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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 207 208
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 945 660 960
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 1.51% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.58% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 587 462 573
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,557 14,405 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.38% 32.93% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,923 10,104 16,538
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -41 384 £85,000 +13.33% 434
North of England +91 299 £75,000 +15.38% 109
North West +43 131 £70,000 +7.69% 61
Yorkshire +36 118 £80,000 +33.33% 26
Midlands +1 84 £62,500 +4.17% 43
South East -23 84 £65,000 -8.77% 49
South West -55 69 £60,500 +0.83% 50
North East -5 50 £67,500 -6.90% 22
East Midlands +16 47 £65,000 +73.33% 21
West Midlands -42 37 £62,500 +4.17% 22
East of England -52 18 £59,450 +1.19% 19
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 36 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.54%) Apache
3 18 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.69%) Confluence
5 15 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.06%) SAS
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.32%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Finacle
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 677 (71.64%) AWS
2 449 (47.51%) AWS Lambda
3 341 (36.08%) Azure
4 302 (31.96%) Amazon S3
5 232 (24.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (21.48%) Amazon ECS
7 177 (18.73%) Azure Functions
8 130 (13.76%) GitHub
9 121 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
10 119 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 95 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
12 95 (10.05%) SaaS
13 93 (9.84%) GCP
14 92 (9.74%) AWS Step Functions
15 86 (9.10%) Power Platform
16 79 (8.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (8.25%) Amazon SQS
18 74 (7.83%) PaaS
19 70 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.28%) VPN
2 28 (2.96%) Firewall
3 25 (2.65%) Network Security
4 21 (2.22%) Internet
5 19 (2.01%) DNS
6 12 (1.27%) VoIP
7 10 (1.06%) DHCP
7 10 (1.06%) VLAN
8 9 (0.95%) MQTT
9 6 (0.63%) AMQP
9 6 (0.63%) BGP
9 6 (0.63%) IPsec
9 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.42%) Broadband
10 4 (0.42%) IPv4
10 4 (0.42%) SAN
10 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.32%) HTTP
11 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (17.35%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.37%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (9.74%) NoSQL
4 72 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 36 (3.81%) Big Data
10 35 (3.70%) Power BI
11 25 (2.65%) MySQL
12 24 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 23 (2.43%) MongoDB
14 20 (2.12%) Spark SQL
15 19 (2.01%) Metadata
16 18 (1.90%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 179 (18.94%) Git
2 127 (13.44%) Jenkins
3 74 (7.83%) GitLab
4 34 (3.60%) SonarQube
5 29 (3.07%) JIRA
6 25 (2.65%) Maven
6 25 (2.65%) Snyk
7 22 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.38%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.27%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.16%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.16%) XCTest
12 10 (1.06%) JUnit
13 9 (0.95%) Mockito
14 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.74%) JMeter
15 7 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 233 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 190 (20.11%) Finance
3 82 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 72 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (5.71%) Banking
6 54 (5.71%) Law
7 36 (3.81%) Marketing
8 20 (2.12%) Retail
9 15 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.48%) Legal
10 14 (1.48%) Military
11 13 (1.38%) Aviation
11 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.06%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.74%) Advertising
13 7 (0.74%) Billing
13 7 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 285 (30.16%) Senior
2 258 (27.30%) Developer
3 139 (14.71%) Lead
4 107 (11.32%) Architect
5 85 (8.99%) Software Engineer
6 84 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 79 (8.36%) Java Developer
8 71 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (6.67%) Data Engineer
11 62 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 60 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 41 (4.34%) Senior Architect
15 40 (4.23%) AWS Developer
15 40 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
16 39 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
16 39 (4.13%) Consultant
16 39 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (36.93%) Terraform
2 166 (17.57%) Node.js
3 140 (14.81%) .NET
4 133 (14.07%) React
5 115 (12.17%) REST
6 99 (10.48%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.84%) Spring Boot
8 82 (8.68%) Spring
9 78 (8.25%) Kafka
10 67 (7.09%) RESTful
11 57 (6.03%) AWS CDK
12 41 (4.34%) PySpark
13 33 (3.49%) OAuth
14 32 (3.39%) Jest
15 31 (3.28%) JSON
15 31 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (3.17%) HTML
16 30 (3.17%) OAuth2
17 28 (2.96%) Swagger
18 26 (2.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 246 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.30%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 33 (3.49%) AI Agents
7 33 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (3.28%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.22%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.48%) Blog
13 14 (1.48%) IoT
13 14 (1.48%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.41%) Linux
2 40 (4.23%) Windows
3 15 (1.59%) VMS
4 11 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.53%) CentOS
7 5 (0.53%) Debian
7 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 446 (47.20%) DevOps
3 351 (37.14%) Agile
4 345 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 255 (26.98%) Mentoring
6 254 (26.88%) AI
7 204 (21.59%) Microservices
8 203 (21.48%) Software Engineering
9 187 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
10 164 (17.35%) Test Automation
11 161 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 160 (16.93%) Observability
13 159 (16.83%) Containerisation
14 153 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
15 149 (15.77%) Analytics
16 140 (14.81%) Event-Driven
17 136 (14.39%) Cloud Security
18 120 (12.70%) Roadmaps
19 116 (12.28%) Migration
20 103 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 368 (38.94%) Python
2 270 (28.57%) SQL
3 193 (20.42%) Java
4 191 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 159 (16.83%) C#
6 151 (15.98%) JavaScript
7 100 (10.58%) Bash
8 46 (4.87%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.44%) Bicep
11 33 (3.49%) Groovy
12 31 (3.28%) PHP
13 29 (3.07%) Go
13 29 (3.07%) Ruby
14 19 (2.01%) Perl
15 15 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (1.48%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.38%) Rust
18 12 (1.27%) C++
19 11 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 161 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 109 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 107 (11.32%) Degree
4 83 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.08%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.74%) PhD
16 6 (0.63%) MBA
16 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.67%) GDPR
2 59 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 51 (5.40%) QA
4 26 (2.75%) GRC
5 17 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.63%) NIST
10 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 2 (0.21%) WCAG
14 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 254 (26.88%) Docker
2 41 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.69%) vSphere
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 184 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 108 (11.43%) Ansible
3 41 (4.34%) Grafana
4 40 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.43%) Puppet
6 18 (1.90%) Packer
7 16 (1.69%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.38%) Kibana
9 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.53%) Argo
12 5 (0.53%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) SCCM
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
14 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
16 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 172 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.87%) Databricks
3 36 (3.81%) Oracle
4 33 (3.49%) Tenable
5 32 (3.39%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.54%) VMware
8 21 (2.22%) Google
8 21 (2.22%) Splunk
9 19 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.90%) IBM
11 15 (1.59%) SAP
12 14 (1.48%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.38%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.27%) HP
14 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (1.16%) Amplitude
15 11 (1.16%) Braze
15 11 (1.16%) Salesforce