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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 40 63
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 +18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 18 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.78% 2.06% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 7.28% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 3
10th Percentile £381 £356 -
25th Percentile £403 £396 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +2.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £606
90th Percentile £600 £588 £685
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing 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 307 151 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.40% 28.33% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 101 176
10th Percentile £190 £188 £176
25th Percentile £329 £356 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £525
90th Percentile £625 £555 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £14.80 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -15.96% +13.58%
75th Percentile £23.90 £17.19 £26.50
90th Percentile £26.60 £20.68 £27.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Serverless job vacancy trend 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 13 March 2026.

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 13 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
Nottinghamshire -6 10 £500 - 2
Northamptonshire -21 5 £433 -2.59% 2
Lincolnshire -12 3 £550 -4.35%
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
1 12 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Integration Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Django
1 7 (38.89%) GraphQL
1 7 (38.89%) RESTful
2 4 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
3 2 (11.11%) PySpark
4 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.56%) Flask
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Fabric
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Pair Programming
2 7 (38.89%) TDD
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) API Design
7 2 (11.11%) API Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Data Science
7 2 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 3 (16.67%) X++
4 2 (11.11%) Bicep
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google