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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 129 154
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 592 1,261 982
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.26% 2.12% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 6.21% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 371 543 775
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,125 £98,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -4.44%

All Cloud 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 16,005 20,308 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.05% 34.22% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 12,402 16,617
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -0.79%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -32 298 £76,000 -15.56% 129
North of England +76 132 £70,500 +22.61% 60
Yorkshire +43 73 £75,000 +41.51% 18
North West +50 55 £65,000 +6.12% 37
South West -67 51 £61,250 -12.50% 27
South East -98 51 £67,500 +8.00% 83
Midlands +15 44 £62,500 +19.05% 24
West Midlands +37 35 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East of England -33 23 £57,500 - 9
East Midlands +4 9 £65,000 +91.18% 10
North East +12 4 £68,500 +19.13% 5
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 34 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.57%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.72%) Confluence
4 20 (3.38%) Apache
5 9 (1.52%) Headless CMS
5 9 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.52%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.51%) JBoss
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.34%) nginx
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.35%) Shopify
3 3 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 432 (72.97%) AWS
2 284 (47.97%) AWS Lambda
3 274 (46.28%) Azure
4 187 (31.59%) Amazon S3
5 113 (19.09%) Azure Functions
6 106 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
7 96 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
8 91 (15.37%) GitHub
9 85 (14.36%) Amazon EKS
10 77 (13.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (10.64%) Power Platform
13 62 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
14 60 (10.14%) SaaS
15 49 (8.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 48 (8.11%) Power Automate
17 47 (7.94%) GCP
17 47 (7.94%) PaaS
18 42 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.70%) Internet
2 15 (2.53%) Firewall
3 13 (2.20%) Wireless
4 8 (1.35%) Broadband
4 8 (1.35%) DNS
4 8 (1.35%) Network Security
4 8 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.18%) AMQP
5 7 (1.18%) SSL
6 6 (1.01%) VPN
7 5 (0.84%) DHCP
7 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.84%) VLAN
7 5 (0.84%) WAN
7 5 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.17%) NAS
9 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (17.40%) DynamoDB
2 85 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (10.98%) NoSQL
5 54 (9.12%) SQL Server
6 47 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (7.60%) Relational Database
8 24 (4.05%) Big Data
8 24 (4.05%) MySQL
9 23 (3.89%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.89%) Power BI
10 22 (3.72%) Data Lake
10 22 (3.72%) RDBMS
11 21 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (3.04%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 89 (15.03%) Jenkins
2 78 (13.18%) Git
3 34 (5.74%) JIRA
4 32 (5.41%) GitLab
5 27 (4.56%) Cypress.io
5 27 (4.56%) JUnit
6 24 (4.05%) JMeter
7 21 (3.55%) Mockito
8 11 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.52%) Selenium
10 8 (1.35%) git-flow
10 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.18%) Maven
12 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.84%) Locust
12 5 (0.84%) Mocha
12 5 (0.84%) Vite
13 4 (0.68%) NUnit
13 4 (0.68%) Postman
13 4 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 172 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 101 (17.06%) Finance
3 59 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.42%) Law
6 32 (5.41%) Tech for Good
7 27 (4.56%) Publishing
8 26 (4.39%) Health Technology
9 24 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (3.72%) Marketing
11 15 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.20%) Automotive
12 13 (2.20%) Retail
13 12 (2.03%) Banking
14 11 (1.86%) Legal
14 11 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.18%) Games
16 7 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (37.50%) Developer
2 153 (25.84%) Senior
3 81 (13.68%) Lead
3 81 (13.68%) Senior Developer
4 68 (11.49%) Architect
5 57 (9.63%) Data Engineer
5 57 (9.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.61%) Python Developer
7 50 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 47 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
10 39 (6.59%) AWS Developer
11 33 (5.57%) Lead Developer
12 32 (5.41%) Software Developer
13 29 (4.90%) React Developer
14 27 (4.56%) .NET Developer
15 26 (4.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 25 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (26.18%) React
2 107 (18.07%) .NET
3 91 (15.37%) HTML
4 77 (13.01%) Node.js
5 76 (12.84%) Spring Boot
6 75 (12.67%) Spring
7 73 (12.33%) REST
8 68 (11.49%) CSS
8 68 (11.49%) RESTful
9 60 (10.14%) AngularJS
10 40 (6.76%) .NET Core
10 40 (6.76%) Kafka
11 32 (5.41%) .NET Framework
11 32 (5.41%) Vue
11 32 (5.41%) Web Services
12 30 (5.07%) GraphQL
13 28 (4.73%) JSON
14 27 (4.56%) Apache Camel
14 27 (4.56%) FastAPI
15 26 (4.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.70%) IoT
7 15 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.03%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.52%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.08%) Linux
2 15 (2.53%) Unix
2 15 (2.53%) Windows
3 9 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.68%) VMS
6 2 (0.34%) CentOS
6 2 (0.34%) Debian
6 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 276 (46.62%) Agile
3 257 (43.41%) DevOps
4 158 (26.69%) Microservices
5 151 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (24.66%) Mentoring
7 139 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 117 (19.76%) Software Engineering
9 109 (18.41%) Containerisation
9 109 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (17.06%) TDD
12 90 (15.20%) AI
13 83 (14.02%) Scrum
14 77 (13.01%) Analytics
15 75 (12.67%) SDLC
16 74 (12.50%) Machine Learning
17 71 (11.99%) Data Modelling
18 59 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
19 57 (9.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 289 (48.82%) Python
2 193 (32.60%) JavaScript
3 149 (25.17%) TypeScript
4 143 (24.16%) Java
5 139 (23.48%) SQL
6 109 (18.41%) C#
7 48 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 34 (5.74%) Bash
9 24 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.38%) Scala
11 17 (2.87%) Bicep
12 15 (2.53%) Go
13 12 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.01%) Groovy
14 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.51%) C++
16 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.51%) PHP
16 3 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (13.34%) AWS Certification
2 74 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 70 (11.82%) Degree
4 46 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (7.26%) Azure Certification
6 35 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (5.91%) SC Cleared
7 28 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
10 19 (3.21%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.35%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.34%) MCP
16 1 (0.17%) CCNA
16 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.64%) QA
2 25 (4.22%) GDPR
3 18 (3.04%) SLA
4 17 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) NIST
9 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) CDISC
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 166 (28.04%) Docker
2 20 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.35%) HDFS
4 7 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.34%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) iptables
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (25.68%) Terraform
2 139 (23.48%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.42%) Ansible
4 27 (4.56%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.22%) Grafana
5 25 (4.22%) Kibana
6 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.18%) HP Fortify
8 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.51%) Puppet
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.25%) Splunk
3 26 (4.39%) Databricks
4 25 (4.22%) Dynatrace
5 22 (3.72%) Atlassian
6 18 (3.04%) Oracle
7 16 (2.70%) Google
8 9 (1.52%) Apple
8 9 (1.52%) IBM
8 9 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.84%) Aruba
10 5 (0.84%) HP
10 5 (0.84%) Veeam
11 4 (0.68%) Citrix
11 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.68%) SAP