Serverless Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Serverless Computing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 7 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.05% 1.35% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 4.48% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £363 £367 -
25th Percentile £370 £382 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £391 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -23.33% -21.54%
75th Percentile £445 £416 £515
90th Percentile £450 £460 £583
North West median daily rate £450 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -16.20% +2.29% -

All Cloud Computing 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 227 134 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.19% 30.18% 36.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 88 128
10th Percentile £325 £297 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% -2.01%
75th Percentile £512 £553 £527
90th Percentile £621 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £487
% change year-on-year -4.26% -3.54% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.31 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +21.75% -53.54%
75th Percentile £19.13 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £26.48 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £26.47 £17.86
% change year-on-year +71.77% +48.18% -64.28%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Serverless

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 20 February 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
Knutsford -26 6 £425 +8.70% 1
Serverless
North West

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (14.29%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
2 3 (42.86%) DocumentDB
2 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft