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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 112 138
Rank change year-on-year -26 +26 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 862 639 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 2.45% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 6.50% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 464 463
10th Percentile £397 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £735 £746 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,363 9,838 12,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,633 8,684
10th Percentile £325 £310 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 254 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.03 £14.13
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -21 514 £550 - 177
North of England -35 142 £500 - 68
North West -22 80 £525 +5.00% 40
Midlands -26 67 £488 -1.52% 26
West Midlands -28 53 £488 -3.18% 12
Yorkshire -26 49 £500 - 18
South East -47 49 £575 +15.00% 52
South West -15 40 £575 +8.24% 39
East of England -17 27 £550 +3.53% 8
East Midlands -12 14 £497 +8.17% 14
North East -32 14 £463 -1.07% 10
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 51 (5.92%) Confluence
2 40 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.52%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.32%) Apache
5 17 (1.97%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.39%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.35%) Mendix
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 663 (76.91%) AWS
2 529 (61.37%) AWS Lambda
3 386 (44.78%) Amazon S3
4 317 (36.77%) Azure
5 168 (19.49%) Amazon EC2
6 166 (19.26%) GitHub
7 157 (18.21%) Azure Functions
8 152 (17.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 148 (17.17%) Amazon ECS
10 132 (15.31%) Amazon EKS
11 119 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (12.76%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 99 (11.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 97 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.67%) Amazon SQS
17 73 (8.47%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (8.47%) GCP
18 71 (8.24%) Azure Logic Apps
19 61 (7.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.06%) Firewall
2 27 (3.13%) DNS
3 25 (2.90%) VPN
4 23 (2.67%) Network Security
5 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.39%) WAN
7 10 (1.16%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.93%) SSL
9 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 5 (0.58%) MQTT
11 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.35%) AMQP
12 3 (0.35%) FTP
12 3 (0.35%) HTTP
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) SMS
13 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.12%) CTI
14 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.39%) DynamoDB
2 117 (13.57%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (9.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (9.16%) Power BI
7 60 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (6.73%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.45%) Data Lake
10 39 (4.52%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.71%) Relational Database
12 31 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (3.02%) Tableau
15 23 (2.67%) Metadata
16 22 (2.55%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (2.09%) Redis
19 17 (1.97%) Delta Lake
20 16 (1.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 146 (16.94%) Git
2 120 (13.92%) GitLab
3 118 (13.69%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.58%) JIRA
5 26 (3.02%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.32%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.39%) JUnit
10 9 (1.04%) Mocha
10 9 (1.04%) Postman
11 8 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.93%) MSTest
12 6 (0.70%) Mockito
12 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.70%) Selenium
12 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.70%) Vite
13 5 (0.58%) Gatling
14 4 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 206 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.52%) Public Sector
3 130 (15.08%) Finance
4 56 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.25%) Banking
7 16 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.39%) Law
9 9 (1.04%) Military
10 8 (0.93%) Legal
10 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 6 (0.70%) Billing
11 6 (0.70%) Marketing
11 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.46%) Games
13 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.46%) Police
14 3 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (21.81%) Developer
2 168 (19.49%) Architect
3 150 (17.40%) Senior
4 118 (13.69%) AWS Engineer
5 101 (11.72%) Data Engineer
6 90 (10.44%) Lead
7 58 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 54 (6.26%) Software Engineer
10 50 (5.80%) AWS Architect
11 47 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (4.64%) Senior Developer
13 38 (4.41%) Python Developer
13 38 (4.41%) Technical Architect
14 37 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
15 36 (4.18%) AWS Developer
16 34 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
17 33 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (12.88%) Kafka
2 103 (11.95%) Node.js
2 103 (11.95%) React
3 100 (11.60%) REST
4 98 (11.37%) RESTful
5 75 (8.70%) .NET
6 62 (7.19%) Spring Boot
7 61 (7.08%) PySpark
8 60 (6.96%) Spring
9 52 (6.03%) GraphQL
10 49 (5.68%) OAuth
11 40 (4.64%) JSON
11 40 (4.64%) OpenID
12 36 (4.18%) AWS CDK
13 34 (3.94%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.94%) FastAPI
14 29 (3.36%) OAuth2
15 25 (2.90%) Flask
16 24 (2.78%) SOAP
16 24 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 264 (30.63%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.02%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.78%) NHS
7 17 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.04%) IoT
12 8 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.57%) Linux
2 21 (2.44%) Unix
3 12 (1.39%) Windows
4 8 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (60.79%) CI/CD
2 402 (46.64%) DevOps
3 315 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 300 (34.80%) Agile
5 201 (23.32%) Microservices
6 197 (22.85%) Containerisation
7 181 (21.00%) AI
8 159 (18.45%) Event-Driven
9 140 (16.24%) Analytics
10 134 (15.55%) Test Automation
11 128 (14.85%) Data Modelling
12 127 (14.73%) Observability
13 124 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
14 120 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (13.69%) Software Engineering
16 114 (13.23%) Data Engineering
16 114 (13.23%) ETL
17 103 (11.95%) Migration
18 101 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
18 101 (11.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 400 (46.40%) Python
2 273 (31.67%) SQL
3 126 (14.62%) TypeScript
4 120 (13.92%) Java
5 112 (12.99%) JavaScript
6 109 (12.65%) C#
7 59 (6.84%) Bash
8 36 (4.18%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.48%) Bicep
10 28 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.97%) Go
11 17 (1.97%) Scala
12 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.81%) Groovy
14 6 (0.70%) JCL
14 6 (0.70%) Ruby
15 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.46%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (27.73%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 38 (4.41%) Degree
5 35 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 3 (0.35%) CCSP
18 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.76%) QA
3 25 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.78%) GDPR
5 19 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.62%) NIST
8 8 (0.93%) WCAG
9 7 (0.81%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 242 (28.07%) Docker
2 30 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.39%) Squid
5 4 (0.46%) RACF
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 360 (41.76%) Terraform
2 218 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.24%) Grafana
4 69 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.34%) Ansible
6 24 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.32%) Puppet
8 9 (1.04%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.93%) Consul
10 6 (0.70%) Istio
10 6 (0.70%) Podman
10 6 (0.70%) Salt
11 5 (0.58%) linkerd
11 5 (0.58%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 140 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.50%) Databricks
3 40 (4.64%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.48%) Oracle
5 22 (2.55%) Dynatrace
5 22 (2.55%) Google
6 19 (2.20%) Splunk
7 18 (2.09%) Informatica
8 16 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.16%) Foundry
11 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.93%) Brio
12 8 (0.93%) SAP
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Sybase
14 6 (0.70%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable
15 5 (0.58%) Confluent
15 5 (0.58%) Workday