Serverless Contracts in the North West

Serverless Computing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 53 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.93% 1.91% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.96% 5.98% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 56
10th Percentile £391 £401 £463
25th Percentile £436 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £539 £588
90th Percentile £661 £575 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -

All Cloud 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 647 887 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.64% 31.90% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 625 838
10th Percentile £313 £282 £302
25th Percentile £397 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 60 36
10th Percentile - £13.00 £15.86
25th Percentile £12.82 - £16.53
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.53% -14.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £43.98
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.54 £65.38
England median hourly rate £24.83 £21.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -38.69% +62.79%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the North West

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the North West

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 2025.

Daily 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 2025. 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 +18 42 £500 - 116
Cheshire -2 11 £391 -23.33% 30
Lancashire - 4 £600 - 10
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Documentum
3 1 (1.72%) FileNet
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (68.97%) AWS
2 29 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (20.69%) Amazon S3
4 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (17.24%) GitHub
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (13.79%) Azure
6 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (12.07%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.62%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
12 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) MongoDB
2 11 (18.97%) DynamoDB
2 11 (18.97%) NoSQL
2 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.24%) Relational Database
4 8 (13.79%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (13.79%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.17%) MySQL
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Postman
3 2 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (1.72%) Appium
4 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.72%) Gatling
4 1 (1.72%) MLflow
4 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Aviation
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 12 (20.69%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) DBA
3 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Java Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Software Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Applications Architect
6 5 (8.62%) AWS Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Node.js Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
7 4 (6.90%) .NET Architect
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Java Technical Architect
7 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) Node.js
2 17 (29.31%) Kafka
3 10 (17.24%) RESTful
4 8 (13.79%) .NET
4 8 (13.79%) JSON
4 8 (13.79%) XML
5 7 (12.07%) React
6 4 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (6.90%) REST
7 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.17%) HTML
7 3 (5.17%) Next.js
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.45%) Express.js
8 2 (3.45%) Jest
8 2 (3.45%) Spring
8 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.72%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (46.55%) Agile
2 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 16 (27.59%) Microservices
5 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
6 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
6 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
6 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (13.79%) Database Security
8 8 (13.79%) SDLC
8 8 (13.79%) TDD
9 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.62%) Scrum
11 4 (6.90%) Budget Control
11 4 (6.90%) Data Integration
11 4 (6.90%) Project Planning
11 4 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Java
2 10 (17.24%) Python
3 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) C#
7 2 (3.45%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) Ruby
8 1 (1.72%) Rust
8 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) CISM
6 1 (1.72%) CISSP
6 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Terraform
3 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.17%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.72%) VMware