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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 71 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 84 54 55
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.62% 2.78% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.20% 8.67% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 48 45
10th Percentile £385 £376 £413
25th Percentile £423 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £538
90th Percentile £738 £650 £575
England median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £66.10 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 1,025 623 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.00% 32.08% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 478 616
10th Percentile £255 £250 £284
25th Percentile £384 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year - -1.81% -3.25%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 14 65
10th Percentile £24.90 £17.04 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -54.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.13 £60.40
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -1 74 £500 - 25
Cheshire -15 7 £529 +35.17% 8
Lancashire -9 1 £500 -16.67% 8
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 3
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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 64 (76.19%) AWS
2 37 (44.05%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 20 (23.81%) Azure
5 16 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (11.90%) GitHub
9 9 (10.71%) Azure Functions
10 8 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 16 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (14.29%) DocumentDB
5 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (10.71%) RDBMS
6 9 (10.71%) Relational Database
7 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (5.95%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.57%) Redis
10 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.38%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.19%) MySQL
11 1 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) GitLab
3 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.95%) JIRA
4 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.57%) Gradle
5 3 (3.57%) Jasmine
5 3 (3.57%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 24 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 18 (21.43%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Retail
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Architect
3 13 (15.48%) Lead
4 9 (10.71%) DBA
4 9 (10.71%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Lead Architect
5 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (9.52%) Technical Architect
6 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 6 (7.14%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Node.js
2 18 (21.43%) Spring
2 18 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 16 (19.05%) React
4 14 (16.67%) Kafka
5 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 11 (13.10%) JSON
7 9 (10.71%) REST
7 9 (10.71%) XML
8 8 (9.52%) GraphQL
8 8 (9.52%) RESTful
9 7 (8.33%) OAuth
10 6 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (5.95%) CSS
11 5 (5.95%) CSS3
11 5 (5.95%) HTML
11 5 (5.95%) HTML5
11 5 (5.95%) OpenID
11 5 (5.95%) Sass
11 5 (5.95%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 5 (5.95%) NHS
5 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.19%) PMI
9 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (58.33%) DevOps
2 40 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 34 (40.48%) Agile
4 30 (35.71%) Microservices
5 26 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 15 (17.86%) Event-Driven
9 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.10%) Machine Learning
12 11 (13.10%) Observability
12 11 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (11.90%) AI
13 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
14 9 (10.71%) Database Security
14 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.00%) Java
2 19 (22.62%) TypeScript
3 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.29%) Python
5 9 (10.71%) SQL
6 7 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) Solvency II
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (30.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (32.14%) Terraform
2 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) Oracle
3 5 (5.95%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.76%) Databricks
5 3 (3.57%) Adobe
5 3 (3.57%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.38%) Foundry