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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 121 137
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 852 668 594
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 2.38% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 6.24% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 463 397
10th Percentile £400 £381 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £739 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -12 507 £550 +1.85% 555
North of England -56 130 £500 +5.04% 216
Midlands -26 85 £430 -14.00% 104
North West -36 67 £538 +13.16% 124
West Midlands -19 65 £460 -10.24% 55
South East -50 54 £600 +41.18% 139
South West -21 47 £520 -5.45% 103
Yorkshire -55 43 £500 +5.04% 58
East Midlands -14 20 £425 -4.01% 49
North East -33 20 £463 -11.14% 35
East of England -41 16 £525 - 59
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 40 (4.69%) Confluence
2 39 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.99%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 27 (3.17%) Apache
6 9 (1.06%) CMS
7 8 (0.94%) SAS
8 7 (0.82%) nginx
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.35%) CICS
10 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 634 (74.41%) AWS
2 505 (59.27%) AWS Lambda
3 344 (40.38%) Amazon S3
4 340 (39.91%) Azure
5 187 (21.95%) Azure Functions
5 187 (21.95%) GitHub
6 179 (21.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 155 (18.19%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (15.96%) Amazon EC2
9 133 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
11 120 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
12 115 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 113 (13.26%) Power Platform
14 99 (11.62%) Amazon SQS
15 78 (9.15%) AWS Step Functions
16 77 (9.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 75 (8.80%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (7.86%) GCP
19 65 (7.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.64%) Network Security
2 25 (2.93%) Firewall
3 18 (2.11%) DNS
4 13 (1.53%) VPN
5 10 (1.17%) WAN
6 6 (0.70%) HTTP
6 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.59%) MQTT
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) CTI
8 3 (0.35%) FTP
8 3 (0.35%) IPv4
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) AMQP
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.23%) Internet
9 2 (0.23%) SAN
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (14.32%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (13.97%) DynamoDB
3 90 (10.56%) Amazon Athena
4 73 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (7.63%) Power BI
8 53 (6.22%) SQL Server
9 52 (6.10%) NoSQL
10 51 (5.99%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.40%) MongoDB
12 27 (3.17%) Metadata
13 25 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
13 25 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (2.82%) MySQL
15 22 (2.58%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.35%) Relational Database
17 18 (2.11%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
19 14 (1.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 155 (18.19%) Git
2 119 (13.97%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.38%) GitLab
4 60 (7.04%) JIRA
5 28 (3.29%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.35%) Selenium
8 14 (1.64%) Postman
9 13 (1.53%) JUnit
10 11 (1.29%) Mockito
10 11 (1.29%) RStudio
11 10 (1.17%) Maven
11 10 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.94%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 6 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 206 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 146 (17.14%) Finance
4 77 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.46%) Banking
7 16 (1.88%) Marketing
8 14 (1.64%) Back Office
8 14 (1.64%) Military
9 13 (1.53%) Law
10 12 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.29%) Billing
12 9 (1.06%) Front Office
12 9 (1.06%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
13 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 192 (22.54%) Developer
2 172 (20.19%) Senior
3 148 (17.37%) Architect
4 119 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (13.15%) Data Engineer
6 111 (13.03%) Lead
7 67 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 53 (6.22%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (5.52%) AWS Architect
11 46 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
13 35 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
14 34 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 32 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
15 32 (3.76%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.64%) AWS Data Engineer
16 31 (3.64%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (40.38%) Terraform
2 147 (17.25%) REST
3 96 (11.27%) .NET
3 96 (11.27%) React
4 92 (10.80%) Kafka
5 87 (10.21%) RESTful
6 84 (9.86%) Node.js
7 55 (6.46%) PySpark
8 54 (6.34%) GraphQL
9 52 (6.10%) Spring Boot
10 51 (5.99%) Spring
11 48 (5.63%) FastAPI
12 43 (5.05%) AWS CDK
13 42 (4.93%) OAuth
14 41 (4.81%) AngularJS
15 36 (4.23%) JSON
16 31 (3.64%) Flask
17 30 (3.52%) CSS
17 30 (3.52%) OAuth2
18 27 (3.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 283 (33.22%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.69%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.82%) NHS
7 24 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.41%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.41%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.06%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.16%) Linux
2 23 (2.70%) Unix
3 17 (2.00%) Windows
4 14 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.35%) zOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (65.02%) CI/CD
2 402 (47.18%) DevOps
3 348 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (39.55%) Agile
5 233 (27.35%) AI
6 186 (21.83%) Event-Driven
7 181 (21.24%) Containerisation
8 180 (21.13%) Microservices
9 170 (19.95%) Observability
10 168 (19.72%) Test Automation
11 146 (17.14%) Analytics
11 146 (17.14%) Software Engineering
12 141 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 137 (16.08%) Data Modelling
14 136 (15.96%) Technical Leadership
15 130 (15.26%) Data Engineering
16 126 (14.79%) Data Pipeline
17 125 (14.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 120 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
19 117 (13.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 411 (48.24%) Python
2 261 (30.63%) SQL
3 137 (16.08%) TypeScript
4 135 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.32%) C#
6 115 (13.50%) Java
7 66 (7.75%) Bash
8 40 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 37 (4.34%) Bicep
10 27 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.64%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) Groovy
13 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.82%) R
15 6 (0.70%) Go
15 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Cypher
16 5 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 198 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.69%) AWS Certification
4 54 (6.34%) Degree
5 38 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (3.52%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.17%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.82%) CISSP
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 74 (8.69%) QA
3 35 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.11%) GDPR
4 22 (2.58%) WCAG
5 15 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.17%) NIST
6 10 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.82%) SLA
8 6 (0.70%) HL7
9 5 (0.59%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GLBA
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (28.17%) Docker
2 32 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.28%) Grafana
3 54 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 52 (6.10%) Ansible
5 14 (1.64%) Puppet
6 10 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.70%) Istio
7 6 (0.70%) Packer
7 6 (0.70%) Podman
8 5 (0.59%) Kibana
8 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.47%) Rancher
9 4 (0.47%) Salt
10 3 (0.35%) Argo
10 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.23%) CASB
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) linkerd
Vendors
1 191 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.75%) Databricks
3 41 (4.81%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.40%) Oracle
5 28 (3.29%) Google
6 22 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.46%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.35%) Informatica
9 18 (2.11%) Splunk
10 12 (1.41%) Foundry
11 11 (1.29%) Brio
11 11 (1.29%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.82%) Confluent
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.82%) Tenable
13 4 (0.47%) Denodo
13 4 (0.47%) IBM
13 4 (0.47%) New Relic
13 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.47%) SAP