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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 15 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.66% 1.40% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.51% 5.33% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 5
10th Percentile £376 £356 £340
25th Percentile £380 £389 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £447 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.18% -23.94%
75th Percentile £472 £502 £625
90th Percentile £568 £553 £693
England median daily rate £500 £555 £538
% change year-on-year -9.91% +3.26% -10.42%

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 272 150 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.19% 26.32% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 86 221
10th Percentile £195 £183 £213
25th Percentile £346 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.74% -3.46%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £534
90th Percentile £613 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.49 £10.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £12.56
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.62% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile £25.09 £43.51 £22.47
90th Percentile £47.81 £50.40 £32.30
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.46 £22.75
% change year-on-year -2.62% +25.08% +0.79%

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 8 January 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 8 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
Nottinghamshire -6 6 £380 -15.56%
Northamptonshire -20 5 £433 +2.49% 9
Lincolnshire -6 4 £528 -8.26% 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (46.67%) Azure
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 4 (26.67%) Power Automate
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (13.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) DynamoDB
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Django
1 5 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
3 2 (13.33%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (6.67%) Express.js
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) MERN Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 5 (33.33%) TDD
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Data Science
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) AI
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Data Security
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks