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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 116 135
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 859 651 635
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 2.39% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 6.41% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 473 453
10th Percentile £399 £400 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £638
90th Percentile £737 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £38.25 £36.50 -
25th Percentile £60.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.44% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -11 508 £550 - 85
North of England -37 141 £500 - 68
North West -32 79 £550 +10.00% 34
Midlands -22 74 £482 +7.05% 32
West Midlands -18 60 £476 +5.78% 16
Yorkshire -33 48 £500 +2.30% 16
South East -55 46 £575 +16.87% 43
South West -14 42 £575 +6.98% 31
East of England -17 27 £550 +3.53% 10
North East -31 15 £463 +0.54% 18
East Midlands -10 14 £497 +9.18% 16
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 51 (5.94%) Confluence
2 39 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (4.31%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.33%) Apache
5 16 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.40%) nginx
7 6 (0.70%) CICS
8 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.23%) Mendix
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (78.00%) AWS
2 532 (61.93%) AWS Lambda
3 392 (45.63%) Amazon S3
4 304 (35.39%) Azure
5 169 (19.67%) Amazon EC2
6 162 (18.86%) GitHub
7 159 (18.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 151 (17.58%) Amazon ECS
9 148 (17.23%) Azure Functions
10 134 (15.60%) Amazon EKS
11 116 (13.50%) GitHub Actions
12 109 (12.69%) Power Platform
13 105 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 96 (11.18%) Amazon SQS
14 96 (11.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 93 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
16 78 (9.08%) AWS Step Functions
17 72 (8.38%) GCP
18 66 (7.68%) Azure Logic Apps
19 51 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.31%) Firewall
2 27 (3.14%) DNS
3 24 (2.79%) Network Security
4 23 (2.68%) VPN
5 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.40%) WAN
7 10 (1.16%) OpenVPN
8 8 (0.93%) SSL
9 5 (0.58%) IPsec
9 5 (0.58%) MQTT
9 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.47%) HTTP
10 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.35%) AMQP
11 3 (0.35%) CTI
11 3 (0.35%) FTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.23%) SMS
13 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (14.78%) DynamoDB
2 122 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 79 (9.20%) Power BI
6 77 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (6.64%) NoSQL
9 48 (5.59%) Data Lake
10 40 (4.66%) SQL Server
11 34 (3.96%) Relational Database
12 29 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.91%) Tableau
15 24 (2.79%) Metadata
16 22 (2.56%) MongoDB
17 19 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (1.98%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.98%) Redis
19 16 (1.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 147 (17.11%) Git
2 122 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 119 (13.85%) GitLab
4 74 (8.61%) JIRA
5 28 (3.26%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 17 (1.98%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.86%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.16%) JUnit
9 10 (1.16%) Postman
10 9 (1.05%) Mocha
11 8 (0.93%) MSTest
12 7 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.81%) Selenium
13 6 (0.70%) Mockito
13 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.70%) tSQLt
13 6 (0.70%) Vite
14 5 (0.58%) Gatling
14 5 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 200 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 151 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 132 (15.37%) Finance
4 60 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.38%) Banking
6 28 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.40%) Law
9 9 (1.05%) Billing
9 9 (1.05%) Legal
10 8 (0.93%) Marketing
10 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 7 (0.81%) Military
12 6 (0.70%) Back Office
12 6 (0.70%) Front Office
12 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 192 (22.35%) Developer
2 161 (18.74%) Architect
3 159 (18.51%) Senior
4 120 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (11.87%) Data Engineer
6 95 (11.06%) Lead
7 58 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 54 (6.29%) Software Engineer
10 48 (5.59%) AWS Architect
11 47 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.77%) Senior Developer
13 40 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
14 38 (4.42%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.31%) AWS Developer
15 37 (4.31%) Technical Architect
16 35 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
17 32 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (12.81%) Node.js
2 108 (12.57%) React
3 103 (11.99%) REST
4 97 (11.29%) Kafka
5 93 (10.83%) RESTful
6 70 (8.15%) .NET
7 61 (7.10%) PySpark
7 61 (7.10%) Spring Boot
8 58 (6.75%) Spring
9 56 (6.52%) GraphQL
10 47 (5.47%) OAuth
11 39 (4.54%) AWS CDK
11 39 (4.54%) JSON
12 38 (4.42%) OpenID
13 37 (4.31%) FastAPI
14 35 (4.07%) AngularJS
15 27 (3.14%) Flask
15 27 (3.14%) OAuth2
16 26 (3.03%) Web Services
17 24 (2.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 255 (29.69%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 52 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.38%) AI Agents
5 25 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.91%) NHS
6 15 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.16%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.05%) IoT
11 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.82%) Linux
2 20 (2.33%) Unix
3 14 (1.63%) Windows
4 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) zOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) 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
1 520 (60.54%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.33%) DevOps
3 315 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 310 (36.09%) Agile
5 203 (23.63%) Microservices
6 191 (22.24%) Containerisation
7 189 (22.00%) AI
8 157 (18.28%) Event-Driven
9 144 (16.76%) Analytics
10 138 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 133 (15.48%) Data Modelling
12 124 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
12 124 (14.44%) Observability
13 121 (14.09%) Software Engineering
14 119 (13.85%) Data Engineering
15 118 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
16 115 (13.39%) ETL
17 105 (12.22%) Mentoring
17 105 (12.22%) Migration
18 104 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 404 (47.03%) Python
2 276 (32.13%) SQL
3 129 (15.02%) TypeScript
4 119 (13.85%) Java
5 114 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 102 (11.87%) C#
7 59 (6.87%) Bash
8 36 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.38%) Bicep
10 28 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.98%) Go
12 16 (1.86%) Scala
13 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.93%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) JCL
15 6 (0.70%) Ruby
16 5 (0.58%) Rust
16 5 (0.58%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.47%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.31%) Degree
5 35 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.35%) CCSP
16 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.66%) QA
3 25 (2.91%) GDPR
4 24 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.40%) NIST
6 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.05%) WCAG
8 7 (0.81%) PMO
9 4 (0.47%) HL7
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 243 (28.29%) Docker
2 30 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.40%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) RACF
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 352 (40.98%) Terraform
2 211 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.15%) Grafana
4 67 (7.80%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.89%) Ansible
6 24 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.86%) Puppet
8 9 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.93%) Consul
9 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.70%) Istio
11 6 (0.70%) Podman
12 5 (0.58%) linkerd
12 5 (0.58%) Packer
12 5 (0.58%) Salt
13 4 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.35%) Rancher
15 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 137 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.52%) Databricks
3 39 (4.54%) OpenAI
4 29 (3.38%) Oracle
5 24 (2.79%) Google
6 22 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.21%) Splunk
8 18 (2.10%) Informatica
9 17 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.63%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.05%) Foundry
12 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.93%) Brio
12 8 (0.93%) SAP
13 6 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.58%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.58%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.58%) Sybase
14 5 (0.58%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) Workday