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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 118 135
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 865 656 601
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 2.40% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.46% 6.41% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 467 422
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -16 513 £550 - 455
North of England -49 134 £505 +6.32% 112
Midlands -15 86 £447 -0.72% 42
North West -32 67 £610 +27.08% 69
West Midlands -13 66 £469 +2.79% 21
South East -60 49 £600 +33.33% 55
South West -24 47 £534 +3.14% 51
Yorkshire -43 46 £500 +5.15% 25
East of England -23 23 £525 +1.94% 18
North East -31 21 £463 +4.52% 18
East Midlands -8 20 £413 -0.66% 21
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 49 (5.66%) Confluence
2 39 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.89%) SharePoint
5 23 (2.66%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) SAS
7 7 (0.81%) nginx
8 6 (0.69%) CMS
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.23%) Mendix
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) Drupal
13 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 662 (76.53%) AWS
2 525 (60.69%) AWS Lambda
3 363 (41.97%) Amazon S3
4 335 (38.73%) Azure
5 184 (21.27%) GitHub
6 175 (20.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 165 (19.08%) Azure Functions
8 155 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
9 140 (16.18%) Amazon EC2
10 130 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.45%) Amazon EKS
12 114 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 113 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
14 109 (12.60%) Power Platform
15 107 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
16 92 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 84 (9.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 73 (8.44%) Azure Logic Apps
19 70 (8.09%) GCP
20 61 (7.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.93%) Firewall
2 28 (3.24%) Network Security
3 21 (2.43%) DNS
4 16 (1.85%) VPN
5 12 (1.39%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (14.80%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.87%) Amazon RDS
3 100 (11.56%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.36%) Power BI
5 78 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
6 76 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 73 (8.44%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.59%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.43%) Data Lake
9 47 (5.43%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.47%) MySQL
11 29 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 29 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (3.24%) Metadata
13 24 (2.77%) Relational Database
14 23 (2.66%) Delta Lake
14 23 (2.66%) MongoDB
15 21 (2.43%) Tableau
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 150 (17.34%) Git
2 123 (14.22%) Jenkins
3 112 (12.95%) GitLab
4 69 (7.98%) JIRA
5 21 (2.43%) Bitbucket
5 21 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.73%) Selenium
8 12 (1.39%) Postman
9 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.04%) JUnit
10 9 (1.04%) RStudio
11 8 (0.92%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.69%) Gatling
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.69%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
General
1 209 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 150 (17.34%) Public Sector
3 137 (15.84%) Finance
4 72 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.93%) Banking
6 29 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.50%) Billing
8 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.50%) Law
9 12 (1.39%) Marketing
9 12 (1.39%) Military
10 9 (1.04%) Back Office
11 8 (0.92%) Front Office
11 8 (0.92%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (22.77%) Developer
2 168 (19.42%) Senior
3 167 (19.31%) Architect
4 122 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (12.83%) Data Engineer
6 103 (11.91%) Lead
7 63 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (5.55%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
13 39 (4.51%) Python Developer
13 39 (4.51%) Senior Developer
14 36 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
15 34 (3.93%) AWS Developer
16 32 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
16 32 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (42.20%) Terraform
2 132 (15.26%) REST
3 114 (13.18%) React
4 95 (10.98%) Node.js
5 92 (10.64%) .NET
6 90 (10.40%) Kafka
7 86 (9.94%) RESTful
8 65 (7.51%) PySpark
9 52 (6.01%) Spring Boot
10 51 (5.90%) GraphQL
10 51 (5.90%) Spring
11 45 (5.20%) FastAPI
12 42 (4.86%) AWS CDK
13 40 (4.62%) OAuth
14 39 (4.51%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.16%) CSS
15 36 (4.16%) Flask
16 31 (3.58%) JSON
17 30 (3.47%) HTML
18 28 (3.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 273 (31.56%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (5.43%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.24%) NHS
6 25 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.27%) IoT
13 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
15 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 8 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
17 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.82%) Linux
2 23 (2.66%) Unix
3 17 (1.97%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (63.01%) CI/CD
2 392 (45.32%) DevOps
3 348 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 335 (38.73%) Agile
5 212 (24.51%) AI
6 191 (22.08%) Microservices
7 186 (21.50%) Containerisation
8 182 (21.04%) Event-Driven
9 159 (18.38%) Test Automation
10 153 (17.69%) Observability
11 148 (17.11%) Analytics
12 136 (15.72%) Data Modelling
13 133 (15.38%) Software Engineering
14 129 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
15 125 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 123 (14.22%) Data Engineering
17 122 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
18 119 (13.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 118 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
20 117 (13.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 419 (48.44%) Python
2 279 (32.25%) SQL
3 141 (16.30%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.49%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.41%) Java
6 111 (12.83%) C#
7 70 (8.09%) Bash
8 41 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 40 (4.62%) Bicep
10 29 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.85%) Scala
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 7 (0.81%) Go
15 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
16 5 (0.58%) Ruby
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 203 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.51%) AWS Certification
4 48 (5.55%) Degree
5 36 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (3.24%) Azure Certification
8 26 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.69%) CISSP
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.79%) Data Quality
2 63 (7.28%) QA
3 33 (3.82%) GDPR
4 29 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.85%) WCAG
7 13 (1.50%) NIST
8 11 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) 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
System Software
1 246 (28.44%) Docker
2 35 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (23.70%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.40%) Grafana
3 52 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.78%) Ansible
5 14 (1.62%) Puppet
6 11 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.81%) Istio
9 6 (0.69%) Packer
9 6 (0.69%) Podman
10 5 (0.58%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.46%) Argo
11 4 (0.46%) Salt
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) linkerd
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
13 2 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 171 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.28%) Databricks
3 34 (3.93%) Oracle
4 33 (3.82%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.77%) Google
5 24 (2.77%) Informatica
6 20 (2.31%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.20%) Splunk
8 10 (1.16%) Brio
8 10 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.04%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Tenable
11 6 (0.69%) Confluent
11 6 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.58%) New Relic
12 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.58%) Workday
13 4 (0.46%) Foundry
13 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA