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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 196 194
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -23
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 843 705 1,248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.81% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 5.29% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 566 519 867
10th Percentile £51,625 £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 £94,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

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 23,819 13,319 30,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.81% 34.21% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14,389 9,345 24,398
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -40 324 £82,500 -2.94% 185
North of England +76 277 £75,000 +15.38% 64
Yorkshire +37 150 £75,000 +25.00% 19
North West +56 116 £75,000 +11.11% 35
Midlands +2 108 £55,000 -4.35% 22
East Midlands +32 72 £55,000 - 9
South East -48 66 £66,250 +10.42% 43
South West -57 48 £62,500 +4.17% 33
West Midlands -45 36 £52,500 -14.29% 13
East of England -38 20 £60,050 -29.35% 9
North East -31 11 £62,500 - 10
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 (3.32%) Apache
2 25 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.30%) Confluence
5 11 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.95%) SAS
7 4 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.47%) JBoss
8 3 (0.36%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.83%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 607 (72.00%) AWS
2 413 (48.99%) AWS Lambda
3 303 (35.94%) Amazon S3
4 284 (33.69%) Azure
5 198 (23.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 164 (19.45%) Amazon ECS
7 137 (16.25%) Azure Functions
8 120 (14.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 118 (14.00%) GitHub
10 97 (11.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 95 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (11.15%) Amazon SQS
13 83 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
14 80 (9.49%) SaaS
15 79 (9.37%) Azure DevOps
16 75 (8.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (8.42%) GCP
19 63 (7.47%) Power Platform
20 57 (6.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.49%) Firewall
2 15 (1.78%) Network Security
3 13 (1.54%) DSL
4 9 (1.07%) AMQP
5 7 (0.83%) VPN
6 6 (0.71%) Internet
6 6 (0.71%) MQTT
6 6 (0.71%) VoIP
7 5 (0.59%) DNS
8 4 (0.47%) Broadband
8 4 (0.47%) IPv4
8 4 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) DHCP
10 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (20.88%) DynamoDB
2 84 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 78 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (7.95%) SQL Server
6 46 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.74%) Power BI
9 37 (4.39%) Relational Database
10 36 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (3.20%) MySQL
12 26 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.73%) Big Data
14 18 (2.14%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.02%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.78%) Spark SQL
17 12 (1.42%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (1.30%) Metadata
19 9 (1.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 169 (20.05%) Jenkins
2 148 (17.56%) Git
3 107 (12.69%) GitLab
4 44 (5.22%) SonarQube
5 42 (4.98%) Maven
6 38 (4.51%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.08%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.97%) Snyk
9 24 (2.85%) JIRA
10 14 (1.66%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.66%) XCTest
11 12 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.19%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.95%) JUnit
14 7 (0.83%) JMeter
14 7 (0.83%) MLflow
14 7 (0.83%) Mockito
15 6 (0.71%) Selenium
15 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 204 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 125 (14.83%) Finance
3 62 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.68%) Banking
7 15 (1.78%) Law
8 13 (1.54%) Advertising
9 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.30%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.30%) Publishing
11 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.95%) Legal
12 7 (0.83%) Billing
12 7 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.71%) Retail
13 6 (0.71%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 289 (34.28%) Developer
2 257 (30.49%) Senior
3 110 (13.05%) Architect
4 102 (12.10%) Lead
5 98 (11.63%) Java Developer
6 93 (11.03%) Senior Developer
7 78 (9.25%) Software Engineer
8 71 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (6.76%) AWS Developer
11 50 (5.93%) Data Engineer
12 49 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (5.34%) Senior Architect
14 42 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 41 (4.86%) Security Architect
16 39 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
17 38 (4.51%) Software Developer
18 36 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
19 35 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (20.76%) Node.js
2 174 (20.64%) React
3 126 (14.95%) .NET
4 114 (13.52%) REST
5 112 (13.29%) Spring Boot
6 107 (12.69%) AngularJS
7 89 (10.56%) Spring
8 75 (8.90%) Kafka
9 71 (8.42%) RESTful
10 56 (6.64%) AWS CDK
11 52 (6.17%) HTML
12 43 (5.10%) .NET Core
13 40 (4.74%) Gherkin
13 40 (4.74%) Jest
14 39 (4.63%) CSS
14 39 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (4.39%) PySpark
16 35 (4.15%) JSON
17 29 (3.44%) YAML
18 28 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 179 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.02%) Blockchain
7 17 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.02%) Web3
8 16 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.19%) IoT
11 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.41%) Linux
2 20 (2.37%) Windows
3 15 (1.78%) VMS
4 14 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) CentOS
7 5 (0.59%) Debian
7 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (59.79%) CI/CD
2 396 (46.98%) DevOps
3 307 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 292 (34.64%) Agile
5 197 (23.37%) Microservices
6 195 (23.13%) Mentoring
7 177 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (20.40%) Software Engineering
9 166 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 161 (19.10%) Test Automation
11 159 (18.86%) Containerisation
12 138 (16.37%) AI
12 138 (16.37%) Observability
13 128 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 114 (13.52%) Analytics
15 112 (13.29%) Event-Driven
16 90 (10.68%) DevSecOps
17 88 (10.44%) Cloud Security
18 85 (10.08%) SDLC
19 84 (9.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 327 (38.79%) Python
2 235 (27.88%) SQL
3 217 (25.74%) TypeScript
4 185 (21.95%) Java
5 170 (20.17%) JavaScript
6 126 (14.95%) C#
7 82 (9.73%) Bash
8 48 (5.69%) Groovy
8 48 (5.69%) Kotlin
9 42 (4.98%) Go
10 38 (4.51%) PowerShell
11 26 (3.08%) Bicep
12 21 (2.49%) Rust
13 16 (1.90%) PHP
14 15 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (1.66%) Swift
16 12 (1.42%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.71%) C++
19 5 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.86%) Degree
3 80 (9.49%) AWS Certification
4 76 (9.02%) SC Cleared
5 55 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.74%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 26 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.85%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (2.61%) DV Cleared
12 17 (2.02%) Master's Degree
12 17 (2.02%) OSCP
13 13 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (1.42%) DBS Check
15 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
17 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.51%) QA
3 36 (4.27%) GDPR
4 25 (2.97%) GRC
5 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.59%) NIST
10 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.24%) PMO
12 2 (0.24%) SLA
12 2 (0.24%) WCAG
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 253 (30.01%) Docker
2 31 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.71%) vSphere
5 4 (0.47%) iptables
5 4 (0.47%) Squid
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 269 (31.91%) Terraform
2 181 (21.47%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.20%) Ansible
4 57 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.17%) Grafana
6 33 (3.91%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.37%) Kibana
8 15 (1.78%) Puppet
9 13 (1.54%) Packer
10 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.47%) Podman
11 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.36%) Argo
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 108 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.15%) Databricks
3 30 (3.56%) Tenable
4 25 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.97%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.85%) Oracle
6 16 (1.90%) Splunk
7 14 (1.66%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.66%) Braze
8 13 (1.54%) Google
9 11 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.95%) IBM
13 7 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.71%) VMware
15 5 (0.59%) SaltStack
16 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA