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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 127 119
Rank change year-on-year -62 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 47 40 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.16% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 3.88% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 60
10th Percentile £513 £400 £461
25th Percentile £516 £405 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £474 £625
Median % change year-on-year +26.72% -24.24% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £670
90th Percentile £730 £610 £694
England median daily rate £529 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £52.63 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.94% - -

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 1,767 1,031 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.70% 30.01% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 667 859
10th Percentile £270 £246 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -4.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £682 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 49 37
10th Percentile £21.35 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +271.94% -33.96% +5.56%
75th Percentile £83.75 £32.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.60 £61.28
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -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 28 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 28 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 -26 17 £611 +43.49% 8
Thames Valley -62 13 £543 +8.50% 4
Berkshire -36 9 £525 +5.00% 3
Surrey -26 5 £600 +21.95% 6
East Sussex - 4 £616 -
West Sussex -25 2 £500 +53.85% 1
Buckinghamshire -48 2 £560 +31.76%
Kent - 2 £550 - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 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 5 (10.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
1 31 (65.96%) Azure
2 23 (48.94%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (40.43%) Amazon S3
4 17 (36.17%) Azure Functions
5 16 (34.04%) Power Platform
6 11 (23.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (21.28%) GCP
8 9 (19.15%) Power Automate
8 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
9 8 (17.02%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (14.89%) GitHub
10 7 (14.89%) PowerApps
11 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
12 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) MQTT
3 2 (4.26%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Power BI
2 9 (19.15%) DynamoDB
3 8 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
6 5 (10.64%) Big Data
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (2.13%) Metadata
10 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
3 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Developer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Applications Developer
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Big Data Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
1 10 (21.28%) RESTful
2 7 (14.89%) REST
2 7 (14.89%) Spring
2 7 (14.89%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.77%) .NET
3 6 (12.77%) GraphQL
3 6 (12.77%) JSON
4 5 (10.64%) OAuth
5 4 (8.51%) gRPC
5 4 (8.51%) JWT
5 4 (8.51%) Keycloak
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (8.51%) Middleware
5 4 (8.51%) Node.js
5 4 (8.51%) OAuth2
5 4 (8.51%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (8.51%) React
5 4 (8.51%) SOAP
6 2 (4.26%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
1 7 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Wiki
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 20 (42.55%) Agile
3 16 (34.04%) Microservices
4 15 (31.91%) DevOps
5 14 (29.79%) Scrum
6 13 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
8 11 (23.40%) AI
8 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (21.28%) Kanban
10 9 (19.15%) ETL
11 8 (17.02%) Code Quality
11 8 (17.02%) Data Engineering
11 8 (17.02%) Data Integration
12 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
12 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (14.89%) Unit Testing
13 6 (12.77%) Event-Driven
13 6 (12.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) Python
1 18 (38.30%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) C#
2 9 (19.15%) Java
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) Rust
5 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.51%) X++
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.02%) Degree
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (6.38%) DBS Check
7 2 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.26%) CCSP
7 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.26%) CISSP
7 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) Grafana
3 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.51%) Ansible
4 4 (8.51%) Podman
4 4 (8.51%) Puppet
5 2 (4.26%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Ab Initio
3 4 (8.51%) NVIDIA
3 4 (8.51%) Tenable
3 4 (8.51%) Teradata
4 3 (6.38%) Foundry
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAI