Serverless Contracts in the North West

Serverless Computing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 95 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 54 66 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.02% 2.15% 2.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.30% 5.75% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 91
10th Percentile £411 £463 £413
25th Percentile £455 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £588
90th Percentile £575 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £53.63
25th Percentile - - £60.94
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,148 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.13% 37.39% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 850 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £313 £230
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.63
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £24.03
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +45.67% +32.31%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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

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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 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the North West

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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 16 May 2024. 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 +2 40 £524 -0.24% 31
Cheshire +3 10 £510 -12.97% 5
Merseyside - 2 £550 - 1
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 5 (9.26%) Apache
1 5 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) AWS
2 31 (57.41%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (27.78%) Amazon S3
5 9 (16.67%) Azure
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (14.81%) Snowflake
7 7 (12.96%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (12.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.41%) npm
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) FTP
2 4 (7.41%) HTTP
3 2 (3.70%) SSL
4 1 (1.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) NoSQL
2 13 (24.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 12 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (20.37%) RDBMS
5 10 (18.52%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (14.81%) DynamoDB
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (9.26%) Big Data
7 5 (9.26%) MySQL
8 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Git
2 8 (14.81%) GitLab
3 5 (9.26%) JIRA
4 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.85%) Pa11y
5 1 (1.85%) TestCafe
General
1 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
2 5 (9.26%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (7.41%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Advertising
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) DBA
1 11 (20.37%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 8 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (14.81%) Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Lead
4 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) JSON
2 16 (29.63%) XML
3 13 (24.07%) Kafka
4 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
4 5 (9.26%) RESTful
5 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.41%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (7.41%) Node.js
6 3 (5.56%) .NET
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.56%) React
6 3 (5.56%) REST
7 2 (3.70%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) Jest
7 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.85%) HTML5
8 1 (1.85%) LINQ
8 1 (1.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) DevOps
2 27 (50.00%) Agile
3 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 17 (31.48%) Containerisation
5 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (20.37%) Database Security
6 11 (20.37%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
6 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) OO
7 9 (16.67%) Scrum
8 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.96%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.11%) Data Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (11.11%) OOP
9 6 (11.11%) SDLC
10 5 (9.26%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) Python
2 10 (18.52%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.81%) C#
4 8 (14.81%) Java
5 7 (12.96%) Bash
5 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) Go
6 3 (5.56%) Ruby
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO 22301
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Terraform
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) HP Fortify
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Informatica
2 5 (9.26%) Talend
3 3 (5.56%) Google
3 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Sage
5 1 (1.85%) Facebook
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) Twitter
5 1 (1.85%) VMware