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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 123 61
Rank change year-on-year +26 -62 -16
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 46 53 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.96% 1.45% 4.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.74% 4.14% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 37 31 78
10th Percentile £53,800 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -7.14%

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 802 1,280 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.23% 35.08% 46.81%
Number of salaries quoted 601 697 964
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,700
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 5 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 5 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 - 8 £65,000 -
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 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) 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 34 (73.91%) AWS
2 25 (54.35%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 10 (21.74%) SaaS
5 8 (17.39%) Azure Functions
5 8 (17.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (15.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
8 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (10.87%) GitHub
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (6.52%) GCP
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (4.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) AMQP
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
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%) Big Data
6 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) 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 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Games
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Senior
3 12 (26.09%) Java Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Senior Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (17.39%) Lead
7 7 (15.22%) Software Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Team Leader
9 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (6.52%) Principal Developer
10 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Principal .NET Developer
11 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 2 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (43.48%) React
2 12 (26.09%) .NET
2 12 (26.09%) REST
3 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
3 9 (19.57%) Node.js
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon Corretto
5 7 (15.22%) Spring
5 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.52%) Kafka
6 3 (6.52%) Vue
7 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.35%) CSS
7 2 (4.35%) HTML
7 2 (4.35%) HTML5
7 2 (4.35%) PySpark
8 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.17%) Middleware
8 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.39%) 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
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
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 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) CentOS
2 1 (2.17%) Debian
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) Agile
2 22 (47.83%) TDD
3 21 (45.65%) DevOps
4 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
5 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
6 11 (23.91%) Microservices
7 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (21.74%) Pair Programming
7 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 10 (21.74%) User Experience
8 9 (19.57%) Clean Code
8 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (19.57%) Front End Development
8 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (19.57%) UX Design
9 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (15.22%) SOLID
11 6 (13.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 17 (36.96%) Java
3 14 (30.43%) JavaScript
4 12 (26.09%) Python
5 11 (23.91%) C#
6 6 (13.04%) SQL
7 1 (2.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Azure 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 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Terraform
2 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Google
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle
1 2 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.17%) Pega
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.17%) SaltStack
2 1 (2.17%) WSO2