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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 78 88
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 -17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 74 55 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.91% 2.50% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 7.89% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 45 23
10th Percentile £371 £375 £373
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £695 £548 £575
90th Percentile £750 £610 £628
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £77.60 - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 1,219 697 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.50% 31.68% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 517 498
10th Percentile £250 £313 £307
25th Percentile £400 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.05% -4.20%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £692 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 24 29
10th Percentile £18.45 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £24.87 -
Median hourly rate £45.50 £40.83 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +154.20% -41.28%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £36.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.13 £70.10
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 August 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
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 19 August 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 -13 58 £550 +15.79% 37
Cheshire -2 12 £613 +53.25% 2
Merseyside -15 3 £538 -20.07% 4
Lancashire -11 1 £333 -26.11% 8
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 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (1.35%) Camunda
3 1 (1.35%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (77.03%) AWS
2 37 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (37.84%) Azure
4 22 (29.73%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (18.92%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (17.57%) Amazon S3
7 13 (17.57%) GCP
8 11 (14.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (14.86%) Azure AKS
9 10 (13.51%) Azure Functions
10 9 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (12.16%) GitHub
11 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (10.81%) Entra ID
11 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (10.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (9.46%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (8.11%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Firewall
1 5 (6.76%) Network Security
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) DynamoDB
2 12 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.76%) BigQuery
5 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.41%) MySQL
6 4 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.70%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.35%) Metadata
9 1 (1.35%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) GitLab
3 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 3 (4.05%) JUnit
3 3 (4.05%) Mockito
4 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (21.62%) Finance
2 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Retail
5 3 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Architect
2 16 (21.62%) Lead
3 11 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Lead Architect
5 8 (10.81%) Technical Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Java Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Software Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.76%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.41%) DBA
9 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 4 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) Node.js
2 10 (13.51%) Kafka
2 10 (13.51%) Spring
2 10 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 7 (9.46%) OAuth
3 7 (9.46%) OpenID
3 7 (9.46%) PySpark
3 7 (9.46%) React
3 7 (9.46%) REST
4 6 (8.11%) .NET
4 6 (8.11%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.76%) AWS CDK
5 5 (6.76%) Langfuse
5 5 (6.76%) RESTful
6 4 (5.41%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (5.41%) JSON
6 4 (5.41%) XML
7 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.05%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.05%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 34 (45.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.16%) AI Agents
4 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.05%) NHS
7 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.70%) Educational Technology
8 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 36 (48.65%) DevOps
3 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (33.78%) Microservices
5 24 (32.43%) Agile
6 21 (28.38%) Software Engineering
7 19 (25.68%) Observability
8 17 (22.97%) Event-Driven
8 17 (22.97%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
10 15 (20.27%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.92%) Analytics
12 12 (16.22%) AI
13 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
14 10 (13.51%) LLM
14 10 (13.51%) Migration
14 10 (13.51%) Roadmaps
14 10 (13.51%) Test Automation
15 9 (12.16%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.68%) Java
2 18 (24.32%) SQL
3 14 (18.92%) TypeScript
4 11 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.51%) Python
6 7 (9.46%) Bicep
7 6 (8.11%) C#
7 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.41%) Bash
9 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.70%) CISSP
6 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) CEH
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.35%) SANS
7 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) NIST
4 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
5 1 (1.35%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (31.08%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (39.19%) Terraform
2 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.05%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.35%) Istio
5 1 (1.35%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.11%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.76%) Databricks
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.05%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco
5 1 (1.35%) F5
5 1 (1.35%) Informatica
5 1 (1.35%) Intel
5 1 (1.35%) New Relic
5 1 (1.35%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Talend