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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 107 137
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 +36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 43 74 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 1.61% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 6.19% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 56 61
10th Percentile £400 £463 £500
25th Percentile £405 £553 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +3.67%
75th Percentile £522 £653 £700
90th Percentile £588 £716 £750
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -8.33%
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 - £66.25
% change year-on-year - - -11.67%

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 1,060 1,195 1,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.37% 25.93% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 823 1,141
10th Percentile £204 £300 £206
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £670 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 22 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.77 £16.31
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.66 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% +48.62% +30.63%
75th Percentile £29.00 £60.44 £62.03
90th Percentile £46.13 £64.73 £74.70
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Serverless
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

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 -11 30 £425 -32.00% 17
Berkshire -12 22 £425 -32.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £430 -46.25% 1
Hampshire +3 6 £402 -15.37% 3
Surrey +3 5 £492 -24.31% 5
West Sussex - 1 £325 - 1
Serverless
England

Serverless
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 (4.65%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (74.42%) AWS
2 26 (60.47%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (44.19%) Amazon S3
4 13 (30.23%) Azure
5 10 (23.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (16.28%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (11.63%) Azure Functions
8 5 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (11.63%) ChatGPT
8 5 (11.63%) OCI
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (9.30%) GitHub
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) Network Security
1 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.33%) VPN
1 1 (2.33%) WAN
1 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (20.93%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.63%) Couchbase
4 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
4 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.30%) Big Data
5 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (9.30%) MySQL
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.93%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) JMeter
3 2 (4.65%) JUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Mockito
3 2 (4.65%) Postman
3 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) git-flow
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
5 1 (2.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Architect
1 11 (25.58%) Senior
2 10 (23.26%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Developer
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Data Scientist
7 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Architect
8 3 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
2 8 (18.60%) RESTful
3 6 (13.95%) JSON
4 5 (11.63%) Hugging Face
4 5 (11.63%) NumPy
4 5 (11.63%) Pandas
4 5 (11.63%) PyTorch
4 5 (11.63%) scikit-learn
5 4 (9.30%) .NET
5 4 (9.30%) Node.js
5 4 (9.30%) REST
5 4 (9.30%) Web Services
5 4 (9.30%) XML
6 3 (6.98%) HTML
6 3 (6.98%) Prophet
6 3 (6.98%) React
6 3 (6.98%) SOAP
6 3 (6.98%) Spring
6 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Replication
3 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 21 (48.84%) DevOps
3 17 (39.53%) Agile
4 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.93%) High Availability
6 8 (18.60%) Data Engineering
6 8 (18.60%) Data Science
6 8 (18.60%) LLM
6 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
6 8 (18.60%) Microservices
7 7 (16.28%) Machine Learning
7 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (16.28%) Scrum
8 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Clean Code
9 5 (11.63%) Data Modelling
9 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (11.63%) ETL
9 5 (11.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.30%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Scala
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Confluent
1 5 (11.63%) IBM
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Sage
2 3 (6.98%) Virgin Media
3 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.65%) Splunk
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Dell KACE
4 1 (2.33%) JDA
4 1 (2.33%) Meraki
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.33%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.33%) Ubiquiti