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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 170 194
Rank change year-on-year -41 +24 -33
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 768 768 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.95% 1.97% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 5.56% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 508 594 898
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,938 £99,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 24,917 13,809 29,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.86% 35.47% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,437 10,026 24,237
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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% -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 8 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 8 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 -62 308 £82,500 -8.33% 138
North of England +58 257 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +34 151 £75,000 +30.43% 23
North West +26 99 £75,000 - 46
Midlands -2 95 £55,000 - 19
East Midlands +25 68 £60,000 +9.09% 12
South East -95 48 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South West -66 40 £62,500 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -50 27 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East of England -25 20 £60,050 -29.35% 9
North East -33 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
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 (3.65%) Apache
2 25 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.04%) SAS
7 6 (0.78%) Confluence
8 4 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.52%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.52%) JBoss
9 3 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.78%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 560 (72.92%) AWS
2 382 (49.74%) AWS Lambda
3 284 (36.98%) Amazon S3
4 263 (34.24%) Azure
5 184 (23.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (18.23%) Amazon ECS
7 119 (15.49%) Azure Functions
8 116 (15.10%) GitHub
9 115 (14.97%) AWS Step Functions
10 95 (12.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (11.98%) Amazon SQS
12 84 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
15 73 (9.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (9.24%) SaaS
17 66 (8.59%) GCP
18 64 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
19 60 (7.81%) Power Platform
20 56 (7.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.34%) Firewall
2 15 (1.95%) Network Security
3 13 (1.69%) DSL
4 10 (1.30%) AMQP
5 8 (1.04%) VPN
6 6 (0.78%) WAN
7 5 (0.65%) DNS
8 4 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.39%) Broadband
9 3 (0.39%) VoIP
10 2 (0.26%) 4G
10 2 (0.26%) 5G
10 2 (0.26%) DHCP
10 2 (0.26%) LTE
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.26%) VLAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (21.88%) DynamoDB
2 81 (10.55%) NoSQL
3 77 (10.03%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (7.68%) SQL Server
6 41 (5.34%) Power BI
7 40 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
7 40 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (3.78%) Relational Database
10 28 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.86%) MySQL
12 21 (2.73%) Big Data
12 21 (2.73%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.95%) MongoDB
14 13 (1.69%) Spark SQL
15 12 (1.56%) Delta Lake
16 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.30%) Metadata
18 8 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 161 (20.96%) Jenkins
2 122 (15.89%) Git
3 107 (13.93%) GitLab
4 50 (6.51%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.38%) Maven
6 45 (5.86%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.39%) CircleCI
8 18 (2.34%) JIRA
8 18 (2.34%) Snyk
9 12 (1.56%) Crashlytics
9 12 (1.56%) XCTest
10 10 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.91%) JUnit
11 7 (0.91%) MLflow
12 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.65%) Gradle
14 4 (0.52%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.52%) Mockito
14 4 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 191 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.58%) Finance
3 55 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.52%) Banking
7 17 (2.21%) Publishing
8 16 (2.08%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.69%) Advertising
9 13 (1.69%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.43%) Law
10 11 (1.43%) Legal
11 9 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.91%) Billing
13 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.78%) Retail
14 5 (0.65%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 268 (34.90%) Developer
2 227 (29.56%) Senior
3 109 (14.19%) Lead
4 106 (13.80%) Architect
5 87 (11.33%) Java Developer
6 86 (11.20%) Senior Developer
7 63 (8.20%) AWS Developer
7 63 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 60 (7.81%) Software Engineer
9 50 (6.51%) Data Engineer
10 42 (5.47%) Senior Architect
11 41 (5.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
14 36 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
14 36 (4.69%) Lead Developer
15 35 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (4.43%) Python Developer
16 34 (4.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (22.66%) React
2 152 (19.79%) Node.js
3 113 (14.71%) .NET
4 110 (14.32%) Spring Boot
5 101 (13.15%) AngularJS
6 100 (13.02%) REST
7 83 (10.81%) Spring
8 76 (9.90%) RESTful
9 65 (8.46%) Kafka
10 57 (7.42%) AWS CDK
11 52 (6.77%) HTML
12 44 (5.73%) .NET Core
12 44 (5.73%) Jest
13 43 (5.60%) Gherkin
14 42 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (5.21%) CSS
16 32 (4.17%) PySpark
17 30 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (3.91%) JSON
18 28 (3.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.86%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 22 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.21%) Blockchain
8 17 (2.21%) Web3
9 14 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.78%) Reinsurance
16 5 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.08%) Linux
2 16 (2.08%) VMS
2 16 (2.08%) Windows
3 12 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.65%) CentOS
5 5 (0.65%) Debian
5 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 364 (47.40%) DevOps
3 275 (35.81%) Agile
4 270 (35.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 189 (24.61%) Microservices
6 183 (23.83%) Mentoring
7 169 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (19.66%) Containerisation
9 150 (19.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 146 (19.01%) Software Engineering
11 134 (17.45%) Test Automation
12 126 (16.41%) Observability
13 121 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (14.06%) Analytics
15 107 (13.93%) AI
16 94 (12.24%) Event-Driven
17 86 (11.20%) TDD
18 76 (9.90%) Continuous Integration
19 75 (9.77%) Computer Science
20 74 (9.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 300 (39.06%) Python
2 218 (28.39%) SQL
3 211 (27.47%) TypeScript
4 174 (22.66%) Java
5 157 (20.44%) JavaScript
6 116 (15.10%) C#
7 75 (9.77%) Bash
8 49 (6.38%) Groovy
9 40 (5.21%) Go
9 40 (5.21%) Kotlin
10 32 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.34%) Bicep
12 16 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (2.08%) Rust
13 12 (1.56%) Swift
14 11 (1.43%) PHP
15 8 (1.04%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.65%) C++
16 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (12.11%) Degree
2 88 (11.46%) AWS Certification
2 88 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 66 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 60 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.95%) DV Cleared
11 15 (1.95%) OSCP
11 15 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (1.69%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.56%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.73%) Data Quality
1 44 (5.73%) QA
2 33 (4.30%) GDPR
3 18 (2.34%) GRC
4 17 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.69%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.52%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) SLA
10 2 (0.26%) WCAG
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 241 (31.38%) Docker
2 28 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.52%) iptables
5 3 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 231 (30.08%) Terraform
2 173 (22.53%) Kubernetes
3 76 (9.90%) Ansible
4 51 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.86%) Grafana
6 41 (5.34%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.34%) Kibana
8 12 (1.56%) Puppet
9 8 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.91%) Packer
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.39%) Nagios
11 3 (0.39%) Scalr
12 1 (0.13%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.69%) Databricks
3 22 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 21 (2.73%) Tenable
5 18 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
6 17 (2.21%) Oracle
7 12 (1.56%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.56%) Braze
8 11 (1.43%) Google
9 9 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.04%) IBM
10 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.04%) Splunk
11 7 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.65%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.65%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.52%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.39%) Foundry