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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 83 164
Rank change year-on-year -62 +81 -35
Contract jobs citing Serverless 51 72 43
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.00% 2.35% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 7.29% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 52 30
10th Percentile £413 £405 £448
25th Percentile £416 £446 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £656 £727
England median daily rate £506 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,557 988 1,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.55% 32.30% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 673 996
10th Percentile £263 £280 £213
25th Percentile £395 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £608
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 24 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.76 £16.54
25th Percentile £16.37 £18.11 £19.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.37% -5.40% +35.38%
75th Percentile £73.13 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £72.27 £62.00
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.81 £21.19
% change year-on-year +43.74% +26.56% -15.26%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -70 24 £488 -15.22% 7
Berkshire -50 23 £475 -17.39% 2
Surrey -7 10 £425 -43.33% 1
Hampshire -18 8 £725 +27.75% 5
West Sussex - 4 £725 -
Kent - 2 £550 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 -
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 7 (13.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 3 (5.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
5 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (64.71%) Azure
2 26 (50.98%) AWS
2 26 (50.98%) Azure Functions
3 19 (37.25%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (33.33%) GitHub
5 12 (23.53%) Amazon S3
5 12 (23.53%) Entra ID
6 9 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 8 (15.69%) Azure API Management
8 7 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (13.73%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (13.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (13.73%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (13.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (9.80%) Power Automate
10 5 (9.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
1 2 (3.92%) SSL
2 1 (1.96%) MQTT
2 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
3 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.88%) Big Data
5 3 (5.88%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.96%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Git
2 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.88%) Gradle
4 3 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (3.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Aviation
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Billing
5 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Senior
3 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Platform Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Power Platform Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) REST
2 14 (27.45%) .NET
3 8 (15.69%) ARM Templates
3 8 (15.69%) Kafka
3 8 (15.69%) Spring
3 8 (15.69%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.73%) GraphQL
4 7 (13.73%) Node.js
4 7 (13.73%) OAuth
5 6 (11.76%) React
6 5 (9.80%) .NET Core
6 5 (9.80%) OAuth2
7 4 (7.84%) JSON
7 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (7.84%) RESTful
8 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.88%) Next.js
8 3 (5.88%) OpenID
8 3 (5.88%) SAML
8 3 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Replication
4 2 (3.92%) Wiki
5 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
1 5 (9.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 30 (58.82%) DevOps
3 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (37.25%) Agile
5 17 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 15 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 13 (25.49%) Microservices
8 12 (23.53%) AI
8 12 (23.53%) ETL
9 9 (17.65%) Data Governance
9 9 (17.65%) Event-Driven
9 9 (17.65%) High Availability
9 9 (17.65%) Observability
9 9 (17.65%) RBAC
10 8 (15.69%) API Management
10 8 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (13.73%) Analytics
11 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Python
2 20 (39.22%) SQL
3 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 17 (33.33%) C#
5 12 (23.53%) PowerShell
6 11 (21.57%) Java
7 8 (15.69%) Bash
8 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
9 5 (9.80%) PHP
10 2 (3.92%) Bicep
10 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) QA
2 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Terraform
2 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.73%) Ansible
4 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.84%) Puppet
6 3 (5.88%) Grafana
7 2 (3.92%) Podman
8 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Databricks
3 5 (9.80%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.88%) Ab Initio
4 3 (5.88%) Confluent
4 3 (5.88%) IBM
4 3 (5.88%) Teradata
5 2 (3.92%) Foundry
6 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.96%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) Tenable