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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 121 134
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 853 650 600
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.35% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 6.33% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 463 424
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £644
90th Percentile £738 £688 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £37.93 £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.31 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 15,945 10,274 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,633 6,952 7,950
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 275 230
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.03 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -14 496 £550 - 277
North of England -36 138 £500 +5.26% 62
Midlands -1 82 £479 +12.71% 27
North West -27 71 £563 +18.42% 32
West Midlands -9 66 £477 +12.24% 16
South West -30 47 £538 +5.13% 34
South East -60 47 £600 +39.53% 47
Yorkshire -34 45 £500 +3.90% 19
East of England -17 24 £525 - 11
North East -29 22 £463 +0.54% 11
East Midlands -15 16 £481 +15.83% 11
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 46 (5.39%) Confluence
2 40 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.81%) Apache
5 19 (2.23%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 655 (76.79%) AWS
2 524 (61.43%) AWS Lambda
3 364 (42.67%) Amazon S3
4 309 (36.23%) Azure
5 170 (19.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (19.11%) GitHub
7 158 (18.52%) Azure Functions
8 157 (18.41%) Amazon ECS
9 149 (17.47%) Amazon EC2
10 130 (15.24%) Amazon EKS
11 119 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 103 (12.08%) Power Platform
14 101 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
15 100 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
16 88 (10.32%) AWS Step Functions
16 88 (10.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 73 (8.56%) GCP
18 68 (7.97%) Azure Logic Apps
19 58 (6.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.87%) Firewall
2 25 (2.93%) Network Security
3 22 (2.58%) DNS
4 18 (2.11%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) HTTP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (15.01%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.30%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.61%) Amazon Athena
4 77 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 77 (9.03%) Power BI
5 74 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (6.92%) NoSQL
8 46 (5.39%) Data Lake
9 42 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.40%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.17%) Metadata
14 23 (2.70%) MongoDB
15 22 (2.58%) Tableau
16 19 (2.23%) Delta Lake
17 18 (2.11%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
18 17 (1.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 147 (17.23%) Git
2 120 (14.07%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.25%) GitLab
4 68 (7.97%) JIRA
5 24 (2.81%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.46%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.41%) Postman
8 12 (1.41%) Selenium
9 11 (1.29%) JUnit
10 10 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.82%) Mockito
11 7 (0.82%) MSTest
12 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.70%) Gatling
12 6 (0.70%) Mocha
12 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 193 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.71%) Finance
4 65 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.99%) Banking
6 25 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 10 (1.17%) Marketing
11 9 (1.06%) Billing
12 8 (0.94%) Back Office
13 7 (0.82%) Front Office
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
14 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.70%) Military
14 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 199 (23.33%) Developer
2 166 (19.46%) Senior
3 156 (18.29%) Architect
4 128 (15.01%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.96%) Data Engineer
6 97 (11.37%) Lead
7 59 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (5.63%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 44 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 41 (4.81%) Senior Developer
15 39 (4.57%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
17 33 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
17 33 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
18 32 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
19 29 (3.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.48%) REST
2 107 (12.54%) React
3 96 (11.25%) Node.js
4 95 (11.14%) Kafka
5 93 (10.90%) RESTful
6 77 (9.03%) .NET
7 58 (6.80%) PySpark
8 52 (6.10%) Spring
8 52 (6.10%) Spring Boot
9 50 (5.86%) GraphQL
10 43 (5.04%) AWS CDK
11 40 (4.69%) FastAPI
12 37 (4.34%) OAuth
13 36 (4.22%) AngularJS
14 35 (4.10%) Flask
14 35 (4.10%) JSON
15 30 (3.52%) CSS
16 28 (3.28%) HTML
17 27 (3.17%) OpenID
18 23 (2.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 261 (30.60%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.81%) AI Agents
5 27 (3.17%) NHS
6 22 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.29%) IoT
11 11 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.45%) Linux
2 20 (2.34%) Unix
3 15 (1.76%) Windows
4 13 (1.52%) 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%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 382 (44.78%) DevOps
3 332 (38.92%) Agile
4 328 (38.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 200 (23.45%) Microservices
6 193 (22.63%) AI
7 185 (21.69%) Containerisation
8 165 (19.34%) Event-Driven
9 152 (17.82%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.23%) Observability
11 137 (16.06%) Analytics
12 131 (15.36%) Data Modelling
13 126 (14.77%) Software Engineering
14 121 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
15 114 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (13.25%) ETL
16 113 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (13.01%) Data Engineering
18 110 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
19 109 (12.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 391 (45.84%) Python
2 272 (31.89%) SQL
3 131 (15.36%) TypeScript
4 127 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.60%) Java
6 102 (11.96%) C#
7 64 (7.50%) Bash
8 35 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.99%) Bicep
10 28 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.76%) Scala
12 10 (1.17%) Go
13 9 (1.06%) Groovy
14 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.70%) JCL
15 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Ruby
16 5 (0.59%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 247 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 205 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.15%) AWS Certification
4 41 (4.81%) Degree
5 39 (4.57%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.10%) QA
3 31 (3.63%) GDPR
4 29 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.64%) WCAG
7 13 (1.52%) NIST
8 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.70%) HL7
10 5 (0.59%) SLA
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.47%) PMO
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 240 (28.14%) Docker
2 34 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 348 (40.80%) Terraform
2 203 (23.80%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.09%) Grafana
4 58 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.16%) Ansible
6 16 (1.88%) Puppet
7 12 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.17%) Istio
9 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.70%) linkerd
11 6 (0.70%) Packer
11 6 (0.70%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Argo
14 3 (0.35%) Consul
14 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 150 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.63%) Databricks
3 34 (3.99%) Oracle
4 25 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.58%) Google
5 22 (2.58%) Informatica
6 21 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.23%) Splunk
8 9 (1.06%) Brio
8 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.06%) SAP
9 7 (0.82%) New Relic
9 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.82%) Tenable
10 6 (0.70%) Confluent
11 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.59%) Workday
12 4 (0.47%) Denodo
12 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA