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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 107 135
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing Serverless 873 599 655
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.44% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.13% 6.51% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 448 489
10th Percentile £371 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £652 £625
90th Percentile £713 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £58.98 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £69.63 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.91% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 14,244 9,205 11,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.85% 37.42% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,823 6,454 8,547
10th Percentile £315 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 194 323
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -11 525 £514 -7.85% 106
North of England -4 157 £500 - 59
North West -11 84 £500 +2.56% 41
Midlands -20 58 £500 +11.86% 17
Yorkshire -6 57 £500 - 15
South East -41 55 £525 +5.00% 44
West Midlands -24 45 £500 +3.95% 8
South West -19 35 £578 -5.57% 16
East of England -15 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -7 17 £475 - 3
East Midlands -29 13 £499 +12.39% 9
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 51 (5.84%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.44%) Apache
3 30 (3.44%) Confluence
4 25 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.26%) HCL Notes
5 11 (1.26%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Mendix
7 7 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.46%) CICS
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 644 (73.77%) AWS
2 514 (58.88%) AWS Lambda
3 356 (40.78%) Amazon S3
4 333 (38.14%) Azure
5 198 (22.68%) GitHub
6 189 (21.65%) Azure Functions
7 160 (18.33%) Amazon ECS
8 150 (17.18%) Amazon EC2
9 139 (15.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 135 (15.46%) GitHub Actions
11 126 (14.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 126 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
12 125 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (12.94%) Power Platform
14 96 (11.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 87 (9.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 84 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (8.48%) Amazon SQS
18 73 (8.36%) Azure Service Bus
19 61 (6.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.12%) DNS
2 34 (3.89%) Firewall
3 21 (2.41%) VPN
4 13 (1.49%) Network Security
4 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.03%) SSL
7 8 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.80%) HTTP
8 7 (0.80%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
10 4 (0.46%) WAN
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) LAN
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) 5G
13 1 (0.11%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.52%) DynamoDB
2 111 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (8.48%) NoSQL
4 74 (8.48%) Power BI
5 73 (8.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 68 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (5.50%) Data Lake
8 47 (5.38%) Relational Database
9 35 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (3.89%) Tableau
11 33 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 33 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.32%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.21%) Redis
14 26 (2.98%) SQL Server
15 25 (2.86%) Big Data
15 25 (2.86%) Metadata
16 17 (1.95%) DocumentDB
16 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 157 (17.98%) Git
2 115 (13.17%) Jenkins
3 111 (12.71%) GitLab
4 45 (5.15%) JIRA
5 24 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.95%) Cucumber
6 17 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.49%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Mockito
10 9 (1.03%) Maven
11 8 (0.92%) Selenium
12 7 (0.80%) Mocha
13 6 (0.69%) Gradle
13 6 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.69%) Postman
13 6 (0.69%) Vite
14 5 (0.57%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.57%) MLflow
14 5 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 203 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.24%) Public Sector
3 127 (14.55%) Finance
4 64 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.58%) Banking
6 29 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.37%) Marketing
9 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.03%) Military
11 8 (0.92%) Retail
12 6 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.69%) Legal
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
13 5 (0.57%) Front Office
13 5 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.57%) Law
13 5 (0.57%) Police
13 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (26.12%) Developer
2 155 (17.75%) Architect
3 117 (13.40%) Senior
4 106 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.25%) Lead
7 64 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 52 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (5.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 42 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (4.70%) AWS Developer
13 36 (4.12%) Technical Architect
14 35 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 35 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
15 34 (3.89%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (16.15%) Node.js
2 128 (14.66%) React
3 117 (13.40%) Kafka
4 103 (11.80%) REST
5 97 (11.11%) .NET
5 97 (11.11%) RESTful
6 78 (8.93%) Spring
6 78 (8.93%) Spring Boot
7 66 (7.56%) OAuth
8 50 (5.73%) AngularJS
9 47 (5.38%) PySpark
10 41 (4.70%) JSON
10 41 (4.70%) OpenID
11 36 (4.12%) GraphQL
12 33 (3.78%) AWS CDK
12 33 (3.78%) OAuth2
13 31 (3.55%) FastAPI
14 30 (3.44%) CSS
15 28 (3.21%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.41%) AI Agents
4 21 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.41%) NHS
5 16 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.03%) Replication
10 8 (0.92%) DataPower
10 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.80%) IoT
12 6 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.87%) Linux
2 20 (2.29%) Unix
3 9 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) zOS
5 3 (0.34%) VMS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 439 (50.29%) DevOps
3 321 (36.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 288 (32.99%) Agile
5 223 (25.54%) Microservices
6 198 (22.68%) Containerisation
7 144 (16.49%) AI
8 140 (16.04%) Analytics
9 139 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
10 136 (15.58%) Event-Driven
11 131 (15.01%) Data Modelling
12 121 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
13 119 (13.63%) Software Engineering
14 116 (13.29%) Observability
15 115 (13.17%) Test Automation
16 111 (12.71%) ETL
17 96 (11.00%) Data Engineering
17 96 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 89 (10.19%) Mentoring
19 86 (9.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 411 (47.08%) Python
2 268 (30.70%) SQL
3 144 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 141 (16.15%) Java
5 134 (15.35%) C#
6 129 (14.78%) TypeScript
7 55 (6.30%) Bash
8 40 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.47%) Bicep
10 28 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.75%) Go
12 19 (2.18%) Ruby
13 17 (1.95%) Scala
14 11 (1.26%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.26%) LotusScript
15 8 (0.92%) Groovy
16 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.69%) C++
17 6 (0.69%) PHP
18 5 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 263 (30.13%) Security Cleared
2 212 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.21%) Degree
7 21 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
14 4 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
15 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.47%) QA
3 25 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.63%) GDPR
5 21 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.83%) NIST
6 16 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.92%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.46%) HL7
11 4 (0.46%) SLA
12 3 (0.34%) NCSC
13 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 242 (27.72%) Docker
2 32 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.15%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 371 (42.50%) Terraform
2 218 (24.97%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.79%) Grafana
3 68 (7.79%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.73%) Ansible
5 27 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.49%) Puppet
7 11 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.92%) Consul
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 5 (0.57%) Istio
11 5 (0.57%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Rancher
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Podman
12 4 (0.46%) Salt
13 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 159 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.02%) Databricks
3 46 (5.27%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.58%) Oracle
5 29 (3.32%) Splunk
6 17 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 17 (1.95%) Google
7 14 (1.60%) Foundry
8 11 (1.26%) Lotus
8 11 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.15%) Brio
9 10 (1.15%) Confluent
9 10 (1.15%) Kofax
10 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.80%) Palantir
11 7 (0.80%) SAP
12 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.69%) IBM
12 6 (0.69%) Salesforce