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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 194 194
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -29
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 827 701 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.84% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 5.40% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 556 531 876
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 24,309 12,979 29,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.37% 34.15% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,141 9,126 24,262
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,747 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +5.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -45 316 £82,500 -8.33% 143
North of England +90 276 £75,000 +15.38% 62
Yorkshire +36 153 £75,000 +25.00% 21
North West +53 114 £75,000 - 36
Midlands 0 106 £55,000 - 21
East Midlands +22 70 £55,000 - 9
South East -42 64 £65,000 +8.33% 36
South West -70 46 £63,750 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -54 36 £52,500 -6.67% 12
East of England -36 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
North East -38 9 £90,000 +44.00% 6
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 29 (3.51%) Apache
2 25 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.97%) Confluence
5 8 (0.97%) SAS
6 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.48%) JBoss
7 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.85%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 597 (72.19%) AWS
2 406 (49.09%) AWS Lambda
3 301 (36.40%) Amazon S3
4 277 (33.49%) Azure
5 196 (23.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 157 (18.98%) Amazon ECS
7 127 (15.36%) Azure Functions
8 120 (14.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 116 (14.03%) GitHub
10 96 (11.61%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 94 (11.37%) Amazon SQS
13 84 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
14 79 (9.55%) SaaS
15 75 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 74 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
17 70 (8.46%) GCP
18 69 (8.34%) Amazon EKS
19 60 (7.26%) Power Platform
20 58 (7.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.42%) Firewall
2 14 (1.69%) Network Security
3 13 (1.57%) DSL
4 9 (1.09%) AMQP
5 6 (0.73%) Internet
5 6 (0.73%) MQTT
5 6 (0.73%) VoIP
5 6 (0.73%) VPN
6 5 (0.60%) DNS
7 3 (0.36%) Broadband
7 3 (0.36%) IPv4
7 3 (0.36%) LTE
7 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.36%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) 4G
8 2 (0.24%) 5G
8 2 (0.24%) DHCP
8 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (21.40%) DynamoDB
2 84 (10.16%) NoSQL
3 82 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (8.34%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 42 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (4.72%) Power BI
9 37 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 26 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (2.78%) Big Data
12 23 (2.78%) MySQL
13 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.81%) Spark SQL
15 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
16 13 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.45%) Delta Lake
18 11 (1.33%) Metadata
19 8 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 171 (20.68%) Jenkins
2 142 (17.17%) Git
3 108 (13.06%) GitLab
4 46 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.32%) Maven
6 41 (4.96%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.26%) CircleCI
8 25 (3.02%) Snyk
9 19 (2.30%) JIRA
10 13 (1.57%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.57%) XCTest
11 11 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.21%) JUnit
13 9 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.85%) JMeter
14 7 (0.85%) MLflow
14 7 (0.85%) Mockito
15 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.60%) Gradle
17 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 199 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 116 (14.03%) Finance
3 61 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (3.63%) Banking
7 14 (1.69%) Advertising
8 13 (1.57%) Publishing
9 12 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 12 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Law
10 11 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.97%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.85%) Billing
12 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
14 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 289 (34.95%) Developer
2 253 (30.59%) Senior
3 115 (13.91%) Architect
4 107 (12.94%) Lead
5 99 (11.97%) Java Developer
6 91 (11.00%) Senior Developer
7 76 (9.19%) Software Engineer
8 70 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (7.26%) AWS Developer
11 49 (5.93%) Data Engineer
11 49 (5.93%) Senior Architect
12 43 (5.20%) Cloud Architect
13 42 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 41 (4.96%) Security Architect
15 40 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
17 38 (4.59%) Software Developer
18 36 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (20.92%) React
2 167 (20.19%) Node.js
3 127 (15.36%) .NET
4 115 (13.91%) Spring Boot
5 113 (13.66%) REST
6 106 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 90 (10.88%) Spring
8 75 (9.07%) Kafka
8 75 (9.07%) RESTful
9 55 (6.65%) AWS CDK
10 48 (5.80%) HTML
11 47 (5.68%) .NET Core
12 41 (4.96%) Gherkin
12 41 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
13 39 (4.72%) Jest
14 35 (4.23%) CSS
14 35 (4.23%) JSON
14 35 (4.23%) PySpark
15 30 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 21 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.18%) Blockchain
7 18 (2.18%) Web3
8 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.97%) IoT
11 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.97%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.17%) Linux
2 17 (2.06%) Windows
3 13 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.57%) VMS
4 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.60%) CentOS
5 5 (0.60%) Debian
5 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (59.25%) CI/CD
2 386 (46.67%) DevOps
3 296 (35.79%) Agile
4 295 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (24.43%) Microservices
6 197 (23.82%) Mentoring
7 168 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (20.19%) Software Engineering
9 159 (19.23%) Containerisation
10 156 (18.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 149 (18.02%) Test Automation
12 130 (15.72%) Observability
13 129 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (15.24%) AI
15 111 (13.42%) Analytics
16 105 (12.70%) Event-Driven
17 91 (11.00%) TDD
18 87 (10.52%) DevSecOps
19 86 (10.40%) SDLC
20 80 (9.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 322 (38.94%) Python
2 230 (27.81%) SQL
3 215 (26.00%) TypeScript
4 188 (22.73%) Java
5 168 (20.31%) JavaScript
6 129 (15.60%) C#
7 77 (9.31%) Bash
8 49 (5.93%) Groovy
9 45 (5.44%) Kotlin
10 41 (4.96%) Go
11 35 (4.23%) PowerShell
12 21 (2.54%) Rust
13 20 (2.42%) Bicep
14 14 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.57%) PHP
15 13 (1.57%) Swift
16 12 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.73%) C++
19 5 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 105 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.97%) Degree
3 85 (10.28%) AWS Certification
4 75 (9.07%) SC Cleared
5 58 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.54%) DV Cleared
12 17 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
13 16 (1.93%) OSCP
14 13 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.45%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.47%) QA
3 35 (4.23%) GDPR
4 25 (3.02%) GRC
5 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 252 (30.47%) Docker
2 32 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 3 (0.36%) Firmware
5 3 (0.36%) Squid
5 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 255 (30.83%) Terraform
2 181 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 85 (10.28%) Ansible
4 58 (7.01%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.17%) Grafana
6 35 (4.23%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.54%) Kibana
8 15 (1.81%) Puppet
9 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.12%) Argo
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 101 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.35%) Databricks
3 30 (3.63%) Tenable
4 26 (3.14%) Palo Alto
5 25 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
6 24 (2.90%) Oracle
7 13 (1.57%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.57%) Braze
7 13 (1.57%) Splunk
8 12 (1.45%) Google
9 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.09%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.97%) IBM
12 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
16 3 (0.36%) Apple