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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 203 209
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 920 733 1,216
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.06% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 5.12% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 600 523 837
10th Percentile £52,450 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 23,926 14,312 29,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.58% 33.23% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,967 10,253 23,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 9 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 9 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 -34 370 £85,000 +6.25% 130
North of England +95 284 £75,000 +15.38% 66
North West +61 131 £72,500 +11.54% 33
Yorkshire +40 129 £80,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands +6 95 £55,000 - 29
South East -54 74 £65,000 +8.33% 31
South West -49 69 £62,500 +4.17% 47
East Midlands +26 64 £55,000 +4.76% 12
West Midlands -42 31 £57,500 -6.12% 17
North East -23 24 £75,000 +15.38% 16
East of England -35 20 £60,000 -11.11% 7
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 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.59%) Apache
3 19 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.63%) Confluence
5 13 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.09%) SAS
8 4 (0.43%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.76%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 665 (72.28%) AWS
2 436 (47.39%) AWS Lambda
3 321 (34.89%) Azure
4 300 (32.61%) Amazon S3
5 220 (23.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 188 (20.43%) Amazon ECS
7 163 (17.72%) Azure Functions
8 126 (13.70%) GitHub
9 116 (12.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 108 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
12 95 (10.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (9.57%) GCP
14 87 (9.46%) SaaS
15 86 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
16 85 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
17 83 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 79 (8.59%) Power Platform
19 74 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
20 61 (6.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.04%) Network Security
2 23 (2.50%) VPN
3 21 (2.28%) Firewall
4 17 (1.85%) Internet
5 11 (1.20%) DNS
5 11 (1.20%) DSL
6 9 (0.98%) AMQP
7 8 (0.87%) MQTT
8 7 (0.76%) VoIP
9 5 (0.54%) BGP
9 5 (0.54%) Broadband
9 5 (0.54%) IPsec
10 4 (0.43%) IPv4
10 4 (0.43%) 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%) 4G
12 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (19.67%) DynamoDB
2 101 (10.98%) NoSQL
3 84 (9.13%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.67%) Power BI
8 41 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (3.80%) Big Data
10 35 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (3.70%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.04%) MySQL
13 22 (2.39%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.85%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.74%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.63%) Spark SQL
18 12 (1.30%) Delta Lake
18 12 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 158 (17.17%) Jenkins
2 157 (17.07%) Git
3 102 (11.09%) GitLab
4 43 (4.67%) SonarQube
5 39 (4.24%) Maven
6 35 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.04%) JIRA
8 25 (2.72%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.72%) Snyk
9 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.63%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.52%) XCTest
11 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.87%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.87%) JUnit
12 8 (0.87%) Selenium
13 7 (0.76%) JMeter
13 7 (0.76%) Mockito
13 7 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 230 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 153 (16.63%) Finance
3 70 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.37%) Banking
7 25 (2.72%) Law
8 15 (1.63%) Marketing
9 13 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.41%) Military
10 12 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.20%) Advertising
11 11 (1.20%) Health Technology
12 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.98%) Legal
13 8 (0.87%) Publishing
14 7 (0.76%) Billing
15 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.54%) Public Speaking
16 5 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 304 (33.04%) Senior
2 274 (29.78%) Developer
3 119 (12.93%) Lead
4 109 (11.85%) Architect
5 99 (10.76%) Senior Developer
6 95 (10.33%) Java Developer
7 89 (9.67%) Software Engineer
8 78 (8.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (5.98%) Data Engineer
12 48 (5.22%) AWS Developer
13 47 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 46 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
16 44 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (4.67%) Senior Architect
18 39 (4.24%) Security Architect
19 38 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
20 36 (3.91%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (19.57%) Node.js
2 169 (18.37%) React
3 138 (15.00%) .NET
4 113 (12.28%) AngularJS
4 113 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 111 (12.07%) REST
6 91 (9.89%) Spring
7 82 (8.91%) Kafka
8 70 (7.61%) RESTful
9 58 (6.30%) AWS CDK
10 41 (4.46%) HTML
11 39 (4.24%) Gherkin
12 38 (4.13%) PySpark
12 38 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.02%) Jest
14 34 (3.70%) .NET Core
15 32 (3.48%) CSS
15 32 (3.48%) JSON
16 29 (3.15%) YAML
17 28 (3.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 223 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 76 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.76%) Onboarding
4 51 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
5 40 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 26 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 20 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.63%) Blockchain
9 15 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.63%) Web3
10 14 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.41%) IoT
11 13 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.30%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.39%) Linux
2 32 (3.48%) Windows
3 24 (2.61%) VMS
4 14 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.65%) CentOS
6 6 (0.65%) Debian
6 6 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (58.91%) CI/CD
2 431 (46.85%) DevOps
3 347 (37.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 331 (35.98%) Agile
5 236 (25.65%) Mentoring
6 215 (23.37%) Microservices
7 204 (22.17%) AI
8 194 (21.09%) Software Engineering
9 181 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 180 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 175 (19.02%) Test Automation
12 173 (18.80%) Containerisation
13 157 (17.07%) Observability
14 144 (15.65%) Analytics
15 142 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 138 (15.00%) Event-Driven
17 114 (12.39%) Cloud Security
18 93 (10.11%) DevSecOps
19 89 (9.67%) Clean Code
20 88 (9.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 365 (39.67%) Python
2 255 (27.72%) SQL
3 216 (23.48%) TypeScript
4 208 (22.61%) Java
5 159 (17.28%) JavaScript
6 147 (15.98%) C#
7 104 (11.30%) Bash
8 50 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 49 (5.33%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.11%) Go
10 47 (5.11%) Groovy
11 40 (4.35%) Bicep
12 32 (3.48%) PHP
13 24 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 21 (2.28%) Rust
15 19 (2.07%) Ruby
16 16 (1.74%) Perl
17 14 (1.52%) Swift
18 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 142 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.41%) Degree
3 91 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 87 (9.46%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 35 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 34 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (2.61%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.63%) OSCP
14 11 (1.20%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.76%) PhD
17 5 (0.54%) CISSP
17 5 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.22%) GDPR
2 45 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.67%) QA
4 25 (2.72%) GRC
5 17 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.65%) NIST
9 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 263 (28.59%) Docker
2 35 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.74%) vSphere
6 12 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) iptables
7 4 (0.43%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 324 (35.22%) Terraform
2 206 (22.39%) Kubernetes
3 101 (10.98%) Ansible
4 55 (5.98%) Prometheus
5 48 (5.22%) Grafana
6 30 (3.26%) HP Fortify
7 22 (2.39%) Puppet
8 19 (2.07%) Packer
9 16 (1.74%) Kibana
10 13 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.54%) Argo
11 5 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
12 4 (0.43%) Podman
12 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.22%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 133 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.59%) Databricks
3 31 (3.37%) Oracle
4 30 (3.26%) Tenable
5 25 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.72%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.17%) Splunk
7 19 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.96%) VMware
9 16 (1.74%) Google
9 16 (1.74%) IBM
10 14 (1.52%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.52%) Braze
11 12 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.30%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.20%) SAP
13 10 (1.09%) HP
14 9 (0.98%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.76%) HubSpot