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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 111 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 869 614 665
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.40% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.41% 6.36% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 445 482
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £621 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 13,553 9,661 12,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.24% 37.81% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 6,593 8,883
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 148 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.20
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +38.25% +26.93% -14.52%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -2 512 £513 -9.29% 188
North of England +11 174 £500 - 92
North West +6 81 £450 -10.00% 51
Yorkshire -1 79 £500 - 34
Midlands -16 68 £525 +16.67% 30
West Midlands -14 51 £525 +9.15% 18
South East -69 50 £500 -13.04% 77
South West -27 30 £625 -1.96% 49
East of England -5 28 £560 -12.16% 26
East Midlands -18 17 £479 +5.39% 12
North East -7 15 £500 -18.03% 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 42 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.68%) Apache
4 25 (2.88%) Confluence
5 24 (2.76%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.27%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.15%) Mendix
7 10 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (1.04%) nginx
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 618 (71.12%) AWS
2 492 (56.62%) AWS Lambda
3 323 (37.17%) Azure
4 319 (36.71%) Amazon S3
5 207 (23.82%) Azure Functions
6 189 (21.75%) GitHub
7 146 (16.80%) Amazon EC2
8 145 (16.69%) Amazon ECS
9 134 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 134 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
10 129 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
11 127 (14.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 119 (13.69%) Amazon EKS
13 103 (11.85%) Power Platform
14 99 (11.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 81 (9.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (9.09%) GCP
17 70 (8.06%) Azure Service Bus
18 59 (6.79%) Azure AKS
19 58 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.45%) DNS
2 29 (3.34%) Firewall
3 24 (2.76%) VPN
4 11 (1.27%) Network Security
5 9 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.92%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.81%) SSL
8 6 (0.69%) HTTP
8 6 (0.69%) SMS
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) LAN
10 3 (0.35%) WAN
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) AMQP
12 1 (0.12%) DKIM
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (12.20%) DynamoDB
4 89 (10.24%) NoSQL
5 67 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 62 (7.13%) Power BI
7 53 (6.10%) Data Lake
8 52 (5.98%) Relational Database
9 42 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.80%) MongoDB
12 32 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (3.68%) Redis
13 28 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
14 27 (3.11%) Tableau
15 22 (2.53%) Big Data
16 21 (2.42%) DocumentDB
17 20 (2.30%) Metadata
18 17 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 149 (17.15%) Git
2 129 (14.84%) Jenkins
3 122 (14.04%) GitLab
4 41 (4.72%) JIRA
5 22 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 19 (2.19%) Liquibase
7 18 (2.07%) JUnit
8 15 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.50%) Mockito
10 12 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.15%) Maven
12 9 (1.04%) Mocha
12 9 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.92%) Selenium
14 7 (0.81%) MLflow
14 7 (0.81%) Postman
15 6 (0.69%) Gradle
16 5 (0.58%) Snyk
17 4 (0.46%) Terragrunt
General
1 219 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 161 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.07%) Finance
4 64 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.02%) Banking
6 28 (3.22%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Marketing
9 9 (1.04%) Military
10 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.81%) Retail
12 6 (0.69%) Front Office
12 6 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.46%) Aviation
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.35%) Billing
14 3 (0.35%) Law
14 3 (0.35%) Legal
14 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 226 (26.01%) Developer
2 118 (13.58%) Architect
2 118 (13.58%) Senior
3 105 (12.08%) AWS Engineer
4 90 (10.36%) Data Engineer
5 71 (8.17%) Lead
6 69 (7.94%) Software Engineer
7 67 (7.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 58 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (4.49%) AWS Architect
11 36 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 36 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
13 33 (3.80%) Java Developer
14 31 (3.57%) AWS Developer
15 29 (3.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
15 29 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (3.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (16.57%) Node.js
2 124 (14.27%) REST
3 120 (13.81%) RESTful
4 118 (13.58%) Kafka
4 118 (13.58%) React
5 110 (12.66%) .NET
6 71 (8.17%) Spring
7 70 (8.06%) Spring Boot
8 54 (6.21%) OAuth
9 46 (5.29%) AngularJS
10 42 (4.83%) GraphQL
11 41 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (4.26%) FastAPI
13 36 (4.14%) JSON
14 32 (3.68%) OpenID
15 31 (3.57%) PySpark
16 30 (3.45%) CSS
17 29 (3.34%) Model Context Protocol
18 28 (3.22%) AWS CDK
18 28 (3.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 221 (25.43%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 17 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.73%) NHS
8 14 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.81%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.81%) DataPower
13 7 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.81%) Replication
13 7 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.86%) Linux
2 13 (1.50%) Unix
3 9 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (58.57%) CI/CD
2 447 (51.44%) DevOps
3 305 (35.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 297 (34.18%) Agile
5 245 (28.19%) Microservices
6 202 (23.25%) Containerisation
7 161 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (16.46%) AI
9 142 (16.34%) Software Engineering
10 128 (14.73%) Analytics
10 128 (14.73%) Data Modelling
11 125 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
12 115 (13.23%) Event-Driven
13 110 (12.66%) Test Automation
14 109 (12.54%) Observability
15 101 (11.62%) ETL
16 98 (11.28%) Data Engineering
17 95 (10.93%) Mentoring
18 84 (9.67%) Full-Stack Development
19 74 (8.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 425 (48.91%) Python
2 272 (31.30%) SQL
3 138 (15.88%) Java
4 137 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 123 (14.15%) C#
6 121 (13.92%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.75%) Bash
8 48 (5.52%) Go
9 42 (4.83%) PowerShell
10 37 (4.26%) Bicep
11 21 (2.42%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.96%) Ruby
13 11 (1.27%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.27%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.92%) C++
14 8 (0.92%) Scala
15 7 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.81%) Korn
16 6 (0.69%) JSX
Qualifications
1 234 (26.93%) Security Cleared
2 184 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.87%) Degree
5 42 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 32 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.45%) Master's Degree
9 27 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.35%) PhD
16 1 (0.12%) CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.37%) QA
3 25 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.53%) GDPR
5 21 (2.42%) NIST
6 13 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.04%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.04%) WCAG
8 8 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) HL7
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 237 (27.27%) Docker
2 28 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.92%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) RACF
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
8 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 356 (40.97%) Terraform
2 231 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 85 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 79 (9.09%) Grafana
5 72 (8.29%) Ansible
6 20 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.61%) Puppet
8 8 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.81%) Consul
9 7 (0.81%) Kibana
10 4 (0.46%) Istio
10 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.46%) linkerd
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.35%) Packer
11 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 167 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.71%) Databricks
3 41 (4.72%) OpenAI
4 39 (4.49%) Splunk
5 33 (3.80%) Google
6 30 (3.45%) Oracle
7 26 (2.99%) Foundry
8 14 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.27%) Lotus
9 11 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.15%) Confluent
10 10 (1.15%) IBM
10 10 (1.15%) Kofax
10 10 (1.15%) Palantir
11 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.04%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.92%) Brio
12 8 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.92%) Sybase