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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 74 99
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 29 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.45% 0.51% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 1.91% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 7
10th Percentile £455 £530 £300
25th Percentile £519 £575 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £751 £594
90th Percentile £614 £751 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 418 262 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.90% 26.82% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 162 181
10th Percentile £203 £200 £194
25th Percentile £363 £322 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 31 55
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.20 £14.29
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +31.66% -5.51%
75th Percentile £42.58 £30.82 £21.42
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -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 30 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 30 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 +10 11 £575 -17.86% 3
Norfolk -21 7 £463 - 7
Bedfordshire -5 5 £600 +20.00% 2
Hertfordshire -19 3 £575 - 7
Suffolk +3 2 £550 -26.76%
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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Functions
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (27.59%) Azure AKS
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (20.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 6 (20.69%) PaaS
6 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (17.24%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (13.79%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (10.34%) GCP
8 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
8 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) RESTful
2 6 (20.69%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) REST
3 5 (17.24%) JSON
3 5 (17.24%) Node.js
4 4 (13.79%) A2A Protocol
4 4 (13.79%) Model Context Protocol
4 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
4 4 (13.79%) Semantic Kernel
4 4 (13.79%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 4 (13.79%) TensorFlow
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.90%) Middleware
5 2 (6.90%) React
6 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.45%) LDAP
6 1 (3.45%) SOAP
6 1 (3.45%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) DevOps
2 11 (37.93%) AI
3 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Machine Learning
5 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Data Privacy
6 7 (24.14%) Event-Driven
6 7 (24.14%) LLM
6 7 (24.14%) Prompt Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
7 6 (20.69%) API Management
7 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
7 6 (20.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (17.24%) Generative AI
9 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) C#
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CCSP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.24%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) EU AI Act
3 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.90%) GDPR
4 2 (6.90%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Foundry
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) CloudEndure
5 1 (3.45%) Confluent
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) New Relic
5 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.45%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.45%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.45%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.45%) Veeam
5 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.45%) Workday
5 1 (3.45%) Zscaler