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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 99 52 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.62% 2.29% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.90% 5.51% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 66 45 62
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,500 £96,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -13.21%

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 1,677 944 2,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.48% 41.55% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 602 1,692
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
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 18 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 18 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 -
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 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.03%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.03%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.02%) Confluence
4 2 (2.02%) nginx
4 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (59.60%) AWS
2 29 (29.29%) Azure
3 26 (26.26%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (13.13%) GCP
7 12 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (12.12%) SaaS
8 11 (11.11%) Azure Functions
9 10 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (7.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (5.05%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.05%) GitHub
13 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
14 4 (4.04%) Power Automate
14 4 (4.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) LTE
2 2 (2.02%) AMQP
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) Relational Database
2 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.05%) Power BI
6 4 (4.04%) Big Data
6 4 (4.04%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.03%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (3.03%) GIS
7 3 (3.03%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.03%) QGIS
7 3 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.02%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Snyk
2 10 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.02%) Postman
5 2 (2.02%) Selenium
5 2 (2.02%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (13.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (12.12%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.02%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (55.56%) Senior
2 28 (28.28%) Software Engineer
3 27 (27.27%) Developer
4 18 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 16 (16.16%) Lead
5 16 (16.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (14.14%) Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Cloud Security Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Java Developer
7 12 (12.12%) Security Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Senior Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 12 (12.12%) Senior Security Architect
8 10 (10.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) .NET Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) Node.js
1 22 (22.22%) Spring
1 22 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 18 (18.18%) REST
3 17 (17.17%) .NET
4 15 (15.15%) React
5 8 (8.08%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.07%) FastAPI
6 7 (7.07%) Kafka
7 5 (5.05%) Vue
8 4 (4.04%) Django
8 4 (4.04%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.04%) Swagger
8 4 (4.04%) Web Services
9 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.03%) Leaflet
9 3 (3.03%) NumPy
9 3 (3.03%) OpenLayers
9 3 (3.03%) PostGIS
9 3 (3.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) CentOS
2 2 (2.02%) Debian
2 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.59%) CI/CD
2 49 (49.49%) DevOps
3 33 (33.33%) Agile
3 33 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 33 (33.33%) TDD
4 31 (31.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (30.30%) AI
6 25 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (19.19%) Mentoring
7 19 (19.19%) Observability
7 19 (19.19%) Scrum
8 18 (18.18%) Microservices
8 18 (18.18%) SOLID
9 17 (17.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (17.17%) Open Source
10 16 (16.16%) Clean Code
10 16 (16.16%) SDLC
10 16 (16.16%) Test Automation
11 15 (15.15%) Decision-Making
12 14 (14.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.36%) Python
2 27 (27.27%) Java
3 23 (23.23%) SQL
4 16 (16.16%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.16%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.11%) C#
6 4 (4.04%) Scala
7 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) Go
8 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.07%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) GRC
2 9 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Docker
2 13 (13.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (25.25%) Terraform
2 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.02%) Packer
4 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.02%) Puppet
5 1 (1.01%) Grafana
5 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (12.12%) Palo Alto
1 12 (12.12%) Tenable
2 5 (5.05%) Google
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Splunk
4 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.02%) Pega
4 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.02%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.02%) WSO2
5 1 (1.01%) Informatica
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow