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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 176 197
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -32
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 783 766 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.97% 1.97% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 5.50% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 520 594 898
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £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 £98,750 £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 24,579 13,929 29,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.43% 35.76% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,590 10,031 24,227
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +7.21% -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 9 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 9 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 -58 314 £82,500 -8.33% 153
North of England +56 260 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +32 152 £75,000 +30.43% 24
North West +26 101 £75,000 - 45
Midlands -14 96 £55,000 - 20
East Midlands +28 68 £60,000 +9.09% 11
South East -77 50 £62,500 +4.17% 38
South West -61 42 £62,500 +4.17% 31
West Midlands -61 28 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England -19 20 £60,050 -29.35% 9
North East -44 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 (3.58%) Apache
2 24 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.02%) SAS
7 6 (0.77%) Confluence
8 4 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.51%) JBoss
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) 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 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.77%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 570 (72.80%) AWS
2 388 (49.55%) AWS Lambda
3 290 (37.04%) Amazon S3
4 266 (33.97%) Azure
5 185 (23.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 142 (18.14%) Amazon ECS
7 120 (15.33%) Azure Functions
8 119 (15.20%) GitHub
9 117 (14.94%) AWS Step Functions
10 97 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (11.75%) Amazon SQS
12 87 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
15 74 (9.45%) SaaS
16 73 (9.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 68 (8.68%) GCP
18 63 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
19 60 (7.66%) Power Platform
20 58 (7.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.55%) Firewall
2 16 (2.04%) Network Security
3 13 (1.66%) DSL
4 9 (1.15%) AMQP
5 8 (1.02%) VPN
6 6 (0.77%) WAN
7 5 (0.64%) DNS
8 4 (0.51%) Internet
9 3 (0.38%) Broadband
9 3 (0.38%) 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%) MQTT
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%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (21.71%) DynamoDB
2 85 (10.86%) NoSQL
3 79 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (7.66%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
7 41 (5.24%) Power BI
8 40 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.81%) MySQL
13 21 (2.68%) Big Data
13 21 (2.68%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.92%) MongoDB
15 13 (1.66%) Spark SQL
16 12 (1.53%) Delta Lake
16 12 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.28%) Metadata
18 8 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 161 (20.56%) Jenkins
2 126 (16.09%) Git
3 108 (13.79%) GitLab
4 51 (6.51%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.26%) Maven
6 45 (5.75%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 21 (2.68%) Snyk
9 18 (2.30%) JIRA
10 12 (1.53%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.53%) XCTest
11 10 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.89%) JUnit
12 7 (0.89%) MLflow
13 6 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.64%) Gradle
15 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.51%) Mockito
15 4 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 193 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.30%) Finance
3 55 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 33 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.45%) Banking
6 17 (2.17%) Publishing
7 16 (2.04%) Health Technology
7 16 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.66%) Advertising
8 13 (1.66%) Law
8 13 (1.66%) Tech for Good
9 11 (1.40%) Legal
10 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.89%) Billing
12 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Retail
13 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 274 (34.99%) Developer
2 235 (30.01%) Senior
3 111 (14.18%) Architect
4 109 (13.92%) Lead
5 92 (11.75%) Java Developer
6 87 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 65 (8.30%) AWS Developer
8 63 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (7.66%) Software Engineer
11 50 (6.39%) Data Engineer
12 45 (5.75%) Senior Architect
13 41 (5.24%) Cloud Architect
13 41 (5.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 40 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 37 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.73%) Security Architect
16 36 (4.60%) Lead Developer
16 36 (4.60%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (22.22%) React
2 155 (19.80%) Node.js
3 115 (14.69%) .NET
4 112 (14.30%) Spring Boot
5 102 (13.03%) AngularJS
6 100 (12.77%) REST
7 85 (10.86%) Spring
8 76 (9.71%) RESTful
9 67 (8.56%) Kafka
10 57 (7.28%) AWS CDK
11 52 (6.64%) HTML
12 44 (5.62%) .NET Core
12 44 (5.62%) Jest
13 43 (5.49%) Gherkin
14 41 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (5.11%) CSS
16 32 (4.09%) PySpark
17 30 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (3.83%) JSON
18 28 (3.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (20.05%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 22 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.17%) Blockchain
9 17 (2.17%) Web3
10 14 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.89%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.77%) Reinsurance
17 5 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.98%) Linux
2 16 (2.04%) VMS
2 16 (2.04%) Windows
3 12 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) CentOS
5 4 (0.51%) Debian
5 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 372 (47.51%) DevOps
3 282 (36.02%) Agile
4 274 (34.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (24.52%) Microservices
6 190 (24.27%) Mentoring
7 170 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (19.54%) Containerisation
9 150 (19.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 147 (18.77%) Software Engineering
11 137 (17.50%) Test Automation
12 127 (16.22%) Observability
13 125 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (14.18%) AI
15 108 (13.79%) Analytics
16 96 (12.26%) Event-Driven
17 87 (11.11%) TDD
18 79 (10.09%) SDLC
19 78 (9.96%) Continuous Integration
19 78 (9.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 306 (39.08%) Python
2 221 (28.22%) SQL
3 213 (27.20%) TypeScript
4 179 (22.86%) Java
5 159 (20.31%) JavaScript
6 118 (15.07%) C#
7 77 (9.83%) Bash
8 49 (6.26%) Groovy
9 42 (5.36%) Kotlin
10 40 (5.11%) Go
11 32 (4.09%) PowerShell
12 18 (2.30%) Bicep
13 17 (2.17%) Rust
14 16 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.53%) Swift
16 11 (1.40%) PHP
17 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.77%) C++
19 5 (0.64%) T-SQL
20 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (12.01%) Degree
2 93 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 88 (11.24%) AWS Certification
4 67 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 60 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (2.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (2.17%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.92%) OSCP
13 15 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (1.66%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.53%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.62%) Data Quality
1 44 (5.62%) QA
2 34 (4.34%) GDPR
3 21 (2.68%) GRC
4 17 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.66%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.89%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) NIST
8 4 (0.51%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.38%) 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
1 247 (31.55%) Docker
2 31 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.51%) iptables
5 3 (0.38%) 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
1 235 (30.01%) Terraform
2 176 (22.48%) Kubernetes
3 78 (9.96%) Ansible
4 54 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 48 (6.13%) Grafana
6 41 (5.24%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.30%) Kibana
8 12 (1.53%) Puppet
9 8 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.89%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.38%) Nagios
11 3 (0.38%) Scalr
12 2 (0.26%) Podman
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 97 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.60%) Databricks
3 25 (3.19%) Palo Alto
3 25 (3.19%) Tenable
4 21 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (2.30%) Oracle
6 12 (1.53%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.53%) Braze
7 10 (1.28%) Google
8 9 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 9 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.02%) IBM
9 8 (1.02%) Splunk
10 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.64%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.51%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.51%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.38%) Foundry