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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 113 136
Rank change year-on-year -41 +23 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 862 697 610
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 2.47% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.33% 6.39% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 491 407
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.73% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.13 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.80 £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 16,172 10,900 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.64% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,365 7,541
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 267 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.60 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -16 517 £550 +2.61% 75
North of England -63 129 £500 +2.30% 42
Midlands -37 84 £430 -14.85% 11
North West -32 66 £525 +9.38% 26
West Midlands -34 64 £460 -10.90% 9
South East -44 57 £600 +41.18% 29
South West -21 46 £538 -4.44% 18
Yorkshire -63 44 £500 +2.04% 13
East Midlands -4 20 £419 -3.74% 2
North East -27 19 £444 -14.75% 3
East of England -52 13 £538 +2.38% 9
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 40 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 37 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.90%) Apache
4 25 (2.90%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.04%) CMS
6 8 (0.93%) SAS
7 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) nginx
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) CICS
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) 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
Cloud Services
1 632 (73.32%) AWS
2 504 (58.47%) AWS Lambda
3 347 (40.26%) Azure
4 335 (38.86%) Amazon S3
5 198 (22.97%) Azure Functions
6 193 (22.39%) GitHub
7 185 (21.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 170 (19.72%) Amazon ECS
9 140 (16.24%) Amazon EKS
10 139 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
11 128 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
12 122 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 119 (13.81%) Power Platform
14 118 (13.69%) GitHub Actions
15 106 (12.30%) Amazon SQS
16 81 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
17 75 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 74 (8.58%) AWS Step Functions
19 71 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
20 69 (8.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.06%) Network Security
2 25 (2.90%) Firewall
3 18 (2.09%) DNS
4 13 (1.51%) VPN
5 10 (1.16%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) AMQP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
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%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (15.31%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (14.39%) DynamoDB
3 81 (9.40%) Amazon Athena
4 73 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
6 67 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 64 (7.42%) Power BI
8 55 (6.38%) Data Lake
9 54 (6.26%) SQL Server
10 50 (5.80%) NoSQL
11 32 (3.71%) MongoDB
12 29 (3.36%) Metadata
13 28 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.78%) MySQL
15 23 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 23 (2.67%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.44%) Relational Database
17 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.74%) Redis
19 14 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 154 (17.87%) Git
2 120 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 112 (12.99%) GitLab
4 63 (7.31%) JIRA
5 30 (3.48%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.55%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.09%) Selenium
9 14 (1.62%) JUnit
9 14 (1.62%) Postman
10 13 (1.51%) Mockito
11 11 (1.28%) Maven
11 11 (1.28%) RStudio
12 9 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.70%) Gatling
15 6 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 207 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 148 (17.17%) Finance
3 142 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 79 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.64%) Banking
7 17 (1.97%) Marketing
8 14 (1.62%) Back Office
9 13 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.39%) Retail
11 11 (1.28%) Billing
11 11 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.28%) Law
11 11 (1.28%) Military
12 8 (0.93%) Front Office
12 8 (0.93%) Legal
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (21.46%) Developer
2 177 (20.53%) Senior
3 145 (16.82%) Architect
4 119 (13.81%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (12.76%) Data Engineer
6 109 (12.65%) Lead
7 69 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.68%) AWS Architect
9 49 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 39 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
13 36 (4.18%) Senior Developer
14 35 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
16 30 (3.48%) Platform Architect
16 30 (3.48%) Python Developer
16 30 (3.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.49%) Terraform
2 161 (18.68%) REST
3 101 (11.72%) .NET
4 90 (10.44%) Kafka
4 90 (10.44%) RESTful
5 87 (10.09%) React
6 83 (9.63%) Node.js
7 60 (6.96%) Spring Boot
8 59 (6.84%) Spring
9 58 (6.73%) PySpark
10 57 (6.61%) GraphQL
11 50 (5.80%) FastAPI
12 49 (5.68%) OAuth
13 48 (5.57%) AWS CDK
14 39 (4.52%) AngularJS
15 38 (4.41%) JSON
16 32 (3.71%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.48%) Flask
18 29 (3.36%) OpenID
19 28 (3.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 289 (33.53%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 60 (6.96%) AI Agents
5 36 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.55%) NHS
10 17 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.31%) Linux
2 21 (2.44%) Unix
3 20 (2.32%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.35%) zOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 421 (48.84%) DevOps
3 355 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 331 (38.40%) Agile
5 238 (27.61%) AI
6 194 (22.51%) Event-Driven
7 189 (21.93%) Microservices
8 178 (20.65%) Containerisation
9 176 (20.42%) Observability
10 166 (19.26%) Test Automation
11 155 (17.98%) Software Engineering
12 154 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 138 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
14 137 (15.89%) Analytics
15 136 (15.78%) Data Modelling
16 128 (14.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 127 (14.73%) Data Engineering
18 125 (14.50%) Migration
19 124 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
20 123 (14.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 405 (46.98%) Python
2 260 (30.16%) SQL
3 149 (17.29%) TypeScript
4 133 (15.43%) JavaScript
5 126 (14.62%) C#
6 123 (14.27%) Java
7 62 (7.19%) Bash
8 41 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.52%) Bicep
10 29 (3.36%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.04%) Groovy
11 9 (1.04%) Scala
12 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.81%) Go
13 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.81%) Rust
13 7 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.58%) Cypher
15 5 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 227 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 196 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 53 (6.15%) Degree
5 39 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (3.48%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 12 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
15 9 (1.04%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
17 7 (0.81%) CISSP
18 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
19 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.41%) Data Quality
2 76 (8.82%) QA
3 35 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.83%) GDPR
5 22 (2.55%) WCAG
6 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.70%) HL7
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) GLBA
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 241 (27.96%) Docker
2 32 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.08%) Grafana
3 51 (5.92%) Ansible
3 51 (5.92%) Prometheus
4 13 (1.51%) Puppet
5 12 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.70%) Packer
8 5 (0.58%) Istio
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.46%) Podman
9 4 (0.46%) Rancher
10 3 (0.35%) Argo
10 3 (0.35%) Kibana
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Salt
11 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 200 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.89%) Databricks
3 44 (5.10%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.36%) Oracle
5 27 (3.13%) Google
6 25 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.32%) Informatica
9 16 (1.86%) Splunk
10 14 (1.62%) Foundry
11 12 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.16%) Brio
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) Confluent
14 5 (0.58%) UiPath
15 4 (0.46%) Adyen
15 4 (0.46%) New Relic
15 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty