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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 69 77
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Serverless 80 51 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.76% 2.53% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.42% 7.36% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 43 49
10th Percentile £370 £391 £423
25th Percentile £400 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -6.67% -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £538
90th Percentile £649 £650 £588
England median daily rate £503 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% -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 950 693 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.72% 34.39% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 511 692
10th Percentile £200 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.05% -4.95%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £550
90th Percentile £630 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 14 77
10th Percentile £17.81 £21.99 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £24.85 £16.06
Median hourly rate £59.75 £28.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.83% +64.29% -66.97%
75th Percentile £76.38 £40.20 £26.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £67.27 £71.87
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +7 69 £492 +0.92% 31
Cheshire -17 8 £425 +8.70% 15
Lancashire -20 1 £500 -16.67% 8
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (73.75%) AWS
2 42 (52.50%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 20 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (18.75%) Azure
7 14 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (13.75%) GitHub
9 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (12.50%) Azure Functions
9 10 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (11.25%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
12 7 (8.75%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (8.75%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (7.50%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.75%) DynamoDB
2 17 (21.25%) NoSQL
3 16 (20.00%) DocumentDB
4 14 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (16.25%) MongoDB
6 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (11.25%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (11.25%) RDBMS
7 9 (11.25%) Relational Database
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
8 5 (6.25%) Redis
9 2 (2.50%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.50%) Power BI
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.25%) MySQL
10 1 (1.25%) Power Query
10 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) Git
2 13 (16.25%) GitLab
3 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.75%) JIRA
5 5 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.75%) Gradle
6 3 (3.75%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.75%) Maven
7 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.50%) Mocha
7 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 19 (23.75%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Senior
3 9 (11.25%) Architect
3 9 (11.25%) DBA
4 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Lead
5 7 (8.75%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Developer
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) Node.js
2 18 (22.50%) Kafka
3 16 (20.00%) React
4 14 (17.50%) REST
4 14 (17.50%) Spring
4 14 (17.50%) Spring Boot
5 11 (13.75%) JSON
6 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 9 (11.25%) XML
8 8 (10.00%) RESTful
9 7 (8.75%) NestJS
10 6 (7.50%) GraphQL
10 6 (7.50%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (6.25%) .NET
11 5 (6.25%) CSS
11 5 (6.25%) CSS3
11 5 (6.25%) HTML
11 5 (6.25%) HTML5
11 5 (6.25%) Sass
11 5 (6.25%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) NHS
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (63.75%) DevOps
2 38 (47.50%) Agile
3 35 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 34 (42.50%) Microservices
5 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 15 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 13 (16.25%) Event-Driven
11 12 (15.00%) TDD
12 11 (13.75%) Observability
13 10 (12.50%) AI
13 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
13 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (11.25%) Database Security
14 9 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
14 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) Java
3 15 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.50%) SQL
5 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.00%) C#
7 4 (5.00%) Ruby
8 3 (3.75%) Bash
9 2 (2.50%) Bicep
9 2 (2.50%) Perl
10 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.25%) NIST
1 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (31.25%) Terraform
2 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.25%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.75%) Adobe
4 3 (3.75%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.50%) Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI