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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 129 154
Rank change year-on-year -80 +25 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 588 1,252 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.27% 2.04% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 6.07% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 367 533 799
10th Percentile £50,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £69,692 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +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 15,963 20,614 20,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.45% 33.63% 43.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,431 12,633 16,928
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,280 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -36 301 £75,500 -16.11% 343
North of England +60 121 £68,500 +21.78% 150
Yorkshire +43 61 £75,000 +42.86% 44
North West +39 56 £65,000 +6.12% 98
South East -98 54 £67,500 +3.85% 86
South West -69 48 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Midlands +25 44 £62,500 +13.64% 31
West Midlands +40 36 £62,500 -13.79% 17
East of England -40 26 £57,500 - 23
East Midlands +5 8 £65,000 +91.18% 14
North East +15 4 £68,500 +19.13% 8
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 34 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.61%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.91%) Confluence
4 21 (3.57%) Apache
5 9 (1.53%) Headless CMS
5 9 (1.53%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.85%) JBoss
9 3 (0.51%) CMS
9 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
11 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Shopify
2 8 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 431 (73.30%) AWS
2 285 (48.47%) AWS Lambda
3 274 (46.60%) Azure
4 175 (29.76%) Amazon S3
5 113 (19.22%) Azure Functions
6 101 (17.18%) Amazon ECS
7 99 (16.84%) Amazon EC2
8 91 (15.48%) GitHub
9 84 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (12.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 68 (11.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (10.71%) Power Platform
13 61 (10.37%) SaaS
14 59 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
15 56 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
16 49 (8.33%) GCP
17 48 (8.16%) Power Automate
18 46 (7.82%) PaaS
19 42 (7.14%) PowerApps
20 40 (6.80%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.72%) Internet
2 15 (2.55%) Firewall
3 13 (2.21%) Wireless
4 9 (1.53%) DNS
5 8 (1.36%) Broadband
5 8 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.19%) Network Security
6 7 (1.19%) SSL
7 6 (1.02%) AMQP
7 6 (1.02%) VPN
8 5 (0.85%) DHCP
8 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.85%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.85%) VLAN
8 5 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.68%) WAN
10 2 (0.34%) LAN
11 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.17%) NAS
11 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.01%) DynamoDB
2 86 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 54 (9.18%) SQL Server
6 50 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.65%) Relational Database
9 27 (4.59%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.25%) Big Data
11 24 (4.08%) MySQL
12 23 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (3.91%) RDBMS
13 22 (3.74%) Data Lake
13 22 (3.74%) Power BI
14 18 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (3.06%) Hadoop
15 16 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
17 10 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 82 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 74 (12.59%) Git
3 35 (5.95%) JIRA
4 28 (4.76%) JUnit
5 25 (4.25%) GitLab
5 25 (4.25%) JMeter
6 22 (3.74%) Mockito
7 18 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.53%) Selenium
10 8 (1.36%) git-flow
11 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.02%) Locust
12 5 (0.85%) Vite
13 4 (0.68%) Mocha
13 4 (0.68%) NUnit
13 4 (0.68%) Postman
14 3 (0.51%) MLflow
14 3 (0.51%) MSTest
14 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.54%) Finance
3 64 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.80%) Law
6 32 (5.44%) Tech for Good
7 28 (4.76%) Marketing
8 27 (4.59%) Publishing
9 26 (4.42%) Health Technology
9 26 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.55%) Retail
11 14 (2.38%) Automotive
12 13 (2.21%) Banking
12 13 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.53%) Legal
16 8 (1.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 220 (37.41%) Developer
2 157 (26.70%) Senior
3 85 (14.46%) Senior Developer
4 72 (12.24%) Lead
5 66 (11.22%) Architect
6 57 (9.69%) Data Engineer
7 55 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (9.18%) Software Engineer
9 51 (8.67%) Python Developer
10 47 (7.99%) Java Developer
11 41 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (6.29%) AWS Developer
13 30 (5.10%) Lead Developer
13 30 (5.10%) Software Developer
14 27 (4.59%) React Developer
15 25 (4.25%) .NET Developer
15 25 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (4.25%) Senior Python Developer
15 25 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (3.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (26.02%) React
2 106 (18.03%) .NET
3 93 (15.82%) HTML
4 78 (13.27%) REST
5 75 (12.76%) Node.js
6 72 (12.24%) Spring
6 72 (12.24%) Spring Boot
7 71 (12.07%) CSS
7 71 (12.07%) RESTful
8 52 (8.84%) AngularJS
9 42 (7.14%) Kafka
10 37 (6.29%) .NET Core
11 34 (5.78%) Web Services
12 33 (5.61%) Vue
13 31 (5.27%) .NET Framework
13 31 (5.27%) FastAPI
13 31 (5.27%) GraphQL
14 29 (4.93%) Apache Camel
14 29 (4.93%) JSON
15 25 (4.25%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 134 (22.79%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.89%) IoT
5 17 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.55%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.21%) e-Learning
7 13 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.12%) Linux
2 15 (2.55%) Unix
2 15 (2.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.51%) VMS
6 2 (0.34%) CentOS
6 2 (0.34%) Debian
6 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 272 (46.26%) Agile
3 254 (43.20%) DevOps
4 152 (25.85%) Microservices
5 151 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 140 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 122 (20.75%) Software Engineering
8 110 (18.71%) Containerisation
9 104 (17.69%) TDD
10 103 (17.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 99 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (14.97%) AI
13 81 (13.78%) Analytics
13 81 (13.78%) Scrum
14 76 (12.93%) Machine Learning
15 75 (12.76%) Data Modelling
16 72 (12.24%) SDLC
17 62 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
18 60 (10.20%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 296 (50.34%) Python
2 191 (32.48%) JavaScript
3 143 (24.32%) TypeScript
4 142 (24.15%) SQL
5 141 (23.98%) Java
6 106 (18.03%) C#
7 50 (8.50%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.93%) Bash
9 25 (4.25%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.57%) Scala
11 17 (2.89%) Bicep
12 15 (2.55%) Go
13 12 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.85%) PHP
16 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.51%) C++
17 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.51%) R
17 3 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 82 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.41%) AWS Certification
3 71 (12.07%) Degree
4 46 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 38 (6.46%) SC Cleared
7 34 (5.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (3.91%) DV Cleared
10 22 (3.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.36%) SnowPro
13 6 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.34%) MCP
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.20%) QA
2 26 (4.42%) GDPR
3 19 (3.23%) SLA
4 16 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.85%) NIST
8 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.17%) CDISC
10 1 (0.17%) DICOM
10 1 (0.17%) GAAP
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 156 (26.53%) Docker
2 19 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.36%) HDFS
4 6 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 2 (0.34%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.17%) iptables
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (25.85%) Terraform
2 139 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 37 (6.29%) Ansible
4 27 (4.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.42%) Kibana
6 25 (4.25%) Grafana
7 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.51%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Nagios
10 1 (0.17%) Podman
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.80%) Splunk
3 28 (4.76%) Databricks
4 26 (4.42%) Dynatrace
5 25 (4.25%) Oracle
6 22 (3.74%) Atlassian
7 17 (2.89%) Google
8 9 (1.53%) Apple
8 9 (1.53%) IBM
8 9 (1.53%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.36%) SAP
10 6 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.02%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.85%) Aruba
11 5 (0.85%) HP
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) Veeam
12 4 (0.68%) Citrix