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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 16 33 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.66% 2.48% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 8.99% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 6
10th Percentile £347 £390 £488
25th Percentile £400 £469 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% +9.05%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £622
90th Percentile - £615 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -

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 557 367 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.03% 27.64% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 210 175
10th Percentile £189 £225 £216
25th Percentile £345 £407 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £420
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +23.21% -11.58%
75th Percentile £570 £586 £558
90th Percentile £638 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 30 18
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.30 £14.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.78 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.41% +45.89% -18.50%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.88 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.50 £67.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £550 - 4
Bedfordshire -11 3 £500 -9.09% 6
Cambridgeshire -9 2 £345 -35.81% 23
Norfolk - 2 £463 - 3
Essex -25 1 £505 +5.76% 9
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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (12.50%) CloudFront
6 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
2 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) InfluxDB
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (6.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
2 1 (6.25%) Billing
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 2 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) gRPC
4 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (6.25%) Express.js
5 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) IoT
5 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
5 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (6.25%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Event-Driven
1 10 (62.50%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Observability
4 5 (31.25%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven Programming
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCSP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Istio
2 1 (6.25%) linkerd
2 1 (6.25%) Packer
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) Braze
2 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Genesys
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) mParticle
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Tealium
2 1 (6.25%) Trend Micro