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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 222 207
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -55
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 981 623 922
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.95% 1.45% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 4.45% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 620 431 494
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £71,746
% change year-on-year +2.84% -1.74% +2.49%

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 24,586 13,988 21,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.85% 32.49% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 17,096 9,807 13,789
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -25 409 £81,250 +8.33% 558
North of England +81 310 £72,500 +11.54% 151
North West +55 141 £67,500 +3.85% 99
Yorkshire +32 116 £80,000 +18.08% 38
South East -30 87 £65,000 -8.77% 90
Midlands -17 77 £62,500 -1.96% 55
South West -49 74 £60,500 +0.83% 74
North East -18 53 £67,500 -1.46% 14
West Midlands -46 43 £62,500 -1.96% 26
East Midlands +6 34 £65,000 - 29
East of England -67 10 £57,500 - 27
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 38 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.65%) Apache
4 22 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.73%) Confluence
6 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.61%) CMS
7 6 (0.61%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 3 (0.31%) SAS
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 682 (69.52%) AWS
2 462 (47.09%) AWS Lambda
3 371 (37.82%) Azure
4 303 (30.89%) Amazon S3
5 225 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
7 199 (20.29%) Azure Functions
8 134 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (13.35%) GitHub
10 130 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
11 110 (11.21%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (10.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 97 (9.89%) GCP
14 96 (9.79%) SaaS
15 94 (9.58%) AWS Step Functions
16 92 (9.38%) Power Platform
17 81 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 81 (8.26%) PaaS
18 79 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
19 71 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.36%) Firewall
2 32 (3.26%) VPN
3 25 (2.55%) Network Security
4 24 (2.45%) DNS
5 22 (2.24%) Internet
6 16 (1.63%) VoIP
7 14 (1.43%) DHCP
7 14 (1.43%) VLAN
8 9 (0.92%) MQTT
8 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) AMQP
10 7 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.61%) BGP
11 6 (0.61%) IPsec
12 5 (0.51%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) IPv4
13 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.31%) HTTP
14 3 (0.31%) LTE
14 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (16.00%) DynamoDB
2 98 (9.99%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (9.17%) NoSQL
4 87 (8.87%) SQL Server
5 71 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
7 53 (5.40%) Relational Database
8 49 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (3.87%) Power BI
12 30 (3.06%) Big Data
13 28 (2.85%) Spark SQL
14 27 (2.75%) MongoDB
15 25 (2.55%) Data Lake
15 25 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (2.34%) MySQL
17 21 (2.14%) Hadoop
18 20 (2.04%) Metadata
19 15 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 203 (20.69%) Git
2 123 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 71 (7.24%) GitLab
4 34 (3.47%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.26%) JIRA
6 27 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.55%) Maven
7 25 (2.55%) Snyk
8 15 (1.53%) JMeter
9 13 (1.33%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.22%) JUnit
11 11 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.12%) Mockito
11 11 (1.12%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.02%) Postman
13 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.82%) Selenium
14 7 (0.71%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.61%) Crashlytics
General
1 230 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 196 (19.98%) Finance
3 108 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.71%) Law
7 54 (5.50%) Banking
8 39 (3.98%) Marketing
9 25 (2.55%) Retail
10 19 (1.94%) Legal
11 16 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.53%) Aviation
13 14 (1.43%) Military
14 13 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.71%) Billing
20 6 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 294 (29.97%) Senior
2 259 (26.40%) Developer
3 127 (12.95%) Lead
4 110 (11.21%) Architect
5 98 (9.99%) Software Engineer
6 81 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 81 (8.26%) Senior Developer
7 75 (7.65%) Java Developer
8 73 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 69 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 60 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.49%) Senior Architect
11 44 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 43 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 42 (4.28%) Cloud Architect
14 40 (4.08%) AWS Developer
14 40 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (4.08%) Consultant
15 39 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (36.90%) Terraform
2 166 (16.92%) Node.js
3 151 (15.39%) .NET
4 143 (14.58%) React
5 128 (13.05%) REST
6 103 (10.50%) AngularJS
7 96 (9.79%) Spring Boot
8 86 (8.77%) Spring
9 80 (8.15%) RESTful
10 79 (8.05%) Kafka
11 54 (5.50%) AWS CDK
12 53 (5.40%) PySpark
13 44 (4.49%) JSON
14 34 (3.47%) Jest
15 33 (3.36%) OAuth
16 31 (3.16%) Swagger
17 30 (3.06%) Gherkin
17 30 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
18 29 (2.96%) HTML
18 29 (2.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 270 (27.52%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (7.85%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.38%) AI Agents
6 39 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 30 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (2.14%) Management Information System
13 20 (2.04%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.53%) Blog
15 15 (1.53%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.53%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
17 12 (1.22%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.22%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.34%) Linux
2 44 (4.49%) Windows
3 14 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.71%) CentOS
6 7 (0.71%) Debian
6 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 466 (47.50%) DevOps
3 377 (38.43%) Agile
4 354 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 282 (28.75%) AI
6 260 (26.50%) Mentoring
7 234 (23.85%) Software Engineering
8 218 (22.22%) Microservices
9 188 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
11 177 (18.04%) Test Automation
12 167 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 166 (16.92%) Observability
14 159 (16.21%) Analytics
15 156 (15.90%) Event-Driven
16 146 (14.88%) Containerisation
17 140 (14.27%) Cloud Security
18 136 (13.86%) Roadmaps
19 118 (12.03%) Migration
20 113 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 363 (37.00%) Python
2 286 (29.15%) SQL
3 212 (21.61%) Java
4 200 (20.39%) TypeScript
5 183 (18.65%) C#
6 172 (17.53%) JavaScript
7 101 (10.30%) Bash
8 50 (5.10%) Bicep
9 41 (4.18%) PowerShell
10 39 (3.98%) Groovy
11 38 (3.87%) Kotlin
12 30 (3.06%) Ruby
13 27 (2.75%) PHP
14 26 (2.65%) C++
15 20 (2.04%) Go
16 19 (1.94%) Perl
17 17 (1.73%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (1.22%) Rust
20 11 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 191 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 99 (10.09%) Degree
4 82 (8.36%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.81%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.61%) CISM
15 6 (0.61%) CISSP
15 6 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.52%) GDPR
3 56 (5.71%) QA
4 28 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.75%) GRC
6 15 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.92%) NIST
9 8 (0.82%) WCAG
10 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.51%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.20%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.10%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 255 (25.99%) Docker
2 44 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.63%) vSphere
6 12 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 192 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 104 (10.60%) Ansible
3 41 (4.18%) Grafana
4 37 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.45%) Puppet
6 22 (2.24%) Packer
7 16 (1.63%) HP Fortify
8 14 (1.43%) Kibana
8 14 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.61%) Rancher
11 5 (0.51%) Argo
11 5 (0.51%) Podman
11 5 (0.51%) SCCM
12 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 203 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.18%) Databricks
3 38 (3.87%) Oracle
4 34 (3.47%) Tenable
5 33 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 31 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.55%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.55%) VMware
8 24 (2.45%) Google
9 23 (2.34%) Splunk
10 20 (2.04%) SAP
11 18 (1.83%) IBM
12 15 (1.53%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.43%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.22%) HP
14 12 (1.22%) ScienceLogic
15 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.82%) Veeam