Serverless Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Serverless Computing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 77 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 29 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.90% 0.78% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.71% 3.47% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 12
10th Percentile £385 £485 £310
25th Percentile £450 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +11.22% +2.50%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £563
90th Percentile £624 £695 £645
England median daily rate £505 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -9.05% +0.95% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 376 288 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.62% 22.48% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 169 266
10th Percentile £209 £220 £186
25th Percentile £350 £306 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -11.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £670 £663
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 33
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.33 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the East of England

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the East of England

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Cambridgeshire +5 17 £550 -3.51% 1
Essex - 7 £478 -
Bedfordshire - 4 £500 - 6
Norfolk -18 1 £475 -
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
1 16 (55.17%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 13 (44.83%) Azure Functions
4 11 (37.93%) Amazon S3
5 10 (34.48%) Azure AKS
6 8 (27.59%) GitHub
6 8 (27.59%) PaaS
7 7 (24.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (24.14%) Snowflake
8 6 (20.69%) dbt
9 5 (17.24%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (10.34%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
12 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
13 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) Selenium
1 2 (6.90%) webpack
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Agriculture
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Snowflake Architect
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) RESTful
2 10 (34.48%) .NET
3 7 (24.14%) PyTorch
3 7 (24.14%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (24.14%) TensorFlow
4 5 (17.24%) React
5 4 (13.79%) Node.js
6 2 (6.90%) Celery
6 2 (6.90%) D3.js
6 2 (6.90%) Django
6 2 (6.90%) Sass
6 2 (6.90%) Vue
6 2 (6.90%) Web Services
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (3.45%) LDAP
7 1 (3.45%) MERN Stack
7 1 (3.45%) Pandas
7 1 (3.45%) Redux
7 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) AI
2 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (37.93%) Test Automation
4 10 (34.48%) API Management
4 10 (34.48%) Data Privacy
4 10 (34.48%) LLM
4 10 (34.48%) Machine Learning
4 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 9 (31.03%) Agile
6 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (27.59%) ETL
6 8 (27.59%) Prompt Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 7 (24.14%) Deep Learning
7 7 (24.14%) Migration
8 6 (20.69%) API Design
8 6 (20.69%) Data Migration
8 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
9 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (17.24%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) MCP
2 6 (20.69%) Degree
3 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) EU AI Act
2 6 (20.69%) NIST
3 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Foundry
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.45%) CloudEndure
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.45%) Zscaler