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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 99 184
Rank change year-on-year -101 +85 -36
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 647 1,229 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 2.92% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 7.81% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 427 573 870
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £84,375 £102,500 £91,906
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -

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 20,636 15,740 26,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.35% 37.46% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 9,991 22,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,750 £30,637
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -85 275 £82,000 -13.68% 168
North of England +70 211 £72,500 +20.83% 105
Yorkshire +50 146 £72,500 +36.79% 39
Midlands -12 70 £60,000 +9.09% 33
North West +11 60 £75,000 +15.38% 58
East Midlands -10 42 £60,000 +4.35% 13
South West -108 41 £62,500 +4.17% 70
South East -158 38 £67,500 +12.50% 95
West Midlands -9 28 £55,625 +1.14% 20
East of England -59 13 £61,300 -5.69% 32
North East -12 5 £66,750 +6.80% 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 33 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.64%) Apache
3 19 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.16%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.08%) Confluence
7 5 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.46%) JBoss
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.62%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 507 (78.36%) AWS
2 340 (52.55%) AWS Lambda
3 259 (40.03%) Amazon S3
4 246 (38.02%) Azure
5 153 (23.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (17.62%) Amazon ECS
6 114 (17.62%) GitHub
7 101 (15.61%) Azure Functions
8 94 (14.53%) AWS Step Functions
9 82 (12.67%) Amazon SQS
10 76 (11.75%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (11.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 75 (11.59%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 67 (10.36%) GCP
14 64 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
15 61 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
16 58 (8.96%) SaaS
17 50 (7.73%) Power Platform
18 41 (6.34%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.70%) AMQP
1 11 (1.70%) DSL
2 10 (1.55%) Firewall
2 10 (1.55%) Network Security
3 6 (0.93%) VPN
4 5 (0.77%) SSL
5 4 (0.62%) Broadband
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
5 4 (0.62%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) 4G
6 1 (0.15%) 5G
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (18.55%) DynamoDB
2 78 (12.06%) NoSQL
3 74 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.57%) SQL Server
6 48 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 41 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 30 (4.64%) Power BI
10 26 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.40%) MySQL
13 21 (3.25%) MongoDB
14 20 (3.09%) Big Data
15 19 (2.94%) Data Lake
16 13 (2.01%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.01%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
18 8 (1.24%) Metadata
19 6 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 125 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 89 (13.76%) Git
3 83 (12.83%) GitLab
4 38 (5.87%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.26%) Maven
6 33 (5.10%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.63%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.32%) JIRA
9 12 (1.85%) JUnit
10 10 (1.55%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.24%) JMeter
11 8 (1.24%) Mockito
12 7 (1.08%) MLflow
13 6 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.77%) git-flow
15 4 (0.62%) webpack
16 3 (0.46%) Crashlytics
16 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
16 3 (0.46%) ESLint
16 3 (0.46%) XCTest
General
1 178 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.06%) Finance
3 51 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.94%) Banking
6 19 (2.94%) Publishing
7 17 (2.63%) Tech for Good
8 16 (2.47%) Law
9 15 (2.32%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.85%) Advertising
12 11 (1.70%) Legal
13 7 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.77%) Retail
15 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (39.57%) Developer
2 156 (24.11%) Senior
3 94 (14.53%) Architect
4 78 (12.06%) Lead
5 70 (10.82%) Senior Developer
6 69 (10.66%) Java Developer
7 63 (9.74%) AWS Developer
8 62 (9.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (8.50%) Software Engineer
11 46 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 41 (6.34%) Data Engineer
13 40 (6.18%) Lead Developer
14 35 (5.41%) Software Developer
15 34 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (4.95%) React Developer
17 31 (4.79%) .NET Developer
17 31 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (4.17%) Support Engineer
19 26 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (26.58%) React
2 130 (20.09%) Node.js
3 102 (15.77%) .NET
4 99 (15.30%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.52%) Spring
6 79 (12.21%) AngularJS
7 75 (11.59%) HTML
8 70 (10.82%) REST
9 65 (10.05%) RESTful
10 62 (9.58%) CSS
11 52 (8.04%) AWS CDK
12 48 (7.42%) Kafka
13 47 (7.26%) .NET Core
14 38 (5.87%) Jest
15 32 (4.95%) Gherkin
16 29 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.86%) FastAPI
18 24 (3.71%) Flask
18 24 (3.71%) Vue
18 24 (3.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (22.57%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.18%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.86%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.55%) Blockchain
10 10 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.55%) Web3
11 9 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.08%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.77%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.10%) Linux
2 16 (2.47%) Windows
3 14 (2.16%) VMS
4 10 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.55%) Unix
5 5 (0.77%) CentOS
5 5 (0.77%) Debian
5 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (58.27%) CI/CD
2 310 (47.91%) DevOps
3 253 (39.10%) Agile
4 213 (32.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (29.37%) Microservices
6 170 (26.28%) Mentoring
7 158 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (20.25%) Software Engineering
10 126 (19.47%) Containerisation
11 110 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (13.29%) Observability
13 80 (12.36%) AI
14 78 (12.06%) Analytics
15 73 (11.28%) Data Modelling
16 68 (10.51%) SDLC
17 67 (10.36%) Computer Science
17 67 (10.36%) Test Automation
18 66 (10.20%) Scrum
18 66 (10.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 265 (40.96%) Python
2 193 (29.83%) JavaScript
3 180 (27.82%) TypeScript
4 168 (25.97%) SQL
5 166 (25.66%) Java
6 109 (16.85%) C#
7 60 (9.27%) Bash
8 31 (4.79%) Groovy
9 29 (4.48%) Go
10 28 (4.33%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 14 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.85%) Rust
14 10 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.24%) Scala
16 6 (0.93%) Bicep
16 6 (0.93%) C++
16 6 (0.93%) PHP
17 5 (0.77%) R
18 4 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 111 (17.16%) AWS Certification
2 86 (13.29%) Degree
3 74 (11.44%) Security Cleared
4 57 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (6.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (6.80%) SC Cleared
6 43 (6.65%) Azure Certification
7 34 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (3.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 20 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.47%) DV Cleared
13 12 (1.85%) OSCP
14 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.18%) QA
2 29 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.25%) GDPR
4 11 (1.70%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.39%) SLA
6 7 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 212 (32.77%) Docker
2 16 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.77%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 192 (29.68%) Terraform
2 154 (23.80%) Kubernetes
3 54 (8.35%) Ansible
4 37 (5.72%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.26%) Grafana
6 32 (4.95%) HP Fortify
7 20 (3.09%) Kibana
8 9 (1.39%) Puppet
9 6 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.46%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.25%) Databricks
3 15 (2.32%) Google
4 12 (1.85%) Oracle
5 11 (1.70%) Splunk
6 10 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.77%) IBM
10 5 (0.77%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.62%) Pega
11 4 (0.62%) WSO2
11 4 (0.62%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.46%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow