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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 128 137
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 752 618 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.00% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 5.58% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 416 524
10th Percentile £375 £369 £412
25th Percentile £415 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £650
90th Percentile £688 £781 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £78.75
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 11,745 11,070 13,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.90% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 7,359 10,084
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 140 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +36.36%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +11 407 £525 -4.55% 337
North of England +24 148 £500 - 147
Yorkshire +21 89 £500 -6.67% 45
Midlands +6 70 £500 - 36
North West -9 53 £463 +2.15% 98
West Midlands +7 52 £523 -0.48% 21
South East -42 46 £430 -31.20% 73
East of England +8 36 £521 -8.55% 22
South West -8 33 £575 -10.51% 44
East Midlands -12 18 £411 -8.61% 15
North East -5 7 £466 -23.61% 4
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 34 (4.52%) Apache
2 28 (3.72%) Confluence
3 26 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.73%) CMS
6 10 (1.33%) nginx
7 7 (0.93%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Documentum
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) Mendix
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.93%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.53%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 536 (71.28%) AWS
2 431 (57.31%) AWS Lambda
3 265 (35.24%) Amazon S3
4 243 (32.31%) Azure
5 149 (19.81%) GitHub
6 145 (19.28%) Azure Functions
7 143 (19.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 118 (15.69%) Amazon EC2
8 118 (15.69%) Amazon ECS
9 109 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (12.23%) GitHub Actions
12 77 (10.24%) GCP
13 75 (9.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 67 (8.91%) Amazon SQS
15 64 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
16 53 (7.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 51 (6.78%) Azure AKS
17 51 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 50 (6.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.79%) Firewall
2 19 (2.53%) VPN
3 18 (2.39%) DNS
4 9 (1.20%) Network Security
5 7 (0.93%) SSL
6 6 (0.80%) DHCP
7 5 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.40%) LAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) MPLS
10 2 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.27%) SSH
11 1 (0.13%) Internet
11 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.13%) VLAN
11 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (15.82%) Amazon RDS
2 115 (15.29%) DynamoDB
3 108 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (10.90%) NoSQL
5 55 (7.31%) Relational Database
6 48 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 32 (4.26%) Power BI
10 30 (3.99%) Big Data
11 27 (3.59%) Data Lake
11 27 (3.59%) Redis
12 25 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (3.19%) MySQL
13 24 (3.19%) SQL Server
14 21 (2.79%) MongoDB
15 18 (2.39%) RDBMS
16 16 (2.13%) Tableau
17 13 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 121 (16.09%) Git
2 117 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 80 (10.64%) GitLab
4 72 (9.57%) JIRA
5 31 (4.12%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.66%) JUnit
7 18 (2.39%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.26%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.99%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.86%) Maven
10 14 (1.86%) Postman
11 12 (1.60%) Mockito
12 11 (1.46%) Selenium
13 7 (0.93%) Gradle
13 7 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.66%) SonarLint
14 5 (0.66%) Storybook
15 4 (0.53%) Mocha
General
1 213 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 116 (15.43%) Public Sector
3 95 (12.63%) Finance
4 65 (8.64%) Banking
5 53 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.59%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.86%) Marketing
8 13 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.06%) Retail
11 7 (0.93%) Front Office
12 5 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (0.66%) Military
12 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.40%) Aviation
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
15 2 (0.27%) Billing
15 2 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (27.13%) Developer
2 117 (15.56%) Senior
3 111 (14.76%) AWS Engineer
4 103 (13.70%) Architect
5 86 (11.44%) Software Engineer
6 76 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (7.98%) Data Engineer
8 59 (7.85%) Lead
9 38 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 33 (4.39%) AWS Developer
13 32 (4.26%) AWS Architect
14 30 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (3.72%) Senior Developer
17 26 (3.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.46%) Java Developer
17 26 (3.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (17.95%) RESTful
2 130 (17.29%) Node.js
3 118 (15.69%) REST
4 115 (15.29%) React
5 88 (11.70%) .NET
6 84 (11.17%) Kafka
7 47 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 45 (5.98%) GraphQL
9 40 (5.32%) AngularJS
10 39 (5.19%) OAuth
11 35 (4.65%) Spring
11 35 (4.65%) Spring Boot
12 30 (3.99%) AWS CDK
13 29 (3.86%) FastAPI
14 26 (3.46%) JSON
15 25 (3.32%) .NET Core
15 25 (3.32%) HTML
15 25 (3.32%) Next.js
15 25 (3.32%) OAuth2
16 24 (3.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 192 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 18 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.73%) Replication
7 11 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.33%) NHS
8 10 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.06%) Data Fabric
10 8 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.80%) N-Tier
12 5 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 79 (10.51%) Linux
2 12 (1.60%) Windows
3 9 (1.20%) Unix
4 5 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.53%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
1 395 (52.53%) CI/CD
2 377 (50.13%) DevOps
3 306 (40.69%) Agile
4 236 (31.38%) Microservices
5 223 (29.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 174 (23.14%) Containerisation
7 163 (21.68%) Software Engineering
8 149 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (14.23%) Test Automation
10 98 (13.03%) Analytics
11 97 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
12 96 (12.77%) AI
13 90 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
14 88 (11.70%) Event-Driven
15 86 (11.44%) Mentoring
16 76 (10.11%) ETL
17 74 (9.84%) Data Modelling
18 71 (9.44%) High Availability
19 67 (8.91%) Clean Code
20 63 (8.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 361 (48.01%) Python
2 199 (26.46%) SQL
3 133 (17.69%) Java
4 129 (17.15%) JavaScript
5 127 (16.89%) TypeScript
6 81 (10.77%) C#
7 57 (7.58%) Go
8 39 (5.19%) Bash
9 33 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.93%) Bicep
11 15 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.46%) Ruby
14 9 (1.20%) C++
15 7 (0.93%) Scala
16 6 (0.80%) JSX
16 6 (0.80%) Korn
16 6 (0.80%) VBA
17 5 (0.66%) Groovy
17 5 (0.66%) X++
Qualifications
1 177 (23.54%) Security Cleared
2 146 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.44%) AWS Certification
4 64 (8.51%) Degree
5 59 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (4.52%) Master's Degree
7 32 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (4.26%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.20%) MCP
10 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.19%) QA
2 29 (3.86%) GDPR
3 24 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.73%) NIST
6 12 (1.60%) WCAG
7 9 (1.20%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.53%) MiFID
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) HL7
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 200 (26.60%) Docker
2 32 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 271 (36.04%) Terraform
2 192 (25.53%) Kubernetes
3 71 (9.44%) Prometheus
4 68 (9.04%) Ansible
5 65 (8.64%) Grafana
6 12 (1.60%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.06%) Kibana
8 7 (0.93%) Puppet
9 6 (0.80%) Packer
10 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.53%) Rancher
12 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.27%) Control-M
13 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.27%) SELinux
14 1 (0.13%) Nagios
14 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 131 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.85%) Splunk
3 39 (5.19%) Google
4 32 (4.26%) Databricks
5 21 (2.79%) Oracle
6 19 (2.53%) Foundry
7 18 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.60%) Cloudera
10 11 (1.46%) IBM
10 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.33%) Palantir
12 8 (1.06%) Pega
13 7 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.93%) Confluent
14 6 (0.80%) Gigya
15 5 (0.66%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.66%) Sybase