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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 117 129
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 856 652 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.36% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.35% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 462 419
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £424 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £644
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 15,947 10,275 11,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.23% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,657 6,963 7,911
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 273 216
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.23 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -20 495 £550 - 267
North of England -27 138 £500 +5.26% 92
Midlands -4 90 £463 +8.82% 30
North West -18 72 £563 +18.42% 49
West Midlands -11 67 £477 +12.24% 20
South East -47 48 £600 +37.93% 36
South West -22 46 £542 +5.97% 38
Yorkshire -42 43 £500 +3.90% 23
East Midlands -5 23 £425 +2.35% 10
East of England -18 23 £525 - 17
North East -22 23 £463 +4.52% 20
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 47 (5.49%) Confluence
2 40 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.57%) Apache
5 19 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 653 (76.29%) AWS
2 522 (60.98%) AWS Lambda
3 356 (41.59%) Amazon S3
4 317 (37.03%) Azure
5 171 (19.98%) GitHub
6 168 (19.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 158 (18.46%) Azure Functions
8 150 (17.52%) Amazon ECS
9 143 (16.71%) Amazon EC2
10 125 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
11 107 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 105 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
13 104 (12.15%) Amazon SQS
14 103 (12.03%) Power Platform
15 85 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 83 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 72 (8.41%) GCP
18 68 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
19 60 (7.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.97%) Firewall
2 26 (3.04%) Network Security
3 22 (2.57%) DNS
4 18 (2.10%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.95%) DynamoDB
2 119 (13.90%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (11.33%) Amazon Athena
4 80 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
5 76 (8.88%) Power BI
6 75 (8.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 69 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (6.43%) NoSQL
9 44 (5.14%) Data Lake
10 43 (5.02%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.15%) Relational Database
14 25 (2.92%) Metadata
14 25 (2.92%) MongoDB
15 23 (2.69%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.57%) MySQL
16 22 (2.57%) Tableau
17 18 (2.10%) BigQuery
17 18 (2.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 151 (17.64%) Git
2 120 (14.02%) Jenkins
3 116 (13.55%) GitLab
4 69 (8.06%) JIRA
5 24 (2.80%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.52%) Postman
8 13 (1.52%) Selenium
9 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.05%) JUnit
11 7 (0.82%) Mockito
11 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.70%) Gatling
12 6 (0.70%) MSTest
12 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.65%) Finance
4 66 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.09%) Banking
6 26 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Billing
9 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Marketing
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 8 (0.93%) Back Office
11 7 (0.82%) Front Office
11 7 (0.82%) Legal
12 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.70%) Military
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Games
14 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (22.55%) Developer
2 164 (19.16%) Architect
3 159 (18.57%) Senior
4 124 (14.49%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.80%) Data Engineer
6 98 (11.45%) Lead
7 62 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.43%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.72%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (5.02%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.32%) Senior Developer
14 36 (4.21%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
16 33 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
17 31 (3.62%) AWS Data Engineer
17 31 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
17 31 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (41.12%) Terraform
2 121 (14.14%) REST
3 108 (12.62%) React
4 93 (10.86%) Node.js
5 92 (10.75%) Kafka
6 90 (10.51%) RESTful
7 77 (9.00%) .NET
8 61 (7.13%) PySpark
9 50 (5.84%) GraphQL
10 49 (5.72%) Spring
10 49 (5.72%) Spring Boot
11 44 (5.14%) FastAPI
12 40 (4.67%) AWS CDK
13 37 (4.32%) Flask
13 37 (4.32%) OAuth
14 35 (4.09%) AngularJS
15 34 (3.97%) JSON
16 32 (3.74%) CSS
17 28 (3.27%) HTML
17 28 (3.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 266 (31.07%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.36%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.79%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.15%) NHS
6 23 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.29%) IoT
12 11 (1.29%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.17%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.43%) Linux
2 20 (2.34%) Unix
3 17 (1.99%) Windows
4 13 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 4 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (61.57%) CI/CD
2 391 (45.68%) DevOps
3 332 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 328 (38.32%) Agile
5 196 (22.90%) Microservices
6 194 (22.66%) AI
7 185 (21.61%) Containerisation
8 165 (19.28%) Event-Driven
9 157 (18.34%) Test Automation
10 148 (17.29%) Observability
11 143 (16.71%) Analytics
12 129 (15.07%) Data Modelling
13 126 (14.72%) Software Engineering
14 123 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
15 115 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 114 (13.32%) Data Engineering
16 114 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
17 113 (13.20%) Technical Leadership
18 112 (13.08%) Migration
19 110 (12.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 398 (46.50%) Python
2 271 (31.66%) SQL
3 131 (15.30%) TypeScript
4 126 (14.72%) JavaScript
5 109 (12.73%) Java
6 100 (11.68%) C#
7 66 (7.71%) Bash
8 39 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.32%) Bicep
10 27 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.75%) Scala
12 10 (1.17%) Go
13 9 (1.05%) Groovy
14 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.70%) R
14 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.91%) Degree
5 38 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.82%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.58%) CISSP
15 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.19%) QA
3 31 (3.62%) GDPR
4 29 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.64%) WCAG
7 12 (1.40%) NIST
7 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.93%) SLA
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 245 (28.62%) Docker
2 35 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 71 (8.29%) Grafana
3 57 (6.66%) Prometheus
4 46 (5.37%) Ansible
5 16 (1.87%) Puppet
6 13 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.17%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.70%) linkerd
9 6 (0.70%) Packer
9 6 (0.70%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) Salt
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 3 (0.35%) Consul
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 157 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.07%) Databricks
3 34 (3.97%) Oracle
4 27 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.69%) Google
6 22 (2.57%) Informatica
7 21 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.10%) Splunk
10 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.05%) SAP
12 8 (0.93%) Brio
13 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.70%) Confluent
14 6 (0.70%) New Relic
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable
15 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.58%) Workday
16 4 (0.47%) Fortinet
16 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA