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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 104 118
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 -35
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 96 53 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.61% 2.39% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.52% 5.55% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 64 44 60
10th Percentile £57,875 £52,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £99,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +17.39% -14.81%

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 1,739 955 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 29.19% 43.06% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 608 1,643
10th Percentile £33,700 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
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 4 June 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 4 June 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 - 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.13%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) AWS
2 28 (29.17%) Azure
3 23 (23.96%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.54%) GCP
6 12 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (12.50%) SaaS
7 11 (11.46%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (11.46%) Azure Functions
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (7.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
13 4 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
13 4 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) AMQP
1 3 (3.13%) LTE
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.21%) Big Data
4 5 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.21%) Power BI
5 4 (4.17%) DocumentDB
5 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.17%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.13%) GIS
6 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.13%) QGIS
6 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Snyk
2 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.29%) Git
4 2 (2.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.04%) Postman
5 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 13 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (11.46%) Finance
3 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.08%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (55.21%) Senior
2 30 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 24 (25.00%) Developer
4 17 (17.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (16.67%) Lead
6 15 (15.63%) Senior Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Cloud Security Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Security Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Senior Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 12 (12.50%) Senior Security Architect
9 11 (11.46%) Java Developer
10 9 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (7.29%) Software Developer
12 6 (6.25%) .NET Developer
12 6 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) Node.js
2 21 (21.88%) Spring
2 21 (21.88%) Spring Boot
3 19 (19.79%) REST
4 16 (16.67%) .NET
5 14 (14.58%) React
6 8 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.25%) Kafka
8 5 (5.21%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.17%) Django
9 4 (4.17%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.17%) Swagger
9 4 (4.17%) Web Services
10 3 (3.13%) Leaflet
10 3 (3.13%) NumPy
10 3 (3.13%) OpenLayers
10 3 (3.13%) Pandas
10 3 (3.13%) PostGIS
10 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.29%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) CentOS
2 3 (3.13%) Debian
2 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (55.21%) CI/CD
2 47 (48.96%) DevOps
3 34 (35.42%) Software Engineering
4 32 (33.33%) Agile
4 32 (33.33%) TDD
5 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (27.08%) AI
7 24 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (20.83%) Scrum
9 19 (19.79%) Mentoring
9 19 (19.79%) Open Source
10 17 (17.71%) SOLID
11 16 (16.67%) Microservices
11 16 (16.67%) Observability
12 15 (15.63%) Clean Code
12 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
12 15 (15.63%) SDLC
13 14 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
13 14 (14.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.38%) Python
2 26 (27.08%) Java
3 21 (21.88%) SQL
4 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.42%) C#
7 3 (3.13%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (6.25%) Degree
1 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) GRC
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (21.88%) Docker
2 13 (13.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 24 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (7.29%) Ansible
3 3 (3.13%) Puppet
4 2 (2.08%) Packer
4 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 12 (12.50%) Tenable
2 6 (6.25%) Google
3 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.13%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.08%) Pega
5 2 (2.08%) Splunk
5 2 (2.08%) WSO2
6 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow