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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 209 209
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -49
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 933 698 976
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.60% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.81% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 586 501 613
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £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% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £106,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,996
% change year-on-year +6.38% -0.70% +1.42%

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 24,698 14,526 23,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.86% 33.22% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,649 10,383 17,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,600 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 3 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 3 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 -46 384 £85,000 +13.33% 204
North of England +100 293 £75,000 +15.38% 71
North West +68 131 £70,000 +7.69% 34
Yorkshire +32 122 £80,000 +33.33% 22
Midlands +4 88 £58,750 -2.08% 22
South East -8 84 £65,000 -3.70% 45
South West -60 64 £61,500 +2.50% 30
East Midlands +29 54 £55,000 +46.67% 6
North East -17 40 £75,000 +15.38% 15
West Midlands -46 34 £62,500 - 16
East of England -52 14 £59,450 +3.39% 11
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 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.00%) Apache
3 18 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.82%) Confluence
5 15 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.18%) SAS
8 5 (0.54%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.54%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) nginx
10 3 (0.32%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.75%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 676 (72.45%) AWS
2 435 (46.62%) AWS Lambda
3 332 (35.58%) Azure
4 298 (31.94%) Amazon S3
5 226 (24.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 201 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
7 165 (17.68%) Azure Functions
8 127 (13.61%) GitHub
9 115 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
10 106 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
11 101 (10.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 97 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 94 (10.08%) GCP
13 94 (10.08%) SaaS
14 88 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
15 85 (9.11%) Amazon SQS
16 80 (8.57%) Power Platform
17 77 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
18 72 (7.72%) PaaS
19 71 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.89%) VPN
2 26 (2.79%) Network Security
3 22 (2.36%) Firewall
4 20 (2.14%) Internet
5 14 (1.50%) DNS
6 9 (0.96%) MQTT
7 8 (0.86%) VoIP
8 6 (0.64%) BGP
8 6 (0.64%) DSL
8 6 (0.64%) IPsec
9 5 (0.54%) AMQP
9 5 (0.54%) Broadband
10 4 (0.43%) DHCP
10 4 (0.43%) IPv4
10 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.43%) VLAN
11 3 (0.32%) HTTP
11 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (18.44%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.50%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (4.18%) Power BI
10 38 (4.07%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.75%) Big Data
12 28 (3.00%) MySQL
13 24 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.36%) Data Lake
15 21 (2.25%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.71%) Hadoop
16 16 (1.71%) Metadata
17 15 (1.61%) Spark SQL
18 14 (1.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 166 (17.79%) Git
2 142 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 91 (9.75%) GitLab
4 39 (4.18%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.43%) Maven
6 30 (3.22%) Cypress.io
6 30 (3.22%) JIRA
7 25 (2.68%) Snyk
8 20 (2.14%) CircleCI
9 15 (1.61%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.50%) XCTest
11 13 (1.39%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.07%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.86%) JUnit
14 8 (0.86%) Selenium
15 7 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.75%) JMeter
15 7 (0.75%) Mockito
General
1 231 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 171 (18.33%) Finance
3 76 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.29%) Banking
6 40 (4.29%) Law
7 26 (2.79%) Marketing
8 15 (1.61%) Military
9 14 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.39%) Legal
10 13 (1.39%) Retail
11 11 (1.18%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.07%) Advertising
13 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.86%) Aviation
13 8 (0.86%) Billing
14 7 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 304 (32.58%) Senior
2 263 (28.19%) Developer
3 129 (13.83%) Lead
4 107 (11.47%) Architect
5 90 (9.65%) Senior Developer
6 87 (9.32%) Java Developer
7 83 (8.90%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (6.32%) Data Engineer
11 57 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (5.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
15 44 (4.72%) Senior Architect
16 42 (4.50%) AWS Developer
16 42 (4.50%) Consultant
17 38 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (18.33%) Node.js
2 150 (16.08%) React
3 135 (14.47%) .NET
4 118 (12.65%) REST
5 104 (11.15%) AngularJS
6 101 (10.83%) Spring Boot
7 84 (9.00%) Spring
8 82 (8.79%) Kafka
9 67 (7.18%) RESTful
10 57 (6.11%) AWS CDK
11 37 (3.97%) Jest
12 36 (3.86%) PySpark
13 33 (3.54%) Gherkin
13 33 (3.54%) HTML
14 32 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.22%) JSON
15 30 (3.22%) OAuth
16 28 (3.00%) Next.js
16 28 (3.00%) YAML
17 27 (2.89%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 239 (25.62%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (7.18%) Onboarding
4 54 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.50%) IoT
14 12 (1.29%) Blockchain
14 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.29%) Podcast
14 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.29%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.72%) Linux
2 34 (3.64%) Windows
3 21 (2.25%) VMS
4 14 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.43%) CentOS
7 4 (0.43%) Debian
7 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (57.02%) CI/CD
2 442 (47.37%) DevOps
3 345 (36.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 341 (36.55%) Agile
5 251 (26.90%) Mentoring
6 237 (25.40%) AI
7 211 (22.62%) Microservices
8 196 (21.01%) Software Engineering
9 185 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (18.22%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 163 (17.47%) Containerisation
13 157 (16.83%) Observability
14 153 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 147 (15.76%) Analytics
16 136 (14.58%) Event-Driven
17 128 (13.72%) Cloud Security
18 104 (11.15%) Roadmaps
19 94 (10.08%) Clean Code
20 93 (9.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 368 (39.44%) Python
2 260 (27.87%) SQL
3 203 (21.76%) TypeScript
4 197 (21.11%) Java
5 153 (16.40%) JavaScript
6 146 (15.65%) C#
7 102 (10.93%) Bash
8 47 (5.04%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.93%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.39%) Groovy
11 40 (4.29%) Bicep
12 39 (4.18%) Go
13 33 (3.54%) PHP
14 24 (2.57%) Ruby
15 21 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (2.04%) Perl
17 17 (1.82%) Rust
18 14 (1.50%) Swift
19 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
20 10 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.25%) Degree
3 103 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 85 (9.11%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 34 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.68%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 19 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.07%) OSCP
15 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.86%) PhD
17 5 (0.54%) CCSP
17 5 (0.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.22%) GDPR
2 50 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.82%) QA
4 25 (2.68%) GRC
5 16 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.64%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
14 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 264 (28.30%) Docker
2 35 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.71%) vSphere
6 12 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
Systems Management
1 340 (36.44%) Terraform
2 203 (21.76%) Kubernetes
3 110 (11.79%) Ansible
4 48 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.72%) Grafana
6 24 (2.57%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.25%) Puppet
8 19 (2.04%) Packer
9 15 (1.61%) Kibana
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.54%) Argo
12 5 (0.54%) Podman
13 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
15 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.07%) Databricks
3 32 (3.43%) Oracle
4 31 (3.32%) Tenable
5 28 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.25%) Splunk
7 21 (2.25%) VMware
8 19 (2.04%) Google
9 18 (1.93%) IBM
10 16 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.61%) SAP
12 14 (1.50%) Amplitude
12 14 (1.50%) Braze
13 12 (1.29%) HP
13 12 (1.29%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.07%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.96%) Salesforce