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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 212 210
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -59
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 951 683 962
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.56% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 4.74% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 590 487 600
10th Percentile £51,175 £43,750 £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% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,125 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +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 24,855 14,409 23,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.42% 33.00% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,821 10,262 17,228
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 11 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 11 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 -35 394 £85,000 +13.33% 284
North of England +88 300 £75,000 +15.38% 67
North West +61 135 £70,000 +5.66% 36
Yorkshire +45 122 £80,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands -20 84 £62,500 -3.85% 25
South East -24 83 £65,000 -7.14% 51
South West -56 67 £60,500 +0.83% 35
East Midlands +24 51 £60,000 +60.00% 10
North East -17 43 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -55 33 £62,500 -3.85% 15
East of England -56 17 £59,450 +3.39% 12
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 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.94%) Apache
3 18 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.89%) Confluence
4 15 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.16%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.53%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.63%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 689 (72.45%) AWS
2 448 (47.11%) AWS Lambda
3 340 (35.75%) Azure
4 305 (32.07%) Amazon S3
5 231 (24.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 206 (21.66%) Amazon ECS
7 173 (18.19%) Azure Functions
8 130 (13.67%) GitHub
9 113 (11.88%) Amazon EC2
9 113 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
10 101 (10.62%) AWS Step Functions
11 99 (10.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.30%) SaaS
13 96 (10.09%) GCP
14 89 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
15 83 (8.73%) Amazon SQS
15 83 (8.73%) Power Platform
16 78 (8.20%) Azure Logic Apps
17 75 (7.89%) PaaS
18 70 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.84%) VPN
2 26 (2.73%) Network Security
3 23 (2.42%) Firewall
4 21 (2.21%) Internet
5 14 (1.47%) DNS
6 9 (0.95%) MQTT
6 9 (0.95%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 5 (0.53%) AMQP
8 5 (0.53%) Broadband
8 5 (0.53%) DHCP
8 5 (0.53%) DSL
8 5 (0.53%) VLAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.32%) HTTP
10 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.19%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.09%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.67%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (7.26%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (4.52%) Relational Database
9 38 (4.00%) Power BI
10 35 (3.68%) Big Data
11 28 (2.94%) MySQL
12 24 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.31%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.21%) MongoDB
15 18 (1.89%) Metadata
16 17 (1.79%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.58%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (18.19%) Git
2 136 (14.30%) Jenkins
3 84 (8.83%) GitLab
4 37 (3.89%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.36%) JIRA
6 31 (3.26%) Maven
7 29 (3.05%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.63%) Snyk
9 17 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 16 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.47%) Crashlytics
12 13 (1.37%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.37%) XCTest
13 11 (1.16%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.05%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.84%) JUnit
15 8 (0.84%) Selenium
16 7 (0.74%) JMeter
16 7 (0.74%) Mockito
General
1 230 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 183 (19.24%) Finance
3 77 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.94%) Law
7 45 (4.73%) Banking
8 34 (3.58%) Marketing
9 18 (1.89%) Retail
10 15 (1.58%) Legal
10 15 (1.58%) Military
10 15 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.26%) Aviation
11 12 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.16%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Advertising
14 8 (0.84%) Billing
15 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 299 (31.44%) Senior
2 271 (28.50%) Developer
3 137 (14.41%) Lead
4 107 (11.25%) Architect
5 90 (9.46%) Senior Developer
6 88 (9.25%) Java Developer
7 84 (8.83%) Software Engineer
8 75 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (6.31%) Data Engineer
11 56 (5.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 50 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 49 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (4.63%) AWS Developer
14 44 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
15 43 (4.52%) Senior Architect
16 42 (4.42%) Consultant
16 42 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (17.67%) Node.js
2 147 (15.46%) React
3 138 (14.51%) .NET
4 118 (12.41%) REST
5 105 (11.04%) AngularJS
6 101 (10.62%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.94%) Spring
8 79 (8.31%) Kafka
9 67 (7.05%) RESTful
10 58 (6.10%) AWS CDK
11 37 (3.89%) Jest
12 36 (3.79%) PySpark
13 32 (3.36%) Gherkin
13 32 (3.36%) HTML
14 31 (3.26%) OAuth
15 30 (3.15%) JSON
15 30 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (2.94%) CSS
16 28 (2.94%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.84%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 246 (25.87%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.15%) Onboarding
4 50 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.94%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.47%) IoT
14 13 (1.37%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.26%) Blog
15 12 (1.26%) Podcast
15 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.36%) Linux
2 36 (3.79%) Windows
3 19 (2.00%) VMS
4 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) CentOS
7 4 (0.42%) Debian
7 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (56.47%) CI/CD
2 448 (47.11%) DevOps
3 349 (36.70%) Agile
4 348 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (27.02%) Mentoring
6 246 (25.87%) AI
7 210 (22.08%) Microservices
8 205 (21.56%) Software Engineering
9 189 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (17.77%) Test Automation
11 167 (17.56%) Containerisation
12 161 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 161 (16.93%) Observability
13 158 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 149 (15.67%) Analytics
15 134 (14.09%) Event-Driven
16 133 (13.99%) Cloud Security
17 115 (12.09%) Roadmaps
18 101 (10.62%) Migration
19 99 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 373 (39.22%) Python
2 268 (28.18%) SQL
3 201 (21.14%) TypeScript
4 198 (20.82%) Java
5 153 (16.09%) C#
6 152 (15.98%) JavaScript
7 101 (10.62%) Bash
8 48 (5.05%) Kotlin
9 45 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.31%) Bicep
11 40 (4.21%) Groovy
12 35 (3.68%) Go
13 33 (3.47%) PHP
14 28 (2.94%) Ruby
15 19 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (2.00%) Perl
16 15 (1.58%) Rust
17 13 (1.37%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.37%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.25%) Degree
3 104 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.04%) AWS Certification
5 47 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 44 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (4.52%) Azure Certification
8 39 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 22 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 18 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.95%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.95%) OSCP
16 8 (0.84%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.52%) GDPR
2 53 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 49 (5.15%) QA
4 26 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 267 (28.08%) Docker
2 36 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
Systems Management
1 343 (36.07%) Terraform
2 196 (20.61%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.36%) Ansible
4 44 (4.63%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.31%) Grafana
6 23 (2.42%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.21%) Puppet
8 19 (2.00%) Packer
9 15 (1.58%) Kibana
10 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.53%) Argo
12 5 (0.53%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.21%) SCCM
15 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 157 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.31%) Databricks
3 33 (3.47%) Oracle
4 31 (3.26%) Tenable
5 30 (3.15%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 22 (2.31%) VMware
8 21 (2.21%) Splunk
9 20 (2.10%) Google
10 18 (1.89%) IBM
11 17 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.58%) SAP
13 13 (1.37%) Amplitude
13 13 (1.37%) Braze
13 13 (1.37%) Red Hat
14 12 (1.26%) HP
14 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (1.16%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.05%) Salesforce