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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 204 209
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 859 710 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.77% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 5.20% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 576 518 858
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £94,688
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% 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 22,990 13,650 31,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.28% 34.09% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,309 9,707 24,826
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,314
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -51 326 £82,500 -1.49% 122
North of England +83 275 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Yorkshire +42 132 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +68 123 £75,000 +15.38% 25
Midlands +7 103 £55,000 - 18
East Midlands +35 70 £55,000 +2.33% 8
South East -44 69 £67,500 +12.50% 45
South West -45 64 £62,500 +4.17% 24
West Midlands -37 33 £52,500 -6.67% 10
East of England -33 21 £60,000 -27.27% 6
North East -35 20 £75,000 +20.00% 7
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 30 (3.49%) Apache
2 28 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.63%) Confluence
5 13 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.05%) SAS
8 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.47%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.81%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 615 (71.59%) AWS
2 416 (48.43%) AWS Lambda
3 299 (34.81%) Azure
4 298 (34.69%) Amazon S3
5 194 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 172 (20.02%) Amazon ECS
7 153 (17.81%) Azure Functions
8 123 (14.32%) GitHub
9 115 (13.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 102 (11.87%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (11.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (9.90%) Amazon SQS
13 85 (9.90%) SaaS
14 77 (8.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 76 (8.85%) GCP
16 75 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
17 73 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
18 69 (8.03%) Power Platform
19 59 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.44%) Firewall
2 20 (2.33%) Network Security
3 18 (2.10%) VPN
4 11 (1.28%) DSL
5 9 (1.05%) AMQP
5 9 (1.05%) Internet
6 8 (0.93%) DNS
7 7 (0.81%) MQTT
7 7 (0.81%) VoIP
8 5 (0.58%) Broadband
9 4 (0.47%) IPv4
9 4 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.35%) DHCP
10 3 (0.35%) LTE
10 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.35%) VLAN
11 2 (0.23%) BGP
11 2 (0.23%) IPsec
11 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.61%) DynamoDB
2 88 (10.24%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.89%) Power BI
9 37 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.84%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.26%) MySQL
12 27 (3.14%) Big Data
13 21 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.75%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.75%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.51%) Delta Lake
16 13 (1.51%) Metadata
17 9 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 157 (18.28%) Jenkins
2 154 (17.93%) Git
3 97 (11.29%) GitLab
4 40 (4.66%) SonarQube
5 37 (4.31%) Maven
6 33 (3.84%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.14%) JIRA
8 26 (3.03%) CircleCI
9 25 (2.91%) Snyk
10 14 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.63%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.63%) XCTest
11 11 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.93%) JUnit
13 7 (0.81%) JMeter
13 7 (0.81%) MLflow
13 7 (0.81%) Mockito
13 7 (0.81%) Selenium
14 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
General
1 215 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 139 (16.18%) Finance
3 59 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (6.87%) Public Sector
4 42 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (3.61%) Banking
6 23 (2.68%) Law
7 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.28%) Advertising
9 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.05%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.05%) Publishing
11 8 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.93%) Billing
11 8 (0.93%) Legal
11 8 (0.93%) Marketing
12 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.70%) Military
13 5 (0.58%) Retail
14 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 275 (32.01%) Developer
2 273 (31.78%) Senior
3 108 (12.57%) Lead
4 107 (12.46%) Architect
5 96 (11.18%) Java Developer
5 96 (11.18%) Senior Developer
6 82 (9.55%) Software Engineer
7 74 (8.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
9 54 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 52 (6.05%) AWS Developer
10 52 (6.05%) Data Engineer
11 45 (5.24%) Cloud Architect
12 44 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.77%) Senior Architect
15 39 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (4.54%) Security Architect
15 39 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (4.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (20.26%) Node.js
2 171 (19.91%) React
3 126 (14.67%) .NET
4 110 (12.81%) AngularJS
5 108 (12.57%) Spring Boot
6 107 (12.46%) REST
7 87 (10.13%) Spring
8 75 (8.73%) Kafka
9 67 (7.80%) RESTful
10 51 (5.94%) AWS CDK
11 46 (5.36%) HTML
12 38 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.31%) Gherkin
13 37 (4.31%) PySpark
14 36 (4.19%) .NET Core
15 34 (3.96%) CSS
15 34 (3.96%) Jest
16 33 (3.84%) JSON
17 29 (3.38%) YAML
18 26 (3.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 199 (23.17%) Cloud Native
2 72 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.98%) Blockchain
9 17 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.98%) Web3
10 15 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.51%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.40%) IoT
13 12 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.98%) Linux
2 30 (3.49%) Windows
3 22 (2.56%) VMS
4 14 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.58%) CentOS
7 5 (0.58%) Debian
7 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 408 (47.50%) DevOps
3 320 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 302 (35.16%) Agile
5 204 (23.75%) Microservices
6 202 (23.52%) Mentoring
7 184 (21.42%) Software Engineering
8 176 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 166 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 160 (18.63%) AI
11 160 (18.63%) Containerisation
12 153 (17.81%) Observability
13 132 (15.37%) Analytics
14 130 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 124 (14.44%) Event-Driven
16 104 (12.11%) Cloud Security
17 93 (10.83%) DevSecOps
18 86 (10.01%) TDD
19 85 (9.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 342 (39.81%) Python
2 249 (28.99%) SQL
3 214 (24.91%) TypeScript
4 190 (22.12%) Java
5 162 (18.86%) JavaScript
6 134 (15.60%) C#
7 92 (10.71%) Bash
8 51 (5.94%) Kotlin
9 47 (5.47%) PowerShell
10 45 (5.24%) Go
10 45 (5.24%) Groovy
11 37 (4.31%) Bicep
12 22 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (2.44%) PHP
14 20 (2.33%) Rust
15 14 (1.63%) Swift
16 11 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.93%) Perl
17 8 (0.93%) Ruby
17 8 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.29%) Degree
3 78 (9.08%) SC Cleared
4 71 (8.27%) AWS Certification
5 49 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 26 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 23 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.75%) OSCP
12 12 (1.40%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.89%) GDPR
3 37 (4.31%) QA
4 25 (2.91%) GRC
5 17 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.70%) NIST
10 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
14 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 246 (28.64%) Docker
2 32 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.63%) vSphere
6 10 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.47%) iptables
7 4 (0.47%) Squid
7 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.35%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 284 (33.06%) Terraform
2 182 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.24%) Ansible
4 54 (6.29%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.70%) Grafana
6 28 (3.26%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.33%) Kibana
8 17 (1.98%) Packer
8 17 (1.98%) Puppet
9 9 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.58%) Argo
11 4 (0.47%) Podman
11 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.35%) Scalr
13 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.23%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) logstash
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 120 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.07%) Databricks
3 30 (3.49%) Tenable
4 25 (2.91%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.91%) Oracle
4 25 (2.91%) Palo Alto
5 18 (2.10%) Splunk
6 16 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.75%) VMware
8 14 (1.63%) Amplitude
8 14 (1.63%) Braze
8 14 (1.63%) Google
9 11 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.16%) IBM
10 10 (1.16%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.05%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.81%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.58%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.47%) Foundry