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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 157 195
Rank change year-on-year -51 +38 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 752 781 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 2.06% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 5.71% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 490 608 905
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 24,956 13,682 29,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.26% 36.08% 35.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13,225 10,151 24,263
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 30 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 30 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 -63 299 £82,500 -10.81% 120
North of England +47 258 £75,000 +15.38% 62
Yorkshire +28 156 £75,000 +30.43% 16
North West +8 95 £75,000 - 42
Midlands -7 95 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands +7 68 £60,000 +9.09% 9
South East -100 42 £68,750 +14.58% 37
South West -66 40 £62,500 +4.17% 25
West Midlands -48 27 £50,000 -11.11% 6
East of England -34 19 £60,100 -29.29% 9
North East -31 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 (3.59%) Apache
2 26 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.06%) 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%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
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 7 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 559 (74.34%) AWS
2 381 (50.66%) AWS Lambda
3 286 (38.03%) Amazon S3
4 257 (34.18%) Azure
5 180 (23.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 139 (18.48%) Amazon ECS
7 122 (16.22%) GitHub
8 116 (15.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 113 (15.03%) Azure Functions
10 97 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 95 (12.63%) Amazon SQS
12 85 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
13 76 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
14 71 (9.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 68 (9.04%) SaaS
16 64 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
16 64 (8.51%) GCP
17 58 (7.71%) Power Platform
18 57 (7.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.13%) Firewall
2 13 (1.73%) DSL
2 13 (1.73%) Network Security
3 10 (1.33%) AMQP
4 8 (1.06%) VPN
5 6 (0.80%) WAN
6 5 (0.66%) Broadband
6 5 (0.66%) 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 (22.74%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.30%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (7.31%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (5.05%) Power BI
8 37 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (3.59%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.93%) Data Lake
12 21 (2.79%) MySQL
13 20 (2.66%) Big Data
14 17 (2.26%) MongoDB
15 12 (1.60%) Spark SQL
16 11 (1.46%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.33%) Metadata
18 8 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
19 7 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (20.48%) Jenkins
2 112 (14.89%) Git
3 104 (13.83%) GitLab
4 48 (6.38%) SonarQube
5 47 (6.25%) Maven
6 44 (5.85%) Cypress.io
7 25 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.13%) JIRA
8 16 (2.13%) Snyk
9 12 (1.60%) Crashlytics
9 12 (1.60%) XCTest
10 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.06%) MLflow
12 6 (0.80%) JUnit
12 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.53%) Gradle
13 4 (0.53%) Selenium
13 4 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 193 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.89%) Finance
3 57 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 30 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.46%) Banking
7 17 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (2.26%) Publishing
8 16 (2.13%) Health Technology
9 15 (1.99%) Advertising
10 13 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 11 (1.46%) Legal
11 11 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.33%) Law
13 7 (0.93%) Billing
13 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.93%) Retail
14 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (35.64%) Developer
2 215 (28.59%) Senior
3 106 (14.10%) Lead
4 105 (13.96%) Architect
5 86 (11.44%) Java Developer
6 84 (11.17%) Senior Developer
7 66 (8.78%) AWS Developer
8 62 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (7.58%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.38%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 40 (5.32%) Senior Architect
14 39 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (5.05%) Lead Developer
16 37 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (4.79%) Python Developer
18 35 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
19 33 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
20 32 (4.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (23.40%) React
2 156 (20.74%) Node.js
3 108 (14.36%) .NET
4 106 (14.10%) Spring Boot
5 100 (13.30%) AngularJS
6 95 (12.63%) REST
7 79 (10.51%) Spring
8 77 (10.24%) RESTful
9 62 (8.24%) Kafka
10 57 (7.58%) AWS CDK
11 52 (6.91%) HTML
12 45 (5.98%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.85%) Jest
14 42 (5.59%) Gherkin
15 41 (5.45%) CSS
15 41 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (3.99%) PySpark
18 26 (3.46%) JSON
19 25 (3.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.13%) Blockchain
8 16 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.13%) Web3
9 13 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.65%) Linux
2 16 (2.13%) VMS
3 15 (1.99%) Windows
4 12 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) CentOS
6 5 (0.66%) Debian
6 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (59.18%) CI/CD
2 363 (48.27%) DevOps
3 276 (36.70%) Agile
4 263 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (25.27%) Microservices
6 182 (24.20%) Mentoring
7 174 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (20.21%) Containerisation
8 152 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (19.28%) Software Engineering
10 128 (17.02%) Test Automation
11 126 (16.76%) Observability
12 118 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (14.23%) Analytics
14 103 (13.70%) AI
15 89 (11.84%) Event-Driven
16 82 (10.90%) TDD
17 81 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
18 72 (9.57%) Computer Science
18 72 (9.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 295 (39.23%) Python
2 212 (28.19%) SQL
2 212 (28.19%) TypeScript
3 174 (23.14%) Java
4 164 (21.81%) JavaScript
5 110 (14.63%) C#
6 73 (9.71%) Bash
7 48 (6.38%) Groovy
8 40 (5.32%) Go
8 40 (5.32%) Kotlin
9 32 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.26%) Bicep
11 16 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.86%) Rust
13 12 (1.60%) Swift
14 11 (1.46%) PHP
15 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.66%) C++
16 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 93 (12.37%) AWS Certification
2 91 (12.10%) Degree
3 81 (10.77%) Security Cleared
4 60 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.86%) OSCP
14 13 (1.73%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
16 7 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.85%) Data Quality
1 44 (5.85%) QA
2 28 (3.72%) GDPR
3 16 (2.13%) GRC
4 15 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.27%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) WCAG
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (32.45%) Docker
2 27 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.99%) 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 (30.05%) Terraform
2 173 (23.01%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.71%) Ansible
4 46 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.59%) Grafana
6 41 (5.45%) HP Fortify
7 17 (2.26%) Kibana
8 10 (1.33%) Puppet
9 8 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.80%) Packer
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.40%) Nagios
11 3 (0.40%) Scalr
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.79%) Databricks
3 21 (2.79%) Palo Alto
4 17 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (2.26%) Tenable
5 13 (1.73%) Oracle
6 12 (1.60%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.60%) Braze
7 11 (1.46%) Google
8 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.06%) IBM
9 8 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.80%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.66%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.66%) Splunk
13 4 (0.53%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.40%) Foundry