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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 139 154
Rank change year-on-year -69 +15 -66
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 600 1,192 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.40% 1.95% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.25% 5.94% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 380 457 835
10th Percentile £47,450 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,942 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,313 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £68,958 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.89% +3.57% -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 14,134 20,068 21,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.88% 32.90% 42.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 12,221 17,646
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -9 313 £75,000 -14.29% 285
North of England +29 110 £68,500 +24.55% 128
South East -88 62 £70,000 +14.29% 204
Yorkshire +40 54 £71,500 +36.19% 48
North West +3 51 £65,000 +8.33% 68
South West -54 49 £60,000 -14.29% 33
Midlands -5 41 £60,000 - 23
West Midlands +34 39 £60,000 -17.24% 13
East of England -50 32 £57,500 -4.17% 17
North East +11 5 £68,500 +24.55% 12
East Midlands -18 2 - - 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 31 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 30 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.50%) Confluence
4 20 (3.33%) Apache
5 9 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 9 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.17%) JBoss
6 7 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
9 3 (0.50%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Shopify
2 6 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 450 (75.00%) AWS
2 307 (51.17%) AWS Lambda
3 270 (45.00%) Azure
4 174 (29.00%) Amazon S3
5 114 (19.00%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (18.83%) Amazon EC2
7 106 (17.67%) Azure Functions
8 87 (14.50%) Amazon EKS
9 86 (14.33%) GitHub
10 70 (11.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 69 (11.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 59 (9.83%) Power Platform
13 58 (9.67%) SaaS
14 49 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
15 47 (7.83%) GCP
16 46 (7.67%) PaaS
17 44 (7.33%) AWS Step Functions
18 43 (7.17%) Power Automate
19 38 (6.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.83%) Internet
2 14 (2.33%) Wireless
3 13 (2.17%) Firewall
4 11 (1.83%) Broadband
4 11 (1.83%) DNS
5 9 (1.50%) SSL
6 8 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.17%) VPN
8 5 (0.83%) AMQP
8 5 (0.83%) DHCP
8 5 (0.83%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.83%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.83%) VLAN
8 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.33%) LAN
9 2 (0.33%) SSH
9 2 (0.33%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) HTTP
10 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (18.50%) DynamoDB
2 92 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (11.33%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (9.50%) NoSQL
5 53 (8.83%) SQL Server
6 50 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 50 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 49 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (4.83%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.17%) MySQL
10 25 (4.17%) RDBMS
11 23 (3.83%) Big Data
12 22 (3.67%) Data Lake
13 21 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (3.33%) Power BI
15 18 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.50%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
18 9 (1.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 91 (15.17%) Jenkins
2 78 (13.00%) Git
3 40 (6.67%) JIRA
4 34 (5.67%) JUnit
5 28 (4.67%) GitLab
6 26 (4.33%) JMeter
7 25 (4.17%) Mockito
8 18 (3.00%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.83%) Selenium
10 10 (1.67%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.33%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.33%) git-flow
12 7 (1.17%) Locust
13 5 (0.83%) Vite
14 4 (0.67%) Mocha
14 4 (0.67%) NUnit
14 4 (0.67%) Postman
14 4 (0.67%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.50%) MSTest
General
1 165 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 126 (21.00%) Finance
3 69 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (7.17%) Law
6 33 (5.50%) Marketing
7 31 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (5.00%) Tech for Good
9 23 (3.83%) Publishing
10 22 (3.67%) Health Technology
11 20 (3.33%) Retail
12 19 (3.17%) Banking
13 15 (2.50%) Automotive
14 14 (2.33%) Manufacturing
15 13 (2.17%) Games
16 11 (1.83%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.50%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.50%) Legal
18 8 (1.33%) Electronics
18 8 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (37.17%) Developer
2 175 (29.17%) Senior
3 96 (16.00%) Senior Developer
4 73 (12.17%) Lead
5 60 (10.00%) Architect
6 58 (9.67%) Data Engineer
7 55 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (9.17%) Software Engineer
8 53 (8.83%) Java Developer
9 46 (7.67%) Python Developer
10 42 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (4.83%) AWS Developer
11 29 (4.83%) Senior Python Developer
12 27 (4.50%) Software Developer
12 27 (4.50%) Support Engineer
13 26 (4.33%) Applications Support
13 26 (4.33%) Lead Developer
14 25 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (3.83%) Applications Engineer
15 23 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (26.00%) React
2 107 (17.83%) .NET
3 91 (15.17%) HTML
4 89 (14.83%) REST
5 75 (12.50%) Spring
5 75 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 73 (12.17%) Node.js
7 71 (11.83%) RESTful
8 69 (11.50%) CSS
9 52 (8.67%) AngularJS
10 49 (8.17%) Kafka
11 43 (7.17%) Web Services
12 40 (6.67%) GraphQL
13 33 (5.50%) .NET Core
14 32 (5.33%) Apache Camel
14 32 (5.33%) JSON
15 31 (5.17%) .NET Framework
16 30 (5.00%) Vue
17 28 (4.67%) FastAPI
18 26 (4.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.00%) IoT
7 17 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 15 (2.50%) e-Learning
8 15 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.17%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.67%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.00%) Linux
2 14 (2.33%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) Unix
4 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) CentOS
6 1 (0.17%) Debian
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 274 (45.67%) Agile
3 255 (42.50%) DevOps
4 153 (25.50%) Microservices
4 153 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
5 141 (23.50%) Mentoring
6 136 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (21.50%) Software Engineering
8 109 (18.17%) TDD
9 108 (18.00%) Containerisation
10 105 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 95 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (14.83%) AI
13 87 (14.50%) Analytics
14 82 (13.67%) Scrum
15 80 (13.33%) Machine Learning
16 74 (12.33%) Data Modelling
16 74 (12.33%) SDLC
17 72 (12.00%) Test Automation
18 68 (11.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 298 (49.67%) Python
2 183 (30.50%) JavaScript
3 155 (25.83%) SQL
4 153 (25.50%) Java
5 152 (25.33%) TypeScript
6 100 (16.67%) C#
7 49 (8.17%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.67%) Bash
9 26 (4.33%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.33%) Scala
11 15 (2.50%) Go
12 14 (2.33%) Bicep
13 11 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.83%) PHP
16 4 (0.67%) C++
16 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.67%) Rust
17 3 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.50%) Degree
3 69 (11.50%) AWS Certification
4 47 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.50%) SC Cleared
6 38 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 33 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.33%) DV Cleared
10 18 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.50%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.33%) SnowPro
14 6 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
17 1 (0.17%) MCP
17 1 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.00%) QA
2 28 (4.67%) GDPR
3 23 (3.83%) SLA
4 19 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.50%) NIST
8 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.17%) CDISC
12 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.17%) GAAP
12 1 (0.17%) HL7
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 156 (26.00%) Docker
2 16 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.17%) HDFS
4 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 147 (24.50%) Terraform
2 144 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.83%) Ansible
4 30 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 28 (4.67%) Kibana
6 26 (4.33%) Grafana
7 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.33%) Puppet
12 1 (0.17%) Argo
12 1 (0.17%) logstash
12 1 (0.17%) Nagios
12 1 (0.17%) Podman
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 118 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.50%) Splunk
3 28 (4.67%) Databricks
3 28 (4.67%) Oracle
4 27 (4.50%) Dynatrace
5 23 (3.83%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.83%) Google
7 12 (2.00%) IBM
8 10 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.50%) Apple
10 8 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.33%) SAP
11 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.83%) Aruba
12 5 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.83%) HP
12 5 (0.83%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.83%) Veeam