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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 111 112
Rank change year-on-year +35 +1 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 111 54 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.75% 2.18% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.17% 5.47% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 74 47 66
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,326 £60,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,500 £101,250
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +11.54% +10.64% -12.96%

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 1,798 987 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.41% 39.86% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 644 1,587
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,950 £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 10 July 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 10 July 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 6 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.50%) Apache
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.70%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.70%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.80%) nginx
5 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (62.16%) AWS
2 33 (29.73%) AWS Lambda
3 32 (28.83%) Azure
4 23 (20.72%) Amazon S3
5 17 (15.32%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (13.51%) GCP
7 13 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.71%) SaaS
8 12 (10.81%) Azure Functions
8 12 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (8.11%) GitHub
11 7 (6.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
14 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) AMQP
1 3 (2.70%) LTE
2 2 (1.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (6.31%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.50%) Big Data
6 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.50%) Power BI
7 3 (2.70%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.70%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.70%) GIS
7 3 (2.70%) MySQL
7 3 (2.70%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.70%) QGIS
7 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Snyk
2 11 (9.91%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) JIRA
4 5 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.70%) Postman
5 3 (2.70%) Selenium
6 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.90%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (13.51%) Finance
2 13 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.31%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.80%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (51.35%) Senior
2 30 (27.03%) Software Engineer
3 29 (26.13%) Developer
4 19 (17.12%) Senior Developer
5 17 (15.32%) Lead
6 16 (14.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (12.61%) Architect
8 13 (11.71%) Java Developer
9 12 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
9 12 (10.81%) Cloud Security Architect
9 12 (10.81%) Security Architect
9 12 (10.81%) Senior Architect
9 12 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 12 (10.81%) Senior Security Architect
10 11 (9.91%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (7.21%) Software Developer
12 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
13 6 (5.41%) Java Software Developer
13 6 (5.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.32%) Node.js
1 27 (24.32%) Spring
1 27 (24.32%) Spring Boot
2 20 (18.02%) REST
3 19 (17.12%) .NET
4 18 (16.22%) React
5 13 (11.71%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.21%) Kafka
7 7 (6.31%) FastAPI
8 6 (5.41%) OpenAPI
8 6 (5.41%) Swagger
8 6 (5.41%) Vue
9 4 (3.60%) Django
9 4 (3.60%) Web Services
10 3 (2.70%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.70%) JPA
10 3 (2.70%) NumPy
10 3 (2.70%) OAuth
10 3 (2.70%) RESTful
10 3 (2.70%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) CentOS
2 3 (2.70%) Debian
2 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 54 (48.65%) DevOps
3 41 (36.94%) Agile
4 37 (33.33%) TDD
5 36 (32.43%) Software Engineering
6 33 (29.73%) AI
7 32 (28.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (19.82%) Observability
10 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
10 21 (18.92%) Microservices
11 20 (18.02%) Scrum
12 19 (17.12%) SOLID
12 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
13 18 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (16.22%) Open Source
14 17 (15.32%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (15.32%) SDLC
15 16 (14.41%) Clean Code
16 15 (13.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) Python
2 33 (29.73%) Java
3 27 (24.32%) SQL
4 19 (17.12%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.71%) C#
7 5 (4.50%) Scala
8 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.80%) Go
9 2 (1.80%) PHP
10 1 (0.90%) Bicep
10 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Degree
2 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (4.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) GRC
2 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.60%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Docker
2 13 (11.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (26.13%) Kubernetes
1 29 (26.13%) Terraform
2 10 (9.01%) Ansible
3 3 (2.70%) Puppet
4 2 (1.80%) Packer
4 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (10.81%) Palo Alto
1 12 (10.81%) Tenable
2 8 (7.21%) Splunk
3 6 (5.41%) Google
4 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.70%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.80%) Pega
6 2 (1.80%) WSO2
7 1 (0.90%) Informatica
7 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow