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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 202 213
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 916 734 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 1.69% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 5.09% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 588 525 806
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £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 £105,750 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%

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 24,063 14,422 29,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.47% 33.21% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,059 10,315 22,981
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,001
25th Percentile £43,886 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 13 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 13 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 -38 377 £85,000 +9.68% 129
North of England +92 278 £75,000 +15.38% 60
North West +51 129 £72,500 +11.54% 29
Yorkshire +38 125 £80,000 +33.33% 13
Midlands +2 93 £57,500 +2.22% 24
South East -36 75 £65,000 +8.33% 29
South West -54 66 £62,500 +4.17% 42
East Midlands +26 64 £55,000 +4.76% 11
West Midlands -43 29 £62,500 +4.17% 13
North East -30 24 £75,000 +15.38% 18
East of England -38 19 £60,000 -5.88% 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 38 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.60%) Apache
3 18 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.75%) Confluence
5 13 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.20%) SAS
8 5 (0.55%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 662 (72.27%) AWS
2 428 (46.72%) AWS Lambda
3 320 (34.93%) Azure
4 292 (31.88%) Amazon S3
5 219 (23.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 185 (20.20%) Amazon ECS
7 161 (17.58%) Azure Functions
8 126 (13.76%) GitHub
9 109 (11.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 107 (11.68%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (9.50%) GCP
13 87 (9.50%) SaaS
14 84 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
15 83 (9.06%) Amazon SQS
16 80 (8.73%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (8.41%) Power Platform
18 73 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.17%) Network Security
2 24 (2.62%) VPN
3 21 (2.29%) Firewall
4 19 (2.07%) Internet
5 12 (1.31%) DNS
6 10 (1.09%) DSL
7 9 (0.98%) AMQP
8 8 (0.87%) MQTT
9 7 (0.76%) VoIP
10 6 (0.66%) BGP
10 6 (0.66%) IPsec
11 5 (0.55%) Broadband
12 4 (0.44%) IPv4
12 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.33%) DHCP
13 3 (0.33%) LTE
13 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.33%) VLAN
14 2 (0.22%) WAN
14 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.32%) DynamoDB
2 104 (11.35%) NoSQL
3 82 (8.95%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 61 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 41 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 41 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 41 (4.48%) Power BI
8 37 (4.04%) Big Data
9 36 (3.93%) Relational Database
10 33 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (3.06%) MySQL
12 22 (2.40%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.97%) Hadoop
14 17 (1.86%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.64%) Spark SQL
16 12 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 12 (1.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 156 (17.03%) Git
2 150 (16.38%) Jenkins
3 97 (10.59%) GitLab
4 40 (4.37%) SonarQube
5 36 (3.93%) Maven
6 32 (3.49%) Cypress.io
7 29 (3.17%) JIRA
8 25 (2.73%) Snyk
9 24 (2.62%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.64%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.53%) XCTest
12 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.20%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.98%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.87%) JUnit
14 8 (0.87%) Selenium
15 7 (0.76%) JMeter
15 7 (0.76%) Mockito
15 7 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 228 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 155 (16.92%) Finance
3 71 (7.75%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.17%) Banking
7 25 (2.73%) Law
8 17 (1.86%) Marketing
9 16 (1.75%) Military
10 12 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.20%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.09%) Advertising
13 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.98%) Legal
14 8 (0.87%) Billing
15 7 (0.76%) Publishing
16 6 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.66%) Public Speaking
17 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 306 (33.41%) Senior
2 267 (29.15%) Developer
3 118 (12.88%) Lead
4 111 (12.12%) Architect
5 97 (10.59%) Senior Developer
6 91 (9.93%) Java Developer
7 88 (9.61%) Software Engineer
8 79 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 54 (5.90%) Data Engineer
12 48 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 47 (5.13%) AWS Developer
13 47 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
14 46 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (4.91%) Cloud Architect
16 44 (4.80%) Senior Architect
17 42 (4.59%) Consultant
18 38 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (4.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (19.76%) Node.js
2 165 (18.01%) React
3 137 (14.96%) .NET
4 111 (12.12%) REST
4 111 (12.12%) Spring Boot
5 109 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 91 (9.93%) Spring
7 83 (9.06%) Kafka
8 69 (7.53%) RESTful
9 57 (6.22%) AWS CDK
10 41 (4.48%) HTML
11 38 (4.15%) PySpark
12 37 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (3.93%) Gherkin
14 35 (3.82%) Jest
15 32 (3.49%) .NET Core
15 32 (3.49%) CSS
15 32 (3.49%) JSON
16 29 (3.17%) Next.js
16 29 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.99%) Onboarding
4 52 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.38%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.73%) Mobile App
9 23 (2.51%) AI Agents
10 21 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.18%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.53%) Blockchain
13 14 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.53%) IoT
13 14 (1.53%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.53%) Web3
14 13 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.42%) Linux
2 32 (3.49%) Windows
3 24 (2.62%) VMS
4 14 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.87%) 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
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (57.53%) CI/CD
2 424 (46.29%) DevOps
3 341 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 328 (35.81%) Agile
5 241 (26.31%) Mentoring
6 213 (23.25%) Microservices
7 212 (23.14%) AI
8 192 (20.96%) Software Engineering
9 179 (19.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 179 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
10 172 (18.78%) Containerisation
11 171 (18.67%) Test Automation
12 153 (16.70%) Observability
13 146 (15.94%) Analytics
14 139 (15.17%) Event-Driven
15 138 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (12.55%) Cloud Security
17 94 (10.26%) Computer Science
18 91 (9.93%) DevSecOps
19 88 (9.61%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 368 (40.17%) Python
2 255 (27.84%) SQL
3 209 (22.82%) TypeScript
4 208 (22.71%) Java
5 160 (17.47%) JavaScript
6 147 (16.05%) C#
7 102 (11.14%) Bash
8 49 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 48 (5.24%) Kotlin
10 46 (5.02%) Go
11 44 (4.80%) Groovy
12 40 (4.37%) Bicep
13 35 (3.82%) PHP
14 24 (2.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 22 (2.40%) Ruby
16 20 (2.18%) Rust
17 18 (1.97%) Perl
18 14 (1.53%) Swift
19 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 148 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 111 (12.12%) Degree
3 94 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 88 (9.61%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.15%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.93%) Azure Certification
9 34 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.84%) Master's Degree
11 25 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (1.53%) OSCP
14 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.09%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PhD
17 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.55%) CCSP
18 5 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.35%) GDPR
2 44 (4.80%) QA
3 43 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.66%) NIST
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 256 (27.95%) Docker
2 36 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.75%) vSphere
6 12 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 325 (35.48%) Terraform
2 206 (22.49%) Kubernetes
3 102 (11.14%) Ansible
4 52 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.02%) Grafana
6 27 (2.95%) HP Fortify
7 22 (2.40%) Puppet
8 19 (2.07%) Packer
9 16 (1.75%) Kibana
10 13 (1.42%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.66%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.55%) Argo
13 4 (0.44%) Podman
13 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.33%) Scalr
15 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.22%) Nagios
16 1 (0.11%) logstash
16 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 135 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.49%) Databricks
3 31 (3.38%) Oracle
4 30 (3.28%) Tenable
5 25 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.29%) Splunk
7 19 (2.07%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.07%) VMware
8 18 (1.97%) IBM
9 17 (1.86%) Google
10 14 (1.53%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.53%) Braze
10 14 (1.53%) SAP
11 12 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.31%) HP
11 12 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.31%) ScienceLogic
12 9 (0.98%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.87%) Salesforce