Serverless Contracts in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 149 115
Rank change year-on-year +31 -34 +35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 36 58 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.15% 1.02% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 4.39% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 47 92
10th Percentile £402 £473 £478
25th Percentile £439 £521 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £675
90th Percentile £591 £733 £746
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

All Cloud 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 971 1,322 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.09% 23.30% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 895 1,206
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 57 51
10th Percentile £15.10 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

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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 30 June 2025.

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 30 June 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
Thames Valley +9 23 £500 -20.00% 97
Berkshire +8 22 £500 -20.00% 71
Hampshire +28 7 £426 -28.40% 39
Surrey +21 5 £492 -24.31% 14
Buckinghamshire +9 1 - - 17
West Sussex - 1 £325 - 15
Serverless
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 2 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 15 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (30.56%) Azure
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 6 (16.67%) GitHub
5 6 (16.67%) SaaS
6 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (8.33%) Datadog
8 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.33%) MySQL
4 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) JMeter
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Mockito
4 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) git-flow
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) React Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Node.js
2 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.89%) JSON
2 5 (13.89%) React
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 4 (11.11%) RESTful
3 4 (11.11%) Web Services
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (8.33%) Kafka
4 3 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Camel
5 2 (5.56%) jQuery
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth
5 2 (5.56%) OpenID
5 2 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.56%) Vue
5 2 (5.56%) WireMock
5 2 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
4 7 (19.44%) Microservices
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.89%) RBAC
5 5 (13.89%) Scrum
5 5 (13.89%) Validation
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.33%) API Management
7 3 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 3 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 7 (19.44%) Java
5 6 (16.67%) C#
6 3 (8.33%) Scala
6 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Spotify
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Dell KACE
4 1 (2.78%) Meraki
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.78%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (2.78%) UiPath