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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 112 105
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 109 51 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.64% 2.03% 2.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.84% 5.30% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 69 44 59
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +14.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,750 £89,500
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 1,865 963 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.14% 38.35% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 630 1,267
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.65%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +9 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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.75%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.83%) nginx
4 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (66.06%) AWS
2 38 (34.86%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (24.77%) Azure
4 25 (22.94%) Amazon S3
5 17 (15.60%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (12.84%) SaaS
7 13 (11.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (11.01%) GCP
9 10 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (9.17%) GitHub
10 9 (8.26%) Azure Functions
10 9 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.50%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.59%) Datadog
12 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) LTE
2 2 (1.83%) AMQP
2 2 (1.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.67%) Big Data
7 4 (3.67%) Power BI
8 3 (2.75%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.75%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.75%) GIS
8 3 (2.75%) MySQL
8 3 (2.75%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.75%) QGIS
8 3 (2.75%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Snyk
2 11 (10.09%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.50%) JIRA
4 5 (4.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.75%) Postman
5 3 (2.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (13.76%) Finance
2 13 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.26%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Aviation
5 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (49.54%) Senior
2 27 (24.77%) Developer
3 25 (22.94%) Software Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Senior Developer
5 16 (14.68%) Lead
6 14 (12.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (11.93%) Architect
7 13 (11.93%) Java Developer
8 12 (11.01%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (11.01%) Cloud Security Architect
8 12 (11.01%) Security Architect
8 12 (11.01%) Senior Architect
8 12 (11.01%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 12 (11.01%) Senior Security Architect
9 11 (10.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (8.26%) Data Engineer
11 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (7.34%) Software Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) Node.js
1 25 (22.94%) Spring
1 25 (22.94%) Spring Boot
2 16 (14.68%) .NET
2 16 (14.68%) REST
3 14 (12.84%) React
4 12 (11.01%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.42%) Kafka
6 6 (5.50%) FastAPI
6 6 (5.50%) Vue
7 5 (4.59%) OpenAPI
7 5 (4.59%) Swagger
8 4 (3.67%) Web Services
9 3 (2.75%) Django
9 3 (2.75%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.75%) JPA
9 3 (2.75%) OAuth
9 3 (2.75%) RESTful
9 3 (2.75%) scikit-learn
9 3 (2.75%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.01%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.50%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) CentOS
2 2 (1.83%) Debian
2 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 52 (47.71%) DevOps
3 39 (35.78%) Agile
4 35 (32.11%) Software Engineering
5 32 (29.36%) AI
5 32 (29.36%) TDD
6 30 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (23.85%) Observability
9 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
10 21 (19.27%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (17.43%) Microservices
11 19 (17.43%) Test Automation
12 18 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (16.51%) Scrum
13 17 (15.60%) SDLC
13 17 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (13.76%) Clean Code
14 15 (13.76%) Open Source
14 15 (13.76%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.70%) Python
2 31 (28.44%) Java
3 29 (26.61%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 10 (9.17%) C#
7 5 (4.59%) Scala
8 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.83%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.17%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (4.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) GRC
2 11 (10.09%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (19.27%) Docker
2 13 (11.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (26.61%) Terraform
2 28 (25.69%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Puppet
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) Packer
5 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (11.01%) Palo Alto
1 12 (11.01%) Tenable
2 8 (7.34%) Splunk
3 5 (4.59%) Google
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.83%) Pega
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.83%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.83%) WSO2
6 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow