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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 100 190
Rank change year-on-year -99 +90 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 646 1,277 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.06% 2.93% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 7.80% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 419 577 861
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £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 £83,750 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £76,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +6.29% -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 20,447 16,382 25,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.67% 37.54% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,329 10,078 21,768
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £41,875
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 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 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 21 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 -75 278 £82,000 -13.68% 141
North of England +51 203 £72,500 +20.83% 82
Yorkshire +50 144 £75,000 +41.51% 33
Midlands -1 69 £58,750 +6.82% 20
North West -4 54 £75,000 +20.00% 44
East Midlands -5 41 £60,000 +4.35% 5
South West -108 41 £62,500 +4.17% 39
South East -166 39 £67,500 +12.50% 58
West Midlands -17 28 £53,750 -2.27% 15
East of England -51 15 £61,300 -5.69% 5
North East -17 5 £66,750 +6.80% 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.18%) Apache
3 17 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.17%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.24%) Confluence
7 5 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.46%) JBoss
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.93%) 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 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 504 (78.02%) AWS
2 338 (52.32%) AWS Lambda
3 255 (39.47%) Amazon S3
4 249 (38.54%) Azure
5 151 (23.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (17.65%) GitHub
7 113 (17.49%) Amazon ECS
8 101 (15.63%) Azure Functions
9 94 (14.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 81 (12.54%) Amazon SQS
11 78 (12.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 77 (11.92%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
14 70 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (10.22%) GCP
16 63 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
17 62 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
18 58 (8.98%) SaaS
19 52 (8.05%) Power Platform
20 40 (6.19%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.70%) AMQP
2 10 (1.55%) DSL
2 10 (1.55%) Firewall
2 10 (1.55%) Network Security
3 6 (0.93%) VPN
4 5 (0.77%) Broadband
4 5 (0.77%) Internet
4 5 (0.77%) SSL
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
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (17.96%) DynamoDB
2 80 (12.38%) NoSQL
3 72 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (7.28%) SQL Server
7 43 (6.66%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.33%) Power BI
10 25 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.41%) Big Data
12 22 (3.41%) MySQL
13 20 (3.10%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.94%) MongoDB
15 15 (2.32%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.17%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
18 7 (1.08%) Apache Hive
18 7 (1.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 123 (19.04%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.09%) Git
3 79 (12.23%) GitLab
4 40 (6.19%) Cypress.io
5 33 (5.11%) Maven
6 32 (4.95%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.94%) JIRA
8 17 (2.63%) CircleCI
9 13 (2.01%) JUnit
10 12 (1.86%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.55%) JMeter
12 9 (1.39%) Mockito
13 7 (1.08%) MLflow
14 6 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.77%) git-flow
15 5 (0.77%) webpack
16 4 (0.62%) Mocha
16 4 (0.62%) Selenium
16 4 (0.62%) Vite
17 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
General
1 183 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.93%) Finance
3 52 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (2.94%) Publishing
6 18 (2.79%) Banking
7 17 (2.63%) Tech for Good
8 16 (2.48%) Law
9 15 (2.32%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.86%) Advertising
12 11 (1.70%) Legal
13 8 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.93%) Retail
16 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.62%) Billing
16 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 254 (39.32%) Developer
2 154 (23.84%) Senior
3 95 (14.71%) Architect
4 81 (12.54%) Lead
5 70 (10.84%) Senior Developer
6 66 (10.22%) Java Developer
7 63 (9.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (9.60%) AWS Developer
9 60 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (8.20%) Software Engineer
11 46 (7.12%) Python Developer
12 41 (6.35%) Data Engineer
13 40 (6.19%) Lead Developer
14 36 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (5.26%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.95%) .NET Developer
16 32 (4.95%) React Developer
17 31 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (4.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (27.24%) React
2 132 (20.43%) Node.js
3 103 (15.94%) .NET
4 98 (15.17%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.54%) Spring
6 79 (12.23%) AngularJS
6 79 (12.23%) HTML
7 71 (10.99%) REST
8 65 (10.06%) CSS
9 64 (9.91%) RESTful
10 51 (7.89%) AWS CDK
11 50 (7.74%) Kafka
12 47 (7.28%) .NET Core
13 39 (6.04%) Jest
14 31 (4.80%) Gherkin
15 30 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (4.02%) Vue
17 25 (3.87%) Web Services
18 24 (3.72%) FastAPI
19 23 (3.56%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 149 (23.07%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.39%) Blockchain
11 9 (1.39%) Web3
12 8 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.08%) e-Learning
13 7 (1.08%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.26%) Linux
2 16 (2.48%) Windows
3 13 (2.01%) VMS
4 11 (1.70%) Unix
5 10 (1.55%) 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
1 375 (58.05%) CI/CD
2 309 (47.83%) DevOps
3 253 (39.16%) Agile
4 205 (31.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (29.72%) Microservices
6 177 (27.40%) Mentoring
7 158 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (19.81%) Software Engineering
10 125 (19.35%) Containerisation
11 108 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 85 (13.16%) Observability
13 82 (12.69%) AI
14 78 (12.07%) Analytics
15 75 (11.61%) Data Modelling
16 74 (11.46%) SDLC
17 72 (11.15%) Computer Science
18 67 (10.37%) Migration
18 67 (10.37%) Scrum
19 66 (10.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 263 (40.71%) Python
2 200 (30.96%) JavaScript
3 179 (27.71%) TypeScript
4 168 (26.01%) Java
5 167 (25.85%) SQL
6 112 (17.34%) C#
7 58 (8.98%) Bash
8 30 (4.64%) Groovy
9 29 (4.49%) PowerShell
10 27 (4.18%) Go
11 17 (2.63%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.70%) Rust
13 11 (1.70%) Scala
13 11 (1.70%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.08%) Bicep
14 7 (1.08%) PHP
15 6 (0.93%) R
16 5 (0.77%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 117 (18.11%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.93%) Degree
3 73 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 61 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (6.97%) Azure Certification
7 42 (6.50%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (4.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (4.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (2.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.48%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.70%) OSCP
15 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.35%) QA
2 27 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.87%) GDPR
4 12 (1.86%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.55%) SLA
7 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.46%) WCAG
9 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) GAAP
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 207 (32.04%) Docker
2 17 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.08%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 185 (28.64%) Terraform
2 149 (23.07%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.20%) Ansible
4 35 (5.42%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.26%) Grafana
6 31 (4.80%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.25%) Kibana
8 9 (1.39%) Puppet
9 6 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.31%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.56%) Databricks
3 16 (2.48%) Google
4 13 (2.01%) Splunk
5 12 (1.86%) Oracle
6 11 (1.70%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.93%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.77%) IBM
11 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.77%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.62%) Pega
12 4 (0.62%) WSO2
12 4 (0.62%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.46%) Amplitude
14 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow