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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 213 216
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -63
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 953 666 938
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 4.62% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 592 469 588
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +0.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
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 24,684 14,408 22,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.95% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16,836 10,171 16,793
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 20 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 20 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 -38 390 £85,000 +13.33% 140
North of England +106 304 £75,000 +15.38% 60
North West +57 136 £70,000 +5.66% 33
Yorkshire +44 120 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Midlands +3 84 £63,750 +6.25% 17
South East -17 84 £65,000 -7.14% 32
South West -53 67 £61,500 +0.41% 29
East Midlands +20 49 £65,000 +73.33% 7
North East -13 48 £67,500 -6.90% 11
West Midlands -45 35 £62,500 +4.17% 10
East of England -47 18 £59,450 +1.19% 10
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 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.83%) Apache
3 17 (1.78%) Confluence
4 16 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.15%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 686 (71.98%) AWS
2 447 (46.90%) AWS Lambda
3 343 (35.99%) Azure
4 305 (32.00%) Amazon S3
5 235 (24.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 205 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
7 177 (18.57%) Azure Functions
8 132 (13.85%) GitHub
9 117 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (11.75%) Amazon EC2
11 100 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.28%) SaaS
13 97 (10.18%) AWS Step Functions
14 95 (9.97%) GCP
15 94 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
16 85 (8.92%) Power Platform
17 81 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
18 80 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
19 75 (7.87%) PaaS
20 72 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.04%) VPN
2 25 (2.62%) Firewall
2 25 (2.62%) Network Security
3 21 (2.20%) Internet
4 16 (1.68%) DNS
5 10 (1.05%) VoIP
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
7 7 (0.73%) DHCP
7 7 (0.73%) VLAN
8 6 (0.63%) AMQP
8 6 (0.63%) BGP
8 6 (0.63%) IPsec
9 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.42%) Broadband
10 4 (0.42%) DSL
10 4 (0.42%) IPv4
10 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.31%) HTTP
11 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (17.63%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 70 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
7 47 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 36 (3.78%) Big Data
10 36 (3.78%) Power BI
11 27 (2.83%) MySQL
12 24 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (2.41%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.31%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.10%) Metadata
16 18 (1.89%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.57%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 174 (18.26%) Git
2 130 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 79 (8.29%) GitLab
4 36 (3.78%) SonarQube
5 30 (3.15%) JIRA
6 26 (2.73%) Maven
7 25 (2.62%) Snyk
8 24 (2.52%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.47%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.36%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.26%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.26%) XCTest
12 11 (1.15%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.94%) JUnit
14 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.84%) Mockito
15 7 (0.73%) JMeter
15 7 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 235 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 190 (19.94%) Finance
3 76 (7.97%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (5.67%) Banking
7 52 (5.46%) Law
8 36 (3.78%) Marketing
9 18 (1.89%) Retail
10 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.47%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Aviation
12 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.73%) Advertising
14 7 (0.73%) Billing
15 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 293 (30.75%) Senior
2 264 (27.70%) Developer
3 140 (14.69%) Lead
4 109 (11.44%) Architect
5 86 (9.02%) Software Engineer
6 85 (8.92%) Java Developer
6 85 (8.92%) Senior Developer
7 72 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (6.19%) Data Engineer
11 56 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 43 (4.51%) AWS Developer
13 43 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.41%) Senior Architect
15 41 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (4.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (36.83%) Terraform
2 169 (17.73%) Node.js
3 138 (14.48%) .NET
3 138 (14.48%) React
4 118 (12.38%) REST
5 102 (10.70%) AngularJS
6 98 (10.28%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.92%) Spring
8 77 (8.08%) Kafka
9 67 (7.03%) RESTful
10 57 (5.98%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.78%) PySpark
12 33 (3.46%) Jest
13 32 (3.36%) OAuth
14 31 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.15%) HTML
16 29 (3.04%) JSON
16 29 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.83%) Gherkin
17 27 (2.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 253 (26.55%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.15%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.41%) Mobile App
11 20 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.47%) IoT
14 14 (1.47%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.36%) Blog
15 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.26%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.35%) Linux
2 37 (3.88%) Windows
3 17 (1.78%) VMS
4 12 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.52%) CentOS
7 5 (0.52%) Debian
7 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (56.87%) CI/CD
2 452 (47.43%) DevOps
3 352 (36.94%) Agile
4 351 (36.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (26.55%) Mentoring
6 248 (26.02%) AI
7 208 (21.83%) Microservices
8 206 (21.62%) Software Engineering
9 191 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (17.84%) Test Automation
11 163 (17.10%) Containerisation
12 161 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 159 (16.68%) Observability
14 151 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
15 145 (15.22%) Analytics
16 136 (14.27%) Cloud Security
17 134 (14.06%) Event-Driven
18 117 (12.28%) Roadmaps
19 112 (11.75%) Migration
20 103 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 374 (39.24%) Python
2 269 (28.23%) SQL
3 194 (20.36%) Java
4 193 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 155 (16.26%) C#
6 146 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 101 (10.60%) Bash
8 49 (5.14%) Kotlin
9 44 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.41%) Bicep
11 35 (3.67%) Groovy
12 32 (3.36%) Go
13 31 (3.25%) PHP
14 29 (3.04%) Ruby
15 19 (1.99%) Perl
16 17 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (1.57%) Rust
18 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
19 12 (1.26%) Swift
20 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 107 (11.23%) Degree
4 83 (8.71%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.04%) DV Cleared
6 46 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 39 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.84%) OSCP
16 7 (0.73%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.40%) GDPR
2 55 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.46%) QA
4 26 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.31%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 260 (27.28%) Docker
2 38 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 193 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 110 (11.54%) Ansible
3 41 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 39 (4.09%) Grafana
5 23 (2.41%) Puppet
6 18 (1.89%) HP Fortify
6 18 (1.89%) Packer
7 13 (1.36%) Kibana
8 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.52%) Argo
10 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.52%) Podman
11 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.31%) Scalr
12 3 (0.31%) SCCM
12 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 165 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.62%) Databricks
3 35 (3.67%) Oracle
4 32 (3.36%) Tenable
5 31 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.62%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.41%) VMware
8 21 (2.20%) Google
8 21 (2.20%) Splunk
9 18 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.89%) IBM
10 15 (1.57%) SAP
11 14 (1.47%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.26%) Amplitude
12 12 (1.26%) AppDynamics
12 12 (1.26%) Braze
12 12 (1.26%) HP
12 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.15%) Salesforce