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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 121 134
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 869 651 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.38% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 6.33% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 460 408
10th Percentile £400 £384 £362
25th Percentile £450 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £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 15,948 10,289 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 37.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,643 6,957 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 249 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -11 517 £550 - 660
North of England -47 131 £500 +4.06% 155
Midlands -6 89 £444 -7.36% 64
West Midlands -18 70 £461 -7.29% 32
North West -30 65 £588 +21.13% 102
South East -57 50 £600 +41.18% 81
South West -33 46 £510 -4.00% 76
Yorkshire -41 46 £500 +3.79% 33
North East -24 20 £463 +4.52% 20
East of England -35 20 £525 +1.94% 31
East Midlands -5 19 £419 +0.84% 32
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 45 (5.18%) Confluence
2 39 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 29 (3.34%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.88%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 7 (0.81%) nginx
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 659 (75.83%) AWS
2 528 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
3 363 (41.77%) Amazon S3
4 336 (38.67%) Azure
5 186 (21.40%) GitHub
6 182 (20.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 177 (20.37%) Azure Functions
8 154 (17.72%) Amazon ECS
9 142 (16.34%) Amazon EC2
10 128 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
11 127 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (13.81%) Power Platform
13 118 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
14 115 (13.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 105 (12.08%) Amazon SQS
16 90 (10.36%) AWS Step Functions
17 83 (9.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 72 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
19 64 (7.36%) Azure Service Bus
19 64 (7.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.57%) Firewall
2 27 (3.11%) Network Security
3 21 (2.42%) DNS
4 16 (1.84%) VPN
5 11 (1.27%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (14.84%) DynamoDB
2 125 (14.38%) Amazon RDS
3 98 (11.28%) Amazon Athena
4 78 (8.98%) Power BI
5 77 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
6 73 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 72 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.56%) NoSQL
9 51 (5.87%) SQL Server
10 47 (5.41%) Data Lake
11 30 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 30 (3.45%) MySQL
12 28 (3.22%) Metadata
13 24 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (2.65%) MongoDB
15 22 (2.53%) Relational Database
16 21 (2.42%) Delta Lake
17 20 (2.30%) Tableau
18 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
19 15 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 156 (17.95%) Git
2 118 (13.58%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.00%) GitLab
4 64 (7.36%) JIRA
5 23 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.42%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.96%) Selenium
9 12 (1.38%) Postman
10 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.15%) JUnit
11 10 (1.15%) RStudio
12 8 (0.92%) Mockito
13 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.81%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.69%) Gatling
15 5 (0.58%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 217 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 152 (17.49%) Public Sector
3 143 (16.46%) Finance
4 77 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.91%) Banking
7 16 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.61%) Marketing
9 13 (1.50%) Military
10 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.38%) Law
11 11 (1.27%) Back Office
11 11 (1.27%) Billing
12 9 (1.04%) Front Office
13 8 (0.92%) Retail
14 7 (0.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 199 (22.90%) Developer
2 173 (19.91%) Senior
3 160 (18.41%) Architect
4 120 (13.81%) AWS Engineer
5 111 (12.77%) Data Engineer
6 110 (12.66%) Lead
7 64 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (6.21%) Software Engineer
9 52 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.64%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.72%) Senior Developer
13 39 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.37%) Python Developer
15 36 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 35 (4.03%) AWS Developer
16 35 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
17 33 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
17 33 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (3.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (40.97%) Terraform
2 136 (15.65%) REST
3 107 (12.31%) React
4 94 (10.82%) Node.js
5 92 (10.59%) .NET
6 88 (10.13%) RESTful
7 86 (9.90%) Kafka
8 62 (7.13%) PySpark
9 52 (5.98%) Spring Boot
10 51 (5.87%) Spring
11 49 (5.64%) GraphQL
12 46 (5.29%) FastAPI
13 42 (4.83%) AWS CDK
14 41 (4.72%) OAuth
15 39 (4.49%) AngularJS
15 39 (4.49%) JSON
16 34 (3.91%) Flask
17 31 (3.57%) CSS
18 29 (3.34%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.17%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.52%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.22%) NHS
6 27 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.38%) Taxonomies
14 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 9 (1.04%) IoT
15 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.02%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Unix
3 17 (1.96%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (62.49%) CI/CD
2 402 (46.26%) DevOps
3 348 (40.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (38.78%) Agile
5 215 (24.74%) AI
6 185 (21.29%) Event-Driven
7 184 (21.17%) Microservices
8 182 (20.94%) Containerisation
9 161 (18.53%) Test Automation
10 160 (18.41%) Observability
11 148 (17.03%) Analytics
12 146 (16.80%) Data Modelling
13 144 (16.57%) Software Engineering
14 138 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (15.54%) Technical Leadership
16 131 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
17 126 (14.50%) Data Engineering
18 121 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 121 (13.92%) Mentoring
19 120 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 421 (48.45%) Python
2 272 (31.30%) SQL
3 144 (16.57%) TypeScript
4 137 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 118 (13.58%) C#
6 117 (13.46%) Java
7 69 (7.94%) Bash
8 43 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.49%) Bicep
10 29 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.61%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 6 (0.69%) Go
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 207 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.87%) Degree
5 36 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 31 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.69%) CISSP
15 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 70 (8.06%) QA
3 39 (4.49%) GDPR
4 35 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.53%) WCAG
6 19 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.15%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 239 (27.50%) Docker
2 34 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Squid
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.36%) Grafana
3 52 (5.98%) Prometheus
4 49 (5.64%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.69%) Istio
7 6 (0.69%) Packer
7 6 (0.69%) Podman
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
8 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
9 4 (0.46%) Salt
10 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 182 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.25%) Databricks
3 33 (3.80%) OpenAI
3 33 (3.80%) Oracle
4 24 (2.76%) Google
5 22 (2.53%) Informatica
5 22 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.19%) Splunk
8 11 (1.27%) Brio
9 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.81%) Confluent
10 7 (0.81%) Foundry
10 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.81%) SAP
10 7 (0.81%) Tenable
11 5 (0.58%) New Relic
11 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) Workday
12 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA