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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 86 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 +37
Contract jobs citing Serverless 77 36 70
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.95% 1.73% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.55% 5.40% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 22 57
10th Percentile £375 £374 £440
25th Percentile £400 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -14.95% -
75th Percentile £550 £509 £540
90th Percentile £600 £611 £638
England median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65.63 - -
25th Percentile £73.38 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +201.92% - -

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 901 667 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.52% 32.14% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 459 709
10th Percentile £220 £248 £265
25th Percentile £358 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £553
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 10 53
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £16.54
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.53% -7.00% -48.00%
75th Percentile £69.45 £41.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.90 £78.50 £67.24
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the North West

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Serverless
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Serverless in the North West over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Hourly 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 28 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 66 £450 -1.64% 31
Cheshire -25 6 £400 +2.30% 5
Lancashire -12 3 £450 -25.00% 8
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 2
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 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 65 (84.42%) AWS
2 51 (66.23%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (35.06%) Amazon SQS
4 26 (33.77%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 18 (23.38%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (22.08%) GitHub
8 15 (19.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (19.48%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (16.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (16.88%) AWS Fargate
10 13 (16.88%) Azure
11 12 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (10.39%) Datadog
13 8 (10.39%) GCP
14 7 (9.09%) PaaS
15 6 (7.79%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (7.79%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) DynamoDB
2 19 (24.68%) NoSQL
3 18 (23.38%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (20.78%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (16.88%) DocumentDB
6 11 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (14.29%) Redis
6 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
7 10 (12.99%) RDBMS
8 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
9 6 (7.79%) MySQL
10 5 (6.49%) BigQuery
10 5 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
13 2 (2.60%) Power BI
14 1 (1.30%) Metadata
14 1 (1.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) Git
2 16 (20.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.58%) SonarQube
4 9 (11.69%) GitLab
5 8 (10.39%) Gradle
5 8 (10.39%) JIRA
5 8 (10.39%) Maven
6 5 (6.49%) SonarLint
7 3 (3.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.30%) Mocha
General
1 21 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Finance
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Local Government
5 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Developer
2 13 (16.88%) Architect
3 11 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Technical Architect
5 8 (10.39%) DBA
5 8 (10.39%) Java Architect
5 8 (10.39%) Java Technical Architect
5 8 (10.39%) Software Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.57%) Node.js
2 20 (25.97%) React
2 20 (25.97%) Spring Boot
3 17 (22.08%) RESTful
4 15 (19.48%) Kafka
5 14 (18.18%) Spring
6 12 (15.58%) REST
7 11 (14.29%) GraphQL
8 9 (11.69%) AngularJS
9 7 (9.09%) JWT
9 7 (9.09%) NestJS
10 6 (7.79%) Dropwizard
10 6 (7.79%) HTML
10 6 (7.79%) J2EE
10 6 (7.79%) JSON
10 6 (7.79%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (7.79%) Micronaut
10 6 (7.79%) XML
11 5 (6.49%) CSS
11 5 (6.49%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.39%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.79%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.14%) DevOps
2 40 (51.95%) Microservices
3 39 (50.65%) CI/CD
4 35 (45.45%) Agile
5 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (24.68%) Event-Driven
8 18 (23.38%) Containerisation
9 17 (22.08%) Mentoring
9 17 (22.08%) TDD
10 15 (19.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.99%) Clean Code
13 10 (12.99%) TOGAF
14 9 (11.69%) AI
14 9 (11.69%) API Design
14 9 (11.69%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) Java
1 26 (33.77%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) TypeScript
3 14 (18.18%) SQL
4 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.19%) Ruby
6 3 (3.90%) Bash
7 2 (2.60%) Bicep
7 2 (2.60%) Perl
7 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 7 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) NIST
1 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (41.56%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (42.86%) Terraform
2 23 (29.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.90%) Grafana
5 2 (2.60%) Control-M
6 1 (1.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) Gigya
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.19%) Ping Identity
5 3 (3.90%) Adobe
5 3 (3.90%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) Pega