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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 82 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 28 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.47% 0.39% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.05% 1.46% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 6
10th Percentile £445 £660 £300
25th Percentile £503 £675 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £726 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +70.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £751 £538
90th Percentile £616 £751 £625
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +201.92% - -

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 397 274 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.86% 26.94% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 168 195
10th Percentile £200 £204 £185
25th Percentile £361 £318 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £471 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +2.90% -8.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £558
90th Percentile £688 £675 £652
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 52
10th Percentile £13.20 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.82 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.89 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +9.95% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.15 £21.88 £22.03
90th Percentile £60.00 £74.38 £65.75
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +12 15 £573 -18.21%
Bedfordshire - 5 £600 - 2
Norfolk -27 3 £475 - 2
Suffolk +6 2 £550 -26.76% 1
Hertfordshire -23 2 - - 6
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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 17 (60.71%) Azure Functions
3 13 (46.43%) AWS
4 11 (39.29%) Azure AKS
5 9 (32.14%) GitHub
6 8 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (28.57%) PaaS
7 7 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
9 5 (17.86%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (17.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (10.71%) GCP
11 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
12 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
12 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Law
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) RESTful
2 9 (32.14%) .NET
3 7 (25.00%) A2A Protocol
3 7 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 7 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 7 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (14.29%) Spring
4 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.71%) JSON
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
5 3 (10.71%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Blazor
6 1 (3.57%) eBPF
6 1 (3.57%) Redux
6 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.57%) Software Packaging
6 1 (3.57%) WCF
6 1 (3.57%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) N-Tier
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) AI
2 12 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
4 10 (35.71%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (35.71%) Data Privacy
4 10 (35.71%) LLM
4 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (35.71%) Prompt Engineering
4 10 (35.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 9 (32.14%) API Management
6 7 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 6 (21.43%) API Design
7 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven
7 6 (21.43%) Generative AI
8 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) C#
2 4 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CCSP
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) NIST
2 7 (25.00%) EU AI Act
3 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (7.14%) HIPAA
4 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Nagios
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) Foundry
3 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) CloudEndure
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.57%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam
4 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.57%) Zscaler