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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 121 136
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 844 660 590
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 2.38% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 6.22% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 458 394
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +2.62% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 15,949 10,616 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.24% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,183 7,470
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 254 165
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -15 504 £550 +1.85% 538
North of England -54 129 £500 +5.04% 187
Midlands -18 85 £430 -14.00% 71
North West -30 67 £538 +13.16% 116
West Midlands -24 65 £460 -10.24% 35
South East -48 51 £600 +41.18% 102
South West -20 46 £510 -7.27% 83
Yorkshire -54 42 £500 +5.04% 53
East Midlands -5 20 £425 -4.01% 36
North East -25 20 £463 -11.14% 19
East of England -42 16 £525 - 43
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 40 (4.74%) Confluence
2 39 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.44%) Apache Spark
5 27 (3.20%) Apache
6 9 (1.07%) CMS
7 8 (0.95%) SAS
8 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.83%) nginx
9 3 (0.36%) CICS
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.24%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 628 (74.41%) AWS
2 496 (58.77%) AWS Lambda
3 337 (39.93%) Azure
4 334 (39.57%) Amazon S3
5 188 (22.27%) Azure Functions
5 188 (22.27%) GitHub
6 175 (20.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 156 (18.48%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (16.23%) Amazon EC2
9 134 (15.88%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
11 119 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
12 114 (13.51%) Power Platform
13 112 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 99 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
15 77 (9.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 76 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (8.06%) Azure Service Bus
19 65 (7.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.67%) Network Security
2 25 (2.96%) Firewall
3 18 (2.13%) DNS
4 13 (1.54%) VPN
5 10 (1.18%) WAN
6 6 (0.71%) HTTP
6 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.36%) CTI
8 3 (0.36%) IPv4
8 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) AMQP
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.24%) Internet
9 2 (0.24%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
2 118 (13.98%) DynamoDB
3 86 (10.19%) Amazon Athena
4 71 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
5 70 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 70 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (7.58%) Power BI
7 54 (6.40%) SQL Server
8 50 (5.92%) Data Lake
8 50 (5.92%) NoSQL
9 30 (3.55%) MongoDB
10 28 (3.32%) Metadata
11 27 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
13 24 (2.84%) MySQL
14 22 (2.61%) Delta Lake
15 20 (2.37%) Relational Database
16 18 (2.13%) BigQuery
17 15 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
18 14 (1.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 155 (18.36%) Git
2 119 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 115 (13.63%) GitLab
4 60 (7.11%) JIRA
5 28 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.25%) Selenium
9 14 (1.66%) Postman
10 13 (1.54%) JUnit
11 11 (1.30%) Mockito
11 11 (1.30%) RStudio
12 10 (1.18%) Maven
12 10 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.95%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.83%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.71%) Gatling
15 6 (0.71%) JMeter
General
1 204 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 146 (17.30%) Public Sector
3 144 (17.06%) Finance
4 76 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.38%) Banking
7 16 (1.90%) Marketing
8 14 (1.66%) Back Office
8 14 (1.66%) Military
9 13 (1.54%) Law
10 12 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.30%) Billing
12 9 (1.07%) Retail
13 8 (0.95%) Front Office
14 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Police
16 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.59%) Legal
16 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (22.04%) Developer
2 172 (20.38%) Senior
3 149 (17.65%) Architect
4 119 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (13.03%) Lead
6 108 (12.80%) Data Engineer
7 68 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.81%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
15 33 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
15 33 (3.91%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.79%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
18 30 (3.55%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (40.64%) Terraform
2 149 (17.65%) REST
3 95 (11.26%) .NET
3 95 (11.26%) React
4 90 (10.66%) Kafka
5 86 (10.19%) RESTful
6 84 (9.95%) Node.js
7 54 (6.40%) GraphQL
8 53 (6.28%) PySpark
9 51 (6.04%) Spring Boot
10 50 (5.92%) Spring
11 48 (5.69%) FastAPI
12 44 (5.21%) AWS CDK
12 44 (5.21%) OAuth
13 41 (4.86%) AngularJS
14 37 (4.38%) JSON
15 31 (3.67%) Flask
15 31 (3.67%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.55%) CSS
17 27 (3.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 281 (33.29%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 66 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.75%) AI Agents
5 35 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.84%) NHS
9 23 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.54%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.42%) Taxonomies
14 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.23%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 17 (2.01%) Windows
4 14 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) VMS
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.36%) zOS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 401 (47.51%) DevOps
3 348 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 329 (38.98%) Agile
5 230 (27.25%) AI
6 188 (22.27%) Event-Driven
7 182 (21.56%) Microservices
8 179 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 171 (20.26%) Observability
10 167 (19.79%) Test Automation
11 148 (17.54%) Software Engineering
12 144 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 142 (16.82%) Analytics
14 135 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
15 134 (15.88%) Data Modelling
16 128 (15.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 127 (15.05%) Data Engineering
18 124 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
19 119 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
20 118 (13.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 403 (47.75%) Python
2 258 (30.57%) SQL
3 141 (16.71%) TypeScript
4 134 (15.88%) JavaScript
5 119 (14.10%) C#
6 114 (13.51%) Java
7 66 (7.82%) Bash
8 40 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.62%) Bicep
10 27 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.66%) Scala
12 9 (1.07%) Groovy
13 8 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.83%) R
15 6 (0.71%) Go
15 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 229 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.65%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.28%) Degree
5 38 (4.50%) DV Cleared
6 34 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (3.79%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.18%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.83%) CISSP
17 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.32%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.77%) QA
3 36 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.91%) GDPR
5 22 (2.61%) WCAG
6 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) NIST
7 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) HL7
10 5 (0.59%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GLBA
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (28.44%) Docker
2 32 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Squid
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.70%) Grafana
3 54 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 52 (6.16%) Ansible
5 14 (1.66%) Puppet
6 10 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.71%) Istio
8 6 (0.71%) Packer
8 6 (0.71%) Podman
9 5 (0.59%) Kibana
9 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 4 (0.47%) Salt
11 3 (0.36%) Argo
11 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.24%) CASB
12 2 (0.24%) Consul
12 2 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 191 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.70%) Databricks
3 40 (4.74%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.44%) Oracle
5 28 (3.32%) Google
6 24 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.37%) Informatica
9 18 (2.13%) Splunk
10 12 (1.42%) Foundry
11 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.18%) Brio
13 7 (0.83%) Confluent
13 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.83%) Tenable
14 5 (0.59%) UiPath
15 4 (0.47%) Adyen
15 4 (0.47%) New Relic
15 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty