Serverless Job Trends in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England 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 193 197 205
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -40
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 915 732 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 1.69% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 5.11% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 595 522 833
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,933 14,311 29,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.54% 33.12% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,973 10,243 23,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,050
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Serverless job vacancy trend in England

Serverless
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the England 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
London -33 366 £85,000 +6.25% 103
North of England +89 285 £75,000 +15.38% 44
North West +62 133 £72,500 +11.54% 23
Yorkshire +42 128 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands +4 93 £57,500 +4.55% 24
South East -55 75 £65,000 +5.69% 32
South West -44 69 £63,750 +6.25% 24
East Midlands +33 64 £55,000 +4.76% 11
West Midlands -35 29 £62,500 +2.04% 13
North East -25 24 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East of England -30 19 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 36 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.61%) Apache
3 18 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.75%) Confluence
5 13 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.09%) SAS
8 4 (0.44%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 660 (72.13%) AWS
2 430 (46.99%) AWS Lambda
3 322 (35.19%) Azure
4 297 (32.46%) Amazon S3
5 220 (24.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 187 (20.44%) Amazon ECS
7 163 (17.81%) Azure Functions
8 127 (13.88%) GitHub
9 114 (12.46%) AWS Step Functions
10 107 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (9.73%) GCP
14 87 (9.51%) SaaS
15 85 (9.29%) Amazon SQS
16 83 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 81 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
18 79 (8.63%) Power Platform
19 73 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
20 61 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.06%) Network Security
2 23 (2.51%) VPN
3 21 (2.30%) Firewall
4 17 (1.86%) Internet
5 11 (1.20%) DNS
6 10 (1.09%) DSL
7 9 (0.98%) AMQP
8 8 (0.87%) MQTT
9 7 (0.77%) VoIP
10 5 (0.55%) BGP
10 5 (0.55%) Broadband
10 5 (0.55%) IPsec
11 4 (0.44%) IPv4
11 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.33%) DHCP
12 3 (0.33%) LTE
12 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.33%) VLAN
13 2 (0.22%) 4G
13 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (19.67%) DynamoDB
2 101 (11.04%) NoSQL
3 82 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.70%) Power BI
8 41 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (3.83%) Big Data
10 35 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (3.83%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.06%) MySQL
12 22 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (1.97%) MongoDB
15 16 (1.75%) Hadoop
16 15 (1.64%) Spark SQL
17 12 (1.31%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 156 (17.05%) Git
1 156 (17.05%) Jenkins
2 101 (11.04%) GitLab
3 43 (4.70%) SonarQube
4 39 (4.26%) Maven
5 35 (3.83%) Cypress.io
6 29 (3.17%) JIRA
7 25 (2.73%) CircleCI
7 25 (2.73%) Snyk
8 16 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.64%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.53%) XCTest
11 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.98%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.87%) JUnit
13 8 (0.87%) Selenium
14 7 (0.77%) JMeter
14 7 (0.77%) Mockito
14 7 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 227 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 153 (16.72%) Finance
3 70 (7.65%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.28%) Banking
7 25 (2.73%) Law
8 15 (1.64%) Marketing
9 13 (1.42%) Military
10 12 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.20%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.09%) Advertising
13 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.98%) Legal
14 7 (0.77%) Billing
14 7 (0.77%) Publishing
15 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.55%) Public Speaking
15 5 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 304 (33.22%) Senior
2 275 (30.05%) Developer
3 118 (12.90%) Lead
4 108 (11.80%) Architect
5 99 (10.82%) Senior Developer
6 95 (10.38%) Java Developer
7 87 (9.51%) Software Engineer
8 79 (8.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (6.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (6.01%) Data Engineer
12 49 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (5.25%) AWS Developer
14 46 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
16 44 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (4.70%) Senior Architect
18 38 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (4.15%) Security Architect
19 36 (3.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (19.67%) Node.js
2 167 (18.25%) React
3 138 (15.08%) .NET
4 114 (12.46%) AngularJS
4 114 (12.46%) Spring Boot
5 112 (12.24%) REST
6 91 (9.95%) Spring
7 82 (8.96%) Kafka
8 69 (7.54%) RESTful
9 55 (6.01%) AWS CDK
10 41 (4.48%) HTML
11 39 (4.26%) Gherkin
12 38 (4.15%) Jest
12 38 (4.15%) PySpark
12 38 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
13 34 (3.72%) .NET Core
14 32 (3.50%) CSS
14 32 (3.50%) JSON
15 29 (3.17%) Next.js
15 29 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 224 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 76 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 52 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 41 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 26 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 21 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.19%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.64%) Blockchain
10 15 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.64%) Web3
11 14 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.42%) IoT
13 12 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.31%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.43%) Linux
2 32 (3.50%) Windows
3 24 (2.62%) VMS
4 14 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.66%) CentOS
6 6 (0.66%) Debian
6 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (58.58%) CI/CD
2 429 (46.89%) DevOps
3 339 (37.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (36.50%) Agile
5 234 (25.57%) Mentoring
6 213 (23.28%) Microservices
7 204 (22.30%) AI
8 192 (20.98%) Software Engineering
9 179 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 178 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
11 174 (19.02%) Test Automation
12 172 (18.80%) Containerisation
13 155 (16.94%) Observability
14 144 (15.74%) Analytics
15 140 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 137 (14.97%) Event-Driven
17 113 (12.35%) Cloud Security
18 92 (10.05%) DevSecOps
19 89 (9.73%) Clean Code
19 89 (9.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 365 (39.89%) Python
2 256 (27.98%) SQL
3 214 (23.39%) TypeScript
4 208 (22.73%) Java
5 160 (17.49%) JavaScript
6 147 (16.07%) C#
7 104 (11.37%) Bash
8 50 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 49 (5.36%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.14%) Groovy
11 46 (5.03%) Go
12 40 (4.37%) Bicep
13 32 (3.50%) PHP
14 24 (2.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (2.19%) Rust
16 19 (2.08%) Ruby
17 16 (1.75%) Perl
18 14 (1.53%) Swift
19 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.48%) Degree
3 94 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 84 (9.18%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.93%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 25 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.53%) OSCP
12 10 (1.09%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.77%) PhD
15 5 (0.55%) CCSP
15 5 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.25%) GDPR
2 45 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.70%) QA
4 25 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.66%) NIST
9 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 261 (28.52%) Docker
2 35 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.75%) vSphere
6 12 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) iptables
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 322 (35.19%) Terraform
2 206 (22.51%) Kubernetes
3 103 (11.26%) Ansible
4 54 (5.90%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.14%) Grafana
6 30 (3.28%) HP Fortify
7 22 (2.40%) Puppet
8 19 (2.08%) Packer
9 16 (1.75%) Kibana
10 13 (1.42%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
11 5 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.22%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 133 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.50%) Databricks
3 31 (3.39%) Oracle
4 30 (3.28%) Tenable
5 25 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.30%) Splunk
7 19 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.97%) VMware
9 17 (1.86%) Google
10 16 (1.75%) IBM
11 14 (1.53%) Amplitude
11 14 (1.53%) Braze
12 12 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.31%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.20%) SAP
14 10 (1.09%) HP
15 9 (0.98%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.77%) Salesforce