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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 77 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 24 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.42% 0.91% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.92% 3.66% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £438 £485 £300
25th Percentile £475 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £538
90th Percentile £623 £695 £540
England median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +201.92% - -

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 347 273 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.57% 24.86% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 158 202
10th Percentile £200 £213 £188
25th Percentile £350 £318 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £562
90th Percentile £713 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 36
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £19.95 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +7.30% +26.98%
75th Percentile £36.81 £30.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +9 15 £573 +0.44% 10
Essex - 5 £505 - 8
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 - 9
Hertfordshire -15 1 - - 13
Norfolk -23 1 £475 - 8
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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Azure Functions
3 12 (50.00%) AWS
4 10 (41.67%) Azure AKS
5 9 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (37.50%) GitHub
6 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 8 (33.33%) PaaS
7 7 (29.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
9 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (16.67%) dbt
10 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (12.50%) GCP
11 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
11 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Agriculture
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) RESTful
2 9 (37.50%) .NET
3 7 (29.17%) PyTorch
3 7 (29.17%) Semantic Kernel
3 7 (29.17%) TensorFlow
4 4 (16.67%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.17%) CSS
6 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.17%) Express.js
6 1 (4.17%) HTML
6 1 (4.17%) LDAP
6 1 (4.17%) Middleware
6 1 (4.17%) Pandas
6 1 (4.17%) SOAP
6 1 (4.17%) XML
6 1 (4.17%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) AI
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Data Privacy
2 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
2 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) API Management
4 8 (33.33%) LLM
4 8 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (29.17%) Deep Learning
6 6 (25.00%) API Design
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (25.00%) ETL
7 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) MCP
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) NIST
2 7 (29.17%) EU AI Act
3 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) Nagios
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Foundry
3 3 (12.50%) StreamSets
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) CloudEndure
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) SaltStack
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler