Serverless Contracts in Cheshire

Serverless Computing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 48 48 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 10 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% 1.98% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.20% 5.71% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £365 £449 £573
25th Percentile £385 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £510 £586
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -12.97% +57.10%
75th Percentile £511 £515 £594
90th Percentile £537 - £628
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Cheshire

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Cheshire

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Cheshire

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford +2 8 £391 -12.53% 3
Macclesfield +11 1 £400 -21.57%
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 2
Serverless
North West

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Java Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) Kafka
3 4 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) ADO
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
4 4 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (40.00%) Project Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
7 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) VMware