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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 107 117
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -56
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 101 43 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.30% 1.88% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.28% 5.08% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 61 36 37
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £66,124 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +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 1,914 847 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.72% 36.99% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 568 736
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 16 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 16 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 - 1
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 £50,000 -
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 (4.95%) Confluence
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.97%) CMS
3 3 (2.97%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.98%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 74 (73.27%) AWS
2 51 (50.50%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (26.73%) Amazon S3
4 24 (23.76%) Azure
5 16 (15.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (15.84%) SaaS
6 15 (14.85%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (12.87%) Datadog
7 13 (12.87%) Route 53
8 12 (11.88%) Azure Functions
8 12 (11.88%) GitHub
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (9.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (7.92%) GCP
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (6.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
12 6 (5.94%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) LTE
2 2 (1.98%) AMQP
2 2 (1.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (8.91%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.93%) Power BI
4 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.96%) Big Data
6 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.97%) MySQL
7 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.98%) Parquet
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) Snyk
3 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.94%) JIRA
4 5 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.96%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.97%) Postman
6 3 (2.97%) Selenium
7 2 (1.98%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (14.85%) Retail
2 13 (12.87%) Aviation
2 13 (12.87%) Finance
3 12 (11.88%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.97%) iGaming
7 2 (1.98%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Local Government
8 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Senior
2 21 (20.79%) Developer
3 17 (16.83%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.85%) Senior Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Head of Architecture
5 13 (12.87%) Lead
6 12 (11.88%) Data Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) Architect
8 8 (7.92%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Cloud Security Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Security Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Security Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.70%) Terraform
2 23 (22.77%) Spring
2 23 (22.77%) Spring Boot
3 21 (20.79%) React
4 20 (19.80%) Node.js
5 14 (13.86%) REST
6 12 (11.88%) .NET
7 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.90%) Kafka
8 7 (6.93%) Vue
9 6 (5.94%) OpenAPI
9 6 (5.94%) PySpark
10 5 (4.95%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.95%) Swagger
11 3 (2.97%) CSS
11 3 (2.97%) Flask
11 3 (2.97%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.97%) JPA
11 3 (2.97%) RESTful
11 3 (2.97%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 45 (44.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) Blog
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.99%) IoT
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
2 2 (1.98%) CentOS
2 2 (1.98%) Debian
2 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 45 (44.55%) DevOps
3 41 (40.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (40.59%) Software Engineering
4 37 (36.63%) Agile
5 30 (29.70%) Mentoring
5 30 (29.70%) Observability
6 29 (28.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (26.73%) AI
8 26 (25.74%) Collaborative Culture
9 24 (23.76%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (21.78%) Microservices
11 21 (20.79%) TDD
12 20 (19.80%) Test Automation
13 18 (17.82%) Roadmaps
14 16 (15.84%) Cost Optimisation
14 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (14.85%) Architectural Patterns
16 14 (13.86%) Customer Experience
16 14 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.68%) Python
2 28 (27.72%) Java
3 26 (25.74%) SQL
4 17 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.89%) C#
6 10 (9.90%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.95%) Scala
8 3 (2.97%) Go
8 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.98%) Bash
9 2 (1.98%) PHP
9 2 (1.98%) Rust
10 1 (0.99%) Bicep
10 1 (0.99%) Ruby
10 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) SC Cleared
1 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.91%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) Degree
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) GRC
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (17.82%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (24.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.89%) Ansible
3 4 (3.96%) Packer
3 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.98%) Puppet
4 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.92%) Splunk
3 7 (6.93%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (6.93%) Palo Alto
3 7 (6.93%) Tenable
4 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.97%) Google
5 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.98%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.99%) Databricks
6 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.99%) YouTube