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 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 167 116 148
Rank change year-on-year -51 +32 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 260 507 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 2.20% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 6.64% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 426 401
10th Percentile £409 £425 £410
25th Percentile £451 £463 £455
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 4
10th Percentile - - £53.63
25th Percentile - £52.50 £60.94
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +189.25%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +69.70%

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 5,254 7,633 9,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.18% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 5,635 7,234
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% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 222 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.31 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.75
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 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 16 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 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
North of England -10 82 £523 -0.48% 61
Scotland -19 67 £463 -3.44% 10
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% 27
Northern Ireland - 8 £600 - 6
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 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 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.92%) Apache
4 4 (1.54%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 173 (66.54%) AWS
2 140 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
3 109 (41.92%) Amazon S3
4 97 (37.31%) Azure
5 68 (26.15%) Azure Functions
6 64 (24.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (20.77%) Amazon EC2
8 33 (12.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 32 (12.31%) OpenShift
10 28 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (10.00%) Power Platform
12 25 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (9.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 20 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (7.69%) GCP
14 16 (6.15%) Entra ID
14 16 (6.15%) GitHub
15 15 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) Network Security
2 5 (1.92%) AMQP
2 5 (1.92%) FTP
3 4 (1.54%) HTTP
3 4 (1.54%) SSL
4 3 (1.15%) Firewall
5 2 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.38%) IPsec
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (17.69%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (16.15%) NoSQL
4 36 (13.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 34 (13.08%) MongoDB
6 27 (10.38%) Relational Database
7 18 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (6.54%) Big Data
8 17 (6.54%) Power BI
9 16 (6.15%) SQL Server
10 15 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (5.77%) Data Lake
10 15 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (5.00%) RDBMS
13 12 (4.62%) InfluxDB
13 12 (4.62%) Oracle Database
14 11 (4.23%) DynamoDB
15 10 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (20.38%) Git
2 34 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.85%) GitLab
4 13 (5.00%) JIRA
5 8 (3.08%) Selenium
6 7 (2.69%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.31%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.54%) kappa
8 4 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.15%) JUnit
9 3 (1.15%) NUnit
9 3 (1.15%) webpack
10 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.77%) Moq
10 2 (0.77%) Postman
11 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.38%) Pa11y
11 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.38%) TestCafe
General
1 48 (18.46%) Public Sector
2 34 (13.08%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.31%) Finance
4 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.08%) Banking
5 8 (3.08%) Retail
6 6 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.54%) Marketing
9 2 (0.77%) Automotive
9 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
10 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.38%) Games
10 1 (0.38%) Legal
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 112 (43.08%) Developer
2 26 (10.00%) Lead
3 23 (8.85%) Azure Developer
3 23 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (8.46%) Architect
4 22 (8.46%) Data Engineer
4 22 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
5 18 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.54%) Python Developer
7 16 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (5.00%) Senior
9 12 (4.62%) AWS Developer
9 12 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.23%) Automation Developer
10 11 (4.23%) DBA
10 11 (4.23%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 11 (4.23%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (23.08%) AWS CDK
2 57 (21.92%) React
3 42 (16.15%) Node.js
4 27 (10.38%) REST
5 26 (10.00%) Kafka
6 24 (9.23%) JSON
6 24 (9.23%) XML
7 22 (8.46%) HTML
8 20 (7.69%) .NET
8 20 (7.69%) CSS
9 13 (5.00%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.23%) .NET Core
10 11 (4.23%) Lambda Expressions
10 11 (4.23%) Spring
11 10 (3.85%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (3.85%) RESTful
12 9 (3.46%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.46%) OAuth
12 9 (3.46%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.46%) Replication
5 7 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.92%) Smart Meter
8 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.23%) Linux
2 11 (4.23%) Windows
3 9 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.69%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (46.54%) DevOps
2 110 (42.31%) Agile
3 101 (38.85%) CI/CD
4 71 (27.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (20.00%) Scrum
6 47 (18.08%) Full Stack Development
7 44 (16.92%) Microservices
8 37 (14.23%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.23%) Kanban
9 36 (13.85%) ETL
10 35 (13.46%) Mentoring
11 34 (13.08%) Analytics
12 32 (12.31%) Test Automation
13 30 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (11.15%) Software Engineering
14 29 (11.15%) TDD
15 28 (10.77%) SDLC
15 28 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (9.62%) Data Modelling
17 24 (9.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 126 (48.46%) Python
2 78 (30.00%) SQL
3 67 (25.77%) TypeScript
4 58 (22.31%) Java
5 52 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.77%) Bash
7 26 (10.00%) C#
8 15 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 14 (5.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.85%) Go
11 8 (3.08%) C
12 6 (2.31%) Groovy
13 3 (1.15%) Bicep
13 3 (1.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.38%) Scala
15 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.38%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.69%) Degree
6 6 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.38%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.31%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.15%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.77%) QA
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (17.69%) Docker
2 17 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 53 (20.38%) Terraform
2 51 (19.62%) Kubernetes
3 46 (17.69%) Grafana
4 31 (11.92%) Ansible
5 11 (4.23%) Kibana
6 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.92%) SysTrack
9 3 (1.15%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.77%) Puppet
11 1 (0.38%) Knative
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.15%) Oracle
2 28 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.23%) Google
4 10 (3.85%) Splunk
5 7 (2.69%) Informatica
6 5 (1.92%) Ab Initio
6 5 (1.92%) Citrix
6 5 (1.92%) New Relic
6 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.92%) Talend
7 4 (1.54%) Commvault
7 4 (1.54%) Sage
7 4 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.15%) VMware
9 2 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.38%) Confluent
10 1 (0.38%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.38%) StreamSets