Serverless Contracts in the West Midlands

Serverless Computing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 90 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 12 21 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 1.08% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 4.48% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £416 £353 £400
25th Percentile £422 £384 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £578 £566
90th Percentile £556 £586 £611
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the West Midlands

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +6 4 £450 +9.09% 36
Warwickshire - 4 - - 1
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 29
Shropshire - 1 - - 37
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) InfoPath
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (16.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Functions
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (33.33%) Power Automate
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (33.33%) PowerApps
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (16.67%) Boomi
6 2 (16.67%) PaaS
6 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Back Office
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Architect
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Apigee Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 2 (16.67%) Django
2 2 (16.67%) MACH
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) CRM
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 4 (33.33%) Workflow
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) API Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) R
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk