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 144 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.27%) Databricks
3 44 (5.02%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.42%) Oracle
5 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.17%) Google
6 19 (2.17%) Splunk
7 17 (1.94%) Informatica
8 15 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.91%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Confluent
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) SAP
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.68%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.68%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Teradata