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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 120 131
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 860 656 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 2.38% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 6.38% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 468 413
10th Percentile £400 £383 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile - £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -20 503 £550 - 111
North of England -42 137 £500 +5.26% 46
Midlands -9 85 £447 -0.67% 18
North West -31 69 £575 +21.05% 21
West Midlands -23 64 £473 +5.11% 13
South East -59 50 £600 +35.59% 11
South West -26 47 £534 +4.66% 29
Yorkshire -39 45 £523 +12.97% 15
East of England -23 23 £525 - 6
North East -25 23 £463 +4.52% 10
East Midlands -5 21 £413 -0.66% 5
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 48 (5.58%) Confluence
2 41 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.56%) Apache
5 19 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.81%) SAS
7 6 (0.70%) nginx
8 5 (0.58%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.12%) Camunda
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (76.40%) AWS
2 522 (60.70%) AWS Lambda
3 359 (41.74%) Amazon S3
4 322 (37.44%) Azure
5 172 (20.00%) GitHub
6 171 (19.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 159 (18.49%) Azure Functions
8 150 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
9 140 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
10 127 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.53%) Amazon EKS
12 110 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 107 (12.44%) Power Platform
14 106 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
14 106 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
15 88 (10.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 85 (9.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 71 (8.26%) GCP
18 70 (8.14%) Azure Logic Apps
19 61 (7.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.72%) Firewall
2 26 (3.02%) Network Security
3 21 (2.44%) DNS
4 16 (1.86%) VPN
5 12 (1.40%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) SSL
7 5 (0.58%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 120 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
3 97 (11.28%) Amazon Athena
4 82 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
5 78 (9.07%) Power BI
6 76 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 70 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (6.86%) NoSQL
9 44 (5.12%) Data Lake
9 44 (5.12%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (3.37%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.14%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.91%) Metadata
14 25 (2.91%) MySQL
15 23 (2.67%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.56%) Tableau
17 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 149 (17.33%) Git
2 122 (14.19%) Jenkins
3 116 (13.49%) GitLab
4 68 (7.91%) JIRA
5 21 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.63%) Selenium
9 12 (1.40%) Postman
10 10 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.93%) JUnit
12 7 (0.81%) RStudio
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) Mockito
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.58%) MSTest
General
1 200 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.33%) Public Sector
3 131 (15.23%) Finance
4 67 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (3.95%) Banking
6 26 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Billing
8 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
8 12 (1.40%) Marketing
9 9 (1.05%) Retail
10 8 (0.93%) Back Office
10 8 (0.93%) Military
11 7 (0.81%) Front Office
11 7 (0.81%) Legal
12 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (23.02%) Developer
2 169 (19.65%) Architect
3 163 (18.95%) Senior
4 122 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 101 (11.74%) Lead
7 61 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.93%) AWS Architect
10 50 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 41 (4.77%) Python Developer
14 38 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 35 (4.07%) AWS Developer
15 35 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
17 31 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (41.28%) Terraform
2 125 (14.53%) REST
3 111 (12.91%) React
4 95 (11.05%) Node.js
5 93 (10.81%) Kafka
6 86 (10.00%) RESTful
7 82 (9.53%) .NET
8 64 (7.44%) PySpark
9 51 (5.93%) Spring
9 51 (5.93%) Spring Boot
10 50 (5.81%) GraphQL
11 44 (5.12%) FastAPI
12 42 (4.88%) OAuth
13 40 (4.65%) AWS CDK
14 36 (4.19%) AngularJS
15 35 (4.07%) Flask
16 34 (3.95%) CSS
16 34 (3.95%) JSON
17 29 (3.37%) HTML
17 29 (3.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 270 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (5.12%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.26%) NHS
6 25 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.28%) IoT
12 11 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.93%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.40%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Unix
3 17 (1.98%) Windows
4 13 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.58%) zOS
6 4 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (62.21%) CI/CD
2 391 (45.47%) DevOps
3 337 (39.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (38.84%) Agile
5 200 (23.26%) AI
6 196 (22.79%) Microservices
7 188 (21.86%) Containerisation
8 170 (19.77%) Event-Driven
9 156 (18.14%) Test Automation
10 151 (17.56%) Observability
11 141 (16.40%) Analytics
12 128 (14.88%) Software Engineering
13 127 (14.77%) Data Modelling
14 125 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
15 117 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (13.37%) Data Engineering
16 115 (13.37%) Migration
17 114 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
18 112 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
18 112 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 402 (46.74%) Python
2 276 (32.09%) SQL
3 137 (15.93%) TypeScript
4 129 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 114 (13.26%) Java
6 102 (11.86%) C#
7 66 (7.67%) Bash
8 38 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 36 (4.19%) Bicep
10 29 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.74%) Scala
12 9 (1.05%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) R
15 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.58%) JCL
16 5 (0.58%) Ruby
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 243 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.21%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.00%) Degree
5 36 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.93%) Data Quality
2 57 (6.63%) QA
3 31 (3.60%) GDPR
4 30 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 27 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.74%) WCAG
7 13 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.05%) SLA
10 6 (0.70%) HL7
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 250 (29.07%) Docker
2 34 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Squid
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 202 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.79%) Grafana
3 55 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 46 (5.35%) Ansible
5 14 (1.63%) Puppet
6 12 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.16%) Istio
8 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.70%) linkerd
10 6 (0.70%) Packer
10 6 (0.70%) Podman
11 5 (0.58%) Kibana
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) Salt
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.35%) Rancher
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
14 2 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 162 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.40%) Databricks
3 36 (4.19%) Oracle
4 30 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.79%) Informatica
6 22 (2.56%) Google
7 20 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.33%) Splunk
8 10 (1.16%) Brio
9 9 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.05%) SAP
10 6 (0.70%) Confluent
10 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.70%) Tenable
11 5 (0.58%) New Relic
11 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) Workday
12 4 (0.47%) Denodo
12 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA