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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 139 198
Rank change year-on-year -74 +59 -33
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 751 847 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.96% 2.27% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 6.14% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 489 616 907
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 24,796 13,786 29,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.84% 36.90% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,063 10,239 24,149
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,549 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -84 293 £82,500 -10.81% 130
North of England +54 264 £75,000 +15.38% 76
Yorkshire +38 166 £75,000 +30.43% 18
Midlands -13 91 £55,000 -2.22% 15
North West +4 90 £75,000 - 52
East Midlands -9 64 £60,000 +6.67% 7
South West -70 43 £62,500 +4.17% 22
South East -131 42 £68,750 +14.58% 43
West Midlands -52 27 £50,000 -11.11% 8
East of England -53 19 £60,100 -29.29% 18
North East -36 8 £95,000 +52.00% 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 26 (3.46%) Apache
1 26 (3.46%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.60%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.07%) SAS
6 4 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.53%) CMS
6 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.53%) JBoss
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
1 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 569 (75.77%) AWS
2 387 (51.53%) AWS Lambda
3 292 (38.88%) Amazon S3
4 258 (34.35%) Azure
5 177 (23.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 143 (19.04%) Amazon ECS
7 130 (17.31%) GitHub
8 115 (15.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 107 (14.25%) Azure Functions
10 102 (13.58%) Amazon SQS
11 97 (12.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 85 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
13 78 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
15 73 (9.72%) Azure Logic Apps
16 69 (9.19%) Amazon EKS
17 67 (8.92%) GCP
18 62 (8.26%) SaaS
19 59 (7.86%) Power Platform
20 56 (7.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.13%) Firewall
2 13 (1.73%) DSL
2 13 (1.73%) Network Security
3 11 (1.46%) AMQP
4 8 (1.07%) VPN
5 6 (0.80%) WAN
6 5 (0.67%) Broadband
6 5 (0.67%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.13%) 4G
8 1 (0.13%) 5G
8 1 (0.13%) Internet
8 1 (0.13%) Intranet
8 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (22.37%) DynamoDB
2 87 (11.58%) NoSQL
3 82 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 41 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (4.93%) Power BI
10 28 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 24 (3.20%) MySQL
12 22 (2.93%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.80%) Big Data
14 19 (2.53%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.46%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.46%) Metadata
16 10 (1.33%) Spark SQL
17 8 (1.07%) Hadoop
17 8 (1.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 151 (20.11%) Jenkins
2 110 (14.65%) Git
3 102 (13.58%) GitLab
4 48 (6.39%) SonarQube
5 46 (6.13%) Maven
6 44 (5.86%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.20%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.00%) JIRA
9 13 (1.73%) Snyk
10 10 (1.33%) Crashlytics
10 10 (1.33%) XCTest
11 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.07%) MLflow
13 7 (0.93%) JUnit
14 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.53%) Mockito
15 4 (0.53%) Selenium
15 4 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 199 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.38%) Finance
3 54 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.33%) Banking
7 20 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.53%) Publishing
9 17 (2.26%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.00%) Tech for Good
11 14 (1.86%) Advertising
12 12 (1.60%) Legal
13 10 (1.33%) Law
14 8 (1.07%) Retail
15 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.80%) Billing
17 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 281 (37.42%) Developer
2 207 (27.56%) Senior
3 105 (13.98%) Architect
3 105 (13.98%) Lead
4 87 (11.58%) Java Developer
5 85 (11.32%) Senior Developer
6 70 (9.32%) AWS Developer
7 65 (8.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 61 (8.12%) Software Engineer
9 60 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
10 44 (5.86%) Lead Developer
10 44 (5.86%) Python Developer
11 43 (5.73%) Data Engineer
12 41 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 37 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
13 37 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 36 (4.79%) Senior Architect
15 33 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.39%) React Developer
16 32 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (23.97%) React
2 157 (20.91%) Node.js
3 111 (14.78%) .NET
4 108 (14.38%) Spring Boot
5 101 (13.45%) AngularJS
6 92 (12.25%) REST
7 82 (10.92%) Spring
8 81 (10.79%) RESTful
9 63 (8.39%) HTML
10 62 (8.26%) Kafka
11 57 (7.59%) AWS CDK
12 51 (6.79%) CSS
13 47 (6.26%) .NET Core
14 45 (5.99%) Jest
15 42 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (5.46%) Gherkin
17 31 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (3.73%) PySpark
19 25 (3.33%) JSON
19 25 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 157 (20.91%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.00%) Blockchain
7 15 (2.00%) Web3
8 13 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.26%) Linux
2 16 (2.13%) VMS
3 15 (2.00%) Windows
4 10 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.67%) CentOS
6 5 (0.67%) Debian
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 366 (48.74%) DevOps
3 287 (38.22%) Agile
4 265 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (25.97%) Microservices
6 190 (25.30%) Mentoring
7 180 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (21.30%) Containerisation
9 155 (20.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 147 (19.57%) Software Engineering
11 124 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (16.51%) Observability
11 124 (16.51%) Test Automation
12 104 (13.85%) Analytics
13 102 (13.58%) AI
14 88 (11.72%) Event-Driven
15 83 (11.05%) Continuous Integration
16 82 (10.92%) TDD
17 74 (9.85%) Data Modelling
18 72 (9.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 302 (40.21%) Python
2 214 (28.50%) SQL
3 212 (28.23%) TypeScript
4 180 (23.97%) Java
5 178 (23.70%) JavaScript
6 110 (14.65%) C#
7 74 (9.85%) Bash
8 47 (6.26%) Groovy
9 39 (5.19%) Go
10 37 (4.93%) Kotlin
11 33 (4.39%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (2.00%) Bicep
14 14 (1.86%) Rust
15 11 (1.46%) PHP
16 10 (1.33%) Swift
17 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.67%) Perl
18 5 (0.67%) Scala
18 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (13.32%) AWS Certification
2 90 (11.98%) Degree
3 83 (11.05%) Security Cleared
4 62 (8.26%) SC Cleared
5 60 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.06%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.86%) OSCP
14 13 (1.73%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.73%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.39%) QA
2 40 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.33%) GDPR
4 17 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.73%) GRC
5 13 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) NIST
9 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 254 (33.82%) Docker
2 24 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.53%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 234 (31.16%) Terraform
2 178 (23.70%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.72%) Ansible
4 47 (6.26%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.99%) Grafana
6 41 (5.46%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.40%) Kibana
8 10 (1.33%) Puppet
9 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.80%) Packer
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.40%) Nagios
12 3 (0.40%) Scalr
13 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.53%) Databricks
3 19 (2.53%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (1.86%) Tenable
6 12 (1.60%) Google
6 12 (1.60%) Oracle
7 10 (1.33%) Amplitude
7 10 (1.33%) Braze
8 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.07%) IBM
10 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.80%) Splunk
12 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.67%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.40%) Atlassian