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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 122 186
Rank change year-on-year -90 +64 -13
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 746 912 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 2.50% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 6.66% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 485 614 922
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 23,809 13,694 29,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.16% 37.47% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,861 10,202 24,177
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -78 293 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +48 264 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +47 170 £75,000 +30.43% 34
North West +8 89 £75,000 +8.30% 47
Midlands -29 88 £55,000 - 22
East Midlands -6 62 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -65 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -145 41 £76,250 +27.08% 61
West Midlands -41 26 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England -69 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
North East -31 5 £90,000 +44.00% 11
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 28 (3.75%) Apache
1 28 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.01%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.21%) SAS
6 5 (0.67%) Confluence
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) JBoss
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.67%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 575 (77.08%) AWS
2 383 (51.34%) AWS Lambda
3 290 (38.87%) Amazon S3
4 265 (35.52%) Azure
5 173 (23.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 143 (19.17%) Amazon ECS
7 132 (17.69%) GitHub
8 110 (14.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 110 (14.75%) Azure Functions
9 98 (13.14%) Amazon SQS
10 93 (12.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 84 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
13 77 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
13 77 (10.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 73 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
15 70 (9.38%) GCP
16 63 (8.45%) SaaS
17 58 (7.77%) Power Platform
18 53 (7.10%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.28%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) DSL
3 12 (1.61%) AMQP
4 11 (1.47%) Network Security
5 8 (1.07%) VPN
6 6 (0.80%) WAN
7 5 (0.67%) Broadband
7 5 (0.67%) DNS
8 2 (0.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.27%) SSL
8 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.13%) 4G
9 1 (0.13%) 5G
9 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.45%) DynamoDB
2 86 (11.53%) NoSQL
3 81 (10.86%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.10%) SQL Server
6 43 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (4.96%) Power BI
8 34 (4.56%) Relational Database
9 29 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (3.35%) MySQL
11 23 (3.08%) Big Data
12 21 (2.82%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.68%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.47%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.34%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.34%) Metadata
16 9 (1.21%) Spark SQL
17 8 (1.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 156 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 110 (14.75%) Git
3 101 (13.54%) GitLab
4 47 (6.30%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.90%) Maven
6 43 (5.76%) Cypress.io
7 23 (3.08%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.14%) JIRA
9 10 (1.34%) Crashlytics
9 10 (1.34%) MLflow
9 10 (1.34%) XCTest
10 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.94%) JUnit
11 7 (0.94%) Snyk
12 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.54%) git-flow
13 4 (0.54%) JMeter
13 4 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 199 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.94%) Finance
3 60 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 52 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.08%) Banking
7 20 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.55%) Publishing
9 17 (2.28%) Health Technology
10 16 (2.14%) Tech for Good
11 15 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.74%) Advertising
13 11 (1.47%) Legal
14 10 (1.34%) Law
15 9 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.80%) Retail
17 5 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.67%) Billing
17 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 288 (38.61%) Developer
2 198 (26.54%) Senior
3 100 (13.40%) Architect
4 98 (13.14%) Lead
5 91 (12.20%) Java Developer
6 83 (11.13%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (8.98%) AWS Developer
9 60 (8.04%) Software Engineer
10 59 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (6.43%) Python Developer
12 43 (5.76%) Data Engineer
13 41 (5.50%) Lead Developer
14 38 (5.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 36 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (4.42%) React Developer
17 32 (4.29%) .NET Developer
17 32 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 32 (4.29%) Software Developer
18 31 (4.16%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (24.80%) React
2 156 (20.91%) Node.js
3 110 (14.75%) .NET
3 110 (14.75%) Spring Boot
4 101 (13.54%) AngularJS
5 96 (12.87%) REST
6 85 (11.39%) Spring
7 76 (10.19%) RESTful
8 68 (9.12%) HTML
9 58 (7.77%) Kafka
10 57 (7.64%) CSS
11 55 (7.37%) AWS CDK
12 48 (6.43%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.90%) Jest
14 41 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (5.36%) Gherkin
16 34 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (3.62%) Flask
17 27 (3.62%) PySpark
18 26 (3.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 155 (20.78%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.62%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.08%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.88%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.88%) Web3
9 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.94%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.83%) Linux
2 16 (2.14%) VMS
2 16 (2.14%) Windows
3 10 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.80%) CentOS
5 6 (0.80%) Debian
5 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.40%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (58.58%) CI/CD
2 367 (49.20%) DevOps
3 296 (39.68%) Agile
4 262 (35.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (26.94%) Microservices
6 193 (25.87%) Mentoring
7 173 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (21.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 153 (20.51%) Containerisation
10 141 (18.90%) Software Engineering
11 126 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (15.68%) Observability
13 114 (15.28%) Test Automation
14 100 (13.40%) Analytics
15 96 (12.87%) AI
16 87 (11.66%) TDD
17 81 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
17 81 (10.86%) Event-Driven
18 75 (10.05%) Data Modelling
19 74 (9.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 303 (40.62%) Python
2 208 (27.88%) SQL
3 204 (27.35%) TypeScript
4 188 (25.20%) JavaScript
5 183 (24.53%) Java
6 110 (14.75%) C#
7 73 (9.79%) Bash
8 46 (6.17%) Groovy
9 38 (5.09%) Go
10 36 (4.83%) Kotlin
11 34 (4.56%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.88%) Rust
14 13 (1.74%) Bicep
15 10 (1.34%) PHP
15 10 (1.34%) Swift
16 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.94%) C++
18 5 (0.67%) Perl
18 5 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (13.40%) AWS Certification
2 91 (12.20%) Degree
3 88 (11.80%) Security Cleared
4 66 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 60 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.22%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 20 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (2.01%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.88%) OSCP
15 13 (1.74%) DBS Check
15 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.17%) QA
2 37 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.22%) GDPR
4 15 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.94%) GRC
8 6 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 3 (0.40%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 256 (34.32%) Docker
2 19 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.54%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
5 3 (0.40%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 238 (31.90%) Terraform
2 179 (23.99%) Kubernetes
3 78 (10.46%) Ansible
4 46 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.03%) Grafana
6 40 (5.36%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.55%) Kibana
8 11 (1.47%) Puppet
9 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.80%) Packer
11 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.40%) Nagios
12 3 (0.40%) Scalr
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.42%) Databricks
3 15 (2.01%) Palo Alto
4 13 (1.74%) Google
5 11 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (1.34%) Amplitude
6 10 (1.34%) Braze
6 10 (1.34%) Oracle
7 9 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.21%) IBM
7 9 (1.21%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.07%) Tenable
9 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.80%) Pega
10 6 (0.80%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.80%) WSO2
11 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.67%) Splunk
12 4 (0.54%) Atlassian