Serverless Contracts in the Thames Valley

Serverless Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 107 98
Rank change year-on-year +38 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 33 38 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 1.41% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.46% 5.03% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 41
10th Percentile £409 £464 £525
25th Percentile - £506 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £701
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +30 33 £500 -16.67% 34
Serverless
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.06%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 13 (39.39%) Azure Functions
4 10 (30.30%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 9 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (24.24%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (24.24%) GitHub
7 7 (21.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
8 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (15.15%) SaaS
10 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
10 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (12.12%) Redis
4 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.03%) HBase
6 1 (3.03%) HDInsight
6 1 (3.03%) Impala
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 2 (6.06%) JMeter
4 2 (6.06%) JUnit
4 2 (6.06%) Mockito
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Azure Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) React Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Python Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Architect
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Architect
8 3 (9.09%) Backend Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Engineering Manager
9 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Senior
9 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (3.03%) .NET Architect
10 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.03%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) React
2 8 (24.24%) JSON
3 5 (15.15%) Node.js
3 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 4 (12.12%) .NET
4 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
4 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
4 4 (12.12%) Prisma
5 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (9.09%) REST
6 2 (6.06%) Apache Camel
6 2 (6.06%) HTML
6 2 (6.06%) jQuery
6 2 (6.06%) OAuth
6 2 (6.06%) OpenID
6 2 (6.06%) SAML
6 2 (6.06%) Spring
6 2 (6.06%) Web Services
6 2 (6.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 21 (63.64%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Microservices
4 13 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (27.27%) SDLC
6 8 (24.24%) Agile
7 6 (18.18%) API Design
7 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
7 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 6 (18.18%) Product Backlog
7 6 (18.18%) Scrum
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
9 4 (12.12%) Cost Management
9 4 (12.12%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (12.12%) Front End Development
9 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) C#
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
2 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Kibana
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Virgin Media
3 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.06%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Spotify
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) New Relic
4 1 (3.03%) StreamSets