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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 117 133
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 843 658 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.38% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.33% 6.41% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 475 432
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £602 £638
90th Percentile £735 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £37.60 £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 15,802 10,273 11,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,537 6,977 8,026
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 266 238
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
% change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -20 494 £550 - 287
North of England -25 131 £500 +5.26% 82
Midlands -11 80 £481 +9.94% 29
North West -32 68 £550 +22.22% 42
West Midlands -14 65 £477 +12.24% 22
South West -22 49 £538 +6.17% 35
South East -60 46 £600 +33.33% 45
Yorkshire -36 44 £500 +2.56% 24
East of England -15 24 £550 +4.76% 11
North East -29 19 £463 +0.54% 16
East Midlands -7 15 £488 +8.32% 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 45 (5.34%) Confluence
2 37 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.61%) Apache
5 18 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) CICS
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 647 (76.75%) AWS
2 517 (61.33%) AWS Lambda
3 364 (43.18%) Amazon S3
4 303 (35.94%) Azure
5 167 (19.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (18.74%) GitHub
7 155 (18.39%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (18.15%) Amazon EC2
9 151 (17.91%) Azure Functions
10 131 (15.54%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (13.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 103 (12.22%) Power Platform
14 96 (11.39%) Amazon SQS
15 95 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 83 (9.85%) AWS Step Functions
18 72 (8.54%) GCP
19 62 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
20 56 (6.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.91%) Firewall
2 24 (2.85%) Network Security
3 23 (2.73%) DNS
4 19 (2.25%) VPN
5 12 (1.42%) WAN
6 8 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.47%) HTTP
8 4 (0.47%) SSL
9 3 (0.36%) CTI
9 3 (0.36%) FTP
9 3 (0.36%) IPv4
10 2 (0.24%) AMQP
10 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) IPsec
11 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (15.54%) DynamoDB
2 117 (13.88%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (11.39%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.61%) Power BI
5 77 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 75 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.24%) NoSQL
9 46 (5.46%) Data Lake
10 43 (5.10%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
12 31 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (2.85%) Metadata
14 24 (2.85%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.85%) Tableau
15 19 (2.25%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.90%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.90%) MySQL
17 15 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 146 (17.32%) Git
2 113 (13.40%) Jenkins
3 108 (12.81%) GitLab
4 67 (7.95%) JIRA
5 24 (2.85%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.49%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.42%) Postman
9 11 (1.30%) JUnit
9 11 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.19%) Selenium
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
11 7 (0.83%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.71%) Gatling
12 6 (0.71%) Mocha
12 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.59%) tSQLt
General
1 197 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.96%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.66%) Finance
4 67 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.80%) Banking
6 24 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.42%) Law
9 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.30%) Retail
10 10 (1.19%) Marketing
11 9 (1.07%) Billing
12 8 (0.95%) Back Office
12 8 (0.95%) Legal
13 7 (0.83%) Front Office
14 6 (0.71%) Military
14 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (23.61%) Developer
2 161 (19.10%) Senior
3 153 (18.15%) Architect
4 122 (14.47%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (11.51%) Data Engineer
5 97 (11.51%) Lead
6 56 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 48 (5.69%) AWS Architect
9 46 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (4.98%) Python Developer
12 41 (4.86%) Senior Developer
13 38 (4.51%) AWS Developer
14 36 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
15 31 (3.68%) AWS Data Engineer
16 29 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
16 29 (3.44%) Technical Architect
17 28 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (13.05%) REST
2 107 (12.69%) React
3 101 (11.98%) Node.js
4 95 (11.27%) Kafka
5 94 (11.15%) RESTful
6 75 (8.90%) .NET
7 57 (6.76%) PySpark
8 56 (6.64%) Spring Boot
9 55 (6.52%) Spring
10 50 (5.93%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.74%) AWS CDK
11 40 (4.74%) OAuth
12 39 (4.63%) FastAPI
13 36 (4.27%) AngularJS
13 36 (4.27%) JSON
14 32 (3.80%) Flask
15 29 (3.44%) OpenID
16 28 (3.32%) CSS
17 26 (3.08%) HTML
18 25 (2.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 254 (30.13%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.71%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.03%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.08%) NHS
6 23 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.30%) IoT
10 11 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
12 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.93%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Unix
3 15 (1.78%) Windows
4 12 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (60.50%) CI/CD
2 375 (44.48%) DevOps
3 326 (38.67%) Agile
4 320 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (23.96%) Microservices
6 188 (22.30%) AI
7 183 (21.71%) Containerisation
8 162 (19.22%) Event-Driven
9 148 (17.56%) Test Automation
10 140 (16.61%) Observability
11 138 (16.37%) Analytics
12 135 (16.01%) Data Modelling
13 121 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
14 117 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (13.52%) Software Engineering
16 113 (13.40%) ETL
17 112 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 111 (13.17%) Data Engineering
19 107 (12.69%) Migration
20 106 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 385 (45.67%) Python
2 270 (32.03%) SQL
3 134 (15.90%) TypeScript
4 127 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 116 (13.76%) Java
6 102 (12.10%) C#
7 62 (7.35%) Bash
8 36 (4.27%) Bicep
9 35 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.78%) Scala
12 10 (1.19%) Go
13 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.95%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) JCL
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 245 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 204 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.63%) Degree
5 36 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.93%) QA
3 30 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.56%) GDPR
4 25 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.78%) WCAG
6 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.30%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) 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
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 234 (27.76%) Docker
2 30 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.83%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 334 (39.62%) Terraform
2 199 (23.61%) Kubernetes
3 64 (7.59%) Grafana
4 59 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.86%) Ansible
6 16 (1.90%) Puppet
7 15 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.95%) Istio
8 8 (0.95%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.71%) Podman
11 5 (0.59%) linkerd
11 5 (0.59%) Packer
11 5 (0.59%) Salt
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.36%) Consul
13 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) CASB
Vendors
1 141 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.93%) Databricks
3 30 (3.56%) Oracle
4 27 (3.20%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.73%) Google
6 20 (2.37%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.37%) Informatica
6 20 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.14%) Splunk
8 10 (1.19%) Brio
8 10 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.07%) SAP
10 7 (0.83%) New Relic
10 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.71%) Confluent
11 6 (0.71%) Tenable
12 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.59%) Workday
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.47%) Sybase