Serverless Contracts in the South West

Serverless Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 130 120
Rank change year-on-year +40 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 29 24 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.63% 0.73% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.21% 2.90% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 30
10th Percentile £363 £390 £568
25th Percentile £413 £458 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -16.98% +16.48%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £700
90th Percentile £654 - £776
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 557 828 1,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.34% 25.17% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 601 867
10th Percentile £224 £215 £300
25th Percentile £357 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £669
90th Percentile £686 £675 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 47 62
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.41 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £67.50 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year -72.04% +27.54% +146.16%
75th Percentile £34.50 £70.00 £75.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £21.46 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.50% -38.51% +62.31%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the South West

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the South West

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South West over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Devon +14 8 £500 -16.67% 75
Wiltshire +38 7 £650 +40.54% 41
Dorset - 7 £525 - 36
Somerset - 3 £425 - 51
Bristol +12 2 £500 +11.11% 92
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (37.93%) GitHub
4 8 (27.59%) Azure
5 7 (24.14%) Amazon S3
6 6 (20.69%) Azure Functions
7 4 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (6.90%) Datadog
9 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.90%) Prefect
9 2 (6.90%) SaaS
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (3.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DHCP
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (37.93%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
4 1 (3.45%) Electronics
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Digital Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Software Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Integration Developer
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Software Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior .NET Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
1 8 (27.59%) AWS CDK
2 7 (24.14%) Node.js
3 6 (20.69%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
5 3 (10.34%) JSON
5 3 (10.34%) XML
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.90%) Django
6 2 (6.90%) Metaflow
6 2 (6.90%) NumPy
6 2 (6.90%) OpenAPI
6 2 (6.90%) Swagger
7 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.45%) React
7 1 (3.45%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.24%) API Development
6 5 (17.24%) Clean Code
6 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 4 (13.79%) API Management
7 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) Secure Coding
8 3 (10.34%) API Design
8 3 (10.34%) BDD
8 3 (10.34%) ETL
8 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.24%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) SQL
6 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Java
7 1 (3.45%) Perl
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
1 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) SAP