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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 117 112
Rank change year-on-year -61 -5 +26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 51 44 72
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.77% 1.26% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 4.19% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 55
10th Percentile £455 £400 £478
25th Percentile £513 £406 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £655
90th Percentile £886 £608 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
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 1,793 1,049 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.08% 30.13% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 686 820
10th Percentile £263 £204 £300
25th Percentile £413 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £671
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 43 22
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £17.77
25th Percentile £29.40 £15.13 £19.66
Median hourly rate £63.48 £18.82 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +237.30% -53.53% +45.53%
75th Percentile £82.25 £29.00 £60.44
90th Percentile £104.00 £46.13 £64.73
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -22 19 £690 +61.97% 9
Thames Valley -55 16 £625 +47.06% 30
Surrey -11 8 £460 -6.50% 4
Oxfordshire - 7 £868 - 3
Berkshire -47 5 £525 +23.53% 13
Buckinghamshire -36 4 £605 +40.70% 14
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 2
West Sussex -23 3 £537 +65.23% 6
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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 38 (74.51%) AWS
2 29 (56.86%) AWS Lambda
2 29 (56.86%) Azure
3 15 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 15 (29.41%) Azure Functions
4 13 (25.49%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (25.49%) Power Platform
5 12 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (21.57%) Snowflake
7 10 (19.61%) Power Automate
8 9 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
8 9 (17.65%) GCP
9 8 (15.69%) PowerApps
10 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (13.73%) GitHub
11 6 (11.76%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (9.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Network Security
2 4 (7.84%) MQTT
3 2 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) Power BI
2 10 (19.61%) DynamoDB
3 9 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.88%) Big Data
7 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.96%) Metadata
9 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.69%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) GitLab
3 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.96%) RStudio
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Aerospace
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Military
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Billing
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Database Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Database Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Big Data Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) Terraform
2 9 (17.65%) RESTful
3 7 (13.73%) .NET
3 7 (13.73%) Kafka
4 6 (11.76%) Middleware
5 5 (9.80%) GraphQL
5 5 (9.80%) REST
6 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
6 4 (7.84%) gRPC
6 4 (7.84%) Keycloak
6 4 (7.84%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (5.88%) React
7 3 (5.88%) Spring
7 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.92%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (3.92%) Node.js
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
1 7 (13.73%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.76%) AI Agents
2 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.88%) Life Science
4 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 19 (37.25%) Agile
3 18 (35.29%) DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (29.41%) Microservices
5 15 (29.41%) Scrum
6 14 (27.45%) AI
7 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.69%) Code Quality
9 8 (15.69%) Data Engineering
9 8 (15.69%) Data Integration
9 8 (15.69%) DevSecOps
9 8 (15.69%) Kanban
9 8 (15.69%) Observability
10 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
10 7 (13.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) Python
2 16 (31.37%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) Java
5 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.84%) Rust
6 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.84%) X++
7 3 (5.88%) Bash
8 2 (3.92%) Bicep
9 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) Degree
3 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.92%) CCSP
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.92%) CISSP
7 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Grafana
2 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.80%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Podman
4 4 (7.84%) Puppet
5 2 (3.92%) CASB
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) NVIDIA
2 4 (7.84%) Tenable
3 3 (5.88%) Ab Initio
3 3 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) Teradata
5 1 (1.96%) Adyen
5 1 (1.96%) Databricks
5 1 (1.96%) Foundry
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk