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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 117 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 793 588 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.51% 2.15% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.59% 5.87% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 402 478
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +3.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £638
90th Percentile £691 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

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 12,040 10,015 12,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.62% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 6,697 9,015
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 134 233
10th Percentile £14.47 £16.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.85 £67.63 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 7 January 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
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 7 January 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 +11 458 £513 -6.82% 127
North of England +38 166 £476 -4.80% 80
Yorkshire +16 89 £500 -6.37% 32
North West +8 67 £450 +0.45% 39
Midlands -2 67 £506 +16.34% 37
West Midlands -3 52 £525 +23.53% 20
South East -60 45 £475 -24.00% 113
South West -14 27 £650 - 45
East of England -5 24 £550 -3.51% 41
East Midlands -18 15 £411 -8.00% 17
North East -7 11 £525 -13.93% 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 34 (4.29%) Apache
2 27 (3.40%) Confluence
3 26 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 19 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.13%) HCL Notes
7 8 (1.01%) Mendix
8 7 (0.88%) nginx
9 6 (0.76%) CMS
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 552 (69.61%) AWS
2 448 (56.49%) AWS Lambda
3 287 (36.19%) Azure
4 261 (32.91%) Amazon S3
5 184 (23.20%) GitHub
6 183 (23.08%) Azure Functions
7 134 (16.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 128 (16.14%) Amazon ECS
9 125 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
10 122 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
11 118 (14.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 115 (14.50%) Amazon EC2
13 94 (11.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 83 (10.47%) GCP
15 75 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (9.08%) Power Platform
17 64 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (8.07%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (7.82%) Azure AKS
19 56 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.03%) DNS
2 19 (2.40%) Firewall
3 15 (1.89%) VPN
4 13 (1.64%) Network Security
5 6 (0.76%) HTTP
6 5 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.63%) SSL
7 4 (0.50%) SMS
8 3 (0.38%) LAN
8 3 (0.38%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) MPLS
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
10 1 (0.13%) IPsec
10 1 (0.13%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) NAS
10 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (15.13%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (12.99%) DynamoDB
4 90 (11.35%) NoSQL
5 54 (6.81%) Relational Database
6 52 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (5.93%) Power BI
8 43 (5.42%) Data Lake
9 42 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (4.41%) Redis
11 34 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (3.78%) MongoDB
13 29 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
14 27 (3.40%) Big Data
15 24 (3.03%) MySQL
16 20 (2.52%) Tableau
17 19 (2.40%) SQL Server
18 18 (2.27%) RDBMS
19 16 (2.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 144 (18.16%) Git
2 126 (15.89%) Jenkins
3 102 (12.86%) GitLab
4 55 (6.94%) JIRA
5 29 (3.66%) Liquibase
6 20 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.77%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.64%) JUnit
9 13 (1.64%) Postman
10 12 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.51%) Mockito
11 11 (1.39%) Maven
11 11 (1.39%) Selenium
11 11 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (1.01%) Gradle
13 7 (0.88%) Storybook
14 6 (0.76%) MLflow
15 5 (0.63%) SonarLint
16 4 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 207 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 139 (17.53%) Public Sector
3 111 (14.00%) Finance
4 66 (8.32%) Banking
5 50 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.27%) Marketing
8 11 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.13%) Front Office
10 9 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.88%) Military
11 7 (0.88%) Retail
12 6 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
14 4 (0.50%) Aviation
15 3 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Billing
16 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 219 (27.62%) Developer
2 112 (14.12%) Senior
3 104 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
4 98 (12.36%) Architect
5 87 (10.97%) Software Engineer
6 77 (9.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 73 (9.21%) Data Engineer
8 61 (7.69%) Lead
9 40 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
11 33 (4.16%) Python Engineer
12 31 (3.91%) AWS Developer
12 31 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 28 (3.53%) Technical Architect
14 27 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 25 (3.15%) Azure Developer
17 24 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (18.79%) Node.js
2 139 (17.53%) React
3 138 (17.40%) RESTful
4 133 (16.77%) REST
5 112 (14.12%) .NET
6 103 (12.99%) Kafka
7 51 (6.43%) AngularJS
8 49 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
8 49 (6.18%) Spring Boot
9 43 (5.42%) Spring
10 41 (5.17%) OAuth
11 39 (4.92%) GraphQL
12 36 (4.54%) FastAPI
13 35 (4.41%) .NET Core
14 33 (4.16%) HTML
15 32 (4.04%) JSON
15 32 (4.04%) Next.js
16 30 (3.78%) CSS
17 29 (3.66%) Flask
18 28 (3.53%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 199 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 78 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.77%) NHS
9 13 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.51%) Replication
11 11 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.01%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.76%) Derivative
15 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.84%) Linux
2 10 (1.26%) Unix
3 8 (1.01%) Windows
4 5 (0.63%) VMS
5 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (58.01%) CI/CD
2 403 (50.82%) DevOps
3 295 (37.20%) Agile
4 271 (34.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (32.53%) Microservices
6 186 (23.46%) Containerisation
7 161 (20.30%) Software Engineering
8 143 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (15.26%) AI
10 109 (13.75%) Analytics
11 107 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
11 107 (13.49%) Event-Driven
12 102 (12.86%) Test Automation
13 98 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 87 (10.97%) Data Modelling
15 86 (10.84%) Observability
16 83 (10.47%) ETL
17 80 (10.09%) Mentoring
18 68 (8.58%) High Availability
19 67 (8.45%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 391 (49.31%) Python
2 224 (28.25%) SQL
3 139 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 132 (16.65%) TypeScript
5 131 (16.52%) Java
6 113 (14.25%) C#
7 56 (7.06%) Go
8 44 (5.55%) Bash
9 33 (4.16%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.91%) Bicep
11 19 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.27%) Ruby
13 11 (1.39%) C++
14 9 (1.13%) Formula Language
14 9 (1.13%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.76%) JSX
15 6 (0.76%) Korn
15 6 (0.76%) PHP
15 6 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 169 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.94%) Degree
4 56 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (6.94%) AWS Certification
6 39 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 35 (4.41%) Master's Degree
8 24 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.40%) MCP
12 12 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.38%) PhD
15 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 1 (0.13%) CISSP
17 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.30%) QA
2 30 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.40%) GDPR
4 20 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.14%) NIST
6 11 (1.39%) WCAG
7 9 (1.13%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.63%) HL7
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (26.73%) Docker
2 31 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 320 (40.35%) Terraform
2 216 (27.24%) Kubernetes
3 78 (9.84%) Ansible
4 74 (9.33%) Prometheus
5 73 (9.21%) Grafana
6 15 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.26%) Puppet
8 9 (1.13%) Kibana
9 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.50%) Rancher
11 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.38%) Packer
12 2 (0.25%) Control-M
12 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Knative
12 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 153 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.05%) Databricks
3 46 (5.80%) Splunk
4 37 (4.67%) Google
5 28 (3.53%) Oracle
6 27 (3.40%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.52%) Foundry
8 16 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.64%) Confluent
10 12 (1.51%) Cloudera
10 12 (1.51%) IBM
11 10 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.13%) Lotus
12 9 (1.13%) Palantir
13 8 (1.01%) Kofax
14 6 (0.76%) Brio
14 6 (0.76%) Gigya
15 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.63%) Pega