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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -34 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 69 52 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.76% 2.40% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.73% 7.08% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 22
10th Percentile £415 £370 £373
25th Percentile £496 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 £483
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -0.52% -8.10%
75th Percentile £725 £548 £575
90th Percentile £751 £635 £631
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.42 - -
Median hourly rate £73.83 - -
75th Percentile £76.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.88 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +48.89% - -

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 1,205 734 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.69% 33.93% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 560 445
10th Percentile £230 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -0.51%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £695 £638 £654
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 25 12
10th Percentile £18.40 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £26.49
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -59.14% +16.03%
75th Percentile £76.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.77 £74.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 52 £625 +25.00% 83
Cheshire -5 12 £554 +32.69% 3
Merseyside -15 3 £538 -20.07% 6
Lancashire -25 2 £333 -26.11% 3
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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Camunda
3 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (88.41%) AWS
2 45 (65.22%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (30.43%) Azure
5 19 (27.54%) Amazon S3
6 14 (20.29%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (20.29%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (15.94%) GCP
9 9 (13.04%) Azure AKS
9 9 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (8.70%) Azure Functions
11 5 (7.25%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (7.25%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (7.25%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
11 5 (7.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
1 6 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.90%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) DynamoDB
2 7 (10.14%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.25%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.35%) Big Data
6 3 (4.35%) Metadata
6 3 (4.35%) MySQL
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.90%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.45%) Power BI
8 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) GitLab
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) JUnit
3 3 (4.35%) Mockito
4 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.45%) git-flow
5 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.84%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) iGaming
5 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Architect
2 13 (18.84%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (18.84%) Lead
2 13 (18.84%) Software Engineer
3 12 (17.39%) Java Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Senior
5 9 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) AWS Software Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Technical Architect
7 7 (10.14%) Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Lead Architect
8 6 (8.70%) Technical Leader
9 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Lead Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Security Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) AWS Architect
11 3 (4.35%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.13%) Terraform
2 13 (18.84%) Node.js
3 12 (17.39%) Spring
3 12 (17.39%) Spring Boot
4 9 (13.04%) PySpark
5 8 (11.59%) REST
6 7 (10.14%) OpenID
7 6 (8.70%) Kafka
7 6 (8.70%) React
8 5 (7.25%) ARM Templates
8 5 (7.25%) AWS CDK
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (7.25%) Langfuse
8 5 (7.25%) OAuth
9 3 (4.35%) .NET
9 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.35%) RESTful
9 3 (4.35%) Spring MVC
9 3 (4.35%) Spring Security
10 2 (2.90%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 34 (49.28%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.25%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.35%) NHS
5 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.45%) PKI
7 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Replication
7 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) CI/CD
2 30 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (39.13%) DevOps
4 24 (34.78%) Software Engineering
5 20 (28.99%) Observability
6 19 (27.54%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (24.64%) Agile
7 17 (24.64%) Analytics
7 17 (24.64%) Event-Driven
8 16 (23.19%) Microservices
9 13 (18.84%) AI
10 12 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
12 10 (14.49%) Cloud Security
12 10 (14.49%) Data Modelling
12 10 (14.49%) ETL
12 10 (14.49%) Migration
12 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
13 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.78%) Java
2 19 (27.54%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.39%) Python
6 6 (8.70%) Bicep
7 5 (7.25%) Bash
7 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.35%) C#
9 2 (2.90%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.25%) Degree
5 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.35%) CISSP
7 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.45%) CEH
8 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.45%) SANS
8 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) NCSC
4 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (26.09%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.80%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.80%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.90%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) F5
5 1 (1.45%) Intel
5 1 (1.45%) New Relic
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) Talend