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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 113 138
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 874 627 637
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.45% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.70% 6.49% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 456 465
10th Percentile £398 £400 £371
25th Percentile £450 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £732 £750 £704
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
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 15,339 9,656 12,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.67% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,518 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 250 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -19 524 £550 - 124
North of England -23 143 £500 - 52
North West -17 81 £525 +5.00% 27
Midlands -25 64 £488 -2.01% 24
South East -47 53 £575 +15.00% 50
West Midlands -21 50 £482 -4.22% 14
Yorkshire -21 49 £500 - 17
South West -19 40 £575 +8.24% 23
East of England -16 27 £550 +3.53% 5
East Midlands -9 14 £497 +3.55% 10
North East -27 14 £463 -1.07% 8
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 52 (5.95%) Confluence
2 40 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.29%) Apache
3 20 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.37%) nginx
5 6 (0.69%) CICS
6 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.57%) SAS
7 4 (0.46%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.46%) Mendix
7 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 669 (76.54%) AWS
2 531 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
3 388 (44.39%) Amazon S3
4 323 (36.96%) Azure
5 172 (19.68%) GitHub
6 170 (19.45%) Amazon EC2
7 164 (18.76%) Azure Functions
8 152 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 148 (16.93%) Amazon ECS
10 134 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
11 121 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.16%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 102 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
15 99 (11.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 91 (10.41%) Amazon SQS
17 75 (8.58%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
18 73 (8.35%) GCP
19 65 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.89%) Firewall
2 27 (3.09%) DNS
3 24 (2.75%) VPN
4 23 (2.63%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.37%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.92%) SSL
9 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
10 4 (0.46%) SMS
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (14.07%) DynamoDB
2 118 (13.50%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (9.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 81 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (9.27%) Power BI
6 61 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (6.52%) NoSQL
8 49 (5.61%) Data Lake
9 38 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.66%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (2.97%) Tableau
14 23 (2.63%) Metadata
15 22 (2.52%) MongoDB
16 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (2.06%) Redis
18 16 (1.83%) Big Data
19 15 (1.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 149 (17.05%) Git
2 120 (13.73%) GitLab
3 118 (13.50%) Jenkins
4 75 (8.58%) JIRA
5 26 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.37%) JUnit
10 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 9 (1.03%) Postman
11 8 (0.92%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.92%) MSTest
12 6 (0.69%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) Selenium
12 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 153 (17.51%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.33%) Finance
4 58 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.20%) Banking
7 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 9 (1.03%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Legal
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 6 (0.69%) Billing
12 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Games
13 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.46%) Police
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (22.43%) Developer
2 168 (19.22%) Architect
3 150 (17.16%) Senior
4 119 (13.62%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.56%) Data Engineer
6 90 (10.30%) Lead
7 58 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 56 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 51 (5.84%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (4.58%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.46%) Python Developer
15 38 (4.35%) Technical Architect
16 37 (4.23%) AWS Developer
17 34 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
17 34 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
18 32 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.04%) Kafka
2 108 (12.36%) React
3 104 (11.90%) REST
4 103 (11.78%) Node.js
5 98 (11.21%) RESTful
6 79 (9.04%) .NET
7 63 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 61 (6.98%) PySpark
8 61 (6.98%) Spring
9 52 (5.95%) GraphQL
10 50 (5.72%) OAuth
11 40 (4.58%) JSON
11 40 (4.58%) OpenID
12 36 (4.12%) AngularJS
12 36 (4.12%) AWS CDK
12 36 (4.12%) FastAPI
13 29 (3.32%) OAuth2
14 27 (3.09%) Flask
15 24 (2.75%) CSS
15 24 (2.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 262 (29.98%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.09%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.75%) NHS
6 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.80%) IoT
11 7 (0.80%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.38%) Linux
2 21 (2.40%) Unix
3 12 (1.37%) Windows
4 8 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.69%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (60.76%) CI/CD
2 408 (46.68%) DevOps
3 319 (36.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (34.78%) Agile
5 202 (23.11%) Microservices
6 198 (22.65%) Containerisation
7 182 (20.82%) AI
8 158 (18.08%) Event-Driven
9 138 (15.79%) Analytics
10 134 (15.33%) Test Automation
11 128 (14.65%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.53%) Observability
13 124 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
14 123 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (13.84%) Software Engineering
16 113 (12.93%) ETL
17 112 (12.81%) Data Engineering
18 103 (11.78%) Migration
19 102 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
19 102 (11.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 406 (46.45%) Python
2 275 (31.46%) SQL
3 128 (14.65%) TypeScript
4 121 (13.84%) Java
5 118 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 114 (13.04%) C#
7 59 (6.75%) Bash
8 37 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.43%) Bicep
10 28 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.95%) Go
11 17 (1.95%) Scala
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.49%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.23%) Degree
5 35 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.34%) CISSP
17 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.81%) QA
3 24 (2.75%) GDPR
3 24 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.60%) NIST
7 8 (0.92%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) HL7
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 243 (27.80%) Docker
2 31 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 363 (41.53%) Terraform
2 219 (25.06%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.12%) Grafana
4 69 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.26%) Ansible
6 24 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.29%) 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
10 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 6 (0.69%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 145 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.29%) Databricks
3 44 (5.03%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.43%) Oracle
5 22 (2.52%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.52%) Google
6 19 (2.17%) Splunk
7 17 (1.95%) Informatica
8 16 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.14%) Foundry
11 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.92%) Brio
13 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) SAP
13 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 6 (0.69%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
14 6 (0.69%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) Workday