Serverless Job Trends in Manchester

Serverless Computing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 122 62
Rank change year-on-year +28 -60 -18
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 46 55 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.89% 1.53% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 4.33% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36 33 75
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,000 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £84,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -3.70%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 912 1,269 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.38% 35.19% 46.22%
Number of salaries quoted 603 686 943
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,750 £36,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £85,800
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Manchester

Serverless
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Serverless in Manchester

Serverless
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 7 £65,000 - 5
Serverless
North West

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (6.52%) Apache
1 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (36.96%) Azure
4 10 (21.74%) SaaS
5 9 (19.57%) Azure Functions
5 9 (19.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (15.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.04%) GitHub
8 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (8.70%) GCP
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (4.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) AMQP
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Big Data
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.35%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Games
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Lead
5 8 (17.39%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Team Leader
7 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Principal Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
9 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (43.48%) React
2 13 (28.26%) REST
3 12 (26.09%) .NET
4 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 10 (21.74%) Node.js
5 8 (17.39%) Spring
5 8 (17.39%) Spring Boot
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon Corretto
7 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
7 3 (6.52%) Kafka
7 3 (6.52%) Vue
8 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
8 2 (4.35%) CSS
8 2 (4.35%) gRPC
8 2 (4.35%) HTML
8 2 (4.35%) HTML5
8 2 (4.35%) PySpark
8 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) e-Learning
3 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) CentOS
2 2 (4.35%) Debian
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) Agile
2 21 (45.65%) DevOps
2 21 (45.65%) TDD
3 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 12 (26.09%) Microservices
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (19.57%) Pair Programming
8 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 9 (19.57%) User Experience
9 8 (17.39%) Clean Code
9 8 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (17.39%) Front End Development
9 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.39%) UX Design
10 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
10 7 (15.22%) Observability
10 7 (15.22%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) TypeScript
2 17 (36.96%) Java
3 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (28.26%) Python
5 11 (23.91%) C#
6 6 (13.04%) SQL
7 2 (4.35%) Bicep
7 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Terraform
2 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Google
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
2 2 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.17%) Pega
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.17%) WSO2