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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 211 211
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 948 665 929
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.99% 1.52% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.63% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 591 467 578
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +0.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +1.79% -

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 24,667 14,352 22,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 32.87% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,868 10,117 16,700
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -37 390 £85,000 +13.33% 272
North of England +89 301 £75,000 +15.38% 96
North West +58 136 £70,000 +3.70% 52
Yorkshire +38 117 £80,000 +33.33% 25
South East -9 84 £65,000 -7.14% 39
Midlands -10 82 £63,750 +6.25% 29
South West -55 68 £60,500 +0.83% 42
North East -5 48 £67,500 -6.90% 19
East Midlands +21 47 £65,000 +73.33% 11
West Midlands -41 35 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East of England -54 17 £59,450 +3.39% 16
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 36 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.85%) Apache
3 17 (1.79%) Confluence
4 16 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.05%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Finacle
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 681 (71.84%) AWS
2 444 (46.84%) AWS Lambda
3 344 (36.29%) Azure
4 303 (31.96%) Amazon S3
5 231 (24.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (21.41%) Amazon ECS
7 177 (18.67%) Azure Functions
8 132 (13.92%) GitHub
9 118 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (10.23%) SaaS
13 95 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
13 95 (10.02%) AWS Step Functions
13 95 (10.02%) GCP
14 84 (8.86%) Power Platform
15 80 (8.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
17 74 (7.81%) PaaS
18 72 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.06%) VPN
2 26 (2.74%) Firewall
3 25 (2.64%) Network Security
4 21 (2.22%) Internet
5 17 (1.79%) DNS
6 11 (1.16%) VoIP
7 9 (0.95%) MQTT
8 8 (0.84%) DHCP
8 8 (0.84%) VLAN
9 6 (0.63%) AMQP
9 6 (0.63%) BGP
9 6 (0.63%) IPsec
10 5 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.42%) Broadband
11 4 (0.42%) IPv4
11 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.32%) DSL
12 3 (0.32%) LTE
12 3 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (17.41%) DynamoDB
2 97 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
3 95 (10.02%) NoSQL
4 70 (7.38%) SQL Server
5 65 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
7 47 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (4.64%) Relational Database
10 35 (3.69%) Big Data
10 35 (3.69%) Power BI
11 27 (2.85%) MySQL
12 25 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (2.53%) MongoDB
14 23 (2.43%) Data Lake
15 20 (2.11%) Metadata
16 18 (1.90%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.58%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 177 (18.67%) Git
2 129 (13.61%) Jenkins
3 78 (8.23%) GitLab
4 35 (3.69%) SonarQube
5 30 (3.16%) JIRA
6 26 (2.74%) Maven
7 25 (2.64%) Snyk
8 23 (2.43%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.48%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.27%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.16%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.16%) XCTest
12 10 (1.05%) JUnit
13 9 (0.95%) Mockito
14 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.74%) JMeter
15 7 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 232 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 191 (20.15%) Finance
3 76 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (5.70%) Banking
7 52 (5.49%) Law
8 36 (3.80%) Marketing
9 18 (1.90%) Retail
10 15 (1.58%) Legal
10 15 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.48%) Military
12 13 (1.37%) Aviation
12 13 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.74%) Advertising
14 7 (0.74%) Billing
15 6 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 293 (30.91%) Senior
2 263 (27.74%) Developer
3 139 (14.66%) Lead
4 107 (11.29%) Architect
5 87 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 86 (9.07%) Senior Developer
7 82 (8.65%) Java Developer
8 72 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
10 62 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
11 59 (6.22%) Data Engineer
12 56 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 42 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
15 41 (4.32%) Senior Architect
16 40 (4.22%) AWS Developer
16 40 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
16 40 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (4.01%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (36.81%) Terraform
2 169 (17.83%) Node.js
3 138 (14.56%) .NET
4 135 (14.24%) React
5 119 (12.55%) REST
6 101 (10.65%) AngularJS
7 98 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 86 (9.07%) Spring
9 78 (8.23%) Kafka
10 69 (7.28%) RESTful
11 56 (5.91%) AWS CDK
12 36 (3.80%) PySpark
13 33 (3.48%) Jest
13 33 (3.48%) OAuth
14 32 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.16%) HTML
15 30 (3.16%) OAuth2
16 29 (3.06%) JSON
17 28 (2.95%) Swagger
18 26 (2.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 252 (26.58%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.28%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.27%) AI Agents
7 31 (3.27%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (2.32%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.48%) IoT
13 14 (1.48%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.37%) Blog
14 13 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.38%) Linux
2 38 (4.01%) Windows
3 16 (1.69%) VMS
4 11 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.53%) CentOS
7 5 (0.53%) Debian
7 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (57.17%) CI/CD
2 450 (47.47%) DevOps
3 350 (36.92%) Agile
4 349 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 251 (26.48%) Mentoring
6 249 (26.27%) AI
7 209 (22.05%) Microservices
8 208 (21.94%) Software Engineering
9 188 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (17.83%) Test Automation
11 164 (17.30%) Containerisation
12 162 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 161 (16.98%) Observability
14 149 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 143 (15.08%) Analytics
16 136 (14.35%) Event-Driven
17 135 (14.24%) Cloud Security
18 117 (12.34%) Roadmaps
19 112 (11.81%) Migration
20 103 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 373 (39.35%) Python
2 268 (28.27%) SQL
3 192 (20.25%) Java
3 192 (20.25%) TypeScript
4 155 (16.35%) C#
5 146 (15.40%) JavaScript
6 100 (10.55%) Bash
7 46 (4.85%) Kotlin
8 43 (4.54%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.43%) Bicep
10 34 (3.59%) Groovy
11 31 (3.27%) Go
11 31 (3.27%) PHP
12 29 (3.06%) Ruby
13 19 (2.00%) Perl
14 16 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (1.48%) Rust
16 13 (1.37%) Shell Script
17 11 (1.16%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 163 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 111 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 107 (11.29%) Degree
4 82 (8.65%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 38 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 19 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.74%) OSCP
16 7 (0.74%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.43%) GDPR
2 54 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 53 (5.59%) QA
4 26 (2.74%) GRC
5 17 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.32%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 260 (27.43%) Docker
2 39 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.69%) vSphere
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 192 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 109 (11.50%) Ansible
3 42 (4.43%) Prometheus
4 41 (4.32%) Grafana
5 23 (2.43%) Puppet
6 18 (1.90%) Packer
7 17 (1.79%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.37%) Kibana
9 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.53%) Argo
11 5 (0.53%) Podman
12 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.32%) Scalr
13 3 (0.32%) SCCM
13 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 166 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.64%) Databricks
3 36 (3.80%) Oracle
4 32 (3.38%) OpenAI
4 32 (3.38%) Tenable
5 25 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.64%) Palo Alto
6 23 (2.43%) VMware
7 21 (2.22%) Google
7 21 (2.22%) Splunk
8 18 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.90%) IBM
9 15 (1.58%) SAP
10 14 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.27%) AppDynamics
11 12 (1.27%) HP
11 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.16%) Amplitude
12 11 (1.16%) Braze
12 11 (1.16%) Salesforce