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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 134 155
Rank change year-on-year -80 +21 -57
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 598 1,196 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.32% 1.99% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 6.05% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 373 472 808
10th Percentile £49,800 £47,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £68,729 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -8.36% +8.00% -7.40%

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 15,602 19,762 20,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.51% 32.83% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,233 11,867 17,267
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
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 11 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 11 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 -37 304 £75,000 -16.67% 317
North of England +54 119 £68,500 +24.55% 128
South East -95 59 £67,500 +8.00% 82
Yorkshire +37 58 £72,000 +37.14% 39
North West +21 56 £65,000 +13.04% 80
South West -63 50 £60,000 -17.24% 34
Midlands +17 42 £62,500 +13.64% 30
West Midlands +38 37 £62,500 -13.79% 19
East of England -39 29 £57,500 +4.55% 19
North East +8 5 £68,500 +24.55% 9
East Midlands -1 5 - - 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 33 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.18%) Confluence
4 21 (3.51%) Apache
5 9 (1.51%) Headless CMS
5 9 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.00%) JBoss
7 6 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
10 3 (0.50%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) 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 (1.51%) Shopify
2 7 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 443 (74.08%) AWS
2 296 (49.50%) AWS Lambda
3 274 (45.82%) Azure
4 177 (29.60%) Amazon S3
5 109 (18.23%) Azure Functions
6 107 (17.89%) Amazon EC2
6 107 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (14.72%) GitHub
8 87 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
9 76 (12.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 67 (11.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (10.37%) Power Platform
12 58 (9.70%) SaaS
13 54 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
15 50 (8.36%) GCP
16 47 (7.86%) PaaS
17 46 (7.69%) Power Automate
18 42 (7.02%) AWS Step Functions
19 41 (6.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) Internet
2 14 (2.34%) Firewall
2 14 (2.34%) Wireless
3 13 (2.17%) Broadband
4 11 (1.84%) DNS
5 9 (1.51%) SSL
6 8 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.00%) AMQP
7 6 (1.00%) VPN
8 5 (0.84%) DHCP
8 5 (0.84%) Network Security
8 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.84%) VLAN
8 5 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.33%) LAN
9 2 (0.33%) SSH
9 2 (0.33%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) NAS
10 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (18.23%) DynamoDB
2 87 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (11.87%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (9.70%) NoSQL
5 53 (8.86%) SQL Server
6 49 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (7.69%) Relational Database
9 29 (4.85%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.18%) Big Data
10 25 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (4.18%) MySQL
11 23 (3.85%) RDBMS
12 21 (3.51%) Data Lake
12 21 (3.51%) Power BI
13 20 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (2.84%) Hadoop
16 12 (2.01%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 85 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 75 (12.54%) Git
3 38 (6.35%) JIRA
4 31 (5.18%) JUnit
5 28 (4.68%) GitLab
6 25 (4.18%) JMeter
7 23 (3.85%) Mockito
8 18 (3.01%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.84%) Selenium
10 10 (1.67%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.34%) git-flow
12 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.17%) Locust
13 5 (0.84%) Vite
14 4 (0.67%) Mocha
14 4 (0.67%) NUnit
14 4 (0.67%) Postman
14 4 (0.67%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.50%) MSTest
15 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.73%) Finance
3 66 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.36%) Law
6 31 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.18%) Marketing
7 28 (4.68%) Tech for Good
8 23 (3.85%) Publishing
9 22 (3.68%) Health Technology
10 17 (2.84%) Retail
11 16 (2.68%) Banking
12 15 (2.51%) Automotive
13 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.84%) Games
15 10 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.51%) Legal
16 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (37.12%) Developer
2 169 (28.26%) Senior
3 90 (15.05%) Senior Developer
4 73 (12.21%) Lead
5 63 (10.54%) Architect
6 59 (9.87%) Software Engineer
7 57 (9.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (9.20%) Data Engineer
9 51 (8.53%) Java Developer
10 48 (8.03%) Python Developer
11 44 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (5.85%) AWS Developer
13 28 (4.68%) Lead Developer
14 27 (4.52%) Software Developer
15 26 (4.35%) React Developer
16 25 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (4.18%) Senior Python Developer
16 25 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.85%) .NET Developer
17 23 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (26.25%) React
2 105 (17.56%) .NET
3 93 (15.55%) HTML
4 84 (14.05%) REST
5 79 (13.21%) Node.js
6 76 (12.71%) Spring Boot
7 75 (12.54%) Spring
8 72 (12.04%) CSS
9 69 (11.54%) RESTful
10 55 (9.20%) AngularJS
11 45 (7.53%) Kafka
12 39 (6.52%) GraphQL
12 39 (6.52%) Web Services
13 35 (5.85%) .NET Core
14 34 (5.69%) Vue
15 32 (5.35%) JSON
16 31 (5.18%) .NET Framework
16 31 (5.18%) FastAPI
17 30 (5.02%) Apache Camel
18 25 (4.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.07%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.18%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.01%) IoT
7 17 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.51%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.51%) e-Learning
9 15 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.51%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.51%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.02%) Linux
2 14 (2.34%) Unix
2 14 (2.34%) Windows
3 9 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.33%) CentOS
5 2 (0.33%) Debian
5 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (49.00%) CI/CD
2 278 (46.49%) Agile
3 259 (43.31%) DevOps
4 157 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (26.09%) Microservices
6 148 (24.75%) Mentoring
7 142 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 131 (21.91%) Software Engineering
9 111 (18.56%) Containerisation
10 106 (17.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 104 (17.39%) TDD
12 96 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.22%) AI
14 83 (13.88%) Analytics
15 81 (13.55%) Machine Learning
16 80 (13.38%) Scrum
17 73 (12.21%) Data Modelling
17 73 (12.21%) SDLC
18 66 (11.04%) Test Automation
19 63 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 299 (50.00%) Python
2 190 (31.77%) JavaScript
3 150 (25.08%) Java
4 148 (24.75%) TypeScript
5 144 (24.08%) SQL
6 102 (17.06%) C#
7 51 (8.53%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.68%) Bash
9 25 (4.18%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.51%) Scala
11 16 (2.68%) Bicep
12 15 (2.51%) Go
13 10 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.84%) PHP
16 4 (0.67%) C++
16 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.67%) Rust
17 3 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.37%) AWS Certification
2 74 (12.37%) Degree
3 47 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (6.86%) Azure Certification
4 41 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 20 (3.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.34%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.17%) GAWN
15 1 (0.17%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.03%) QA
2 26 (4.35%) GDPR
3 20 (3.34%) SLA
4 16 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.34%) NIST
7 8 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.50%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) CDISC
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 155 (25.92%) Docker
2 18 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.34%) HDFS
4 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) Firmware
6 2 (0.33%) 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
1 155 (25.92%) Terraform
2 145 (24.25%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.52%) Ansible
4 27 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.35%) Kibana
6 25 (4.18%) Grafana
7 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.50%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.50%) Puppet
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.02%) Splunk
3 29 (4.85%) Databricks
4 26 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 26 (4.35%) Oracle
5 23 (3.85%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.84%) Google
7 10 (1.67%) IBM
7 10 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.51%) Apple
8 9 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.17%) SAP
10 6 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.00%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.84%) Aruba
11 5 (0.84%) HP
11 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.84%) Veeam
12 4 (0.67%) Citrix