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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 103 191
Rank change year-on-year -107 +88 -21
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 721 1,074 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.99% 2.93% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 7.78% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 468 613 913
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 23,527 13,800 28,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.44% 37.67% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,670 10,215 23,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 6 April 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 6 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
London -90 283 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +48 251 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +44 167 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -21 85 £55,000 - 22
North West +8 80 £75,000 +8.30% 47
East Midlands -4 58 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -119 45 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -157 42 £82,500 +37.50% 61
West Midlands -39 27 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England -71 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
North East -30 4 £70,500 +12.80% 11
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 26 (3.61%) Apache
1 26 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.25%) SAS
6 5 (0.69%) Confluence
7 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) JBoss
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.55%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 562 (77.95%) AWS
2 372 (51.60%) AWS Lambda
3 285 (39.53%) Amazon S3
4 256 (35.51%) Azure
5 171 (23.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 138 (19.14%) Amazon ECS
7 130 (18.03%) GitHub
8 107 (14.84%) AWS Step Functions
9 105 (14.56%) Azure Functions
10 95 (13.18%) Amazon SQS
11 92 (12.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (11.10%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
15 74 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
16 69 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
17 66 (9.15%) GCP
18 62 (8.60%) SaaS
19 57 (7.91%) Power Platform
20 50 (6.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.36%) Firewall
2 13 (1.80%) DSL
3 11 (1.53%) AMQP
3 11 (1.53%) Network Security
4 8 (1.11%) VPN
5 6 (0.83%) WAN
6 5 (0.69%) Broadband
6 5 (0.69%) DNS
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.28%) SSL
7 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.28%) VLAN
7 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) 4G
8 1 (0.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (21.22%) DynamoDB
2 86 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 80 (11.10%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
7 36 (4.99%) Power BI
8 35 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.72%) Relational Database
10 29 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 26 (3.61%) MySQL
12 20 (2.77%) Big Data
12 20 (2.77%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.50%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.39%) Metadata
15 9 (1.25%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (21.50%) Jenkins
2 106 (14.70%) Git
3 101 (14.01%) GitLab
4 47 (6.52%) SonarQube
5 43 (5.96%) Cypress.io
5 43 (5.96%) Maven
6 23 (3.19%) CircleCI
7 16 (2.22%) JIRA
8 9 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.25%) Crashlytics
8 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.25%) MLflow
8 9 (1.25%) XCTest
9 7 (0.97%) JUnit
10 6 (0.83%) Snyk
10 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.69%) git-flow
12 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.55%) Mockito
12 4 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 192 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 100 (13.87%) Finance
3 59 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.05%) Banking
7 19 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.64%) Publishing
8 16 (2.22%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.22%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.80%) Advertising
11 11 (1.53%) Legal
12 10 (1.39%) Law
13 9 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.83%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.55%) Billing
16 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 285 (39.53%) Developer
2 184 (25.52%) Senior
3 97 (13.45%) Lead
4 94 (13.04%) Architect
5 91 (12.62%) Java Developer
6 80 (11.10%) Senior Developer
7 71 (9.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (9.29%) AWS Developer
9 59 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (7.91%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.66%) Python Developer
12 41 (5.69%) Lead Developer
13 39 (5.41%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.58%) React Developer
16 33 (4.58%) Software Developer
17 32 (4.44%) AWS Architect
17 32 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
18 31 (4.30%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (24.83%) React
2 150 (20.80%) Node.js
3 110 (15.26%) .NET
4 107 (14.84%) Spring Boot
5 98 (13.59%) AngularJS
6 89 (12.34%) REST
7 82 (11.37%) Spring
8 75 (10.40%) RESTful
9 70 (9.71%) HTML
10 59 (8.18%) CSS
11 56 (7.77%) Kafka
12 55 (7.63%) AWS CDK
13 49 (6.80%) .NET Core
14 44 (6.10%) Jest
15 41 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (5.55%) Gherkin
17 34 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.74%) Flask
19 26 (3.61%) Vue
19 26 (3.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.94%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.94%) Web3
9 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.85%) Linux
2 17 (2.36%) Windows
3 16 (2.22%) VMS
4 9 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.69%) CentOS
6 5 (0.69%) Debian
6 5 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 358 (49.65%) DevOps
3 287 (39.81%) Agile
4 251 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 194 (26.91%) Microservices
6 188 (26.07%) Mentoring
7 168 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 148 (20.53%) Containerisation
10 137 (19.00%) Software Engineering
11 123 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (15.26%) Observability
13 108 (14.98%) Test Automation
14 95 (13.18%) Analytics
15 91 (12.62%) AI
16 83 (11.51%) TDD
17 82 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
18 76 (10.54%) Event-Driven
19 73 (10.12%) Scrum
20 72 (9.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 291 (40.36%) Python
2 202 (28.02%) SQL
3 197 (27.32%) TypeScript
4 184 (25.52%) JavaScript
5 178 (24.69%) Java
6 108 (14.98%) C#
7 75 (10.40%) Bash
8 46 (6.38%) Groovy
9 38 (5.27%) Go
10 35 (4.85%) Kotlin
11 34 (4.72%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.94%) Rust
14 11 (1.53%) Bicep
15 10 (1.39%) PHP
16 9 (1.25%) Swift
17 8 (1.11%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.83%) C++
19 5 (0.69%) Perl
19 5 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 102 (14.15%) AWS Certification
2 88 (12.21%) Degree
3 83 (11.51%) Security Cleared
4 60 (8.32%) SC Cleared
5 58 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (4.72%) Azure Certification
8 31 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.94%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.94%) OSCP
14 13 (1.80%) DBS Check
15 11 (1.53%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.66%) QA
2 35 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.19%) GDPR
4 14 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.83%) GRC
8 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
8 4 (0.55%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (34.67%) Docker
2 17 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.55%) iptables
5 3 (0.42%) Firmware
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 229 (31.76%) Terraform
2 171 (23.72%) Kubernetes
3 75 (10.40%) Ansible
4 46 (6.38%) Grafana
4 46 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.55%) HP Fortify
6 19 (2.64%) Kibana
7 10 (1.39%) Puppet
8 8 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.83%) Packer
10 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.42%) Scalr
12 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.30%) Databricks
3 14 (1.94%) Palo Alto
4 11 (1.53%) Google
5 10 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.39%) Oracle
6 9 (1.25%) Amplitude
6 9 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 9 (1.25%) Braze
6 9 (1.25%) IBM
7 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.97%) Tenable
9 6 (0.83%) Pega
9 6 (0.83%) Splunk
9 6 (0.83%) WSO2
10 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.69%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.55%) Zscaler