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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 118 98
Rank change year-on-year +33 -20 -21
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 113 48 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.67% 1.92% 2.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.96% 5.06% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 69 41 58
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +27.66% -11.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%

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 1,897 949 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.00% 37.99% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 619 1,176
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,756 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -2.61%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +8 9 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
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 (4.42%) Confluence
2 4 (3.54%) Apache
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.65%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.77%) nginx
4 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (67.26%) AWS
2 42 (37.17%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (23.89%) Azure
4 25 (22.12%) Amazon S3
5 17 (15.04%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (15.04%) SaaS
6 14 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (10.62%) GCP
8 10 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.85%) GitHub
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Functions
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (7.08%) Datadog
11 7 (6.19%) Route 53
12 6 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.31%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) LTE
2 2 (1.77%) AMQP
2 2 (1.77%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (7.08%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.54%) Big Data
7 4 (3.54%) Power BI
8 3 (2.65%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.65%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.65%) GIS
8 3 (2.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.65%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.65%) QGIS
8 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Snyk
2 11 (9.73%) Git
2 11 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.31%) JIRA
4 5 (4.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.65%) Postman
5 3 (2.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.88%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (14.16%) Finance
2 13 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.96%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Aviation
4 7 (6.19%) Retail
5 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.77%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.77%) Legal
6 1 (0.88%) Local Government
6 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (47.79%) Senior
2 27 (23.89%) Developer
3 26 (23.01%) Software Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Senior Developer
5 17 (15.04%) Lead
6 14 (12.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (11.50%) Architect
7 13 (11.50%) Java Developer
8 12 (10.62%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (10.62%) Cloud Security Architect
8 12 (10.62%) Security Architect
8 12 (10.62%) Senior Architect
8 12 (10.62%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 12 (10.62%) Senior Security Architect
9 11 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (7.96%) Data Engineer
11 8 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (7.08%) Software Developer
12 7 (6.19%) Head of Architecture
13 6 (5.31%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.12%) Node.js
1 25 (22.12%) Spring
1 25 (22.12%) Spring Boot
2 17 (15.04%) .NET
3 16 (14.16%) REST
4 15 (13.27%) React
5 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.19%) Kafka
7 6 (5.31%) FastAPI
7 6 (5.31%) OpenAPI
7 6 (5.31%) Vue
8 5 (4.42%) Swagger
9 4 (3.54%) Web Services
10 3 (2.65%) Django
10 3 (2.65%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.65%) JPA
10 3 (2.65%) NumPy
10 3 (2.65%) OAuth
10 3 (2.65%) RESTful
10 3 (2.65%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.31%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) CentOS
2 2 (1.77%) Debian
2 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (53.10%) CI/CD
2 53 (46.90%) DevOps
3 40 (35.40%) Agile
4 39 (34.51%) Software Engineering
5 33 (29.20%) TDD
6 32 (28.32%) AI
7 31 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (26.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (25.66%) Observability
10 28 (24.78%) Mentoring
11 24 (21.24%) Collaborative Culture
12 20 (17.70%) Microservices
12 20 (17.70%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (16.81%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (16.81%) Scrum
13 19 (16.81%) Test Automation
14 17 (15.04%) SDLC
15 15 (13.27%) Clean Code
15 15 (13.27%) Open Source
15 15 (13.27%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 41 (36.28%) Python
2 32 (28.32%) Java
3 29 (25.66%) SQL
4 17 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.73%) C#
7 5 (4.42%) Scala
8 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.77%) Go
9 2 (1.77%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (8.85%) Degree
1 10 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.42%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) GRC
2 11 (9.73%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.54%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 13 (11.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (26.55%) Terraform
2 28 (24.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Packer
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.62%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.62%) Tenable
2 8 (7.08%) Splunk
3 5 (4.42%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.77%) Pega
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.77%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.77%) WSO2
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow