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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 206 215
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 907 709 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.64% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 4.92% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 578 511 706
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,000 £94,688
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 24,202 14,408 26,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.20% 33.29% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16,233 10,274 20,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -31 378 £85,000 +10.39% 143
North of England +96 278 £75,000 +15.38% 55
North West +61 127 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Yorkshire +41 122 £80,000 +33.33% 15
Midlands 0 88 £60,000 +4.35% 33
South East -22 77 £65,000 - 37
South West -54 62 £60,500 +0.83% 32
East Midlands +26 59 £55,000 +15.79% 14
North East -27 29 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -52 29 £62,500 +6.38% 19
East of England -30 17 £59,725 -0.46% 9
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 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.20%) Apache
3 18 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.76%) Confluence
5 15 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.21%) SAS
8 5 (0.55%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 657 (72.44%) AWS
2 426 (46.97%) AWS Lambda
3 317 (34.95%) Azure
4 292 (32.19%) Amazon S3
5 217 (23.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 192 (21.17%) Amazon ECS
7 157 (17.31%) Azure Functions
8 124 (13.67%) GitHub
9 113 (12.46%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (11.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 94 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (10.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (9.81%) SaaS
14 86 (9.48%) Amazon SQS
14 86 (9.48%) GCP
15 83 (9.15%) Amazon EKS
16 78 (8.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (8.49%) Power Platform
18 71 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
19 68 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.20%) Network Security
2 25 (2.76%) VPN
3 21 (2.32%) Firewall
4 19 (2.09%) Internet
5 12 (1.32%) DNS
6 8 (0.88%) DSL
6 8 (0.88%) MQTT
7 7 (0.77%) VoIP
8 6 (0.66%) AMQP
8 6 (0.66%) BGP
8 6 (0.66%) IPsec
9 5 (0.55%) Broadband
10 4 (0.44%) IPv4
10 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.33%) DHCP
11 3 (0.33%) LTE
11 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) VLAN
12 2 (0.22%) WAN
12 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (18.96%) DynamoDB
2 103 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.03%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
7 41 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 39 (4.30%) Power BI
10 36 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.86%) Big Data
12 26 (2.87%) MySQL
13 24 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.32%) Data Lake
15 17 (1.87%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.76%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.65%) Spark SQL
18 13 (1.43%) Delta Lake
18 13 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 159 (17.53%) Git
2 144 (15.88%) Jenkins
3 92 (10.14%) GitLab
4 38 (4.19%) SonarQube
5 33 (3.64%) Maven
6 30 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.09%) JIRA
8 25 (2.76%) Snyk
9 23 (2.54%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.65%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.65%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.54%) XCTest
12 12 (1.32%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.21%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.99%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.88%) JUnit
15 8 (0.88%) Selenium
16 7 (0.77%) JMeter
16 7 (0.77%) Mockito
16 7 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 226 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 159 (17.53%) Finance
3 73 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.53%) Banking
6 32 (3.53%) Law
7 19 (2.09%) Marketing
8 16 (1.76%) Military
9 13 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.21%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.21%) Legal
11 10 (1.10%) Advertising
11 10 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.88%) Billing
13 7 (0.77%) Retail
14 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 306 (33.74%) Senior
2 262 (28.89%) Developer
3 117 (12.90%) Lead
4 108 (11.91%) Architect
5 94 (10.36%) Senior Developer
6 88 (9.70%) Java Developer
7 81 (8.93%) Software Engineer
8 76 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (6.17%) Data Engineer
11 53 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 51 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 49 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
15 45 (4.96%) Senior Architect
16 43 (4.74%) AWS Developer
17 42 (4.63%) Consultant
18 38 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
19 36 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (18.96%) Node.js
2 152 (16.76%) React
3 133 (14.66%) .NET
4 112 (12.35%) REST
5 107 (11.80%) Spring Boot
6 103 (11.36%) AngularJS
7 89 (9.81%) Spring
8 83 (9.15%) Kafka
9 68 (7.50%) RESTful
10 57 (6.28%) AWS CDK
11 35 (3.86%) HTML
11 35 (3.86%) PySpark
12 34 (3.75%) Gherkin
12 34 (3.75%) Jest
13 33 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (3.42%) JSON
15 28 (3.09%) .NET Core
15 28 (3.09%) YAML
16 27 (2.98%) Next.js
16 27 (2.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 226 (24.92%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.42%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.98%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.76%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.09%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.87%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.54%) IoT
14 13 (1.43%) Blockchain
14 13 (1.43%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.43%) Web3
15 12 (1.32%) Podcast
15 12 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.50%) Linux
2 31 (3.42%) Windows
3 23 (2.54%) VMS
4 14 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.44%) CentOS
6 4 (0.44%) Debian
6 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (57.66%) CI/CD
2 419 (46.20%) DevOps
3 335 (36.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 328 (36.16%) Agile
5 245 (27.01%) Mentoring
6 225 (24.81%) AI
7 208 (22.93%) Microservices
8 187 (20.62%) Software Engineering
9 182 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 168 (18.52%) Containerisation
11 168 (18.52%) Test Automation
12 149 (16.43%) Observability
13 146 (16.10%) Analytics
14 143 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (15.10%) Event-Driven
16 119 (13.12%) Cloud Security
17 91 (10.03%) Computer Science
17 91 (10.03%) Roadmaps
18 88 (9.70%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 367 (40.46%) Python
2 252 (27.78%) SQL
3 202 (22.27%) TypeScript
4 200 (22.05%) Java
5 152 (16.76%) JavaScript
6 141 (15.55%) C#
7 104 (11.47%) Bash
8 48 (5.29%) PowerShell
9 46 (5.07%) Kotlin
10 43 (4.74%) Go
11 42 (4.63%) Groovy
12 40 (4.41%) Bicep
13 35 (3.86%) PHP
14 23 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 22 (2.43%) Ruby
16 18 (1.98%) Perl
16 18 (1.98%) Rust
17 14 (1.54%) Swift
18 11 (1.21%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.80%) Degree
3 95 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.48%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 41 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.41%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.97%) Azure Certification
9 34 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.87%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.32%) OSCP
14 11 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.88%) PhD
17 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.84%) GDPR
2 47 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.85%) QA
4 25 (2.76%) GRC
5 17 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.66%) NIST
9 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 261 (28.78%) Docker
2 35 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.76%) vSphere
6 12 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 328 (36.16%) Terraform
2 204 (22.49%) Kubernetes
3 103 (11.36%) Ansible
4 52 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.18%) Grafana
6 25 (2.76%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.21%) Packer
7 20 (2.21%) Puppet
8 14 (1.54%) Kibana
9 13 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.66%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 138 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.75%) Databricks
3 32 (3.53%) Oracle
4 30 (3.31%) Tenable
5 25 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.76%) OpenAI
5 25 (2.76%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.32%) Splunk
7 19 (2.09%) VMware
8 18 (1.98%) IBM
9 16 (1.76%) Google
10 14 (1.54%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.54%) Braze
10 14 (1.54%) SAP
11 12 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.32%) HP
11 12 (1.32%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.99%) AppDynamics
13 9 (0.99%) Salesforce