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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 207 206
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 -43
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 921 700 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.61% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 4.86% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 583 504 672
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £45,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.76% -3.10% +3.57%

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 24,511 14,418 24,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.21% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 16,432 10,302 19,112
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -37 381 £85,000 +13.33% 142
North of England +91 285 £75,000 +15.38% 61
North West +64 128 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Yorkshire +34 122 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands -2 88 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South East -7 80 £65,000 - 39
South West -49 64 £60,500 +0.83% 24
East Midlands +30 57 £55,000 +46.67% 6
North East -14 35 £75,000 +15.38% 16
West Midlands -34 31 £62,500 - 17
East of England -40 16 £59,450 +1.19% 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 33 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.04%) Apache
3 18 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.74%) Confluence
5 15 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.19%) SAS
8 5 (0.54%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 669 (72.64%) AWS
2 430 (46.69%) AWS Lambda
3 325 (35.29%) Azure
4 295 (32.03%) Amazon S3
5 224 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 197 (21.39%) Amazon ECS
7 160 (17.37%) Azure Functions
8 124 (13.46%) GitHub
9 114 (12.38%) Amazon EC2
10 103 (11.18%) AWS Step Functions
11 96 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
12 94 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (9.99%) GCP
14 90 (9.77%) SaaS
15 86 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
15 86 (9.34%) Amazon SQS
16 77 (8.36%) Power Platform
17 76 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
18 71 (7.71%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (7.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.04%) Network Security
2 27 (2.93%) VPN
3 22 (2.39%) Firewall
4 19 (2.06%) Internet
5 14 (1.52%) DNS
6 8 (0.87%) MQTT
7 7 (0.76%) DSL
7 7 (0.76%) VoIP
8 6 (0.65%) AMQP
8 6 (0.65%) BGP
8 6 (0.65%) IPsec
9 5 (0.54%) Broadband
10 4 (0.43%) DHCP
10 4 (0.43%) IPv4
10 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.43%) VLAN
11 3 (0.33%) LTE
11 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (18.68%) DynamoDB
2 101 (10.97%) NoSQL
3 91 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 64 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (4.13%) Power BI
10 37 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.02%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.80%) Big Data
12 27 (2.93%) MySQL
13 24 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.28%) Data Lake
15 18 (1.95%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.74%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.63%) Metadata
17 15 (1.63%) Spark SQL
18 13 (1.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 160 (17.37%) Git
2 143 (15.53%) Jenkins
3 91 (9.88%) GitLab
4 39 (4.23%) SonarQube
5 33 (3.58%) Maven
6 30 (3.26%) Cypress.io
7 29 (3.15%) JIRA
8 25 (2.71%) Snyk
9 21 (2.28%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.63%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.52%) XCTest
12 13 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.98%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.87%) JUnit
15 8 (0.87%) Selenium
16 7 (0.76%) JMeter
16 7 (0.76%) Mockito
16 7 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 227 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 163 (17.70%) Finance
3 76 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.91%) Law
7 35 (3.80%) Banking
8 23 (2.50%) Marketing
9 16 (1.74%) Military
10 13 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.30%) Legal
12 11 (1.19%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.09%) Advertising
13 10 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.98%) Retail
15 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.87%) Billing
16 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 307 (33.33%) Senior
2 262 (28.45%) Developer
3 124 (13.46%) Lead
4 109 (11.83%) Architect
5 94 (10.21%) Senior Developer
6 88 (9.55%) Java Developer
7 82 (8.90%) Software Engineer
8 78 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (6.30%) Data Engineer
11 55 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (4.99%) Cloud Architect
16 45 (4.89%) Senior Architect
17 42 (4.56%) AWS Developer
17 42 (4.56%) Consultant
18 38 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
19 36 (3.91%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (18.68%) Node.js
2 151 (16.40%) React
3 135 (14.66%) .NET
4 115 (12.49%) REST
5 107 (11.62%) Spring Boot
6 104 (11.29%) AngularJS
7 89 (9.66%) Spring
8 82 (8.90%) Kafka
9 68 (7.38%) RESTful
10 56 (6.08%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.91%) PySpark
12 35 (3.80%) HTML
12 35 (3.80%) Jest
13 34 (3.69%) Gherkin
14 32 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (3.37%) JSON
16 29 (3.15%) OAuth
17 28 (3.04%) CSS
17 28 (3.04%) YAML
18 27 (2.93%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 231 (25.08%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.37%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.93%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.71%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.06%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.52%) IoT
14 13 (1.41%) Low-Code
15 12 (1.30%) Blockchain
15 12 (1.30%) Podcast
15 12 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.30%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.49%) Linux
2 33 (3.58%) Windows
3 22 (2.39%) VMS
4 14 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.43%) CentOS
7 4 (0.43%) Debian
7 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (57.44%) CI/CD
2 431 (46.80%) DevOps
3 343 (37.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (36.92%) Agile
5 252 (27.36%) Mentoring
6 228 (24.76%) AI
7 211 (22.91%) Microservices
8 191 (20.74%) Software Engineering
9 184 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 169 (18.35%) Containerisation
11 169 (18.35%) Test Automation
12 150 (16.29%) Observability
13 148 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 146 (15.85%) Analytics
15 136 (14.77%) Event-Driven
16 123 (13.36%) Cloud Security
17 98 (10.64%) Roadmaps
18 92 (9.99%) Computer Science
19 90 (9.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 369 (40.07%) Python
2 255 (27.69%) SQL
3 203 (22.04%) TypeScript
4 200 (21.72%) Java
5 154 (16.72%) JavaScript
6 143 (15.53%) C#
7 104 (11.29%) Bash
8 48 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 46 (4.99%) Kotlin
10 42 (4.56%) Groovy
11 41 (4.45%) Go
12 40 (4.34%) Bicep
13 35 (3.80%) PHP
14 22 (2.39%) Kusto Query Language
14 22 (2.39%) Ruby
15 18 (1.95%) Perl
16 17 (1.85%) Rust
17 14 (1.52%) Swift
18 11 (1.19%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.62%) Degree
3 100 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.34%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 43 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.02%) Azure Certification
9 34 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.82%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (1.19%) OSCP
15 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.87%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.87%) PhD
17 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
18 5 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.19%) GDPR
2 49 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.89%) QA
4 25 (2.71%) GRC
5 17 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 263 (28.56%) Docker
2 35 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.74%) vSphere
6 12 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 335 (36.37%) Terraform
2 206 (22.37%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.73%) Ansible
4 50 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 46 (4.99%) Grafana
6 25 (2.71%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.17%) Packer
7 20 (2.17%) Puppet
8 15 (1.63%) Kibana
9 13 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.54%) Argo
12 4 (0.43%) Podman
12 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.11%) logstash
14 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 142 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.02%) Databricks
3 32 (3.47%) Oracle
4 31 (3.37%) Tenable
5 25 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.71%) OpenAI
5 25 (2.71%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.28%) Splunk
7 20 (2.17%) VMware
8 18 (1.95%) IBM
9 17 (1.85%) Google
10 15 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.52%) Amplitude
11 14 (1.52%) Braze
11 14 (1.52%) SAP
12 12 (1.30%) HP
12 12 (1.30%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (1.09%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.98%) Salesforce