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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing Serverless 80 60 46
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.20% 2.83% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.03% 8.84% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 54 34
10th Percentile £375 £383 £366
25th Percentile £425 £402 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £688 £634 £538
90th Percentile £745 £678 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £67.33 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
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 1,138 679 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.32% 32.07% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 512 626
10th Percentile £303 £313 £283
25th Percentile £400 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -4.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -1.94% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 20 60
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £15.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +79.55% +115.88% -25.92%
75th Percentile £77.00 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.54
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -20 66 £538 +7.50% 28
Cheshire -13 8 £447 +14.32% 2
Merseyside -10 3 £625 -6.72% 1
Lancashire -8 2 £416 -30.63% 6
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (78.75%) AWS
2 39 (48.75%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (31.25%) Azure
4 21 (26.25%) Amazon S3
5 17 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (12.50%) Azure Functions
9 9 (11.25%) GitHub
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (10.00%) Azure AKS
10 8 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (10.00%) GCP
10 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (8.75%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (8.75%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
1 1 (1.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) DynamoDB
2 11 (13.75%) NoSQL
3 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (11.25%) DocumentDB
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.50%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.25%) Metadata
10 1 (1.25%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) GitLab
2 11 (13.75%) Git
3 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) JIRA
5 3 (3.75%) Gradle
5 3 (3.75%) Maven
6 2 (2.50%) Mocha
6 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (22.50%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Architect
2 18 (22.50%) Lead
3 17 (21.25%) Developer
4 11 (13.75%) Senior
5 9 (11.25%) Technical Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) DBA
10 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Node.js
2 13 (16.25%) React
3 12 (15.00%) Spring
3 12 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (12.50%) Kafka
5 8 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 8 (10.00%) OAuth
6 7 (8.75%) OpenID
6 7 (8.75%) PySpark
6 7 (8.75%) REST
7 6 (7.50%) .NET
7 6 (7.50%) JSON
8 5 (6.25%) AWS CDK
9 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (5.00%) XML
10 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.75%) RESTful
10 3 (3.75%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 32 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.25%) NHS
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) PMI
7 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) CI/CD
1 43 (53.75%) DevOps
2 26 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (31.25%) Microservices
4 24 (30.00%) Agile
5 19 (23.75%) Event-Driven
6 18 (22.50%) Software Engineering
7 17 (21.25%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 15 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 15 (18.75%) Observability
10 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (17.50%) Machine Learning
11 13 (16.25%) AI
12 12 (15.00%) Data Modelling
13 11 (13.75%) Analytics
13 11 (13.75%) LLM
14 10 (12.50%) ETL
14 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) TypeScript
2 14 (17.50%) Java
2 14 (17.50%) SQL
3 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.25%) Python
5 8 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (3.75%) Bicep
7 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (35.00%) Terraform
2 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Grafana
3 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.25%) Databricks
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.50%) Foundry