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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 112 132
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 867 586 648
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.40% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 6.42% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 440 483
10th Percentile £370 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £713 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £528 £513
% change year-on-year -5.21% +2.93% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £58.98 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £69.63 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.91% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £93.60 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 14,286 9,134 11,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.57% 37.35% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,836 6,406 8,479
10th Percentile £318 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £741 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 194 321
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £43.15 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +63.13% +27.35% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -10 517 £513 -8.07% 132
North of England -7 156 £500 - 68
North West -5 85 £500 - 48
Midlands -23 62 £498 +9.57% 23
Yorkshire -17 55 £500 - 16
South East -46 55 £525 +5.00% 54
West Midlands -23 49 £488 +1.35% 12
South West -21 34 £578 +5.16% 25
East of England -13 23 £550 -18.52% 14
North East -11 17 £475 - 4
East Midlands -29 13 £499 +8.71% 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 50 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (4.15%) Confluence
3 28 (3.23%) Apache
4 25 (2.88%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.27%) HCL Notes
5 11 (1.27%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Mendix
7 7 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.46%) CICS
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.35%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (73.70%) AWS
2 511 (58.94%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (41.18%) Amazon S3
4 332 (38.29%) Azure
5 198 (22.84%) GitHub
6 188 (21.68%) Azure Functions
7 162 (18.69%) Amazon ECS
8 151 (17.42%) Amazon EC2
9 144 (16.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 136 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
11 126 (14.53%) Amazon EKS
11 126 (14.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 125 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
13 115 (13.26%) Power Platform
14 95 (10.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 89 (10.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 83 (9.57%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
18 72 (8.30%) Azure Service Bus
19 60 (6.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.15%) DNS
2 34 (3.92%) Firewall
3 21 (2.42%) VPN
4 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.38%) Network Security
6 11 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.04%) OpenVPN
7 9 (1.04%) SSL
8 8 (0.92%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.81%) HTTP
9 7 (0.81%) SMS
10 5 (0.58%) IPsec
11 4 (0.46%) WAN
12 3 (0.35%) FTP
13 2 (0.23%) AMQP
13 2 (0.23%) LAN
14 1 (0.12%) 4G
14 1 (0.12%) 5G
14 1 (0.12%) MPLS
14 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (13.96%) DynamoDB
2 113 (13.03%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (8.77%) Power BI
5 74 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 73 (8.42%) NoSQL
7 68 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.77%) Data Lake
9 45 (5.19%) Relational Database
10 36 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (3.81%) Tableau
12 32 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (3.34%) MongoDB
14 27 (3.11%) Redis
15 26 (3.00%) SQL Server
16 25 (2.88%) Big Data
16 25 (2.88%) Metadata
17 17 (1.96%) DocumentDB
17 17 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 154 (17.76%) Git
2 115 (13.26%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.03%) GitLab
4 50 (5.77%) JIRA
5 26 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.50%) JUnit
10 9 (1.04%) Maven
10 9 (1.04%) Mockito
11 7 (0.81%) Mocha
11 7 (0.81%) Selenium
12 6 (0.69%) Gradle
12 6 (0.69%) Vite
13 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.58%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.58%) MLflow
13 5 (0.58%) Postman
13 5 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 203 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.03%) Public Sector
3 127 (14.65%) Finance
4 64 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.38%) Banking
6 29 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.38%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.38%) Marketing
8 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.04%) Retail
10 8 (0.92%) Military
11 6 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.69%) Legal
12 5 (0.58%) Billing
12 5 (0.58%) Front Office
12 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.58%) Law
12 5 (0.58%) Police
12 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (25.95%) Developer
2 154 (17.76%) Architect
3 115 (13.26%) Senior
4 107 (12.34%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.30%) Lead
7 62 (7.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (5.07%) AWS Architect
12 42 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.61%) AWS Developer
14 35 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
14 35 (4.04%) Technical Architect
15 34 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 34 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
15 34 (3.92%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (16.03%) Node.js
2 126 (14.53%) React
3 116 (13.38%) Kafka
4 102 (11.76%) REST
5 96 (11.07%) .NET
5 96 (11.07%) RESTful
6 78 (9.00%) Spring
6 78 (9.00%) Spring Boot
7 66 (7.61%) OAuth
8 49 (5.65%) AngularJS
9 47 (5.42%) PySpark
10 41 (4.73%) JSON
10 41 (4.73%) OpenID
11 36 (4.15%) GraphQL
12 34 (3.92%) AWS CDK
13 33 (3.81%) OAuth2
14 31 (3.58%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.46%) CSS
16 27 (3.11%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.42%) NHS
5 20 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 16 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.92%) Replication
11 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.81%) DataPower
12 7 (0.81%) IoT
12 7 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.81%) Linux
2 20 (2.31%) Unix
3 9 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) zOS
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (59.86%) CI/CD
2 438 (50.52%) DevOps
3 320 (36.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 287 (33.10%) Agile
5 219 (25.26%) Microservices
6 196 (22.61%) Containerisation
7 143 (16.49%) AI
8 141 (16.26%) Analytics
9 137 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (15.57%) Event-Driven
11 132 (15.22%) Data Modelling
12 120 (13.84%) Software Engineering
13 119 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
13 119 (13.73%) Observability
14 116 (13.38%) Test Automation
15 111 (12.80%) ETL
16 96 (11.07%) Data Engineering
16 96 (11.07%) Full-Stack Development
17 89 (10.27%) Mentoring
18 86 (9.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 405 (46.71%) Python
2 265 (30.57%) SQL
3 143 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 141 (16.26%) Java
5 133 (15.34%) C#
6 129 (14.88%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.23%) Bash
8 40 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.38%) Bicep
10 27 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.65%) Go
12 19 (2.19%) Ruby
13 16 (1.85%) Scala
14 11 (1.27%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.27%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.69%) C++
16 6 (0.69%) PHP
17 4 (0.46%) JCL
Qualifications
1 265 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 213 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.07%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 27 (3.11%) Degree
7 20 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.38%) QA
3 25 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.65%) GDPR
5 21 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.85%) NIST
6 16 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
7 7 (0.81%) WCAG
8 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.46%) HL7
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 240 (27.68%) Docker
2 31 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.15%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) RACF
6 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 370 (42.68%) Terraform
2 214 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 69 (7.96%) Grafana
4 66 (7.61%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.65%) Ansible
6 27 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.50%) Puppet
8 11 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.92%) Consul
11 6 (0.69%) Kibana
12 5 (0.58%) Istio
12 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
13 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.46%) Packer
13 4 (0.46%) Podman
13 4 (0.46%) Rancher
13 4 (0.46%) Salt
14 3 (0.35%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 158 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.96%) Databricks
3 45 (5.19%) OpenAI
4 42 (4.84%) Oracle
5 28 (3.23%) Splunk
6 19 (2.19%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.96%) Google
8 14 (1.61%) Foundry
9 11 (1.27%) Lotus
10 10 (1.15%) Brio
10 10 (1.15%) Confluent
10 10 (1.15%) Kofax
10 10 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.81%) Palantir
12 7 (0.81%) SAP
13 6 (0.69%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.69%) Informatica
13 6 (0.69%) Salesforce