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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 122 140
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 781 605 697
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.48% 2.09% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.51% 5.70% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 412 496
10th Percentile £375 £394 £400
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £539
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.41% -10.21%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £643
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 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £25.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £25.56 £76.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -66.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £26.31 £78.75
90th Percentile - £26.43 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.69% -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 11,998 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 134 249
10th Percentile £14.93 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

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 19 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 19 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 £520 -5.45% 122
North of England +36 168 £476 -2.86% 131
Yorkshire +26 93 £500 -6.67% 65
Midlands 0 72 £500 +11.86% 95
North West +4 65 £450 +1.12% 59
West Midlands +3 56 £525 +5.00% 51
South East -64 44 £443 -29.20% 118
East of England -1 28 £528 -7.46% 75
South West -19 26 £650 - 53
East Midlands -10 16 £390 -12.75% 42
North East -2 11 £525 -13.93% 8
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 23 (2.94%) 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 9 (1.15%) 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
1 549 (70.29%) AWS
2 445 (56.98%) AWS Lambda
3 278 (35.60%) Azure
4 256 (32.78%) Amazon S3
5 172 (22.02%) GitHub
6 168 (21.51%) Azure Functions
7 141 (18.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 128 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
9 121 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
10 118 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
10 118 (15.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 118 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (11.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 85 (10.88%) GCP
13 69 (8.83%) Amazon EKS
14 66 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (7.68%) Azure AKS
15 60 (7.68%) Power Platform
16 59 (7.55%) AWS Step Functions
17 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%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.51%) DHCP
7 4 (0.51%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.51%) LAN
7 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.51%) SSL
7 4 (0.51%) WAN
8 2 (0.26%) MPLS
8 2 (0.26%) SMS
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
9 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.13%) NAS
9 1 (0.13%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (15.49%) Amazon RDS
2 111 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (13.32%) DynamoDB
4 89 (11.40%) NoSQL
5 60 (7.68%) Relational Database
6 50 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 42 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (5.25%) Power BI
9 36 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 36 (4.61%) Data Lake
10 33 (4.23%) Big Data
11 32 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (4.10%) Redis
12 30 (3.84%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (2.94%) SQL Server
15 22 (2.82%) MySQL
15 22 (2.82%) RDBMS
16 18 (2.30%) Tableau
17 13 (1.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 143 (18.31%) Git
2 126 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 99 (12.68%) GitLab
4 60 (7.68%) JIRA
5 31 (3.97%) Liquibase
6 21 (2.69%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.18%) JUnit
8 16 (2.05%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.79%) Postman
10 13 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.66%) Maven
10 13 (1.66%) Selenium
11 12 (1.54%) Mockito
12 9 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (1.02%) Gradle
14 6 (0.77%) MLflow
15 5 (0.64%) SonarLint
15 5 (0.64%) Storybook
16 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 210 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.77%) Public Sector
3 110 (14.08%) Finance
4 70 (8.96%) Banking
5 48 (6.15%) 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
1 208 (26.63%) Developer
2 122 (15.62%) Senior
3 107 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (12.04%) Architect
5 85 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 83 (10.63%) Software Engineer
7 66 (8.45%) Data Engineer
8 63 (8.07%) Lead
9 38 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
10 36 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (4.10%) AWS Developer
12 31 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 30 (3.84%) Python Engineer
13 30 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.71%) Senior Developer
15 28 (3.59%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.59%) Technical Architect
16 27 (3.46%) Azure Developer
16 27 (3.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (18.95%) Node.js
2 139 (17.80%) RESTful
3 124 (15.88%) React
4 123 (15.75%) REST
5 105 (13.44%) .NET
6 95 (12.16%) Kafka
7 51 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
8 48 (6.15%) Spring Boot
9 43 (5.51%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.38%) Spring
11 40 (5.12%) GraphQL
12 37 (4.74%) .NET Core
13 35 (4.48%) OAuth
14 31 (3.97%) FastAPI
14 31 (3.97%) JSON
15 30 (3.84%) HTML
16 29 (3.71%) AWS CDK
17 26 (3.33%) CSS
17 26 (3.33%) PyTorch
18 23 (2.94%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 192 (24.58%) 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 13 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.66%) NHS
7 13 (1.66%) Replication
8 12 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
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
1 445 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 403 (51.60%) DevOps
3 310 (39.69%) Agile
4 264 (33.80%) Microservices
5 258 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 186 (23.82%) Containerisation
7 162 (20.74%) Software Engineering
8 142 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (13.44%) AI
10 104 (13.32%) Analytics
11 100 (12.80%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.68%) Event-Driven
13 98 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
14 89 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 81 (10.37%) Mentoring
16 79 (10.12%) Data Modelling
17 77 (9.86%) ETL
18 73 (9.35%) Observability
19 72 (9.22%) Data Engineering
20 71 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 379 (48.53%) Python
2 221 (28.30%) SQL
3 138 (17.67%) Java
4 126 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 122 (15.62%) JavaScript
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%) JSX
16 6 (0.77%) Korn
16 6 (0.77%) PHP
16 6 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 159 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.58%) Degree
4 60 (7.68%) AWS Certification
4 60 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 37 (4.74%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.41%) 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 40 (5.12%) QA
2 30 (3.84%) GDPR
3 27 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.79%) NIST
6 11 (1.41%) WCAG
7 9 (1.15%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.02%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.64%) HL7
11 4 (0.51%) MiFID
12 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.13%) GxP
14 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 210 (26.89%) 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%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 307 (39.31%) Terraform
2 213 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.50%) Ansible
4 76 (9.73%) Prometheus
5 75 (9.60%) Grafana
6 16 (2.05%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.41%) Puppet
8 9 (1.15%) Kibana
9 4 (0.51%) Rancher
10 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.38%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.38%) Packer
10 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Control-M
11 2 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 152 (19.46%) 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
9 13 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.54%) IBM
11 10 (1.28%) Palantir
12 9 (1.15%) Confluent
13 7 (0.90%) Lotus
14 6 (0.77%) Brio
14 6 (0.77%) Gigya
14 6 (0.77%) Kofax
15 5 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
15 5 (0.64%) StreamSets