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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 114 105
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 108 51 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.52% 2.07% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.75% 5.67% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 61 44 53
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +23.91% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,879 899 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 26.38% 36.56% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 605 1,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,450
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% - -0.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +7 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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.85%) nginx
4 2 (1.85%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (67.59%) AWS
2 45 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 23 (21.30%) Azure
5 19 (17.59%) SaaS
6 16 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (11.11%) Datadog
8 12 (11.11%) GitHub
9 11 (10.19%) GCP
9 11 (10.19%) Route 53
10 9 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (6.48%) Azure Functions
12 7 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (4.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) LTE
2 2 (1.85%) AMQP
2 2 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.70%) Big Data
6 4 (3.70%) Power BI
7 3 (2.78%) MySQL
7 3 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.85%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.85%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Snyk
2 11 (10.19%) Git
3 9 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.56%) JIRA
5 5 (4.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.78%) Postman
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
General
1 16 (14.81%) Finance
2 13 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (11.11%) Retail
3 12 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Aviation
5 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Local Government
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (43.52%) Senior
2 22 (20.37%) Developer
3 20 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 16 (14.81%) Lead
5 14 (12.96%) Senior Developer
6 13 (12.04%) Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Security Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Senior Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (10.19%) Head of Architecture
9 10 (9.26%) Java Developer
10 9 (8.33%) Data Engineer
11 8 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.93%) Terraform
2 20 (18.52%) Node.js
2 20 (18.52%) Spring
2 20 (18.52%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.96%) REST
4 13 (12.04%) .NET
4 13 (12.04%) React
5 11 (10.19%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.48%) Kafka
7 6 (5.56%) OpenAPI
7 6 (5.56%) Vue
8 5 (4.63%) FastAPI
8 5 (4.63%) Swagger
9 4 (3.70%) Web Services
10 3 (2.78%) JPA
10 3 (2.78%) NumPy
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.78%) RESTful
10 3 (2.78%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 2 (1.85%) CentOS
2 2 (1.85%) Debian
2 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 46 (42.59%) DevOps
3 35 (32.41%) Agile
4 34 (31.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (31.48%) Software Engineering
5 31 (28.70%) Observability
6 29 (26.85%) AI
6 29 (26.85%) Mentoring
7 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (23.15%) Collaborative Culture
9 24 (22.22%) TDD
10 22 (20.37%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (16.67%) Microservices
12 17 (15.74%) Cost Optimisation
12 17 (15.74%) Roadmaps
12 17 (15.74%) Test Automation
13 16 (14.81%) Cloud Security
13 16 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (13.89%) SDLC
15 14 (12.96%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.11%) Python
2 28 (25.93%) SQL
3 24 (22.22%) Java
4 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.33%) C#
5 9 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.63%) Scala
7 3 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.85%) Bash
8 2 (1.85%) Go
8 2 (1.85%) PHP
8 2 (1.85%) Rust
9 1 (0.93%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Degree
1 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.48%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) GRC
2 11 (10.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Docker
2 13 (12.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.19%) Ansible
3 2 (1.85%) Puppet
3 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 12 (11.11%) Tenable
2 8 (7.41%) Splunk
3 5 (4.63%) Google
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.85%) Pega
5 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.85%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.85%) WSO2
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow