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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 119 138
Rank change year-on-year -30 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 871 666 588
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.39% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 6.30% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 469 395
10th Percentile £400 £383 £359
25th Percentile £450 £420 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £76.20 £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 16,046 10,572 11,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.96% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,158 7,642
10th Percentile £319 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 254 166
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 515 £550 - 524
North of England -44 134 £500 +5.15% 147
Midlands -18 87 £428 -14.07% 51
West Midlands -13 68 £450 -10.00% 26
North West -38 67 £563 +17.19% 97
South East -61 52 £600 +41.18% 90
Yorkshire -44 47 £500 +5.04% 38
South West -23 45 £500 -9.09% 71
North East -33 20 £463 -0.11% 12
East of England -43 20 £515 +1.98% 28
East Midlands -8 19 £419 -5.42% 25
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 41 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (4.48%) Confluence
3 33 (3.79%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.56%) Apache Spark
5 27 (3.10%) Apache
6 9 (1.03%) CMS
7 8 (0.92%) SAS
8 6 (0.69%) nginx
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) CICS
10 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
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 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 36 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 659 (75.66%) AWS
2 526 (60.39%) AWS Lambda
3 357 (40.99%) Amazon S3
4 341 (39.15%) Azure
5 188 (21.58%) GitHub
6 182 (20.90%) Azure Functions
7 180 (20.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 152 (17.45%) Amazon ECS
9 133 (15.27%) Amazon EC2
10 130 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
11 122 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
12 121 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
13 117 (13.43%) Power Platform
14 115 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 112 (12.86%) Amazon SQS
16 86 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 76 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 74 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (7.81%) Amazon EventBridge
20 67 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.10%) Firewall
1 27 (3.10%) Network Security
2 19 (2.18%) DNS
3 15 (1.72%) VPN
4 11 (1.26%) WAN
5 6 (0.69%) HTTP
5 6 (0.69%) SSL
6 5 (0.57%) MQTT
6 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.34%) CTI
7 3 (0.34%) FTP
7 3 (0.34%) IPv4
7 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) SAN
8 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 1 (0.11%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (14.93%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.01%) Amazon RDS
3 99 (11.37%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (8.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 75 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (8.15%) Power BI
8 59 (6.77%) NoSQL
9 51 (5.86%) SQL Server
10 50 (5.74%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.33%) MongoDB
11 29 (3.33%) MySQL
12 28 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.10%) Metadata
14 23 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (2.53%) Delta Lake
15 22 (2.53%) Relational Database
16 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
16 18 (2.07%) Tableau
17 15 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 159 (18.25%) Git
2 116 (13.32%) Jenkins
3 115 (13.20%) GitLab
4 59 (6.77%) JIRA
5 26 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.41%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.30%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.07%) Selenium
9 13 (1.49%) JUnit
9 13 (1.49%) Postman
10 11 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.26%) RStudio
10 11 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.03%) Maven
12 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.69%) Gatling
14 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 213 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.88%) Public Sector
3 141 (16.19%) Finance
4 76 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.25%) Banking
7 14 (1.61%) Marketing
7 14 (1.61%) Military
8 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Back Office
9 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 11 (1.26%) Billing
11 9 (1.03%) Front Office
12 8 (0.92%) Retail
13 7 (0.80%) Legal
13 7 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 196 (22.50%) Developer
2 177 (20.32%) Senior
3 156 (17.91%) Architect
4 125 (14.35%) AWS Engineer
5 116 (13.32%) Data Engineer
6 113 (12.97%) Lead
7 66 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 52 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 46 (5.28%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
14 36 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (4.13%) Senior Developer
15 34 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
15 34 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (3.79%) Python Developer
17 32 (3.67%) Technical Architect
17 32 (3.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (40.18%) Terraform
2 145 (16.65%) REST
3 105 (12.06%) React
4 96 (11.02%) .NET
5 95 (10.91%) Node.js
6 94 (10.79%) Kafka
7 88 (10.10%) RESTful
8 62 (7.12%) PySpark
9 57 (6.54%) Spring Boot
10 56 (6.43%) Spring
11 55 (6.31%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.17%) FastAPI
13 43 (4.94%) OAuth
14 40 (4.59%) AWS CDK
15 39 (4.48%) JSON
16 38 (4.36%) AngularJS
17 31 (3.56%) CSS
17 31 (3.56%) Flask
18 30 (3.44%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 279 (32.03%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.15%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.31%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.21%) NHS
7 24 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.38%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.38%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.03%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.00%) Linux
2 22 (2.53%) Unix
3 15 (1.72%) Windows
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) zOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (63.15%) CI/CD
2 401 (46.04%) DevOps
3 344 (39.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (38.69%) Agile
5 220 (25.26%) AI
6 190 (21.81%) Event-Driven
7 185 (21.24%) Microservices
8 180 (20.67%) Containerisation
9 166 (19.06%) Observability
10 160 (18.37%) Test Automation
11 146 (16.76%) Data Modelling
12 145 (16.65%) Analytics
12 145 (16.65%) Software Engineering
13 142 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 139 (15.96%) Technical Leadership
15 132 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
16 131 (15.04%) Data Engineering
17 129 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 123 (14.12%) Mentoring
19 119 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 421 (48.34%) Python
2 272 (31.23%) SQL
3 146 (16.76%) TypeScript
4 140 (16.07%) JavaScript
5 123 (14.12%) Java
6 121 (13.89%) C#
7 68 (7.81%) Bash
8 43 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.36%) Bicep
10 28 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.72%) Scala
12 10 (1.15%) Groovy
13 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) R
14 7 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.57%) Cypher
15 5 (0.57%) Go
15 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 236 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 202 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.08%) Degree
5 36 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
16 7 (0.80%) CISSP
17 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.50%) QA
3 38 (4.36%) GDPR
4 36 (4.13%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.64%) WCAG
6 16 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.15%) NIST
7 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.80%) SLA
9 6 (0.69%) HL7
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (27.55%) Docker
2 33 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.34%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 203 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.00%) Grafana
3 51 (5.86%) Prometheus
4 48 (5.51%) Ansible
5 14 (1.61%) Puppet
6 10 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.69%) Istio
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.57%) Kibana
9 5 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.34%) Argo
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 192 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.69%) Databricks
3 40 (4.59%) OpenAI
4 34 (3.90%) Oracle
5 27 (3.10%) Google
6 22 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.30%) Informatica
9 17 (1.95%) Splunk
10 12 (1.38%) Brio
11 11 (1.26%) Foundry
12 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.92%) Confluent
14 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.80%) Tenable
15 5 (0.57%) PagerDuty
16 4 (0.46%) Adyen
16 4 (0.46%) New Relic
16 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
16 4 (0.46%) UiPath