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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 70 95
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 76 58 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.07% 2.70% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.55% 8.61% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 23
10th Percentile £372 £380 £365
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £692 £638 £575
90th Percentile £749 £689 £585
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.38 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.44% - -

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 1,160 674 817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.52% 31.35% 31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 502 572
10th Percentile £300 £313 £283
25th Percentile £400 £385 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £549 £575
90th Percentile £687 £638 £643
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% +152.74% -28.53%
75th Percentile £77.00 £58.13 £23.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -24 62 £538 +7.50% 23
Cheshire -6 8 £613 +53.25% 1
Merseyside -12 4 £575 -14.50% 1
Lancashire -7 2 £416 -30.63% 2
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 (3.95%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (78.95%) AWS
2 39 (51.32%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (32.89%) Azure
4 22 (28.95%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (23.68%) Amazon S3
6 15 (19.74%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (13.16%) GCP
9 9 (11.84%) Azure Functions
10 8 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (10.53%) Azure AKS
10 8 (10.53%) GitHub
11 7 (9.21%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (9.21%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (9.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (9.21%) Entra ID
11 7 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (9.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Firewall
1 3 (3.95%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) DynamoDB
2 11 (14.47%) NoSQL
3 10 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (9.21%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.58%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.58%) DocumentDB
6 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.95%) MySQL
8 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.63%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.32%) Metadata
10 1 (1.32%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Git
2 9 (11.84%) GitLab
3 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.95%) Gradle
4 3 (3.95%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Maven
5 2 (2.63%) JUnit
5 2 (2.63%) Mockito
5 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) Mocha
General
1 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Retail
5 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Architect
2 17 (22.37%) Lead
3 15 (19.74%) Developer
4 12 (15.79%) Senior
5 11 (14.47%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.53%) Lead Architect
6 8 (10.53%) Technical Architect
7 7 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.26%) DBA
10 4 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Node.js
2 14 (18.42%) Spring
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.47%) React
4 10 (13.16%) Kafka
5 8 (10.53%) REST
6 7 (9.21%) GraphQL
6 7 (9.21%) OAuth
6 7 (9.21%) PySpark
7 6 (7.89%) .NET
7 6 (7.89%) JSON
7 6 (7.89%) OpenID
8 5 (6.58%) ARM Templates
8 5 (6.58%) AWS CDK
8 5 (6.58%) Langfuse
8 5 (6.58%) RESTful
8 5 (6.58%) Spring Security
9 4 (5.26%) XML
10 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.95%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 32 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.84%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.58%) NHS
5 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.63%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) PMI
6 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (56.58%) CI/CD
2 41 (53.95%) DevOps
3 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (30.26%) Agile
5 21 (27.63%) Microservices
6 20 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 17 (22.37%) Event-Driven
7 17 (22.37%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (19.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
8 15 (19.74%) Observability
9 13 (17.11%) AI
9 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
9 13 (17.11%) Machine Learning
10 12 (15.79%) Analytics
11 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
11 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (14.47%) LLM
11 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) Java
2 16 (21.05%) SQL
3 15 (19.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.16%) Python
6 8 (10.53%) C#
7 5 (6.58%) Bicep
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.63%) Degree
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.63%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (35.53%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (36.84%) Terraform
2 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.58%) Databricks
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) Foundry
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian