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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 106 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -49
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 41 53 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.51% 1.89% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 4.80% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32 33 34
10th Percentile £52,300 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% - -3.85%

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 1,159 1,105 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.61% 39.41% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 607 618 813
10th Percentile £29,650 £36,100 £32,950
25th Percentile £41,125 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,852 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 December 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 24 December 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 - 1 £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 4 (9.76%) Apache
1 4 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 20 (48.78%) Azure
3 16 (39.02%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (34.15%) SaaS
5 12 (29.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (26.83%) Azure Functions
7 9 (21.95%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (21.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (19.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (17.07%) GitHub
10 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
10 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (12.20%) GCP
12 3 (7.32%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
13 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) AMQP
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Big Data
2 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.88%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Lead
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Java Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Team Leader
5 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.76%) .NET Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Principal Developer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal .NET Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) REST
2 16 (39.02%) React
3 14 (34.15%) .NET
4 11 (26.83%) AngularJS
4 11 (26.83%) Node.js
5 8 (19.51%) Spring
5 8 (19.51%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.32%) gRPC
6 3 (7.32%) Kafka
6 3 (7.32%) Material-UI
6 3 (7.32%) OpenAPI
6 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (7.32%) Swagger
6 3 (7.32%) Vue
7 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.88%) PySpark
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon Corretto
8 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.44%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) CentOS
2 3 (7.32%) Debian
2 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Agile
2 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
3 17 (41.46%) DevOps
4 16 (39.02%) TDD
5 13 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (29.27%) Microservices
7 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
7 10 (24.39%) SOLID
8 9 (21.95%) Observability
9 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.63%) Analytics
10 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
10 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (14.63%) Scrum
11 5 (12.20%) Kanban
11 5 (12.20%) Open Source
12 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 4 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) C#
1 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
2 11 (26.83%) Java
2 11 (26.83%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
3 6 (14.63%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Bicep
4 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Terraform
2 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Ansible
4 3 (7.32%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.32%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) Pega
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) WSO2