Serverless Contract Job Trends in the North West

Serverless Computing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 86 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 68 33 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.72% 1.53% 2.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.84% 4.91% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 17 52
10th Percentile £373 £366 £451
25th Percentile £400 £400 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -15.95% -3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £490 £619
90th Percentile £641 £545 £649
England median daily rate £500 £555 £539
% change year-on-year -9.91% +3.02% -10.21%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 867 672 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.68% 31.26% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 443 709
10th Percentile £214 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £582
90th Percentile £635 £645 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +2.46% -19.13%
75th Percentile £69.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.95 £51.42
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.33% +4.33%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the North West

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the North West

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Manchester +24 57 £450 -3.49% 43
Cheshire -25 4 £372 -7.13% 4
Lancashire - 4 £450 - 12
Merseyside - 2 £673 - 5
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (83.82%) AWS
2 44 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (33.82%) Amazon SQS
4 22 (32.35%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (23.53%) GitHub
6 15 (22.06%) Amazon S3
7 14 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (20.59%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (19.12%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (19.12%) Azure
9 12 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 10 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (11.76%) Datadog
12 8 (11.76%) GCP
13 7 (10.29%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (8.82%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (8.82%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (35.29%) DynamoDB
2 18 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 13 (19.12%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (16.18%) Redis
6 11 (16.18%) Relational Database
7 10 (14.71%) RDBMS
8 9 (13.24%) DocumentDB
8 9 (13.24%) MongoDB
9 6 (8.82%) MySQL
10 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
10 5 (7.35%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
12 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
13 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (2.94%) Power BI
14 1 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Git
2 13 (19.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 6 (8.82%) JIRA
5 5 (7.35%) GitLab
5 5 (7.35%) Gradle
5 5 (7.35%) Maven
5 5 (7.35%) SonarLint
6 3 (4.41%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 16 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 10 (14.71%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) DBA
5 8 (11.76%) Java Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) AWS Developer
7 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead
8 5 (7.35%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) Node.js
2 18 (26.47%) RESTful
3 15 (22.06%) React
4 13 (19.12%) Kafka
4 13 (19.12%) Spring Boot
5 10 (14.71%) REST
6 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.29%) JWT
6 7 (10.29%) NestJS
6 7 (10.29%) Spring
7 6 (8.82%) Dropwizard
7 6 (8.82%) GraphQL
7 6 (8.82%) HTML
7 6 (8.82%) J2EE
7 6 (8.82%) JSON
7 6 (8.82%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (8.82%) Micronaut
7 6 (8.82%) XML
8 5 (7.35%) Celery
8 5 (7.35%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.82%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Replication
7 1 (1.47%) Tandem
7 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) DevOps
2 34 (50.00%) Microservices
3 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
4 30 (44.12%) Agile
5 19 (27.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (26.47%) Mentoring
7 17 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 17 (25.00%) TDD
8 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
8 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (16.18%) AI
12 10 (14.71%) Clean Code
12 10 (14.71%) Design Patterns
13 9 (13.24%) MVC
13 9 (13.24%) Software Engineering
14 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
14 8 (11.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) Java
3 16 (23.53%) SQL
4 13 (19.12%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.88%) Ruby
7 3 (4.41%) Bash
8 2 (2.94%) Bicep
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
8 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.47%) C#
9 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.47%) GDPR
1 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.47%) NIST
1 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Terraform
2 19 (27.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.94%) Control-M
4 2 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Ansible
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) Gigya
3 4 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.41%) Adobe
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Pega