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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 107 134
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 842 591 646
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.42% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 6.51% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 447 481
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £434 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £625
90th Percentile £719 £830 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.99% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £59.20 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +183.02% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £30.75 -
90th Percentile £92.20 £33.30 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 14,359 9,084 11,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 6,352 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 198 318
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £41.85 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -9 503 £525 -4.55% 138
North of England -7 148 £500 - 73
North West -16 84 £500 - 41
Midlands -30 64 £500 - 19
West Midlands -19 52 £494 -3.56% 8
South East -35 52 £550 +10.00% 40
Yorkshire -23 49 £500 - 18
South West -20 33 £578 +5.16% 28
East of England -14 24 £550 -18.52% 8
North East -14 16 £475 - 14
East Midlands -25 12 £500 - 11
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 48 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.63%) Confluence
3 31 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (3.09%) Apache
5 24 (2.85%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.31%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 10 (1.19%) Mendix
8 7 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) CICS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.12%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 620 (73.63%) AWS
2 493 (58.55%) AWS Lambda
3 346 (41.09%) Amazon S3
4 324 (38.48%) Azure
5 180 (21.38%) Azure Functions
6 179 (21.26%) GitHub
7 151 (17.93%) Amazon ECS
8 148 (17.58%) Amazon EC2
9 133 (15.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 126 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
11 124 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
12 117 (13.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 114 (13.54%) Power Platform
14 113 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
15 94 (11.16%) Azure Logic Apps
16 85 (10.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 81 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
18 74 (8.79%) Amazon SQS
18 74 (8.79%) Azure Service Bus
19 60 (7.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.92%) DNS
2 29 (3.44%) Firewall
3 19 (2.26%) VPN
4 13 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.31%) Network Security
6 10 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 9 (1.07%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.83%) HTTP
8 7 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.83%) SMS
8 7 (0.83%) SSL
9 5 (0.59%) IPsec
10 4 (0.48%) WAN
11 3 (0.36%) FTP
12 2 (0.24%) AMQP
12 2 (0.24%) LAN
13 1 (0.12%) 4G
13 1 (0.12%) 5G
13 1 (0.12%) MQTT
13 1 (0.12%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (13.42%) DynamoDB
2 104 (12.35%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 73 (8.67%) Power BI
5 71 (8.43%) Amazon Athena
6 70 (8.31%) NoSQL
7 48 (5.70%) Data Lake
8 41 (4.87%) Relational Database
9 35 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 30 (3.56%) Tableau
13 29 (3.44%) MongoDB
14 28 (3.33%) SQL Server
15 27 (3.21%) Redis
16 26 (3.09%) Metadata
17 24 (2.85%) Big Data
18 18 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
19 17 (2.02%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (16.75%) Git
2 113 (13.42%) GitLab
3 106 (12.59%) Jenkins
4 49 (5.82%) JIRA
5 25 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 17 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.43%) JUnit
8 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.07%) Mocha
10 8 (0.95%) Maven
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
11 7 (0.83%) MSTest
12 6 (0.71%) Selenium
12 6 (0.71%) Vite
13 5 (0.59%) Gradle
13 5 (0.59%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.59%) MLflow
13 5 (0.59%) Postman
13 5 (0.59%) Snyk
General
1 197 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 155 (18.41%) Public Sector
3 128 (15.20%) Finance
4 59 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (4.04%) Banking
6 26 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.19%) Marketing
9 8 (0.95%) Military
9 8 (0.95%) Retail
10 7 (0.83%) Legal
11 6 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.59%) Front Office
12 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.59%) Law
12 5 (0.59%) Police
12 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 220 (26.13%) Developer
2 155 (18.41%) Architect
3 115 (13.66%) Senior
4 98 (11.64%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.69%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.91%) Lead
7 51 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (5.94%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (5.11%) AWS Architect
12 41 (4.87%) AWS Developer
13 40 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.16%) Cloud Architect
14 35 (4.16%) Python Developer
14 35 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 33 (3.92%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.44%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.61%) Node.js
2 122 (14.49%) React
3 116 (13.78%) Kafka
4 96 (11.40%) REST
5 93 (11.05%) .NET
6 91 (10.81%) RESTful
7 78 (9.26%) Spring Boot
8 77 (9.14%) Spring
9 55 (6.53%) OAuth
10 50 (5.94%) PySpark
11 49 (5.82%) AngularJS
12 39 (4.63%) OpenID
13 38 (4.51%) JSON
14 34 (4.04%) AWS CDK
15 33 (3.92%) FastAPI
16 31 (3.68%) GraphQL
17 29 (3.44%) OAuth2
18 28 (3.33%) CSS
18 28 (3.33%) HTML
19 26 (3.09%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 222 (26.37%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 47 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.38%) NHS
6 15 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.95%) Replication
11 7 (0.83%) DataPower
11 7 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.83%) IoT
11 7 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.29%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 4 (0.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 418 (49.64%) DevOps
3 309 (36.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (33.02%) Agile
5 212 (25.18%) Microservices
6 194 (23.04%) Containerisation
7 143 (16.98%) AI
8 138 (16.39%) Event-Driven
9 132 (15.68%) Analytics
9 132 (15.68%) Data Modelling
10 128 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (14.25%) Observability
12 117 (13.90%) Data Pipeline
12 117 (13.90%) Software Engineering
13 114 (13.54%) Test Automation
14 108 (12.83%) ETL
15 95 (11.28%) Data Engineering
16 93 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 91 (10.81%) Mentoring
18 88 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 386 (45.84%) Python
2 254 (30.17%) SQL
3 137 (16.27%) Java
4 133 (15.80%) JavaScript
5 132 (15.68%) C#
6 127 (15.08%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.06%) Bash
8 38 (4.51%) Bicep
9 33 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.73%) Go
12 16 (1.90%) Scala
13 15 (1.78%) Ruby
14 11 (1.31%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.31%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.83%) Groovy
17 6 (0.71%) C++
18 4 (0.48%) JCL
18 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 249 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 198 (23.52%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.63%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.16%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.09%) Degree
7 18 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.63%) QA
3 24 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.38%) GDPR
6 16 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.78%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.71%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.48%) HL7
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 230 (27.32%) Docker
2 29 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.19%) Squid
5 5 (0.59%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 348 (41.33%) Terraform
2 208 (24.70%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.19%) Grafana
4 65 (7.72%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.87%) Ansible
6 27 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.54%) Puppet
8 11 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.95%) Consul
11 6 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.59%) Istio
12 5 (0.59%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.59%) linkerd
13 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.48%) Podman
13 4 (0.48%) Rancher
13 4 (0.48%) Salt
14 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 152 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.08%) Databricks
3 47 (5.58%) OpenAI
4 42 (4.99%) Oracle
5 24 (2.85%) Splunk
6 21 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.90%) Google
8 14 (1.66%) Foundry
9 11 (1.31%) Lotus
9 11 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.19%) Confluent
10 10 (1.19%) Kofax
11 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.07%) Brio
11 9 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.83%) Informatica
12 7 (0.83%) Palantir
12 7 (0.83%) SAP
13 6 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.71%) Sybase