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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 115 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 852 595 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 2.30% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.50% 6.12% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 429 491
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £460 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £685 £627
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -8.68% +4.29% -10.33%
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 13,106 9,715 12,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.51% 37.58% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,039 6,546 9,069
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 147 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £46.82
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.45 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +25.00% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +3 502 £513 -10.87% 141
North of England +22 170 £500 -6.89% 82
Yorkshire +4 83 £500 - 33
North West -4 75 £450 -16.20% 44
Midlands -14 68 £505 +12.22% 20
West Midlands -13 55 £525 +9.15% 15
South East -55 50 £500 -13.04% 58
East of England 0 29 £550 -13.73% 5
South West -28 29 £600 -7.69% 39
North East -14 13 £500 -18.03% 5
East Midlands -23 13 £435 -4.29% 5
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 38 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.64%) Apache
4 25 (2.93%) Confluence
5 22 (2.58%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.17%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (1.06%) Mendix
8 8 (0.94%) nginx
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
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 15 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (2.23%) 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
1 608 (71.36%) AWS
2 483 (56.69%) AWS Lambda
3 313 (36.74%) Amazon S3
4 312 (36.62%) Azure
5 195 (22.89%) Azure Functions
6 185 (21.71%) GitHub
7 142 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 140 (16.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 138 (16.20%) Amazon EC2
10 130 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 129 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
12 128 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
13 112 (13.15%) Amazon EKS
14 97 (11.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 96 (11.27%) Power Platform
16 87 (10.21%) GCP
17 76 (8.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 68 (7.98%) Azure Service Bus
19 57 (6.69%) AWS Step Functions
20 55 (6.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.52%) DNS
2 27 (3.17%) Firewall
3 24 (2.82%) VPN
4 14 (1.64%) Network Security
5 9 (1.06%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.06%) SSL
6 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.82%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.70%) HTTP
8 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.70%) SMS
9 5 (0.59%) 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
1 118 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (11.50%) DynamoDB
4 88 (10.33%) NoSQL
5 65 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (7.04%) Power BI
7 52 (6.10%) Data Lake
8 47 (5.52%) Relational Database
9 42 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
10 34 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (3.40%) Redis
13 28 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 28 (3.29%) MongoDB
14 26 (3.05%) Tableau
15 25 (2.93%) Big Data
16 21 (2.46%) DocumentDB
17 19 (2.23%) MySQL
18 18 (2.11%) Metadata
19 17 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 137 (16.08%) Git
2 132 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 117 (13.73%) GitLab
4 41 (4.81%) JIRA
5 24 (2.82%) Liquibase
6 19 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.00%) JUnit
8 16 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.76%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.64%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.41%) Mockito
11 12 (1.41%) Postman
12 11 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.17%) Maven
13 10 (1.17%) Selenium
14 8 (0.94%) Mocha
15 7 (0.82%) MLflow
16 6 (0.70%) Gradle
17 5 (0.59%) Snyk
18 4 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 214 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 160 (18.78%) Public Sector
3 121 (14.20%) Finance
4 64 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.16%) Banking
6 29 (3.40%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.88%) Marketing
9 11 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.06%) Military
11 7 (0.82%) Front Office
11 7 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.59%) Retail
14 4 (0.47%) Aviation
14 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Law
14 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Billing
15 3 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 222 (26.06%) Developer
2 122 (14.32%) Senior
3 115 (13.50%) Architect
4 105 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.56%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.80%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 69 (8.10%) Lead
8 55 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 36 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 34 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
12 33 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
13 30 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 29 (3.40%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (16.43%) Node.js
2 126 (14.79%) REST
3 123 (14.44%) Kafka
4 121 (14.20%) RESTful
5 119 (13.97%) React
6 107 (12.56%) .NET
7 65 (7.63%) Spring
7 65 (7.63%) Spring Boot
8 49 (5.75%) OAuth
9 45 (5.28%) AngularJS
10 44 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
11 38 (4.46%) GraphQL
12 35 (4.11%) FastAPI
13 32 (3.76%) JSON
14 27 (3.17%) .NET Core
14 27 (3.17%) AWS CDK
14 27 (3.17%) Flask
14 27 (3.17%) OpenID
15 26 (3.05%) Model Context Protocol
15 26 (3.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 214 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 73 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.87%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.88%) NHS
6 16 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.17%) Replication
11 8 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.82%) Data Fabric
12 7 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.82%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.45%) Linux
2 17 (2.00%) Unix
3 10 (1.17%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
4 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 435 (51.06%) DevOps
3 305 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 293 (34.39%) Agile
5 243 (28.52%) Microservices
6 199 (23.36%) Containerisation
7 155 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (17.49%) Software Engineering
9 135 (15.85%) AI
10 130 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
11 127 (14.91%) Analytics
12 119 (13.97%) Data Modelling
12 119 (13.97%) Event-Driven
13 106 (12.44%) Test Automation
14 99 (11.62%) ETL
14 99 (11.62%) Observability
15 93 (10.92%) Data Engineering
16 88 (10.33%) Mentoring
17 87 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
18 72 (8.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 420 (49.30%) Python
2 262 (30.75%) SQL
3 137 (16.08%) Java
4 135 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 121 (14.20%) C#
6 118 (13.85%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.87%) Go
8 49 (5.75%) Bash
9 43 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.87%) Bicep
11 22 (2.58%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.00%) Ruby
13 10 (1.17%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.17%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.06%) C++
15 7 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.82%) Korn
15 7 (0.82%) Scala
16 6 (0.70%) JSX
Qualifications
1 230 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 184 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.81%) AWS Certification
4 57 (6.69%) Degree
5 48 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.99%) Master's Degree
8 30 (3.52%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 14 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.35%) PhD
17 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.23%) QA
3 26 (3.05%) GDPR
4 22 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.46%) NIST
6 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.06%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.94%) WCAG
10 4 (0.47%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 224 (26.29%) Docker
2 26 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 354 (41.55%) Terraform
2 233 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 81 (9.51%) Prometheus
4 75 (8.80%) Ansible
5 74 (8.69%) Grafana
6 19 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.41%) Puppet
9 7 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.82%) Kibana
10 6 (0.70%) Consul
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
12 2 (0.23%) Knative
12 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 162 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.63%) Databricks
3 42 (4.93%) Google
4 41 (4.81%) Splunk
5 40 (4.69%) OpenAI
6 26 (3.05%) Foundry
7 25 (2.93%) Oracle
8 14 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.64%) IBM
9 13 (1.53%) Confluent
10 11 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.17%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.17%) Lotus
11 10 (1.17%) Palantir
11 10 (1.17%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.06%) Kofax
13 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.94%) Brio
13 8 (0.94%) Sybase
14 7 (0.82%) Red Hat