Serverless Contracts in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -37 +38 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 54 113 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.99% 2.02% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 6.73% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 96 69
10th Percentile £468 £469 £406
25th Percentile £511 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £760
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,304 1,679 2,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.97% 30.05% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,227 1,777
10th Percentile £250 £252 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 50 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +12.35% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.44 £30.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.08 £56.63
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in the South East

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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 16 May 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
Thames Valley -25 39 £600 - 11
Berkshire -20 35 £625 +4.17% 7
Hampshire -12 8 £598 +8.64% 2
Surrey -7 5 £593 +12.86% 7
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £600 -4.00% 3
East Sussex +2 1 £450 -21.74% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Azure
2 36 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 29 (53.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (37.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (37.04%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (33.33%) AWS
6 15 (27.78%) Entra ID
7 13 (24.07%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (20.37%) Amazon S3
9 10 (18.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (14.81%) Azure API Management
11 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
12 5 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (7.41%) PaaS
13 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
1 2 (3.70%) Network Security
1 2 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) NoSQL
2 13 (24.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (9.26%) Power BI
6 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.56%) Big Data
7 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.70%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.85%) Impala
9 1 (1.85%) PowerCenter
9 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) Selenium
2 6 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) JUnit
4 2 (3.70%) kappa
4 2 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (1.85%) ERwin
5 1 (1.85%) JMeter
5 1 (1.85%) Mockito
5 1 (1.85%) NUnit
5 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (66.67%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Azure Developer
3 19 (35.19%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Python Developer
5 9 (16.67%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Architect
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Integration Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Lead
10 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) React
2 9 (16.67%) Node.js
2 9 (16.67%) REST
3 7 (12.96%) XML
4 6 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (9.26%) ARM Templates
6 4 (7.41%) SOAP
6 4 (7.41%) Spring
6 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (7.41%) Web Services
7 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.56%) JSON
7 3 (5.56%) OAuth
7 3 (5.56%) OpenAPI
7 3 (5.56%) OpenID
7 3 (5.56%) Swagger
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.70%) Django
8 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.26%) Smart Meter
3 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Unix
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) DevOps
2 28 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.74%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (37.04%) Agile
5 19 (35.19%) Microservices
6 14 (25.93%) SDLC
7 13 (24.07%) Change Management
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (22.22%) Unit Testing
9 11 (20.37%) Data Modelling
9 11 (20.37%) Scrum
10 10 (18.52%) Product Backlog
11 9 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 8 (14.81%) Analytics
12 8 (14.81%) Data Science
12 8 (14.81%) ETL
13 7 (12.96%) TDD
14 6 (11.11%) OO
15 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
15 5 (9.26%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Python
2 16 (29.63%) SQL
3 14 (25.93%) Java
4 8 (14.81%) C#
5 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.56%) C
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Docker
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Ab Initio
3 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) Informatica
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk