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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 115 130
Rank change year-on-year -34 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 848 653 603
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.36% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 6.36% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 463 423
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.93%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £644
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £37.93 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -21 488 £550 - 79
North of England -50 139 £500 +5.26% 48
Midlands -4 83 £475 +11.76% 11
North West -30 72 £575 +21.05% 24
West Midlands -3 66 £477 +12.24% 7
South West -24 48 £542 +5.97% 27
South East -65 48 £600 +37.93% 32
Yorkshire -43 45 £500 +3.90% 15
East of England -21 24 £525 - 8
North East -25 22 £463 +0.54% 9
East Midlands -12 17 £449 +8.01% 4
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 (5.42%) Confluence
2 37 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.48%) Apache
5 19 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) 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
1 650 (76.65%) AWS
2 519 (61.20%) AWS Lambda
3 359 (42.33%) Amazon S3
4 308 (36.32%) Azure
5 171 (20.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (19.10%) GitHub
7 157 (18.51%) Amazon ECS
7 157 (18.51%) Azure Functions
8 145 (17.10%) Amazon EC2
9 129 (15.21%) Amazon EKS
10 118 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
11 110 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 103 (12.15%) Power Platform
13 101 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
14 99 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
15 86 (10.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 86 (10.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (8.37%) GCP
17 68 (8.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 60 (7.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.01%) Firewall
2 26 (3.07%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
4 18 (2.12%) VPN
5 12 (1.42%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) HTTP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) 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 (0.24%) AMQP
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.21%) DynamoDB
2 121 (14.27%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.56%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (9.08%) Power BI
5 75 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 74 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (7.90%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.96%) NoSQL
9 44 (5.19%) Data Lake
10 42 (4.95%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (3.30%) Relational Database
13 25 (2.95%) Metadata
14 24 (2.83%) MongoDB
15 22 (2.59%) Tableau
16 18 (2.12%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
17 17 (2.00%) MySQL
18 16 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 146 (17.22%) Git
2 120 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.33%) GitLab
4 68 (8.02%) JIRA
5 23 (2.71%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.36%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.42%) Postman
8 12 (1.42%) Selenium
9 11 (1.30%) JUnit
10 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.71%) Gatling
12 6 (0.71%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 189 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.57%) Finance
4 61 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (4.01%) Banking
6 26 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.42%) Law
9 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.30%) Retail
10 10 (1.18%) Marketing
11 8 (0.94%) Back Office
11 8 (0.94%) Billing
12 7 (0.83%) Front Office
12 7 (0.83%) Legal
13 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.71%) Military
14 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Games
15 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (23.35%) Developer
2 163 (19.22%) Senior
3 159 (18.75%) Architect
4 123 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (11.67%) Data Engineer
6 97 (11.44%) Lead
7 58 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.90%) AWS Architect
10 47 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
11 45 (5.31%) Python Developer
12 43 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (4.72%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.48%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
16 32 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
17 31 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
18 30 (3.54%) AWS Data Engineer
19 29 (3.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.44%) REST
2 107 (12.62%) React
3 95 (11.20%) Node.js
4 94 (11.08%) Kafka
5 92 (10.85%) RESTful
6 76 (8.96%) .NET
7 58 (6.84%) PySpark
8 52 (6.13%) Spring
8 52 (6.13%) Spring Boot
9 50 (5.90%) GraphQL
10 41 (4.83%) AWS CDK
11 39 (4.60%) FastAPI
12 37 (4.36%) Flask
12 37 (4.36%) OAuth
13 35 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 35 (4.13%) JSON
14 32 (3.77%) CSS
15 29 (3.42%) HTML
16 28 (3.30%) OpenID
17 23 (2.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 267 (31.49%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.95%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.18%) NHS
6 24 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.30%) IoT
11 11 (1.30%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.60%) Linux
2 22 (2.59%) Unix
3 18 (2.12%) Windows
4 14 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (61.20%) CI/CD
2 382 (45.05%) DevOps
3 331 (39.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 327 (38.56%) Agile
5 199 (23.47%) Microservices
6 191 (22.52%) AI
7 187 (22.05%) Containerisation
8 167 (19.69%) Event-Driven
9 151 (17.81%) Test Automation
10 145 (17.10%) Observability
11 137 (16.16%) Analytics
12 127 (14.98%) Data Modelling
13 124 (14.62%) Software Engineering
14 118 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 111 (13.09%) Technical Leadership
16 110 (12.97%) ETL
17 109 (12.85%) Data Engineering
17 109 (12.85%) Migration
17 109 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 388 (45.75%) Python
2 268 (31.60%) SQL
3 130 (15.33%) TypeScript
4 126 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 114 (13.44%) Java
6 101 (11.91%) C#
7 64 (7.55%) Bash
8 36 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.13%) Bicep
10 27 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.77%) Scala
12 10 (1.18%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
14 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.59%) Ruby
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
15 5 (0.59%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 203 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.31%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.95%) Degree
5 37 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.07%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.59%) CISSP
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.01%) QA
3 31 (3.66%) GDPR
4 29 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 27 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.65%) WCAG
7 13 (1.53%) NIST
7 13 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) PMO
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 239 (28.18%) Docker
2 35 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 348 (41.04%) Terraform
2 201 (23.70%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.14%) Grafana
4 58 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.19%) Ansible
6 16 (1.89%) Puppet
7 13 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.18%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) linkerd
10 6 (0.71%) Packer
10 6 (0.71%) Podman
11 5 (0.59%) Kibana
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
13 3 (0.35%) Consul
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 153 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.66%) Databricks
3 34 (4.01%) Oracle
4 26 (3.07%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.71%) Google
6 22 (2.59%) Informatica
7 21 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.24%) Splunk
9 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.06%) Brio
10 9 (1.06%) SAP
11 7 (0.83%) New Relic
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.83%) Tenable
12 6 (0.71%) Confluent
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Workday
14 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.47%) Sybase