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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 116 131
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 850 661 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 2.38% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 6.39% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 479 432
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -5.52%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £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 15,886 10,346 11,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,591 7,013 8,027
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 566 268 239
10th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -15 499 £550 - 202
North of England -40 133 £500 +3.09% 73
Midlands -4 80 £479 +6.44% 26
North West -39 69 £550 +13.40% 36
West Midlands -16 64 £476 +8.80% 19
South West -15 49 £538 +8.86% 27
South East -64 46 £600 +33.33% 40
Yorkshire -38 45 £500 +3.90% 22
East of England -13 24 £550 +4.76% 12
North East -26 20 £463 +0.54% 15
East Midlands -13 16 £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 46 (5.41%) Confluence
2 36 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.47%) Apache
5 18 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.82%) 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 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.35%) 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
1 654 (76.94%) AWS
2 519 (61.06%) AWS Lambda
3 365 (42.94%) Amazon S3
4 307 (36.12%) Azure
5 167 (19.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (18.47%) GitHub
7 155 (18.24%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (18.12%) Amazon EC2
9 152 (17.88%) Azure Functions
10 134 (15.76%) Amazon EKS
11 112 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (13.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 104 (12.24%) Power Platform
14 97 (11.41%) Amazon SQS
15 95 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
16 92 (10.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 83 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
18 73 (8.59%) GCP
19 63 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
20 56 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.00%) Firewall
2 24 (2.82%) Network Security
3 23 (2.71%) DNS
4 19 (2.24%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) WAN
6 8 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 3 (0.35%) CTI
9 3 (0.35%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 2 (0.24%) AMQP
10 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.24%) IPsec
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (15.65%) DynamoDB
2 117 (13.76%) Amazon RDS
3 96 (11.29%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.53%) Power BI
5 79 (9.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (7.18%) NoSQL
9 47 (5.53%) Data Lake
10 44 (5.18%) SQL Server
11 32 (3.76%) Relational Database
12 30 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (2.82%) Metadata
14 24 (2.82%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.82%) Tableau
15 18 (2.12%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.88%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.88%) MySQL
17 14 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 148 (17.41%) Git
2 116 (13.65%) Jenkins
3 111 (13.06%) GitLab
4 68 (8.00%) JIRA
5 24 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.41%) Postman
9 11 (1.29%) JUnit
9 11 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.18%) Selenium
11 8 (0.94%) MSTest
12 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.82%) Mocha
12 7 (0.82%) Mockito
13 6 (0.71%) Gatling
13 6 (0.71%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.71%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 198 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.29%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.53%) Finance
4 67 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.76%) Banking
6 24 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.41%) Law
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.18%) Marketing
11 9 (1.06%) Billing
12 8 (0.94%) Back Office
12 8 (0.94%) Legal
13 7 (0.82%) 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 (23.41%) Developer
2 164 (19.29%) Senior
3 155 (18.24%) Architect
4 124 (14.59%) AWS Engineer
5 98 (11.53%) Lead
6 96 (11.29%) Data Engineer
7 57 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.24%) Software Engineer
9 52 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.76%) AWS Architect
11 45 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.94%) Python Developer
14 41 (4.82%) Senior Developer
15 38 (4.47%) AWS Developer
16 36 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
17 31 (3.65%) AWS Data Engineer
18 30 (3.53%) Technical Architect
19 29 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
19 29 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (13.06%) REST
2 108 (12.71%) React
3 101 (11.88%) Node.js
4 96 (11.29%) RESTful
5 95 (11.18%) Kafka
6 76 (8.94%) .NET
7 58 (6.82%) PySpark
8 57 (6.71%) Spring Boot
9 55 (6.47%) Spring
10 51 (6.00%) GraphQL
11 42 (4.94%) OAuth
12 40 (4.71%) AWS CDK
13 39 (4.59%) FastAPI
14 37 (4.35%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.24%) JSON
16 32 (3.76%) Flask
17 30 (3.53%) OpenID
18 29 (3.41%) CSS
19 27 (3.18%) HTML
19 27 (3.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 256 (30.12%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.06%) NHS
6 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.18%) IoT
11 10 (1.18%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.82%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.88%) Linux
2 23 (2.71%) Unix
3 15 (1.76%) Windows
4 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.71%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) 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
1 517 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 381 (44.82%) DevOps
3 331 (38.94%) Agile
4 325 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 207 (24.35%) Microservices
6 188 (22.12%) AI
7 186 (21.88%) Containerisation
8 163 (19.18%) Event-Driven
9 148 (17.41%) Test Automation
10 142 (16.71%) Observability
11 137 (16.12%) Analytics
11 137 (16.12%) Data Modelling
12 121 (14.24%) Data Pipeline
13 118 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (13.65%) Software Engineering
15 113 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (13.29%) ETL
16 112 (13.18%) Data Engineering
17 107 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
18 106 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 389 (45.76%) Python
2 271 (31.88%) SQL
3 134 (15.76%) TypeScript
4 129 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 117 (13.76%) Java
6 103 (12.12%) C#
7 63 (7.41%) Bash
8 35 (4.12%) Bicep
8 35 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 30 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.76%) Scala
11 10 (1.18%) Go
11 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.94%) Groovy
13 6 (0.71%) JCL
13 6 (0.71%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.59%) Cypher
14 5 (0.59%) Rust
14 5 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 249 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 208 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.71%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.59%) Degree
5 36 (4.24%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.88%) QA
3 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.41%) GDPR
5 24 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.76%) WCAG
7 12 (1.41%) NIST
7 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) PMO
9 5 (0.59%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 237 (27.88%) Docker
2 32 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) RACF
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (39.76%) Terraform
2 202 (23.76%) Kubernetes
3 65 (7.65%) Grafana
4 60 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.94%) Ansible
6 16 (1.88%) Puppet
6 16 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.94%) Istio
7 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.71%) Podman
10 5 (0.59%) linkerd
10 5 (0.59%) Packer
10 5 (0.59%) Salt
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
11 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.35%) Consul
12 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.24%) CASB
Vendors
1 142 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.76%) Databricks
3 29 (3.41%) Oracle
4 27 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.71%) Google
6 20 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 20 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.24%) Informatica
8 18 (2.12%) Splunk
9 10 (1.18%) Brio
9 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.94%) SAP
11 7 (0.82%) New Relic
11 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.71%) Confluent
12 6 (0.71%) Tenable
13 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.59%) Sybase
13 5 (0.59%) Workday
14 4 (0.47%) Ab Initio