Serverless Contracts in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 153 123
Rank change year-on-year +33 -30 +25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 39 52 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 0.94% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.79% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 85
10th Percentile £413 £461 £461
25th Percentile - £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £675 £691 £710
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Cloud 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 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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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 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +38 33 £500 -16.67% 32
Berkshire +30 33 £500 -16.67% 10
Hampshire +21 3 £580 -2.93% 14
Surrey +16 3 £750 +40.19% 3
Serverless
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 19 (48.72%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 9 (23.08%) Azure AKS
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (20.51%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (20.51%) GitHub
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
6 7 (17.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (17.95%) Entra ID
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (12.82%) PaaS
8 5 (12.82%) SaaS
9 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
1 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.26%) Redis
4 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.56%) Big Data
6 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.56%) HBase
6 1 (2.56%) HDInsight
6 1 (2.56%) Impala
6 1 (2.56%) Metadata
6 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) Selenium
4 2 (5.13%) GitLab
4 2 (5.13%) JMeter
4 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 2 (5.13%) Mockito
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.56%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Azure Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) React Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Architect
5 6 (15.38%) Python Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior
8 2 (5.13%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) React
2 8 (20.51%) JSON
3 5 (12.82%) Node.js
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) .NET
4 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
4 4 (10.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.26%) Prisma
5 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
6 2 (5.13%) jQuery
6 2 (5.13%) OAuth
6 2 (5.13%) OpenID
6 2 (5.13%) SAML
6 2 (5.13%) Spring
6 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (64.10%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) Microservices
4 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (28.21%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) SDLC
7 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.38%) API Design
8 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
8 6 (15.38%) Product Backlog
8 6 (15.38%) Scrum
9 5 (12.82%) Cost Management
9 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 4 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
10 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) C#
2 7 (17.95%) Java
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Docker
2 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Spotify
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Dell KACE
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Meraki
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic
4 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.56%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.56%) Ubiquiti