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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 116 110
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 -26
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 90 47 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.58% 2.10% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 4.85% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 62 41 64
10th Percentile £60,133 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £94,500
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 1,716 969 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.16% 43.39% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 637 1,614
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £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 21 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 21 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 +8 10 £65,000 -
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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (4.44%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.33%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (54.44%) AWS
2 27 (30.00%) Azure
3 19 (21.11%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 15 (16.67%) SaaS
5 13 (14.44%) Azure Functions
6 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 10 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (11.11%) GCP
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) AMQP
1 3 (3.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
1 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.56%) Big Data
3 5 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.56%) Power BI
4 4 (4.44%) DocumentDB
4 4 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.44%) Neo4j
4 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (3.33%) GIS
5 3 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.33%) QGIS
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Snyk
2 8 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (8.89%) Finance
2 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (57.78%) Senior
2 29 (32.22%) Software Engineer
3 23 (25.56%) Developer
4 17 (18.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (16.67%) Lead
6 14 (15.56%) Senior Developer
7 13 (14.44%) Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Security Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Senior Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 12 (13.33%) Senior Security Architect
9 11 (12.22%) Java Developer
10 8 (8.89%) .NET Developer
10 8 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Senior Java Software Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) REST
2 20 (22.22%) Node.js
3 19 (21.11%) Spring
3 19 (21.11%) Spring Boot
4 17 (18.89%) .NET
5 12 (13.33%) React
6 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.56%) Kafka
8 4 (4.44%) Django
8 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.44%) Web Services
9 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.33%) Leaflet
9 3 (3.33%) NumPy
9 3 (3.33%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.33%) Pandas
9 3 (3.33%) PostGIS
9 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
9 3 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 10 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) CentOS
1 3 (3.33%) Debian
1 3 (3.33%) Linux
1 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 42 (46.67%) DevOps
3 34 (37.78%) TDD
4 32 (35.56%) Agile
4 32 (35.56%) Software Engineering
5 26 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (25.56%) AI
8 19 (21.11%) Open Source
8 19 (21.11%) Scrum
9 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 18 (20.00%) SOLID
10 14 (15.56%) Decision-Making
10 14 (15.56%) Microservices
10 14 (15.56%) SDLC
10 14 (15.56%) Validation
11 13 (14.44%) Clean Code
11 13 (14.44%) Cloud Security
11 13 (14.44%) Observability
11 13 (14.44%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.11%) Python
2 24 (26.67%) Java
3 17 (18.89%) SQL
4 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (12.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
3 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) GRC
2 8 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 19 (21.11%) Docker
2 13 (14.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.33%) Terraform
3 7 (7.78%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) Puppet
5 2 (2.22%) Packer
5 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.11%) Grafana
6 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (13.33%) Palo Alto
1 12 (13.33%) Tenable
2 5 (5.56%) Google
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.33%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.22%) Pega
4 2 (2.22%) WSO2
5 1 (1.11%) Informatica