Serverless Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Serverless Computing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 2 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.52% 4.59% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 14.05% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 4
10th Percentile - £338 £483
25th Percentile - £456 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £544 £535
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +1.64% +7.00%
75th Percentile - £595 £592
90th Percentile - £629 £604
East of England median daily rate £515 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -1.90% -7.89% +8.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 88 121 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.04% 32.70% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 67 50
10th Percentile £185 £308 £287
25th Percentile £330 £403 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +19.64% -4.27%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £587
90th Percentile £700 £700 £610
East of England median daily rate £494 £503 £420
% change year-on-year -1.79% +19.64% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 7
10th Percentile - £14.99 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £16.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +298.77% - -13.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £18.84
90th Percentile - - £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £18.15
% change year-on-year -30.00% +37.74% -9.25%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. 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
Cambridge -6 2 £345 -36.55% 3
Serverless
East of England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) CQRS
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Trade-off Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) linkerd