Serverless Contracts in the North of England

Serverless Computing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 90 108 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 78 78 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.37% 1.64% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.02% 5.54% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 61 107
10th Percentile £391 £375 £450
25th Percentile £429 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £625 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 North of England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the North of England

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the North of England

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the North of England

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the North of England 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
North West +16 57 £500 -1.96% 96
Yorkshire +3 12 £500 -16.67% 39
North East +5 9 £475 -26.92% 17
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.56%) CMS
1 2 (2.56%) Confluence
1 2 (2.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.28%) Documentum
2 1 (1.28%) FileNet
2 1 (1.28%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 54 (69.23%) AWS
2 38 (48.72%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 12 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (15.38%) Azure
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (10.26%) GitHub
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (7.69%) Azure Functions
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
12 2 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) SMS
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 13 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 13 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 11 (14.10%) DynamoDB
5 10 (12.82%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (12.82%) RDBMS
6 8 (10.26%) MySQL
7 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.85%) Metadata
9 3 (3.85%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.56%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.56%) Power BI
10 2 (2.56%) Redis
10 2 (2.56%) Tableau
11 1 (1.28%) Flink
11 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.41%) Git
2 5 (6.41%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) Selenium
3 4 (5.13%) GitLab
3 4 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.56%) JMeter
4 2 (2.56%) Postman
4 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.28%) Appium
5 1 (1.28%) Babel
5 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.28%) Gatling
5 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 17 (21.79%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Banking
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Aviation
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) Senior
3 13 (16.67%) Architect
4 10 (12.82%) DBA
5 9 (11.54%) Lead
6 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Java Architect
8 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.69%) Technical Architect
9 5 (6.41%) Applications Architect
9 5 (6.41%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (5.13%) .NET Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Java Technical Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.49%) Kafka
2 20 (25.64%) Node.js
3 11 (14.10%) JSON
4 10 (12.82%) XML
5 9 (11.54%) React
5 9 (11.54%) RESTful
6 7 (8.97%) .NET
7 6 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (5.13%) Spring
8 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.85%) HTML
9 3 (3.85%) Next.js
9 3 (3.85%) REST
10 2 (2.56%) AWS CDK
10 2 (2.56%) CSS
10 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.56%) Micronaut
10 2 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.41%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) DevOps
2 30 (38.46%) Agile
3 27 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 18 (23.08%) Microservices
5 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
6 14 (17.95%) Software Engineering
7 12 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 10 (12.82%) Database Security
8 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (10.26%) SDLC
10 8 (10.26%) TDD
11 7 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (7.69%) Data Integration
12 6 (7.69%) Test Automation
13 5 (6.41%) Analytics
13 5 (6.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.92%) Java
1 21 (26.92%) Python
2 14 (17.95%) TypeScript
3 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.97%) SQL
5 5 (6.41%) Bash
6 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.56%) C#
7 2 (2.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) R
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (1.28%) Rust
8 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 22 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.85%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) GDPR
1 1 (1.28%) QA
1 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (23.08%) Terraform
2 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
3 4 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.56%) Grafana
4 2 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (6.41%) Databricks
3 4 (5.13%) Virgin Media
4 3 (3.85%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.56%) Brio
5 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.56%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.28%) VMware