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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 81 83
Rank change year-on-year -38 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Serverless 65 52 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.61% 2.35% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.18% 6.84% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 21
10th Percentile £397 £371 £373
25th Percentile £427 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £710 £548 £575
90th Percentile £750 £630 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.42 - -
Median hourly rate £73.83 - -
75th Percentile £76.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.88 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +48.89% - -

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 1,255 760 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.17% 34.28% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 580 452
10th Percentile £240 £310 £303
25th Percentile £400 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £604 £537 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 15
10th Percentile £21.08 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £29.96 £15.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.97% -47.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76.00 £51.19 £63.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.51 £73.30
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -31 47 £550 +10.00% 79
Cheshire +7 12 £554 +32.69% 6
Merseyside -13 3 £538 -20.07% 2
Lancashire -26 2 £333 -26.11% 5
Cumbria - 1 £395 -
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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Camunda
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.54%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (87.69%) AWS
2 45 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (35.38%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (30.77%) Azure
5 19 (29.23%) Amazon S3
6 13 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (18.46%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (16.92%) GCP
9 9 (13.85%) Azure AKS
9 9 (13.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (9.23%) Azure Functions
11 5 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
11 5 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Firewall
1 6 (9.23%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 6 (9.23%) Data Lake
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.62%) Big Data
5 3 (4.62%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
6 2 (3.08%) Metadata
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) GitLab
2 5 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) JUnit
3 3 (4.62%) Mockito
4 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.54%) git-flow
5 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 13 (20.00%) Finance
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.62%) Retail
4 2 (3.08%) iGaming
4 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Architect
2 12 (18.46%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Java Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Lead
5 8 (12.31%) AWS Software Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Serverless Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.00%) Terraform
2 12 (18.46%) Node.js
3 11 (16.92%) Spring
3 11 (16.92%) Spring Boot
4 8 (12.31%) PySpark
4 8 (12.31%) REST
5 7 (10.77%) OpenID
6 6 (9.23%) AWS CDK
6 6 (9.23%) Kafka
7 5 (7.69%) ARM Templates
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (7.69%) Langfuse
7 5 (7.69%) OAuth
7 5 (7.69%) React
8 4 (6.15%) RESTful
9 3 (4.62%) Spring MVC
9 3 (4.62%) Spring Security
10 2 (3.08%) .NET
10 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.08%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 33 (50.77%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.08%) NHS
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) PKI
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) CI/CD
2 31 (47.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (41.54%) DevOps
4 23 (35.38%) Software Engineering
5 19 (29.23%) Observability
6 17 (26.15%) Agile
6 17 (26.15%) Analytics
7 15 (23.08%) Event-Driven
7 15 (23.08%) Microservices
7 15 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 12 (18.46%) AI
10 10 (15.38%) Cloud Security
10 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 10 (15.38%) ETL
10 10 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (15.38%) Migration
11 9 (13.85%) Data Modelling
11 9 (13.85%) DevSecOps
12 8 (12.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) Java
2 18 (27.69%) SQL
3 17 (26.15%) TypeScript
4 11 (16.92%) Python
5 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.23%) Bicep
7 5 (7.69%) Bash
7 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.08%) C#
8 2 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.62%) CISSP
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.54%) CEH
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.54%) SANS
7 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (4.62%) NCSC
4 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) Istio
4 1 (1.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.15%) Google
3 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) Informatica
5 1 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) F5
5 1 (1.54%) Intel
5 1 (1.54%) New Relic
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Talend