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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 111 131
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 887 603 660
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.46% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 6.51% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 449 490
10th Percentile £368 £400 £381
25th Percentile £415 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 13,849 9,257 12,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.79% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 6,463 8,760
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 172 330
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £74.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +39.62% +24.01% -16.13%

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 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -3 526 £513 -6.82% 159
North of England +15 174 £500 - 102
North West -4 81 £453 -4.74% 48
Yorkshire +4 76 £500 - 43
Midlands -17 71 £520 +15.56% 22
West Midlands -21 56 £525 +9.15% 19
South East -67 50 £525 -8.70% 68
South West -21 31 £600 -2.10% 33
East of England +2 27 £570 -21.43% 20
North East -4 18 £475 -23.91% 13
East Midlands -27 15 £460 +2.22% 3
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 44 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (3.83%) Confluence
3 30 (3.38%) Apache
4 26 (2.93%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.24%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.13%) Mendix
6 10 (1.13%) nginx
7 9 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 636 (71.70%) AWS
2 506 (57.05%) AWS Lambda
3 339 (38.22%) Azure
4 334 (37.66%) Amazon S3
5 209 (23.56%) Azure Functions
6 202 (22.77%) GitHub
7 157 (17.70%) Amazon EC2
7 157 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (16.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 141 (15.90%) GitHub Actions
10 136 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
11 131 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
12 129 (14.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 109 (12.29%) Power Platform
14 103 (11.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 90 (10.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 77 (8.68%) GCP
17 73 (8.23%) Azure Service Bus
18 65 (7.33%) AWS Step Functions
19 62 (6.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.95%) Firewall
2 32 (3.61%) DNS
3 25 (2.82%) VPN
4 12 (1.35%) Network Security
5 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.01%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.01%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.79%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) HTTP
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.56%) IPsec
10 4 (0.45%) WAN
11 3 (0.34%) LAN
12 2 (0.23%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) AMQP
13 1 (0.11%) Internet
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
13 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.87%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (11.95%) DynamoDB
4 84 (9.47%) NoSQL
5 68 (7.67%) Power BI
6 63 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.86%) Data Lake
8 49 (5.52%) Relational Database
9 47 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (3.95%) Redis
13 30 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (3.38%) MongoDB
14 28 (3.16%) Tableau
15 23 (2.59%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.37%) Big Data
16 21 (2.37%) DocumentDB
16 21 (2.37%) Metadata
17 18 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 160 (18.04%) Git
2 132 (14.88%) Jenkins
3 124 (13.98%) GitLab
4 51 (5.75%) JIRA
5 25 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.14%) JUnit
8 16 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.69%) Liquibase
10 14 (1.58%) Mockito
11 10 (1.13%) Maven
12 9 (1.01%) Mocha
13 8 (0.90%) Postman
13 8 (0.90%) Selenium
14 7 (0.79%) MLflow
15 6 (0.68%) Gradle
15 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.68%) Vite
16 5 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 216 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.73%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.22%) Finance
4 67 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.54%) Banking
6 27 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.58%) Marketing
9 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.01%) Military
10 9 (1.01%) Retail
11 6 (0.68%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.56%) Billing
13 4 (0.45%) Aviation
13 4 (0.45%) Law
13 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (26.27%) Developer
2 132 (14.88%) Architect
3 121 (13.64%) Senior
4 104 (11.72%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.15%) Data Engineer
6 66 (7.44%) Lead
7 65 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 64 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 57 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (4.74%) AWS Architect
10 42 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 35 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.72%) AWS Developer
14 33 (3.72%) Java Developer
15 31 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
15 31 (3.49%) Python Developer
16 29 (3.27%) Python Engineer
16 29 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (15.56%) Node.js
2 126 (14.21%) REST
3 124 (13.98%) React
4 121 (13.64%) Kafka
5 120 (13.53%) RESTful
6 107 (12.06%) .NET
7 75 (8.46%) Spring
8 74 (8.34%) Spring Boot
9 59 (6.65%) OAuth
10 50 (5.64%) AngularJS
11 42 (4.74%) GraphQL
12 39 (4.40%) JSON
13 37 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (4.17%) FastAPI
14 35 (3.95%) OpenID
14 35 (3.95%) PySpark
15 34 (3.83%) CSS
16 31 (3.49%) Flask
17 30 (3.38%) AWS CDK
17 30 (3.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 227 (25.59%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.80%) NHS
9 15 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.35%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.13%) Replication
15 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.79%) DataPower
16 7 (0.79%) IoT
16 7 (0.79%) Mainframe
17 6 (0.68%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.34%) Linux
2 14 (1.58%) Unix
3 11 (1.24%) Windows
4 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (59.41%) CI/CD
2 458 (51.63%) DevOps
3 321 (36.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (33.93%) Agile
5 248 (27.96%) Microservices
6 211 (23.79%) Containerisation
7 160 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (16.80%) AI
9 131 (14.77%) Analytics
10 130 (14.66%) Software Engineering
11 126 (14.21%) Data Modelling
11 126 (14.21%) Event-Driven
12 121 (13.64%) Test Automation
13 120 (13.53%) Data Pipeline
14 117 (13.19%) Observability
15 107 (12.06%) ETL
16 100 (11.27%) Data Engineering
17 91 (10.26%) Mentoring
18 88 (9.92%) Full-Stack Development
19 78 (8.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 420 (47.35%) Python
2 275 (31.00%) SQL
3 140 (15.78%) JavaScript
4 137 (15.45%) Java
5 127 (14.32%) TypeScript
6 124 (13.98%) C#
7 54 (6.09%) Bash
8 44 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 43 (4.85%) Go
10 39 (4.40%) Bicep
11 21 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.03%) Ruby
13 11 (1.24%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.24%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.24%) Scala
14 8 (0.90%) C++
14 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.79%) Korn
16 6 (0.68%) JSX
Qualifications
1 250 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.75%) AWS Certification
4 47 (5.30%) Degree
5 38 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (2.93%) Master's Degree
10 20 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 13 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.62%) QA
3 26 (2.93%) GDPR
4 24 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.25%) NIST
7 14 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.13%) WCAG
9 8 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.68%) PMO
11 5 (0.56%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.45%) HL7
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.45%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
13 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 249 (28.07%) Docker
2 30 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.01%) Squid
5 5 (0.56%) RACF
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 376 (42.39%) Terraform
2 234 (26.38%) Kubernetes
3 85 (9.58%) Prometheus
4 81 (9.13%) Grafana
5 67 (7.55%) Ansible
6 23 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.35%) Puppet
8 9 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.79%) Consul
9 7 (0.79%) Kibana
10 5 (0.56%) Rancher
11 4 (0.45%) Istio
11 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.45%) linkerd
12 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 167 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.12%) Databricks
3 43 (4.85%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.51%) Splunk
5 32 (3.61%) Oracle
6 27 (3.04%) Google
7 21 (2.37%) Foundry
8 18 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.24%) Lotus
11 10 (1.13%) Kofax
12 9 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.01%) Palantir
12 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.90%) Brio
13 8 (0.90%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.90%) Confluent
13 8 (0.90%) IBM
13 8 (0.90%) Sybase
14 7 (0.79%) Salesforce