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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 98 108
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -13
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 72 43 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.52% 2.16% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.59% 4.82% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 52 36 54
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,938 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £82,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £109,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £69,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.30% +10.80% +4.17%

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 1,567 892 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.11% 44.71% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 904 661 1,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.39% +0.28%
75th Percentile £84,813 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -5 6 £67,500 +3.85% 2
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.94%) Apache
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Solr
4 3 (4.17%) GeoServer
5 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (59.72%) AWS
2 32 (44.44%) Azure
3 18 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 18 (25.00%) SaaS
4 16 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (18.06%) GCP
6 12 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (15.28%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
12 4 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.56%) GitHub
12 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) Big Data
2 5 (6.94%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (6.94%) Hadoop
2 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.56%) DocumentDB
3 4 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.56%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (4.17%) GIS
4 3 (4.17%) QGIS
5 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) Snyk
4 2 (2.78%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 7 (9.72%) Finance
2 5 (6.94%) Aerospace
2 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Retail
5 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (41.67%) Senior
2 28 (38.89%) Software Engineer
3 19 (26.39%) Developer
4 12 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) Lead
6 9 (12.50%) .NET Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Java Developer
9 6 (8.33%) Principal Developer
10 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Principal .NET Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
12 3 (4.17%) Lead Data Scientist
12 3 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.72%) REST
2 21 (29.17%) Node.js
3 19 (26.39%) .NET
4 17 (23.61%) React
4 17 (23.61%) Spring
4 17 (23.61%) Spring Boot
5 12 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.94%) Django
6 5 (6.94%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.94%) gRPC
6 5 (6.94%) Material-UI
6 5 (6.94%) OpenAPI
6 5 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.94%) Swagger
7 3 (4.17%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.17%) NumPy
7 3 (4.17%) OpenLayers
7 3 (4.17%) Pandas
7 3 (4.17%) PostGIS
7 3 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) CentOS
1 5 (6.94%) Debian
1 5 (6.94%) Linux
1 5 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (6.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 37 (51.39%) DevOps
3 31 (43.06%) Agile
3 31 (43.06%) Software Engineering
3 31 (43.06%) TDD
4 25 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (27.78%) SOLID
6 18 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (23.61%) Observability
7 17 (23.61%) Open Source
8 16 (22.22%) Scrum
9 14 (19.44%) Microservices
10 13 (18.06%) AI
11 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
11 11 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (15.28%) Mentoring
12 10 (13.89%) Kanban
13 9 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (9.72%) Data Science
14 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.72%) Python
2 22 (30.56%) Java
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 14 (19.44%) C#
6 8 (11.11%) SQL
7 3 (4.17%) Bicep
7 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.17%) GRC
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (31.94%) Kubernetes
2 22 (30.56%) Terraform
3 9 (12.50%) Ansible
4 5 (6.94%) Puppet
5 2 (2.78%) Packer
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.39%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Google
2 5 (6.94%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.94%) SaltStack
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.17%) Tenable
5 2 (2.78%) Pega
5 2 (2.78%) WSO2
6 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.39%) Informatica