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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 196 209
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 903 729 1,218
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.04% 1.71% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.79% 5.14% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 597 521 839
10th Percentile £52,300 £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 23,802 14,191 30,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.51% 33.37% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,943 10,170 23,754
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,983 £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 £82,250 £77,500
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 8 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 8 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 -43 355 £85,000 +6.25% 120
North of England +89 284 £75,000 +15.38% 66
North West +56 131 £72,500 +11.54% 35
Yorkshire +44 129 £80,000 +33.33% 20
Midlands +12 95 £55,000 - 27
South East -43 73 £66,250 +10.42% 37
South West -45 69 £62,500 +4.17% 37
East Midlands +27 64 £55,000 +4.76% 16
West Midlands -34 31 £57,500 -6.12% 11
North East -24 24 £75,000 +15.38% 11
East of England -43 19 £60,000 -11.11% 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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.65%) Apache
3 19 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.66%) Confluence
5 13 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.00%) SAS
8 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Pig
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 8 (0.89%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 651 (72.09%) AWS
2 431 (47.73%) AWS Lambda
3 317 (35.11%) Azure
4 298 (33.00%) Amazon S3
5 216 (23.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 184 (20.38%) Amazon ECS
7 160 (17.72%) Azure Functions
8 124 (13.73%) GitHub
9 115 (12.74%) AWS Step Functions
10 106 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (10.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 95 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
12 88 (9.75%) GCP
13 86 (9.52%) SaaS
14 85 (9.41%) Amazon SQS
15 82 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
16 79 (8.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (8.53%) Power Platform
18 73 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
19 61 (6.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.88%) Network Security
2 22 (2.44%) VPN
3 21 (2.33%) Firewall
4 12 (1.33%) Internet
5 11 (1.22%) DSL
6 10 (1.11%) DNS
7 9 (1.00%) AMQP
8 8 (0.89%) MQTT
9 7 (0.78%) VoIP
10 5 (0.55%) Broadband
11 4 (0.44%) BGP
11 4 (0.44%) IPsec
11 4 (0.44%) IPv4
11 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.33%) DHCP
12 3 (0.33%) LTE
12 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.33%) VLAN
13 2 (0.22%) 4G
13 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (19.82%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 82 (9.08%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.20%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.76%) Power BI
8 41 (4.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 40 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (3.77%) Relational Database
12 31 (3.43%) Big Data
13 28 (3.10%) MySQL
14 22 (2.44%) Data Lake
15 20 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
17 15 (1.66%) Spark SQL
18 14 (1.55%) Hadoop
19 13 (1.44%) Delta Lake
19 13 (1.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 158 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 156 (17.28%) Git
3 102 (11.30%) GitLab
4 43 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 39 (4.32%) Maven
6 35 (3.88%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.10%) JIRA
8 25 (2.77%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.77%) Snyk
9 15 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.66%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.55%) XCTest
11 11 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.22%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.89%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.89%) JUnit
12 8 (0.89%) Selenium
13 7 (0.78%) JMeter
13 7 (0.78%) Mockito
13 7 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 226 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 151 (16.72%) Finance
3 68 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.43%) Banking
7 25 (2.77%) Law
8 13 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.44%) Marketing
9 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.22%) Advertising
10 11 (1.22%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.11%) Military
12 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.00%) Legal
13 8 (0.89%) Publishing
14 6 (0.66%) Billing
14 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Retail
15 4 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 297 (32.89%) Senior
2 272 (30.12%) Developer
3 115 (12.74%) Lead
4 104 (11.52%) Architect
5 98 (10.85%) Senior Developer
6 95 (10.52%) Java Developer
7 89 (9.86%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (6.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 56 (6.20%) Data Engineer
12 48 (5.32%) AWS Developer
13 47 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
14 46 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
16 41 (4.54%) Senior Architect
17 39 (4.32%) Security Architect
17 39 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
19 36 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (19.71%) Node.js
2 169 (18.72%) React
3 133 (14.73%) .NET
4 113 (12.51%) AngularJS
4 113 (12.51%) Spring Boot
5 110 (12.18%) REST
6 91 (10.08%) Spring
7 80 (8.86%) Kafka
8 69 (7.64%) RESTful
9 56 (6.20%) AWS CDK
10 41 (4.54%) HTML
11 39 (4.32%) Gherkin
11 39 (4.32%) PySpark
12 38 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.10%) Jest
14 34 (3.77%) .NET Core
15 32 (3.54%) CSS
15 32 (3.54%) JSON
16 29 (3.21%) YAML
17 28 (3.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 220 (24.36%) Cloud Native
2 75 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
4 40 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 37 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.21%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 24 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 20 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.66%) Blockchain
12 15 (1.66%) Web3
13 14 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.55%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.33%) IoT
14 12 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.31%) Linux
2 30 (3.32%) Windows
3 24 (2.66%) VMS
4 14 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.66%) CentOS
6 6 (0.66%) Debian
6 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (59.58%) CI/CD
2 427 (47.29%) DevOps
3 341 (37.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 329 (36.43%) Agile
5 225 (24.92%) Mentoring
6 211 (23.37%) Microservices
7 193 (21.37%) Software Engineering
8 192 (21.26%) AI
9 181 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (19.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 173 (19.16%) Test Automation
12 172 (19.05%) Containerisation
13 156 (17.28%) Observability
14 141 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (15.17%) Analytics
16 132 (14.62%) Event-Driven
17 112 (12.40%) Cloud Security
18 93 (10.30%) DevSecOps
19 89 (9.86%) Clean Code
20 88 (9.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 360 (39.87%) Python
2 253 (28.02%) SQL
3 216 (23.92%) TypeScript
4 204 (22.59%) Java
5 158 (17.50%) JavaScript
6 142 (15.73%) C#
7 102 (11.30%) Bash
8 50 (5.54%) PowerShell
9 49 (5.43%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.20%) Groovy
11 46 (5.09%) Go
12 39 (4.32%) Bicep
13 29 (3.21%) PHP
14 24 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (2.33%) Rust
16 16 (1.77%) Ruby
17 14 (1.55%) Perl
17 14 (1.55%) Swift
18 10 (1.11%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.89%) C++
Qualifications
1 139 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.96%) Degree
3 91 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 79 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.99%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 34 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (2.77%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (2.55%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.66%) OSCP
14 11 (1.22%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.66%) PhD
19 5 (0.55%) CISSP
19 5 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.20%) GDPR
2 46 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.65%) QA
4 25 (2.77%) GRC
5 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.66%) NIST
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 262 (29.01%) Docker
2 34 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.77%) vSphere
6 12 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) iptables
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 320 (35.44%) Terraform
2 205 (22.70%) Kubernetes
3 101 (11.18%) Ansible
4 55 (6.09%) Prometheus
5 48 (5.32%) Grafana
6 30 (3.32%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.33%) Puppet
8 19 (2.10%) Packer
9 16 (1.77%) Kibana
10 12 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) 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
1 127 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.77%) Databricks
3 30 (3.32%) Tenable
4 29 (3.21%) Oracle
5 25 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.77%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.21%) Splunk
7 18 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.88%) VMware
9 16 (1.77%) Google
10 14 (1.55%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.55%) Braze
10 14 (1.55%) IBM
11 12 (1.33%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.33%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (1.00%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.89%) HP
14 7 (0.78%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.78%) SAP