Serverless Contracts in the Midlands

Serverless Computing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 114 122
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 30 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.37% 0.77% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 3.18% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 31
10th Percentile £387 £378 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £510
90th Percentile £580 £625 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 668 724 1,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.60% 24.34% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 514 789
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £369 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £562 £599 £588
90th Percentile £647 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.93 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.43 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -0.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £28.44 £26.50 £26.48
90th Percentile £39.18 £31.36 £38.00
England median hourly rate £25.33 £21.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year +17.79% -33.64% +53.92%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the Midlands

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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
West Midlands +13 18 £512 +5.03% 121
East Midlands +8 11 £480 +6.56% 83
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (6.67%) NetSuite
1 2 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (6.67%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
2 17 (56.67%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (43.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (36.67%) Azure
5 9 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (23.33%) Azure Functions
6 7 (23.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (16.67%) Azure API Management
8 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
9 4 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (13.33%) PaaS
9 4 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) DynamoDB
1 8 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (10.00%) Power BI
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.67%) GIS
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Back Office
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Developer
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Kafka
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 4 (13.33%) Web Services
5 3 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.67%) Django
6 2 (6.67%) MACH
6 2 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (3.33%) OpenID
7 1 (3.33%) PySpark
7 1 (3.33%) React
7 1 (3.33%) REST
7 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) IoT
3 2 (6.67%) IVR
3 2 (6.67%) SCADA
4 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) ETL
4 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (33.33%) Analytics
6 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
7 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
7 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (23.33%) Data Governance
8 7 (23.33%) Data Integration
8 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (20.00%) API Management
9 6 (20.00%) CRM
9 6 (20.00%) Microservices
10 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Log Analytics
11 4 (13.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 12 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) C#
5 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.00%) Bicep
6 3 (10.00%) Scala
7 2 (6.67%) Bash
7 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (6.67%) R
7 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.67%) X++
8 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Informatica
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Qualys
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk