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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 18 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.56% 2.57% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.65% 9.89% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £395 £485 -
25th Percentile £531 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £525
90th Percentile £643 £695 -
East of England median daily rate £538 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% +14.00% -

All Cloud 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 102 91 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.82% 26.00% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 51 35
10th Percentile £305 £300 £220
25th Percentile £383 £340 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £613
90th Percentile £668 £650 £690
East of England median daily rate £485 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +14.12% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 25
10th Percentile £16.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £19.81 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +21.11% +14.32%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Cambridgeshire

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 3 December 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
Cambridge +2 17 £570 +6.05% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Azure Functions
3 9 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 8 (44.44%) AWS
4 8 (44.44%) GitHub
4 8 (44.44%) PaaS
5 7 (38.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (11.11%) GCP
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (5.56%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) webpack
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) RESTful
2 9 (50.00%) .NET
3 7 (38.89%) PyTorch
3 7 (38.89%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (38.89%) TensorFlow
4 4 (22.22%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Celery
5 2 (11.11%) D3.js
5 2 (11.11%) Django
5 2 (11.11%) Sass
5 2 (11.11%) Vue
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
6 1 (5.56%) eBPF
6 1 (5.56%) HTML
6 1 (5.56%) JSON
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) XML
6 1 (5.56%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) AI
2 10 (55.56%) API Management
2 10 (55.56%) Data Privacy
2 10 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) LLM
4 8 (44.44%) Prompt Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (38.89%) Deep Learning
6 6 (33.33%) API Design
6 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) DevOps
7 5 (27.78%) Scrum
8 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (22.22%) Validation
9 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) MCP
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NIST
2 7 (38.89%) EU AI Act
3 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Foundry
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.56%) CloudEndure
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Virgin Media