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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 69 99
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 28 23 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.28% 1.88% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 6.28% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 6
10th Percentile £400 £450 £431
25th Percentile £501 £488 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £606 £650
90th Percentile £590 £681 £681
England median daily rate £530 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.41% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +62.22% - -

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 490 366 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.34% 29.93% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 202 162
10th Percentile £193 £200 £220
25th Percentile £380 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -3.89%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £563
90th Percentile £627 £675 £650
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 47 52
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.25 £20.50 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +25.77% -25.91%
75th Percentile £58.88 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £69.75 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 - 10 £550 - 5
Norfolk - 8 £450 - 2
Bedfordshire -5 7 £550 -
Suffolk -5 2 £550 -26.76% 2
Essex -22 1 £505 +12.22%
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 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) AWS
2 16 (57.14%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) Azure Functions
4 9 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (32.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (28.57%) Azure AKS
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (17.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
8 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
10 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (7.14%) Datadog
10 2 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) SSL
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) InfluxDB
1 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.14%) Data Vault
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (3.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (7.14%) Marketing
1 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Agriculture
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Billing
2 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Law
2 1 (3.57%) Legal
2 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) JSON
2 4 (14.29%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Avro
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.57%) Express.js
5 1 (3.57%) MERN Stack
5 1 (3.57%) Middleware
5 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (7.14%) IoT
4 2 (7.14%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.57%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (28.57%) AI
6 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Agile
7 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 6 (21.43%) Generative AI
7 6 (21.43%) Observability
8 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
8 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.29%) CRM
9 4 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (14.29%) Data Science
9 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
5 2 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCSP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.71%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Packer
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.14%) Foundry
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) PagerDuty
3 2 (7.14%) Trend Micro
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Genesys
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) mParticle
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Tealium
4 1 (3.57%) Workday