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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 127 155
Rank change year-on-year -78 +28 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 575 1,262 966
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.22% 2.17% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 6.32% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 361 546 766
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +7.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 15,847 19,974 19,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.68% 34.38% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,222 12,200 16,547
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -44 288 £76,000 -15.56% 127
North of England +55 130 £70,932 +23.36% 51
Yorkshire +47 73 £75,000 +41.51% 15
North West +36 53 £65,000 +6.12% 31
South East -96 50 £67,500 +8.00% 73
South West -72 47 £62,500 -10.71% 26
Midlands +10 43 £62,500 +21.95% 26
West Midlands +35 34 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East of England -43 22 £57,500 -4.17% 14
East Midlands +2 9 £65,000 +91.18% 12
North East +11 4 £68,500 +19.13% 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 33 (5.74%) Apache Spark
1 33 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.65%) Confluence
3 20 (3.48%) Apache
4 9 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 9 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 8 (1.39%) Headless CMS
6 7 (1.22%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.39%) Shopify
3 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 419 (72.87%) AWS
2 274 (47.65%) AWS Lambda
3 266 (46.26%) Azure
4 181 (31.48%) Amazon S3
5 108 (18.78%) Azure Functions
6 100 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
7 94 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
8 89 (15.48%) GitHub
9 80 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
10 73 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 73 (12.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 60 (10.43%) Amazon SQS
12 58 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (10.09%) Power Platform
13 56 (9.74%) SaaS
14 48 (8.35%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (8.35%) PaaS
15 47 (8.17%) GCP
15 47 (8.17%) Power Automate
16 42 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.61%) Firewall
1 15 (2.61%) Internet
2 12 (2.09%) Wireless
3 8 (1.39%) Broadband
3 8 (1.39%) DNS
3 8 (1.39%) Network Security
3 8 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.22%) AMQP
4 7 (1.22%) SSL
5 6 (1.04%) VPN
6 5 (0.87%) DHCP
6 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.87%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.87%) VLAN
6 5 (0.87%) WAN
6 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.17%) NAS
8 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (16.70%) DynamoDB
2 79 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (11.30%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (11.13%) NoSQL
5 53 (9.22%) SQL Server
6 47 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (7.65%) Relational Database
9 24 (4.17%) Big Data
10 22 (3.83%) Data Lake
10 22 (3.83%) MongoDB
10 22 (3.83%) Power BI
10 22 (3.83%) RDBMS
11 21 (3.65%) MySQL
12 20 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (3.13%) Hadoop
14 16 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (1.91%) Apache Iceberg
16 11 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 86 (14.96%) Jenkins
2 73 (12.70%) Git
3 33 (5.74%) JIRA
4 31 (5.39%) GitLab
5 27 (4.70%) Cypress.io
6 26 (4.52%) JUnit
7 24 (4.17%) JMeter
8 21 (3.65%) Mockito
9 11 (1.91%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.39%) Selenium
10 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.22%) git-flow
11 7 (1.22%) Maven
12 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.87%) Vite
13 4 (0.70%) Locust
13 4 (0.70%) Mocha
13 4 (0.70%) NUnit
13 4 (0.70%) Postman
13 4 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 168 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.87%) Finance
3 56 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.91%) Law
6 31 (5.39%) Tech for Good
7 25 (4.35%) Health Technology
7 25 (4.35%) Publishing
8 20 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.96%) Marketing
10 15 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.26%) Legal
11 13 (2.26%) Retail
12 12 (2.09%) Automotive
12 12 (2.09%) Banking
13 11 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.22%) Games
15 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (37.39%) Developer
2 150 (26.09%) Senior
3 79 (13.74%) Lead
4 77 (13.39%) Senior Developer
5 70 (12.17%) Architect
6 57 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (9.22%) Data Engineer
8 48 (8.35%) Python Developer
9 47 (8.17%) Software Engineer
10 46 (8.00%) Java Developer
11 39 (6.78%) AWS Developer
11 39 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (5.74%) Lead Developer
13 32 (5.57%) Software Developer
14 29 (5.04%) React Developer
15 27 (4.70%) .NET Developer
16 26 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 25 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
18 22 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (26.78%) React
2 105 (18.26%) .NET
3 91 (15.83%) HTML
4 76 (13.22%) Node.js
5 74 (12.87%) Spring
5 74 (12.87%) Spring Boot
6 71 (12.35%) REST
7 68 (11.83%) CSS
8 65 (11.30%) RESTful
9 60 (10.43%) AngularJS
10 39 (6.78%) .NET Core
10 39 (6.78%) Kafka
11 32 (5.57%) Vue
12 31 (5.39%) .NET Framework
12 31 (5.39%) Web Services
13 29 (5.04%) GraphQL
14 28 (4.87%) JSON
15 26 (4.52%) Apache Camel
15 26 (4.52%) FastAPI
16 25 (4.35%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.61%) IoT
6 15 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 12 (2.09%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.26%) Linux
2 15 (2.61%) Unix
2 15 (2.61%) Windows
3 9 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.70%) VMS
6 2 (0.35%) CentOS
6 2 (0.35%) Debian
6 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (51.65%) CI/CD
2 272 (47.30%) Agile
3 249 (43.30%) DevOps
4 155 (26.96%) Microservices
5 147 (25.57%) Mentoring
6 146 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (23.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 111 (19.30%) Software Engineering
9 109 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 107 (18.61%) Containerisation
11 102 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (17.22%) TDD
13 86 (14.96%) AI
14 80 (13.91%) Scrum
15 74 (12.87%) SDLC
16 73 (12.70%) Analytics
17 71 (12.35%) Data Modelling
17 71 (12.35%) Machine Learning
18 56 (9.74%) User Experience
19 55 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 281 (48.87%) Python
2 193 (33.57%) JavaScript
3 147 (25.57%) TypeScript
4 140 (24.35%) Java
5 137 (23.83%) SQL
6 107 (18.61%) C#
7 46 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 34 (5.91%) Bash
9 24 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.30%) Scala
11 17 (2.96%) Bicep
12 15 (2.61%) Go
13 11 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.04%) Groovy
14 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.52%) C++
16 3 (0.52%) PHP
16 3 (0.52%) R
17 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 78 (13.57%) AWS Certification
2 72 (12.52%) Security Cleared
3 67 (11.65%) Degree
4 43 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 34 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (5.91%) SC Cleared
7 27 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (3.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 19 (3.30%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.39%) SnowPro
12 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.35%) MCP
16 1 (0.17%) CCNA
16 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.61%) QA
2 24 (4.17%) GDPR
3 17 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.96%) SLA
4 14 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
7 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) DICOM
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 161 (28.00%) Docker
2 20 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.39%) HDFS
4 7 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.35%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) iptables
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 147 (25.57%) Terraform
2 133 (23.13%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.26%) Ansible
4 26 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.35%) Kibana
6 24 (4.17%) Grafana
7 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.22%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.52%) Puppet
10 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.09%) Splunk
3 25 (4.35%) Databricks
3 25 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 21 (3.65%) Atlassian
5 16 (2.78%) Google
5 16 (2.78%) Oracle
6 9 (1.57%) Apple
6 9 (1.57%) IBM
6 9 (1.57%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.87%) Aruba
9 5 (0.87%) HP
9 5 (0.87%) Veeam
10 4 (0.70%) Citrix
10 4 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.70%) SAP