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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 77 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 25 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.22% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.98% 1.97% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £451 £530 £300
25th Percentile £528 £575 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +43.59% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £751 £650
90th Percentile £620 £751 £681
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 418 254 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.41% 26.79% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 154 174
10th Percentile £199 £200 £208
25th Percentile £363 £328 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 57
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +31.10% -6.86%
75th Percentile £43.61 £30.41 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.49 £65.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%

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 6 April 2026.

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 6 April 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
Cambridgeshire +8 8 £600 -14.29% 3
Norfolk -21 7 £463 - 7
Bedfordshire -5 4 £600 +20.00% 2
Hertfordshire -22 3 £575 - 7
Suffolk +2 2 £550 -26.76%
Essex - 1 - - 1
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 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 5 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (12.00%) GCP
7 3 (12.00%) GitHub
7 3 (12.00%) PaaS
7 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) REST
1 6 (24.00%) RESTful
2 5 (20.00%) JSON
2 5 (20.00%) Node.js
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware
4 2 (8.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Avro
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) LDAP
5 1 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (4.00%) WCF
5 1 (4.00%) XML
5 1 (4.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) AI
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 4 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
7 4 (16.00%) ETL
7 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (16.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
7 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (16.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (12.00%) NIST
4 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Nagios
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Foundry
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.00%) CloudEndure
4 1 (4.00%) Confluent
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.00%) StreamSets
4 1 (4.00%) Trend Micro
4 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (4.00%) Workday