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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 123 150
Rank change year-on-year -87 +27 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 572 1,267 959
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.16% 2.28% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 6.45% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 360 549 752
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,966 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £97,375
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 17,452 19,650 19,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.46% 35.29% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 12,045 16,433
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 -46 282 £76,000 -15.56% 116
North of England +60 137 £70,932 +23.36% 72
Yorkshire +42 79 £75,000 +41.51% 33
North West +36 54 £65,000 +6.12% 32
South East -106 50 £67,500 +8.00% 50
South West -73 46 £62,500 -10.71% 19
Midlands -3 44 £62,500 +16.28% 16
West Midlands +16 33 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -47 19 £57,500 - 5
East Midlands -5 11 £65,000 +30.00% 5
North East +8 4 £68,500 +3.40% 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 33 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.50%) Confluence
4 19 (3.32%) Apache
5 10 (1.75%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.57%) WebSphere
7 8 (1.40%) Headless CMS
8 7 (1.22%) Tomcat
9 6 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.35%) nginx
13 1 (0.17%) CMS
13 1 (0.17%) JBoss
13 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.40%) Shopify
3 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 417 (72.90%) AWS
2 271 (47.38%) AWS Lambda
3 263 (45.98%) Azure
4 186 (32.52%) Amazon S3
5 108 (18.88%) Azure Functions
6 94 (16.43%) Amazon EC2
7 93 (16.26%) Amazon ECS
8 91 (15.91%) GitHub
9 76 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (13.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 63 (11.01%) Amazon SQS
12 61 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (10.66%) SaaS
13 57 (9.97%) Power Platform
14 51 (8.92%) AWS Step Functions
15 50 (8.74%) PaaS
16 49 (8.57%) GCP
17 46 (8.04%) Power Automate
18 43 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.97%) Firewall
2 14 (2.45%) Internet
3 11 (1.92%) Wireless
4 9 (1.57%) Network Security
5 8 (1.40%) AMQP
5 8 (1.40%) Broadband
5 8 (1.40%) DNS
5 8 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.22%) SSL
6 7 (1.22%) VPN
7 6 (1.05%) WAN
8 5 (0.87%) DHCP
8 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.87%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.87%) VLAN
8 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.17%) NAS
10 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.43%) DynamoDB
2 80 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (11.01%) NoSQL
5 51 (8.92%) SQL Server
6 47 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (7.69%) Relational Database
9 24 (4.20%) Big Data
10 23 (4.02%) Data Lake
11 22 (3.85%) RDBMS
12 21 (3.67%) MongoDB
12 21 (3.67%) Power BI
13 20 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (3.32%) MySQL
15 16 (2.80%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 86 (15.03%) Jenkins
2 72 (12.59%) Git
3 34 (5.94%) GitLab
4 31 (5.42%) JIRA
5 29 (5.07%) Cypress.io
6 25 (4.37%) JUnit
7 24 (4.20%) JMeter
8 21 (3.67%) Mockito
9 11 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.57%) Maven
12 6 (1.05%) git-flow
12 6 (1.05%) Selenium
13 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.87%) Vite
14 4 (0.70%) Mocha
14 4 (0.70%) NUnit
14 4 (0.70%) Postman
14 4 (0.70%) webpack
15 3 (0.52%) MSTest
General
1 169 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.73%) Finance
3 55 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.77%) Tech for Good
6 27 (4.72%) Health Technology
6 27 (4.72%) Publishing
7 26 (4.55%) Law
8 17 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.10%) Legal
11 11 (1.92%) Automotive
11 11 (1.92%) Banking
11 11 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.92%) Marketing
12 9 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.57%) Retail
13 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Billing
Job Titles
1 219 (38.29%) Developer
2 147 (25.70%) Senior
3 80 (13.99%) Lead
4 76 (13.29%) Senior Developer
5 75 (13.11%) Architect
6 57 (9.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 50 (8.74%) Data Engineer
8 49 (8.57%) Python Developer
9 45 (7.87%) Java Developer
10 43 (7.52%) Software Engineer
11 42 (7.34%) AWS Developer
12 38 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (5.94%) Lead Developer
14 33 (5.77%) Software Developer
15 30 (5.24%) .NET Developer
16 29 (5.07%) React Developer
17 27 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 27 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (4.37%) Senior Data Engineer
19 23 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (26.75%) React
2 103 (18.01%) .NET
3 87 (15.21%) HTML
4 77 (13.46%) Node.js
5 76 (13.29%) Spring Boot
6 75 (13.11%) Spring
7 73 (12.76%) REST
8 67 (11.71%) RESTful
9 64 (11.19%) CSS
10 57 (9.97%) AngularJS
11 39 (6.82%) .NET Core
12 38 (6.64%) Kafka
13 31 (5.42%) .NET Framework
13 31 (5.42%) Vue
13 31 (5.42%) Web Services
14 27 (4.72%) GraphQL
14 27 (4.72%) JSON
15 25 (4.37%) Apache Camel
15 25 (4.37%) Hibernate
15 25 (4.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.43%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.62%) Mobile App
8 14 (2.45%) IoT
9 13 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.92%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.57%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.05%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.29%) Linux
2 15 (2.62%) Unix
2 15 (2.62%) Windows
3 9 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.87%) VMS
6 2 (0.35%) CentOS
6 2 (0.35%) Debian
6 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (52.80%) CI/CD
2 271 (47.38%) Agile
3 252 (44.06%) DevOps
4 155 (27.10%) Microservices
5 150 (26.22%) Mentoring
6 143 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (18.88%) Containerisation
8 108 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 105 (18.36%) Software Engineering
10 104 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (17.48%) TDD
12 83 (14.51%) Scrum
13 82 (14.34%) AI
14 75 (13.11%) Analytics
15 73 (12.76%) SDLC
16 71 (12.41%) Data Modelling
17 67 (11.71%) Machine Learning
18 57 (9.97%) Code Quality
19 54 (9.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 275 (48.08%) Python
2 192 (33.57%) JavaScript
3 149 (26.05%) TypeScript
4 138 (24.13%) Java
5 132 (23.08%) SQL
6 110 (19.23%) C#
7 45 (7.87%) PowerShell
8 36 (6.29%) Bash
9 24 (4.20%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.32%) Scala
11 17 (2.97%) Bicep
12 15 (2.62%) Go
13 11 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (1.40%) Groovy
15 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.70%) C++
16 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.52%) C
17 3 (0.52%) PHP
17 3 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (14.34%) AWS Certification
2 71 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 68 (11.89%) Degree
4 44 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (6.99%) Azure Certification
6 36 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (5.94%) SC Cleared
8 28 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (3.32%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.40%) SnowPro
13 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.35%) MCP
17 1 (0.17%) CCNA
17 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
17 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.84%) QA
2 24 (4.20%) GDPR
3 17 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.62%) SLA
5 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
7 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) DICOM
9 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 161 (28.15%) Docker
2 21 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.40%) HDFS
3 8 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (25.87%) Terraform
2 127 (22.20%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.29%) Ansible
4 26 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.37%) Kibana
6 23 (4.02%) Grafana
7 9 (1.57%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.52%) Puppet
10 2 (0.35%) Nagios
10 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.59%) Splunk
3 25 (4.37%) Dynatrace
4 22 (3.85%) Databricks
5 20 (3.50%) Atlassian
6 15 (2.62%) Google
6 15 (2.62%) Oracle
7 10 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.57%) Apple
8 9 (1.57%) IBM
8 9 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.87%) Aruba
11 5 (0.87%) HP
11 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.87%) Veeam
12 4 (0.70%) Pega
12 4 (0.70%) WSO2