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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 65 81
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 20 28 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.84% 2.15% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 7.95% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 8
10th Percentile £348 £450 £493
25th Percentile £400 £488 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -12.34% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile - £623 -
England median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -

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 532 352 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.46% 26.99% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 197 164
10th Percentile £190 £220 £213
25th Percentile £345 £410 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £505 £423
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% +19.53% -7.40%
75th Percentile £552 £580 £563
90th Percentile £618 £688 £634
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 30 25
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.63 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £30.03 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.72% +84.23% -18.50%
75th Percentile £39.25 £60.48 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.20 £67.00 £26.55
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 - 8 £550 - 3
Norfolk - 6 £450 -
Bedfordshire -6 3 £500 -9.09%
Cambridgeshire -2 2 £345 -35.06% 14
Essex -24 1 £505 +5.76% 5
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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (10.00%) Datadog
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) SSL
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (5.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Agriculture
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kafka
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) .NET
5 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (10.00%) gRPC
5 2 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.00%) Express.js
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) MERN Stack
6 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (15.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) IoT
5 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Event-Driven
1 11 (55.00%) Microservices
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Observability
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) AI
6 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (20.00%) Data Science
6 4 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
2 1 (5.00%) linkerd
2 1 (5.00%) Packer
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (5.00%) Apple
3 1 (5.00%) Braze
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Genesys
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) mParticle
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Tealium