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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 84 76
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 34 72
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.24% 1.46% 2.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.51% 4.73% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 17 59
10th Percentile £365 £360 £460
25th Percentile £400 £400 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -10.88% -3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £690
England median daily rate £513 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.82% -0.90% -7.50%

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 814 719 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.35% 30.83% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 447 774
10th Percentile £304 £309 £265
25th Percentile £368 £389 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £485 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 58
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.93
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £30.10
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +19.60% -54.05%
75th Percentile £67.25 £69.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.70 £55.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +13 38 £500 +0.50% 51
Cheshire -28 7 £435 +8.75% 14
Lancashire - 4 £450 - 10
Merseyside -1 2 £673 +22.27% 1
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 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (84.91%) AWS
2 40 (75.47%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (37.74%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (35.85%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (32.08%) GitHub
6 16 (30.19%) Azure
7 13 (24.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (24.53%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (24.53%) Amazon EventBridge
8 12 (22.64%) Amazon S3
9 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (16.98%) GCP
11 8 (15.09%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (15.09%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (15.09%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (13.21%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (13.21%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (11.32%) Apigee
13 6 (11.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (41.51%) DynamoDB
2 14 (26.42%) NoSQL
2 14 (26.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (24.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (20.75%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (13.21%) Redis
5 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
6 6 (11.32%) DocumentDB
6 6 (11.32%) MongoDB
6 6 (11.32%) MySQL
6 6 (11.32%) RDBMS
7 5 (9.43%) BigQuery
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
10 2 (3.77%) Power BI
11 1 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (1.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.42%) Git
3 9 (16.98%) SonarQube
4 8 (15.09%) JIRA
5 5 (9.43%) Gradle
5 5 (9.43%) Maven
5 5 (9.43%) SonarLint
6 4 (7.55%) GitLab
7 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.89%) MLflow
8 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Java Architect
3 8 (15.09%) Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Java Technical Architect
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
3 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Technical Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) DBA
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) RESTful
2 12 (22.64%) Kafka
3 10 (18.87%) React
4 9 (16.98%) Node.js
5 7 (13.21%) JWT
5 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
6 6 (11.32%) Dropwizard
6 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
6 6 (11.32%) J2EE
6 6 (11.32%) Micronaut
6 6 (11.32%) REST
7 5 (9.43%) .NET
7 5 (9.43%) Celery
8 3 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (5.66%) Next.js
8 3 (5.66%) OAuth
8 3 (5.66%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.77%) ARM Templates
9 2 (3.77%) Jest
9 2 (3.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.32%) N-Tier
4 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Tandem
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) VMS
2 1 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
2 27 (50.94%) DevOps
3 26 (49.06%) Microservices
4 23 (43.40%) Agile
5 20 (37.74%) Event-Driven
6 17 (32.08%) Containerisation
7 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
8 14 (26.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (26.42%) TDD
9 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (22.64%) AI
10 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (20.75%) Clean Code
11 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
12 10 (18.87%) Design Patterns
13 9 (16.98%) SDLC
14 8 (15.09%) OOP
14 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
14 8 (15.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Python
2 16 (30.19%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) Ruby
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) Perl
6 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.89%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) CISM
5 1 (1.89%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.77%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 30 (56.60%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Terraform
2 18 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.77%) Control-M
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Gigya
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.89%) Pega
4 1 (1.89%) Ping Identity