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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 85 168
Rank change year-on-year -73 +83 -36
Contract jobs citing Serverless 50 72 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.95% 2.39% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 7.51% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 53 29
10th Percentile £413 £405 £445
25th Percentile £425 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £656 £729
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,589 959 1,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 31.86% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 658 971
10th Percentile £267 £280 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £615 £608
90th Percentile £675 £670 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 27 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £16.83
25th Percentile £16.55 £16.95 £18.98
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% -7.47% +35.38%
75th Percentile £73.75 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £75.20 £62.00
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -77 23 £500 -13.04% 11
Berkshire -66 21 £488 -9.30% 4
Surrey -8 10 £425 -43.33% 1
Hampshire -18 8 £725 +27.75% 8
West Sussex - 4 £725 -
Kent - 2 £550 -
Buckinghamshire -23 1 - - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 1
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 7 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 3 (6.00%) ArcGIS
4 2 (4.00%) Confluence
5 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (68.00%) Azure
2 27 (54.00%) Azure Functions
3 24 (48.00%) AWS
4 19 (38.00%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (34.00%) GitHub
6 15 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (24.00%) Amazon S3
7 12 (24.00%) Entra ID
8 9 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (16.00%) Azure API Management
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (10.00%) Azure Storage
12 5 (10.00%) Power Automate
12 5 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.00%) MQTT
2 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.00%) Power BI
3 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Big Data
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.00%) Couchbase
7 1 (2.00%) Metadata
7 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Git
2 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.00%) Gradle
4 3 (6.00%) Maven
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Aviation
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Billing
5 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Java Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 4 (8.00%) Platform Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Power Platform Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) REST
2 15 (30.00%) .NET
3 8 (16.00%) ARM Templates
3 8 (16.00%) Node.js
3 8 (16.00%) Spring
3 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (14.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (14.00%) OAuth
4 7 (14.00%) React
5 6 (12.00%) Kafka
6 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (10.00%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.00%) JSON
7 4 (8.00%) RESTful
8 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.00%) OpenID
8 3 (6.00%) SAML
8 3 (6.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Wiki
4 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
1 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 30 (60.00%) DevOps
2 19 (38.00%) Agile
3 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (26.00%) Microservices
7 12 (24.00%) AI
7 12 (24.00%) ETL
8 10 (20.00%) RBAC
9 9 (18.00%) Data Governance
9 9 (18.00%) Event-Driven
9 9 (18.00%) Observability
10 8 (16.00%) API Management
10 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (16.00%) High Availability
11 7 (14.00%) Code Quality
11 7 (14.00%) DevSecOps
11 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 20 (40.00%) SQL
3 19 (38.00%) JavaScript
4 18 (36.00%) C#
5 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
6 11 (22.00%) Java
7 8 (16.00%) Bash
7 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (10.00%) PHP
9 2 (4.00%) Bicep
9 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) Grafana
7 2 (4.00%) Podman
8 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Databricks
3 5 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.00%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.00%) Teradata
5 2 (4.00%) Foundry
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable