Serverless Contracts in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 112 137
Rank change year-on-year -53 +25 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 257 512 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 2.25% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.82% 6.86% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 431 430
10th Percentile £411 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile - £52.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +199.22%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -37.93% +81.25%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,330 7,465 9,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,768 5,497 7,344
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.86%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £689 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 222 281
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.02 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +36.75% -
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
% change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
North of England -5 83 £520 -0.95% 70
Scotland -23 64 £463 -3.44% 15
North West +8 54 £510 -2.86% 43
South East -51 54 £625 +8.70% 20
Midlands +13 25 £450 -10.00% 32
Yorkshire -12 24 £587 +11.86% 20
West Midlands +12 19 £450 - 23
South West -14 18 £550 -16.98% 23
Northern Ireland - 8 £600 - 4
East of England +1 7 £625 -3.85% 12
East Midlands +8 6 £450 -10.00% 9
North East +10 5 £650 -8.71% 7
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.33%) Apache
4 4 (1.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.17%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.78%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Mendix
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 167 (64.98%) AWS
2 135 (52.53%) AWS Lambda
3 106 (41.25%) Amazon S3
4 101 (39.30%) Azure
5 71 (27.63%) Azure Functions
6 61 (23.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (20.62%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (12.45%) OpenShift
9 30 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (10.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 26 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (10.12%) Power Platform
12 25 (9.73%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (7.39%) Entra ID
14 19 (7.39%) GCP
15 18 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (6.61%) GitHub
17 14 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) Network Security
2 6 (2.33%) AMQP
3 5 (1.95%) FTP
4 4 (1.56%) HTTP
4 4 (1.56%) SSL
5 3 (1.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.39%) IPsec
7 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (28.40%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (17.51%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (16.73%) NoSQL
4 35 (13.62%) MongoDB
5 33 (12.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 28 (10.89%) Relational Database
7 19 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.23%) Big Data
8 16 (6.23%) Power BI
9 15 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.84%) SQL Server
10 14 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (5.45%) Data Lake
10 14 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (5.06%) InfluxDB
11 13 (5.06%) RDBMS
12 12 (4.67%) Oracle Database
13 10 (3.89%) DynamoDB
13 10 (3.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (21.79%) Git
2 36 (14.01%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.95%) GitLab
4 13 (5.06%) JIRA
5 11 (4.28%) Selenium
6 8 (3.11%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.33%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.56%) kappa
9 4 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.17%) JUnit
10 3 (1.17%) NUnit
10 3 (1.17%) webpack
11 2 (0.78%) Moq
11 2 (0.78%) Postman
12 1 (0.39%) Mockito
12 1 (0.39%) Pa11y
12 1 (0.39%) Subversion
12 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.39%) TestCafe
General
1 50 (19.46%) Public Sector
2 33 (12.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.61%) Finance
4 8 (3.11%) Retail
5 7 (2.72%) Banking
6 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Electronics
10 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 109 (42.41%) Developer
2 27 (10.51%) Full Stack Developer
2 27 (10.51%) Lead
3 25 (9.73%) Azure Developer
4 22 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (8.17%) Architect
6 20 (7.78%) Data Engineer
7 19 (7.39%) Python Developer
8 16 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (5.84%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.06%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.67%) Senior
11 12 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.28%) DBA
12 11 (4.28%) Full Stack Python Developer
12 11 (4.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 11 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (3.50%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (24.51%) React
2 55 (21.40%) AWS CDK
3 41 (15.95%) Node.js
4 28 (10.89%) REST
5 26 (10.12%) Kafka
6 24 (9.34%) CSS
6 24 (9.34%) HTML
7 22 (8.56%) XML
8 21 (8.17%) JSON
9 19 (7.39%) .NET
10 14 (5.45%) Spring Boot
11 13 (5.06%) RESTful
12 12 (4.67%) Spring
13 11 (4.28%) Lambda Expressions
13 11 (4.28%) OAuth
13 11 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (3.89%) .NET Core
15 9 (3.50%) AngularJS
15 9 (3.50%) GraphQL
15 9 (3.50%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.50%) Replication
4 8 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.95%) Smart Meter
8 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.17%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.73%) Linux
2 11 (4.28%) Windows
3 9 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.95%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (46.30%) DevOps
2 111 (43.19%) Agile
3 104 (40.47%) CI/CD
4 66 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (20.62%) Full Stack Development
6 48 (18.68%) Microservices
6 48 (18.68%) Scrum
7 37 (14.40%) Test Automation
8 35 (13.62%) Analytics
8 35 (13.62%) Containerisation
9 33 (12.84%) ETL
10 32 (12.45%) Kanban
10 32 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 31 (12.06%) TDD
12 30 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (11.67%) Software Engineering
13 29 (11.28%) SDLC
14 26 (10.12%) Data Modelling
14 26 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (8.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (49.03%) Python
2 79 (30.74%) SQL
3 65 (25.29%) Java
4 64 (24.90%) TypeScript
5 55 (21.40%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.89%) Bash
7 24 (9.34%) C#
8 16 (6.23%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.84%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.28%) Go
11 8 (3.11%) C
12 6 (2.33%) Groovy
13 3 (1.17%) Bicep
13 3 (1.17%) Ruby
13 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (8.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.67%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (2.72%) Degree
5 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.72%) GDPR
3 6 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.17%) SLA
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (18.29%) Docker
2 21 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 51 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 49 (19.07%) Terraform
3 46 (17.90%) Grafana
4 32 (12.45%) Ansible
5 11 (4.28%) Kibana
6 10 (3.89%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (3.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.95%) SysTrack
9 3 (1.17%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.78%) Puppet
11 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.28%) Oracle
2 27 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.28%) Google
4 10 (3.89%) Splunk
5 7 (2.72%) Informatica
6 6 (2.33%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.95%) Citrix
7 5 (1.95%) New Relic
7 5 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.95%) Talend
8 4 (1.56%) Commvault
8 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.17%) Sage
9 3 (1.17%) VMware
10 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.78%) SAP
11 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.39%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud