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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 116 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing Serverless 836 610 660
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.34% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.53% 6.24% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 433 482
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £460 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £627
90th Percentile £700 £838 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £71.13 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £74.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +201.92% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £26.31 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 12,808 9,780 12,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.51% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,532 9,040
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 141 299
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.86 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +5 493 £513 -10.87% 143
North of England +18 167 £500 -7.75% 85
Yorkshire +8 84 £500 - 34
North West +1 71 £450 -18.18% 45
Midlands -15 66 £506 +7.66% 20
West Midlands -12 54 £525 +2.54% 13
South East -55 52 £500 -13.04% 49
East of England -6 28 £550 -3.93% 6
South West -32 26 £650 - 37
North East -8 13 £500 -16.32% 6
East Midlands -21 12 £434 -7.71% 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 33 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.35%) Apache
4 27 (3.23%) Confluence
5 23 (2.75%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.20%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.08%) Mendix
7 9 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.96%) nginx
9 5 (0.60%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 584 (69.86%) AWS
2 467 (55.86%) AWS Lambda
3 317 (37.92%) Azure
4 290 (34.69%) Amazon S3
5 199 (23.80%) Azure Functions
6 179 (21.41%) GitHub
7 135 (16.15%) Amazon ECS
8 132 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (15.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 124 (14.83%) Amazon EC2
10 124 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
11 122 (14.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 106 (12.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 103 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
14 89 (10.65%) Power Platform
15 84 (10.05%) GCP
16 68 (8.13%) Azure Service Bus
17 65 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 58 (6.94%) Azure AKS
19 56 (6.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.59%) DNS
2 27 (3.23%) Firewall
3 24 (2.87%) VPN
4 14 (1.67%) Network Security
5 9 (1.08%) Kerberos
5 9 (1.08%) SSL
6 8 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.84%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.72%) HTTP
8 6 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.72%) SMS
9 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
10 3 (0.36%) WAN
11 2 (0.24%) MPLS
12 1 (0.12%) AMQP
12 1 (0.12%) Internet
12 1 (0.12%) MQTT
12 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (13.52%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (11.36%) DynamoDB
4 87 (10.41%) NoSQL
5 62 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (6.34%) Power BI
7 49 (5.86%) Data Lake
8 44 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 40 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.83%) MongoDB
12 31 (3.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (3.59%) Redis
14 26 (3.11%) Big Data
15 21 (2.51%) DocumentDB
15 21 (2.51%) Tableau
16 19 (2.27%) MySQL
17 16 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 140 (16.75%) Git
2 129 (15.43%) Jenkins
3 113 (13.52%) GitLab
4 44 (5.26%) JIRA
5 24 (2.87%) Liquibase
6 17 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.79%) JUnit
9 13 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.44%) Mockito
10 12 (1.44%) Postman
11 11 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.20%) Maven
12 10 (1.20%) Selenium
13 7 (0.84%) Mocha
14 6 (0.72%) Gradle
14 6 (0.72%) MLflow
14 6 (0.72%) Storybook
15 4 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 206 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.82%) Public Sector
3 117 (14.00%) Finance
4 66 (7.89%) Banking
5 59 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.15%) Marketing
9 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.08%) Military
11 8 (0.96%) Front Office
11 8 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 8 (0.96%) Retail
12 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.48%) Aviation
13 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Law
14 3 (0.36%) Legal
14 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.24%) Billing
Job Titles
1 222 (26.56%) Developer
2 116 (13.88%) Senior
3 115 (13.76%) Architect
4 101 (12.08%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (10.65%) Data Engineer
6 77 (9.21%) Software Engineer
7 71 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 67 (8.01%) Lead
9 52 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 35 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (3.83%) AWS Architect
14 31 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
16 28 (3.35%) AWS Developer
16 28 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.11%) Azure Developer
17 26 (3.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (17.34%) Node.js
2 125 (14.95%) React
3 123 (14.71%) REST
4 120 (14.35%) Kafka
4 120 (14.35%) RESTful
5 113 (13.52%) .NET
6 60 (7.18%) Spring
6 60 (7.18%) Spring Boot
7 47 (5.62%) OAuth
8 45 (5.38%) AngularJS
8 45 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (4.31%) GraphQL
10 35 (4.19%) FastAPI
10 35 (4.19%) JSON
11 31 (3.71%) .NET Core
12 29 (3.47%) CSS
13 28 (3.35%) Flask
14 27 (3.23%) Next.js
15 25 (2.99%) HTML
15 25 (2.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 210 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 77 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (1.91%) NHS
5 16 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.32%) Replication
10 10 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.96%) Data Fabric
11 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.41%) Linux
2 15 (1.79%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) VMS
4 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (58.73%) CI/CD
2 427 (51.08%) DevOps
3 293 (35.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 275 (32.89%) Agile
5 238 (28.47%) Microservices
6 188 (22.49%) Containerisation
7 151 (18.06%) Software Engineering
8 149 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
10 125 (14.95%) AI
10 125 (14.95%) Analytics
11 114 (13.64%) Event-Driven
12 107 (12.80%) Data Modelling
12 107 (12.80%) Test Automation
13 95 (11.36%) ETL
14 94 (11.24%) Observability
15 89 (10.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 86 (10.29%) Data Engineering
17 84 (10.05%) Mentoring
18 67 (8.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 408 (48.80%) Python
2 250 (29.90%) SQL
3 135 (16.15%) JavaScript
4 127 (15.19%) Java
5 125 (14.95%) C#
6 118 (14.11%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.10%) Go
8 49 (5.86%) Bash
9 42 (5.02%) PowerShell
10 31 (3.71%) Bicep
11 20 (2.39%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.03%) Ruby
13 10 (1.20%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.20%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.08%) C++
15 7 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.84%) Korn
15 7 (0.84%) Scala
16 6 (0.72%) JSX
Qualifications
1 219 (26.20%) Security Cleared
2 178 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.70%) AWS Certification
3 56 (6.70%) Degree
4 47 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.07%) Master's Degree
6 30 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 14 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.07%) QA
3 27 (3.23%) GDPR
4 21 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.39%) NIST
6 11 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.08%) EU AI Act
9 8 (0.96%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.84%) WCAG
11 4 (0.48%) HL7
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NCSC
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 215 (25.72%) Docker
2 25 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.84%) Squid
4 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 344 (41.15%) Terraform
2 229 (27.39%) Kubernetes
3 81 (9.69%) Prometheus
4 75 (8.97%) Ansible
5 74 (8.85%) Grafana
6 17 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.44%) Puppet
9 7 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.84%) Kibana
10 6 (0.72%) Consul
11 4 (0.48%) Rancher
12 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
13 2 (0.24%) Knative
13 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 167 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.06%) Databricks
3 42 (5.02%) Google
4 40 (4.78%) OpenAI
5 39 (4.67%) Splunk
6 26 (3.11%) Oracle
7 25 (2.99%) Foundry
8 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.67%) Confluent
9 14 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.56%) IBM
11 10 (1.20%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.20%) Lotus
11 10 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.08%) Kofax
12 9 (1.08%) Palantir
13 8 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.72%) Brio
15 6 (0.72%) Sybase