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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 108 130
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 859 606 643
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.48% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.81% 6.56% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 446 477
10th Percentile £381 £400 £373
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £751 £709
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.25% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £59.43 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £90.80 £53.00 -
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 14,777 9,235 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.74% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,038 6,295 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 225 331
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -18 520 £525 -4.55% 106
North of England -24 142 £500 - 62
North West -19 79 £510 +2.00% 35
Midlands -34 57 £491 -1.75% 15
South East -52 54 £575 +15.00% 48
Yorkshire -24 49 £500 - 18
West Midlands -24 44 £488 -4.79% 8
South West -6 38 £575 +4.55% 24
East of England -13 26 £550 -2.22% 7
North East -17 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -25 13 £498 +3.86% 7
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 46 (5.36%) Confluence
2 42 (4.89%) Apache Spark
3 38 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.68%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.10%) Apache
6 11 (1.28%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
7 6 (0.70%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.70%) Mendix
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 656 (76.37%) AWS
2 527 (61.35%) AWS Lambda
3 381 (44.35%) Amazon S3
4 310 (36.09%) Azure
5 175 (20.37%) GitHub
6 164 (19.09%) Azure Functions
7 162 (18.86%) Amazon EC2
8 146 (17.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 139 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
10 135 (15.72%) Amazon EKS
11 123 (14.32%) GitHub Actions
12 108 (12.57%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 100 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
15 97 (11.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 90 (10.48%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (9.55%) AWS Step Functions
18 75 (8.73%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (7.80%) GCP
20 65 (7.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.49%) DNS
1 30 (3.49%) Firewall
2 20 (2.33%) VPN
3 16 (1.86%) Network Security
4 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.05%) OpenVPN
5 9 (1.05%) SSL
6 8 (0.93%) WAN
7 7 (0.81%) SMS
8 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
9 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) HTTP
10 3 (0.35%) MQTT
11 2 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
12 1 (0.12%) CTI
12 1 (0.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (14.32%) DynamoDB
2 119 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (10.59%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (10.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 82 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
6 72 (8.38%) Power BI
7 55 (6.40%) NoSQL
8 54 (6.29%) Data Lake
9 47 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 34 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (3.96%) SQL Server
12 31 (3.61%) Relational Database
13 29 (3.38%) Tableau
14 23 (2.68%) Metadata
15 20 (2.33%) Redis
16 19 (2.21%) MongoDB
17 18 (2.10%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (2.10%) Big Data
17 18 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 134 (15.60%) Git
2 115 (13.39%) GitLab
3 110 (12.81%) Jenkins
4 63 (7.33%) JIRA
5 25 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.63%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.05%) JUnit
9 9 (1.05%) Mocha
10 8 (0.93%) MSTest
11 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.70%) Postman
12 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
12 6 (0.70%) Vite
13 5 (0.58%) Gatling
13 5 (0.58%) Mockito
13 5 (0.58%) Snyk
13 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 145 (16.88%) Public Sector
3 126 (14.67%) Finance
4 51 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.91%) Banking
7 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 10 (1.16%) Military
10 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.93%) Marketing
10 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.47%) Billing
13 4 (0.47%) Police
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (22.70%) Developer
2 164 (19.09%) Architect
3 130 (15.13%) Senior
4 114 (13.27%) AWS Engineer
5 99 (11.53%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.78%) Lead
7 55 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 53 (6.17%) AWS Architect
9 52 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 42 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (4.66%) Python Developer
12 39 (4.54%) Technical Architect
13 38 (4.42%) AWS Developer
14 37 (4.31%) Senior Developer
15 35 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
16 31 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 30 (3.49%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (13.85%) Kafka
2 116 (13.50%) React
3 105 (12.22%) REST
4 99 (11.53%) Node.js
5 93 (10.83%) RESTful
6 75 (8.73%) .NET
7 65 (7.57%) Spring Boot
8 63 (7.33%) Spring
9 57 (6.64%) PySpark
10 54 (6.29%) OAuth
11 43 (5.01%) GraphQL
12 42 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.89%) OpenID
13 39 (4.54%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.54%) JSON
14 36 (4.19%) FastAPI
15 30 (3.49%) OAuth2
16 28 (3.26%) Flask
17 26 (3.03%) Next.js
18 25 (2.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.79%) AI Agents
4 24 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.44%) NHS
6 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (0.93%) IoT
10 8 (0.93%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.01%) Linux
2 21 (2.44%) Unix
3 10 (1.16%) Windows
4 6 (0.70%) zOS
5 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (60.19%) CI/CD
2 395 (45.98%) DevOps
3 319 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 280 (32.60%) Agile
5 190 (22.12%) Microservices
6 184 (21.42%) Containerisation
7 171 (19.91%) AI
8 155 (18.04%) Event-Driven
9 137 (15.95%) Analytics
10 129 (15.02%) Observability
11 126 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
12 125 (14.55%) Data Modelling
13 124 (14.44%) Test Automation
14 123 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (13.85%) Software Engineering
16 113 (13.15%) ETL
17 105 (12.22%) Data Engineering
18 101 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 95 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
20 94 (10.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 395 (45.98%) Python
2 269 (31.32%) SQL
3 124 (14.44%) Java
4 123 (14.32%) TypeScript
5 122 (14.20%) JavaScript
6 114 (13.27%) C#
7 48 (5.59%) Bash
8 35 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.49%) Bicep
10 26 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.21%) Scala
12 18 (2.10%) Go
13 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.70%) JCL
15 6 (0.70%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.70%) Ruby
16 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 233 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 186 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 30 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.38%) Degree
5 29 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.81%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.12%) QA
3 25 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.79%) GDPR
5 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.86%) NIST
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
8 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 231 (26.89%) Docker
2 27 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.40%) Squid
5 5 (0.58%) RACF
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 363 (42.26%) Terraform
2 204 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 67 (7.80%) Grafana
4 66 (7.68%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.66%) Ansible
6 27 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.86%) Puppet
8 9 (1.05%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.05%) Kustomize
8 9 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.93%) Consul
10 6 (0.70%) Istio
11 5 (0.58%) linkerd
11 5 (0.58%) Podman
11 5 (0.58%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Kibana
13 3 (0.35%) Packer
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 135 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.52%) Databricks
3 47 (5.47%) OpenAI
4 33 (3.84%) Oracle
5 22 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.10%) Google
6 18 (2.10%) Splunk
7 14 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.28%) Confluent
8 11 (1.28%) Foundry
8 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.16%) Informatica
10 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.05%) Brio
10 9 (1.05%) SAP
11 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.81%) Sybase
11 7 (0.81%) Tenable
12 6 (0.70%) Kofax
12 6 (0.70%) Lotus