Serverless Contracts in Manchester

Serverless Computing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 38 54 68
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 42 42 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.54% 2.77% 2.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.05% 7.53% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 42
10th Percentile £400 £383 £463
25th Percentile £445 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £561
90th Percentile £665 £575 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Manchester

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Manchester

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Manchester

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Manchester 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
Salford - 2 £340 -
Altrincham - 1 - - 7
Serverless
North West

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Documentum
2 1 (2.38%) FileNet
2 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.67%) GitHub
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.90%) Azure
7 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 12 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
4 9 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (21.43%) RDBMS
5 8 (19.05%) MySQL
6 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
7 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.76%) Power BI
9 2 (4.76%) Tableau
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (2.38%) DocumentDB
10 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
10 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Postman
2 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.38%) Appium
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) Gatling
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Senior
3 9 (21.43%) DBA
4 7 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Lead
5 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 6 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) AWS Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Administrator
8 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (42.86%) Node.js
2 12 (28.57%) Kafka
3 9 (21.43%) JSON
3 9 (21.43%) XML
4 6 (14.29%) React
5 3 (7.14%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) .NET
6 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.76%) Next.js
6 2 (4.76%) REST
6 2 (4.76%) Spring
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.38%) Jest
7 1 (2.38%) Redux
7 1 (2.38%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.43%) Database Security
6 6 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.52%) Scrum
8 4 (9.52%) TDD
9 3 (7.14%) API Testing
9 3 (7.14%) Event-Driven
9 3 (7.14%) High Availability
9 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (7.14%) Load Balancing
9 3 (7.14%) Personalization
9 3 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Java
2 6 (14.29%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) R
5 1 (2.38%) Rust
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Brio
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft