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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 203 207
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 885 727 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.73% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 5.17% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 592 524 845
10th Percentile £52,050 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 23,525 14,069 30,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.39% 33.43% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15,714 10,076 24,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,042 £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 £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% -8.73%

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 4 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 4 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 -47 341 £85,000 +6.25% 177
North of England +90 281 £75,000 +15.38% 68
North West +50 130 £72,500 +11.54% 40
Yorkshire +44 127 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands +12 98 £55,000 - 26
South East -48 71 £67,500 +12.50% 52
East Midlands +38 67 £55,000 +4.76% 14
South West -56 67 £62,500 +4.17% 39
West Midlands -44 31 £57,500 -6.12% 12
North East -23 24 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East of England -38 19 £60,000 -11.11% 8
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 33 (3.73%) Apache
1 33 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.69%) Confluence
4 13 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.02%) SAS
7 4 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.45%) JBoss
7 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) WordPress
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Pig
9 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.79%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 633 (71.53%) AWS
2 424 (47.91%) AWS Lambda
3 315 (35.59%) Azure
4 295 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 204 (23.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 178 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
7 161 (18.19%) Azure Functions
8 122 (13.79%) GitHub
9 113 (12.77%) AWS Step Functions
10 101 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (10.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (9.72%) GCP
13 86 (9.72%) SaaS
14 83 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
15 79 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
15 79 (8.93%) Azure Logic Apps
16 77 (8.70%) Power Platform
17 71 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
18 61 (6.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.71%) Network Security
2 21 (2.37%) Firewall
2 21 (2.37%) VPN
3 11 (1.24%) DSL
3 11 (1.24%) Internet
4 9 (1.02%) AMQP
4 9 (1.02%) DNS
5 7 (0.79%) MQTT
5 7 (0.79%) VoIP
6 5 (0.56%) Broadband
7 4 (0.45%) IPv4
7 4 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.34%) BGP
8 3 (0.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.34%) IPsec
8 3 (0.34%) LTE
8 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (19.89%) DynamoDB
2 88 (9.94%) NoSQL
3 79 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (4.86%) Power BI
8 41 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 30 (3.39%) Big Data
12 28 (3.16%) MySQL
13 22 (2.49%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.81%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.69%) Spark SQL
17 13 (1.47%) Delta Lake
17 13 (1.47%) Metadata
18 12 (1.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 157 (17.74%) Jenkins
2 152 (17.18%) Git
3 101 (11.41%) GitLab
4 43 (4.86%) SonarQube
5 39 (4.41%) Maven
6 35 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.16%) JIRA
8 25 (2.82%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.82%) Snyk
9 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.58%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.58%) XCTest
11 11 (1.24%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.24%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.90%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.90%) JUnit
12 8 (0.90%) Selenium
13 7 (0.79%) JMeter
13 7 (0.79%) Mockito
13 7 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 223 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.72%) Finance
3 66 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.50%) Banking
7 25 (2.82%) Law
8 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.24%) Advertising
11 10 (1.13%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.13%) Marketing
12 9 (1.02%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.02%) Legal
13 8 (0.90%) Military
13 8 (0.90%) Publishing
14 6 (0.68%) Billing
14 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.68%) Retail
15 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 288 (32.54%) Senior
2 271 (30.62%) Developer
3 116 (13.11%) Lead
4 104 (11.75%) Architect
5 96 (10.85%) Senior Developer
6 93 (10.51%) Java Developer
7 87 (9.83%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (6.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 48 (5.42%) AWS Developer
13 45 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
14 44 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 42 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
16 41 (4.63%) Senior Architect
17 39 (4.41%) Security Architect
17 39 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
19 36 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (19.77%) Node.js
2 172 (19.44%) React
3 133 (15.03%) .NET
4 111 (12.54%) AngularJS
4 111 (12.54%) Spring Boot
5 109 (12.32%) REST
6 88 (9.94%) Spring
7 77 (8.70%) Kafka
8 68 (7.68%) RESTful
9 54 (6.10%) AWS CDK
10 44 (4.97%) HTML
11 40 (4.52%) PySpark
12 39 (4.41%) Gherkin
13 38 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (4.18%) Jest
15 34 (3.84%) .NET Core
16 33 (3.73%) CSS
17 32 (3.62%) JSON
18 29 (3.28%) YAML
19 28 (3.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 214 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 18 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.69%) Blockchain
11 15 (1.69%) Web3
12 14 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.36%) IoT
14 12 (1.36%) Podcast
14 12 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.12%) Linux
2 30 (3.39%) Windows
3 24 (2.71%) VMS
4 14 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.68%) CentOS
6 6 (0.68%) Debian
6 6 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (59.89%) CI/CD
2 419 (47.34%) DevOps
3 335 (37.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 321 (36.27%) Agile
5 218 (24.63%) Mentoring
6 207 (23.39%) Microservices
7 191 (21.58%) Software Engineering
8 184 (20.79%) AI
9 180 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 178 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
11 173 (19.55%) Test Automation
12 168 (18.98%) Containerisation
13 157 (17.74%) Observability
14 138 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (15.25%) Analytics
16 129 (14.58%) Event-Driven
17 110 (12.43%) Cloud Security
18 91 (10.28%) DevSecOps
19 88 (9.94%) Clean Code
20 86 (9.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 355 (40.11%) Python
2 252 (28.47%) SQL
3 214 (24.18%) TypeScript
4 196 (22.15%) Java
5 159 (17.97%) JavaScript
6 140 (15.82%) C#
7 100 (11.30%) Bash
8 50 (5.65%) PowerShell
9 48 (5.42%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.31%) Groovy
11 46 (5.20%) Go
12 39 (4.41%) Bicep
13 26 (2.94%) PHP
14 24 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (2.26%) Rust
16 14 (1.58%) Swift
17 13 (1.47%) Ruby
18 12 (1.36%) Perl
19 10 (1.13%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 131 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 96 (10.85%) Degree
3 86 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 74 (8.36%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.07%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.62%) DV Cleared
9 29 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 28 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (2.49%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.69%) OSCP
14 11 (1.24%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.56%) CCSP
17 5 (0.56%) CISSP
17 5 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.20%) GDPR
3 42 (4.75%) QA
4 25 (2.82%) GRC
5 17 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.68%) NIST
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 255 (28.81%) Docker
2 33 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.62%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.81%) vSphere
6 12 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.45%) iptables
7 4 (0.45%) Squid
7 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.34%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 306 (34.58%) Terraform
2 198 (22.37%) Kubernetes
3 96 (10.85%) Ansible
4 53 (5.99%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.31%) Grafana
6 30 (3.39%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.26%) Puppet
8 18 (2.03%) Packer
9 17 (1.92%) Kibana
10 11 (1.24%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.56%) Argo
12 4 (0.45%) Podman
12 4 (0.45%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.34%) Scalr
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.23%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 125 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.84%) Databricks
3 30 (3.39%) Tenable
4 27 (3.05%) Oracle
5 25 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.82%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.26%) Splunk
7 18 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.92%) VMware
9 15 (1.69%) Google
10 14 (1.58%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.58%) Braze
11 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.36%) IBM
11 12 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.36%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.02%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.79%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.68%) HP
14 6 (0.68%) SaltStack