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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 100 114
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 74 43 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.57% 2.16% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.74% 4.82% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53 36 54
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,938 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £82,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £109,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £69,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.30% +10.80% +4.17%

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 1,562 893 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.18% 44.76% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 899 665 1,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,081
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.61% +1.01%
75th Percentile £84,875 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £85,125
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -5 6 £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 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.76%) Apache
3 4 (5.41%) Apache Solr
4 3 (4.05%) GeoServer
4 3 (4.05%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) AWS
2 33 (44.59%) Azure
3 18 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (24.32%) Azure Functions
3 18 (24.32%) SaaS
4 16 (21.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (17.57%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (17.57%) GCP
6 12 (16.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (16.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (14.86%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (9.46%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.41%) GitHub
11 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.16%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.76%) Big Data
4 5 (6.76%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (6.76%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.41%) DocumentDB
5 4 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.41%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.05%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (4.05%) GIS
6 3 (4.05%) QGIS
7 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.70%) Power BI
7 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (13.51%) Git
2 9 (12.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) Snyk
4 2 (2.70%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.35%) GitLab
General
1 7 (9.46%) Finance
2 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.41%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Senior
2 28 (37.84%) Software Engineer
3 21 (28.38%) Developer
4 12 (16.22%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Lead
6 9 (12.16%) .NET Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Principal Developer
10 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) Principal .NET Developer
10 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.41%) Architect
11 4 (5.41%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (4.05%) Security Architect
12 3 (4.05%) Senior Security Architect
12 3 (4.05%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) REST
2 23 (31.08%) Node.js
3 19 (25.68%) .NET
3 19 (25.68%) Spring
3 19 (25.68%) Spring Boot
4 17 (22.97%) React
5 14 (18.92%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.76%) Django
6 5 (6.76%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.76%) gRPC
6 5 (6.76%) Material-UI
6 5 (6.76%) OpenAPI
6 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.76%) Swagger
7 3 (4.05%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.05%) NumPy
7 3 (4.05%) OpenLayers
7 3 (4.05%) scikit-learn
7 3 (4.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.49%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.22%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) CentOS
1 5 (6.76%) Debian
1 5 (6.76%) Linux
1 5 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (6.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 39 (52.70%) DevOps
3 33 (44.59%) Agile
3 33 (44.59%) TDD
4 31 (41.89%) Software Engineering
5 26 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (27.03%) SOLID
7 18 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (24.32%) Scrum
8 17 (22.97%) Observability
8 17 (22.97%) Open Source
9 16 (21.62%) Microservices
10 13 (17.57%) AI
10 13 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (16.22%) Kanban
12 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
12 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
13 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (9.46%) Decision-Making
14 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) Python
2 24 (32.43%) Java
3 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 16 (21.62%) TypeScript
5 14 (18.92%) C#
6 8 (10.81%) SQL
7 3 (4.05%) Bicep
7 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.05%) GRC
2 2 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (25.68%) Docker
2 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 23 (31.08%) Terraform
3 11 (14.86%) Ansible
4 5 (6.76%) Puppet
5 2 (2.70%) Packer
5 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.35%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Google
2 5 (6.76%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.76%) SaltStack
3 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.05%) Pega
4 3 (4.05%) Tenable
4 3 (4.05%) WSO2
5 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.35%) Informatica