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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 189 196
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -35
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 835 698 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.82% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% 5.34% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 563 522 876
10th Percentile £52,100 £50,000 £47,500
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% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500

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 24,605 13,078 30,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.58% 34.15% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,376 9,204 24,332
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £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 £83,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -42 321 £82,500 -8.33% 142
North of England +77 278 £75,000 +15.38% 44
Yorkshire +31 150 £75,000 +25.00% 16
North West +56 118 £75,000 - 22
Midlands +18 108 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East Midlands +22 70 £55,000 - 8
South East -62 64 £66,250 +10.42% 40
South West -65 44 £62,500 +4.17% 23
West Midlands -40 38 £52,500 -14.29% 13
East of England -34 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
North East -32 10 £71,065 +13.70% 6
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 (3.35%) Apache
2 25 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.96%) SAS
7 7 (0.84%) Confluence
8 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.48%) JBoss
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.84%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 597 (71.50%) AWS
2 409 (48.98%) AWS Lambda
3 298 (35.69%) Amazon S3
4 286 (34.25%) Azure
5 196 (23.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 160 (19.16%) Amazon ECS
7 137 (16.41%) Azure Functions
8 120 (14.37%) AWS Step Functions
9 116 (13.89%) GitHub
10 95 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 95 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (11.02%) Amazon SQS
12 84 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (10.06%) SaaS
13 79 (9.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 77 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
15 73 (8.74%) GCP
16 68 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (7.54%) Power Platform
18 59 (7.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.40%) Firewall
2 15 (1.80%) Network Security
3 13 (1.56%) DSL
4 9 (1.08%) AMQP
5 6 (0.72%) Internet
5 6 (0.72%) MQTT
5 6 (0.72%) VoIP
5 6 (0.72%) VPN
6 5 (0.60%) DNS
7 4 (0.48%) Broadband
8 3 (0.36%) IPv4
8 3 (0.36%) LTE
8 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.24%) 4G
9 2 (0.24%) 5G
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (21.20%) DynamoDB
2 83 (9.94%) NoSQL
3 80 (9.58%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (8.02%) SQL Server
6 45 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.79%) Power BI
9 37 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.31%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.99%) MySQL
13 23 (2.75%) Big Data
14 19 (2.28%) Data Lake
15 15 (1.80%) Spark SQL
16 14 (1.68%) MongoDB
17 12 (1.44%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (1.32%) Metadata
19 9 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 169 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 143 (17.13%) Git
3 107 (12.81%) GitLab
4 46 (5.51%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.27%) Maven
6 40 (4.79%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.23%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.99%) Snyk
9 20 (2.40%) JIRA
10 13 (1.56%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.56%) XCTest
11 10 (1.20%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.96%) JUnit
14 7 (0.84%) JMeter
14 7 (0.84%) MLflow
14 7 (0.84%) Mockito
15 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.60%) Gradle
16 5 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 201 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 125 (14.97%) Finance
3 59 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.71%) Banking
7 14 (1.68%) Advertising
8 12 (1.44%) Law
9 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.32%) Publishing
10 10 (1.20%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.08%) Legal
12 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.84%) Billing
12 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.72%) Retail
13 6 (0.72%) Tech for Good
13 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 292 (34.97%) Developer
2 256 (30.66%) Senior
3 115 (13.77%) Architect
4 104 (12.46%) Lead
5 97 (11.62%) Java Developer
6 94 (11.26%) Senior Developer
7 78 (9.34%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (7.07%) AWS Developer
11 49 (5.87%) Data Engineer
12 47 (5.63%) Senior Architect
13 43 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (4.91%) Security Architect
16 39 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
17 38 (4.55%) Software Developer
18 36 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (20.96%) React
2 169 (20.24%) Node.js
3 128 (15.33%) .NET
4 116 (13.89%) REST
5 112 (13.41%) Spring Boot
6 106 (12.69%) AngularJS
7 88 (10.54%) Spring
8 74 (8.86%) Kafka
9 72 (8.62%) RESTful
10 54 (6.47%) AWS CDK
11 49 (5.87%) HTML
12 43 (5.15%) .NET Core
13 41 (4.91%) Gherkin
14 40 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (4.67%) Jest
16 36 (4.31%) CSS
16 36 (4.31%) PySpark
17 35 (4.19%) JSON
18 30 (3.59%) YAML
19 28 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 24 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.16%) Blockchain
7 18 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.16%) Web3
8 17 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.20%) IoT
10 10 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.23%) Linux
2 17 (2.04%) Windows
3 14 (1.68%) VMS
4 13 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) CentOS
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 392 (46.95%) DevOps
3 301 (36.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 287 (34.37%) Agile
5 198 (23.71%) Microservices
6 193 (23.11%) Mentoring
7 173 (20.72%) Software Engineering
8 172 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 158 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 155 (18.56%) Test Automation
11 134 (16.05%) Observability
12 133 (15.93%) AI
13 130 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (13.77%) Analytics
15 112 (13.41%) Event-Driven
16 88 (10.54%) DevSecOps
17 86 (10.30%) TDD
18 85 (10.18%) SDLC
19 83 (9.94%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 323 (38.68%) Python
2 233 (27.90%) SQL
3 219 (26.23%) TypeScript
4 181 (21.68%) Java
5 167 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 129 (15.45%) C#
7 78 (9.34%) Bash
8 49 (5.87%) Groovy
9 47 (5.63%) Kotlin
10 43 (5.15%) Go
11 35 (4.19%) PowerShell
12 23 (2.75%) Bicep
13 21 (2.51%) Rust
14 16 (1.92%) PHP
15 14 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.56%) Swift
17 12 (1.44%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.84%) C++
18 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.62%) Degree
3 80 (9.58%) AWS Certification
4 75 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 56 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 28 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (2.40%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.92%) OSCP
12 14 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.44%) DBS Check
15 11 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.43%) QA
3 35 (4.19%) GDPR
4 25 (2.99%) GRC
5 15 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.48%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 252 (30.18%) Docker
2 32 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 3 (0.36%) Firmware
5 3 (0.36%) Squid
5 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 262 (31.38%) Terraform
2 179 (21.44%) Kubernetes
3 83 (9.94%) Ansible
4 57 (6.83%) Prometheus
5 50 (5.99%) Grafana
6 35 (4.19%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.40%) Kibana
8 15 (1.80%) Puppet
9 11 (1.32%) Packer
10 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.24%) Argo
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 106 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.31%) Databricks
3 30 (3.59%) Tenable
4 26 (3.11%) Palo Alto
5 25 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
6 23 (2.75%) Oracle
7 14 (1.68%) Splunk
8 13 (1.56%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.56%) Braze
8 13 (1.56%) Google
9 11 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.08%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.96%) IBM
12 8 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.84%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
16 3 (0.36%) Apple