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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 83
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 79 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.31% 2.92% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.55% 8.96% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 43
10th Percentile £373 £391 £401
25th Percentile £425 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £539
90th Percentile £748 £661 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £67.33 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +65.56% - -

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 1,047 647 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.61% 32.61% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 495 627
10th Percentile £313 £312 £282
25th Percentile £400 £393 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 19 60
10th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +79.02% -28.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.75 £71.54
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -15 66 £518 +3.50% 29
Cheshire -13 8 £447 +14.32% 4
Lancashire -10 2 £416 -30.63% 7
Merseyside - 2 £625 - 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 (6.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 63 (79.75%) AWS
2 40 (50.63%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (30.38%) Azure
4 23 (29.11%) Amazon S3
5 15 (18.99%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (17.72%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (15.19%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (11.39%) Azure Functions
8 9 (11.39%) GitHub
9 8 (10.13%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (10.13%) Azure AKS
9 8 (10.13%) GCP
9 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (8.86%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (8.86%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (8.86%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (8.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (6.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) Network Security
1 1 (1.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) DynamoDB
2 11 (13.92%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.39%) DocumentDB
3 9 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.33%) BigQuery
5 5 (6.33%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.06%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.27%) Metadata
9 1 (1.27%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.27%) MySQL
9 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) GitLab
2 11 (13.92%) Git
3 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.33%) JIRA
5 3 (3.80%) Gradle
5 3 (3.80%) Maven
6 2 (2.53%) Mocha
6 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (20.25%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.72%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Retail
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Architect
2 19 (24.05%) Developer
3 15 (18.99%) Lead
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
5 9 (11.39%) Technical Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Lead Architect
7 7 (8.86%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) AWS Architect
8 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
9 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) DBA
10 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) Node.js
2 16 (20.25%) React
3 14 (17.72%) Spring
3 14 (17.72%) Spring Boot
4 9 (11.39%) Kafka
4 9 (11.39%) REST
5 8 (10.13%) GraphQL
5 8 (10.13%) OAuth
6 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.86%) PySpark
7 6 (7.59%) AWS CDK
7 6 (7.59%) JSON
7 6 (7.59%) OpenID
8 5 (6.33%) .NET
9 4 (5.06%) XML
10 3 (3.80%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.80%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (3.80%) RESTful
10 3 (3.80%) Spring Security
11 2 (2.53%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 30 (37.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.33%) NHS
5 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.53%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) PMI
7 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.70%) CI/CD
1 44 (55.70%) DevOps
2 28 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (30.38%) Agile
3 24 (30.38%) Microservices
4 19 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (21.52%) Event-Driven
5 17 (21.52%) Software Engineering
6 15 (18.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 15 (18.99%) Observability
7 14 (17.72%) Containerisation
7 14 (17.72%) Machine Learning
7 14 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (16.46%) AI
8 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.92%) Analytics
9 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
9 11 (13.92%) LLM
10 10 (12.66%) ETL
11 9 (11.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Java
1 17 (21.52%) TypeScript
2 14 (17.72%) JavaScript
2 14 (17.72%) SQL
3 12 (15.19%) Python
4 7 (8.86%) C#
5 3 (3.80%) Bicep
6 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.53%) NIST
5 1 (1.27%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (36.71%) Terraform
2 19 (24.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.13%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.53%) Foundry