Serverless Contracts in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 112 104
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 -29
Contract jobs citing Serverless 645 1,103 1,847
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.77% 2.29% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.54% 6.27% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 820 1,323
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £42.00 £52.55
25th Percentile - £52.50 £58.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +69.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 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
London +1 426 £515 -14.17% 157
North of England -10 82 £523 -0.48% 61
North West +7 54 £510 -2.86% 39
South East -37 54 £600 +4.35% 23
Midlands +21 27 £450 -10.00% 32
Yorkshire -15 24 £587 +11.86% 16
West Midlands +25 21 £450 - 24
South West -13 18 £550 -16.98% 26
East of England +2 7 £625 -3.85% 13
East Midlands +9 6 £450 -10.00% 8
North East +9 4 £650 -13.33% 6
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 30 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.95%) Apache
4 15 (2.33%) Confluence
5 13 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.71%) BizTalk Server
7 6 (0.93%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.78%) nginx
9 4 (0.62%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.47%) CMS
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.31%) SAS
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.93%) NEC Housing
2 5 (0.78%) Endur
2 5 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.62%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.16%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 414 (64.19%) AWS
2 337 (52.25%) AWS Lambda
3 269 (41.71%) Azure
4 176 (27.29%) Azure Functions
5 168 (26.05%) Amazon S3
6 122 (18.91%) Amazon EC2
7 96 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (12.09%) GitHub
9 77 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 66 (10.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 62 (9.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 59 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 55 (8.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 54 (8.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 53 (8.22%) Power Platform
17 50 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 48 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
19 46 (7.13%) PaaS
20 43 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.95%) Firewall
2 12 (1.86%) HTTP
3 9 (1.40%) Network Security
4 7 (1.09%) AMQP
4 7 (1.09%) FTP
5 6 (0.93%) DHCP
5 6 (0.93%) DNS
6 4 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.62%) SSL
7 3 (0.47%) Internet
7 3 (0.47%) LAN
7 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 3 (0.47%) WLAN
8 1 (0.16%) IPsec
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (14.57%) Amazon RDS
2 88 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 67 (10.39%) DynamoDB
5 58 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 56 (8.68%) SQL Server
8 48 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (7.13%) Big Data
10 45 (6.98%) Data Lake
11 41 (6.36%) Relational Database
12 40 (6.20%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (5.89%) MongoDB
13 38 (5.89%) Power BI
14 24 (3.72%) Parquet
15 21 (3.26%) RDBMS
16 20 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
17 17 (2.64%) MySQL
18 12 (1.86%) Redis
19 10 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 128 (19.84%) Git
2 56 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.29%) GitLab
4 36 (5.58%) JIRA
5 23 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.33%) Selenium
6 15 (2.33%) Visual Studio
7 12 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.55%) JMeter
9 9 (1.40%) Visual Studio Team System
10 8 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.24%) Maven
11 7 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.78%) kappa
13 5 (0.78%) NUnit
14 4 (0.62%) Sourcetree
14 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 115 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.32%) Finance
3 63 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.50%) Banking
6 21 (3.26%) Retail
7 13 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.86%) Marketing
9 9 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.09%) Front Office
11 7 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.78%) Back Office
13 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Billing
14 4 (0.62%) Publishing
15 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (33.49%) Developer
2 98 (15.19%) Data Engineer
3 84 (13.02%) Architect
4 78 (12.09%) Senior
5 69 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (8.22%) Lead
8 47 (7.29%) Full Stack Developer
9 45 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (5.74%) Azure Developer
11 35 (5.43%) Python Developer
12 34 (5.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.12%) Software Engineer
14 29 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 29 (4.50%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.03%) AWS Architect
16 24 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
18 22 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
19 21 (3.26%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (15.04%) Node.js
2 96 (14.88%) React
3 80 (12.40%) .NET
3 80 (12.40%) Kafka
4 63 (9.77%) JSON
5 43 (6.67%) REST
6 37 (5.74%) XML
7 36 (5.58%) RESTful
8 35 (5.43%) .NET Core
9 25 (3.88%) PySpark
10 23 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
11 22 (3.41%) OAuth
12 21 (3.26%) Spring
13 20 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.10%) ARM Templates
14 19 (2.95%) Apache Avro
15 18 (2.79%) SOAP
16 17 (2.64%) Web Services
17 16 (2.48%) HTML
17 16 (2.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.95%) Public Cloud
5 16 (2.48%) IoT
5 16 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.24%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.09%) Machine to Machine
9 7 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.78%) PKI
10 5 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.78%) Smart Meter
10 5 (0.78%) Solar Panel
11 4 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.06%) Linux
2 26 (4.03%) Windows
3 18 (2.79%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) CentOS
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Debian
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (44.81%) DevOps
2 264 (40.93%) CI/CD
3 200 (31.01%) Agile
4 139 (21.55%) Microservices
5 114 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 93 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
7 90 (13.95%) ETL
8 81 (12.56%) Software Engineering
9 72 (11.16%) SDLC
10 68 (10.54%) Containerisation
10 68 (10.54%) Data Modelling
10 68 (10.54%) Test Automation
11 67 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
12 62 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (9.15%) Analytics
13 59 (9.15%) Scrum
14 56 (8.68%) TDD
15 44 (6.82%) Data Engineering
16 43 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (6.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 310 (48.06%) Python
2 209 (32.40%) SQL
3 115 (17.83%) Java
4 104 (16.12%) JavaScript
5 77 (11.94%) C#
6 71 (11.01%) TypeScript
7 41 (6.36%) PowerShell
8 37 (5.74%) Bash
9 32 (4.96%) Go
10 13 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.71%) C++
12 11 (1.71%) Scala
13 10 (1.55%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.09%) C
15 6 (0.93%) Bicep
16 5 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.78%) Ruby
17 4 (0.62%) Perl
17 4 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 117 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.05%) Degree
4 34 (5.27%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CISM
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.16%) GIAC
12 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.88%) QA
2 13 (2.02%) NIST
3 12 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.09%) GDPR
5 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.47%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.47%) WCAG
8 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 113 (17.52%) Docker
2 30 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.16%) Ceph
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 179 (27.75%) Terraform
2 140 (21.71%) Kubernetes
3 44 (6.82%) Ansible
4 23 (3.57%) Grafana
5 13 (2.02%) Argo
5 13 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (1.09%) Puppet
9 5 (0.78%) SysTrack
10 3 (0.47%) Consul
10 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.47%) Kibana
10 3 (0.47%) Packer
10 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.31%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.31%) Salt
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Mesos
12 1 (0.16%) yum
Vendors
1 92 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.75%) Oracle
3 23 (3.57%) Databricks
4 20 (3.10%) Google
4 20 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.64%) SAP
6 16 (2.48%) MuleSoft
7 14 (2.17%) Splunk
8 9 (1.40%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.24%) Informatica
9 8 (1.24%) Talend
10 7 (1.09%) VMware
11 6 (0.93%) NEC
11 6 (0.93%) New Relic
11 6 (0.93%) Sage
11 6 (0.93%) WSO2
12 5 (0.78%) Citrix
12 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.78%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.62%) Red Hat