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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 127 108
Rank change year-on-year -48 -19 +34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 54 43 73
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.82% 1.22% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 3.82% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 55
10th Percentile £455 £400 £463
25th Percentile £514 £405 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £703 £522 £655
90th Percentile £902 £588 £724
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +48.89% - -

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 1,807 1,125 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.49% 31.94% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 741 782
10th Percentile £263 £204 £287
25th Percentile £413 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 44 19
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £14.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +178.96% -64.15% +94.44%
75th Percentile £82.25 £30.51 £60.83
90th Percentile £103.13 £45.45 £65.72
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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
Hampshire -18 18 £690 +71.64% 5
Thames Valley -46 18 £625 +47.06% 22
Surrey -19 9 £530 +7.72% 9
Oxfordshire - 8 £868 - 7
Buckinghamshire -32 6 £605 +40.70% 10
Berkshire -44 4 £525 +23.53% 5
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 2
West Sussex -22 3 £537 +65.23% 3
Sussex - 1 £600 -
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 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) AWS
2 31 (57.41%) Azure
3 30 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (31.48%) Azure Functions
5 14 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (25.93%) Amazon S3
6 12 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
6 12 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 12 (22.22%) Snowflake
7 10 (18.52%) Amazon EventBridge
8 9 (16.67%) GCP
8 9 (16.67%) Power Automate
9 8 (14.81%) GitHub
9 8 (14.81%) PowerApps
10 7 (12.96%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (9.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Network Security
2 4 (7.41%) MQTT
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) Power BI
2 10 (18.52%) DynamoDB
3 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.56%) Big Data
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.85%) Metadata
9 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.81%) GitLab
3 4 (7.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) RStudio
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Military
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Billing
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Developer
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Architect
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Database Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Database Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) Terraform
2 11 (20.37%) RESTful
3 9 (16.67%) .NET
4 7 (12.96%) Kafka
4 7 (12.96%) REST
5 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
5 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
5 5 (9.26%) Middleware
6 4 (7.41%) gRPC
6 4 (7.41%) Keycloak
6 4 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (5.56%) React
7 3 (5.56%) Spring
7 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.70%) JSON
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (3.70%) Node.js
8 2 (3.70%) OAuth
8 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.96%) AI Agents
4 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) Life Science
5 4 (7.41%) Mainframe
6 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.85%) AS400
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) CI/CD
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
3 19 (35.19%) DevOps
4 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (31.48%) AI
5 17 (31.48%) Microservices
6 16 (29.63%) Scrum
7 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (20.37%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
11 9 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 9 (16.67%) Observability
11 9 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 8 (14.81%) Data Engineering
12 8 (14.81%) Data Integration
12 8 (14.81%) Data Protection
12 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
12 8 (14.81%) Kanban
12 8 (14.81%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) C#
3 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.26%) Java
4 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.41%) Rust
5 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.56%) Bash
6 3 (5.56%) X++
7 2 (3.70%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) Degree
2 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.70%) CCSP
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) CISSP
5 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.11%) Grafana
2 6 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Podman
4 4 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (3.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) NVIDIA
2 4 (7.41%) Tenable
3 3 (5.56%) Ab Initio
3 3 (5.56%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Teradata
5 1 (1.85%) Adyen
5 1 (1.85%) Foundry
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk