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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 118 149
Rank change year-on-year -49 +31 -34
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 36 58
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.84% 1.15% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 3.70% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 47
10th Percentile £413 £402 £473
25th Percentile £513 £439 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £519 £675
90th Percentile £735 £591 £733
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 1,687 973 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.82% 31.16% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 625 895
10th Percentile £280 £250 £275
25th Percentile £411 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 48 57
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.10 £17.69
25th Percentile £28.54 £15.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +218.81% -37.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £106.40 £72.00 £61.60
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -20 17 £611 +43.49% 5
Thames Valley -53 16 £575 +15.00% 5
Berkshire -43 13 £525 +5.00% 3
Surrey -21 6 £425 -13.62%
West Sussex -12 4 £600 +84.62% 2
East Sussex - 4 £616 - 2
Kent - 2 £550 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 1
Buckinghamshire -37 1 - - 1
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
2 4 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 32 (60.38%) AWS
3 23 (43.40%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (39.62%) Amazon S3
4 21 (39.62%) Azure Functions
5 16 (30.19%) Power Platform
6 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (24.53%) GitHub
7 11 (20.75%) GCP
8 10 (18.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (18.87%) Snowflake
9 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
9 9 (16.98%) Power Automate
10 7 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (13.21%) PowerApps
11 6 (11.32%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (11.32%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Network Security
2 4 (7.55%) MQTT
3 2 (3.77%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Power BI
2 10 (18.87%) DynamoDB
3 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (15.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
5 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
6 6 (11.32%) Big Data
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.89%) Metadata
10 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.43%) GitLab
4 4 (7.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Aviation
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Power Platform Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Kafka
2 10 (18.87%) .NET
2 10 (18.87%) REST
2 10 (18.87%) RESTful
3 8 (15.09%) Spring
3 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
4 6 (11.32%) JSON
5 5 (9.43%) OAuth
6 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
6 4 (7.55%) gRPC
6 4 (7.55%) JWT
6 4 (7.55%) Keycloak
6 4 (7.55%) Node.js
6 4 (7.55%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.55%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (7.55%) React
6 4 (7.55%) SOAP
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (5.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.55%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.77%) Wiki
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 23 (43.40%) DevOps
3 20 (37.74%) Agile
4 18 (33.96%) Microservices
5 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 14 (26.42%) ETL
6 13 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (24.53%) Scrum
7 12 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) AI
8 10 (18.87%) Kanban
9 9 (16.98%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (15.09%) Code Quality
10 8 (15.09%) Data Engineering
10 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
10 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.21%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (13.21%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) Python
2 23 (43.40%) SQL
3 13 (24.53%) C#
3 13 (24.53%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.87%) Java
5 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
6 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.55%) Bash
7 4 (7.55%) Rust
7 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.66%) X++
9 2 (3.77%) Bicep
9 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) CCSP
5 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.77%) CISSP
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.87%) Terraform
3 7 (13.21%) Grafana
3 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.43%) Ansible
4 5 (9.43%) Puppet
5 4 (7.55%) Podman
6 2 (3.77%) CASB
7 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Ab Initio
3 5 (9.43%) Teradata
4 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 4 (7.55%) NVIDIA
4 4 (7.55%) OpenAI
4 4 (7.55%) Tenable
5 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.77%) Foundry
5 2 (3.77%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) Fortinet