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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 99 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 -82
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 43 51 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.30% 2.00% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 5.04% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 31 38
10th Percentile £53,200 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £71,825
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,250
North West median annual salary £72,966 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.75% +4.17% -4.00%

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 1,223 1,012 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.87% 39.78% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 659 588 1,267
10th Percentile £28,450 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 9 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 9 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 - 1 £67,500 - 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 (13.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Azure
3 15 (34.88%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (32.56%) SaaS
5 12 (27.91%) Azure Functions
6 11 (25.58%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (20.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (20.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (18.60%) GCP
9 7 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
11 5 (11.63%) GitHub
11 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
13 3 (6.98%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) AMQP
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Big Data
3 4 (9.30%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (9.30%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) Metadata
6 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
1 12 (27.91%) Senior
1 12 (27.91%) Software Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
4 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Principal Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Team Leader
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Principal .NET Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) REST
2 16 (37.21%) React
3 13 (30.23%) Node.js
4 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
5 10 (23.26%) .NET
5 10 (23.26%) Spring
5 10 (23.26%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.30%) gRPC
6 4 (9.30%) Material-UI
6 4 (9.30%) OpenAPI
6 4 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (9.30%) Swagger
7 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.65%) Django
7 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.65%) Kafka
7 2 (4.65%) PySpark
7 2 (4.65%) Vue
8 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Cloud Native
2 10 (23.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) CentOS
1 4 (9.30%) Debian
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
1 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
2 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 16 (37.21%) TDD
4 15 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (27.91%) SOLID
7 11 (25.58%) Microservices
8 9 (20.93%) Observability
9 8 (18.60%) Open Source
9 8 (18.60%) Scrum
10 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
11 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (13.95%) Kanban
11 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
12 5 (11.63%) Analytics
12 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.91%) TypeScript
3 11 (25.58%) Java
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 10 (23.26%) C#
5 5 (11.63%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Terraform
2 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (20.93%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) Packer
6 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.30%) SaltStack
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) Informatica
4 1 (2.33%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) WSO2