Serverless Contracts in the South West

Serverless Computing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 138 114
Rank change year-on-year +8 -24 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 22 36 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.69% 0.98% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.83% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 53
10th Percentile £386 £560 £425
25th Percentile £514 £600 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £663 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +16.23% +26.67%
75th Percentile £600 £673 £650
90th Percentile £660 £776 £670
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 809 1,270 1,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.38% 34.64% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 1,019 854
10th Percentile £205 £287 £255
25th Percentile £350 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 59 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £53.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.82% +113.40% -44.44%
75th Percentile £21.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +44.05% -2.33%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire +12 11 £550 -15.45% 4
Bristol +17 7 £400 -37.62% 17
Devon -5 2 £600 - 2
Wiltshire -7 1 £800 +20.75% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (54.55%) Amazon S3
4 9 (40.91%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (9.09%) Azure
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.55%) Firebase
8 1 (4.55%) PaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Network Security
2 5 (22.73%) AMQP
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (27.27%) InfluxDB
2 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 4 (18.18%) React
3 3 (13.64%) React Native
3 3 (13.64%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) CSS3
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) HTML5
4 2 (9.09%) Jest
4 2 (9.09%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) Next.js
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 6 (27.27%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Service Management
6 4 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.09%) BDD
8 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (9.09%) TDD
8 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) Go
5 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
6 4 (18.18%) C
6 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 2 (9.09%) Bash
7 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.55%) Bicep
8 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 9 (40.91%) Grafana
2 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
3 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 7 (31.82%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (27.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (9.09%) Puppet
7 1 (4.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) SAP