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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 205 206
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -49
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 942 666 960
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.97% 1.52% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.61% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 585 466 548
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 24,559 14,443 22,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.26% 32.92% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,922 10,142 15,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,013 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%

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 31 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 31 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 -42 381 £85,000 +13.33% 255
North of England +72 299 £75,000 +15.38% 71
North West +59 131 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Yorkshire +38 118 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands -5 84 £62,500 +4.17% 33
South East -10 83 £65,000 -8.77% 46
South West -51 70 £60,500 -1.22% 36
North East -12 50 £67,500 -6.90% 11
East Midlands +19 47 £65,000 +73.33% 15
West Midlands -40 37 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East of England -41 18 £59,450 +1.19% 13
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 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.55%) Apache
3 19 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.70%) Confluence
4 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.06%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) 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 (0.42%) 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
1 673 (71.44%) AWS
2 446 (47.35%) AWS Lambda
3 341 (36.20%) Azure
4 300 (31.85%) Amazon S3
5 230 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (21.44%) Amazon ECS
7 177 (18.79%) Azure Functions
8 129 (13.69%) GitHub
9 121 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
10 119 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
13 94 (9.98%) SaaS
14 91 (9.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 91 (9.66%) GCP
15 85 (9.02%) Power Platform
16 79 (8.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
18 74 (7.86%) PaaS
19 69 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.29%) VPN
2 29 (3.08%) Firewall
3 25 (2.65%) Network Security
4 21 (2.23%) Internet
5 20 (2.12%) DNS
6 13 (1.38%) VoIP
7 11 (1.17%) DHCP
7 11 (1.17%) VLAN
8 9 (0.96%) MQTT
9 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.64%) AMQP
10 6 (0.64%) BGP
10 6 (0.64%) IPsec
10 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.42%) Broadband
11 4 (0.42%) IPv4
11 4 (0.42%) SAN
11 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.32%) HTTP
12 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (17.41%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (9.66%) NoSQL
4 72 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (4.67%) Relational Database
9 43 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (3.82%) Big Data
11 34 (3.61%) Power BI
12 25 (2.65%) MySQL
13 24 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.44%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.12%) Spark SQL
16 18 (1.91%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.91%) Metadata
17 15 (1.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 180 (19.11%) Git
2 126 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 72 (7.64%) GitLab
4 34 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 29 (3.08%) JIRA
6 25 (2.65%) Maven
6 25 (2.65%) Snyk
7 22 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.27%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.27%) Crashlytics
9 12 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.17%) XCTest
11 10 (1.06%) JUnit
12 9 (0.96%) Mockito
13 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.74%) JMeter
15 6 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 232 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 189 (20.06%) Finance
3 82 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 71 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (5.73%) Law
7 52 (5.52%) Banking
8 36 (3.82%) Marketing
9 20 (2.12%) Retail
10 15 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.49%) Legal
11 14 (1.49%) Military
12 13 (1.38%) Aviation
12 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.74%) Advertising
14 7 (0.74%) Billing
14 7 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 285 (30.25%) Senior
2 257 (27.28%) Developer
3 138 (14.65%) Lead
4 106 (11.25%) Architect
5 84 (8.92%) Senior Developer
5 84 (8.92%) Software Engineer
6 79 (8.39%) Java Developer
7 71 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 62 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 41 (4.35%) Senior Architect
13 40 (4.25%) AWS Developer
13 40 (4.25%) Cloud Architect
14 39 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
14 39 (4.14%) Consultant
14 39 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (36.84%) Terraform
2 166 (17.62%) Node.js
3 139 (14.76%) .NET
4 133 (14.12%) React
5 114 (12.10%) REST
6 98 (10.40%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.87%) Spring Boot
8 82 (8.70%) Spring
9 76 (8.07%) Kafka
10 67 (7.11%) RESTful
11 56 (5.94%) AWS CDK
12 40 (4.25%) PySpark
13 33 (3.50%) OAuth
14 32 (3.40%) Jest
15 31 (3.29%) JSON
16 30 (3.18%) HTML
16 30 (3.18%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (2.97%) Swagger
18 26 (2.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 245 (26.01%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 33 (3.50%) AI Agents
7 33 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (3.29%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.49%) Blog
13 14 (1.49%) IoT
13 14 (1.49%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.43%) Linux
2 41 (4.35%) Windows
3 15 (1.59%) VMS
4 11 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.53%) CentOS
6 5 (0.53%) Debian
6 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (57.11%) CI/CD
2 445 (47.24%) DevOps
3 351 (37.26%) Agile
4 344 (36.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (26.86%) AI
5 253 (26.86%) Mentoring
6 202 (21.44%) Microservices
7 200 (21.23%) Software Engineering
8 185 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (17.41%) Test Automation
10 162 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (17.09%) Observability
12 156 (16.56%) Containerisation
13 153 (16.24%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (15.82%) Analytics
15 138 (14.65%) Event-Driven
16 135 (14.33%) Cloud Security
17 121 (12.85%) Roadmaps
18 115 (12.21%) Migration
19 102 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 366 (38.85%) Python
2 268 (28.45%) SQL
3 193 (20.49%) Java
4 191 (20.28%) TypeScript
5 158 (16.77%) C#
6 151 (16.03%) JavaScript
7 100 (10.62%) Bash
8 45 (4.78%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.56%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.46%) Bicep
11 34 (3.61%) Groovy
12 31 (3.29%) PHP
13 29 (3.08%) Ruby
14 26 (2.76%) Go
15 19 (2.02%) Perl
16 15 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (1.49%) Shell Script
18 12 (1.27%) C++
18 12 (1.27%) Rust
19 11 (1.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 162 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 106 (11.25%) Degree
4 83 (8.81%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.99%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.74%) PhD
16 6 (0.64%) MBA
16 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.58%) GDPR
2 59 (6.26%) Data Quality
3 51 (5.41%) QA
4 26 (2.76%) GRC
5 17 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.64%) NIST
8 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) WCAG
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 251 (26.65%) Docker
2 42 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.70%) vSphere
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.74%) 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
1 182 (19.32%) Kubernetes
2 107 (11.36%) Ansible
3 41 (4.35%) Grafana
4 40 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.44%) Puppet
6 18 (1.91%) Packer
7 16 (1.70%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.38%) Kibana
9 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.64%) 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
1 173 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.88%) Databricks
3 36 (3.82%) Oracle
4 33 (3.50%) Tenable
5 32 (3.40%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.55%) VMware
8 21 (2.23%) Google
8 21 (2.23%) Splunk
9 20 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.91%) IBM
11 15 (1.59%) SAP
12 14 (1.49%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.38%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.27%) HP
14 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (1.17%) Amplitude
15 11 (1.17%) Braze
15 11 (1.17%) Salesforce