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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 221 214
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 -59
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 958 664 942
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.52% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.60% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 597 466 587
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +0.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,692 14,426 23,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.98% 32.96% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 16,841 10,189 16,862
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -31 393 £85,000 +13.33% 255
North of England +101 305 £75,000 +15.38% 86
North West +56 136 £70,000 +3.70% 45
Yorkshire +51 121 £80,000 +33.33% 23
Midlands -7 85 £62,500 +4.17% 22
South East -13 84 £65,000 -7.14% 35
South West -45 67 £61,500 +0.41% 30
East Midlands +27 50 £60,000 +60.00% 8
North East -11 48 £67,500 -6.90% 18
West Midlands -42 35 £62,500 - 14
East of England -53 18 £59,450 +1.19% 16
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 36 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.82%) Apache
3 17 (1.77%) Confluence
4 16 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.15%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 690 (72.03%) AWS
2 449 (46.87%) AWS Lambda
3 345 (36.01%) Azure
4 306 (31.94%) Amazon S3
5 236 (24.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 206 (21.50%) Amazon ECS
7 178 (18.58%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.67%) GitHub
9 117 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
11 100 (10.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (10.33%) SaaS
13 96 (10.02%) AWS Step Functions
13 96 (10.02%) GCP
14 94 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
15 86 (8.98%) Power Platform
16 82 (8.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 81 (8.46%) Amazon SQS
18 75 (7.83%) PaaS
19 71 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.03%) VPN
2 25 (2.61%) Firewall
2 25 (2.61%) Network Security
3 21 (2.19%) Internet
4 16 (1.67%) DNS
5 10 (1.04%) VoIP
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
7 7 (0.73%) DHCP
7 7 (0.73%) VLAN
8 6 (0.63%) AMQP
8 6 (0.63%) BGP
8 6 (0.63%) IPsec
9 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.42%) Broadband
10 4 (0.42%) DSL
10 4 (0.42%) IPv4
10 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.31%) HTTP
11 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (17.54%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.02%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (9.71%) NoSQL
4 71 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (4.49%) Relational Database
11 37 (3.86%) Power BI
12 36 (3.76%) Big Data
13 27 (2.82%) MySQL
14 24 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (2.40%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.30%) MongoDB
17 20 (2.09%) Metadata
18 18 (1.88%) Hadoop
19 15 (1.57%) Delta Lake
19 15 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (18.06%) Git
2 133 (13.88%) Jenkins
3 83 (8.66%) GitLab
4 37 (3.86%) SonarQube
5 30 (3.13%) JIRA
6 27 (2.82%) Maven
7 25 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.61%) Snyk
8 15 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 14 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.36%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.25%) XCTest
12 11 (1.15%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.94%) JUnit
14 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.84%) Mockito
15 7 (0.73%) JMeter
15 7 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 237 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 189 (19.73%) Finance
3 77 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 65 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (5.53%) Banking
7 52 (5.43%) Law
8 36 (3.76%) Marketing
9 18 (1.88%) Retail
10 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.46%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Aviation
12 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
14 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.73%) Advertising
15 7 (0.73%) Billing
16 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 297 (31.00%) Senior
2 267 (27.87%) Developer
3 140 (14.61%) Lead
4 109 (11.38%) Architect
5 88 (9.19%) Senior Developer
6 86 (8.98%) Software Engineer
7 84 (8.77%) Java Developer
8 74 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 70 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 59 (6.16%) Data Engineer
12 56 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (4.59%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
16 42 (4.38%) Senior Architect
17 41 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
18 40 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
18 40 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
19 39 (4.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (17.64%) Node.js
2 140 (14.61%) React
3 139 (14.51%) .NET
4 119 (12.42%) REST
5 101 (10.54%) AngularJS
6 98 (10.23%) Spring Boot
7 84 (8.77%) Spring
8 78 (8.14%) Kafka
9 67 (6.99%) RESTful
10 57 (5.95%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.76%) PySpark
12 34 (3.55%) Jest
13 32 (3.34%) OAuth
14 31 (3.24%) HTML
14 31 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (3.03%) JSON
15 29 (3.03%) OAuth2
16 28 (2.92%) Gherkin
17 27 (2.82%) CSS
17 27 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 252 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.10%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.09%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.46%) IoT
15 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.36%) Blog
16 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.25%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.31%) Linux
2 37 (3.86%) Windows
3 18 (1.88%) VMS
4 12 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.52%) CentOS
7 5 (0.52%) Debian
7 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (56.78%) CI/CD
2 454 (47.39%) DevOps
3 353 (36.85%) Agile
4 352 (36.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (26.51%) Mentoring
6 248 (25.89%) AI
7 208 (21.71%) Microservices
7 208 (21.71%) Software Engineering
8 193 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (17.85%) Test Automation
10 165 (17.22%) Containerisation
11 162 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (16.60%) Observability
13 153 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 146 (15.24%) Analytics
15 136 (14.20%) Cloud Security
16 135 (14.09%) Event-Driven
17 118 (12.32%) Roadmaps
18 112 (11.69%) Migration
19 103 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 377 (39.35%) Python
2 270 (28.18%) SQL
3 193 (20.15%) Java
3 193 (20.15%) TypeScript
4 156 (16.28%) C#
5 148 (15.45%) JavaScript
6 103 (10.75%) Bash
7 47 (4.91%) Kotlin
8 45 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.38%) Bicep
10 36 (3.76%) Groovy
11 33 (3.44%) Go
12 31 (3.24%) PHP
13 29 (3.03%) Ruby
14 19 (1.98%) Perl
15 18 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (1.57%) Rust
17 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
18 12 (1.25%) Swift
19 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 108 (11.27%) Degree
4 84 (8.77%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 39 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.71%) Master's Degree
11 20 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.84%) OSCP
16 7 (0.73%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.47%) GDPR
2 55 (5.74%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.43%) QA
4 26 (2.71%) GRC
5 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.31%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 260 (27.14%) Docker
2 38 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.67%) vSphere
6 12 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 352 (36.74%) Terraform
2 194 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 111 (11.59%) Ansible
4 42 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.18%) Grafana
6 23 (2.40%) Puppet
7 19 (1.98%) HP Fortify
8 18 (1.88%) Packer
9 13 (1.36%) Kibana
10 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.31%) Scalr
14 3 (0.31%) SCCM
14 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 165 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.59%) Databricks
3 35 (3.65%) Oracle
4 32 (3.34%) Tenable
5 31 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.61%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.40%) VMware
8 21 (2.19%) Google
8 21 (2.19%) Splunk
9 18 (1.88%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.88%) IBM
10 15 (1.57%) SAP
11 14 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.25%) Amplitude
12 12 (1.25%) AppDynamics
12 12 (1.25%) Braze
12 12 (1.25%) HP
12 12 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.15%) Salesforce