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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 71 94
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 24 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.09% 1.74% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.96% 6.01% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 5
10th Percentile £380 £450 £560
25th Percentile £450 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £600 -
90th Percentile £580 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%

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 484 366 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.08% 29.02% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 202 151
10th Percentile £193 £201 £213
25th Percentile £363 £402 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £558
90th Percentile £619 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 43 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -24.73%
75th Percentile £53.38 £44.97 £21.37
90th Percentile £63.05 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%

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 7 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 7 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 - 5
Norfolk - 8 £450 -
Bedfordshire -5 4 £525 -4.55%
Cambridgeshire +1 1 £345 -35.06%
Essex -23 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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 8 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (29.17%) Azure AKS
5 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
6 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Datadog
8 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (4.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Marketing
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Agriculture
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Integration Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.50%) Node.js
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.17%) Express.js
4 1 (4.17%) gRPC
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) IoT
4 2 (8.33%) N-Tier
5 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.17%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Event-Driven
2 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
4 10 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Observability
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) AI
6 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (20.83%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
8 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (16.67%) Data Science
8 4 (16.67%) Generative AI
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Istio
3 1 (4.17%) linkerd
3 1 (4.17%) Packer
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 2 (8.33%) Trend Micro
3 1 (4.17%) Apple
3 1 (4.17%) Confluent
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Genesys
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) mParticle
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) New Relic
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Tealium
3 1 (4.17%) Workday