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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 188 192
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -29
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 827 709 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.85% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 5.42% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 555 539 875
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +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 24,249 13,077 29,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.32% 34.15% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 14,088 9,214 24,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,636 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 May 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 May 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 -49 317 £82,500 -8.33% 114
North of England +94 277 £75,000 +15.38% 61
Yorkshire +41 156 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North West +56 112 £75,000 - 34
Midlands +4 105 £55,000 - 22
East Midlands +29 70 £55,000 - 9
South East -50 63 £65,000 +8.33% 50
South West -66 46 £63,750 +6.25% 24
West Midlands -43 35 £52,500 -4.55% 13
East of England -27 20 £60,050 -29.35% 6
North East -38 9 £90,000 +44.00% 8
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 29 (3.51%) Apache
2 25 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.97%) Confluence
5 8 (0.97%) SAS
6 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.48%) JBoss
7 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.85%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 599 (72.43%) AWS
2 409 (49.46%) AWS Lambda
3 303 (36.64%) Amazon S3
4 274 (33.13%) Azure
5 200 (24.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 160 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (15.11%) Azure Functions
8 124 (14.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 115 (13.91%) GitHub
10 96 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 94 (11.37%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (11.37%) Amazon SQS
12 83 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (9.55%) SaaS
14 74 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
15 73 (8.83%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (8.59%) GCP
17 69 (8.34%) Amazon EKS
18 59 (7.13%) Datadog
19 57 (6.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.54%) Firewall
2 15 (1.81%) Network Security
3 13 (1.57%) DSL
4 10 (1.21%) AMQP
5 7 (0.85%) VPN
6 6 (0.73%) Internet
6 6 (0.73%) MQTT
6 6 (0.73%) VoIP
7 5 (0.60%) DNS
8 4 (0.48%) WAN
9 3 (0.36%) Broadband
9 3 (0.36%) IPv4
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
9 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) DHCP
10 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (21.77%) DynamoDB
2 82 (9.92%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (8.10%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 42 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (4.72%) Power BI
9 37 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 26 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (2.90%) MySQL
13 23 (2.78%) Big Data
14 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 14 (1.69%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.45%) Delta Lake
18 11 (1.33%) Metadata
19 9 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 175 (21.16%) Jenkins
2 141 (17.05%) Git
3 112 (13.54%) GitLab
4 50 (6.05%) SonarQube
5 48 (5.80%) Maven
6 46 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.26%) CircleCI
8 25 (3.02%) Snyk
9 19 (2.30%) JIRA
10 13 (1.57%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.57%) XCTest
11 12 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.21%) JUnit
13 9 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.85%) JMeter
14 7 (0.85%) MLflow
14 7 (0.85%) Mockito
15 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.60%) Gradle
17 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 199 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 113 (13.66%) Finance
3 61 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.51%) Banking
7 14 (1.69%) Advertising
8 13 (1.57%) Publishing
9 12 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 12 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Law
10 11 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.97%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.73%) Billing
13 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 286 (34.58%) Developer
2 251 (30.35%) Senior
3 114 (13.78%) Architect
4 110 (13.30%) Lead
5 99 (11.97%) Java Developer
6 90 (10.88%) Senior Developer
7 75 (9.07%) Software Engineer
8 70 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (7.26%) AWS Developer
11 49 (5.93%) Data Engineer
11 49 (5.93%) Senior Architect
12 43 (5.20%) Cloud Architect
13 42 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 41 (4.96%) Security Architect
15 40 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
16 39 (4.72%) Software Developer
17 36 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (21.04%) React
2 168 (20.31%) Node.js
3 126 (15.24%) .NET
4 119 (14.39%) Spring Boot
5 110 (13.30%) AngularJS
5 110 (13.30%) REST
6 92 (11.12%) Spring
7 75 (9.07%) Kafka
7 75 (9.07%) RESTful
8 56 (6.77%) AWS CDK
9 49 (5.93%) HTML
10 47 (5.68%) .NET Core
11 45 (5.44%) Gherkin
12 44 (5.32%) Jest
13 42 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (4.35%) CSS
15 35 (4.23%) JSON
16 34 (4.11%) PySpark
17 30 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (3.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (20.92%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 22 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.18%) Blockchain
7 18 (2.18%) Web3
8 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.97%) IoT
12 7 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.17%) Linux
2 17 (2.06%) Windows
3 14 (1.69%) VMS
4 13 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) CentOS
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (59.25%) CI/CD
2 390 (47.16%) DevOps
3 295 (35.67%) Agile
4 294 (35.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 204 (24.67%) Microservices
6 197 (23.82%) Mentoring
7 170 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (20.07%) Software Engineering
9 160 (19.35%) Containerisation
10 158 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 149 (18.02%) Test Automation
12 132 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 131 (15.84%) Observability
14 124 (14.99%) AI
15 111 (13.42%) Analytics
16 104 (12.58%) Event-Driven
17 91 (11.00%) TDD
18 87 (10.52%) DevSecOps
18 87 (10.52%) SDLC
19 80 (9.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 320 (38.69%) Python
2 227 (27.45%) SQL
3 219 (26.48%) TypeScript
4 192 (23.22%) Java
5 166 (20.07%) JavaScript
6 128 (15.48%) C#
7 81 (9.79%) Bash
8 53 (6.41%) Groovy
9 45 (5.44%) Kotlin
10 41 (4.96%) Go
11 34 (4.11%) PowerShell
12 21 (2.54%) Rust
13 20 (2.42%) Bicep
14 15 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.57%) PHP
15 13 (1.57%) Swift
16 12 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.73%) C++
17 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 105 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.97%) Degree
3 86 (10.40%) AWS Certification
4 75 (9.07%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.54%) DV Cleared
12 18 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
13 16 (1.93%) OSCP
14 13 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.45%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.44%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.59%) QA
3 36 (4.35%) GDPR
4 25 (3.02%) GRC
5 16 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) NIST
8 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) WCAG
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 258 (31.20%) Docker
2 33 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 3 (0.36%) Firmware
5 3 (0.36%) Squid
5 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 255 (30.83%) Terraform
2 183 (22.13%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.40%) Ansible
4 58 (7.01%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.17%) Grafana
6 39 (4.72%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.54%) Kibana
8 15 (1.81%) Puppet
9 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.12%) Argo
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 99 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.35%) Databricks
3 30 (3.63%) Tenable
4 27 (3.26%) Palo Alto
5 25 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
6 23 (2.78%) Oracle
7 13 (1.57%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.57%) Braze
7 13 (1.57%) Splunk
8 12 (1.45%) Google
9 10 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.09%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.97%) IBM
11 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.85%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
15 3 (0.36%) VMware