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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 84 74
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 38 66
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.48% 1.63% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.14% 5.25% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 20 54
10th Percentile £369 £355 £436
25th Percentile £400 £400 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -15.06% -3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £638
90th Percentile £630 £581 £696
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

All Cloud 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 854 724 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.70% 31.05% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 457 744
10th Percentile £300 £285 £265
25th Percentile £363 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £647 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.20
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.05 £18.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -11.76% +51.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.29 £73.63 £64.08
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 28 November 2025.

Daily 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 28 November 2025. 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 +15 49 £450 -3.49% 27
Cheshire -28 4 £372 -7.13% 8
Lancashire - 4 £450 - 19
Merseyside -3 2 £673 +22.27%
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 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (80.33%) AWS
2 41 (67.21%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (37.70%) Amazon SQS
4 20 (32.79%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (24.59%) Azure
5 15 (24.59%) GitHub
6 14 (22.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (22.95%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (19.67%) Amazon EventBridge
8 11 (18.03%) Amazon S3
8 11 (18.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (16.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (14.75%) GCP
10 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (13.11%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (13.11%) Datadog
12 7 (11.48%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (9.84%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (9.84%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (32.79%) DynamoDB
2 18 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (27.87%) NoSQL
4 12 (19.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (19.67%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (18.03%) Redis
5 11 (18.03%) Relational Database
6 10 (16.39%) RDBMS
7 9 (14.75%) DocumentDB
7 9 (14.75%) MongoDB
8 6 (9.84%) MySQL
9 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
9 5 (8.20%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
11 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
12 2 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (3.28%) Power BI
13 1 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 13 (21.31%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.67%) SonarQube
4 7 (11.48%) JIRA
5 5 (8.20%) GitLab
5 5 (8.20%) Gradle
5 5 (8.20%) Maven
5 5 (8.20%) SonarLint
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Jasmine
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Public Sector
3 12 (19.67%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
6 1 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Architect
1 12 (19.67%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (18.03%) Developer
3 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) DBA
4 8 (13.11%) Java Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Java Technical Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Technical Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 3 (4.92%) Administrator
8 3 (4.92%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (4.92%) React Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.23%) Node.js
2 15 (24.59%) RESTful
3 13 (21.31%) Kafka
3 13 (21.31%) React
4 9 (14.75%) REST
4 9 (14.75%) Spring Boot
5 7 (11.48%) JWT
6 6 (9.84%) Dropwizard
6 6 (9.84%) GraphQL
6 6 (9.84%) J2EE
6 6 (9.84%) JSON
6 6 (9.84%) Micronaut
6 6 (9.84%) XML
7 5 (8.20%) Celery
7 5 (8.20%) NestJS
8 4 (6.56%) .NET
8 4 (6.56%) OAuth
9 3 (4.92%) HTML
9 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.84%) N-Tier
4 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Tandem
7 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) DevOps
2 31 (50.82%) Microservices
3 28 (45.90%) CI/CD
4 27 (44.26%) Agile
5 18 (29.51%) Mentoring
6 17 (27.87%) Event-Driven
7 15 (24.59%) Containerisation
7 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (21.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (21.31%) TDD
9 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (18.03%) AI
11 10 (16.39%) Clean Code
11 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
12 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
13 8 (13.11%) Cloud Security
13 8 (13.11%) Roadmaps
13 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
14 7 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 15 (24.59%) Java
4 9 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) Bash
8 2 (3.28%) Bicep
8 2 (3.28%) C#
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Degree
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 27 (44.26%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.64%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) Terraform
2 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) Control-M
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Gigya
3 4 (6.56%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) Pega
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk