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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 85 161
Rank change year-on-year -48 +76 -25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 45 87 40
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.04% 2.56% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 7.97% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 62 24
10th Percentile £407 £407 £500
25th Percentile £413 £463 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% +3.00%
75th Percentile £675 £651 £656
90th Percentile £738 £671 £701
England median daily rate £500 £555 £535
% change year-on-year -9.91% +3.74% -10.83%

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 1,350 1,091 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.31% 32.11% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 745 963
10th Percentile £222 £262 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £576 £630 £623
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 15 33
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.40 £18.96
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.64 £19.76
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% +24.78% +11.41%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £78.22
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

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 11 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 11 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 -53 28 £475 -24.00% 57
Berkshire -44 26 £450 -28.00% 35
Surrey 0 7 £425 -43.33% 11
Hampshire -14 6 £725 +61.11% 15
West Sussex - 3 £725 - 12
Buckinghamshire -5 1 £500 -13.04% 13
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 9
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 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) ArcGIS
3 2 (4.44%) CMS
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) AWS
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 20 (44.44%) Azure Functions
3 17 (37.78%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (33.33%) GitHub
5 11 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (20.00%) Azure API Management
7 8 (17.78%) Amazon S3
7 8 (17.78%) Entra ID
7 8 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (15.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Storage
9 6 (13.33%) OCI
10 5 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (11.11%) PaaS
11 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) SSL
2 1 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.33%) Couchbase
3 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.44%) Power BI
5 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) Metadata
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.67%) GitLab
4 3 (6.67%) Gradle
4 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) Maven
5 2 (4.44%) Postman
5 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Aviation
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) .NET
2 13 (28.89%) REST
3 9 (20.00%) RESTful
4 7 (15.56%) .NET Core
4 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
4 7 (15.56%) Kafka
5 6 (13.33%) GraphQL
6 5 (11.11%) Node.js
6 5 (11.11%) OAuth
6 5 (11.11%) React
7 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.89%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.89%) SOAP
7 4 (8.89%) Spring
7 4 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.67%) JSON
8 3 (6.67%) Next.js
8 3 (6.67%) OpenID
8 3 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Replication
3 3 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) DevOps
3 21 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (35.56%) Agile
5 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) Microservices
7 10 (22.22%) AI
7 10 (22.22%) High Availability
7 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 9 (20.00%) Observability
8 9 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (17.78%) Event-Driven
9 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
10 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
11 6 (13.33%) Analytics
11 6 (13.33%) ETL
11 6 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) C#
2 16 (35.56%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 8 (17.78%) Java
4 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
5 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 6 (13.33%) Bash
7 5 (11.11%) PHP
7 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Terraform
2 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.33%) Ansible
4 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.67%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
6 2 (4.44%) Podman
7 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Confluent
2 6 (13.33%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Pega
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Tenable