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 citing Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 11 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 168 | 129 | 91 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -39 | -38 | +80 |
| Contract jobs citing Serverless | 69 | 43 | 92 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the South East | 0.99% | 1.10% | 2.26% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.62% | 3.53% | 7.62% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 53 | 26 | 69 |
| 10th Percentile | £370 | £401 | £408 |
| 25th Percentile | £455 | £406 | £506 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £425 | £625 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +41.18% | -32.00% | +4.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £663 | £506 | £651 |
| 90th Percentile | £847 | £588 | £675 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £511 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.69% | -7.05% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | £38.25 | - | - |
| England median hourly rate | £38.25 | £50.00 | - |
| % change year-on-year | -23.50% | - | - |
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 citing cloud computing skills in the South East.
| 6 months to 11 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 1,905 | 1,217 | 1,208 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East | 27.21% | 31.25% | 29.71% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1,198 | 823 | 822 |
| 10th Percentile | £275 | £204 | £262 |
| 25th Percentile | £413 | £363 | £404 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £513 | £481 | £513 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +6.49% | -6.10% | -2.38% |
| 75th Percentile | £622 | £575 | £625 |
| 90th Percentile | £680 | £655 | £663 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £535 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -6.54% | +1.90% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 183 | 59 | 22 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £12.50 | £19.45 |
| 25th Percentile | £24.63 | £14.75 | £23.44 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.06 | £18.82 | £47.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +118.17% | -60.38% | +47.06% |
| 75th Percentile | £77.50 | £27.63 | £60.95 |
| 90th Percentile | £96.88 | £42.02 | £64.73 |
| England median hourly rate | £35.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +39.17% | -28.14% | +17.77% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in the South East
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 November 2026.
Serverless Hourly Rate Trend in the South East
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 November 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thames Valley | -45 | 24 | £560 | +31.76% | 17 |
| Hampshire | -15 | 20 | £600 | +49.25% | 11 |
| Surrey | -10 | 14 | £460 | -6.50% | 10 |
| Buckinghamshire | -27 | 8 | £530 | +23.26% | 6 |
| Berkshire | -37 | 8 | £425 | - | 7 |
| Oxfordshire | - | 8 | £868 | - | 4 |
| West Sussex | - | 3 | £537 | - | |
| Sussex | - | 2 | £613 | - | |
| East Sussex | - | 1 | £616 | - | 3 |
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Serverless Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 71.0% | 49 |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 52.2% | 36 |
| 3 | Azure | 47.8% | 33 |
| 4 | Azure Functions | 33.3% | 23 |
| 5 | Amazon CloudWatch | 30.4% | 21 |
| 5 | Amazon S3 | 30.4% | 21 |
| 7 | Azure Logic Apps | 21.7% | 15 |
| 8 | AWS Step Functions | 20.3% | 14 |
| 9 | Amazon ECS | 18.8% | 13 |
| 9 | Amazon EventBridge | 18.8% | 13 |
| 11 | Amazon SQS | 15.9% | 11 |
| 11 | GitHub | 15.9% | 11 |
| 11 | Power Platform | 15.9% | 11 |
| 14 | Amazon EKS | 14.5% | 10 |
| 14 | Azure DevOps | 14.5% | 10 |
| 14 | PowerApps | 14.5% | 10 |
| 17 | AWS CloudFormation | 13.0% | 9 |
| 17 | Power Automate | 13.0% | 9 |
| 19 | Amazon Bedrock | 10.1% | 7 |
| 19 | Entra ID | 10.1% | 7 |