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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 70 78
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 83 56 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.50% 2.90% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.02% 8.90% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 50 43
10th Percentile £381 £379 £409
25th Percentile £425 £402 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £536
90th Percentile £741 £651 £575
England median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -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 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +114.29% - -

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 1,035 629 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.14% 32.54% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 479 610
10th Percentile £300 £275 £280
25th Percentile £400 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 18 64
10th Percentile £23.71 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +79.55% +115.88% -41.28%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £63.18
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -11 72 £505 +1.00% 22
Cheshire -13 7 £529 +35.17% 2
Merseyside - 2 £625 - 2
Lancashire -11 1 £500 -16.67% 4
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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (79.52%) AWS
2 40 (48.19%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (30.12%) Amazon S3
4 22 (26.51%) Azure
5 16 (19.28%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (18.07%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (12.05%) GitHub
9 9 (10.84%) Azure Functions
10 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (8.43%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (8.43%) GCP
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (7.23%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (7.23%) Azure AKS
12 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) DynamoDB
2 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
3 11 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (12.05%) DocumentDB
5 8 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (8.43%) Data Lake
6 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
7 6 (7.23%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (7.23%) RDBMS
7 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.82%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.41%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.20%) MySQL
11 1 (1.20%) Redis
11 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Git
1 12 (14.46%) GitLab
2 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.02%) JIRA
4 3 (3.61%) Gradle
4 3 (3.61%) Maven
4 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.41%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.41%) Mocha
General
1 20 (24.10%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.48%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Retail
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Developer
2 20 (24.10%) Architect
3 15 (18.07%) Lead
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 9 (10.84%) Technical Architect
6 8 (9.64%) Lead Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.23%) AWS Architect
8 6 (7.23%) DBA
8 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.71%) Node.js
2 16 (19.28%) React
2 16 (19.28%) Spring
2 16 (19.28%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.25%) Kafka
4 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.84%) REST
6 8 (9.64%) GraphQL
6 8 (9.64%) JSON
6 8 (9.64%) OAuth
7 6 (7.23%) AWS CDK
7 6 (7.23%) OpenID
7 6 (7.23%) PySpark
7 6 (7.23%) RESTful
7 6 (7.23%) XML
8 5 (6.02%) .NET
9 4 (4.82%) Jest
9 4 (4.82%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (3.61%) CSS3
10 3 (3.61%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.64%) AI Agents
4 7 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.02%) NHS
6 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.41%) Educational Technology
8 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.20%) PMI
9 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) DevOps
2 42 (50.60%) CI/CD
3 29 (34.94%) Agile
4 28 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (32.53%) Microservices
6 21 (25.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (20.48%) Event-Driven
8 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
9 15 (18.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 15 (18.07%) Mentoring
10 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
10 14 (16.87%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (15.66%) Machine Learning
11 13 (15.66%) Observability
12 12 (14.46%) AI
13 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
14 10 (12.05%) Data Modelling
14 10 (12.05%) LLM
15 9 (10.84%) Analytics
15 9 (10.84%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) TypeScript
2 19 (22.89%) Java
3 15 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.66%) Python
5 12 (14.46%) SQL
6 7 (8.43%) C#
7 2 (2.41%) Bicep
7 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Degree
7 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) ISA Server
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (34.94%) Terraform
2 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.41%) Grafana
3 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) OpenAI
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Databricks
4 2 (2.41%) Adobe
4 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.41%) Foundry
4 2 (2.41%) Splunk