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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 96 89
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 +39
Contract jobs citing Serverless 26 40 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 1.53% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 5.52% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 52
10th Percentile £473 £482 £525
25th Percentile - £506 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.08% +20.10%
75th Percentile - £650 £702
90th Percentile £588 £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 491 725 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.75% 27.79% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 500 624
10th Percentile £263 £281 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile £14.65 £16.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.27 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £50.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.22% +101.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.20 £60.72 £56.50
90th Percentile £76.01 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £24.43 £24.00
% change year-on-year +16.66% +1.79% +14.15%

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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 23 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 23 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 +22 26 £500 -20.00% 208
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 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (38.46%) Azure
4 9 (34.62%) GitHub
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (23.08%) Azure AKS
6 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
6 5 (19.23%) SaaS
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) HBase
5 1 (3.85%) HDInsight
5 1 (3.85%) Impala
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) JMeter
2 2 (7.69%) JUnit
2 2 (7.69%) Mockito
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Developer
2 4 (15.38%) React Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) Node.js
2 5 (19.23%) React
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (11.54%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Camel
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) jQuery
5 2 (7.69%) OAuth
5 2 (7.69%) OpenID
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) SAML
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (23.08%) Scrum
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (15.38%) SDLC
7 3 (11.54%) API Design
7 3 (11.54%) API Management
7 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) High Availability
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) BDD
8 2 (7.69%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Virgin Media
3 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Spotify
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic
4 1 (3.85%) StreamSets