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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 114 131
Rank change year-on-year -66 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 48 40 68
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.74% 1.18% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 3.87% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 55
10th Percentile £500 £402 £463
25th Percentile £514 £413 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £496 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -20.64% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £673
90th Percentile £735 £610 £710
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 1,722 1,033 1,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.55% 30.50% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 659 902
10th Percentile £280 £250 £282
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £615
90th Percentile £688 £652 £675
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -2.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 54 53
10th Percentile £20.43 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £29.07 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +245.38% -37.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £32.77 £59.95
90th Percentile £105.60 £67.13 £61.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -19 17 £611 +43.49% 4
Thames Valley -57 15 £560 +12.00% 4
Berkshire -38 11 £525 +5.00% 3
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 1
West Sussex -17 3 £500 +53.85% 2
Surrey -24 3 £563 +14.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -38 2 £560 +31.76% 1
Kent - 2 £550 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 -
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 31 (64.58%) Azure
3 23 (47.92%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (43.75%) Amazon S3
5 17 (35.42%) Azure Functions
6 15 (31.25%) Power Platform
7 11 (22.92%) GCP
8 10 (20.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (20.83%) Snowflake
9 9 (18.75%) GitHub
10 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 8 (16.67%) Power Automate
11 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
12 6 (12.50%) PowerApps
13 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Network Security
2 4 (8.33%) MQTT
3 3 (6.25%) Firewall
4 2 (4.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) Power BI
2 10 (20.83%) DynamoDB
3 9 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 7 (14.58%) Relational Database
6 6 (12.50%) Big Data
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (2.08%) Metadata
10 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Git
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.42%) GitLab
4 4 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) Kafka
2 10 (20.83%) RESTful
3 8 (16.67%) Spring
3 8 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 7 (14.58%) REST
5 6 (12.50%) .NET
5 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 6 (12.50%) JSON
6 5 (10.42%) OAuth
7 4 (8.33%) gRPC
7 4 (8.33%) JWT
7 4 (8.33%) Keycloak
7 4 (8.33%) Node.js
7 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (8.33%) SOAP
8 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (6.25%) Middleware
8 3 (6.25%) React
9 2 (4.17%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.17%) Wiki
7 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.08%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 20 (41.67%) Agile
3 18 (37.50%) DevOps
4 17 (35.42%) Microservices
5 14 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 13 (27.08%) Scrum
7 12 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (22.92%) ETL
9 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (20.83%) Kanban
10 9 (18.75%) AI
11 8 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 8 (16.67%) Data Integration
11 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.58%) Code Quality
12 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
12 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
13 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 19 (39.58%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) C#
5 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
8 4 (8.33%) Bash
8 4 (8.33%) Rust
8 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (6.25%) Bicep
9 3 (6.25%) X++
10 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
11 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCSP
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CISSP
5 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 7 (14.58%) Grafana
3 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.42%) Ansible
4 5 (10.42%) Puppet
5 4 (8.33%) Podman
6 2 (4.17%) CASB
7 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Ab Initio
3 5 (10.42%) Teradata
4 4 (8.33%) NVIDIA
4 4 (8.33%) Tenable
5 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Foundry
6 2 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) Databricks
7 1 (2.08%) Fortinet