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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 200 209
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 862 711 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.77% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 5.21% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 578 517 860
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,300 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +0.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% 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 23,081 13,655 31,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.33% 34.01% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15,369 9,723 24,750
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -57 327 £82,500 - 88
North of England +81 275 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Yorkshire +38 129 £80,000 +33.33% 15
North West +59 126 £75,000 +15.38% 24
Midlands +20 101 £55,000 - 17
South East -47 71 £67,500 +12.50% 47
East Midlands +27 69 £55,000 +4.76% 6
South West -44 66 £62,500 +4.17% 20
West Midlands -35 32 £52,500 -8.70% 11
East of England -29 21 £60,000 -27.27% 7
North East -29 20 £75,000 +15.38% 7
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 30 (3.48%) Apache
2 28 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.62%) Confluence
5 13 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.04%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.46%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.81%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 615 (71.35%) AWS
2 418 (48.49%) AWS Lambda
3 302 (35.03%) Azure
4 299 (34.69%) Amazon S3
5 194 (22.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 172 (19.95%) Amazon ECS
7 157 (18.21%) Azure Functions
8 124 (14.39%) GitHub
9 114 (13.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 103 (11.95%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (11.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
13 86 (9.98%) Amazon SQS
14 85 (9.86%) SaaS
15 78 (9.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 76 (8.82%) GCP
17 74 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
17 74 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
18 72 (8.35%) Power Platform
19 60 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.44%) Firewall
2 20 (2.32%) Network Security
2 20 (2.32%) VPN
3 11 (1.28%) DSL
4 9 (1.04%) AMQP
4 9 (1.04%) Internet
5 8 (0.93%) DNS
6 7 (0.81%) MQTT
6 7 (0.81%) VoIP
7 5 (0.58%) Broadband
8 4 (0.46%) IPv4
8 4 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.35%) DHCP
9 3 (0.35%) LTE
9 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.35%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) BGP
10 2 (0.23%) IPsec
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (20.65%) DynamoDB
2 86 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.40%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.54%) SQL Server
5 64 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.87%) Power BI
9 39 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (3.94%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.25%) MySQL
13 27 (3.13%) Big Data
14 21 (2.44%) Data Lake
15 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.74%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.74%) Spark SQL
17 13 (1.51%) Delta Lake
17 13 (1.51%) Metadata
18 10 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 160 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 156 (18.10%) Git
3 100 (11.60%) GitLab
4 41 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 38 (4.41%) Maven
6 34 (3.94%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.13%) CircleCI
7 27 (3.13%) JIRA
8 25 (2.90%) Snyk
9 14 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.62%) Crashlytics
9 14 (1.62%) XCTest
10 11 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.93%) JUnit
11 8 (0.93%) Selenium
12 7 (0.81%) JMeter
12 7 (0.81%) MLflow
12 7 (0.81%) Mockito
12 7 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 214 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 141 (16.36%) Finance
3 59 (6.84%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.71%) Banking
7 25 (2.90%) Law
8 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.28%) Advertising
10 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.04%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.04%) Legal
11 9 (1.04%) Marketing
11 9 (1.04%) Publishing
12 8 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.93%) Billing
13 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.70%) Military
14 5 (0.58%) Retail
15 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 279 (32.37%) Senior
2 276 (32.02%) Developer
3 107 (12.41%) Lead
4 105 (12.18%) Architect
5 99 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 96 (11.14%) Java Developer
7 83 (9.63%) Software Engineer
8 76 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (6.15%) Data Engineer
10 53 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 50 (5.80%) AWS Developer
12 45 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
13 43 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.76%) Senior Architect
15 39 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (4.52%) Security Architect
15 39 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (4.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (19.72%) Node.js
2 168 (19.49%) React
3 126 (14.62%) .NET
4 110 (12.76%) AngularJS
4 110 (12.76%) REST
4 110 (12.76%) Spring Boot
5 88 (10.21%) Spring
6 77 (8.93%) Kafka
7 67 (7.77%) RESTful
8 50 (5.80%) AWS CDK
9 44 (5.10%) HTML
10 40 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
11 38 (4.41%) Gherkin
11 38 (4.41%) PySpark
12 35 (4.06%) .NET Core
12 35 (4.06%) Jest
13 33 (3.83%) JSON
14 32 (3.71%) CSS
15 29 (3.36%) YAML
16 26 (3.02%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 201 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.32%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.97%) Blockchain
9 17 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.97%) Web3
10 14 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.62%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.51%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) IoT
12 12 (1.39%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.96%) Linux
2 31 (3.60%) Windows
3 24 (2.78%) VMS
4 14 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.58%) CentOS
7 5 (0.58%) Debian
7 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (61.02%) CI/CD
2 409 (47.45%) DevOps
3 324 (37.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 306 (35.50%) Agile
5 205 (23.78%) Mentoring
6 204 (23.67%) Microservices
7 184 (21.35%) Software Engineering
8 177 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
9 173 (20.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 169 (19.61%) Test Automation
11 167 (19.37%) AI
12 164 (19.03%) Containerisation
13 158 (18.33%) Observability
14 135 (15.66%) Analytics
15 130 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 126 (14.62%) Event-Driven
17 106 (12.30%) Cloud Security
18 93 (10.79%) DevSecOps
19 85 (9.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 85 (9.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 340 (39.44%) Python
2 248 (28.77%) SQL
3 212 (24.59%) TypeScript
4 189 (21.93%) Java
5 158 (18.33%) JavaScript
6 132 (15.31%) C#
7 95 (11.02%) Bash
8 50 (5.80%) Kotlin
8 50 (5.80%) PowerShell
9 46 (5.34%) Go
9 46 (5.34%) Groovy
10 39 (4.52%) Bicep
11 24 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 21 (2.44%) PHP
13 20 (2.32%) Rust
14 14 (1.62%) Swift
15 10 (1.16%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.93%) Perl
16 8 (0.93%) Ruby
16 8 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.02%) Degree
3 77 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 70 (8.12%) AWS Certification
5 46 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 26 (3.02%) DV Cleared
10 24 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.44%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.74%) OSCP
13 12 (1.39%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.58%) CISSP
18 5 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.87%) GDPR
3 37 (4.29%) QA
4 25 (2.90%) GRC
5 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.70%) NIST
10 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
14 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (29.00%) Docker
2 32 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.86%) vSphere
5 12 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) iptables
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.35%) Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 288 (33.41%) Terraform
2 186 (21.58%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.21%) Ansible
4 55 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.68%) Grafana
6 29 (3.36%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.20%) Kibana
8 17 (1.97%) Packer
8 17 (1.97%) Puppet
9 9 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.58%) Argo
11 4 (0.46%) Podman
11 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.35%) Scalr
13 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.23%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) logstash
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.06%) Databricks
3 30 (3.48%) Tenable
4 25 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.90%) Oracle
4 25 (2.90%) Palo Alto
5 19 (2.20%) Splunk
6 17 (1.97%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.97%) VMware
7 14 (1.62%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.62%) Braze
8 13 (1.51%) Google
9 12 (1.39%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.39%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.16%) IBM
12 9 (1.04%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.81%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.58%) Foundry
14 5 (0.58%) SaltStack