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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 116 100
Rank change year-on-year +25 -16 -31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 114 44 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.56% 1.83% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.01% 5.05% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 62 39 47
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £62,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,500 £84,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 1,896 871 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.89% 36.28% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 582 866
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,692 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,875 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +5 6 £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 (4.39%) Apache
1 5 (4.39%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.39%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.75%) nginx
3 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (68.42%) AWS
2 50 (43.86%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (22.81%) Amazon S3
3 26 (22.81%) Azure
4 21 (18.42%) SaaS
5 17 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (12.28%) Datadog
8 13 (11.40%) Route 53
9 12 (10.53%) GCP
9 12 (10.53%) GitHub
10 11 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (7.89%) Azure Functions
13 7 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) AMQP
1 3 (2.63%) LTE
2 2 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.02%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.39%) Big Data
6 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.39%) Power BI
7 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.63%) MySQL
8 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.75%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.75%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Git
1 12 (10.53%) Snyk
2 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.26%) JIRA
4 5 (4.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.63%) Postman
5 3 (2.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
General
1 17 (14.91%) Finance
2 15 (13.16%) Retail
3 13 (11.40%) Aviation
3 13 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.75%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) iGaming
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (42.98%) Senior
2 22 (19.30%) Developer
3 21 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 16 (14.04%) Lead
5 14 (12.28%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Architect
6 13 (11.40%) Head of Architecture
7 12 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Security Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Security Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Data Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.44%) Terraform
2 22 (19.30%) Spring
2 22 (19.30%) Spring Boot
3 21 (18.42%) Node.js
4 16 (14.04%) REST
5 14 (12.28%) React
6 13 (11.40%) .NET
7 12 (10.53%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.02%) Kafka
9 7 (6.14%) OpenAPI
10 6 (5.26%) Swagger
10 6 (5.26%) Vue
11 5 (4.39%) FastAPI
12 4 (3.51%) PySpark
12 4 (3.51%) Web Services
13 3 (2.63%) Hibernate
13 3 (2.63%) JPA
13 3 (2.63%) OAuth
13 3 (2.63%) scikit-learn
13 3 (2.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 43 (37.72%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) Blog
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) CentOS
2 3 (2.63%) Debian
2 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.25%) CI/CD
2 47 (41.23%) DevOps
3 39 (34.21%) Software Engineering
4 37 (32.46%) Agile
4 37 (32.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (29.82%) Observability
6 32 (28.07%) Mentoring
7 30 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (25.44%) AI
9 27 (23.68%) Collaborative Culture
10 25 (21.93%) TDD
11 24 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (17.54%) Microservices
13 19 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
13 19 (16.67%) Roadmaps
14 18 (15.79%) Test Automation
15 16 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
15 16 (14.04%) Cloud Security
15 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (13.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 29 (25.44%) SQL
3 27 (23.68%) Java
4 15 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.89%) C#
5 9 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.39%) Scala
7 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) Rust
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) Degree
3 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 12 (10.53%) GRC
2 4 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (15.79%) Docker
2 13 (11.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.53%) Ansible
3 3 (2.63%) Puppet
4 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.53%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.53%) Tenable
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.63%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.75%) Pega
5 2 (1.75%) WSO2
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow