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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 17 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.58% 2.21% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.93% 9.38% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £338 £485 -
25th Percentile £456 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +14.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £525
90th Percentile £633 £695 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £573 £525
% change year-on-year -8.30% +9.05% -1.18%

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 122 96 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 32.88% 23.59% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 55
10th Percentile £306 £300 £180
25th Percentile £402 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £440
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £537
90th Percentile £700 £625 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £456
% change year-on-year +19.05% -7.95% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 22
10th Percentile £14.99 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year - -13.57% +30.07%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.75
90th Percentile - £21.40 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £23.78 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +18.90% - +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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +3 17 £544 +1.16% 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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Functions
3 9 (52.94%) Azure AKS
4 8 (47.06%) GitHub
4 8 (47.06%) PaaS
5 7 (41.18%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (35.29%) AWS
6 6 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (11.76%) Azure API Management
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
1 2 (11.76%) webpack
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) RESTful
2 10 (58.82%) .NET
3 7 (41.18%) PyTorch
3 7 (41.18%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (41.18%) TensorFlow
4 3 (17.65%) React
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Amplify
5 2 (11.76%) Celery
5 2 (11.76%) D3.js
5 2 (11.76%) Django
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 2 (11.76%) Sass
5 2 (11.76%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) JSON
6 1 (5.88%) Middleware
6 1 (5.88%) XML
6 1 (5.88%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (41.18%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) API Management
2 10 (58.82%) AI
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 9 (52.94%) Data Privacy
3 9 (52.94%) Machine Learning
3 9 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (47.06%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (41.18%) Deep Learning
5 7 (41.18%) LLM
5 7 (41.18%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (35.29%) API Design
7 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (29.41%) Scrum
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (23.53%) Validation
9 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
9 3 (17.65%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) MCP
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) EU AI Act
2 6 (35.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Foundry
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) CloudEndure
4 1 (5.88%) Virgin Media