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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 839 593 650
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.43% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 6.54% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 447 484
10th Percentile £379 £400 £375
25th Percentile £435 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £629 £644 £625
90th Percentile £715 £830 £725
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -5.45%
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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -16 504 £525 -4.55% 145
North of England -3 145 £500 - 84
North West -11 84 £500 - 52
Midlands -35 64 £500 - 22
West Midlands -24 52 £494 -3.56% 9
South East -27 52 £550 +10.00% 43
Yorkshire -20 46 £500 - 20
South West -17 33 £578 +5.16% 29
East of England -14 24 £550 -18.52% 10
North East -11 16 £475 - 12
East Midlands -27 12 £500 - 13
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 47 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.65%) Confluence
3 31 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.98%) Apache
5 23 (2.74%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 10 (1.19%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.19%) Mendix
8 6 (0.72%) 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%) FileNet
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
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 (1.79%) 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
1 619 (73.78%) AWS
2 493 (58.76%) AWS Lambda
3 346 (41.24%) Amazon S3
4 321 (38.26%) Azure
5 181 (21.57%) GitHub
6 178 (21.22%) Azure Functions
7 151 (18.00%) Amazon ECS
8 148 (17.64%) Amazon EC2
9 133 (15.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 128 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (14.90%) Amazon EKS
12 116 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 112 (13.35%) Power Platform
14 111 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
15 94 (11.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 86 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 82 (9.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 75 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
19 74 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 60 (7.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.93%) DNS
2 29 (3.46%) Firewall
3 19 (2.26%) VPN
4 13 (1.55%) 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 (0.60%) 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%) Internet
13 1 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.83%) DynamoDB
2 104 (12.40%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (8.58%) Amazon Athena
5 71 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 71 (8.46%) Power BI
6 69 (8.22%) NoSQL
7 48 (5.72%) Data Lake
8 41 (4.89%) Relational Database
9 36 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 33 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (3.58%) Tableau
12 28 (3.34%) MongoDB
12 28 (3.34%) SQL Server
13 27 (3.22%) Redis
14 24 (2.86%) Big Data
14 24 (2.86%) Metadata
15 18 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
15 18 (2.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 143 (17.04%) Git
2 113 (13.47%) GitLab
3 107 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 49 (5.84%) JIRA
5 25 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.03%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.31%) JUnit
9 10 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.07%) Mocha
11 8 (0.95%) Maven
12 7 (0.83%) MSTest
13 6 (0.72%) Mockito
13 6 (0.72%) Vite
14 5 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.60%) Gradle
14 5 (0.60%) Jasmine
14 5 (0.60%) Selenium
14 5 (0.60%) Snyk
14 5 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 192 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 152 (18.12%) Public Sector
3 129 (15.38%) Finance
4 58 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.93%) Banking
6 26 (3.10%) 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 5 (0.60%) Front Office
11 5 (0.60%) Law
11 5 (0.60%) Police
11 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 220 (26.22%) Developer
2 154 (18.36%) Architect
3 117 (13.95%) Senior
4 98 (11.68%) AWS Engineer
5 90 (10.73%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.70%) Lead
7 51 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.01%) AWS Architect
11 42 (5.01%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.29%) Python Developer
14 35 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
14 35 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 33 (3.93%) Technical Architect
16 32 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.46%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (14.66%) Node.js
2 121 (14.42%) React
3 116 (13.83%) Kafka
4 96 (11.44%) REST
5 92 (10.97%) .NET
6 89 (10.61%) RESTful
7 77 (9.18%) Spring Boot
8 76 (9.06%) Spring
9 55 (6.56%) OAuth
10 51 (6.08%) PySpark
11 49 (5.84%) AngularJS
12 39 (4.65%) JSON
12 39 (4.65%) OpenID
13 34 (4.05%) AWS CDK
13 34 (4.05%) FastAPI
14 30 (3.58%) GraphQL
15 29 (3.46%) OAuth2
16 28 (3.34%) CSS
16 28 (3.34%) HTML
17 27 (3.22%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.34%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.03%) NHS
7 15 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.95%) Replication
12 7 (0.83%) DataPower
12 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.83%) IoT
12 7 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.44%) Linux
2 22 (2.62%) 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
1 499 (59.48%) CI/CD
2 416 (49.58%) DevOps
3 308 (36.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 274 (32.66%) Agile
5 208 (24.79%) Microservices
6 192 (22.88%) Containerisation
7 143 (17.04%) AI
8 137 (16.33%) Event-Driven
9 132 (15.73%) Analytics
10 129 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 126 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (14.42%) Observability
13 119 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
14 116 (13.83%) Software Engineering
15 114 (13.59%) Test Automation
16 107 (12.75%) ETL
17 95 (11.32%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.85%) Full-Stack Development
19 90 (10.73%) Mentoring
20 87 (10.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 390 (46.48%) Python
2 256 (30.51%) SQL
3 135 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 134 (15.97%) Java
5 132 (15.73%) C#
6 126 (15.02%) TypeScript
7 51 (6.08%) Bash
8 38 (4.53%) Bicep
9 33 (3.93%) PowerShell
10 28 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.74%) Go
12 16 (1.91%) Scala
13 15 (1.79%) Ruby
14 10 (1.19%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.19%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.83%) Groovy
17 6 (0.72%) C++
18 4 (0.48%) JCL
18 4 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 247 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 196 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.10%) Degree
7 18 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.15%) 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 9 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.53%) QA
3 24 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.38%) GDPR
6 16 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.79%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) PMO
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.72%) WCAG
10 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
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
1 228 (27.18%) Docker
2 29 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.19%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) RACF
6 3 (0.36%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (41.36%) Terraform
2 207 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.34%) Grafana
4 66 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.89%) Ansible
6 27 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.55%) Puppet
8 11 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.07%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.95%) Consul
11 6 (0.72%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Istio
12 5 (0.60%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.60%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.36%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 149 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.87%) Databricks
3 47 (5.60%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.89%) Oracle
5 24 (2.86%) Splunk
6 21 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.91%) Google
8 13 (1.55%) Foundry
9 11 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.19%) Confluent
10 10 (1.19%) Kofax
10 10 (1.19%) Lotus
11 9 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.83%) Informatica
12 7 (0.83%) SAP
13 6 (0.72%) Brio
13 6 (0.72%) Palantir
13 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase