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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 111 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 -3 -30
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 103 51 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.62% 2.05% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 5.25% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 44 64
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £57,500 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +12.77% -9.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,625 £102,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 1,804 972 2,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.30% 39.15% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,414 631 1,551
10th Percentile £34,475 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,375 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,170 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 16 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 16 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 +8 10 £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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.91%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.94%) nginx
4 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (64.08%) AWS
2 31 (30.10%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (26.21%) Azure
4 23 (22.33%) Amazon S3
5 16 (15.53%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (11.65%) GCP
7 10 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (9.71%) SaaS
8 9 (8.74%) Azure Functions
8 9 (8.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (8.74%) GitHub
9 6 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.85%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (4.85%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) LTE
2 2 (1.94%) AMQP
2 2 (1.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.80%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.88%) Big Data
6 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.88%) Power BI
7 3 (2.91%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.91%) GIS
7 3 (2.91%) MySQL
7 3 (2.91%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.91%) QGIS
7 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.94%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Snyk
2 11 (10.68%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.83%) JIRA
4 5 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.91%) Postman
5 3 (2.91%) Selenium
6 2 (1.94%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (14.56%) Finance
2 13 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.80%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.94%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (51.46%) Senior
2 27 (26.21%) Developer
2 27 (26.21%) Software Engineer
3 18 (17.48%) Senior Developer
4 16 (15.53%) Lead
5 14 (13.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (12.62%) Architect
6 13 (12.62%) Java Developer
7 12 (11.65%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (11.65%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (11.65%) Security Architect
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Architect
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Security Architect
8 11 (10.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.24%) Node.js
1 26 (25.24%) Spring
1 26 (25.24%) Spring Boot
2 16 (15.53%) .NET
2 16 (15.53%) React
2 16 (15.53%) REST
3 12 (11.65%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.80%) Kafka
5 6 (5.83%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.83%) Vue
6 5 (4.85%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.85%) Swagger
7 4 (3.88%) Web Services
8 3 (2.91%) Django
8 3 (2.91%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.91%) JPA
8 3 (2.91%) OAuth
8 3 (2.91%) RESTful
8 3 (2.91%) scikit-learn
8 3 (2.91%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 30 (29.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.65%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.80%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.83%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) CentOS
2 2 (1.94%) Debian
2 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.28%) CI/CD
2 51 (49.51%) DevOps
3 37 (35.92%) Agile
4 33 (32.04%) Software Engineering
4 33 (32.04%) TDD
5 32 (31.07%) AI
6 30 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (20.39%) Mentoring
8 21 (20.39%) Observability
9 20 (19.42%) Microservices
10 19 (18.45%) Scrum
10 19 (18.45%) Test Automation
11 18 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (16.50%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (16.50%) SDLC
13 16 (15.53%) Clean Code
14 15 (14.56%) Open Source
14 15 (14.56%) SOLID
15 14 (13.59%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.89%) Python
2 32 (31.07%) Java
3 27 (26.21%) SQL
4 18 (17.48%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.53%) TypeScript
6 10 (9.71%) C#
7 5 (4.85%) Scala
8 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.94%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) PHP
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Degree
2 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) GRC
2 9 (8.74%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) Docker
2 13 (12.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (27.18%) Terraform
2 27 (26.21%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.94%) Packer
4 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.94%) Puppet
5 1 (0.97%) Grafana
5 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (11.65%) Palo Alto
1 12 (11.65%) Tenable
2 8 (7.77%) Splunk
3 5 (4.85%) Google
3 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.94%) Pega
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.94%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.94%) WSO2
6 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow