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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 99 113
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 76 45 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.55% 2.20% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.74% 5.02% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53 38 56
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,563 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £82,656
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,750 £106,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -5.88%

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 1,603 896 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.73% 43.84% 38.85%
Number of salaries quoted 920 665 1,580
10th Percentile £31,925 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £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 £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 17 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 17 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%
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 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.58%) Apache
3 4 (5.26%) Apache Solr
4 3 (3.95%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 31 (40.79%) Azure
3 18 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (22.37%) Azure Functions
4 17 (22.37%) SaaS
5 16 (21.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (17.11%) GCP
7 12 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (11.84%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (9.21%) Amazon S3
11 6 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
13 4 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
13 4 (5.26%) GitHub
13 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
1 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.58%) Big Data
2 5 (6.58%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (6.58%) Hadoop
2 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.26%) DocumentDB
3 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.26%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.95%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (3.95%) GIS
4 3 (3.95%) QGIS
5 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.63%) Power BI
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.58%) Snyk
4 2 (2.63%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.32%) GitLab
General
1 8 (10.53%) Finance
2 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.58%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (44.74%) Senior
2 30 (39.47%) Software Engineer
3 18 (23.68%) Developer
4 14 (18.42%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (14.47%) Lead
6 9 (11.84%) .NET Developer
7 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
9 6 (7.89%) Architect
10 5 (6.58%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (6.58%) Cloud Security Architect
10 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Principal .NET Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Principal Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Security Architect
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Architect
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) REST
2 21 (27.63%) Node.js
3 18 (23.68%) .NET
4 17 (22.37%) React
4 17 (22.37%) Spring
4 17 (22.37%) Spring Boot
5 11 (14.47%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.58%) Django
6 5 (6.58%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.58%) gRPC
6 5 (6.58%) Material-UI
6 5 (6.58%) OpenAPI
6 5 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.58%) Swagger
7 3 (3.95%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.95%) NumPy
7 3 (3.95%) OpenLayers
7 3 (3.95%) Pandas
7 3 (3.95%) PostGIS
7 3 (3.95%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) CentOS
1 5 (6.58%) Debian
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
1 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 38 (50.00%) DevOps
3 33 (43.42%) Software Engineering
4 31 (40.79%) Agile
4 31 (40.79%) TDD
5 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (27.63%) SOLID
7 19 (25.00%) Open Source
8 18 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (22.37%) Observability
10 16 (21.05%) Scrum
11 15 (19.74%) AI
12 14 (18.42%) Microservices
13 11 (14.47%) Containerisation
13 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
14 10 (13.16%) Kanban
15 9 (11.84%) Collaborative Working
16 8 (10.53%) Clean Code
16 8 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) Java
3 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 15 (19.74%) TypeScript
5 13 (17.11%) C#
6 9 (11.84%) SQL
7 3 (3.95%) Bicep
7 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) GRC
2 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 22 (28.95%) Terraform
3 9 (11.84%) Ansible
4 5 (6.58%) Puppet
5 2 (2.63%) Packer
5 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) Grafana
6 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Google
2 5 (6.58%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
2 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.58%) SaltStack
2 5 (6.58%) Tenable
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) Pega
4 2 (2.63%) WSO2
5 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.32%) Informatica