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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 77 103
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 23 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.04% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 2.19% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £455 £533 £431
25th Percentile £519 £581 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £719 £650
90th Percentile £599 £738 £681
England median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 435 274 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.76% 28.81% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 170 160
10th Percentile £198 £200 £199
25th Percentile £400 £396 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £651 £675 £655
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 65
10th Percentile £14.13 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.36 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% - -16.41%
75th Percentile £54.69 £21.92 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £31.64 £53.45
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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
Norfolk - 7 £488 - 2
Hertfordshire -16 6 £550 - 3
Bedfordshire -6 4 £600 +20.00% 1
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £575 -14.81%
Suffolk -3 2 £550 -26.76% 1
Essex -11 2 £505 -
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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (34.78%) Azure Functions
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (21.74%) Azure AKS
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (8.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
1 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
2 1 (4.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Agriculture
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Designer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (8.70%) Integration Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Node.js
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) JSON
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.35%) Blazor
4 1 (4.35%) eBPF
4 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Express.js
4 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.35%) MERN Stack
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Event-Driven
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
5 6 (26.09%) AI
5 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Generative AI
6 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 4 (17.39%) Security Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (13.04%) ERP
8 3 (13.04%) ETL
8 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
8 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) CCSP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) HIPAA
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Foundry
2 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.35%) StreamSets
3 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro
3 1 (4.35%) Workday