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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 116 101
Rank change year-on-year +22 -15 -34
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 117 42 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.59% 1.75% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.18% 4.81% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 64 37 47
10th Percentile £52,875 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £62,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,500 £84,250
North West median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +18.18% -15.38%

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 1,894 873 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.80% 36.36% 35.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 583 865
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
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% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,170 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,750 £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 11 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 11 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 8 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 1 - - 1
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 (4.27%) Apache
1 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.27%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.71%) nginx
3 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.85%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (69.23%) AWS
2 52 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (23.93%) Amazon S3
3 28 (23.93%) Azure
4 21 (17.95%) SaaS
5 17 (14.53%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (13.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (11.97%) Datadog
8 13 (11.11%) Route 53
9 12 (10.26%) GCP
9 12 (10.26%) GitHub
10 11 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (8.55%) Azure Functions
12 7 (5.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (5.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) AMQP
1 3 (2.56%) LTE
2 2 (1.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.84%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.27%) Big Data
6 5 (4.27%) Power BI
7 4 (3.42%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.56%) MySQL
8 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.71%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.71%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Git
2 12 (10.26%) Snyk
3 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.13%) JIRA
5 5 (4.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.56%) Postman
6 3 (2.56%) Selenium
7 2 (1.71%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.85%) Claude Code
General
1 16 (13.68%) Finance
2 15 (12.82%) Retail
3 13 (11.11%) Aviation
3 13 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) iGaming
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (42.74%) Senior
2 23 (19.66%) Developer
3 22 (18.80%) Software Engineer
4 16 (13.68%) Lead
5 15 (12.82%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.11%) Architect
6 13 (11.11%) Head of Architecture
7 12 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 12 (10.26%) Security Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Security Architect
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.35%) Terraform
2 24 (20.51%) Spring
2 24 (20.51%) Spring Boot
3 21 (17.95%) Node.js
4 16 (13.68%) React
4 16 (13.68%) REST
5 13 (11.11%) .NET
6 12 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.84%) Kafka
8 7 (5.98%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.13%) Swagger
9 6 (5.13%) Vue
10 5 (4.27%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.27%) PySpark
11 4 (3.42%) Web Services
12 3 (2.56%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.56%) JPA
12 3 (2.56%) Pandas
12 3 (2.56%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 46 (39.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Blog
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.13%) Linux
2 3 (2.56%) CentOS
2 3 (2.56%) Debian
2 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.57%) CI/CD
2 51 (43.59%) DevOps
3 42 (35.90%) Software Engineering
4 41 (35.04%) Agile
5 40 (34.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (29.06%) Mentoring
6 34 (29.06%) Observability
7 30 (25.64%) AI
7 30 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (23.08%) TDD
9 26 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
10 25 (21.37%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (17.95%) Microservices
12 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
12 19 (16.24%) Test Automation
13 18 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (14.53%) Scrum
15 16 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (13.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) Python
2 30 (25.64%) Java
3 29 (24.79%) SQL
4 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.40%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.69%) C#
7 5 (4.27%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.71%) Bash
9 2 (1.71%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) PHP
9 2 (1.71%) Rust
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
1 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.69%) Degree
3 8 (6.84%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.26%) GRC
3 4 (3.42%) QA
4 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) Docker
2 13 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (24.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.26%) Ansible
3 3 (2.56%) Puppet
4 2 (1.71%) Packer
4 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.26%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.26%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.26%) Tenable
2 8 (6.84%) Splunk
3 6 (5.13%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.56%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.71%) Pega
5 2 (1.71%) WSO2
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) YouTube