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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 41 60
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 14 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.36% 1.79% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.43% 6.47% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £369 £356 -
25th Percentile £390 £367 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £663
90th Percentile £610 £548 £708
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -9.48%

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 316 139 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.62% 27.58% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 103 163
10th Percentile £190 £212 £166
25th Percentile £333 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £554 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%
75th Percentile £23.50 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%

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 April 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 April 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 -8 10 £500 - 2
Northamptonshire -24 4 £423 +4.19% 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (57.14%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Django
1 7 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) PySpark
4 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) API Design
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google