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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 83 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 26 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.02% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.43% 4.76% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 12
10th Percentile £450 £493 -
25th Percentile £488 £528 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +11.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £656
90th Percentile £623 - £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 350 273 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.20% 18.08% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 157 322
10th Percentile £220 £213 £191
25th Percentile £406 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -9.57% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 27
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £14.75
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -22.38% +35.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £23.96 £73.16
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 September 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 15 September 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
Bedfordshire +1 11 £550 - 2
Essex - 9 £478 - 4
Cambridgeshire +1 6 £531 -0.70% 6
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.85%) CMS
3 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) AWS
1 24 (92.31%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (69.23%) Amazon S3
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (30.77%) dbt
3 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (19.23%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) DynamoDB
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
2 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
2 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) webpack
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.85%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Snowflake Architect
4 7 (26.92%) AWS Architect
5 6 (23.08%) AWS Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Automation Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Integration Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Senior
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Node.js
1 3 (11.54%) React
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Amplify
2 2 (7.69%) Celery
2 2 (7.69%) D3.js
2 2 (7.69%) Django
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Sass
2 2 (7.69%) Vue
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.85%) Express.js
3 1 (3.85%) MERN Stack
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Data Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 8 (30.77%) ETL
2 8 (30.77%) Migration
3 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
3 7 (26.92%) Natural Language Processing
4 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Sentiment Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Conversational UI
7 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (11.54%) Generative AI
7 3 (11.54%) Natural Language Understanding
8 2 (7.69%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 8 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft