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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 113 170
Rank change year-on-year -85 +57 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 590 1,236 888
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.12% 2.56% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 7.02% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 377 535 685
10th Percentile £51,400 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £76,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +12.59% -10.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,750 £97,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% -10.00%

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 18,546 17,615 19,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.36% 36.53% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,419 16,685
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -67 272 £76,000 -17.84% 128
North of England +65 164 £75,000 +30.43% 104
Yorkshire +50 113 £75,000 +42.18% 45
Midlands +8 56 £60,000 +9.09% 51
North West +15 47 £70,466 +17.44% 48
South East -125 43 £67,500 +10.20% 137
South West -100 38 £62,500 -9.09% 64
West Midlands +9 33 £60,000 +9.09% 21
East Midlands +1 23 £65,000 +18.18% 29
East of England -49 17 £57,500 -8.00% 52
North East +2 4 £68,500 +9.60% 11
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 32 (5.42%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.56%) Apache
4 16 (2.71%) Confluence
5 14 (2.37%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.53%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.19%) Tomcat
9 6 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.34%) nginx
12 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.17%) CMS
12 1 (0.17%) JBoss
12 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 449 (76.10%) AWS
2 299 (50.68%) AWS Lambda
3 247 (41.86%) Azure
4 215 (36.44%) Amazon S3
5 107 (18.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 97 (16.44%) GitHub
7 95 (16.10%) Azure Functions
8 92 (15.59%) Amazon ECS
9 79 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (11.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (11.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 67 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
14 63 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
15 57 (9.66%) SaaS
16 55 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 49 (8.31%) Power Platform
18 48 (8.14%) GCP
18 48 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (6.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.86%) Firewall
2 10 (1.69%) AMQP
2 10 (1.69%) Internet
3 8 (1.36%) Broadband
4 7 (1.19%) Network Security
4 7 (1.19%) SSL
4 7 (1.19%) VPN
4 7 (1.19%) Wireless
5 4 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.68%) WAN
6 3 (0.51%) DNS
6 3 (0.51%) DSL
6 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.17%) NAS
7 1 (0.17%) SAN
7 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (16.78%) DynamoDB
2 77 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (11.19%) NoSQL
5 48 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.80%) SQL Server
7 45 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (6.95%) Relational Database
9 22 (3.73%) MongoDB
10 21 (3.56%) Big Data
10 21 (3.56%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (3.39%) MySQL
12 19 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (2.88%) Power BI
14 16 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.71%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.37%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 98 (16.61%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.75%) Git
3 48 (8.14%) GitLab
4 28 (4.75%) Cypress.io
5 23 (3.90%) JIRA
6 18 (3.05%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.88%) JUnit
7 17 (2.88%) Maven
8 16 (2.71%) JMeter
9 13 (2.20%) Mockito
10 11 (1.86%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.19%) MLflow
12 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.85%) git-flow
13 5 (0.85%) Vite
14 4 (0.68%) Mocha
14 4 (0.68%) NUnit
14 4 (0.68%) Postman
14 4 (0.68%) Selenium
14 4 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 170 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.90%) Finance
3 55 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.25%) Tech for Good
6 29 (4.92%) Publishing
7 27 (4.58%) Health Technology
8 19 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.71%) Law
10 15 (2.54%) Banking
10 15 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.03%) Legal
12 9 (1.53%) Advertising
12 9 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.53%) Retail
13 7 (1.19%) Automotive
13 7 (1.19%) Billing
14 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (40.00%) Developer
2 139 (23.56%) Senior
3 88 (14.92%) Architect
4 83 (14.07%) Lead
5 67 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 61 (10.34%) AWS Developer
7 56 (9.49%) Python Developer
8 51 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 50 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (8.14%) Java Developer
11 43 (7.29%) Data Engineer
12 42 (7.12%) Software Engineer
13 40 (6.78%) Lead Developer
14 38 (6.44%) Software Developer
15 36 (6.10%) React Developer
16 34 (5.76%) .NET Developer
17 29 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
18 24 (4.07%) Lead Python Developer
18 24 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (27.12%) React
2 102 (17.29%) Node.js
3 101 (17.12%) .NET
4 81 (13.73%) HTML
4 81 (13.73%) Spring Boot
5 77 (13.05%) Spring
6 73 (12.37%) REST
6 73 (12.37%) RESTful
7 66 (11.19%) AngularJS
8 62 (10.51%) CSS
9 40 (6.78%) AWS CDK
10 39 (6.61%) .NET Core
11 37 (6.27%) Kafka
12 32 (5.42%) Vue
13 27 (4.58%) Web Services
14 26 (4.41%) Jest
15 25 (4.24%) FastAPI
16 24 (4.07%) .NET Framework
16 24 (4.07%) Blazor
16 24 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 137 (23.22%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.56%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.36%) IoT
11 8 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.44%) Linux
2 15 (2.54%) Unix
2 15 (2.54%) Windows
3 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.85%) VMS
5 3 (0.51%) CentOS
5 3 (0.51%) Debian
5 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (55.42%) CI/CD
2 265 (44.92%) DevOps
3 248 (42.03%) Agile
4 171 (28.98%) Microservices
5 165 (27.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 162 (27.46%) Mentoring
7 139 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (18.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 106 (17.97%) Containerisation
10 104 (17.63%) Software Engineering
11 103 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (15.42%) TDD
13 88 (14.92%) Scrum
14 85 (14.41%) AI
15 77 (13.05%) SDLC
16 70 (11.86%) Data Modelling
16 70 (11.86%) Migration
17 67 (11.36%) Computer Science
18 66 (11.19%) Observability
19 64 (10.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 257 (43.56%) Python
2 194 (32.88%) JavaScript
3 162 (27.46%) TypeScript
4 145 (24.58%) Java
5 142 (24.07%) SQL
6 111 (18.81%) C#
7 41 (6.95%) Bash
8 31 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.05%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.71%) Groovy
11 15 (2.54%) Go
11 15 (2.54%) Scala
12 11 (1.86%) Bicep
13 8 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.85%) R
14 5 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.68%) C++
15 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 110 (18.64%) AWS Certification
2 82 (13.90%) Degree
3 70 (11.86%) Security Cleared
4 56 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (7.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (7.63%) Azure Certification
7 39 (6.61%) SC Cleared
8 38 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (5.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 21 (3.56%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.19%) MCP
15 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.85%) SnowPro
17 4 (0.68%) OSCP
18 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.00%) QA
2 21 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.22%) GDPR
4 14 (2.37%) SLA
5 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.19%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.85%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) CDISC
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 172 (29.15%) Docker
2 15 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.36%) HDFS
3 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) iptables
4 1 (0.17%) vCloud
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 158 (26.78%) Terraform
2 123 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.95%) Ansible
4 29 (4.92%) Grafana
5 27 (4.58%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.56%) Kibana
7 17 (2.88%) HP Fortify
8 6 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.68%) Puppet
10 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.90%) Databricks
3 19 (3.22%) Splunk
4 17 (2.88%) Atlassian
4 17 (2.88%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.71%) Google
6 13 (2.20%) Oracle
7 10 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.53%) IBM
8 9 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.02%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.68%) Pega
11 4 (0.68%) WSO2
11 4 (0.68%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
13 2 (0.34%) VMware