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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 104 121
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -68
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 52 44 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.37% 1.90% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.58% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 42 28 41
10th Percentile £52,750 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +15.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,250 £118,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% -

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 1,352 960 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.50% 41.45% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 756 599 1,343
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,545 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -4 4 £67,500 +3.85% 2
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 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Solr
3 2 (3.85%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (65.38%) AWS
2 25 (48.08%) Azure
3 16 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (28.85%) Azure Functions
4 15 (28.85%) SaaS
5 13 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (19.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (19.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (17.31%) GCP
8 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
10 5 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (7.69%) GitHub
11 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) AMQP
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.85%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.85%) GIS
5 2 (3.85%) Neo4j
5 2 (3.85%) Power BI
5 2 (3.85%) QGIS
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Senior
1 18 (34.62%) Software Engineer
2 16 (30.77%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
4 6 (11.54%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Principal Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Principal .NET Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Geospatial Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (38.46%) REST
2 18 (34.62%) Node.js
3 17 (32.69%) React
4 14 (26.92%) .NET
4 14 (26.92%) Spring
4 14 (26.92%) Spring Boot
5 12 (23.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.69%) gRPC
6 4 (7.69%) Material-UI
6 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
6 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.69%) Swagger
7 3 (5.77%) Django
7 3 (5.77%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
8 2 (3.85%) Kafka
8 2 (3.85%) OpenLayers
8 2 (3.85%) PostGIS
8 2 (3.85%) PySpark
8 2 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (21.15%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) CentOS
1 4 (7.69%) Debian
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 28 (53.85%) Agile
2 28 (53.85%) DevOps
3 24 (46.15%) TDD
4 21 (40.38%) Software Engineering
5 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (26.92%) SOLID
7 13 (25.00%) Microservices
8 12 (23.08%) Scrum
9 11 (21.15%) Observability
9 11 (21.15%) Open Source
10 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (15.38%) Kanban
12 7 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
12 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
13 6 (11.54%) AI
13 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (9.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Java
2 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 16 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 14 (26.92%) Python
4 12 (23.08%) C#
5 4 (7.69%) SQL
6 2 (3.85%) Bicep
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.31%) Ansible
4 4 (7.69%) Puppet
5 2 (3.85%) Packer
5 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.92%) Grafana
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) Informatica
4 1 (1.92%) Pega
4 1 (1.92%) WSO2