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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 223 213
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -56
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 938 661 942
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.97% 1.51% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 4.60% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 581 465 578
10th Percentile £48,750 £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 24,596 14,361 23,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 32.87% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,885 10,114 16,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -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% - -4.99%

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 25 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 25 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 -45 384 £85,000 +13.33% 93
North of England +86 296 £75,000 +15.38% 53
North West +50 132 £70,000 +3.70% 27
Yorkshire +31 116 £80,000 +33.33% 16
South East -20 84 £65,000 -7.14% 32
Midlands -3 82 £63,750 +6.25% 18
South West -51 68 £60,500 +0.83% 34
North East -8 48 £67,500 -6.90% 10
East Midlands +20 47 £65,000 +73.33% 5
West Midlands -52 35 £62,500 +4.17% 13
East of England -51 17 £59,450 +3.39% 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 35 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.67%) Apache
3 17 (1.81%) Confluence
4 16 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.07%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.43%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.07%) 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
1 673 (71.75%) AWS
2 440 (46.91%) AWS Lambda
3 340 (36.25%) Azure
4 300 (31.98%) Amazon S3
5 229 (24.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
7 175 (18.66%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.97%) GitHub
9 118 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 95 (10.13%) SaaS
13 94 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
13 94 (10.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 93 (9.91%) GCP
15 84 (8.96%) Power Platform
16 79 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
16 79 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (7.78%) PaaS
18 71 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.09%) VPN
2 26 (2.77%) Firewall
3 25 (2.67%) Network Security
4 21 (2.24%) Internet
5 17 (1.81%) DNS
6 11 (1.17%) VoIP
7 9 (0.96%) MQTT
8 8 (0.85%) DHCP
8 8 (0.85%) VLAN
9 6 (0.64%) AMQP
9 6 (0.64%) BGP
9 6 (0.64%) IPsec
10 5 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.43%) Broadband
11 4 (0.43%) IPv4
11 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.32%) HTTP
12 3 (0.32%) SAN
12 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (17.38%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (9.91%) NoSQL
4 69 (7.36%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (4.69%) Relational Database
10 35 (3.73%) Big Data
10 35 (3.73%) Power BI
11 26 (2.77%) MySQL
12 24 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (2.45%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.35%) MongoDB
15 19 (2.03%) Metadata
16 18 (1.92%) Hadoop
17 16 (1.71%) Spark SQL
18 15 (1.60%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 176 (18.76%) Git
2 127 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 76 (8.10%) GitLab
4 35 (3.73%) SonarQube
5 30 (3.20%) JIRA
6 26 (2.77%) Maven
7 25 (2.67%) Snyk
8 23 (2.45%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.39%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.28%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.17%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.17%) XCTest
13 10 (1.07%) JUnit
14 9 (0.96%) Mockito
15 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.75%) JMeter
16 7 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 231 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 190 (20.26%) Finance
3 75 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (5.65%) Banking
7 51 (5.44%) Law
8 36 (3.84%) Marketing
9 18 (1.92%) Retail
10 15 (1.60%) Legal
10 15 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.49%) Military
12 13 (1.39%) Aviation
12 13 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.07%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.75%) Advertising
14 7 (0.75%) Billing
15 6 (0.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 285 (30.38%) Senior
2 261 (27.83%) Developer
3 139 (14.82%) Lead
4 106 (11.30%) Architect
5 84 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 84 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.74%) Java Developer
7 72 (7.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (6.29%) Data Engineer
11 56 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 42 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
14 41 (4.37%) Senior Architect
15 40 (4.26%) AWS Developer
15 40 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
15 40 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
16 38 (4.05%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (36.89%) Terraform
2 166 (17.70%) Node.js
3 137 (14.61%) .NET
4 133 (14.18%) React
5 117 (12.47%) REST
6 100 (10.66%) AngularJS
7 97 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 85 (9.06%) Spring
9 77 (8.21%) Kafka
10 66 (7.04%) RESTful
11 56 (5.97%) AWS CDK
12 36 (3.84%) PySpark
13 33 (3.52%) Jest
13 33 (3.52%) OAuth
14 31 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.20%) HTML
15 30 (3.20%) OAuth2
16 29 (3.09%) JSON
17 28 (2.99%) Swagger
18 26 (2.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 247 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.36%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 32 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 31 (3.30%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.24%) Mobile App
11 20 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.13%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.49%) IoT
14 14 (1.49%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.39%) Blog
15 13 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.28%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.46%) Linux
2 38 (4.05%) Windows
3 16 (1.71%) VMS
4 11 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.75%) 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
1 536 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 444 (47.33%) DevOps
3 348 (37.10%) Agile
4 343 (36.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 251 (26.76%) Mentoring
6 248 (26.44%) AI
7 205 (21.86%) Microservices
8 203 (21.64%) Software Engineering
9 187 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
10 166 (17.70%) Test Automation
11 163 (17.38%) Containerisation
12 160 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 157 (16.74%) Observability
14 149 (15.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 142 (15.14%) Analytics
16 135 (14.39%) Event-Driven
17 134 (14.29%) Cloud Security
18 117 (12.47%) Roadmaps
19 112 (11.94%) Migration
20 102 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 368 (39.23%) Python
2 267 (28.46%) SQL
3 192 (20.47%) Java
4 189 (20.15%) TypeScript
5 154 (16.42%) C#
6 144 (15.35%) JavaScript
7 100 (10.66%) Bash
8 46 (4.90%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.58%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.48%) Bicep
11 34 (3.62%) Groovy
12 31 (3.30%) PHP
13 29 (3.09%) Go
13 29 (3.09%) Ruby
14 19 (2.03%) Perl
15 16 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.39%) Rust
16 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
17 11 (1.17%) Swift
18 10 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 109 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 105 (11.19%) Degree
4 82 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 47 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (4.69%) Azure Certification
8 38 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 19 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.85%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.75%) PhD
17 6 (0.64%) MBA
17 6 (0.64%) OSCP
18 5 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.50%) GDPR
2 54 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.54%) QA
4 26 (2.77%) GRC
5 17 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.64%) NIST
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.32%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 257 (27.40%) Docker
2 39 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.71%) vSphere
6 12 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.43%) Squid
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 188 (20.04%) Kubernetes
2 109 (11.62%) Ansible
3 41 (4.37%) Grafana
3 41 (4.37%) Prometheus
4 23 (2.45%) Puppet
5 18 (1.92%) Packer
6 17 (1.81%) HP Fortify
7 13 (1.39%) Kibana
8 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.53%) Argo
10 5 (0.53%) Podman
11 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.32%) Scalr
12 3 (0.32%) SCCM
12 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 166 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.69%) Databricks
3 36 (3.84%) Oracle
4 32 (3.41%) OpenAI
4 32 (3.41%) Tenable
5 25 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.67%) Palo Alto
6 23 (2.45%) VMware
7 21 (2.24%) Google
7 21 (2.24%) Splunk
8 18 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.92%) IBM
9 15 (1.60%) SAP
10 14 (1.49%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.28%) AppDynamics
11 12 (1.28%) HP
11 12 (1.28%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.17%) Amplitude
12 11 (1.17%) Braze
12 11 (1.17%) Salesforce