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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 71 46 65
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.57% 2.21% 2.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.63% 6.57% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 52
10th Percentile £372 £394 £428
25th Percentile £400 £446 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +3.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £638 £538
90th Percentile £615 £685 £631
England median daily rate £506 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -12.00% +9.52% -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 931 700 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.73% 33.65% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 494 704
10th Percentile £213 £230 £268
25th Percentile £358 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £487
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.03% -2.55%
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 51 10 65
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.18 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.01% +30.70% -63.00%
75th Percentile £75.13 £30.22 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +5 61 £450 -17.20% 32
Cheshire -25 7 £400 +2.30% 9
Lancashire -18 1 £500 -16.67% 10
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 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 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.63%) Confluence
3 3 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (83.10%) AWS
2 44 (61.97%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (30.99%) Amazon S3
4 20 (28.17%) Amazon SQS
5 17 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (19.72%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (18.31%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (18.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (15.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (15.49%) GitHub
9 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (12.68%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (12.68%) Azure
11 7 (9.86%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (9.86%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
12 6 (8.45%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (8.45%) Azure Functions
13 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.58%) DynamoDB
2 16 (22.54%) DocumentDB
3 13 (18.31%) NoSQL
4 11 (15.49%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
5 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (7.04%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (7.04%) RDBMS
6 5 (7.04%) Redis
6 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.82%) Power BI
10 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.41%) Metadata
10 1 (1.41%) MySQL
10 1 (1.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Git
2 13 (18.31%) GitLab
3 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.86%) JIRA
5 6 (8.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.23%) Gradle
6 3 (4.23%) Jasmine
6 3 (4.23%) Maven
7 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.82%) Mocha
7 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (28.17%) Public Sector
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Developer
2 11 (15.49%) Senior
3 10 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (8.45%) AWS Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Lead
7 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) DBA
7 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) Node.js
2 18 (25.35%) React
3 16 (22.54%) Kafka
4 14 (19.72%) Spring
4 14 (19.72%) Spring Boot
5 13 (18.31%) REST
6 9 (12.68%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.27%) RESTful
8 7 (9.86%) JSON
8 7 (9.86%) NestJS
9 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
9 6 (8.45%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (7.04%) CSS
10 5 (7.04%) CSS3
10 5 (7.04%) HTML
10 5 (7.04%) HTML5
10 5 (7.04%) Jest
10 5 (7.04%) Sass
10 5 (7.04%) Spring MVC
10 5 (7.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) NHS
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.97%) DevOps
2 34 (47.89%) Microservices
3 31 (43.66%) Agile
3 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
4 21 (29.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (26.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
7 13 (18.31%) Event-Driven
7 13 (18.31%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.49%) TDD
10 9 (12.68%) Code Quality
10 9 (12.68%) Data Modelling
10 9 (12.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
11 8 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.86%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.86%) Observability
12 7 (9.86%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.17%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) Java
3 15 (21.13%) TypeScript
4 11 (15.49%) SQL
5 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.63%) Ruby
7 3 (4.23%) Bash
7 3 (4.23%) C#
8 2 (2.82%) Perl
9 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
1 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) Terraform
2 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.63%) Grafana
5 2 (2.82%) Control-M
6 1 (1.41%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.23%) Adobe
4 3 (4.23%) Splunk
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.82%) Foundry
5 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace