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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Serverless 7 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.50% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 1.84% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £643 £446 £575
25th Percentile £669 £488 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £568 £675
Median % change year-on-year +27.75% -15.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £756 £638 £739
90th Percentile £768 £675 £744
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing 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 303 163 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.50% 22.21% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 126 188
10th Percentile £295 £272 £268
25th Percentile £405 £361 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £625
90th Percentile £719 £675 £669
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £513
% change year-on-year -2.19% -0.26% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 5
10th Percentile £12.29 £15.90 £18.81
25th Percentile £17.06 £16.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -47.14% +66.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.24 £53.75
90th Percentile - £19.68 £59.00
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.50% +10.00% +45.54%

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 11 February 2026. 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 -13 1 £650 - 1
Romsey - 1 £770 -
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 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (42.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) gRPC
4 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (42.86%) OO
5 3 (42.86%) OOP
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 2 (28.57%) High Availability
6 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (14.29%) MLOps
7 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Puppet
4 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (28.57%) Podman
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable
1 1 (14.29%) Teradata