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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 124 119
Rank change year-on-year -65 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 48 38 66
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.07% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 3.64% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 55
10th Percentile £501 £400 £463
25th Percentile £516 £404 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £435 £625
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -30.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £681 £513 £655
90th Percentile £735 £616 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 1,819 1,043 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.01% 29.42% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 680 834
10th Percentile £263 £221 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £672
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 48 31
10th Percentile £19.75 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £18.15
Median hourly rate £67.35 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +257.86% -37.27% +10.09%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.12 £53.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.55 £61.06
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -15 18 £611 +43.49% 8
Thames Valley -49 16 £625 +43.68% 4
Berkshire -29 9 £525 +5.00% 1
Surrey -19 6 £600 +21.95% 2
Oxfordshire - 5 £868 - 1
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 1
West Sussex -23 2 £500 +53.85% 1
Buckinghamshire -44 2 £560 +30.23% 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 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) AWS
2 28 (58.33%) Azure
3 25 (52.08%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (35.42%) Amazon S3
5 16 (33.33%) Azure Functions
6 15 (31.25%) Power Platform
7 12 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (25.00%) Power Automate
8 11 (22.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (20.83%) PowerApps
9 10 (20.83%) Snowflake
10 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (16.67%) GCP
12 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (14.58%) GitHub
13 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Network Security
2 4 (8.33%) MQTT
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Power BI
2 8 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (6.25%) Big Data
6 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.08%) Metadata
8 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Git
1 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.42%) GitLab
3 4 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (4.17%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) RESTful
2 8 (16.67%) .NET
2 8 (16.67%) Kafka
3 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 6 (12.50%) Middleware
3 6 (12.50%) REST
4 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (10.42%) OAuth
4 5 (10.42%) Spring
4 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.33%) gRPC
5 4 (8.33%) JWT
5 4 (8.33%) Keycloak
5 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 4 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (8.33%) React
5 4 (8.33%) SOAP
6 2 (4.17%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.17%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (10.42%) AI Agents
4 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.17%) Life Science
7 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.08%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (39.58%) Agile
3 17 (35.42%) DevOps
4 16 (33.33%) Microservices
4 16 (33.33%) Scrum
5 14 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (27.08%) AI
7 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (20.83%) Code Quality
8 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.75%) Unit Testing
10 8 (16.67%) Data Integration
10 8 (16.67%) Kanban
10 8 (16.67%) Observability
10 8 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
12 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (12.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) SQL
3 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.58%) C#
4 7 (14.58%) Java
5 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.33%) Rust
6 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.33%) X++
7 3 (6.25%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Bicep
8 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) Degree
3 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (6.25%) DBS Check
7 2 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.17%) CCSP
7 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.17%) CISSP
7 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Kubernetes
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Grafana
2 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (8.33%) Podman
3 4 (8.33%) Puppet
4 2 (4.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) NVIDIA
2 4 (8.33%) Tenable
3 3 (6.25%) Ab Initio
3 3 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.17%) Teradata
5 1 (2.08%) Foundry