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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 153 195
Rank change year-on-year -58 +42 -27
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 748 798 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 2.12% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 5.81% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 487 609 907
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £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 £102,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.69%

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 24,879 13,729 29,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.36% 36.47% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,164 10,188 24,251
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.40% +8.70% -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 27 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 27 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 -76 294 £82,500 -10.81% 113
North of England +56 258 £75,000 +15.38% 60
Yorkshire +29 159 £75,000 +30.43% 15
Midlands -26 94 £55,000 - 18
North West +8 92 £75,000 - 41
East Midlands +1 66 £60,000 +9.09% 10
South East -108 42 £67,500 +12.50% 42
South West -64 41 £62,500 +4.17% 22
West Midlands -49 28 £50,000 -11.11% 8
East of England -48 19 £60,100 -29.29% 14
North East -41 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 15 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.07%) SAS
7 4 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.53%) Confluence
7 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
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 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
1 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 559 (74.73%) AWS
2 383 (51.20%) AWS Lambda
3 290 (38.77%) Amazon S3
4 256 (34.22%) Azure
5 177 (23.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (18.72%) Amazon ECS
7 124 (16.58%) GitHub
8 117 (15.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 110 (14.71%) Azure Functions
10 100 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
11 98 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
14 76 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (9.76%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
17 66 (8.82%) SaaS
18 65 (8.69%) GCP
19 58 (7.75%) Power Platform
20 56 (7.49%) Amazon ECR
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
1 171 (22.86%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 79 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (7.49%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (5.08%) Power BI
9 36 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (3.88%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.81%) MySQL
13 20 (2.67%) Big Data
14 17 (2.27%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.47%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.47%) Spark SQL
16 10 (1.34%) Metadata
17 8 (1.07%) RDBMS
18 7 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 114 (15.24%) Git
3 103 (13.77%) GitLab
4 48 (6.42%) SonarQube
5 47 (6.28%) Maven
6 44 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.21%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.14%) JIRA
9 15 (2.01%) Snyk
10 11 (1.47%) Crashlytics
10 11 (1.47%) XCTest
11 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.07%) MLflow
13 7 (0.94%) JUnit
14 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.53%) Gradle
15 4 (0.53%) JMeter
15 4 (0.53%) Postman
General
1 195 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.57%) Finance
3 55 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.34%) Banking
7 19 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.41%) Publishing
9 17 (2.27%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.01%) Advertising
11 14 (1.87%) Tech for Good
12 13 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.60%) Legal
14 11 (1.47%) Law
15 8 (1.07%) Retail
16 7 (0.94%) Billing
16 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 271 (36.23%) Developer
2 210 (28.07%) Senior
3 103 (13.77%) Architect
3 103 (13.77%) Lead
4 85 (11.36%) Java Developer
5 83 (11.10%) Senior Developer
6 68 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 63 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (8.29%) AWS Engineer
9 60 (8.02%) Software Engineer
10 45 (6.02%) Data Engineer
11 42 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (5.35%) Lead Developer
13 39 (5.21%) Senior Architect
14 38 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (5.08%) Python Developer
15 37 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
17 32 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (4.28%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (23.80%) React
2 156 (20.86%) Node.js
3 111 (14.84%) .NET
4 108 (14.44%) Spring Boot
5 99 (13.24%) AngularJS
6 95 (12.70%) REST
7 82 (10.96%) Spring
8 79 (10.56%) RESTful
9 60 (8.02%) Kafka
10 58 (7.75%) AWS CDK
11 54 (7.22%) HTML
12 47 (6.28%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.88%) Jest
14 42 (5.61%) CSS
14 42 (5.61%) Gherkin
15 40 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.88%) PySpark
18 26 (3.48%) JSON
18 26 (3.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.01%) Blockchain
8 15 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.01%) Web3
9 13 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.94%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
16 5 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.55%) Linux
2 16 (2.14%) VMS
3 15 (2.01%) Windows
4 11 (1.47%) 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
1 443 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 364 (48.66%) DevOps
3 278 (37.17%) Agile
4 260 (34.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (25.67%) Microservices
6 181 (24.20%) Mentoring
7 178 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 154 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (19.39%) Software Engineering
10 125 (16.71%) Test Automation
11 124 (16.58%) Observability
12 120 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (13.90%) Analytics
14 100 (13.37%) AI
15 86 (11.50%) Event-Driven
16 82 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
16 82 (10.96%) TDD
17 72 (9.63%) Computer Science
18 70 (9.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 297 (39.71%) Python
2 212 (28.34%) SQL
3 210 (28.07%) TypeScript
4 176 (23.53%) Java
5 167 (22.33%) JavaScript
6 110 (14.71%) C#
7 74 (9.89%) Bash
8 48 (6.42%) Groovy
9 39 (5.21%) Go
10 38 (5.08%) Kotlin
11 34 (4.55%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.27%) Bicep
13 16 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.87%) Rust
15 11 (1.47%) PHP
15 11 (1.47%) Swift
16 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.67%) C++
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 96 (12.83%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.03%) Degree
3 81 (10.83%) Security Cleared
4 60 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 33 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 17 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (1.87%) OSCP
13 13 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
14 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.15%) QA
2 42 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.61%) GDPR
4 16 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.01%) GRC
6 13 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.53%) 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
1 246 (32.89%) Docker
2 27 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.53%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 226 (30.21%) Terraform
2 176 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 74 (9.89%) Ansible
4 46 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.88%) Grafana
6 41 (5.48%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.41%) Kibana
8 10 (1.34%) Puppet
9 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.80%) Packer
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.40%) Nagios
12 3 (0.40%) Scalr
13 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.68%) Databricks
3 20 (2.67%) Palo Alto
4 16 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (2.14%) Tenable
5 13 (1.74%) Oracle
6 12 (1.60%) Google
7 11 (1.47%) Amplitude
7 11 (1.47%) Braze
8 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.07%) IBM
10 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.80%) Splunk
12 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.67%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.40%) Atlassian