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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 108 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 871 606 643
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.48% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 6.56% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 446 477
10th Percentile £381 £400 £373
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £751 £709
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.25% -5.73%
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 14,924 9,236 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.75% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 6,296 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 225 331
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.12% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -17 523 £525 -4.55% 112
North of England -28 142 £500 - 64
North West -24 79 £510 +2.00% 36
Midlands -33 60 £488 -2.50% 15
South East -40 56 £575 +15.00% 45
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 - 19
West Midlands -28 47 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -5 40 £575 +4.55% 30
East of England -12 27 £550 -2.22% 9
North East -22 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -25 13 £498 +3.86% 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 46 (5.28%) Confluence
2 42 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.07%) Apache
6 11 (1.26%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.69%) 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 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.49%) 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
1 660 (75.77%) AWS
2 529 (60.73%) AWS Lambda
3 383 (43.97%) Amazon S3
4 318 (36.51%) Azure
5 176 (20.21%) GitHub
6 171 (19.63%) Azure Functions
7 162 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
8 147 (16.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 140 (16.07%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (15.50%) Amazon EKS
11 124 (14.24%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (12.74%) Power Platform
13 108 (12.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 103 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
15 97 (11.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (10.33%) Amazon SQS
17 83 (9.53%) AWS Step Functions
18 77 (8.84%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (7.69%) GCP
20 66 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.56%) DNS
2 30 (3.44%) Firewall
3 21 (2.41%) VPN
4 16 (1.84%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.03%) SSL
6 9 (1.03%) WAN
7 7 (0.80%) SMS
8 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.34%) FTP
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
10 3 (0.34%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.23%) IPv4
12 1 (0.11%) 4G
12 1 (0.11%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.35%) DynamoDB
2 119 (13.66%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (10.45%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (9.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (8.50%) Power BI
7 55 (6.31%) Data Lake
7 55 (6.31%) NoSQL
8 50 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (3.90%) SQL Server
12 31 (3.56%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.33%) Tableau
14 23 (2.64%) Metadata
15 20 (2.30%) Redis
16 19 (2.18%) MongoDB
17 18 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (2.07%) Big Data
17 18 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 138 (15.84%) Git
2 115 (13.20%) GitLab
3 110 (12.63%) Jenkins
4 63 (7.23%) JIRA
5 25 (2.87%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.18%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
9 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 8 (0.92%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.69%) Postman
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Snyk
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 146 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 130 (14.93%) Finance
4 54 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.87%) Banking
7 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 10 (1.15%) Military
10 9 (1.03%) Marketing
11 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.92%) Retail
12 7 (0.80%) Legal
13 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.46%) 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 (22.96%) Developer
2 165 (18.94%) Architect
3 137 (15.73%) Senior
4 115 (13.20%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.71%) Data Engineer
6 85 (9.76%) Lead
7 56 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (6.43%) Software Engineer
8 53 (6.08%) AWS Architect
8 53 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (4.59%) Python Developer
13 39 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.48%) Technical Architect
14 38 (4.36%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.02%) Cloud Architect
16 32 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 30 (3.44%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (13.66%) Kafka
2 118 (13.55%) React
3 106 (12.17%) REST
4 101 (11.60%) Node.js
5 93 (10.68%) RESTful
6 78 (8.96%) .NET
7 65 (7.46%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.23%) Spring
9 57 (6.54%) PySpark
10 55 (6.31%) OAuth
11 43 (4.94%) GraphQL
12 42 (4.82%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.82%) OpenID
13 40 (4.59%) AWS CDK
14 39 (4.48%) JSON
15 36 (4.13%) FastAPI
16 31 (3.56%) OAuth2
17 28 (3.21%) Flask
18 26 (2.99%) Next.js
19 25 (2.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 254 (29.16%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.87%) AI Agents
5 24 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.41%) NHS
7 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
11 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.92%) IoT
11 8 (0.92%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.94%) Linux
2 21 (2.41%) Unix
3 10 (1.15%) Windows
4 6 (0.69%) zOS
5 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
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
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (60.39%) CI/CD
2 399 (45.81%) DevOps
3 322 (36.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 283 (32.49%) Agile
5 191 (21.93%) Microservices
6 187 (21.47%) Containerisation
7 173 (19.86%) AI
8 157 (18.03%) Event-Driven
9 138 (15.84%) Analytics
10 134 (15.38%) Observability
11 129 (14.81%) Data Modelling
11 129 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
12 128 (14.70%) Test Automation
13 126 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (13.89%) Software Engineering
15 116 (13.32%) ETL
16 105 (12.06%) Data Engineering
17 101 (11.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 97 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
19 96 (11.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 401 (46.04%) Python
2 277 (31.80%) SQL
3 126 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 125 (14.35%) TypeScript
5 124 (14.24%) Java
6 117 (13.43%) C#
7 48 (5.51%) Bash
8 35 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.44%) Bicep
10 26 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.18%) Scala
12 18 (2.07%) Go
13 10 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.69%) JCL
15 6 (0.69%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.69%) Ruby
16 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 235 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 187 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.28%) AWS Certification
4 31 (3.56%) Degree
5 30 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.05%) QA
3 25 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.76%) GDPR
5 17 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.84%) NIST
7 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.69%) WCAG
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
1 232 (26.64%) Docker
2 28 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.38%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 367 (42.14%) Terraform
2 204 (23.42%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.81%) Grafana
4 66 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.59%) Ansible
6 27 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.84%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.92%) Consul
10 6 (0.69%) Istio
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Podman
11 5 (0.57%) Salt
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Kibana
13 3 (0.34%) Packer
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 139 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.77%) Databricks
3 47 (5.40%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.79%) Oracle
5 22 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.07%) Google
6 18 (2.07%) Splunk
7 14 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.26%) Confluent
8 11 (1.26%) Foundry
8 11 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.15%) Informatica
10 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.03%) Brio
10 9 (1.03%) SAP
11 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.80%) Sybase
11 7 (0.80%) Tenable
12 6 (0.69%) Kofax
12 6 (0.69%) Lotus