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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 100 165
Rank change year-on-year -55 +65 -44
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 53 43
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.95% 1.78% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 5.72% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 31
10th Percentile £413 £406 £450
25th Percentile £438 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £681
90th Percentile £738 £656 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 1,582 927 1,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.39% 31.06% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 645 961
10th Percentile £281 £267 £250
25th Percentile £400 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £678 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 26 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year +79.25% -6.33% +3.58%
75th Percentile £80.15 £46.30 £59.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.25 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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
Thames Valley -63 24 £500 - 15
Berkshire -50 22 £500 - 10
Hampshire -25 12 £688 +18.53% 11
Surrey -5 8 £425 -43.33% 1
West Sussex - 4 £725 -
Kent - 2 £550 -
Buckinghamshire -30 1 - - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 1
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 9 (16.98%) Apache Spark
2 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 3 (5.66%) ArcGIS
4 2 (3.77%) Confluence
5 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 28 (52.83%) Azure Functions
3 26 (49.06%) AWS
4 20 (37.74%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (32.08%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (32.08%) GitHub
6 15 (28.30%) Amazon S3
7 12 (22.64%) Power Platform
8 10 (18.87%) Entra ID
9 9 (16.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (15.09%) Azure API Management
10 8 (15.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (13.21%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (13.21%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (13.21%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (13.21%) GCP
12 6 (11.32%) OpenShift
12 6 (11.32%) PowerApps
12 6 (11.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) SSL
2 1 (1.89%) MQTT
2 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (15.09%) DynamoDB
2 8 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.09%) Power BI
2 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.32%) Big Data
3 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.89%) Metadata
7 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.89%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Git
2 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) GitLab
4 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.66%) Gradle
4 3 (5.66%) Maven
5 2 (3.77%) JIRA
6 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Aviation
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Billing
6 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Java Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Applications Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 4 (7.55%) Platform Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Power Platform Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.19%) .NET
1 16 (30.19%) REST
2 11 (20.75%) Spring
2 11 (20.75%) Spring Boot
3 8 (15.09%) ARM Templates
3 8 (15.09%) Kafka
3 8 (15.09%) Node.js
4 7 (13.21%) GraphQL
4 7 (13.21%) OAuth
4 7 (13.21%) React
5 5 (9.43%) .NET Core
5 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (9.43%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.55%) JSON
6 4 (7.55%) RESTful
7 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.66%) OpenID
7 3 (5.66%) SAML
7 3 (5.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Wiki
4 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 31 (58.49%) DevOps
3 20 (37.74%) Agile
4 17 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (30.19%) Containerisation
6 15 (28.30%) ETL
6 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
7 12 (22.64%) AI
7 12 (22.64%) Microservices
8 10 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (18.87%) RBAC
9 9 (16.98%) Analytics
9 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven
10 8 (15.09%) API Management
10 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Code Quality
10 8 (15.09%) Software Testing
11 7 (13.21%) DevSecOps
11 7 (13.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) Python
2 26 (49.06%) SQL
3 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 19 (35.85%) C#
5 14 (26.42%) Java
6 12 (22.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (15.09%) Bash
7 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
8 5 (9.43%) PHP
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
10 1 (1.89%) Rust
10 1 (1.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.30%) Terraform
3 7 (13.21%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Puppet
5 3 (5.66%) Grafana
5 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) Podman
7 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) Ab Initio
3 5 (9.43%) OpenAI
3 5 (9.43%) Teradata
4 2 (3.77%) Foundry
5 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.89%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Tenable