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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 83 160
Rank change year-on-year -56 +77 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 46 89 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.04% 2.48% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 7.83% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 65 25
10th Percentile £406 £407 £500
25th Percentile £413 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £600 £651 £650
90th Percentile £738 £671 £699
England median daily rate £500 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.09% -10.21%

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 1,362 1,137 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.90% 31.64% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 775 980
10th Percentile £219 £261 £206
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £628 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 16 30
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.75 £19.22
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.10 £20.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -14.59% +61.36%
75th Percentile £51.88 £46.25 £61.78
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £79.78
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -52 33 £435 -30.40% 13
Berkshire -48 25 £438 -30.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +6 7 £430 -25.22% 4
Hampshire -17 6 £725 +56.76% 1
Surrey -9 4 £450 -40.00%
West Sussex - 2 £725 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 4
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 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.35%) ArcGIS
3 2 (4.35%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.17%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) AWS
2 25 (54.35%) Azure
3 23 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (34.78%) Azure Functions
5 15 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (30.43%) Amazon S3
7 12 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (23.91%) GitHub
9 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
11 6 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (13.04%) Azure API Management
11 6 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (13.04%) OCI
12 5 (10.87%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (10.87%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (10.87%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (2.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (15.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (13.04%) Couchbase
2 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.70%) Big Data
5 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.35%) MySQL
6 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.17%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Metadata
7 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Power BI
7 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Git
2 11 (23.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) JIRA
4 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.52%) GitLab
5 3 (6.52%) Gradle
5 3 (6.52%) Maven
6 2 (4.35%) Postman
6 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Aviation
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Billing
4 1 (2.17%) Automotive
4 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Law
4 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Data Scientist
4 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) .NET
2 10 (21.74%) REST
3 9 (19.57%) RESTful
4 8 (17.39%) Kafka
5 7 (15.22%) .NET Core
6 6 (13.04%) GraphQL
7 5 (10.87%) Hugging Face
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js
7 5 (10.87%) NumPy
7 5 (10.87%) OAuth
7 5 (10.87%) Pandas
7 5 (10.87%) PyTorch
7 5 (10.87%) scikit-learn
8 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
8 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
8 4 (8.70%) OAuth2
8 4 (8.70%) React
8 4 (8.70%) SOAP
8 4 (8.70%) Spring
8 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Replication
3 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 6 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 25 (54.35%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Agile
3 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 12 (26.09%) Microservices
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.74%) High Availability
7 9 (19.57%) AI
7 9 (19.57%) Event-Driven
7 9 (19.57%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (17.39%) Data Governance
8 8 (17.39%) Observability
8 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (17.39%) Scrum
9 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
9 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
9 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) C#
4 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.39%) Java
6 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (13.04%) Bash
7 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
8 5 (10.87%) PHP
8 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Terraform
2 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Puppet
6 2 (4.35%) Grafana
6 2 (4.35%) Podman
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Confluent
2 6 (13.04%) IBM
3 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Sage
4 1 (2.17%) JDA
4 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Tenable