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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 68 80
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 84 57 56
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.63% 2.90% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.21% 8.85% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 50 46
10th Percentile £387 £390 £415
25th Percentile £423 £417 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £615 £538
90th Percentile £733 £650 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £66.10 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 1,023 644 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.98% 32.77% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 497 624
10th Percentile £230 £258 £284
25th Percentile £375 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -0.58% -4.45%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £570
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 14 65
10th Percentile £24.43 - £13.00
25th Percentile £25.57 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.80 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +79.62% +116.66% -56.94%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.13 £43.75
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 0 74 £500 - 27
Cheshire -15 7 £529 +33.63% 11
Lancashire -8 1 £500 -16.67% 8
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 3
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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 64 (76.19%) AWS
2 37 (44.05%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 19 (22.62%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (22.62%) Azure
5 15 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (11.90%) GitHub
8 9 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.71%) Azure Functions
9 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 16 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (13.10%) DocumentDB
5 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (10.71%) RDBMS
6 9 (10.71%) Relational Database
7 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.76%) Redis
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.38%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.19%) Metadata
11 1 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Git
2 10 (11.90%) GitLab
3 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.95%) JIRA
6 3 (3.57%) Gradle
6 3 (3.57%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.57%) Maven
7 2 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 23 (27.38%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Retail
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Architect
3 12 (14.29%) Lead
4 10 (11.90%) Senior
5 9 (10.71%) DBA
6 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 6 (7.14%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.14%) Node.js
2 18 (21.43%) Spring
2 18 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 17 (20.24%) React
4 14 (16.67%) Kafka
5 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 12 (14.29%) REST
6 11 (13.10%) JSON
7 10 (11.90%) RESTful
8 9 (10.71%) XML
9 8 (9.52%) GraphQL
10 7 (8.33%) OAuth
11 6 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (7.14%) NestJS
12 5 (5.95%) AWS CDK
12 5 (5.95%) CSS3
12 5 (5.95%) HTML5
12 5 (5.95%) Jest
12 5 (5.95%) OpenID
12 5 (5.95%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.95%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) NHS
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.19%) PMI
8 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) DevOps
2 38 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 36 (42.86%) Agile
4 34 (40.48%) Microservices
5 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 14 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (14.29%) Observability
10 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 11 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
12 10 (11.90%) Machine Learning
13 9 (10.71%) AI
13 9 (10.71%) Database Security
13 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.00%) Java
2 19 (22.62%) TypeScript
3 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.67%) Python
5 8 (9.52%) SQL
6 7 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (2.38%) Bash
7 2 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (30.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (29.76%) Terraform
2 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 10 (11.90%) Oracle
2 4 (4.76%) Databricks
2 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.57%) Adobe
3 3 (3.57%) Ping Identity
3 3 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.38%) Foundry