Serverless Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Serverless Computing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 47 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 9 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.54% 1.49% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.23% 3.82% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £613 £545 £510
25th Percentile - £556 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £619 £694
90th Percentile - £623 £700
South West median daily rate £600 £643 £625
% change year-on-year -6.61% +2.80% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 157 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.59% 39.05% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 122
10th Percentile £225 £460 £401
25th Percentile £425 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £688
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £31.53 £30.00 £20.88
25th Percentile £31.59 £30.75 £47.44
Median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -57.69% -18.96%
75th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £80.25
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -73.04% +171.84% -55.41%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 November 2025. 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
Gloucester - 8 £650 - 5
Cheltenham +19 7 £650 +8.33% 5
Serverless
South West

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Azure Key Vault
1 7 (77.78%) GitHub
1 7 (77.78%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (77.78%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Backend Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Python Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) FastAPI
1 7 (77.78%) Flask
1 7 (77.78%) GraphQL
1 7 (77.78%) gRPC
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) WebSockets
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (100.00%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Go
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Grafana
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft