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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 105 116
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -60
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 54 48 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.36% 2.17% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 5.05% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 42 34 50
10th Percentile £52,750 £43,750 £43,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - +22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £80,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £115,375
North West median annual salary £72,966 £69,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% +15.42% -

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 1,385 951 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.95% 43.03% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 777 644 1,492
10th Percentile £30,300 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +5.50% -0.91%

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 13 March 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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham -6 4 £67,500 +3.85% 2
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 5 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.41%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Solr
3 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
3 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) Azure
3 15 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (27.78%) Azure Functions
3 15 (27.78%) SaaS
4 13 (24.07%) Azure Logic Apps
5 11 (20.37%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (18.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (18.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (16.67%) GCP
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 6 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.41%) GitHub
10 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) AMQP
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.41%) Big Data
3 4 (7.41%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (7.41%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.70%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.70%) GIS
5 2 (3.70%) Neo4j
5 2 (3.70%) Power BI
5 2 (3.70%) QGIS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.41%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Software Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) Senior
3 17 (31.48%) Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Lead
6 6 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Principal Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.56%) Principal .NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) REST
2 19 (35.19%) Node.js
3 16 (29.63%) React
4 15 (27.78%) Spring
4 15 (27.78%) Spring Boot
5 14 (25.93%) .NET
6 13 (24.07%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.41%) gRPC
7 4 (7.41%) Material-UI
7 4 (7.41%) OpenAPI
7 4 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (7.41%) Swagger
8 3 (5.56%) Django
8 3 (5.56%) FastAPI
9 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.70%) OpenLayers
9 2 (3.70%) PostGIS
9 2 (3.70%) PySpark
9 2 (3.70%) Vue
9 2 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.37%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) CentOS
1 4 (7.41%) Debian
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 30 (55.56%) Agile
3 28 (51.85%) DevOps
4 25 (46.30%) TDD
5 22 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (27.78%) SOLID
8 14 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (24.07%) Microservices
9 13 (24.07%) Scrum
10 12 (22.22%) Observability
11 11 (20.37%) Open Source
12 10 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (16.67%) Kanban
14 7 (12.96%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
14 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
15 6 (11.11%) AI
15 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
15 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Java
2 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
3 16 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 15 (27.78%) Python
5 12 (22.22%) C#
6 5 (9.26%) SQL
7 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.52%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (3.70%) Packer
5 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Google
2 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.41%) SaltStack
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Pega
4 2 (3.70%) WSO2
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica