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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 74 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 23 22 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.05% 1.75% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 6.06% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 6
10th Percentile £375 £450 £488
25th Percentile £438 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £563 £625 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%

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 479 363 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.85% 28.86% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 202 156
10th Percentile £193 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £402 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £501 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +19.35% -6.67%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £550
90th Percentile £613 £673 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 39
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -25.91%
75th Percentile £44.46 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £63.05 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 - 3
Norfolk - 8 £450 - 1
Bedfordshire -1 3 £500 -9.09%
Cambridgeshire -1 1 £345 -35.06% 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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Functions
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (26.09%) Azure AKS
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
6 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) WAN
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
3 1 (4.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Agriculture
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Billing
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Integration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
3 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.70%) REST
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.35%) Express.js
5 1 (4.35%) gRPC
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) IoT
4 2 (8.70%) N-Tier
5 1 (4.35%) e-Learning
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.35%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Event-Driven
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) Microservices
4 9 (39.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (30.43%) Observability
6 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 6 (26.09%) AI
6 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (21.74%) Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
8 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (17.39%) Data Science
8 4 (17.39%) Generative AI
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Groovy
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCSP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
2 1 (4.35%) linkerd
2 1 (4.35%) Packer
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) PagerDuty
2 2 (8.70%) Trend Micro
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Genesys
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) mParticle
3 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Tealium
3 1 (4.35%) Workday