Serverless Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Serverless Computing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Serverless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 16 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.03% 1.00% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.99% 3.81% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 15
10th Percentile - £328 £370
25th Percentile £380 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £537 £638 £504
90th Percentile £571 £720 £610
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 229 210 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.02% 26.25% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 120 233
10th Percentile £332 £190 £213
25th Percentile £369 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -0.66% +0.11%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £530
90th Percentile £573 £649 £624
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the East Midlands

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the East Midlands

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Nottinghamshire -1 6 £380 -49.33% 2
Lincolnshire +8 5 £528 -15.60%
Northamptonshire -8 5 £451 +19.18% 2
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Functions
5 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
5 5 (31.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (25.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) DynamoDB
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
1 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 4 (25.00%) Django
2 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (18.75%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Express.js
5 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (6.25%) Flask
5 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Fabric
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) SDLC
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) Budget Control
7 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Data Science
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Presales
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (25.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Google