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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 110 106
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 111 50 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.57% 2.00% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.85% 5.35% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 63 43 55
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +3.70% +14.89% -9.62%

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 1,896 934 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 26.85% 37.33% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 620 1,090
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
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 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 26 August 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 26 August 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 6 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £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 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.70%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.80%) nginx
4 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (68.47%) AWS
2 46 (41.44%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (22.52%) Azure
4 24 (21.62%) Amazon S3
5 19 (17.12%) SaaS
6 16 (14.41%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (10.81%) Datadog
9 11 (9.91%) GCP
9 11 (9.91%) GitHub
9 11 (9.91%) Route 53
10 9 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (6.31%) Azure Functions
13 6 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (5.41%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) LTE
2 2 (1.80%) AMQP
2 2 (1.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.21%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.60%) Big Data
6 4 (3.60%) Power BI
7 3 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.70%) GIS
7 3 (2.70%) MySQL
7 3 (2.70%) QGIS
7 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.80%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.80%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Snyk
2 11 (9.91%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) JIRA
4 5 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.70%) Postman
5 3 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (0.90%) Claude Code
General
1 16 (14.41%) Finance
2 13 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (9.91%) Aviation
3 11 (9.91%) Retail
4 10 (9.01%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.80%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.80%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.80%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Local Government
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (44.14%) Senior
2 25 (22.52%) Developer
3 22 (19.82%) Software Engineer
4 16 (14.41%) Lead
4 16 (14.41%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.71%) Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Cloud Security Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 12 (10.81%) Security Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Senior Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Senior Security Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Head of Architecture
8 10 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (8.11%) Data Engineer
10 8 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.13%) Terraform
2 24 (21.62%) Node.js
3 22 (19.82%) Spring
3 22 (19.82%) Spring Boot
4 15 (13.51%) .NET
5 14 (12.61%) REST
6 13 (11.71%) React
7 11 (9.91%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.31%) Kafka
9 6 (5.41%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.41%) Vue
10 5 (4.50%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.50%) Swagger
11 4 (3.60%) Web Services
12 3 (2.70%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.70%) JPA
12 3 (2.70%) OAuth
12 3 (2.70%) RESTful
12 3 (2.70%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.70%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (35.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.50%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.90%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) CentOS
2 2 (1.80%) Debian
2 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.45%) CI/CD
2 48 (43.24%) DevOps
3 38 (34.23%) Software Engineering
4 37 (33.33%) Agile
5 32 (28.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (27.93%) AI
6 31 (27.93%) Observability
7 29 (26.13%) Mentoring
8 28 (25.23%) TDD
9 27 (24.32%) Collaborative Culture
9 27 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (19.82%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (18.02%) Microservices
12 19 (17.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (15.32%) Cost Optimisation
13 17 (15.32%) Roadmaps
13 17 (15.32%) SDLC
13 17 (15.32%) Test Automation
14 16 (14.41%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (14.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) Python
2 28 (25.23%) Java
2 28 (25.23%) SQL
3 16 (14.41%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.11%) C#
6 5 (4.50%) Scala
7 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.80%) Go
8 2 (1.80%) PHP
9 1 (0.90%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.90%) Ruby
9 1 (0.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Degree
1 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) GRC
2 11 (9.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.60%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Docker
2 13 (11.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.91%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Puppet
4 1 (0.90%) Grafana
4 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.81%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.81%) Tenable
2 8 (7.21%) Splunk
3 5 (4.50%) Google
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.80%) Pega
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.80%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.80%) WSO2
6 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow