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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 100 194
Rank change year-on-year -112 +94 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 675 1,182 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 3.12% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 8.26% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 438 595 901
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 21,808 14,318 28,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 37.77% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,933 10,104 23,478
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 20 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 20 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 -88 277 £82,500 -13.16% 154
North of England +49 219 £73,750 +18.00% 98
Yorkshire +43 146 £75,000 +30.43% 39
Midlands -24 79 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North West 0 68 £72,966 +6.71% 48
East Midlands -17 54 £60,000 +4.35% 3
South West -113 43 £62,500 +4.17% 34
South East -166 36 £67,500 +12.50% 64
West Midlands -27 25 £51,875 -5.68% 20
East of England -66 18 £60,100 -10.96% 20
North East -29 5 £68,500 +9.60% 13
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 28 (4.15%) Apache
1 28 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.19%) SAS
6 7 (1.04%) Confluence
7 4 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.59%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 532 (78.81%) AWS
2 350 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
3 265 (39.26%) Amazon S3
4 243 (36.00%) Azure
5 160 (23.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (18.52%) GitHub
7 116 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
8 99 (14.67%) Azure Functions
9 94 (13.93%) AWS Step Functions
10 85 (12.59%) Amazon SQS
11 79 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 78 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
16 64 (9.48%) GCP
17 60 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
17 60 (8.89%) SaaS
18 56 (8.30%) Power Platform
19 43 (6.37%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.93%) DSL
1 13 (1.93%) Firewall
2 11 (1.63%) AMQP
2 11 (1.63%) Network Security
3 8 (1.19%) VPN
4 6 (0.89%) Broadband
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.44%) DNS
6 3 (0.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (19.11%) DynamoDB
2 84 (12.44%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.41%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.85%) SQL Server
6 43 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.04%) Power BI
9 32 (4.74%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.70%) MySQL
12 20 (2.96%) Big Data
12 20 (2.96%) MongoDB
13 17 (2.52%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.48%) Metadata
14 10 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.33%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 95 (14.07%) GitLab
3 92 (13.63%) Git
4 38 (5.63%) Cypress.io
5 36 (5.33%) Maven
6 35 (5.19%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.41%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.22%) JIRA
9 10 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.48%) JUnit
10 9 (1.33%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.33%) MLflow
10 9 (1.33%) XCTest
11 6 (0.89%) JMeter
11 6 (0.89%) Mockito
11 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.74%) git-flow
13 4 (0.59%) webpack
14 3 (0.44%) ESLint
14 3 (0.44%) Mocha
General
1 186 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.22%) Finance
3 53 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 51 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.41%) Banking
6 19 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.81%) Publishing
7 17 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.37%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.37%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.78%) Advertising
11 11 (1.63%) Law
12 9 (1.33%) Legal
13 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.74%) Retail
16 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 265 (39.26%) Developer
2 164 (24.30%) Senior
3 90 (13.33%) Lead
4 89 (13.19%) Architect
5 77 (11.41%) Senior Developer
6 75 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 65 (9.63%) AWS Developer
8 62 (9.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (8.15%) Software Engineer
11 48 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.22%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.63%) Data Engineer
14 34 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (5.04%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.74%) React Developer
16 29 (4.30%) .NET Developer
16 29 (4.30%) AWS Architect
17 26 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (25.63%) React
2 140 (20.74%) Node.js
3 109 (16.15%) .NET
4 101 (14.96%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.00%) AngularJS
5 81 (12.00%) Spring
6 72 (10.67%) HTML
7 71 (10.52%) REST
8 69 (10.22%) RESTful
9 61 (9.04%) CSS
10 56 (8.30%) AWS CDK
11 50 (7.41%) Kafka
12 49 (7.26%) .NET Core
13 38 (5.63%) Jest
14 34 (5.04%) Gherkin
15 31 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (3.70%) FastAPI
17 25 (3.70%) Flask
18 23 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (21.63%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.93%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.93%) Web3
9 12 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.74%) Linux
2 15 (2.22%) VMS
2 15 (2.22%) Windows
3 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) Unix
6 5 (0.74%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) Debian
6 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (57.19%) CI/CD
2 318 (47.11%) DevOps
3 277 (41.04%) Agile
4 231 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (27.85%) Mentoring
6 184 (27.26%) Microservices
7 163 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (20.89%) Containerisation
10 133 (19.70%) Software Engineering
11 118 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (14.96%) Observability
13 91 (13.48%) Test Automation
14 90 (13.33%) Analytics
15 78 (11.56%) AI
16 77 (11.41%) Continuous Integration
16 77 (11.41%) TDD
17 72 (10.67%) Scrum
18 68 (10.07%) Computer Science
18 68 (10.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 276 (40.89%) Python
2 190 (28.15%) JavaScript
3 182 (26.96%) TypeScript
4 175 (25.93%) SQL
5 164 (24.30%) Java
6 108 (16.00%) C#
7 68 (10.07%) Bash
8 37 (5.48%) Go
9 33 (4.89%) Groovy
10 31 (4.59%) PowerShell
11 27 (4.00%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (2.07%) Rust
14 10 (1.48%) PHP
15 9 (1.33%) Swift
16 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 7 (1.04%) Bicep
18 6 (0.89%) C++
18 6 (0.89%) Scala
19 5 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.33%) Degree
3 72 (10.67%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (6.37%) SC Cleared
6 38 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.48%) Azure Certification
8 34 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 22 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
11 20 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (2.37%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.07%) OSCP
14 13 (1.93%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.78%) DBS Check
16 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.22%) QA
2 34 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.41%) GDPR
4 14 (2.07%) SOC 2
5 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 224 (33.19%) Docker
2 17 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) iptables
5 3 (0.44%) Firmware
5 3 (0.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 204 (30.22%) Terraform
2 159 (23.56%) Kubernetes
3 64 (9.48%) Ansible
4 46 (6.81%) Prometheus
5 44 (6.52%) Grafana
6 34 (5.04%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.67%) Kibana
8 10 (1.48%) Puppet
9 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.44%) Nagios
11 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Scalr
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.70%) Databricks
3 11 (1.63%) Oracle
4 10 (1.48%) Google
5 9 (1.33%) Amplitude
5 9 (1.33%) Splunk
6 8 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.04%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.74%) Pega
8 5 (0.74%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.74%) WSO2
9 4 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.59%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.59%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.44%) IBM
11 2 (0.30%) Apple