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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 140 193
Rank change year-on-year -76 +53 -30
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 745 827 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.95% 2.21% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 6.00% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 487 617 909
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £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 £105,000 £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 24,834 13,785 29,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.69% 36.88% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,117 10,239 24,266
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +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 £62,373 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.80% +8.47% -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 24 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 24 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 -77 292 £82,500 -10.81% 113
North of England +52 258 £75,000 +15.38% 63
Yorkshire +34 160 £75,000 +30.43% 15
Midlands -16 93 £55,000 - 16
North West +8 91 £75,000 - 44
East Midlands -7 66 £60,000 +6.67% 9
South West -71 42 £62,500 +4.17% 18
South East -126 40 £68,750 +14.58% 44
West Midlands -43 27 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East of England -54 20 £60,100 -29.29% 17
North East -34 7 £95,000 +52.00% 4
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 27 (3.62%) Apache
2 26 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.07%) SAS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) Confluence
7 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.54%) JBoss
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) PlantUML
1 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 560 (75.17%) AWS
2 383 (51.41%) AWS Lambda
3 289 (38.79%) Amazon S3
4 257 (34.50%) Azure
5 175 (23.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 139 (18.66%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (16.78%) GitHub
8 116 (15.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 110 (14.77%) Azure Functions
10 101 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
11 98 (13.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
14 76 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
17 65 (8.72%) GCP
18 64 (8.59%) SaaS
19 58 (7.79%) Power Platform
20 55 (7.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.15%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) DSL
2 13 (1.74%) Network Security
3 10 (1.34%) AMQP
4 8 (1.07%) VPN
5 6 (0.81%) WAN
6 5 (0.67%) Broadband
6 5 (0.67%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) 4G
7 2 (0.27%) 5G
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) Internet
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%) Intranet
8 1 (0.13%) SSL
8 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (22.68%) DynamoDB
2 86 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.74%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (7.38%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (5.10%) Power BI
9 36 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.76%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.82%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.82%) MySQL
13 20 (2.68%) Big Data
14 18 (2.42%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.48%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.48%) Spark SQL
16 10 (1.34%) Metadata
17 7 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 150 (20.13%) Jenkins
2 113 (15.17%) Git
3 102 (13.69%) GitLab
4 48 (6.44%) SonarQube
5 46 (6.17%) Maven
6 43 (5.77%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.22%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.15%) JIRA
9 13 (1.74%) Snyk
10 11 (1.48%) Crashlytics
10 11 (1.48%) XCTest
11 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.07%) MLflow
13 6 (0.81%) JUnit
13 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.54%) Postman
14 4 (0.54%) Selenium
14 4 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 196 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.63%) Finance
3 55 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.36%) Banking
7 19 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.42%) Publishing
9 17 (2.28%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.01%) Advertising
11 14 (1.88%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.61%) Legal
14 10 (1.34%) Law
15 8 (1.07%) Retail
16 7 (0.94%) Billing
16 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 272 (36.51%) Developer
2 210 (28.19%) Senior
3 103 (13.83%) Lead
4 102 (13.69%) Architect
5 86 (11.54%) Java Developer
6 85 (11.41%) Senior Developer
7 68 (9.13%) AWS Developer
8 62 (8.32%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (8.19%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (7.92%) Software Engineer
11 45 (6.04%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 40 (5.37%) Lead Developer
14 39 (5.23%) Python Developer
15 38 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
16 37 (4.97%) Senior Architect
17 36 (4.83%) Cloud Architect
18 33 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
19 32 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
19 32 (4.30%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (24.03%) React
2 157 (21.07%) Node.js
3 110 (14.77%) .NET
4 106 (14.23%) Spring Boot
5 98 (13.15%) AngularJS
6 93 (12.48%) REST
7 80 (10.74%) Spring
8 79 (10.60%) RESTful
9 60 (8.05%) Kafka
10 58 (7.79%) AWS CDK
11 54 (7.25%) HTML
12 47 (6.31%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.91%) Jest
14 43 (5.77%) CSS
15 41 (5.50%) Gherkin
16 40 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
18 29 (3.89%) PySpark
19 25 (3.36%) Web Services
20 24 (3.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.91%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.01%) Blockchain
8 15 (2.01%) Web3
9 13 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.94%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.81%) Reinsurance
16 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.43%) Linux
2 16 (2.15%) VMS
3 15 (2.01%) Windows
4 11 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.94%) 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
1 441 (59.19%) CI/CD
2 362 (48.59%) DevOps
3 281 (37.72%) Agile
4 261 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (25.64%) Microservices
6 181 (24.30%) Mentoring
7 179 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (21.07%) Containerisation
9 154 (20.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 143 (19.19%) Software Engineering
11 126 (16.91%) Observability
11 126 (16.91%) Test Automation
12 122 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (13.96%) Analytics
14 100 (13.42%) AI
15 86 (11.54%) Event-Driven
16 82 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
17 81 (10.87%) TDD
18 72 (9.66%) Computer Science
19 71 (9.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 298 (40.00%) Python
2 212 (28.46%) SQL
3 211 (28.32%) TypeScript
4 175 (23.49%) Java
5 169 (22.68%) JavaScript
6 110 (14.77%) C#
7 74 (9.93%) Bash
8 47 (6.31%) Groovy
9 39 (5.23%) Go
10 38 (5.10%) Kotlin
11 34 (4.56%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.28%) Bicep
13 16 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.88%) Rust
15 11 (1.48%) PHP
15 11 (1.48%) Swift
16 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.67%) C++
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (13.02%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.08%) Degree
3 80 (10.74%) Security Cleared
4 60 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.23%) Azure Certification
6 34 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.22%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 18 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (1.88%) OSCP
13 13 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.61%) DBS Check
14 12 (1.61%) DV Cleared
15 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.17%) QA
2 42 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.49%) GDPR
4 17 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.74%) GRC
5 13 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) NIST
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.54%) 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
1 247 (33.15%) Docker
2 25 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.54%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 229 (30.74%) Terraform
2 176 (23.62%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.80%) Ansible
4 46 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.91%) Grafana
6 41 (5.50%) HP Fortify
7 17 (2.28%) Kibana
8 10 (1.34%) Puppet
9 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.81%) Packer
11 4 (0.54%) 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 92 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.70%) Databricks
3 19 (2.55%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (1.88%) Tenable
6 12 (1.61%) Google
6 12 (1.61%) Oracle
7 11 (1.48%) Amplitude
7 11 (1.48%) Braze
8 9 (1.21%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.07%) IBM
10 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.67%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.67%) Splunk
12 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.54%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.40%) Atlassian