Serverless Contracts in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 648 1,168 1,893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.75% 2.31% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 6.31% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 853 1,375
10th Percentile £375 £438 £431
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £42.00 £49.70
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.13
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year - +31.58% +26.67%
75th Percentile - - £62.63
90th Percentile - - £63.90
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +31.58% +42.50%

All Cloud Skills
England

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -4 432 £515 -14.21% 147
North of England -8 80 £525 - 62
North West +5 58 £510 -2.86% 37
South East -24 50 £600 +4.35% 23
Midlands +15 26 £450 -7.69% 27
South West +7 22 £550 -16.98% 27
West Midlands +27 21 £450 - 15
Yorkshire -17 18 £600 +9.09% 17
East of England +16 10 £625 +8.70% 10
East Midlands +14 5 £450 -10.00% 12
North East +14 4 £650 -13.33% 9
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.70%) Apache
4 14 (2.16%) Confluence
5 11 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.93%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.77%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.46%) nginx
10 3 (0.46%) SAS
11 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.15%) Drupal
12 1 (0.15%) JBoss
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.93%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.62%) Endur
2 4 (0.62%) Shopify
3 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.15%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.15%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 426 (65.74%) AWS
2 352 (54.32%) AWS Lambda
3 255 (39.35%) Azure
4 180 (27.78%) Amazon S3
5 169 (26.08%) Azure Functions
6 133 (20.52%) Amazon EC2
7 104 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (12.81%) GitHub
9 80 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 64 (9.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 59 (9.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 58 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
14 56 (8.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 51 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 51 (7.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 50 (7.72%) Power Platform
17 49 (7.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 43 (6.64%) PaaS
19 40 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.09%) Firewall
2 12 (1.85%) HTTP
3 10 (1.54%) Network Security
4 9 (1.39%) FTP
5 7 (1.08%) DNS
6 6 (0.93%) DHCP
7 5 (0.77%) AMQP
7 5 (0.77%) SSL
8 4 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.62%) VPN
9 3 (0.46%) Internet
9 3 (0.46%) LAN
9 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.46%) WLAN
10 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.15%) IPsec
10 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.15%) RTSP
10 1 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (14.51%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (12.96%) NoSQL
3 71 (10.96%) DynamoDB
4 70 (10.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 63 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (9.57%) SQL Server
7 56 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (7.25%) Relational Database
9 46 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (6.79%) Big Data
11 41 (6.33%) Data Lake
12 37 (5.71%) Power BI
13 36 (5.56%) MongoDB
14 33 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (3.70%) RDBMS
16 22 (3.40%) Parquet
17 21 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (2.78%) MySQL
19 12 (1.85%) Redis
20 11 (1.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 121 (18.67%) Git
2 55 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.25%) GitLab
4 38 (5.86%) JIRA
5 27 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.47%) Maven
6 16 (2.47%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.01%) Selenium
8 11 (1.70%) JMeter
8 11 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio Team System
9 10 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.23%) Protractor
12 6 (0.93%) JUnit
12 6 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.77%) kappa
14 4 (0.62%) Postman
14 4 (0.62%) Sourcetree
14 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (18.98%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.57%) Finance
3 68 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.17%) Banking
6 23 (3.55%) Retail
7 14 (2.16%) Marketing
8 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.08%) Front Office
10 7 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.46%) Back Office
13 3 (0.46%) Electronics
14 2 (0.31%) Automotive
14 2 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 214 (33.02%) Developer
2 107 (16.51%) Data Engineer
3 78 (12.04%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (11.57%) Architect
5 74 (11.42%) Senior
6 71 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (8.02%) Lead
8 47 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (6.79%) Full Stack Developer
10 36 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 36 (5.56%) Azure Developer
11 32 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 31 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.78%) Python Developer
13 30 (4.63%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.32%) AWS Architect
15 25 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
16 24 (3.70%) AWS Developer
17 21 (3.24%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.81%) Node.js
2 87 (13.43%) React
3 76 (11.73%) .NET
3 76 (11.73%) Kafka
4 66 (10.19%) JSON
5 49 (7.56%) REST
6 39 (6.02%) XML
7 36 (5.56%) RESTful
8 35 (5.40%) .NET Core
9 28 (4.32%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.86%) Lambda Expressions
11 24 (3.70%) PySpark
12 22 (3.40%) Spring
13 21 (3.24%) SOAP
13 21 (3.24%) Web Services
14 20 (3.09%) ARM Templates
15 19 (2.93%) .NET Framework
15 19 (2.93%) Apache Avro
15 19 (2.93%) OAuth
15 19 (2.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 18 (2.78%) IoT
4 17 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.08%) Machine to Machine
9 7 (1.08%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.93%) PKI
11 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.77%) Smart Meter
11 5 (0.77%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.26%) Linux
2 29 (4.48%) Windows
3 18 (2.78%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) CentOS
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (45.83%) DevOps
2 261 (40.28%) CI/CD
3 210 (32.41%) Agile
4 136 (20.99%) Microservices
5 111 (17.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (13.43%) Full Stack Development
7 83 (12.81%) ETL
8 77 (11.88%) Software Engineering
9 70 (10.80%) SDLC
10 69 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
10 69 (10.65%) Scrum
11 67 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (10.03%) Containerisation
12 65 (10.03%) Test Automation
13 63 (9.72%) Data Modelling
14 61 (9.41%) TDD
15 49 (7.56%) Analytics
16 42 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
17 40 (6.17%) Data Engineering
18 38 (5.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 307 (47.38%) Python
2 206 (31.79%) SQL
3 109 (16.82%) Java
4 94 (14.51%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.50%) C#
6 68 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 37 (5.71%) Bash
9 34 (5.25%) Go
10 16 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.70%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.54%) C++
12 10 (1.54%) Scala
13 9 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.93%) Bicep
14 6 (0.93%) C
15 5 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.77%) Ruby
16 4 (0.62%) Perl
16 4 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 105 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.48%) AWS Certification
4 40 (6.17%) Degree
5 28 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.15%) CISM
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) GIAC
13 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.17%) QA
2 14 (2.16%) NIST
3 13 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.23%) GDPR
5 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.77%) SLA
5 5 (0.77%) WCAG
6 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (18.52%) Docker
2 27 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) Ceph
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 182 (28.09%) Terraform
2 136 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.72%) Ansible
4 21 (3.24%) Grafana
5 14 (2.16%) Argo
5 14 (2.16%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.39%) Puppet
8 8 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.77%) Packer
9 5 (0.77%) SysTrack
10 4 (0.62%) Consul
11 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.46%) Kibana
11 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.31%) Salt
13 1 (0.15%) logstash
13 1 (0.15%) Mesos
13 1 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 84 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.41%) Oracle
3 20 (3.09%) SAP
4 18 (2.78%) Databricks
5 15 (2.31%) MuleSoft
5 15 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.16%) Splunk
7 12 (1.85%) Google
8 11 (1.70%) Informatica
9 10 (1.54%) Talend
10 7 (1.08%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.08%) VMware
11 6 (0.93%) NEC
11 6 (0.93%) New Relic
11 6 (0.93%) WSO2
12 5 (0.77%) Citrix
12 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.77%) Sage
12 5 (0.77%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.62%) Adobe