Serverless Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Serverless Computing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 106 113
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 167 55 77
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.55% 1.53% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 4.53% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 32 63
10th Percentile £374 £375 £413
25th Percentile £400 £443 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £495 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -7.13% -3.09%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £613
90th Percentile £626 £636 £649
England median daily rate £500 £573 £540
% change year-on-year -12.66% +6.02% -10.00%

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 1,786 1,215 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.01% 33.80% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 800 1,192
10th Percentile £214 £275 £257
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.66 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £36.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +56.15% -4.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.02 £92.99 £55.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the North of England

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless

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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the North of England

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless

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 17 December 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
Yorkshire +25 93 £500 -6.67% 45
North West +2 64 £450 +1.12% 35
North East -2 11 £525 -13.93% 7
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.40%) CMS
3 3 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (83.23%) AWS
2 98 (58.68%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (28.14%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (25.15%) GCP
5 41 (24.55%) Amazon S3
6 37 (22.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (21.56%) GitHub
8 32 (19.16%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (17.96%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (17.37%) Azure
12 25 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (9.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (8.98%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (8.38%) Azure Functions
17 13 (7.78%) Datadog
17 13 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (6.59%) AWS KMS
19 10 (5.99%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.14%) NoSQL
2 40 (23.95%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (21.56%) DynamoDB
4 24 (14.37%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (10.18%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.38%) Redis
7 13 (7.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (7.78%) MongoDB
8 12 (7.19%) DocumentDB
9 10 (5.99%) RDBMS
10 7 (4.19%) MySQL
11 6 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.99%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.80%) Power BI
14 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (34.73%) Jenkins
2 45 (26.95%) GitLab
3 35 (20.96%) Git
4 23 (13.77%) Liquibase
5 20 (11.98%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.99%) JIRA
7 7 (4.19%) Maven
8 6 (3.59%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.59%) Selenium
9 5 (2.99%) Gradle
9 5 (2.99%) SonarLint
10 4 (2.40%) Storybook
11 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.80%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.80%) Mocha
11 3 (1.80%) Mockito
11 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
General
1 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.54%) Public Sector
3 48 (28.74%) Finance
4 28 (16.77%) Banking
5 25 (14.97%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.40%) Retail
7 2 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (25.15%) Software Engineer
2 41 (24.55%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (15.57%) Developer
4 24 (14.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (14.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (13.17%) Senior
6 16 (9.58%) AWS Software Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Lead
8 14 (8.38%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) Architect
10 12 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.99%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.79%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (4.79%) DBA
13 8 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.79%) Java Architect
13 8 (4.79%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (34.73%) RESTful
2 48 (28.74%) REST
3 45 (26.95%) Node.js
4 41 (24.55%) React
5 36 (21.56%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (11.98%) Kafka
7 17 (10.18%) Spring Boot
8 14 (8.38%) .NET
9 12 (7.19%) Spring
10 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.59%) HTML
11 10 (5.99%) CSS
11 10 (5.99%) CSS3
11 10 (5.99%) GraphQL
11 10 (5.99%) HTML5
11 10 (5.99%) Jest
12 9 (5.39%) JWT
12 9 (5.39%) Lambda Expressions
12 9 (5.39%) Next.js
13 8 (4.79%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.54%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.56%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (18.56%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.99%) NHS
3 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.59%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
8 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Tandem
8 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.35%) Linux
2 3 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (65.87%) DevOps
2 104 (62.28%) CI/CD
3 92 (55.09%) Agile
4 87 (52.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (49.10%) Microservices
6 70 (41.92%) Containerisation
7 60 (35.93%) Software Engineering
8 33 (19.76%) Computer Science
9 32 (19.16%) High Availability
10 31 (18.56%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (17.37%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (17.37%) Infrastructure Automation
11 29 (17.37%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (16.77%) Cryptography
12 28 (16.77%) Data Security
12 28 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (16.17%) Non-Functional Testing
14 25 (14.97%) Mentoring
15 24 (14.37%) Cost Optimisation
15 24 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.70%) Python
2 37 (22.16%) Java
3 33 (19.76%) TypeScript
4 32 (19.16%) Go
5 28 (16.77%) SQL
6 18 (10.78%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.19%) C#
8 10 (5.99%) Bash
9 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.99%) Bicep
11 4 (2.40%) Ruby
12 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.20%) Groovy
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) C
14 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.60%) VB
14 1 (0.60%) VB6
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Degree
2 32 (19.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (17.37%) Master's Degree
4 26 (15.57%) Security Cleared
5 20 (11.98%) AWS Certification
6 17 (10.18%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) WCAG
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.40%) HL7
5 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (47.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) ISA Server
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (64.07%) Terraform
2 71 (42.51%) Kubernetes
3 41 (24.55%) Prometheus
4 40 (23.95%) Grafana
5 39 (23.35%) Ansible
6 4 (2.40%) Packer
7 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.80%) Puppet
8 2 (1.20%) Control-M
8 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (22.75%) Splunk
2 18 (10.78%) Google
3 14 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.99%) Oracle
5 6 (3.59%) Gigya
5 6 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.99%) Databricks
7 4 (2.40%) Brio
7 4 (2.40%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.80%) Adobe
8 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.20%) CloudEndure
10 1 (0.60%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.60%) Pega
10 1 (0.60%) UiPath