Serverless Contract Job Trends in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 89 167
Rank change year-on-year -56 +78 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 48 75 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.08% 2.28% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 7.08% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 51 25
10th Percentile £411 £405 £505
25th Percentile £413 £421 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +3.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £656 £718
England median daily rate £500 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.00% -11.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,383 1,059 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.05% 32.15% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 715 967
10th Percentile £250 £254 £200
25th Percentile £366 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -1.06% -1.33%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £620
90th Percentile £675 £663 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 18 46
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.45 £17.60
25th Percentile £15.16 £21.14 £20.11
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £31.16
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +14.73% +44.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.73 £61.58
90th Percentile £94.10 £76.01 £68.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the South East

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South East over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the South East

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless

Serverless
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 22 January 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
Thames Valley -44 29 £475 -21.16% 43
Berkshire -43 27 £475 -23.39% 28
Surrey -1 8 £425 -43.33% 11
Hampshire -17 7 £725 +61.11% 13
West Sussex - 4 £725 - 10
Buckinghamshire -13 1 £500 -13.04% 11
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 4
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 3 (6.25%) ArcGIS
4 2 (4.17%) Confluence
5 1 (2.08%) CMS
5 1 (2.08%) Headless CMS
5 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) Azure Functions
3 18 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (35.42%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (35.42%) GitHub
5 11 (22.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (20.83%) Azure API Management
6 10 (20.83%) Entra ID
7 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
8 8 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (14.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (14.58%) Azure Storage
10 6 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (12.50%) OCI
11 5 (10.42%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (10.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) MQTT
2 1 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (12.50%) Couchbase
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) Power BI
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.08%) Big Data
7 1 (2.08%) Metadata
7 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.08%) MySQL
7 1 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Git
2 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) Gradle
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) Maven
5 2 (4.17%) Postman
5 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Aviation
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Billing
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) Data Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Azure Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Power Platform Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) .NET
2 13 (27.08%) REST
3 8 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 8 (16.67%) Kafka
3 8 (16.67%) RESTful
4 7 (14.58%) .NET Core
5 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 5 (10.42%) Node.js
6 5 (10.42%) OAuth
6 5 (10.42%) React
7 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.33%) SOAP
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
7 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
8 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.25%) JSON
8 3 (6.25%) Next.js
8 3 (6.25%) OpenID
8 3 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (14.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 28 (58.33%) DevOps
3 24 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (33.33%) Agile
5 14 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.08%) Software Engineering
7 12 (25.00%) Microservices
8 11 (22.92%) AI
8 11 (22.92%) High Availability
9 9 (18.75%) Observability
9 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (16.67%) ETL
10 8 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.58%) API Management
11 7 (14.58%) Data Governance
11 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
11 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Python
2 18 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 16 (33.33%) C#
4 14 (29.17%) SQL
5 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 8 (16.67%) Java
6 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 7 (14.58%) Bash
8 5 (10.42%) PHP
8 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Ansible
4 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.33%) Puppet
6 3 (6.25%) Grafana
7 2 (4.17%) Podman
8 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Confluent
2 6 (12.50%) Databricks
2 6 (12.50%) IBM
3 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.08%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Tenable
4 1 (2.08%) Teradata