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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 19 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.45% 1.66% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.08% 5.73% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 5
10th Percentile £300 £380 £328
25th Percentile £400 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +3.81% -20.00%
75th Percentile £447 £530 £638
90th Percentile £485 £546 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 374 227 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.53% 28.92% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 173 120
10th Percentile £213 £334 £188
25th Percentile £371 £375 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -0.67% -1.19%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £598
90th Percentile £649 £568 £649
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.64 £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £16.63
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +16.76% +11.03%
75th Percentile £24.64 - £39.68
90th Percentile £25.75 - £48.87
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Northamptonshire +19 9 £447 -9.47% 2
Nottinghamshire -9 8 £400 +5.26% 20
Lincolnshire -21 1 £505 -
Derbyshire - 1 £413 - 1
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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) AWS
1 17 (89.47%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
4 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (21.05%) Azure
6 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.53%) dbt
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (26.32%) MySQL
2 5 (26.32%) Redis
3 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (10.53%) Big Data
5 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.26%) Flink
6 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.26%) git-flow
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Publishing
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Agriculture
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
2 5 (26.32%) Celery
2 5 (26.32%) Django
2 5 (26.32%) FastAPI
2 5 (26.32%) Playwright
2 5 (26.32%) pytest
3 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 3 (15.79%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) Express.js
5 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.26%) OpenID
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) SOAP
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Reference Data
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) IoT
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) API Development
3 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
3 6 (31.58%) Microservices
3 6 (31.58%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (26.32%) Event-Driven
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (21.05%) Service Design
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) ETL
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks