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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 121 135
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -30
Contract jobs citing Serverless 781 603 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.11% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.48% 5.74% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 412 488
10th Percentile £375 £394 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £539
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.41% -10.21%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £639
90th Percentile £688 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile - £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile - £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +92.31% -66.45% +3.33%

All Cloud 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 12,050 10,503 12,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.12% 36.66% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,289 7,014 9,363
10th Percentile £305 £313 £277
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 244
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £68.75 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £27.50 £26.37
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.29% +17.20%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +3 435 £525 -4.55% 216
North of England +40 170 £476 -2.86% 186
Yorkshire +29 95 £500 -6.67% 82
Midlands +2 72 £500 +11.86% 107
North West +6 65 £450 +1.12% 93
West Midlands +7 56 £525 +5.00% 60
South East -59 43 £450 -28.00% 177
East of England -4 27 £528 -7.46% 79
South West -15 26 £650 - 73
East Midlands -10 16 £390 -12.75% 40
North East -5 11 £525 -13.93% 12
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 37 (4.74%) Apache
2 29 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.33%) Confluence
4 24 (3.07%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.90%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.90%) nginx
7 6 (0.77%) CMS
7 6 (0.77%) Mendix
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) FileNet
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 550 (70.42%) AWS
2 447 (57.23%) AWS Lambda
3 278 (35.60%) Azure
4 260 (33.29%) Amazon S3
5 171 (21.90%) GitHub
6 168 (21.51%) Azure Functions
7 139 (17.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 127 (16.26%) Amazon ECS
9 121 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
10 119 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
11 118 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
12 116 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (11.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 85 (10.88%) GCP
15 71 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
17 61 (7.81%) Amazon SQS
18 60 (7.68%) Azure AKS
18 60 (7.68%) Power Platform
19 56 (7.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.20%) DNS
2 19 (2.43%) Firewall
3 18 (2.30%) VPN
4 13 (1.66%) Network Security
5 6 (0.77%) HTTP
6 5 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.64%) SSL
7 4 (0.51%) DHCP
7 4 (0.51%) LAN
7 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.51%) WAN
8 2 (0.26%) MPLS
8 2 (0.26%) SMS
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) IPsec
9 1 (0.13%) NAS
9 1 (0.13%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (15.62%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (12.93%) DynamoDB
4 89 (11.40%) NoSQL
5 57 (7.30%) Relational Database
6 53 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (5.51%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (5.25%) Power BI
9 38 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (4.74%) Data Lake
11 33 (4.23%) Big Data
12 32 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (4.10%) Redis
13 30 (3.84%) MongoDB
14 28 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.94%) SQL Server
16 22 (2.82%) MySQL
17 20 (2.56%) RDBMS
18 19 (2.43%) Tableau
19 14 (1.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 143 (18.31%) Git
2 127 (16.26%) Jenkins
3 100 (12.80%) GitLab
4 59 (7.55%) JIRA
5 31 (3.97%) Liquibase
6 21 (2.69%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.66%) JUnit
9 13 (1.66%) Postman
10 12 (1.54%) Mockito
10 12 (1.54%) Selenium
11 11 (1.41%) Maven
12 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (1.02%) Gradle
15 6 (0.77%) MLflow
16 5 (0.64%) SonarLint
16 5 (0.64%) Storybook
17 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 208 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 135 (17.29%) Public Sector
3 110 (14.08%) Finance
4 70 (8.96%) Banking
5 46 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.05%) Marketing
8 11 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.28%) Front Office
9 10 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.90%) Retail
11 6 (0.77%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.77%) Military
12 5 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.26%) Aviation
13 2 (0.26%) Billing
13 2 (0.26%) Law
13 2 (0.26%) Local Government
13 2 (0.26%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 205 (26.25%) Developer
2 119 (15.24%) Senior
3 110 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
4 96 (12.29%) Architect
5 85 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (10.88%) Software Engineer
6 69 (8.83%) Data Engineer
7 60 (7.68%) Lead
8 38 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
9 36 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (4.10%) Python Engineer
11 31 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.71%) AWS Developer
13 29 (3.71%) Technical Architect
14 27 (3.46%) Azure Developer
15 26 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 25 (3.20%) Senior Developer
17 24 (3.07%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (18.82%) Node.js
2 139 (17.80%) RESTful
3 127 (16.26%) React
4 125 (16.01%) REST
5 105 (13.44%) .NET
6 95 (12.16%) Kafka
7 51 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
8 45 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 44 (5.63%) Spring Boot
10 40 (5.12%) GraphQL
11 38 (4.87%) Spring
12 37 (4.74%) .NET Core
12 37 (4.74%) OAuth
13 34 (4.35%) FastAPI
14 32 (4.10%) JSON
15 31 (3.97%) HTML
16 29 (3.71%) AWS CDK
17 26 (3.33%) CSS
17 26 (3.33%) Flask
17 26 (3.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 194 (24.84%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.48%) Public Cloud
4 33 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.79%) NHS
8 13 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.66%) Replication
9 12 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.02%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.02%) Derivative
11 8 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.78%) Linux
2 12 (1.54%) Windows
3 10 (1.28%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) VMS
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) SUSE
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 403 (51.60%) DevOps
3 308 (39.44%) Agile
4 264 (33.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 259 (33.16%) Microservices
6 187 (23.94%) Containerisation
7 164 (21.00%) Software Engineering
8 140 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (13.83%) AI
10 106 (13.57%) Analytics
11 102 (13.06%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (13.06%) Event-Driven
12 96 (12.29%) Test Automation
13 88 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 82 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 80 (10.24%) ETL
15 80 (10.24%) Mentoring
16 75 (9.60%) Observability
17 72 (9.22%) Data Engineering
18 71 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 386 (49.42%) Python
2 224 (28.68%) SQL
3 131 (16.77%) Java
4 123 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 122 (15.62%) TypeScript
6 102 (13.06%) C#
7 60 (7.68%) Go
8 46 (5.89%) Bash
9 36 (4.61%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.46%) Bicep
11 19 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.30%) Ruby
13 12 (1.54%) C++
14 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.90%) Formula Language
15 7 (0.90%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.77%) Korn
16 6 (0.77%) PHP
16 6 (0.77%) Scala
16 6 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 199 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 162 (20.74%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.45%) Degree
4 60 (7.68%) AWS Certification
5 59 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 37 (4.74%) Master's Degree
8 26 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.66%) MCP
11 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.74%) QA
2 30 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.84%) GDPR
3 18 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.79%) NIST
5 11 (1.41%) WCAG
6 9 (1.15%) EU AI Act
7 8 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.64%) HL7
10 4 (0.51%) MiFID
11 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.26%) 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 (27.14%) Docker
2 33 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.26%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) RACF
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 312 (39.95%) Terraform
2 216 (27.66%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.50%) Ansible
4 77 (9.86%) Prometheus
5 76 (9.73%) Grafana
6 16 (2.05%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.41%) Puppet
8 9 (1.15%) Kibana
9 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.51%) Rancher
11 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.38%) Packer
12 2 (0.26%) Control-M
12 2 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 153 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.27%) Splunk
3 44 (5.63%) Databricks
4 39 (4.99%) Google
5 28 (3.59%) Oracle
6 19 (2.43%) Foundry
7 18 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 16 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.66%) Cloudera
9 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.54%) IBM
11 10 (1.28%) Confluent
11 10 (1.28%) Palantir
11 10 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.90%) Lotus
13 6 (0.77%) Brio
13 6 (0.77%) Gigya
13 6 (0.77%) Kofax
14 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.64%) StreamSets