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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 110 102
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 643 1,090 1,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.72% 2.32% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.38% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 810 1,299
10th Percentile £373 £450 £438
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 £700
90th Percentile £709 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -5.73% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £36.75 £60.95
25th Percentile - £39.38 £65.00
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% +69.49%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £77.50
90th Percentile - £55.25 £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -40.00% +81.82%

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 11,973 17,074 26,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.95% 36.28% 38.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,583 12,524 19,928
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 281 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.05 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £42.81 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -14 418 £521 -13.13% 159
North of England -1 86 £520 -0.95% 68
South East -39 56 £625 +8.70% 24
North West -2 53 £510 -2.86% 42
Yorkshire -10 27 £550 +4.76% 18
Midlands +8 26 £450 -10.00% 33
South West -15 21 £550 -16.98% 22
West Midlands +12 18 £450 - 22
East Midlands +8 8 £450 -10.00% 11
East of England -3 7 £625 -3.85% 12
North East +14 6 £650 -8.71% 8
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 31 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.64%) Apache
4 14 (2.18%) Confluence
4 14 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.09%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (0.93%) nginx
7 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.47%) CMS
8 3 (0.47%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) Mendix
9 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Trello
4 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.93%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.62%) Shopify
5 3 (0.47%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.16%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 411 (63.92%) AWS
2 329 (51.17%) AWS Lambda
3 268 (41.68%) Azure
4 177 (27.53%) Amazon S3
5 175 (27.22%) Azure Functions
6 118 (18.35%) Amazon EC2
7 95 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (11.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 72 (11.20%) GitHub
10 69 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 65 (10.11%) AWS Step Functions
12 57 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 55 (8.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 54 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 54 (8.40%) Power Platform
15 52 (8.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 47 (7.31%) PaaS
17 45 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
18 44 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
18 44 (6.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.11%) Firewall
2 12 (1.87%) HTTP
3 9 (1.40%) AMQP
3 9 (1.40%) Network Security
4 7 (1.09%) DNS
4 7 (1.09%) FTP
5 6 (0.93%) DHCP
6 4 (0.62%) Internet
6 4 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.62%) SSL
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 95 (14.77%) Amazon RDS
2 85 (13.22%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 72 (11.20%) DynamoDB
5 54 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (8.40%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.78%) Data Lake
7 49 (7.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (6.84%) Big Data
9 43 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (5.75%) Power BI
11 37 (5.75%) Relational Database
12 35 (5.44%) MongoDB
13 23 (3.58%) Parquet
14 18 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (2.64%) MySQL
16 15 (2.33%) RDBMS
17 13 (2.02%) Redis
18 12 (1.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (21.31%) Git
2 63 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.31%) GitLab
4 32 (4.98%) JIRA
5 25 (3.89%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.64%) Selenium
7 13 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.87%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.56%) JMeter
10 8 (1.24%) Maven
11 7 (1.09%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.09%) Postman
11 7 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.09%) Visual Studio Team System
12 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.78%) Gradle
12 5 (0.78%) JUnit
12 5 (0.78%) NUnit
13 4 (0.62%) kappa
General
1 111 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.35%) Finance
3 62 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 44 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.51%) Banking
6 18 (2.80%) Retail
7 12 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.71%) Marketing
9 10 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.24%) Front Office
10 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.78%) Billing
13 5 (0.78%) Publishing
14 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Back Office
15 3 (0.47%) Law
15 3 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 230 (35.77%) Developer
2 94 (14.62%) Data Engineer
3 93 (14.46%) Senior
4 80 (12.44%) Architect
5 70 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 65 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
7 56 (8.71%) Full Stack Developer
8 53 (8.24%) Lead
9 44 (6.84%) AWS DevOps
10 41 (6.38%) Python Developer
11 39 (6.07%) Azure Developer
12 37 (5.75%) Software Engineer
13 35 (5.44%) Senior Developer
14 34 (5.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (4.67%) Java Developer
16 27 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
18 22 (3.42%) AWS Developer
18 22 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
19 21 (3.27%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (16.33%) React
2 102 (15.86%) Node.js
3 76 (11.82%) Kafka
4 75 (11.66%) .NET
5 53 (8.24%) JSON
6 42 (6.53%) REST
6 42 (6.53%) RESTful
7 29 (4.51%) .NET Core
7 29 (4.51%) XML
8 26 (4.04%) PySpark
9 24 (3.73%) Lambda Expressions
10 22 (3.42%) OAuth
10 22 (3.42%) Spring
11 19 (2.95%) Apache Avro
11 19 (2.95%) ARM Templates
11 19 (2.95%) HTML
12 18 (2.80%) OpenAPI
13 17 (2.64%) SOAP
13 17 (2.64%) Swagger
13 17 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 20 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.64%) IoT
6 15 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.09%) Machine to Machine
10 7 (1.09%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.78%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.78%) PKI
12 5 (0.78%) Smart Meter
13 4 (0.62%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.71%) Linux
2 21 (3.27%) Windows
3 17 (2.64%) Unix
4 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.78%) VMS
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Debian
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (43.23%) DevOps
2 256 (39.81%) CI/CD
3 187 (29.08%) Agile
4 133 (20.68%) Microservices
5 117 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 102 (15.86%) Full Stack Development
7 92 (14.31%) Software Engineering
8 88 (13.69%) ETL
9 72 (11.20%) SDLC
10 70 (10.89%) Containerisation
11 69 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
11 69 (10.73%) Test Automation
12 67 (10.42%) Scrum
13 65 (10.11%) Data Modelling
14 60 (9.33%) TDD
15 58 (9.02%) Analytics
16 54 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
17 49 (7.62%) Data Engineering
18 43 (6.69%) Technical Leadership
19 41 (6.38%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 313 (48.68%) Python
2 206 (32.04%) SQL
3 128 (19.91%) Java
4 103 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 76 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 69 (10.73%) C#
7 39 (6.07%) PowerShell
8 35 (5.44%) Bash
9 23 (3.58%) Go
10 16 (2.49%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.02%) Scala
12 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.24%) C
14 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.93%) Bicep
15 6 (0.93%) C++
15 6 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.78%) Ruby
17 4 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 116 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 97 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.07%) Degree
4 29 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.16%) CISM
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.58%) QA
2 17 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.02%) NIST
4 11 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.24%) GDPR
5 8 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.47%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 124 (19.28%) Docker
2 35 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.87%) 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
1 186 (28.93%) Terraform
2 144 (22.40%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.47%) Ansible
4 26 (4.04%) Grafana
5 14 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.02%) Argo
7 12 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.78%) Puppet
9 5 (0.78%) SysTrack
10 4 (0.62%) Podman
11 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.47%) Kibana
11 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.31%) Salt
13 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.16%) logstash
13 1 (0.16%) Mesos
13 1 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 92 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.22%) Oracle
3 25 (3.89%) Google
4 22 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.27%) Databricks
6 20 (3.11%) SAP
7 12 (1.87%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.87%) Splunk
8 10 (1.56%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.24%) Informatica
9 8 (1.24%) Talend
10 7 (1.09%) VMware
10 7 (1.09%) WSO2
11 6 (0.93%) NEC
11 6 (0.93%) New Relic
11 6 (0.93%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.78%) Citrix
12 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.78%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.62%) Sage