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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 159 192
Rank change year-on-year -48 +33 -25
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 747 778 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 5.69% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 488 607 901
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 24,928 13,685 29,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.26% 36.12% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,208 10,151 24,168
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,590 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -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 29 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 29 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 -70 295 £82,500 -10.81% 119
North of England +56 257 £75,000 +15.38% 58
Yorkshire +29 155 £75,000 +30.43% 14
North West +8 95 £75,000 - 40
Midlands -8 94 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands +2 67 £60,000 +9.09% 8
South East -103 42 £68,750 +14.58% 38
South West -61 41 £62,500 +4.17% 18
West Midlands -56 27 £50,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -28 19 £60,100 -29.29% 13
North East -37 7 £95,000 +52.00% 4
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 27 (3.61%) Apache
2 26 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.07%) SAS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) Confluence
7 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.54%) JBoss
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 556 (74.43%) AWS
2 381 (51.00%) AWS Lambda
3 287 (38.42%) Amazon S3
4 254 (34.00%) Azure
5 178 (23.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 139 (18.61%) Amazon ECS
7 122 (16.33%) GitHub
8 115 (15.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 111 (14.86%) Azure Functions
10 96 (12.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 96 (12.85%) Amazon SQS
11 85 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
12 77 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
13 76 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
14 72 (9.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 66 (8.84%) SaaS
16 64 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (8.43%) GCP
18 58 (7.76%) Power Platform
19 56 (7.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.14%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) DSL
2 13 (1.74%) Network Security
3 10 (1.34%) AMQP
4 8 (1.07%) VPN
5 6 (0.80%) WAN
6 5 (0.67%) Broadband
6 5 (0.67%) DNS
7 3 (0.40%) Internet
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) 5G
8 2 (0.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.13%) Intranet
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (22.62%) DynamoDB
2 84 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (7.36%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (5.09%) Power BI
9 37 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (3.61%) Relational Database
12 22 (2.95%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.81%) MySQL
14 20 (2.68%) Big Data
15 17 (2.28%) MongoDB
16 12 (1.61%) Spark SQL
17 11 (1.47%) Delta Lake
18 10 (1.34%) Metadata
19 7 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
19 7 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (20.62%) Jenkins
2 112 (14.99%) Git
3 104 (13.92%) GitLab
4 48 (6.43%) SonarQube
5 47 (6.29%) Maven
6 44 (5.89%) Cypress.io
7 25 (3.35%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.14%) JIRA
8 16 (2.14%) Snyk
9 12 (1.61%) Crashlytics
9 12 (1.61%) XCTest
10 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.07%) MLflow
12 6 (0.80%) JUnit
12 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.54%) Gradle
13 4 (0.54%) Selenium
13 4 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 192 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 110 (14.73%) Finance
3 55 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.48%) Banking
7 18 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.28%) Publishing
9 16 (2.14%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.01%) Advertising
11 13 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 12 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.47%) Legal
14 9 (1.20%) Law
15 8 (1.07%) Retail
16 7 (0.94%) Billing
16 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 266 (35.61%) Developer
2 212 (28.38%) Senior
3 106 (14.19%) Lead
4 104 (13.92%) Architect
5 85 (11.38%) Java Developer
6 83 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 65 (8.70%) AWS Developer
8 62 (8.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (7.76%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.43%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 40 (5.35%) Senior Architect
14 39 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
14 39 (5.22%) Lead Developer
15 37 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
16 35 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
16 35 (4.69%) Python Developer
17 34 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (4.28%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (23.43%) React
2 155 (20.75%) Node.js
3 107 (14.32%) .NET
3 107 (14.32%) Spring Boot
4 100 (13.39%) AngularJS
5 95 (12.72%) REST
6 80 (10.71%) Spring
7 77 (10.31%) RESTful
8 62 (8.30%) Kafka
9 56 (7.50%) AWS CDK
10 52 (6.96%) HTML
11 45 (6.02%) .NET Core
12 44 (5.89%) Jest
13 42 (5.62%) Gherkin
14 41 (5.49%) CSS
14 41 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (4.02%) PySpark
17 26 (3.48%) JSON
18 25 (3.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.90%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.14%) Blockchain
8 16 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.14%) Web3
9 13 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.69%) Linux
2 16 (2.14%) VMS
3 15 (2.01%) Windows
4 12 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.67%) CentOS
6 5 (0.67%) Debian
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (59.71%) CI/CD
2 363 (48.59%) DevOps
3 274 (36.68%) Agile
4 261 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (25.44%) Microservices
6 181 (24.23%) Mentoring
7 174 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (20.48%) Containerisation
9 152 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (19.41%) Software Engineering
11 126 (16.87%) Observability
11 126 (16.87%) Test Automation
12 119 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (14.19%) Analytics
14 104 (13.92%) AI
15 89 (11.91%) Event-Driven
16 82 (10.98%) TDD
17 81 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
18 72 (9.64%) Computer Science
18 72 (9.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 294 (39.36%) Python
2 210 (28.11%) SQL
2 210 (28.11%) TypeScript
3 174 (23.29%) Java
4 164 (21.95%) JavaScript
5 109 (14.59%) C#
6 73 (9.77%) Bash
7 48 (6.43%) Groovy
8 40 (5.35%) Go
9 39 (5.22%) Kotlin
10 33 (4.42%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.28%) Bicep
12 16 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.87%) Rust
14 12 (1.61%) Swift
15 11 (1.47%) PHP
16 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.67%) C++
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (12.45%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.05%) Degree
3 81 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 61 (8.17%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (5.22%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.87%) OSCP
14 13 (1.74%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.61%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.61%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.89%) QA
2 43 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.75%) GDPR
4 16 (2.14%) GRC
5 15 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (32.66%) Docker
2 28 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.54%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 227 (30.39%) Terraform
2 175 (23.43%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.77%) Ansible
4 46 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.62%) Grafana
6 41 (5.49%) HP Fortify
7 17 (2.28%) Kibana
8 10 (1.34%) Puppet
9 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.80%) Packer
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.40%) Nagios
11 3 (0.40%) Scalr
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.82%) Databricks
3 21 (2.81%) Palo Alto
4 17 (2.28%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (2.28%) Tenable
5 13 (1.74%) Oracle
6 12 (1.61%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.61%) Braze
7 11 (1.47%) Google
8 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.07%) IBM
9 8 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.80%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.67%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.67%) Splunk
13 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.54%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.40%) Foundry