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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 114 44 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.52% 1.87% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.95% 5.18% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 64 38 43
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £90,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%

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 1,916 849 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.50% 36.08% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 563 833
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,800
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 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +7 6 £65,000 - 6
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 1 - - 1
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 (4.39%) Apache
1 5 (4.39%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.39%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (68.42%) AWS
2 52 (45.61%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (23.68%) Amazon S3
3 27 (23.68%) Azure
4 21 (18.42%) SaaS
5 17 (14.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (14.04%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (12.28%) Datadog
8 13 (11.40%) GCP
8 13 (11.40%) Route 53
9 12 (10.53%) GitHub
10 11 (9.65%) Azure Functions
10 11 (9.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) AMQP
1 3 (2.63%) LTE
2 2 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (7.89%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.39%) Big Data
6 5 (4.39%) Power BI
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.51%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.63%) MySQL
8 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.75%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.75%) Parquet
9 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Git
2 12 (10.53%) Snyk
3 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.26%) JIRA
5 5 (4.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.63%) Postman
6 3 (2.63%) Selenium
7 2 (1.75%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (13.16%) Finance
1 15 (13.16%) Retail
2 13 (11.40%) Aviation
2 13 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.75%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) iGaming
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Local Government
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (42.98%) Senior
2 22 (19.30%) Developer
3 20 (17.54%) Software Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Lead
4 14 (12.28%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.40%) Architect
5 13 (11.40%) Head of Architecture
6 12 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Cloud Security Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 12 (10.53%) Security Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Senior Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Senior Security Architect
6 12 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.14%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.32%) Terraform
2 21 (18.42%) Node.js
2 21 (18.42%) Spring
2 21 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 17 (14.91%) React
4 16 (14.04%) REST
5 13 (11.40%) .NET
6 11 (9.65%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.02%) Kafka
8 7 (6.14%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.26%) Swagger
9 6 (5.26%) Vue
10 5 (4.39%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.39%) PySpark
11 3 (2.63%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.63%) AWS CDK
11 3 (2.63%) Flask
11 3 (2.63%) gRPC
11 3 (2.63%) Material-UI
11 3 (2.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (42.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) CentOS
2 3 (2.63%) Debian
2 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 50 (43.86%) DevOps
3 40 (35.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (35.09%) Software Engineering
4 37 (32.46%) Agile
5 34 (29.82%) Observability
6 31 (27.19%) AI
6 31 (27.19%) Mentoring
7 30 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (22.81%) Collaborative Culture
9 24 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (20.18%) TDD
11 20 (17.54%) Microservices
12 19 (16.67%) Roadmaps
13 18 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (15.79%) Test Automation
14 16 (14.04%) Cloud Security
14 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.04%) SDLC
14 16 (14.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.09%) Python
2 28 (24.56%) SQL
3 26 (22.81%) Java
4 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.40%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.77%) C#
6 5 (4.39%) Scala
7 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) Rust
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
1 14 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) Degree
2 9 (7.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (4.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.53%) GRC
3 4 (3.51%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (15.79%) Docker
2 13 (11.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.53%) Ansible
3 3 (2.63%) Puppet
4 2 (1.75%) Grafana
4 2 (1.75%) Packer
4 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.53%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.53%) Tenable
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.63%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Pega
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) WSO2
6 1 (0.88%) YouTube