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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 115 107
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 -27
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 98 50 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.65% 2.29% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 5.31% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 67 42 62
10th Percentile £58,250 £52,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +27.66% -12.96%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,500 £96,500
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 1,811 942 2,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.46% 43.23% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 597 1,633
10th Percentile £33,050 £31,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 30 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 30 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 +9 10 £65,000 - 1
Cheadle - 1 £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 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.10%) Apache
3 4 (4.08%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.06%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (56.12%) AWS
2 31 (31.63%) Azure
3 22 (22.45%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (15.31%) Azure Logic Apps
4 15 (15.31%) SaaS
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 13 (13.27%) GCP
7 11 (11.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (10.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.08%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) AMQP
1 3 (3.06%) LTE
2 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.10%) Big Data
4 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.10%) Power BI
5 4 (4.08%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.08%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.06%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.06%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.06%) GIS
6 3 (3.06%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.06%) QGIS
6 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Snyk
2 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) Postman
5 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 13 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (10.20%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.04%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (55.10%) Senior
2 30 (30.61%) Software Engineer
3 26 (26.53%) Developer
4 17 (17.35%) Lead
4 17 (17.35%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (16.33%) Senior Developer
6 14 (14.29%) Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Security Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Senior Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Senior Security Architect
8 11 (11.22%) Java Developer
9 9 (9.18%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (8.16%) .NET Developer
11 7 (7.14%) Software Developer
12 6 (6.12%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (6.12%) Senior Java Software Developer
12 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) REST
2 21 (21.43%) Node.js
3 20 (20.41%) Spring
3 20 (20.41%) Spring Boot
4 19 (19.39%) .NET
5 15 (15.31%) React
6 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.12%) Kafka
8 5 (5.10%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.08%) Django
9 4 (4.08%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.08%) Swagger
9 4 (4.08%) Web Services
10 3 (3.06%) Leaflet
10 3 (3.06%) NumPy
10 3 (3.06%) OpenLayers
10 3 (3.06%) Pandas
10 3 (3.06%) PostGIS
10 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.24%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.22%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) CentOS
2 3 (3.06%) Debian
2 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.12%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.96%) DevOps
3 34 (34.69%) Agile
3 34 (34.69%) Software Engineering
3 34 (34.69%) TDD
4 30 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (26.53%) AI
7 20 (20.41%) Scrum
7 20 (20.41%) SOLID
8 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
8 19 (19.39%) Open Source
9 16 (16.33%) Microservices
10 15 (15.31%) Clean Code
10 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
10 15 (15.31%) Observability
10 15 (15.31%) SDLC
11 14 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.65%) Python
2 25 (25.51%) Java
3 20 (20.41%) SQL
4 17 (17.35%) JavaScript
5 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.27%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (1.02%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) Degree
2 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) GRC
2 9 (9.18%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.06%) QA
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Docker
2 13 (13.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (24.49%) Kubernetes
1 24 (24.49%) Terraform
2 7 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (3.06%) Puppet
4 2 (2.04%) Packer
4 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.24%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (12.24%) Palo Alto
1 12 (12.24%) Tenable
2 6 (6.12%) Google
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.06%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.04%) Pega
5 2 (2.04%) WSO2
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Informatica
6 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk