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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 112 119
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -52
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 109 43 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.43% 1.81% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.70% 5.07% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 64 37 43
10th Percentile £50,600 £55,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,249 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +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 1,913 848 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.03% 35.75% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 567 782
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,004 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £84,996
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 8 £65,000 - 8
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 - 3
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 (4.59%) Apache
1 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) CMS
2 3 (2.75%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (69.72%) AWS
2 51 (46.79%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (23.85%) Amazon S3
4 25 (22.94%) Azure
5 18 (16.51%) SaaS
6 17 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (12.84%) Datadog
8 13 (11.93%) Route 53
9 12 (11.01%) Azure Functions
9 12 (11.01%) GitHub
10 10 (9.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (9.17%) GCP
11 9 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (6.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) AMQP
1 3 (2.75%) LTE
2 2 (1.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (8.26%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.59%) Big Data
4 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) Power BI
5 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.75%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.75%) MySQL
6 3 (2.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.83%) Parquet
7 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Snyk
3 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.50%) JIRA
4 5 (4.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.67%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.75%) Postman
6 3 (2.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.92%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (13.76%) Retail
2 14 (12.84%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Aviation
4 12 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.09%) Social Skills
6 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) iGaming
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (41.28%) Senior
2 21 (19.27%) Developer
3 20 (18.35%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.93%) Head of Architecture
6 12 (11.01%) Architect
6 12 (11.01%) Data Engineer
6 12 (11.01%) Lead
7 11 (10.09%) Cloud Architect
7 11 (10.09%) Cloud Security Architect
7 11 (10.09%) Security Architect
7 11 (10.09%) Senior Architect
7 11 (10.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 11 (10.09%) Senior Security Architect
8 9 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.44%) Terraform
2 22 (20.18%) Node.js
2 22 (20.18%) Spring
2 22 (20.18%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.27%) React
4 15 (13.76%) REST
5 12 (11.01%) .NET
6 10 (9.17%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.34%) Kafka
8 7 (6.42%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.50%) Swagger
9 6 (5.50%) Vue
10 5 (4.59%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.59%) PySpark
11 4 (3.67%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.75%) AWS CDK
12 3 (2.75%) Flask
12 3 (2.75%) gRPC
12 3 (2.75%) Material-UI
12 3 (2.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (44.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.09%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.92%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) CentOS
2 3 (2.75%) Debian
2 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.46%) CI/CD
2 46 (42.20%) DevOps
3 43 (39.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (37.61%) Software Engineering
5 37 (33.94%) Agile
6 32 (29.36%) Observability
7 31 (28.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (27.52%) Mentoring
9 28 (25.69%) AI
10 27 (24.77%) Collaborative Culture
11 23 (21.10%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (20.18%) Microservices
12 22 (20.18%) TDD
13 18 (16.51%) Test Automation
14 17 (15.60%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (15.60%) Roadmaps
14 17 (15.60%) SDLC
15 15 (13.76%) Architectural Patterns
15 15 (13.76%) Cloud Security
15 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.03%) Python
2 27 (24.77%) Java
3 26 (23.85%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.09%) C#
6 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.59%) Scala
8 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.83%) Bash
9 2 (1.83%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) PHP
9 2 (1.83%) Rust
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.09%) GRC
3 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.83%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (18.35%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.09%) Ansible
3 4 (3.67%) Packer
3 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.75%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) CrowdStrike
1 11 (10.09%) Palo Alto
1 11 (10.09%) Tenable
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.34%) Splunk
4 4 (3.67%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.75%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.92%) Databricks
6 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.92%) YouTube