Serverless Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Serverless Computing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 74 87
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.47% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 3.37% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £643 £421 -
25th Percentile £669 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £615
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% -24.80% -5.38%
75th Percentile £756 £488 £633
90th Percentile £768 £594 £643
South East median daily rate £430 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -31.20% +4.17% -

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 264 208 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.84% 21.20% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 172 202
10th Percentile £255 £356 £395
25th Percentile £395 £421 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -1.61% +2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £636
90th Percentile £675 £675 £670
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 14
10th Percentile £12.18 - £19.40
25th Percentile £18.75 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -6.79% +15.81%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £27.00
90th Percentile £40.00 - £59.88
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Farnborough - 3 - -
Basingstoke -2 1 £650 - 7
Romsey - 1 £770 - 1
Serverless
South East

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Gradle
2 3 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) gRPC
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) OOP
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (16.67%) MLOps
6 1 (16.67%) Observability
6 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
6 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Podman
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) Tenable