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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 119 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 -33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 776 604 695
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.09% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.46% 5.70% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 411 496
10th Percentile £375 £394 £400
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +5.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £639
90th Percentile £688 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%

All Cloud 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 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

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 20 December 2025.

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
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 20 December 2025. 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 +6 431 £523 -5.00% 95
North of England +40 168 £476 -2.86% 63
Yorkshire +22 93 £500 -6.67% 32
Midlands +2 72 £500 +11.86% 18
North West +7 65 £450 +1.12% 26
West Midlands +6 56 £525 +5.00% 10
South East -64 43 £450 -28.00% 47
East of England -3 28 £528 -7.46% 7
South West -17 26 £650 - 22
East Midlands -11 16 £390 -12.75% 8
North East -4 11 £525 -13.93% 6
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 37 (4.77%) Apache
2 29 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.35%) Confluence
4 23 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.90%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.90%) nginx
7 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 6 (0.77%) Mendix
8 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) FileNet
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.52%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 544 (70.10%) AWS
2 440 (56.70%) AWS Lambda
3 278 (35.82%) Azure
4 252 (32.47%) Amazon S3
5 172 (22.16%) GitHub
6 168 (21.65%) Azure Functions
7 138 (17.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 124 (15.98%) Amazon ECS
9 121 (15.59%) GitHub Actions
10 118 (15.21%) Azure DevOps
11 117 (15.08%) Amazon EC2
12 114 (14.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (11.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 85 (10.95%) GCP
15 69 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (7.99%) Amazon SQS
17 60 (7.73%) Azure AKS
17 60 (7.73%) Power Platform
18 59 (7.60%) AWS Step Functions
19 56 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.22%) DNS
2 19 (2.45%) Firewall
3 18 (2.32%) VPN
4 13 (1.68%) Network Security
5 6 (0.77%) HTTP
6 5 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.52%) DHCP
7 4 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.52%) LAN
7 4 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.52%) SSL
7 4 (0.52%) WAN
8 2 (0.26%) MPLS
8 2 (0.26%) SMS
9 1 (0.13%) DKIM
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.13%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (15.46%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (12.76%) DynamoDB
4 89 (11.47%) NoSQL
5 57 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 50 (6.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 42 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (5.28%) Power BI
9 37 (4.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (4.64%) Data Lake
11 33 (4.25%) Big Data
12 32 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (4.12%) Redis
13 30 (3.87%) MongoDB
14 28 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.96%) SQL Server
16 22 (2.84%) MySQL
17 20 (2.58%) RDBMS
18 18 (2.32%) Tableau
19 13 (1.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 143 (18.43%) Git
2 126 (16.24%) Jenkins
3 99 (12.76%) GitLab
4 59 (7.60%) JIRA
5 31 (3.99%) Liquibase
6 21 (2.71%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.68%) JUnit
9 13 (1.68%) Postman
9 13 (1.68%) Selenium
10 12 (1.55%) Mockito
11 11 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.42%) Maven
12 9 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (1.03%) Gradle
14 6 (0.77%) MLflow
15 5 (0.64%) SonarLint
15 5 (0.64%) Storybook
16 4 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 208 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.88%) Public Sector
3 110 (14.18%) Finance
4 70 (9.02%) Banking
5 46 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.12%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.06%) Marketing
8 11 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.42%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.29%) Front Office
9 10 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.90%) Retail
11 6 (0.77%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.77%) Military
12 5 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.26%) Aviation
13 2 (0.26%) Billing
13 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Law
13 2 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 205 (26.42%) Developer
2 118 (15.21%) Senior
3 107 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (12.11%) Architect
5 85 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 83 (10.70%) Software Engineer
7 66 (8.51%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.86%) Lead
9 38 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
10 36 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 31 (3.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (3.87%) Python Engineer
12 30 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.74%) AWS Developer
14 28 (3.61%) Technical Architect
15 27 (3.48%) Azure Developer
15 27 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (3.35%) Senior Developer
17 24 (3.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (18.94%) Node.js
2 139 (17.91%) RESTful
3 125 (16.11%) React
4 124 (15.98%) REST
5 105 (13.53%) .NET
6 94 (12.11%) Kafka
7 51 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
8 46 (5.93%) Spring Boot
9 43 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 40 (5.15%) GraphQL
11 39 (5.03%) Spring
12 37 (4.77%) .NET Core
13 35 (4.51%) OAuth
14 32 (4.12%) JSON
15 31 (3.99%) FastAPI
16 30 (3.87%) HTML
17 29 (3.74%) AWS CDK
18 26 (3.35%) CSS
18 26 (3.35%) PyTorch
19 23 (2.96%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 192 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.51%) Public Cloud
4 32 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.68%) NHS
7 13 (1.68%) Replication
8 12 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.03%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.03%) Derivative
11 8 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.86%) Linux
2 12 (1.55%) Windows
3 10 (1.29%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) SUSE
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (56.83%) CI/CD
2 403 (51.93%) DevOps
3 305 (39.30%) Agile
4 261 (33.63%) Microservices
5 258 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 185 (23.84%) Containerisation
7 162 (20.88%) Software Engineering
8 140 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (13.53%) AI
10 104 (13.40%) Analytics
11 100 (12.89%) Event-Driven
12 98 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
13 97 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 90 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
15 80 (10.31%) Mentoring
16 79 (10.18%) Data Modelling
17 77 (9.92%) ETL
18 73 (9.41%) Observability
19 72 (9.28%) Data Engineering
20 71 (9.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 379 (48.84%) Python
2 220 (28.35%) SQL
3 135 (17.40%) Java
4 123 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 122 (15.72%) JavaScript
6 102 (13.14%) C#
7 60 (7.73%) Go
8 46 (5.93%) Bash
9 36 (4.64%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.48%) Bicep
11 19 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.32%) Ruby
13 12 (1.55%) C++
14 9 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.90%) Formula Language
15 7 (0.90%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.77%) JSX
16 6 (0.77%) Korn
16 6 (0.77%) PHP
16 6 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 197 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 160 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.63%) Degree
4 60 (7.73%) AWS Certification
4 60 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 37 (4.77%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.42%) MCP
11 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.39%) PhD
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.90%) QA
2 30 (3.87%) GDPR
3 27 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.80%) NIST
6 11 (1.42%) WCAG
7 9 (1.16%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.64%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) MiFID
12 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.13%) GxP
14 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 209 (26.93%) Docker
2 33 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.26%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 307 (39.56%) Terraform
2 213 (27.45%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.57%) Ansible
4 76 (9.79%) Prometheus
5 75 (9.66%) Grafana
6 16 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.42%) Puppet
8 9 (1.16%) Kibana
9 4 (0.52%) Rancher
10 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.39%) Packer
10 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Control-M
11 2 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 152 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.31%) Splunk
3 44 (5.67%) Databricks
4 39 (5.03%) Google
5 28 (3.61%) Oracle
6 19 (2.45%) Foundry
7 18 (2.32%) OpenAI
8 16 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.68%) Cloudera
9 13 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.55%) IBM
11 10 (1.29%) Palantir
11 10 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.16%) Confluent
13 7 (0.90%) Lotus
14 6 (0.77%) Brio
14 6 (0.77%) Gigya
14 6 (0.77%) Kofax
15 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.64%) StreamSets