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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 120 136
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 845 657 628
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.40% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.39% 6.43% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 474 445
10th Percentile £394 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £704
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £49.63 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £89.40 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +62.22% - -

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 15,689 10,212 11,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.35% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,471 6,902 8,342
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £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 £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 267 281
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -22 492 £550 - 146
North of England -31 143 £500 - 56
North West -26 78 £550 +10.00% 28
Midlands -13 76 £477 +5.88% 31
West Midlands -19 60 £475 +5.56% 17
Yorkshire -35 47 £500 +2.56% 15
South West -20 44 £550 +6.02% 32
South East -66 44 £588 +19.41% 37
East of England -21 28 £550 +3.53% 9
North East -27 19 £463 +0.54% 13
East Midlands -9 16 £488 +7.31% 14
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 (5.44%) Confluence
2 40 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.38%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.37%) Apache
5 16 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.01%) 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
1 658 (77.87%) AWS
2 524 (62.01%) AWS Lambda
3 378 (44.73%) Amazon S3
4 302 (35.74%) Azure
5 162 (19.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (18.58%) Amazon ECS
7 155 (18.34%) Amazon EC2
8 153 (18.11%) GitHub
9 147 (17.40%) Azure Functions
10 130 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
11 110 (13.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 110 (13.02%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (12.43%) Power Platform
13 96 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
14 92 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 88 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
16 80 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.64%) GCP
18 65 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
19 51 (6.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.91%) Firewall
2 25 (2.96%) Network Security
3 22 (2.60%) DNS
4 18 (2.13%) VPN
5 12 (1.42%) WAN
6 8 (0.95%) SSL
6 8 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) IPsec
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.47%) HTTP
8 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.36%) CTI
9 3 (0.36%) FTP
9 3 (0.36%) IPv4
10 2 (0.24%) AMQP
10 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.27%) DynamoDB
2 120 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.89%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (10.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 77 (9.11%) Power BI
6 76 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.22%) NoSQL
9 50 (5.92%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.73%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.08%) Metadata
15 25 (2.96%) Tableau
16 22 (2.60%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.01%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.89%) BigQuery
18 16 (1.89%) MySQL
19 15 (1.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 151 (17.87%) Git
2 115 (13.61%) Jenkins
3 112 (13.25%) GitLab
4 68 (8.05%) JIRA
5 23 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.30%) JUnit
8 11 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.18%) Postman
10 8 (0.95%) Mocha
10 8 (0.95%) MSTest
10 8 (0.95%) Selenium
11 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
13 5 (0.59%) Gatling
13 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 197 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.40%) Public Sector
3 130 (15.38%) Finance
4 61 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.43%) Banking
6 23 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.42%) Law
9 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.07%) Billing
10 9 (1.07%) Retail
11 8 (0.95%) Legal
11 8 (0.95%) Marketing
12 7 (0.83%) Military
13 6 (0.71%) Back Office
13 6 (0.71%) Front Office
13 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 192 (22.72%) Developer
2 162 (19.17%) Senior
3 154 (18.22%) Architect
4 119 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.60%) Data Engineer
6 94 (11.12%) Lead
7 55 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (6.39%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (5.33%) AWS Architect
11 42 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.97%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.38%) AWS Developer
12 37 (4.38%) Python Developer
13 36 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
15 33 (3.91%) Technical Architect
16 30 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
17 28 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (12.90%) React
1 109 (12.90%) REST
2 105 (12.43%) Node.js
3 98 (11.60%) Kafka
4 96 (11.36%) RESTful
5 70 (8.28%) .NET
6 63 (7.46%) Spring Boot
7 61 (7.22%) Spring
8 59 (6.98%) PySpark
9 56 (6.63%) GraphQL
10 44 (5.21%) OAuth
11 40 (4.73%) JSON
12 39 (4.62%) AWS CDK
13 38 (4.50%) FastAPI
14 35 (4.14%) AngularJS
15 31 (3.67%) OpenID
16 28 (3.31%) OAuth2
17 26 (3.08%) Flask
17 26 (3.08%) Web Services
18 24 (2.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 255 (30.18%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.08%) NHS
6 25 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.54%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.30%) IoT
12 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.83%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.27%) Linux
2 23 (2.72%) Unix
3 15 (1.78%) Windows
4 12 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) 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
1 517 (61.18%) CI/CD
2 386 (45.68%) DevOps
3 316 (37.40%) Agile
4 313 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 205 (24.26%) Microservices
6 190 (22.49%) AI
7 186 (22.01%) Containerisation
8 156 (18.46%) Event-Driven
9 142 (16.80%) Analytics
10 140 (16.57%) Test Automation
11 136 (16.09%) Data Modelling
12 130 (15.38%) Observability
13 125 (14.79%) Data Pipeline
14 120 (14.20%) Software Engineering
15 119 (14.08%) Data Engineering
16 118 (13.96%) ETL
17 111 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
18 107 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (12.43%) Migration
20 104 (12.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 397 (46.98%) Python
2 271 (32.07%) SQL
3 128 (15.15%) TypeScript
4 123 (14.56%) Java
5 113 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 101 (11.95%) C#
7 62 (7.34%) Bash
8 36 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.55%) Bicep
9 30 (3.55%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.89%) Scala
11 12 (1.42%) Go
12 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.95%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) JCL
14 6 (0.71%) Ruby
14 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.59%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 230 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 189 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.39%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.50%) Degree
5 35 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (3.31%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.47%) CISSP
15 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.18%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.33%) QA
3 28 (3.31%) GDPR
4 26 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.42%) NIST
6 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.42%) WCAG
7 7 (0.83%) PMO
8 5 (0.59%) HL7
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
1 236 (27.93%) Docker
2 31 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.83%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) RACF
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 335 (39.64%) Terraform
2 205 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 64 (7.57%) Grafana
4 60 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.09%) Ansible
6 19 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.89%) Puppet
8 8 (0.95%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Istio
10 6 (0.71%) Podman
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.36%) Consul
13 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) Argo
14 2 (0.24%) CASB
Vendors
1 139 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.04%) Databricks
3 36 (4.26%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.43%) Oracle
5 22 (2.60%) Google
6 19 (2.25%) Informatica
7 18 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.13%) Splunk
8 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.07%) Brio
10 8 (0.95%) SAP
11 7 (0.83%) Foundry
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.59%) Confluent
12 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.59%) Sybase
12 5 (0.59%) Tenable
12 5 (0.59%) Workday