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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 105 104
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 -23
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 80 48 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.49% 2.21% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.61% 5.09% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 54 42 64
10th Percentile £58,750 £45,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £104,250 £94,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%

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 1,736 943 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.35% 43.40% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 655 1,597
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,517 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +4 7 £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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 4 (5.00%) Apache Solr
4 3 (3.75%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) Azure
3 19 (23.75%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (18.75%) SaaS
5 14 (17.50%) Azure Functions
5 14 (17.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (13.75%) GCP
7 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.75%) GitHub
12 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) AMQP
2 1 (1.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.25%) Big Data
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.00%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (5.00%) DocumentDB
4 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (3.75%) GIS
5 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 3 (3.75%) QGIS
6 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Snyk
2 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) Git
4 2 (2.50%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.75%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (51.25%) Senior
2 27 (33.75%) Software Engineer
3 20 (25.00%) Developer
4 14 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Lead
6 11 (13.75%) Senior Developer
7 10 (12.50%) Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Security Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Senior Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 9 (11.25%) Senior Security Architect
9 8 (10.00%) .NET Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Principal .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) REST
2 21 (26.25%) Node.js
3 17 (21.25%) Spring
3 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
4 16 (20.00%) .NET
5 13 (16.25%) React
6 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.00%) Django
7 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.00%) gRPC
7 4 (5.00%) Material-UI
7 4 (5.00%) OpenAPI
7 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.00%) Swagger
7 4 (5.00%) Web Services
8 3 (3.75%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.75%) Leaflet
8 3 (3.75%) NumPy
8 3 (3.75%) OpenLayers
8 3 (3.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) CentOS
1 4 (5.00%) Debian
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 38 (47.50%) DevOps
3 30 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 30 (37.50%) TDD
4 29 (36.25%) Agile
5 26 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (25.00%) AI
7 19 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (22.50%) Open Source
8 18 (22.50%) SOLID
9 16 (20.00%) Scrum
10 15 (18.75%) Observability
11 14 (17.50%) Microservices
12 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
13 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
13 11 (13.75%) SDLC
14 10 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 10 (12.50%) DevSecOps
14 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.75%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) Java
3 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 15 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.25%) SQL
5 11 (13.75%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) Bicep
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) GRC
2 7 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 17 (21.25%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Terraform
3 8 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) Packer
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Grafana
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) CrowdStrike
1 9 (11.25%) Palo Alto
1 9 (11.25%) Tenable
2 6 (7.50%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.50%) Pega
4 2 (2.50%) WSO2
5 1 (1.25%) Informatica