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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 817 576 667
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 2.16% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% 5.87% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 397 487
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%
75th Percentile £624 £685 £638
90th Percentile £700 £793 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

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 12,249 9,806 12,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.79% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,512 6,522 9,055
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 137 268
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.90 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +22.31% +0.33%
75th Percentile £57.38 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.67 £68.75 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%

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 21 January 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
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 21 January 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 +8 481 £511 -8.71% 118
North of England +33 166 £500 +3.63% 110
Yorkshire +13 85 £500 - 48
North West +4 71 £450 +0.45% 50
Midlands -11 66 £513 +15.54% 45
West Midlands -4 53 £525 +5.00% 22
South East -50 49 £475 -23.39% 126
South West -21 28 £650 - 53
East of England -4 24 £550 -3.51% 60
East Midlands -25 13 £434 -2.31% 21
North East -9 11 £525 -12.13% 12
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 31 (3.79%) Apache
2 26 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.57%) Confluence
4 21 (2.57%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.22%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.10%) Mendix
7 7 (0.86%) nginx
8 5 (0.61%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 570 (69.77%) AWS
2 458 (56.06%) AWS Lambda
3 305 (37.33%) Azure
4 275 (33.66%) Amazon S3
5 192 (23.50%) GitHub
6 191 (23.38%) Azure Functions
7 138 (16.89%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (16.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 132 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
10 130 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 117 (14.32%) Amazon EC2
13 99 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 87 (10.65%) GCP
15 84 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
16 78 (9.55%) Power Platform
17 65 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 63 (7.71%) AWS Step Functions
19 62 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
20 60 (7.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.06%) DNS
2 19 (2.33%) Firewall
3 17 (2.08%) VPN
4 13 (1.59%) Network Security
5 6 (0.73%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.73%) SMS
6 5 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.61%) SSL
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
9 1 (0.12%) DKIM
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 118 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (12.85%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.14%) NoSQL
5 56 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (6.36%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.12%) Power BI
8 46 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (5.39%) Data Lake
10 41 (5.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (4.28%) Redis
12 34 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (3.79%) MongoDB
14 29 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (3.18%) Big Data
16 24 (2.94%) MySQL
17 21 (2.57%) Tableau
18 20 (2.45%) DocumentDB
19 16 (1.96%) RDBMS
19 16 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 140 (17.14%) Git
2 133 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 106 (12.97%) GitLab
4 48 (5.88%) JIRA
5 26 (3.18%) Liquibase
6 18 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.96%) JUnit
8 14 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.71%) Postman
9 13 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.59%) Mockito
10 11 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.35%) Maven
10 11 (1.35%) Selenium
10 11 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.98%) Gradle
12 7 (0.86%) Storybook
13 6 (0.73%) MLflow
14 5 (0.61%) Mocha
14 5 (0.61%) SonarLint
General
1 208 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 148 (18.12%) Public Sector
3 112 (13.71%) Finance
4 63 (7.71%) Banking
5 52 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.79%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.33%) Marketing
8 13 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.98%) Front Office
10 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.98%) Military
11 7 (0.86%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.49%) Aviation
15 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Law
15 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 225 (27.54%) Developer
2 111 (13.59%) Senior
3 108 (13.22%) AWS Engineer
4 105 (12.85%) Architect
5 82 (10.04%) Data Engineer
6 81 (9.91%) Software Engineer
7 76 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (7.96%) Lead
9 47 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.79%) AWS Developer
12 31 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.30%) Python Engineer
16 27 (3.30%) Technical Architect
17 26 (3.18%) AWS Architect
17 26 (3.18%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (17.75%) Node.js
2 137 (16.77%) RESTful
3 132 (16.16%) React
4 131 (16.03%) REST
5 118 (14.44%) Kafka
6 112 (13.71%) .NET
7 55 (6.73%) Spring Boot
8 50 (6.12%) Spring
9 46 (5.63%) AngularJS
9 46 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (5.39%) OAuth
11 38 (4.65%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.53%) FastAPI
13 33 (4.04%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.04%) JSON
14 31 (3.79%) HTML
14 31 (3.79%) Next.js
15 30 (3.67%) Flask
16 28 (3.43%) CSS
17 26 (3.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 219 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.16%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.84%) AI Agents
5 15 (1.84%) NHS
5 15 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 13 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.47%) Replication
8 11 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (0.98%) Data Fabric
12 7 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.40%) Linux
2 11 (1.35%) Unix
3 7 (0.86%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) VMS
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (59.73%) CI/CD
2 419 (51.29%) DevOps
3 294 (35.99%) Agile
4 289 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (30.97%) Microservices
6 195 (23.87%) Containerisation
7 153 (18.73%) Software Engineering
8 150 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (15.30%) AI
10 118 (14.44%) Event-Driven
11 116 (14.20%) Analytics
12 113 (13.83%) Data Pipeline
13 107 (13.10%) Test Automation
14 93 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 91 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 90 (11.02%) Observability
17 87 (10.65%) ETL
18 81 (9.91%) Mentoring
19 74 (9.06%) Data Engineering
20 70 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 398 (48.71%) Python
2 231 (28.27%) SQL
3 140 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 136 (16.65%) Java
5 127 (15.54%) TypeScript
6 117 (14.32%) C#
7 48 (5.88%) Go
8 47 (5.75%) Bash
9 37 (4.53%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.04%) Bicep
11 19 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.96%) Ruby
13 10 (1.22%) C++
13 10 (1.22%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.22%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.10%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.86%) Korn
16 6 (0.73%) PHP
16 6 (0.73%) Scala
16 6 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 213 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 173 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.59%) Degree
4 55 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 53 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.04%) Master's Degree
8 25 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.57%) MCP
11 20 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.37%) PhD
17 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
18 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.41%) QA
2 33 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.55%) GDPR
4 20 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.33%) NIST
6 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.10%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.10%) WCAG
8 5 (0.61%) HL7
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 225 (27.54%) Docker
2 26 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.24%) HDFS
7 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 343 (41.98%) Terraform
2 224 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 80 (9.79%) Ansible
4 72 (8.81%) Prometheus
5 70 (8.57%) Grafana
6 18 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.59%) Puppet
8 8 (0.98%) Kibana
9 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.49%) Rancher
11 3 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.37%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.37%) Packer
12 2 (0.24%) Control-M
12 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.24%) Knative
12 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.24%) Podman
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 161 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.12%) Databricks
3 42 (5.14%) Splunk
4 36 (4.41%) Google
5 30 (3.67%) OpenAI
6 28 (3.43%) Oracle
7 21 (2.57%) Foundry
8 17 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.71%) Confluent
10 12 (1.47%) IBM
11 11 (1.35%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.22%) Lotus
12 10 (1.22%) Palantir
12 10 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.10%) Kofax
14 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.73%) Brio
15 6 (0.73%) Gigya
16 5 (0.61%) Pega
16 5 (0.61%) Sybase