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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 98 184
Rank change year-on-year -114 +86 -19
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 688 1,139 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 3.11% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 8.24% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 447 601 911
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.74% +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 22,900 13,830 28,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 37.77% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,351 10,166 23,917
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -90 280 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +37 233 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +49 161 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -25 79 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West 0 69 £72,966 +6.71% 47
East Midlands -9 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -121 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -176 31 £67,500 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -44 24 £51,875 -5.68% 18
East of England -77 19 £60,100 -27.15% 20
North East -25 3 £51,000 -18.40% 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 28 (4.07%) Apache
1 28 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.03%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.31%) SAS
6 6 (0.87%) Confluence
7 4 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.58%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 544 (79.07%) AWS
2 362 (52.62%) AWS Lambda
3 277 (40.26%) Amazon S3
4 242 (35.17%) Azure
5 170 (24.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 130 (18.90%) GitHub
7 129 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
8 105 (15.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 101 (14.68%) Azure Functions
10 91 (13.23%) Amazon SQS
11 89 (12.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 83 (12.06%) GitHub Actions
13 74 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 68 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
16 67 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
17 65 (9.45%) GCP
18 58 (8.43%) SaaS
19 57 (8.28%) Power Platform
20 51 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.03%) Firewall
2 13 (1.89%) DSL
3 11 (1.60%) AMQP
3 11 (1.60%) Network Security
4 8 (1.16%) VPN
5 6 (0.87%) Broadband
6 5 (0.73%) WAN
7 4 (0.58%) DNS
8 3 (0.44%) SSL
9 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.15%) 4G
10 1 (0.15%) 5G
10 1 (0.15%) DHCP
10 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.15%) VLAN
10 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (21.37%) DynamoDB
2 84 (12.21%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.34%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 42 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (5.23%) Power BI
8 35 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (4.22%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (3.63%) MySQL
13 21 (3.05%) Big Data
14 20 (2.91%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.62%) MongoDB
16 10 (1.45%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.45%) Metadata
17 9 (1.31%) Hadoop
18 8 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
18 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 146 (21.22%) Jenkins
2 98 (14.24%) GitLab
3 96 (13.95%) Git
4 44 (6.40%) Cypress.io
5 43 (6.25%) Maven
6 41 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.34%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.89%) JIRA
9 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.31%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.31%) MLflow
10 9 (1.31%) XCTest
11 8 (1.16%) JUnit
12 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.73%) git-flow
14 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.58%) JMeter
14 4 (0.58%) Mockito
14 4 (0.58%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 185 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.39%) Finance
3 52 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 22 (3.20%) Banking
5 19 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (2.76%) Publishing
6 18 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.33%) Health Technology
7 16 (2.33%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.89%) Advertising
10 10 (1.45%) Law
10 10 (1.45%) Legal
11 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.73%) Retail
13 4 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 276 (40.12%) Developer
2 168 (24.42%) Senior
3 92 (13.37%) Lead
4 85 (12.35%) Architect
5 84 (12.21%) Java Developer
6 78 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 68 (9.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (9.74%) AWS Developer
9 59 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (7.85%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.98%) Python Developer
12 39 (5.67%) Data Engineer
12 39 (5.67%) Lead Developer
13 35 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 33 (4.80%) React Developer
15 33 (4.80%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.51%) AWS Architect
17 30 (4.36%) .NET Developer
18 27 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (24.85%) React
2 147 (21.37%) Node.js
3 105 (15.26%) .NET
3 105 (15.26%) Spring Boot
4 91 (13.23%) AngularJS
5 79 (11.48%) Spring
6 73 (10.61%) REST
7 70 (10.17%) HTML
7 70 (10.17%) RESTful
8 60 (8.72%) CSS
9 56 (8.14%) AWS CDK
10 50 (7.27%) Kafka
11 49 (7.12%) .NET Core
12 44 (6.40%) Jest
13 40 (5.81%) Gherkin
14 30 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (3.78%) Flask
16 25 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
16 25 (3.63%) Vue
17 24 (3.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 145 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.34%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.76%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.89%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.89%) Web3
9 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.65%) Linux
2 17 (2.47%) Windows
3 16 (2.33%) VMS
4 9 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.73%) CentOS
5 5 (0.73%) Debian
5 5 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.73%) Unix
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 335 (48.69%) DevOps
3 273 (39.68%) Agile
4 237 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 186 (27.03%) Mentoring
6 180 (26.16%) Microservices
7 164 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (22.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 138 (20.06%) Containerisation
10 132 (19.19%) Software Engineering
11 120 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (15.26%) Observability
13 96 (13.95%) Test Automation
14 92 (13.37%) Analytics
15 79 (11.48%) AI
16 78 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
17 74 (10.76%) TDD
18 70 (10.17%) Data Modelling
19 69 (10.03%) Scrum
20 68 (9.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 278 (40.41%) Python
2 192 (27.91%) TypeScript
3 191 (27.76%) SQL
4 185 (26.89%) JavaScript
5 172 (25.00%) Java
6 104 (15.12%) C#
7 74 (10.76%) Bash
8 40 (5.81%) Groovy
9 37 (5.38%) Go
10 35 (5.09%) Kotlin
11 33 (4.80%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (2.03%) Rust
14 10 (1.45%) Bicep
14 10 (1.45%) PHP
15 9 (1.31%) Swift
16 6 (0.87%) C++
16 6 (0.87%) Scala
16 6 (0.87%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 103 (14.97%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.08%) Degree
3 77 (11.19%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (7.56%) SC Cleared
6 35 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 32 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 25 (3.63%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (2.03%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.03%) Master's Degree
13 14 (2.03%) OSCP
14 13 (1.89%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.96%) QA
2 35 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.49%) GDPR
4 14 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.03%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 234 (34.01%) Docker
2 16 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) iptables
5 3 (0.44%) Firmware
5 3 (0.44%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 211 (30.67%) Terraform
2 153 (22.24%) Kubernetes
3 64 (9.30%) Ansible
4 44 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.25%) Grafana
6 40 (5.81%) HP Fortify
7 16 (2.33%) Kibana
8 10 (1.45%) Puppet
9 8 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.44%) Nagios
12 2 (0.29%) Packer
12 2 (0.29%) Scalr
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.22%) Databricks
3 11 (1.60%) Google
4 9 (1.31%) Amplitude
4 9 (1.31%) Oracle
4 9 (1.31%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.87%) Splunk
8 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.73%) Pega
8 5 (0.73%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.73%) WSO2
9 4 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.58%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.58%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.29%) Apple
10 2 (0.29%) IBM