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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 119 147
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 -41
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 32 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.89% 1.10% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% 3.65% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 21 43
10th Percentile £413 £402 £466
25th Percentile £484 £455 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 - £663
90th Percentile £738 £588 £688
England median daily rate £525 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 1,643 876 1,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.52% 30.10% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 593 901
10th Percentile £282 £250 £263
25th Percentile £406 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 34 53
10th Percentile £15.83 £15.76 £16.54
25th Percentile £26.16 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% +14.61% +4.85%
75th Percentile £82.25 £47.20 £59.95
90th Percentile £103.93 £74.63 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -52 20 £575 +15.00% 6
Berkshire -36 16 £525 +5.00% 4
Hampshire -23 11 £705 +65.49% 8
Surrey -10 7 £425 -22.73% 1
West Sussex -13 5 £663 +103.85% 1
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £625 -
Kent - 2 £550 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
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 6 (11.32%) Apache Spark
1 6 (11.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 30 (56.60%) AWS
3 23 (43.40%) Azure Functions
4 19 (35.85%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (33.96%) Amazon S3
6 15 (28.30%) Power Platform
7 14 (26.42%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (26.42%) GitHub
8 10 (18.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (18.87%) Snowflake
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
9 9 (16.98%) GCP
10 8 (15.09%) Power Automate
11 7 (13.21%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (13.21%) Azure Storage
12 6 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (11.32%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (11.32%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (11.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) MQTT
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) Power BI
2 10 (18.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (18.87%) DynamoDB
3 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.32%) Big Data
6 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) GitLab
2 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Aviation
5 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Senior
3 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Platform Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Power Platform Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) REST
2 10 (18.87%) .NET
2 10 (18.87%) Kafka
3 8 (15.09%) Spring
3 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.21%) Node.js
4 7 (13.21%) RESTful
5 6 (11.32%) JSON
6 5 (9.43%) ARM Templates
6 5 (9.43%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.43%) OAuth
6 5 (9.43%) React
7 4 (7.55%) JWT
7 4 (7.55%) OAuth2
7 4 (7.55%) SOAP
8 3 (5.66%) gRPC
8 3 (5.66%) Keycloak
8 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (3.77%) Next.js
9 2 (3.77%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.55%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Wiki
6 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) IoT
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
2 24 (45.28%) DevOps
3 22 (41.51%) Agile
4 15 (28.30%) ETL
5 14 (26.42%) Microservices
6 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (24.53%) Scrum
6 13 (24.53%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) Containerisation
8 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
8 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.87%) Code Quality
10 9 (16.98%) AI
10 9 (16.98%) Kanban
11 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (15.09%) Data Engineering
11 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
12 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) SQL
2 22 (41.51%) Python
3 14 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.53%) C#
5 10 (18.87%) Java
6 9 (16.98%) TypeScript
7 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) Rust
9 2 (3.77%) Bash
9 2 (3.77%) Bicep
9 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Grafana
3 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.43%) Puppet
4 4 (7.55%) Podman
5 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) Ab Initio
3 5 (9.43%) OpenAI
3 5 (9.43%) Teradata
4 3 (5.66%) Tenable
5 2 (3.77%) Foundry
5 2 (3.77%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.89%) Fortinet