Serverless Contracts in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 103 139
Rank change year-on-year -43 +36 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 55 117 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 2.07% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 7.01% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 100 70
10th Percentile £468 £474 £412
25th Percentile £518 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £623
90th Percentile £688 £716 £751
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -37.93% +63.84%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,329 1,670 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.55% 29.60% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,215 1,796
10th Percentile £263 £252 £207
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 47 55
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.21 £13.36
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%
75th Percentile £59.95 £69.38 £24.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.15
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley -6 38 £625 +4.08% 13
Berkshire -15 35 £625 +4.08% 7
Hampshire -4 10 £595 +8.18%
Surrey -8 6 £650 +18.18% 2
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £513 -18.00% 5
East Sussex +2 1 £450 -21.74% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 36 (65.45%) Azure Functions
3 27 (49.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 19 (34.55%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (32.73%) AWS
7 16 (29.09%) Entra ID
8 13 (23.64%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (18.18%) Amazon S3
10 9 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (12.73%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (12.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
13 5 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (9.09%) Azure API Management
14 4 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (5.45%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
1 2 (3.64%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) NoSQL
2 9 (16.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (9.09%) Power BI
5 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.45%) Big Data
6 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.64%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.82%) Impala
8 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.82%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) Selenium
3 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.27%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.64%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) JUnit
4 2 (3.64%) kappa
5 1 (1.82%) ERwin
5 1 (1.82%) JMeter
5 1 (1.82%) Mockito
5 1 (1.82%) NUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.64%) Retail
4 1 (1.82%) Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (65.45%) Developer
2 22 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 21 (38.18%) Azure Developer
4 13 (23.64%) Python Developer
5 11 (20.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Integration Developer
10 2 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Lead
10 2 (3.64%) React Developer
11 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) React
2 10 (18.18%) Node.js
3 7 (12.73%) REST
4 5 (9.09%) XML
5 4 (7.27%) .NET
5 4 (7.27%) Spring
5 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.27%) Web Services
6 3 (5.45%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.64%) Apache Camel
7 2 (3.64%) Django
7 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.64%) Kafka
7 2 (3.64%) LDAP
7 2 (3.64%) Mustache
7 2 (3.64%) OpenAPI
7 2 (3.64%) SOAP
7 2 (3.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.09%) Smart Meter
3 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Unix
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) DevOps
2 26 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 25 (45.45%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (36.36%) Agile
4 20 (36.36%) Microservices
5 15 (27.27%) SDLC
6 14 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (23.64%) Change Management
7 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 11 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 10 (18.18%) Scrum
10 8 (14.55%) Analytics
10 8 (14.55%) Data Science
11 7 (12.73%) ETL
12 6 (10.91%) TDD
13 5 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (9.09%) ETL Development
13 5 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) Python
2 18 (32.73%) Java
3 13 (23.64%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.27%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) C
7 1 (1.82%) C++
7 1 (1.82%) Scala
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
1 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (30.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) Docker
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Ab Initio
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.64%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.82%) Informatica
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk