Serverless Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Serverless Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Serverless Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Serverless Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £413 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 796 461 711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 89.17% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 337 502
10th Percentile £313 £182 £250
25th Percentile £409 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 39
10th Percentile £14.10 - £12.95
25th Percentile £17.17 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.26 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.00% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £26.10 £29.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £68.58
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +18.92%

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Serverless Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Serverless Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Serverless Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring