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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 113 97
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 -24
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 117 50 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.70% 2.00% 2.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 5.30% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 69 43 58
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +27.66% -9.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,563
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,000 £85,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +3.70% +10.20% -5.77%

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 1,904 943 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.60% 37.78% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 617 1,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £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 17 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 17 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 +8 8 £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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Apache
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.56%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.56%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.71%) nginx
4 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (68.38%) AWS
2 46 (39.32%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (23.08%) Azure
4 24 (20.51%) Amazon S3
5 21 (17.95%) SaaS
6 17 (14.53%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (10.26%) Datadog
8 12 (10.26%) GCP
9 11 (9.40%) GitHub
9 11 (9.40%) Route 53
10 9 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.69%) Azure Functions
10 9 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) LTE
2 2 (1.71%) AMQP
2 2 (1.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.84%) DynamoDB
2 8 (6.84%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.42%) Big Data
5 4 (3.42%) Power BI
6 3 (2.56%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.56%) GIS
6 3 (2.56%) MySQL
6 3 (2.56%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.56%) QGIS
6 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Snyk
2 11 (9.40%) Git
2 11 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.56%) Postman
5 3 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Claude Code
General
1 16 (13.68%) Finance
2 13 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (9.40%) Aviation
3 11 (9.40%) Retail
4 10 (8.55%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.71%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.71%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Local Government
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (46.15%) Senior
2 27 (23.08%) Developer
3 25 (21.37%) Software Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 17 (14.53%) Lead
6 14 (11.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (11.11%) Architect
7 13 (11.11%) Java Developer
8 12 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Cloud Security Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Security Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Senior Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 12 (10.26%) Senior Security Architect
9 11 (9.40%) Head of Architecture
9 11 (9.40%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (7.69%) Data Engineer
11 8 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.84%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.37%) Node.js
2 24 (20.51%) Spring
2 24 (20.51%) Spring Boot
3 17 (14.53%) .NET
4 16 (13.68%) REST
5 14 (11.97%) React
6 12 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.98%) Kafka
8 6 (5.13%) FastAPI
8 6 (5.13%) OpenAPI
8 6 (5.13%) Vue
9 5 (4.27%) Swagger
10 4 (3.42%) Web Services
11 3 (2.56%) Django
11 3 (2.56%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.56%) JPA
11 3 (2.56%) NumPy
11 3 (2.56%) OAuth
11 3 (2.56%) RESTful
11 3 (2.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.13%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.85%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.27%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) CentOS
2 2 (1.71%) Debian
2 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 53 (45.30%) DevOps
3 41 (35.04%) Software Engineering
4 40 (34.19%) Agile
5 34 (29.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (28.21%) Observability
7 32 (27.35%) AI
7 32 (27.35%) TDD
8 31 (26.50%) Mentoring
9 30 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (23.93%) Collaborative Culture
11 23 (19.66%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (17.09%) Microservices
13 19 (16.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (16.24%) Test Automation
14 18 (15.38%) Scrum
15 17 (14.53%) Cost Optimisation
15 17 (14.53%) Roadmaps
15 17 (14.53%) SDLC
16 16 (13.68%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) Python
2 30 (25.64%) Java
3 28 (23.93%) SQL
4 17 (14.53%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.40%) C#
7 5 (4.27%) Scala
8 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.71%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) Bash
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (8.55%) Degree
1 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
1 10 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.98%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) GRC
2 11 (9.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.42%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) Docker
2 13 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (26.50%) Terraform
2 28 (23.93%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.26%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.26%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.26%) Tenable
2 8 (6.84%) Splunk
3 5 (4.27%) Google
3 5 (4.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.71%) Pega
5 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.71%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.71%) WSO2
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow