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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 114 134
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 853 656 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 2.39% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 6.39% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 477 452
10th Percentile £397 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
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 15,657 10,260 11,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.88% 37.41% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,474 6,938 8,456
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.64% -4.62% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 269 297
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% +25.00% -37.14%

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 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -13 504 £550 - 130
North of England -37 138 £505 +1.00% 53
Midlands -7 75 £482 +7.11% 24
North West -34 75 £550 +10.00% 26
West Midlands -22 61 £476 +5.78% 15
Yorkshire -35 48 £500 +2.30% 14
South East -65 45 £588 +19.41% 40
South West -18 44 £563 +7.14% 29
East of England -11 27 £550 +3.53% 5
North East -28 16 £463 +0.54% 13
East Midlands -13 14 £497 +10.21% 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 (5.86%) Confluence
2 40 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.34%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.34%) Apache
5 16 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.41%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (78.08%) AWS
2 529 (62.02%) AWS Lambda
3 388 (45.49%) Amazon S3
4 306 (35.87%) Azure
5 164 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
6 157 (18.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (18.41%) GitHub
7 151 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
8 147 (17.23%) Azure Functions
9 132 (15.47%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
11 105 (12.31%) Power Platform
12 104 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 96 (11.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 94 (11.02%) Amazon SQS
15 89 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
16 79 (9.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.56%) GCP
18 64 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (5.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.34%) Firewall
2 27 (3.17%) DNS
3 24 (2.81%) Network Security
4 23 (2.70%) VPN
5 13 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.41%) WAN
7 10 (1.17%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.94%) SSL
9 5 (0.59%) IPsec
9 5 (0.59%) MQTT
9 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.47%) HTTP
10 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.35%) CTI
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) AMQP
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (15.01%) DynamoDB
2 121 (14.19%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 77 (9.03%) Power BI
6 75 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.68%) NoSQL
9 48 (5.63%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.69%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.87%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.93%) Metadata
14 25 (2.93%) Tableau
15 21 (2.46%) MongoDB
16 18 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.99%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.99%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 146 (17.12%) Git
2 116 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.36%) GitLab
4 73 (8.56%) JIRA
5 28 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.11%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.29%) Postman
10 10 (1.17%) JUnit
11 8 (0.94%) Mocha
11 8 (0.94%) MSTest
11 8 (0.94%) Selenium
12 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.70%) Mockito
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
14 5 (0.59%) Gatling
14 5 (0.59%) Maven
14 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 202 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 148 (17.35%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.36%) Finance
4 60 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.52%) Banking
6 28 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.06%) Billing
10 9 (1.06%) Legal
11 8 (0.94%) Retail
12 7 (0.82%) Marketing
12 7 (0.82%) Military
13 6 (0.70%) Back Office
13 6 (0.70%) Front Office
13 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 189 (22.16%) Developer
2 162 (18.99%) Architect
3 160 (18.76%) Senior
4 118 (13.83%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.96%) Data Engineer
6 95 (11.14%) Lead
7 56 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 47 (5.51%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.81%) Senior Developer
13 37 (4.34%) AWS Developer
13 37 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
13 37 (4.34%) Python Developer
13 37 (4.34%) Technical Architect
14 35 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
15 31 (3.63%) AWS Data Engineer
16 29 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (12.78%) React
2 107 (12.54%) Node.js
3 102 (11.96%) REST
4 97 (11.37%) Kafka
5 94 (11.02%) RESTful
6 70 (8.21%) .NET
7 61 (7.15%) Spring Boot
8 59 (6.92%) PySpark
9 58 (6.80%) Spring
10 56 (6.57%) GraphQL
11 47 (5.51%) OAuth
12 40 (4.69%) JSON
13 39 (4.57%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.57%) FastAPI
13 39 (4.57%) OpenID
14 35 (4.10%) AngularJS
15 28 (3.28%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.17%) Flask
17 26 (3.05%) Web Services
18 24 (2.81%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.66%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 53 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.93%) NHS
6 15 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.17%) IoT
10 10 (1.17%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.86%) Linux
2 21 (2.46%) Unix
3 14 (1.64%) Windows
4 11 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 389 (45.60%) DevOps
3 316 (37.05%) Agile
4 310 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (23.68%) Microservices
6 192 (22.51%) AI
7 187 (21.92%) Containerisation
8 155 (18.17%) Event-Driven
9 142 (16.65%) Analytics
10 138 (16.18%) Test Automation
11 132 (15.47%) Data Modelling
12 126 (14.77%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (14.65%) Observability
14 119 (13.95%) Software Engineering
15 118 (13.83%) Data Engineering
16 115 (13.48%) ETL
16 115 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
17 105 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (12.08%) Migration
19 102 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 400 (46.89%) Python
2 271 (31.77%) SQL
3 129 (15.12%) TypeScript
4 119 (13.95%) Java
5 112 (13.13%) JavaScript
6 102 (11.96%) C#
7 62 (7.27%) Bash
8 37 (4.34%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.40%) Bicep
10 28 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.88%) Go
11 16 (1.88%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.94%) Groovy
14 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 6 (0.70%) Ruby
14 6 (0.70%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 239 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 36 (4.22%) Degree
5 33 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
17 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.92%) QA
3 26 (3.05%) GDPR
4 24 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.41%) NIST
5 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.29%) WCAG
7 7 (0.82%) PMO
8 5 (0.59%) HL7
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 239 (28.02%) Docker
2 30 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.41%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) RACF
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 343 (40.21%) Terraform
2 210 (24.62%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.09%) Grafana
4 64 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.04%) Ansible
6 24 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.88%) Puppet
8 9 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.94%) Consul
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.70%) Istio
10 6 (0.70%) Podman
10 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.23%) Argo
13 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 138 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.21%) Databricks
3 39 (4.57%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.28%) Oracle
5 24 (2.81%) Google
6 22 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.23%) Splunk
8 18 (2.11%) Informatica
8 18 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.06%) Brio
11 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.94%) SAP
12 7 (0.82%) Foundry
13 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.59%) Sybase
14 5 (0.59%) Tenable
14 5 (0.59%) Workday