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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 85 81
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 64 50 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.65% 2.28% 1.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 6.92% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 23
10th Percentile £411 £375 £373
25th Percentile £498 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £548 £575
90th Percentile £750 £588 £628
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.33 - -
75th Percentile £74.44 - -
90th Percentile £77.03 - -
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 1,186 723 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.49% 32.98% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 545 463
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £525 £575
90th Percentile £694 £630 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 25 13
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £13.09
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.87 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +178.22% -47.58% +5.88%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £72.83 £71.15
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -23 47 £650 +30.00% 89
Cheshire +8 12 £554 +25.20% 10
Merseyside -18 3 £538 -20.07% 4
Lancashire -23 2 £333 -26.11% 7
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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Camunda
3 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.56%) nginx
3 1 (1.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (87.50%) AWS
2 40 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (34.38%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (32.81%) Azure
5 17 (26.56%) Amazon S3
6 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (21.88%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (17.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (17.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (17.19%) GCP
8 9 (14.06%) Azure AKS
8 9 (14.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Functions
9 6 (9.38%) GitHub
9 6 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (7.81%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
1 6 (9.38%) Network Security
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) DynamoDB
2 7 (10.94%) Data Lake
2 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.81%) BigQuery
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
5 3 (4.69%) Metadata
5 3 (4.69%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.56%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.56%) Power BI
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 3 (4.69%) JUnit
3 3 (4.69%) Mockito
4 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (20.31%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Retail
4 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.56%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Architect
2 13 (20.31%) Lead
3 11 (17.19%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Software Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Java Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) Senior
6 8 (12.50%) Technical Architect
7 7 (10.94%) Developer
7 7 (10.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) AWS Software Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Lead Architect
8 6 (9.38%) Technical Leader
9 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Lead Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Security Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Applications Architect
11 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.19%) Terraform
2 13 (20.31%) Node.js
3 11 (17.19%) Spring
3 11 (17.19%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.06%) PySpark
5 7 (10.94%) OpenID
5 7 (10.94%) REST
6 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
6 5 (7.81%) AWS CDK
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (7.81%) Kafka
6 5 (7.81%) Langfuse
6 5 (7.81%) OAuth
6 5 (7.81%) React
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
8 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.69%) RESTful
8 3 (4.69%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.69%) Spring Security
9 2 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 31 (48.44%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.81%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.81%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.69%) NHS
5 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 26 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (37.50%) DevOps
4 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
5 18 (28.13%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (26.56%) Microservices
7 16 (25.00%) Observability
8 15 (23.44%) Agile
8 15 (23.44%) Analytics
8 15 (23.44%) Event-Driven
9 13 (20.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (17.19%) AI
11 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
11 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
11 10 (15.63%) ETL
11 10 (15.63%) Migration
11 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
11 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
12 9 (14.06%) Cloud Security
12 9 (14.06%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) Java
2 20 (31.25%) SQL
3 16 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 13 (20.31%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.75%) Python
6 6 (9.38%) Bicep
7 5 (7.81%) Bash
7 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.25%) C#
9 2 (3.13%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.69%) CISSP
7 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.56%) CEH
8 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.56%) SANS
8 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.56%) Istio
3 1 (1.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) Informatica
5 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) F5
5 1 (1.56%) Intel
5 1 (1.56%) New Relic
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) Talend