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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 221 197
Rank change year-on-year +23 -24 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 959 634 947
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.97% 1.46% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.49% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 601 440 509
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,925 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,697 14,127 21,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.87% 32.55% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,106 9,832 14,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £104,000
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 9 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 9 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 -41 389 £85,000 +13.33% 415
North of England +93 305 £75,000 +15.38% 92
North West +60 135 £70,000 +7.69% 59
Yorkshire +25 117 £80,000 +20.30% 22
South East -9 84 £65,000 -10.34% 47
Midlands -14 84 £62,500 +4.17% 34
South West -51 69 £60,500 +0.83% 54
North East -13 53 £65,000 -10.34% 11
East Midlands +8 43 £65,000 +73.33% 14
West Midlands -40 41 £62,500 +4.17% 20
East of England -63 16 £59,450 +1.19% 20
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 37 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.50%) Apache
4 19 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.77%) Confluence
6 12 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.83%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) CMS
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 679 (70.80%) AWS
2 459 (47.86%) AWS Lambda
3 350 (36.50%) Azure
4 302 (31.49%) Amazon S3
5 229 (23.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 201 (20.96%) Amazon ECS
7 185 (19.29%) Azure Functions
8 128 (13.35%) Amazon EC2
9 127 (13.24%) GitHub
10 126 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
12 98 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 93 (9.70%) SaaS
14 92 (9.59%) AWS Step Functions
14 92 (9.59%) GCP
15 90 (9.38%) Power Platform
16 81 (8.45%) Azure Logic Apps
17 80 (8.34%) Amazon SQS
18 74 (7.72%) PaaS
19 68 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.23%) Firewall
1 31 (3.23%) VPN
2 24 (2.50%) Network Security
3 22 (2.29%) DNS
4 21 (2.19%) Internet
5 15 (1.56%) VoIP
6 13 (1.36%) DHCP
6 13 (1.36%) VLAN
7 9 (0.94%) MQTT
7 9 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.63%) AMQP
8 6 (0.63%) BGP
8 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SAN
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.31%) Broadband
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (17.00%) DynamoDB
2 97 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (9.49%) NoSQL
4 79 (8.24%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (4.59%) Relational Database
9 38 (3.96%) Power BI
10 34 (3.55%) Big Data
11 32 (3.34%) Spark SQL
12 25 (2.61%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.61%) MongoDB
13 24 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (2.50%) MySQL
14 18 (1.88%) Hadoop
14 18 (1.88%) Metadata
15 14 (1.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 189 (19.71%) Git
2 123 (12.83%) Jenkins
3 73 (7.61%) GitLab
4 35 (3.65%) SonarQube
5 29 (3.02%) JIRA
6 26 (2.71%) Maven
7 25 (2.61%) Snyk
8 23 (2.40%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.25%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.15%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.15%) Crashlytics
11 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.04%) JUnit
12 10 (1.04%) XCTest
13 9 (0.94%) Mockito
14 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.73%) JMeter
16 6 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 234 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 192 (20.02%) Finance
3 94 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 84 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (5.74%) Law
7 52 (5.42%) Banking
8 37 (3.86%) Marketing
9 23 (2.40%) Retail
10 16 (1.67%) Legal
11 15 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.46%) Aviation
12 14 (1.46%) Military
13 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.94%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.73%) Advertising
17 7 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 282 (29.41%) Senior
2 257 (26.80%) Developer
3 136 (14.18%) Lead
4 104 (10.84%) Architect
5 84 (8.76%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.55%) Senior Developer
7 77 (8.03%) Data Engineer
7 77 (8.03%) Java Developer
8 70 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 41 (4.28%) Senior Architect
14 40 (4.17%) AWS Developer
14 40 (4.17%) Consultant
15 39 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
15 39 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
16 37 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (36.50%) Terraform
2 162 (16.89%) Node.js
3 150 (15.64%) .NET
4 133 (13.87%) React
5 118 (12.30%) REST
6 98 (10.22%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.70%) Spring Boot
8 82 (8.55%) Spring
9 78 (8.13%) Kafka
10 73 (7.61%) RESTful
11 57 (5.94%) AWS CDK
12 55 (5.74%) PySpark
13 36 (3.75%) JSON
14 34 (3.55%) Jest
15 33 (3.44%) OAuth
16 31 (3.23%) HTML
17 30 (3.13%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
18 28 (2.92%) Swagger
19 27 (2.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 249 (25.96%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.51%) Onboarding
4 43 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 36 (3.75%) AI Agents
8 31 (3.23%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.09%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.98%) Mobile App
12 18 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.56%) Blog
14 14 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.46%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.25%) IoT
15 12 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.19%) Linux
2 42 (4.38%) Windows
3 15 (1.56%) VMS
4 13 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.52%) CentOS
7 5 (0.52%) Debian
7 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (58.19%) CI/CD
2 450 (46.92%) DevOps
3 363 (37.85%) Agile
4 348 (36.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 264 (27.53%) Mentoring
6 260 (27.11%) AI
7 205 (21.38%) Microservices
8 204 (21.27%) Software Engineering
9 190 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 171 (17.83%) Test Automation
12 165 (17.21%) Observability
13 163 (17.00%) Analytics
14 161 (16.79%) Full-Stack Development
15 154 (16.06%) Containerisation
16 150 (15.64%) Event-Driven
17 136 (14.18%) Cloud Security
18 123 (12.83%) Roadmaps
19 114 (11.89%) Migration
20 109 (11.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 367 (38.27%) Python
2 283 (29.51%) SQL
3 204 (21.27%) Java
4 189 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 173 (18.04%) C#
6 166 (17.31%) JavaScript
7 103 (10.74%) Bash
8 43 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.38%) Kotlin
10 41 (4.28%) Bicep
11 36 (3.75%) Groovy
12 29 (3.02%) PHP
12 29 (3.02%) Ruby
13 26 (2.71%) Go
14 23 (2.40%) C++
15 19 (1.98%) Perl
16 15 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (1.46%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.36%) Rust
19 11 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 170 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 117 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 105 (10.95%) Degree
4 83 (8.65%) AWS Certification
5 49 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 47 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.63%) CISM
15 6 (0.63%) CISSP
15 6 (0.63%) MBA
15 6 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.67%) GDPR
3 53 (5.53%) QA
4 27 (2.82%) GRC
5 20 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.73%) NIST
9 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.42%) WCAG
12 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
14 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.10%) NCSC
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 252 (26.28%) Docker
2 43 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.67%) vSphere
6 12 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.94%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (19.19%) Kubernetes
2 105 (10.95%) Ansible
3 41 (4.28%) Grafana
4 40 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.29%) Puppet
6 18 (1.88%) Packer
7 17 (1.77%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.36%) Kibana
9 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) SCCM
13 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.31%) Scalr
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.21%) Rancher
16 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 180 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.80%) Databricks
3 36 (3.75%) Oracle
4 33 (3.44%) Tenable
5 32 (3.34%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.61%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.50%) VMware
8 22 (2.29%) Dynatrace
9 21 (2.19%) Google
9 21 (2.19%) Splunk
10 18 (1.88%) IBM
11 15 (1.56%) SAP
12 14 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.36%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.25%) HP
14 12 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.04%) Amplitude
16 10 (1.04%) Braze