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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 104 129
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 876 611 669
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 2.52% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 6.65% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 454 497
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £58.75 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £73.25 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.31% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +190.38% - -

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 13,826 9,192 12,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.71% 37.94% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,507 6,489 8,726
10th Percentile £313 £313 £279
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 182 326
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £66.56 £43.29 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.14 £74.88 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -2 522 £513 -6.82% 153
North of England +8 168 £500 - 90
North West -9 79 £496 +6.38% 47
Yorkshire +7 76 £500 - 34
Midlands -21 69 £513 +14.00% 22
West Midlands -17 54 £525 +16.67% 18
South East -64 51 £525 -8.70% 61
South West -18 30 £600 -2.10% 31
East of England -8 28 £573 -18.21% 20
East Midlands -25 15 £460 +2.22% 4
North East -6 14 £475 -13.58% 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 43 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.77%) Confluence
4 31 (3.54%) Apache
5 25 (2.85%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.26%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.14%) Mendix
7 10 (1.14%) nginx
8 9 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 630 (71.92%) AWS
2 501 (57.19%) AWS Lambda
3 337 (38.47%) Azure
4 334 (38.13%) Amazon S3
5 206 (23.52%) Azure Functions
6 199 (22.72%) GitHub
7 158 (18.04%) Amazon EC2
8 157 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
9 141 (16.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 139 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
11 135 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
12 129 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (14.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 110 (12.56%) Power Platform
15 102 (11.64%) Azure Logic Apps
16 91 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 76 (8.68%) GCP
18 74 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
19 68 (7.76%) AWS Step Functions
20 63 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.00%) Firewall
2 34 (3.88%) DNS
3 26 (2.97%) VPN
4 13 (1.48%) Network Security
5 12 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.03%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.03%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 7 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.68%) HTTP
8 6 (0.68%) SMS
9 5 (0.57%) IPsec
9 5 (0.57%) WAN
10 3 (0.34%) LAN
11 2 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.11%) 4G
12 1 (0.11%) Internet
12 1 (0.11%) NaaS
12 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.93%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (12.33%) DynamoDB
4 87 (9.93%) NoSQL
5 69 (7.88%) Power BI
6 63 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (5.94%) Data Lake
8 51 (5.82%) Relational Database
9 48 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
10 39 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
13 33 (3.77%) Redis
14 31 (3.54%) MongoDB
15 28 (3.20%) Tableau
16 23 (2.63%) Metadata
17 22 (2.51%) SQL Server
18 20 (2.28%) Big Data
18 20 (2.28%) DocumentDB
19 18 (2.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 153 (17.47%) Git
2 131 (14.95%) Jenkins
3 122 (13.93%) GitLab
4 48 (5.48%) JIRA
5 23 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.17%) JUnit
8 16 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.71%) Liquibase
10 14 (1.60%) Mockito
11 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.14%) Maven
13 8 (0.91%) Selenium
14 7 (0.80%) MLflow
14 7 (0.80%) Mocha
14 7 (0.80%) Postman
15 6 (0.68%) Gradle
15 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.68%) Vite
16 5 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 219 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 170 (19.41%) Public Sector
3 134 (15.30%) Finance
4 67 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.39%) Banking
6 28 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.85%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.60%) Marketing
9 10 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.03%) Retail
11 7 (0.80%) Military
12 6 (0.68%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.57%) Billing
13 5 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.46%) Aviation
14 4 (0.46%) Front Office
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 230 (26.26%) Developer
2 134 (15.30%) Architect
3 122 (13.93%) Senior
4 104 (11.87%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 63 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 62 (7.08%) Lead
8 61 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 55 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (4.79%) AWS Architect
10 42 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 35 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.88%) AWS Developer
14 34 (3.88%) Java Developer
15 31 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
15 31 (3.54%) Python Developer
15 31 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 28 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.84%) Node.js
2 124 (14.16%) REST
3 122 (13.93%) Kafka
4 121 (13.81%) RESTful
5 120 (13.70%) React
6 103 (11.76%) .NET
7 78 (8.90%) Spring
8 77 (8.79%) Spring Boot
9 58 (6.62%) OAuth
10 49 (5.59%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.68%) JSON
12 38 (4.34%) PySpark
13 37 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (4.22%) FastAPI
13 37 (4.22%) GraphQL
14 34 (3.88%) OpenID
15 32 (3.65%) AWS CDK
16 31 (3.54%) CSS
17 30 (3.42%) Flask
18 29 (3.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 222 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.83%) NHS
9 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.14%) Replication
14 8 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.91%) DataPower
14 8 (0.91%) IoT
14 8 (0.91%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.56%) Linux
2 15 (1.71%) Unix
3 11 (1.26%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 3 (0.34%) zOS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (60.05%) CI/CD
2 456 (52.05%) DevOps
3 321 (36.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 300 (34.25%) Agile
5 246 (28.08%) Microservices
6 212 (24.20%) Containerisation
7 157 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (16.55%) AI
9 132 (15.07%) Analytics
10 129 (14.73%) Event-Driven
10 129 (14.73%) Software Engineering
11 124 (14.16%) Data Modelling
12 117 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
12 117 (13.36%) Observability
13 114 (13.01%) Test Automation
14 109 (12.44%) ETL
15 98 (11.19%) Data Engineering
16 91 (10.39%) Mentoring
17 85 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
18 80 (9.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 415 (47.37%) Python
2 275 (31.39%) SQL
3 138 (15.75%) Java
4 137 (15.64%) JavaScript
5 124 (14.16%) C#
5 124 (14.16%) TypeScript
6 56 (6.39%) Bash
7 44 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 42 (4.79%) Go
9 38 (4.34%) Bicep
10 24 (2.74%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.05%) Ruby
12 11 (1.26%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.26%) LotusScript
12 11 (1.26%) Scala
13 8 (0.91%) C++
13 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.80%) Korn
15 6 (0.68%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 250 (28.54%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.48%) AWS Certification
4 46 (5.25%) Degree
5 37 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 27 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.85%) Master's Degree
10 22 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.46%) PhD
16 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.79%) QA
3 28 (3.20%) GDPR
4 25 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 20 (2.28%) NIST
7 16 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.14%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.46%) HL7
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 247 (28.20%) Docker
2 32 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.03%) Squid
5 5 (0.57%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.23%) HDFS
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 378 (43.15%) Terraform
2 231 (26.37%) Kubernetes
3 86 (9.82%) Prometheus
4 81 (9.25%) Grafana
5 69 (7.88%) Ansible
6 23 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.37%) Puppet
9 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.80%) Consul
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 5 (0.57%) Rancher
12 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Istio
12 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.46%) linkerd
13 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.34%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 165 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.22%) Databricks
3 41 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.57%) Splunk
5 36 (4.11%) Oracle
6 25 (2.85%) Google
7 20 (2.28%) Foundry
8 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.26%) Lotus
11 10 (1.14%) Kofax
12 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.03%) Brio
12 9 (1.03%) Confluent
12 9 (1.03%) Palantir
12 9 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.91%) IBM
13 8 (0.91%) Sybase
14 7 (0.80%) SAP