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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 70 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Serverless 84 55 60
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.65% 2.82% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.28% 8.47% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 48 49
10th Percentile £390 £376 £404
25th Percentile £420 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £538
90th Percentile £725 £650 £575
England median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -8.70%
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 £75.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +184.91% - -

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 1,015 649 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.01% 33.28% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 503 652
10th Percentile £230 £240 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £579 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 66
10th Percentile £23.71 - £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £29.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +114.66% +80.57% -54.11%
75th Percentile £78.38 £57.94 £21.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +6 73 £500 - 33
Cheshire -17 8 £447 +17.79% 8
Lancashire -11 1 £500 -16.67% 10
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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 63 (75.00%) AWS
2 36 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (26.19%) Amazon S3
4 19 (22.62%) Azure
5 18 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (14.29%) GitHub
9 10 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.90%) Azure Functions
9 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.95%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 17 (20.24%) NoSQL
3 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (14.29%) DocumentDB
5 11 (13.10%) 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 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.76%) Redis
9 2 (2.38%) Metadata
9 2 (2.38%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (1.19%) MySQL
10 1 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Git
2 11 (13.10%) GitLab
3 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.76%) JIRA
6 3 (3.57%) Gradle
6 3 (3.57%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.57%) Maven
7 2 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 23 (27.38%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.57%) 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%) Local Government
6 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Architect
3 12 (14.29%) Lead
4 11 (13.10%) Senior
5 9 (10.71%) DBA
6 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 6 (7.14%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.14%) Node.js
2 17 (20.24%) Spring
2 17 (20.24%) Spring Boot
3 16 (19.05%) React
4 15 (17.86%) Kafka
5 13 (15.48%) REST
6 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 11 (13.10%) JSON
8 10 (11.90%) RESTful
9 9 (10.71%) XML
10 8 (9.52%) GraphQL
10 8 (9.52%) OAuth
11 6 (7.14%) .NET
11 6 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (7.14%) NestJS
12 5 (5.95%) AWS CDK
12 5 (5.95%) CSS
12 5 (5.95%) HTML
12 5 (5.95%) Jest
12 5 (5.95%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) NHS
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.19%) PMI
8 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.19%) Replication
8 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.76%) DevOps
2 37 (44.05%) CI/CD
3 35 (41.67%) Agile
3 35 (41.67%) Microservices
4 23 (27.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 15 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 14 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.10%) Observability
9 11 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
10 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
10 10 (11.90%) TDD
11 9 (10.71%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.71%) Database Security
11 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (10.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.81%) Java
2 19 (22.62%) TypeScript
3 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 15 (17.86%) Python
4 9 (10.71%) SQL
5 8 (9.52%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.38%) Bash
7 2 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (32.14%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (30.95%) Terraform
2 21 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
3 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Adobe
4 3 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.57%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.57%) Splunk
5 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.38%) Foundry