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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 105 139
Rank change year-on-year -24 +34 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 874 626 637
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.53% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.82% 6.70% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 458 467
10th Percentile £381 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
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 15,019 9,344 11,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.77% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,182 6,359 8,563
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 234 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.44 £38.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -10 521 £525 -4.55% 161
North of England -19 142 £500 - 66
North West -20 79 £518 +3.50% 39
Midlands -23 64 £488 -2.50% 22
South East -39 54 £588 +17.50% 47
West Midlands -22 50 £488 -4.79% 13
Yorkshire -26 49 £500 - 17
South West -15 41 £575 +8.24% 35
East of England -18 27 £550 +2.33% 12
North East -26 15 £469 -1.32% 10
East Midlands -17 14 £497 +3.55% 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 50 (5.72%) Confluence
2 42 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 19 (2.17%) Apache
6 11 (1.26%) nginx
7 6 (0.69%) CICS
7 6 (0.69%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.69%) Mendix
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 663 (75.86%) AWS
2 531 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
3 391 (44.74%) Amazon S3
4 325 (37.19%) Azure
5 174 (19.91%) GitHub
6 170 (19.45%) Azure Functions
7 168 (19.22%) Amazon EC2
8 154 (17.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 141 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
10 134 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
11 122 (13.96%) GitHub Actions
12 117 (13.39%) Power Platform
13 109 (12.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 103 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 87 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
17 81 (9.27%) AWS Step Functions
18 76 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.78%) GCP
20 66 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.66%) Firewall
2 30 (3.43%) DNS
3 21 (2.40%) VPN
4 19 (2.17%) Network Security
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.14%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
7 9 (1.03%) SSL
8 6 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.69%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.46%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.23%) IPv4
13 1 (0.11%) 4G
13 1 (0.11%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.19%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (10.76%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (10.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 84 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (9.15%) Power BI
7 57 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (6.29%) Data Lake
8 55 (6.29%) NoSQL
9 35 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 35 (4.00%) SQL Server
10 34 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (3.55%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.20%) Tableau
13 25 (2.86%) Metadata
14 20 (2.29%) Redis
15 19 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (2.17%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.06%) Apache Iceberg
17 17 (1.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 143 (16.36%) Git
2 119 (13.62%) GitLab
3 115 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 70 (8.01%) JIRA
5 25 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.29%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
9 9 (1.03%) Mocha
10 8 (0.92%) MSTest
11 7 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.80%) Postman
12 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.69%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) Mockito
13 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.93%) Public Sector
3 135 (15.45%) Finance
4 58 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.97%) Banking
7 15 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.37%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.92%) Marketing
10 8 (0.92%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Legal
12 6 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.46%) Police
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (22.88%) Developer
2 168 (19.22%) Architect
3 139 (15.90%) Senior
4 114 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
5 106 (12.13%) Data Engineer
6 85 (9.73%) Lead
7 55 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.18%) AWS Architect
8 54 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 44 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (4.58%) Python Developer
12 38 (4.35%) AWS Developer
12 38 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 38 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 35 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
15 32 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (13.50%) Kafka
2 116 (13.27%) React
3 106 (12.13%) REST
4 96 (10.98%) Node.js
4 96 (10.98%) RESTful
5 76 (8.70%) .NET
6 66 (7.55%) Spring Boot
7 64 (7.32%) Spring
8 62 (7.09%) PySpark
9 55 (6.29%) OAuth
10 46 (5.26%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.81%) OpenID
12 40 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.58%) JSON
13 37 (4.23%) AWS CDK
13 37 (4.23%) FastAPI
14 31 (3.55%) OAuth2
15 28 (3.20%) Flask
16 26 (2.97%) Next.js
17 25 (2.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 254 (29.06%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.97%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.40%) NHS
7 14 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (0.92%) Fixed Income
9 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.80%) IoT
10 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.92%) Linux
2 21 (2.40%) Unix
3 11 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.69%) zOS
5 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (60.76%) CI/CD
2 403 (46.11%) DevOps
3 326 (37.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 288 (32.95%) Agile
5 191 (21.85%) Containerisation
6 189 (21.62%) Microservices
7 182 (20.82%) AI
8 157 (17.96%) Event-Driven
9 139 (15.90%) Analytics
10 136 (15.56%) Observability
11 135 (15.45%) Data Modelling
11 135 (15.45%) Test Automation
12 128 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (13.73%) Software Engineering
15 117 (13.39%) ETL
16 110 (12.59%) Data Engineering
17 101 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (11.44%) Roadmaps
19 99 (11.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.68%) Python
2 282 (32.27%) SQL
3 125 (14.30%) JavaScript
4 123 (14.07%) Java
4 123 (14.07%) TypeScript
5 116 (13.27%) C#
6 50 (5.72%) Bash
7 34 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 30 (3.43%) Bicep
9 27 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.06%) Scala
11 17 (1.95%) Go
12 10 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) Formula Language
14 6 (0.69%) JCL
14 6 (0.69%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 239 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 192 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.49%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.78%) Degree
5 32 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
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%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.92%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
18 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
19 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.81%) QA
3 26 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.75%) GDPR
5 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.72%) NIST
8 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 7 (0.80%) WCAG
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 237 (27.12%) Docker
2 29 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.37%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 368 (42.11%) Terraform
2 209 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.01%) Grafana
4 68 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.81%) Ansible
6 27 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (2.06%) 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
11 5 (0.57%) linkerd
11 5 (0.57%) Salt
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 3 (0.34%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 141 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.64%) Databricks
3 47 (5.38%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.78%) Oracle
5 22 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.17%) Google
7 18 (2.06%) Splunk
8 15 (1.72%) Informatica
9 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.26%) Foundry
12 10 (1.14%) Confluent
13 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.03%) Brio
13 9 (1.03%) SAP
14 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.80%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) Tenable
15 6 (0.69%) Kofax
15 6 (0.69%) Lotus