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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 797 576 664
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.16% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.64% 5.88% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 397 484
10th Percentile £374 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%
75th Percentile £623 £685 £638
90th Percentile £690 £793 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

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 12,004 9,801 12,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.90% 36.77% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,323 6,516 9,038
10th Percentile £300 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £639 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 137 257
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +16.29% +7.08%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.02 £68.75 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 19 January 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
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 19 January 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 +12 470 £513 -8.89% 122
North of England +35 163 £480 -2.04% 121
Yorkshire +19 84 £500 - 50
North West +9 69 £450 -0.61% 56
Midlands -4 64 £513 +14.77% 51
West Midlands -1 51 £525 +5.00% 26
South East -50 47 £475 -24.00% 148
South West -17 27 £650 - 63
East of England +1 23 £550 -3.51% 77
East Midlands -19 13 £434 -2.96% 23
North East -9 11 £525 -12.13% 15
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 30 (3.76%) Apache
2 25 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.63%) Confluence
4 20 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.25%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.13%) Mendix
7 7 (0.88%) nginx
8 5 (0.63%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 556 (69.76%) AWS
2 445 (55.83%) AWS Lambda
3 299 (37.52%) Azure
4 263 (33.00%) Amazon S3
5 187 (23.46%) Azure Functions
6 185 (23.21%) GitHub
7 133 (16.69%) Amazon ECS
8 129 (16.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 128 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
10 126 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
11 121 (15.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 110 (13.80%) Amazon EC2
13 98 (12.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 86 (10.79%) GCP
15 79 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
16 76 (9.54%) Power Platform
17 64 (8.03%) Azure Service Bus
18 62 (7.78%) AWS Step Functions
19 60 (7.53%) Azure AKS
20 59 (7.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.14%) DNS
2 19 (2.38%) Firewall
3 17 (2.13%) VPN
4 13 (1.63%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) HTTP
5 6 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 6 (0.75%) SMS
6 5 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.63%) SSL
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.38%) WAN
8 2 (0.25%) MPLS
9 1 (0.13%) DKIM
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) IPsec
9 1 (0.13%) MQTT
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (14.68%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (13.05%) DynamoDB
4 91 (11.42%) NoSQL
5 55 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (6.40%) Relational Database
7 48 (6.02%) Power BI
8 44 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (5.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 41 (5.14%) Data Lake
10 34 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (4.14%) Redis
12 30 (3.76%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
14 26 (3.26%) Big Data
15 24 (3.01%) MySQL
16 21 (2.63%) Tableau
17 18 (2.26%) DocumentDB
18 16 (2.01%) Metadata
18 16 (2.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 135 (16.94%) Git
2 127 (15.93%) Jenkins
3 101 (12.67%) GitLab
4 47 (5.90%) JIRA
5 26 (3.26%) Liquibase
6 18 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.88%) JUnit
8 14 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.63%) Postman
10 12 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.51%) Mockito
11 11 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.38%) Maven
11 11 (1.38%) Selenium
11 11 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (1.00%) Gradle
13 7 (0.88%) Storybook
14 6 (0.75%) MLflow
15 5 (0.63%) SonarLint
16 4 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 202 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.94%) Public Sector
3 110 (13.80%) Finance
4 62 (7.78%) Banking
5 51 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.89%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.38%) Marketing
8 13 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.00%) Front Office
10 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.00%) Military
11 7 (0.88%) Retail
12 6 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.50%) Aviation
15 3 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Local Government
16 2 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (27.85%) Developer
2 110 (13.80%) Senior
3 104 (13.05%) AWS Engineer
4 103 (12.92%) Architect
5 80 (10.04%) Software Engineer
6 77 (9.66%) Data Engineer
7 73 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (7.78%) Lead
9 44 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (3.89%) AWS Developer
13 29 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 28 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.26%) AWS Architect
16 26 (3.26%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.14%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (17.82%) Node.js
2 137 (17.19%) RESTful
3 131 (16.44%) React
4 129 (16.19%) REST
5 115 (14.43%) Kafka
6 112 (14.05%) .NET
7 53 (6.65%) Spring Boot
8 48 (6.02%) Spring
9 46 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (5.40%) OAuth
12 36 (4.52%) FastAPI
12 36 (4.52%) GraphQL
13 33 (4.14%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.14%) JSON
14 31 (3.89%) HTML
14 31 (3.89%) Next.js
15 29 (3.64%) Flask
16 28 (3.51%) CSS
17 26 (3.26%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 211 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.88%) AI Agents
6 15 (1.88%) NHS
6 15 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.51%) Replication
9 11 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.00%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.41%) Linux
2 11 (1.38%) Unix
3 7 (0.88%) Windows
4 5 (0.63%) VMS
5 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (59.47%) CI/CD
2 406 (50.94%) DevOps
3 289 (36.26%) Agile
4 278 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 248 (31.12%) Microservices
6 188 (23.59%) Containerisation
7 150 (18.82%) Software Engineering
8 145 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (15.31%) AI
10 117 (14.68%) Event-Driven
11 111 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
12 110 (13.80%) Analytics
13 103 (12.92%) Test Automation
14 90 (11.29%) Data Modelling
14 90 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 89 (11.17%) Observability
16 83 (10.41%) ETL
17 77 (9.66%) Mentoring
18 72 (9.03%) Data Engineering
19 71 (8.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 387 (48.56%) Python
2 226 (28.36%) SQL
3 138 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 134 (16.81%) Java
5 124 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 116 (14.55%) C#
7 46 (5.77%) Bash
7 46 (5.77%) Go
8 35 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.02%) Bicep
10 18 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.01%) Ruby
12 10 (1.25%) C++
12 10 (1.25%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.25%) LotusScript
13 8 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.88%) Korn
15 6 (0.75%) JSX
15 6 (0.75%) Scala
15 6 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 206 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 167 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.53%) Degree
4 53 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 32 (4.02%) Master's Degree
8 24 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.63%) MCP
10 19 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.38%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.52%) QA
2 32 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.64%) GDPR
4 20 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.38%) NIST
6 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.13%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.13%) WCAG
8 5 (0.63%) HL7
9 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 214 (26.85%) Docker
2 26 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 329 (41.28%) Terraform
2 218 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 79 (9.91%) Ansible
4 67 (8.41%) Grafana
4 67 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.63%) Puppet
7 8 (1.00%) Kibana
8 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.50%) Rancher
10 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.38%) Packer
11 2 (0.25%) Control-M
11 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Knative
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 158 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.02%) Databricks
3 41 (5.14%) Splunk
4 35 (4.39%) Google
5 28 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 28 (3.51%) Oracle
6 20 (2.51%) Foundry
7 17 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.76%) Confluent
9 12 (1.51%) IBM
10 11 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.25%) Lotus
11 10 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.13%) Kofax
12 9 (1.13%) Palantir
13 8 (1.00%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.75%) Brio
14 6 (0.75%) Gigya
15 5 (0.63%) Pega
15 5 (0.63%) Sybase