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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 77 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Serverless 78 45 67
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.93% 2.15% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.50% 6.62% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 31 53
10th Percentile £375 £391 £430
25th Percentile £400 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -4.48% -
75th Percentile £550 £638 £538
90th Percentile £600 £713 £625
England median daily rate £505 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -10.62% +7.62% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65.63 - -
25th Percentile £73.38 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +201.92% - -

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 918 680 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.50% 32.55% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 473 714
10th Percentile £220 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 10 59
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.84 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.32% +15.14% -58.00%
75th Percentile £70.94 £41.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.55 £78.50 £51.44
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +12 69 £500 -4.90% 30
Cheshire -20 7 £400 +2.30% 2
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 2
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 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 67 (85.90%) AWS
2 51 (65.38%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (35.90%) Amazon SQS
4 24 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (28.21%) Amazon S3
6 19 (24.36%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (20.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (20.51%) GitHub
8 14 (17.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (16.67%) Azure
10 12 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
11 10 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.26%) Datadog
12 8 (10.26%) GCP
12 8 (10.26%) PaaS
13 6 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (7.69%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.18%) DynamoDB
2 20 (25.64%) NoSQL
3 17 (21.79%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (20.51%) DocumentDB
5 11 (14.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (12.82%) RDBMS
6 10 (12.82%) Redis
6 10 (12.82%) Relational Database
7 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
8 6 (7.69%) MySQL
9 5 (6.41%) BigQuery
9 5 (6.41%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (2.56%) Power BI
13 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (1.28%) Metadata
13 1 (1.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (29.49%) Git
2 18 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 13 (16.67%) GitLab
4 12 (15.38%) SonarQube
5 8 (10.26%) Gradle
5 8 (10.26%) Maven
6 7 (8.97%) JIRA
7 5 (6.41%) SonarLint
8 3 (3.85%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.56%) Mocha
9 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (29.49%) Public Sector
2 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (24.36%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Local Government
6 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) Architect
3 11 (14.10%) Senior
4 10 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Technical Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Java Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Java Technical Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.97%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (7.69%) AWS Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Lead
9 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) DBA
9 5 (6.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.33%) Node.js
2 21 (26.92%) Spring Boot
3 18 (23.08%) React
4 16 (20.51%) Kafka
4 16 (20.51%) RESTful
5 15 (19.23%) Spring
6 13 (16.67%) REST
7 10 (12.82%) GraphQL
8 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.97%) JSON
9 7 (8.97%) NestJS
10 6 (7.69%) Dropwizard
10 6 (7.69%) J2EE
10 6 (7.69%) JWT
10 6 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (7.69%) Micronaut
11 5 (6.41%) Celery
11 5 (6.41%) CSS3
11 5 (6.41%) HTML5
11 5 (6.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.69%) N-Tier
4 5 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.56%) NHS
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.13%) DevOps
2 42 (53.85%) Microservices
3 39 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 37 (47.44%) Agile
5 21 (26.92%) Event-Driven
5 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (24.36%) Containerisation
6 19 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (24.36%) Mentoring
7 17 (21.79%) TDD
8 16 (20.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.95%) Software Engineering
10 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (14.10%) AI
11 11 (14.10%) Design Patterns
11 11 (14.10%) TOGAF
12 10 (12.82%) Clean Code
13 9 (11.54%) Code Quality
13 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) Java
1 26 (33.33%) Python
2 15 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 11 (14.10%) SQL
4 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.13%) Ruby
6 3 (3.85%) Bash
6 3 (3.85%) C#
7 2 (2.56%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.26%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.28%) NIST
1 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (42.31%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (43.59%) Terraform
2 27 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.13%) Grafana
5 2 (2.56%) Control-M
6 1 (1.28%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Oracle
2 6 (7.69%) Gigya
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.13%) Ping Identity
5 3 (3.85%) Adobe
5 3 (3.85%) Splunk
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.56%) Foundry
6 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.28%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace