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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 75 72
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +25
Contract jobs citing Serverless 76 46 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.72% 2.25% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.08% 6.63% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 38 51
10th Percentile £374 £397 £425
25th Percentile £400 £446 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -1.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £638 £539
90th Percentile £650 £665 £638
England median daily rate £505 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -12.50%
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 941 694 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.67% 33.99% 34.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 496 697
10th Percentile £214 £250 £268
25th Percentile £358 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £551
90th Percentile £627 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 11 74
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £13.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £22.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £60.00 £28.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +108.70% +62.25% -49.37%
75th Percentile £76.38 £30.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £77.50 £71.87
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +5 66 £496 -4.48% 31
Cheshire -27 7 £400 +2.30% 8
Lancashire -21 1 £500 -16.67% 9
Merseyside - 1 £675 -
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 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (3.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (78.95%) AWS
2 45 (59.21%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (31.58%) Amazon S3
4 19 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (19.74%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (17.11%) Azure
8 12 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (15.79%) GitHub
9 11 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (11.84%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (11.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (11.84%) Azure Functions
12 8 (10.53%) Power Platform
13 7 (9.21%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (9.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (7.89%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) DynamoDB
2 16 (21.05%) DocumentDB
3 13 (17.11%) NoSQL
4 11 (14.47%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
5 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.58%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (6.58%) RDBMS
6 5 (6.58%) Redis
6 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.63%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.63%) Power BI
9 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.32%) Metadata
9 1 (1.32%) Power Query
9 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Git
2 13 (17.11%) GitLab
3 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.21%) JIRA
5 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.95%) Gradle
6 3 (3.95%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.95%) Maven
7 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.63%) Mocha
7 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
1 20 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Local Government
5 1 (1.32%) Military
5 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Senior
3 9 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Lead
5 7 (9.21%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) DBA
7 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) Node.js
2 18 (23.68%) React
3 15 (19.74%) Kafka
4 14 (18.42%) REST
4 14 (18.42%) Spring
4 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
5 10 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.53%) RESTful
7 7 (9.21%) JSON
7 7 (9.21%) NestJS
8 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.89%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (6.58%) .NET
9 5 (6.58%) CSS
9 5 (6.58%) CSS3
9 5 (6.58%) HTML
9 5 (6.58%) HTML5
9 5 (6.58%) Jest
9 5 (6.58%) Sass
9 5 (6.58%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (61.84%) DevOps
2 34 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 34 (44.74%) Microservices
3 32 (42.11%) Agile
4 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (18.42%) Mentoring
6 14 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.11%) Event-Driven
8 12 (15.79%) Data Modelling
8 12 (15.79%) TDD
9 9 (11.84%) AI
9 9 (11.84%) Code Quality
9 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.84%) Machine Learning
9 9 (11.84%) Observability
9 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) Python
2 18 (23.68%) Java
3 15 (19.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (15.79%) SQL
5 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.26%) C#
7 4 (5.26%) Ruby
8 3 (3.95%) Bash
9 2 (2.63%) Perl
10 1 (1.32%) Bicep
10 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.32%) NIST
1 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (34.21%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (35.53%) Terraform
2 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.26%) Grafana
5 2 (2.63%) Control-M
6 1 (1.32%) Ansible
6 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.26%) Databricks
3 4 (5.26%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.95%) Adobe
4 3 (3.95%) Splunk
5 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.63%) Foundry
5 2 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace