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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 78 84
Rank change year-on-year -31 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 69 49 35
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.84% 2.25% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.77% 7.25% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 23
10th Percentile £371 £375 £373
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £695 £537 £575
90th Percentile £750 £620 £585
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 1,196 676 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.84% 31.08% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 502 515
10th Percentile £249 £308 £300
25th Percentile £400 £386 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £691 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 23 38
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.87 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% +152.74% -40.96%
75th Percentile £76.00 £56.25 £31.38
90th Percentile £91.00 £75.50 £71.61
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -19 54 £563 +25.00% 32
Cheshire -3 10 £612 +52.88% 3
Merseyside -18 3 £538 -20.07% 1
Lancashire -9 2 £416 -7.50% 4
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 2 (2.90%) CMS
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Camunda
2 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (75.36%) AWS
2 33 (47.83%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (37.68%) Azure
4 20 (28.99%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (20.29%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (18.84%) Amazon S3
8 11 (15.94%) GCP
9 10 (14.49%) Azure AKS
9 10 (14.49%) Azure Functions
10 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (11.59%) GitHub
12 7 (10.14%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
12 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (10.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) Firewall
1 3 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) DynamoDB
2 12 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 10 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (11.59%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.25%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.80%) MySQL
6 4 (5.80%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (5.80%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.90%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.90%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.45%) Metadata
9 1 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) JUnit
3 3 (4.35%) Mockito
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.84%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Retail
5 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Architect
2 16 (23.19%) Lead
3 11 (15.94%) Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Senior
4 9 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Lead Architect
5 8 (11.59%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Technical Leader
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Java Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.80%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.80%) DBA
9 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 4 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) Node.js
2 10 (14.49%) Kafka
3 9 (13.04%) Spring
3 9 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.14%) OAuth
4 7 (10.14%) PySpark
4 7 (10.14%) React
5 6 (8.70%) .NET
5 6 (8.70%) OpenID
5 6 (8.70%) REST
6 5 (7.25%) ARM Templates
6 5 (7.25%) AWS CDK
6 5 (7.25%) Langfuse
6 5 (7.25%) RESTful
7 4 (5.80%) JSON
7 4 (5.80%) XML
8 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (4.35%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.35%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 29 (42.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) AI Agents
2 9 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.35%) NHS
7 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.45%) PMI
8 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.45%) Replication
8 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) CI/CD
2 35 (50.72%) DevOps
3 25 (36.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (31.88%) Microservices
5 21 (30.43%) Agile
6 17 (24.64%) Observability
6 17 (24.64%) Software Engineering
6 17 (24.64%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (23.19%) Event-Driven
8 15 (21.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
10 12 (17.39%) AI
10 12 (17.39%) Analytics
10 12 (17.39%) Data Modelling
11 10 (14.49%) LLM
12 9 (13.04%) ETL
12 9 (13.04%) Migration
12 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
12 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) SQL
2 15 (21.74%) Java
3 13 (18.84%) TypeScript
4 12 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.04%) Python
6 6 (8.70%) Bicep
6 6 (8.70%) C#
7 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) NCSC
5 1 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Terraform
2 18 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 5 (7.25%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) New Relic
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) Talend