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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 197 210
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 832 706 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.80% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 5.25% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 564 513 865
10th Percentile £52,150 £47,600 £46,750
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% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
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 22,184 13,438 30,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.16% 34.22% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14,549 9,486 24,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 June 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 June 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 -47 318 £82,500 -2.94% 113
North of England +88 267 £75,000 +15.38% 65
Yorkshire +31 135 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North West +59 117 £75,000 +15.38% 36
Midlands +27 108 £55,000 - 14
East Midlands +37 72 £55,000 +2.33% 7
South East -42 67 £67,500 +12.50% 45
South West -50 51 £62,500 +4.17% 27
West Midlands -33 36 £52,500 -8.70% 7
East of England -27 20 £60,050 -29.35% 8
North East -31 15 £75,000 +20.00% 9
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 28 (3.37%) Apache
2 25 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.32%) Confluence
6 8 (0.96%) SAS
7 7 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.48%) JBoss
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.84%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 596 (71.63%) AWS
2 405 (48.68%) AWS Lambda
3 292 (35.10%) Amazon S3
4 285 (34.25%) Azure
5 193 (23.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 161 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
7 139 (16.71%) Azure Functions
8 114 (13.70%) GitHub
9 113 (13.58%) AWS Step Functions
10 95 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 95 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
11 83 (9.98%) Amazon SQS
12 80 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
13 78 (9.38%) SaaS
14 77 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
15 73 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 70 (8.41%) GCP
17 69 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
18 61 (7.33%) Power Platform
19 58 (6.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.52%) Firewall
2 15 (1.80%) Network Security
3 13 (1.56%) DSL
4 10 (1.20%) VPN
5 8 (0.96%) AMQP
6 7 (0.84%) VoIP
7 6 (0.72%) DNS
7 6 (0.72%) Internet
7 6 (0.72%) MQTT
8 4 (0.48%) Broadband
8 4 (0.48%) IPv4
8 4 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
9 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.36%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.67%) DynamoDB
2 79 (9.50%) NoSQL
3 78 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (7.57%) SQL Server
5 47 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
6 43 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (4.69%) Power BI
8 36 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.09%) Relational Database
10 29 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (3.25%) MySQL
12 23 (2.76%) Big Data
13 18 (2.16%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.92%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.80%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.44%) Delta Lake
18 11 (1.32%) Metadata
19 8 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 145 (17.43%) Git
3 103 (12.38%) GitLab
4 40 (4.81%) SonarQube
5 38 (4.57%) Maven
6 34 (4.09%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.13%) CircleCI
8 25 (3.00%) Snyk
9 24 (2.88%) JIRA
10 14 (1.68%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.68%) XCTest
11 12 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.96%) JUnit
13 8 (0.96%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.84%) JMeter
14 7 (0.84%) MLflow
14 7 (0.84%) Mockito
15 6 (0.72%) Selenium
16 5 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 203 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 126 (15.14%) Finance
3 60 (7.21%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.73%) Banking
7 17 (2.04%) Law
8 14 (1.68%) Advertising
9 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.08%) Publishing
11 8 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.96%) Legal
11 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.84%) Billing
12 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.72%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
15 4 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 273 (32.81%) Developer
2 260 (31.25%) Senior
3 108 (12.98%) Architect
4 102 (12.26%) Lead
5 95 (11.42%) Senior Developer
6 93 (11.18%) Java Developer
7 76 (9.13%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.29%) AWS Engineer
9 68 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (6.13%) AWS Developer
11 50 (6.01%) Data Engineer
11 50 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (5.29%) Senior Architect
13 42 (5.05%) Cloud Architect
14 41 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.93%) Security Architect
15 37 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
15 37 (4.45%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (20.43%) Node.js
2 166 (19.95%) React
3 126 (15.14%) .NET
4 106 (12.74%) REST
5 104 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 103 (12.38%) AngularJS
7 83 (9.98%) Spring
8 72 (8.65%) Kafka
9 64 (7.69%) RESTful
10 51 (6.13%) AWS CDK
11 49 (5.89%) HTML
12 38 (4.57%) .NET Core
12 38 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.45%) PySpark
14 36 (4.33%) CSS
14 36 (4.33%) Gherkin
15 35 (4.21%) Jest
16 32 (3.85%) JSON
17 29 (3.49%) YAML
18 25 (3.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 182 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.01%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.04%) Blockchain
7 17 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.04%) Web3
8 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.20%) IoT
12 9 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.85%) Linux
2 22 (2.64%) Windows
3 16 (1.92%) VMS
4 14 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.60%) CentOS
7 5 (0.60%) Debian
7 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (59.50%) CI/CD
2 387 (46.51%) DevOps
3 306 (36.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 283 (34.01%) Agile
5 194 (23.32%) Mentoring
6 188 (22.60%) Microservices
7 175 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (20.55%) Software Engineering
9 165 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 161 (19.35%) Test Automation
11 155 (18.63%) Containerisation
12 141 (16.95%) Observability
13 139 (16.71%) AI
14 126 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (13.70%) Analytics
15 114 (13.70%) Event-Driven
16 93 (11.18%) Cloud Security
17 90 (10.82%) DevSecOps
18 81 (9.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 80 (9.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 328 (39.42%) Python
2 236 (28.37%) SQL
3 212 (25.48%) TypeScript
4 177 (21.27%) Java
5 161 (19.35%) JavaScript
6 128 (15.38%) C#
7 82 (9.86%) Bash
8 49 (5.89%) Kotlin
9 44 (5.29%) Groovy
10 43 (5.17%) Go
11 40 (4.81%) PowerShell
12 29 (3.49%) Bicep
13 21 (2.52%) Rust
14 16 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.80%) PHP
16 14 (1.68%) Swift
17 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.72%) C++
20 5 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 98 (11.78%) Degree
3 73 (8.77%) AWS Certification
3 73 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 53 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.81%) Azure Certification
6 39 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 22 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.04%) OSCP
11 12 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.57%) GDPR
3 34 (4.09%) QA
4 25 (3.00%) GRC
5 15 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.60%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 243 (29.21%) Docker
2 31 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (2.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.96%) vSphere
5 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 4 (0.48%) Squid
5 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 267 (32.09%) Terraform
2 178 (21.39%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.34%) Ansible
4 56 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.13%) Grafana
6 29 (3.49%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.40%) Kibana
8 15 (1.80%) Puppet
9 14 (1.68%) Packer
10 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Argo
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
11 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 109 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.21%) Databricks
3 30 (3.61%) Tenable
4 25 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (3.00%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.88%) Oracle
6 16 (1.92%) Splunk
7 14 (1.68%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.68%) Braze
8 12 (1.44%) Google
9 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.08%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.96%) IBM
12 8 (0.96%) VMware
13 7 (0.84%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.48%) Salesforce