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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 864 699 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 2.48% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.34% 6.43% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 490 399
10th Percentile £400 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.73% -0.95% -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 16,181 10,869 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.55% 38.64% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,351 7,492
10th Percentile £323 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 260 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -20 516 £550 +2.33% 449
North of England -65 128 £500 +2.56% 139
Midlands -38 85 £430 -14.43% 57
North West -38 65 £525 +10.53% 88
West Midlands -34 64 £460 -10.24% 29
South East -48 57 £600 +41.18% 58
South West -19 47 £534 -2.95% 46
Yorkshire -65 43 £500 +2.04% 37
East Midlands -14 21 £425 -2.30% 28
North East -29 20 £463 -11.14% 14
East of England -50 15 £515 - 32
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 43 (4.98%) Confluence
2 40 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 30 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 27 (3.13%) Apache
6 9 (1.04%) CMS
7 8 (0.93%) SAS
8 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.81%) nginx
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) CICS
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%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) 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
1 639 (73.96%) AWS
2 508 (58.80%) AWS Lambda
3 344 (39.81%) Amazon S3
3 344 (39.81%) Azure
4 194 (22.45%) Azure Functions
5 193 (22.34%) GitHub
6 187 (21.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 166 (19.21%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (15.97%) Amazon EC2
9 137 (15.86%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
11 120 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
12 117 (13.54%) Power Platform
13 115 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 106 (12.27%) Amazon SQS
15 79 (9.14%) AWS Step Functions
16 77 (8.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 76 (8.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 68 (7.87%) Azure Service Bus
19 66 (7.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.82%) Network Security
2 24 (2.78%) Firewall
3 18 (2.08%) DNS
4 13 (1.50%) VPN
5 10 (1.16%) WAN
6 6 (0.69%) HTTP
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) SSL
8 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) CTI
9 3 (0.35%) IPv4
9 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.23%) AMQP
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) Internet
10 2 (0.23%) SAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
11 1 (0.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (15.05%) Amazon RDS
2 125 (14.47%) DynamoDB
3 87 (10.07%) Amazon Athena
4 73 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 71 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (7.52%) Power BI
7 55 (6.37%) Data Lake
8 54 (6.25%) NoSQL
9 53 (6.13%) SQL Server
10 34 (3.94%) MongoDB
11 30 (3.47%) Metadata
12 29 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (2.78%) Delta Lake
14 24 (2.78%) MySQL
15 19 (2.20%) Relational Database
16 18 (2.08%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
18 14 (1.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (18.17%) Git
2 124 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 114 (13.19%) GitLab
4 65 (7.52%) JIRA
5 29 (3.36%) Cucumber
6 22 (2.55%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.43%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.20%) Selenium
9 14 (1.62%) JUnit
9 14 (1.62%) Postman
10 12 (1.39%) Mockito
11 11 (1.27%) Maven
11 11 (1.27%) RStudio
12 9 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.69%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.69%) Gatling
15 6 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 209 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.01%) Finance
3 141 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 81 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.40%) Banking
7 17 (1.97%) Marketing
8 14 (1.62%) Back Office
9 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.39%) Retail
11 11 (1.27%) Billing
11 11 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.27%) Law
11 11 (1.27%) Military
12 8 (0.93%) Front Office
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Legal
15 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (21.41%) Developer
2 176 (20.37%) Senior
3 152 (17.59%) Architect
4 120 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (13.08%) Data Engineer
6 109 (12.62%) Lead
7 69 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (6.48%) Software Engineer
9 53 (6.13%) AWS Architect
10 48 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (4.05%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
15 33 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
16 32 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
17 30 (3.47%) Platform Architect
17 30 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (40.39%) Terraform
2 155 (17.94%) REST
3 97 (11.23%) .NET
4 92 (10.65%) React
5 90 (10.42%) Kafka
6 88 (10.19%) RESTful
7 84 (9.72%) Node.js
8 58 (6.71%) PySpark
9 57 (6.60%) GraphQL
10 53 (6.13%) Spring Boot
11 52 (6.02%) Spring
12 51 (5.90%) FastAPI
13 47 (5.44%) AWS CDK
13 47 (5.44%) OAuth
14 40 (4.63%) AngularJS
15 37 (4.28%) JSON
16 31 (3.59%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.47%) CSS
17 30 (3.47%) Flask
18 28 (3.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 288 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (6.83%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.55%) NHS
9 18 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) Taxonomies
13 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.29%) Linux
2 22 (2.55%) Unix
3 20 (2.31%) Windows
4 14 (1.62%) 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
1 561 (64.93%) CI/CD
2 418 (48.38%) DevOps
3 354 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 338 (39.12%) Agile
5 238 (27.55%) AI
6 191 (22.11%) Event-Driven
7 186 (21.53%) Microservices
8 178 (20.60%) Containerisation
9 175 (20.25%) Observability
10 171 (19.79%) Test Automation
11 154 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 151 (17.48%) Software Engineering
13 142 (16.44%) Analytics
14 139 (16.09%) Data Modelling
14 139 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
15 131 (15.16%) Data Engineering
16 129 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
16 129 (14.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 125 (14.47%) Migration
18 120 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 414 (47.92%) Python
2 265 (30.67%) SQL
3 147 (17.01%) TypeScript
4 135 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 122 (14.12%) C#
6 119 (13.77%) Java
7 64 (7.41%) Bash
8 43 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 39 (4.51%) Bicep
10 28 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.50%) Scala
12 9 (1.04%) Groovy
13 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.81%) Rust
15 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.69%) R
15 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.58%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 230 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 198 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.03%) AWS Certification
4 55 (6.37%) Degree
5 39 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.59%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
15 7 (0.81%) CISSP
16 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 75 (8.68%) QA
3 35 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.82%) GDPR
5 22 (2.55%) WCAG
6 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.16%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) HL7
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.12%) GLBA
14 1 (0.12%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 240 (27.78%) Docker
2 32 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 204 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.29%) Grafana
3 51 (5.90%) Prometheus
4 50 (5.79%) Ansible
5 13 (1.50%) Puppet
6 11 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.69%) Packer
8 6 (0.69%) Podman
9 5 (0.58%) Istio
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.46%) Rancher
11 3 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Consul
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 196 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.22%) Databricks
3 41 (4.75%) OpenAI
4 30 (3.47%) Oracle
5 29 (3.36%) Google
6 25 (2.89%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.31%) Informatica
9 18 (2.08%) Splunk
10 13 (1.50%) Foundry
11 12 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.16%) Brio
13 7 (0.81%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.81%) Tenable
14 5 (0.58%) UiPath
15 4 (0.46%) Adyen
15 4 (0.46%) New Relic
15 4 (0.46%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty