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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 111 111
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 -29
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 83 48 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.55% 2.18% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 4.93% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57 42 64
10th Percentile £60,295 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £104,250 £94,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -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 1,687 974 1,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 31.49% 44.29% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 652 1,607
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +6 9 £65,000 - 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 5 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.82%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.61%) GeoServer
3 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 47 (56.63%) AWS
2 26 (31.33%) Azure
3 18 (21.69%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (18.07%) SaaS
5 14 (16.87%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (15.66%) Azure Functions
7 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (12.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (12.05%) GCP
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.61%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) AMQP
2 2 (2.41%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) MongoDB
1 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.82%) Big Data
3 4 (4.82%) DocumentDB
3 4 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.82%) Neo4j
3 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.82%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.61%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (3.61%) GIS
4 3 (3.61%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.61%) QGIS
5 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Snyk
2 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.02%) Git
4 2 (2.41%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (13.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (10.84%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.61%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (55.42%) Senior
2 27 (32.53%) Software Engineer
3 22 (26.51%) Developer
4 15 (18.07%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (15.66%) Lead
5 13 (15.66%) Senior Developer
6 11 (13.25%) Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Cloud Security Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Java Developer
7 10 (12.05%) Security Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Senior Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Senior Security Architect
8 8 (9.64%) .NET Developer
9 7 (8.43%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Java Software Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Software Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) REST
2 20 (24.10%) Node.js
3 18 (21.69%) Spring
3 18 (21.69%) Spring Boot
4 16 (19.28%) .NET
5 12 (14.46%) React
6 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.82%) Django
7 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.82%) Web Services
8 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.61%) gRPC
8 3 (3.61%) Kafka
8 3 (3.61%) Leaflet
8 3 (3.61%) Material-UI
8 3 (3.61%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.61%) OpenLayers
8 3 (3.61%) Pandas
8 3 (3.61%) scikit-learn
8 3 (3.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.92%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.05%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.05%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) CentOS
1 3 (3.61%) Debian
1 3 (3.61%) Linux
1 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) CI/CD
2 40 (48.19%) DevOps
3 32 (38.55%) TDD
4 30 (36.14%) Agile
4 30 (36.14%) Software Engineering
5 26 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.30%) AI
6 21 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (21.69%) Open Source
7 18 (21.69%) SOLID
8 17 (20.48%) Scrum
9 15 (18.07%) Mentoring
10 14 (16.87%) Observability
11 13 (15.66%) Microservices
12 12 (14.46%) Clean Code
12 12 (14.46%) Decision-Making
12 12 (14.46%) SDLC
13 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
13 11 (13.25%) DevSecOps
13 11 (13.25%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.12%) Python
2 22 (26.51%) Java
3 15 (18.07%) TypeScript
4 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.87%) SQL
5 11 (13.25%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) Bicep
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) GRC
2 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (25.30%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 7 (8.43%) Ansible
4 3 (3.61%) Puppet
5 2 (2.41%) Packer
5 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.20%) Grafana
6 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) CrowdStrike
1 10 (12.05%) Palo Alto
1 10 (12.05%) Tenable
2 5 (6.02%) Google
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.61%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.41%) Pega
5 2 (2.41%) WSO2
6 1 (1.20%) Informatica