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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 212 209
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -61
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 949 680 962
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.56% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.71% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 591 483 600
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +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 24,729 14,448 23,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.32% 33.08% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,788 10,256 17,219
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 12 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 12 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 -43 395 £85,000 +13.33% 447
North of England +85 298 £75,000 +15.38% 114
North West +52 135 £70,000 +5.66% 62
Yorkshire +45 120 £80,000 +33.33% 28
Midlands +7 84 £62,500 -3.85% 44
South East -17 83 £65,000 -7.14% 55
South West -47 66 £60,500 -1.22% 42
East Midlands +28 51 £60,000 +60.00% 14
North East -16 43 £75,000 +15.38% 24
West Midlands -40 33 £62,500 -3.85% 30
East of England -57 17 £59,450 +1.19% 17
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 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.95%) Apache
3 18 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.90%) Confluence
4 15 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.16%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.53%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.63%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 687 (72.39%) AWS
2 447 (47.10%) AWS Lambda
3 341 (35.93%) Azure
4 304 (32.03%) Amazon S3
5 229 (24.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 204 (21.50%) Amazon ECS
7 173 (18.23%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.80%) GitHub
9 113 (11.91%) Amazon EC2
9 113 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
10 99 (10.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 97 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (10.22%) SaaS
12 95 (10.01%) GCP
13 91 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
14 84 (8.85%) Power Platform
15 82 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
16 79 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 74 (7.80%) PaaS
18 72 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.85%) VPN
2 25 (2.63%) Network Security
3 23 (2.42%) Firewall
4 21 (2.21%) Internet
5 14 (1.48%) DNS
6 9 (0.95%) MQTT
6 9 (0.95%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 5 (0.53%) AMQP
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) DHCP
8 5 (0.53%) DSL
8 5 (0.53%) VLAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.32%) HTTP
10 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.02%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.12%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.69%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (4.64%) Relational Database
9 38 (4.00%) Power BI
10 35 (3.69%) Big Data
11 28 (2.95%) MySQL
12 25 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.32%) Data Lake
13 22 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.90%) Metadata
15 17 (1.79%) Hadoop
16 15 (1.58%) Delta Lake
16 15 (1.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (18.23%) Git
2 133 (14.01%) Jenkins
3 83 (8.75%) GitLab
4 35 (3.69%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.37%) JIRA
6 30 (3.16%) Maven
7 27 (2.85%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.63%) Snyk
9 17 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.58%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.48%) Crashlytics
12 13 (1.37%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.37%) XCTest
13 12 (1.26%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.05%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.95%) JUnit
16 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.84%) Mockito
16 8 (0.84%) Selenium
17 7 (0.74%) JMeter
General
1 231 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 183 (19.28%) Finance
3 76 (8.01%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.95%) Banking
6 47 (4.95%) Law
7 34 (3.58%) Marketing
8 17 (1.79%) Retail
9 16 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.58%) Legal
10 15 (1.58%) Military
11 13 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.26%) Aviation
13 11 (1.16%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.84%) Billing
16 7 (0.74%) Advertising
17 6 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 299 (31.51%) Senior
2 270 (28.45%) Developer
3 137 (14.44%) Lead
4 107 (11.28%) Architect
5 90 (9.48%) Senior Developer
6 86 (9.06%) Java Developer
7 84 (8.85%) Software Engineer
8 75 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (6.32%) Data Engineer
11 55 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 49 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (5.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (4.64%) AWS Developer
13 44 (4.64%) Cloud Architect
14 43 (4.53%) Senior Architect
15 42 (4.43%) Consultant
15 42 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (17.70%) Node.js
2 146 (15.38%) React
3 138 (14.54%) .NET
4 119 (12.54%) REST
5 103 (10.85%) AngularJS
6 100 (10.54%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.96%) Spring
8 80 (8.43%) Kafka
9 67 (7.06%) RESTful
10 58 (6.11%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.79%) PySpark
12 35 (3.69%) Jest
13 32 (3.37%) HTML
14 31 (3.27%) OAuth
14 31 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.16%) Gherkin
15 30 (3.16%) JSON
16 28 (2.95%) CSS
16 28 (2.95%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 50 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.27%) Data Centre
8 29 (3.06%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.53%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.11%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.48%) IoT
13 14 (1.48%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.26%) Blog
14 12 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.17%) Linux
2 35 (3.69%) Windows
3 19 (2.00%) VMS
4 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) CentOS
7 4 (0.42%) Debian
7 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (56.48%) CI/CD
2 446 (47.00%) DevOps
3 348 (36.67%) Agile
4 346 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 255 (26.87%) Mentoring
6 246 (25.92%) AI
7 211 (22.23%) Microservices
8 206 (21.71%) Software Engineering
9 190 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (17.81%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.49%) Containerisation
12 162 (17.07%) Observability
13 160 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 158 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 148 (15.60%) Analytics
16 135 (14.23%) Event-Driven
17 133 (14.01%) Cloud Security
18 115 (12.12%) Roadmaps
19 101 (10.64%) Migration
20 100 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 372 (39.20%) Python
2 268 (28.24%) SQL
3 199 (20.97%) TypeScript
4 196 (20.65%) Java
5 153 (16.12%) C#
6 151 (15.91%) JavaScript
7 98 (10.33%) Bash
8 49 (5.16%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.53%) PowerShell
10 40 (4.21%) Bicep
11 38 (4.00%) Groovy
12 35 (3.69%) Go
13 33 (3.48%) PHP
14 28 (2.95%) Ruby
15 19 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (2.00%) Perl
16 15 (1.58%) Rust
17 13 (1.37%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.37%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.38%) Degree
3 105 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 83 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 47 (4.95%) DV Cleared
6 45 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (4.43%) Azure Certification
8 38 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.74%) Master's Degree
11 21 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.95%) OSCP
16 8 (0.84%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.53%) GDPR
2 53 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.27%) QA
4 26 (2.74%) GRC
5 17 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 264 (27.82%) Docker
2 35 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.69%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 341 (35.93%) Terraform
2 196 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 107 (11.28%) Ansible
4 44 (4.64%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.32%) Grafana
6 21 (2.21%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.11%) Puppet
8 19 (2.00%) Packer
9 15 (1.58%) Kibana
10 10 (1.05%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.53%) Argo
12 5 (0.53%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.21%) SCCM
15 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 157 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.32%) Databricks
3 34 (3.58%) Oracle
4 31 (3.27%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.27%) Tenable
5 25 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.32%) VMware
7 21 (2.21%) Splunk
8 20 (2.11%) Google
9 18 (1.90%) IBM
10 17 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.58%) SAP
12 13 (1.37%) Amplitude
12 13 (1.37%) Braze
12 13 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 12 (1.26%) HP
13 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.16%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.05%) Salesforce