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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 99 188
Rank change year-on-year -103 +89 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 650 1,265 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.06% 2.95% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 7.85% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 428 577 846
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £84,063 £102,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.90% -1.38%

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 20,615 16,113 25,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.54% 37.62% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,404 10,037 21,583
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -80 278 £82,000 -13.68% 149
North of England +64 211 £72,500 +20.83% 78
Yorkshire +37 146 £72,500 +36.79% 28
Midlands +3 69 £60,000 +9.09% 17
North West -1 60 £75,000 +25.00% 44
East Midlands -2 41 £60,000 +4.35% 5
South West -107 40 £62,500 +4.17% 41
South East -166 38 £67,500 +12.50% 57
West Midlands -6 28 £55,625 +1.14% 12
East of England -57 13 £61,300 -5.69% 8
North East -6 5 £66,750 +6.80% 7
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 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.62%) Apache
3 19 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 14 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.08%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.46%) JBoss
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.46%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 512 (78.77%) AWS
2 341 (52.46%) AWS Lambda
3 258 (39.69%) Amazon S3
4 244 (37.54%) Azure
5 153 (23.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (17.54%) GitHub
7 113 (17.38%) Amazon ECS
8 100 (15.38%) Azure Functions
9 94 (14.46%) AWS Step Functions
10 81 (12.46%) Amazon SQS
11 77 (11.85%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 74 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 68 (10.46%) GCP
16 64 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
17 60 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
18 58 (8.92%) SaaS
19 48 (7.38%) Power Platform
20 40 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.69%) AMQP
1 11 (1.69%) DSL
2 10 (1.54%) Firewall
2 10 (1.54%) Network Security
3 6 (0.92%) VPN
4 5 (0.77%) Broadband
4 5 (0.77%) SSL
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
5 4 (0.62%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) 4G
6 1 (0.15%) 5G
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (18.31%) DynamoDB
2 80 (12.31%) NoSQL
3 74 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 48 (7.38%) SQL Server
7 42 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (5.08%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.31%) Power BI
10 26 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.38%) MySQL
13 21 (3.23%) Big Data
13 21 (3.23%) MongoDB
14 19 (2.92%) Data Lake
15 14 (2.15%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.00%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
18 8 (1.23%) Metadata
19 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 124 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.00%) Git
3 82 (12.62%) GitLab
4 39 (6.00%) Cypress.io
5 33 (5.08%) Maven
6 32 (4.92%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.77%) CircleCI
8 17 (2.62%) JIRA
9 12 (1.85%) JUnit
10 11 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.23%) JMeter
11 8 (1.23%) Mockito
12 7 (1.08%) MLflow
13 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.77%) git-flow
14 5 (0.77%) webpack
15 4 (0.62%) Mocha
16 3 (0.46%) Crashlytics
16 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
16 3 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 184 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.85%) Finance
3 51 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (2.92%) Banking
5 19 (2.92%) Publishing
6 17 (2.62%) Tech for Good
7 16 (2.46%) Law
8 15 (2.31%) Health Technology
9 14 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.85%) Advertising
11 10 (1.54%) Legal
12 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.77%) Retail
15 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 255 (39.23%) Developer
2 157 (24.15%) Senior
3 94 (14.46%) Architect
4 79 (12.15%) Lead
5 70 (10.77%) Senior Developer
6 67 (10.31%) Java Developer
7 63 (9.69%) AWS Developer
7 63 (9.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (8.46%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.08%) Python Developer
11 42 (6.46%) Data Engineer
12 40 (6.15%) Lead Developer
13 35 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 35 (5.38%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.92%) React Developer
15 31 (4.77%) .NET Developer
15 31 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (4.00%) Support Engineer
17 24 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (26.77%) React
2 133 (20.46%) Node.js
3 101 (15.54%) .NET
4 98 (15.08%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.46%) Spring
6 78 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 75 (11.54%) HTML
8 71 (10.92%) REST
9 65 (10.00%) RESTful
10 62 (9.54%) CSS
11 52 (8.00%) AWS CDK
12 49 (7.54%) Kafka
13 45 (6.92%) .NET Core
14 38 (5.85%) Jest
15 31 (4.77%) Gherkin
16 30 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.85%) FastAPI
18 24 (3.69%) Flask
18 24 (3.69%) Vue
18 24 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.54%) Blockchain
9 10 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.54%) Web3
10 7 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.92%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.23%) Linux
2 16 (2.46%) Windows
3 13 (2.00%) VMS
4 11 (1.69%) Unix
5 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.77%) CentOS
6 5 (0.77%) Debian
6 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (58.15%) CI/CD
2 311 (47.85%) DevOps
3 253 (38.92%) Agile
4 213 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (29.23%) Microservices
6 174 (26.77%) Mentoring
7 159 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (20.15%) Software Engineering
10 126 (19.38%) Containerisation
11 109 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (13.23%) Observability
13 80 (12.31%) AI
14 77 (11.85%) Analytics
15 75 (11.54%) Data Modelling
16 70 (10.77%) Computer Science
17 69 (10.62%) SDLC
18 67 (10.31%) Migration
18 67 (10.31%) Scrum
18 67 (10.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 268 (41.23%) Python
2 197 (30.31%) JavaScript
3 181 (27.85%) TypeScript
4 169 (26.00%) Java
4 169 (26.00%) SQL
5 110 (16.92%) C#
6 59 (9.08%) Bash
7 30 (4.62%) Groovy
8 29 (4.46%) Go
9 27 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.77%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.85%) Rust
13 10 (1.54%) Scala
13 10 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.92%) Bicep
14 6 (0.92%) C++
14 6 (0.92%) PHP
14 6 (0.92%) R
15 5 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 114 (17.54%) AWS Certification
2 89 (13.69%) Degree
3 73 (11.23%) Security Cleared
4 59 (9.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (6.92%) Azure Certification
7 43 (6.62%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (4.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.46%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.85%) OSCP
15 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
18 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.31%) QA
2 29 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.38%) GDPR
4 11 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.38%) SLA
6 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 212 (32.62%) Docker
2 17 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.92%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 191 (29.38%) Terraform
2 153 (23.54%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.15%) Ansible
4 37 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.23%) Grafana
6 31 (4.77%) HP Fortify
7 20 (3.08%) Kibana
8 9 (1.38%) Puppet
9 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.46%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.38%) Databricks
3 16 (2.46%) Google
4 12 (1.85%) Oracle
4 12 (1.85%) Splunk
5 10 (1.54%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.38%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.92%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.77%) IBM
10 5 (0.77%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.62%) Pega
11 4 (0.62%) WSO2
11 4 (0.62%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.46%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow