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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 41 41 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.58% 2.85% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.45% 7.74% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 48
10th Percentile £400 £380 £463
25th Percentile £446 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £575
90th Percentile £674 £575 £688
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 358 530 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 39.96% 36.83% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 416 560
10th Percentile £363 £309 £325
25th Percentile £403 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £561 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £69.25 £22.90 £15.92
25th Percentile £71.88 £25.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.00 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% +79.62% +35.64%
75th Percentile £91.88 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.10 -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £24.87
% change year-on-year +79.02% -35.41% -5.80%

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 30 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 30 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 (4.88%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Documentum
2 1 (2.44%) FileNet
2 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 32 (78.05%) AWS
2 21 (51.22%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (24.39%) GitHub
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
5 8 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (9.76%) Azure
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.88%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) MongoDB
2 10 (24.39%) NoSQL
2 10 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.95%) Relational Database
4 7 (17.07%) DynamoDB
4 7 (17.07%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.32%) MySQL
5 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.88%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Postman
4 1 (2.44%) Appium
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Gatling
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) MLflow
4 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.44%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Senior Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) DBA
4 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 6 (14.63%) Software Developer
6 5 (12.20%) AWS Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 4 (9.76%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Administrator
8 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
10 1 (2.44%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) Node.js
2 11 (26.83%) Kafka
3 7 (17.07%) JSON
3 7 (17.07%) React
3 7 (17.07%) XML
4 3 (7.32%) .NET
4 3 (7.32%) Next.js
4 3 (7.32%) REST
4 3 (7.32%) RESTful
5 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.88%) Express.js
5 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 2 (4.88%) Jest
5 2 (4.88%) Spring
5 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.44%) React Native
6 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Agile
2 15 (36.59%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.83%) Mentoring
5 8 (19.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (17.07%) Database Security
6 7 (17.07%) Microservices
7 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
7 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.20%) TDD
8 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
8 4 (9.76%) Scrum
9 3 (7.32%) API Testing
9 3 (7.32%) High Availability
9 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (7.32%) Personalization
9 3 (7.32%) SDLC
9 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) Java
1 8 (19.51%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) Rust
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft