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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 102 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 -81
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 44 49 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.27% 1.96% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 4.88% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 36 29 39
10th Percentile £53,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,500 £89,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -

All Cloud Computing 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 1,271 1,004 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.60% 40.08% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 699 589 1,274
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,915 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £89,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 17 February 2026.

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 17 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham -6 2 £67,500 +3.85% 1
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 6 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.36%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) AWS
2 20 (45.45%) Azure
3 15 (34.09%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (31.82%) SaaS
5 12 (27.27%) Azure Functions
6 11 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (20.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (20.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (18.18%) GCP
10 7 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
12 5 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (9.09%) GitHub
13 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (9.09%) OpenShift
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
15 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) AMQP
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) Big Data
3 4 (9.09%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.27%) Metadata
6 1 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Software Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) .NET Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Principal Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Team Leader
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Principal .NET Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) REST
2 16 (36.36%) React
3 13 (29.55%) Node.js
4 11 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 10 (22.73%) .NET
5 10 (22.73%) Spring
5 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.09%) gRPC
6 4 (9.09%) Material-UI
6 4 (9.09%) OpenAPI
6 4 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (9.09%) Swagger
7 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.55%) Django
7 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.55%) Kafka
7 2 (4.55%) PySpark
7 2 (4.55%) Vue
8 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (22.73%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) CentOS
1 4 (9.09%) Debian
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
1 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Agile
1 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 20 (45.45%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (36.36%) TDD
4 14 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 12 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (27.27%) SOLID
6 11 (25.00%) Microservices
7 9 (20.45%) Observability
8 8 (18.18%) Open Source
8 8 (18.18%) Scrum
9 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (13.64%) Kanban
10 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.36%) Analytics
11 5 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.27%) Java
2 12 (27.27%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 10 (22.73%) C#
4 6 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
1 13 (29.55%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (4.55%) Packer
4 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Google
2 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.09%) SaltStack
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) Pega
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) WSO2