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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 73 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 79 54 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.57% 2.76% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.84% 8.11% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 46 46
10th Percentile £375 £374 £413
25th Percentile £400 £402 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £466 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -11.19% -2.33%
75th Percentile £556 £623 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £575
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.26%
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 £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 1,008 666 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.74% 33.98% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 509 664
10th Percentile £220 £230 £300
25th Percentile £369 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £551
90th Percentile £643 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 16 72
10th Percentile £19.10 £22.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.20 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +68.03% -51.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £50.66 £24.33
90th Percentile £93.00 £76.88 £45.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +3 68 £492 +3.58% 36
Cheshire -20 8 £447 +21.47% 5
Lancashire -17 1 £500 -16.67% 11
Merseyside - 1 £675 - 4
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 3 (3.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (72.15%) AWS
2 37 (46.84%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (26.58%) Amazon S3
4 19 (24.05%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (24.05%) Azure
5 16 (20.25%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (18.99%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (16.46%) GitHub
8 11 (13.92%) Azure Functions
8 11 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (12.66%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (12.66%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (10.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (8.86%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
12 6 (7.59%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (7.59%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.85%) DynamoDB
2 18 (22.78%) NoSQL
3 15 (18.99%) DocumentDB
4 14 (17.72%) MongoDB
4 14 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (11.39%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (11.39%) RDBMS
5 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
6 8 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (6.33%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.06%) Redis
9 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.27%) Metadata
10 1 (1.27%) MySQL
10 1 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
3 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.33%) JIRA
4 5 (6.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.80%) Gradle
5 3 (3.80%) Jasmine
5 3 (3.80%) Maven
6 2 (2.53%) Mocha
General
1 23 (29.11%) Finance
2 19 (24.05%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.46%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Retail
5 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Local Government
6 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Developer
2 14 (17.72%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Architect
4 9 (11.39%) DBA
5 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (10.13%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Lead
7 6 (7.59%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Software Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) Node.js
2 18 (22.78%) Kafka
3 16 (20.25%) Spring
3 16 (20.25%) Spring Boot
4 15 (18.99%) React
5 14 (17.72%) REST
6 11 (13.92%) AngularJS
6 11 (13.92%) JSON
7 10 (12.66%) RESTful
8 9 (11.39%) XML
9 8 (10.13%) GraphQL
10 7 (8.86%) .NET
10 7 (8.86%) NestJS
11 6 (7.59%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (6.33%) CSS
12 5 (6.33%) CSS3
12 5 (6.33%) HTML
12 5 (6.33%) HTML5
12 5 (6.33%) Sass
12 5 (6.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) NHS
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) PMI
7 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.82%) DevOps
2 38 (48.10%) CI/CD
3 37 (46.84%) Agile
4 36 (45.57%) Microservices
5 24 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (20.25%) Containerisation
7 16 (20.25%) Event-Driven
7 16 (20.25%) Mentoring
8 13 (16.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (16.46%) TDD
9 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
10 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
10 11 (13.92%) Observability
10 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.39%) AI
11 9 (11.39%) Code Quality
11 9 (11.39%) Database Security
11 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (11.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Java
2 16 (20.25%) Python
3 15 (18.99%) TypeScript
4 11 (13.92%) SQL
5 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.59%) C#
7 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.53%) Bicep
8 2 (2.53%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.80%) NIST
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.27%) Solvency II
2 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) ISA Server
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (34.18%) Terraform
2 20 (25.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.06%) Grafana
3 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.66%) Oracle
3 4 (5.06%) Databricks
3 4 (5.06%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.80%) Adobe
4 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) Foundry
5 2 (2.53%) OpenAI