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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 107 133
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 878 625 637
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.53% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 6.70% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 457 467
10th Percentile £381 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
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 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -13 525 £525 -4.55% 188
North of England -19 143 £500 - 63
North West -21 79 £518 +3.50% 36
Midlands -23 64 £488 -2.50% 16
South East -40 54 £588 +17.50% 46
West Midlands -26 50 £488 -4.79% 10
Yorkshire -24 49 £500 - 17
South West -15 41 £575 +6.98% 48
East of England -21 27 £550 +2.33% 10
North East -26 16 £475 - 10
East Midlands -20 14 £497 +3.55% 6
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 49 (5.58%) Confluence
2 42 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.05%) Apache
6 11 (1.25%) nginx
7 6 (0.68%) CICS
7 6 (0.68%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.68%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (75.85%) AWS
2 534 (60.82%) AWS Lambda
3 392 (44.65%) Amazon S3
4 325 (37.02%) Azure
5 176 (20.05%) GitHub
6 171 (19.48%) Azure Functions
7 167 (19.02%) Amazon EC2
8 155 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 141 (16.06%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
11 124 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
12 118 (13.44%) Power Platform
13 110 (12.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 104 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (11.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 87 (9.91%) Amazon SQS
17 84 (9.57%) AWS Step Functions
18 76 (8.66%) Azure Logic Apps
19 69 (7.86%) GCP
20 66 (7.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.64%) Firewall
2 31 (3.53%) DNS
3 21 (2.39%) VPN
4 19 (2.16%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.14%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
7 9 (1.03%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.23%) IPv4
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.12%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.67%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (10.93%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (10.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 84 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (9.23%) Power BI
7 56 (6.38%) Data Lake
7 56 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (6.26%) NoSQL
9 35 (3.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 35 (3.99%) SQL Server
10 34 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.30%) Tableau
13 24 (2.73%) Metadata
14 20 (2.28%) Redis
15 19 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
15 19 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (2.16%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 141 (16.06%) Git
2 120 (13.67%) GitLab
3 115 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 69 (7.86%) JIRA
5 25 (2.85%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
9 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 8 (0.91%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.80%) Postman
12 6 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.68%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.68%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.74%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.26%) Finance
4 58 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.96%) Banking
7 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.91%) Marketing
10 8 (0.91%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.78%) Developer
2 169 (19.25%) Architect
3 140 (15.95%) Senior
4 114 (12.98%) AWS Engineer
5 107 (12.19%) Data Engineer
6 85 (9.68%) Lead
7 56 (6.38%) AWS Architect
8 55 (6.26%) Software Engineer
9 54 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 54 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (4.56%) Python Developer
12 38 (4.33%) AWS Developer
12 38 (4.33%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.33%) Technical Architect
13 36 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
14 32 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 32 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (13.55%) Kafka
2 116 (13.21%) React
3 105 (11.96%) REST
4 96 (10.93%) Node.js
4 96 (10.93%) RESTful
5 76 (8.66%) .NET
6 66 (7.52%) Spring Boot
7 64 (7.29%) Spring
8 62 (7.06%) PySpark
9 55 (6.26%) OAuth
10 45 (5.13%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.78%) OpenID
12 40 (4.56%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.44%) JSON
14 37 (4.21%) AWS CDK
14 37 (4.21%) FastAPI
15 31 (3.53%) OAuth2
16 28 (3.19%) Flask
17 26 (2.96%) Next.js
18 25 (2.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 257 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.85%) AI Agents
4 25 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.39%) NHS
6 14 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.91%) IoT
10 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.90%) Linux
2 21 (2.39%) Unix
3 11 (1.25%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) zOS
5 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 404 (46.01%) DevOps
3 328 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 289 (32.92%) Agile
5 190 (21.64%) Containerisation
6 189 (21.53%) Microservices
7 181 (20.62%) AI
8 157 (17.88%) Event-Driven
9 139 (15.83%) Analytics
10 137 (15.60%) Observability
11 135 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 135 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 130 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (13.67%) Software Engineering
15 119 (13.55%) ETL
16 111 (12.64%) Data Engineering
17 102 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (11.39%) Roadmaps
19 99 (11.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.47%) Python
2 284 (32.35%) SQL
3 125 (14.24%) JavaScript
4 123 (14.01%) Java
4 123 (14.01%) TypeScript
5 117 (13.33%) C#
6 48 (5.47%) Bash
7 34 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 30 (3.42%) Bicep
9 26 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.16%) Scala
11 17 (1.94%) Go
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.68%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.68%) JCL
14 6 (0.68%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 240 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 193 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.47%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.76%) Degree
5 32 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
18 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
19 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.78%) QA
3 26 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.73%) GDPR
5 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.71%) NIST
7 7 (0.80%) PMO
7 7 (0.80%) WCAG
8 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 236 (26.88%) Docker
2 29 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 370 (42.14%) Terraform
2 208 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 69 (7.86%) Grafana
4 67 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.78%) Ansible
6 27 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (2.05%) 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
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Salt
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 3 (0.34%) Kibana
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 141 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.72%) Databricks
3 47 (5.35%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.76%) Oracle
5 22 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.16%) Google
7 18 (2.05%) Splunk
8 14 (1.59%) Informatica
8 14 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.25%) Confluent
10 11 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.03%) Brio
11 9 (1.03%) SAP
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.80%) Sybase
12 7 (0.80%) Tenable
13 6 (0.68%) Kofax
13 6 (0.68%) Lotus