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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 73 93
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 38 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.60% 0.79% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.25% 3.65% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 14
10th Percentile £420 £485 £330
25th Percentile £456 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +16.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £547
90th Percentile £623 £695 £635
England median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - -8.33%

All Cloud 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 411 274 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.17% 21.56% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 159 278
10th Percentile £213 £219 £185
25th Percentile £363 £306 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £597 £571 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.56 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £68.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 +4 18 £544 -4.61% 3
Bedfordshire - 11 £550 - 9
Essex - 8 £478 - 1
Norfolk -18 1 £475 - 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 5 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) AWS
1 25 (65.79%) AWS Lambda
2 19 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 15 (39.47%) Azure
4 13 (34.21%) Azure Functions
5 10 (26.32%) Azure AKS
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub
6 8 (21.05%) PaaS
6 8 (21.05%) Snowflake
7 7 (18.42%) dbt
7 7 (18.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) DynamoDB
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 4 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.89%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.63%) Big Data
6 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
1 2 (5.26%) Selenium
1 2 (5.26%) webpack
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.63%) Agriculture
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Architect
2 13 (34.21%) Developer
3 8 (21.05%) AWS Architect
4 7 (18.42%) Snowflake Architect
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Integration Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) RESTful
2 10 (26.32%) .NET
3 7 (18.42%) PyTorch
3 7 (18.42%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (18.42%) TensorFlow
4 5 (13.16%) React
5 4 (10.53%) Node.js
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Amplify
6 2 (5.26%) Celery
6 2 (5.26%) D3.js
6 2 (5.26%) Django
6 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) Sass
6 2 (5.26%) Vue
6 2 (5.26%) Web Services
7 1 (2.63%) MERN Stack
7 1 (2.63%) Pandas
7 1 (2.63%) Redux
7 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.42%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (36.84%) AI
3 11 (28.95%) API Management
3 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
4 10 (26.32%) Data Privacy
4 10 (26.32%) LLM
4 10 (26.32%) Machine Learning
4 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) Agile
5 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (23.68%) ETL
6 8 (21.05%) Migration
6 8 (21.05%) Prompt Engineering
6 8 (21.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 7 (18.42%) Data Migration
7 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
7 7 (18.42%) Deep Learning
7 7 (18.42%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (15.79%) API Design
8 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 30 (78.95%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
1 7 (18.42%) MCP
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) EU AI Act
2 6 (15.79%) NIST
3 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.63%) Nagios
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Foundry
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle
4 5 (13.16%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.63%) CloudEndure
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.63%) Veeam
5 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler