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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 16 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.39% 1.75% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.82% 5.78% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 3
10th Percentile - £379 £371
25th Percentile £413 £380 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.31% -27.24% +25.00%
75th Percentile £502 £528 £706
90th Percentile £591 £542 £748
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%

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 332 225 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.95% 30.24% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 165 135
10th Percentile £200 £309 £180
25th Percentile £363 £368 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% +0.45% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £556
90th Percentile £651 £542 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 10 9
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £13.90
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.89 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +25.95% -26.09%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.44 £21.55 £32.38
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -10 11 £498 +31.05% 7
Northamptonshire +10 4 £466 +1.42% 2
Lincolnshire -12 1 £505 -
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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
1 12 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 2 (12.50%) dbt
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.25%) Flink
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Agriculture
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) RESTful
2 6 (37.50%) Node.js
3 5 (31.25%) Django
3 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
4 4 (25.00%) REST
5 3 (18.75%) PySpark
6 2 (12.50%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
7 1 (6.25%) Express.js
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Pair Programming
2 5 (31.25%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) API Design
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks