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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 98 193
Rank change year-on-year -111 +95 -36
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 678 1,167 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 3.07% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 8.09% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 439 594 898
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 22,166 14,426 28,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.64% 37.94% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,075 10,197 23,716
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 23 March 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 March 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 -83 279 £82,500 -13.16% 160
North of England +42 219 £75,000 +20.00% 100
Yorkshire +46 148 £75,000 +30.43% 45
Midlands -37 80 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West +3 68 £70,932 +3.74% 47
East Midlands -7 55 £60,000 +4.35% 3
South West -109 43 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South East -169 37 £67,500 +12.50% 68
West Midlands -30 25 £51,875 -5.68% 19
East of England -56 18 £60,100 -10.96% 22
North East -30 3 £51,000 -18.40% 10
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 (4.13%) Apache
1 28 (4.13%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.18%) SAS
6 7 (1.03%) Confluence
7 4 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.59%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 535 (78.91%) AWS
2 352 (51.92%) AWS Lambda
3 268 (39.53%) Amazon S3
4 245 (36.14%) Azure
5 160 (23.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (18.44%) GitHub
7 118 (17.40%) Amazon ECS
8 101 (14.90%) Azure Functions
9 94 (13.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 86 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
11 81 (11.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 78 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
13 76 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (10.62%) Amazon EKS
16 65 (9.59%) GCP
17 62 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
18 60 (8.85%) SaaS
19 59 (8.70%) Power Platform
20 43 (6.34%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.92%) DSL
1 13 (1.92%) Firewall
2 11 (1.62%) AMQP
2 11 (1.62%) Network Security
3 8 (1.18%) VPN
4 6 (0.88%) Broadband
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.44%) DNS
6 3 (0.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (19.47%) DynamoDB
2 84 (12.39%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 43 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (5.31%) Power BI
8 35 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (4.72%) Relational Database
10 28 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.69%) MySQL
12 20 (2.95%) Big Data
12 20 (2.95%) MongoDB
13 18 (2.65%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.47%) Metadata
14 10 (1.47%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 141 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 95 (14.01%) GitLab
3 92 (13.57%) Git
4 38 (5.60%) Cypress.io
5 36 (5.31%) Maven
6 35 (5.16%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.39%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.21%) JIRA
9 10 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.47%) JUnit
10 9 (1.33%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.33%) MLflow
10 9 (1.33%) XCTest
11 6 (0.88%) JMeter
11 6 (0.88%) Mockito
11 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.74%) git-flow
13 4 (0.59%) webpack
14 3 (0.44%) ESLint
14 3 (0.44%) Mocha
General
1 187 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.60%) Finance
3 53 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.39%) Banking
6 19 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.80%) Publishing
7 17 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.36%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.36%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.77%) Advertising
11 11 (1.62%) Law
12 10 (1.47%) Legal
13 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.74%) Retail
16 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 267 (39.38%) Developer
2 167 (24.63%) Senior
3 90 (13.27%) Architect
4 88 (12.98%) Lead
5 79 (11.65%) Senior Developer
6 77 (11.36%) Java Developer
7 66 (9.73%) AWS Developer
8 62 (9.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (7.96%) Software Engineer
11 49 (7.23%) Python Developer
12 40 (5.90%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.60%) Data Engineer
14 34 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 32 (4.72%) React Developer
15 32 (4.72%) Software Developer
16 30 (4.42%) AWS Architect
17 29 (4.28%) .NET Developer
18 26 (3.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (25.37%) React
2 141 (20.80%) Node.js
3 108 (15.93%) .NET
4 101 (14.90%) Spring Boot
5 81 (11.95%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.95%) Spring
6 72 (10.62%) HTML
7 71 (10.47%) REST
8 69 (10.18%) RESTful
9 61 (9.00%) CSS
10 56 (8.26%) AWS CDK
11 50 (7.37%) .NET Core
11 50 (7.37%) Kafka
12 38 (5.60%) Jest
13 34 (5.01%) Gherkin
14 31 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (3.69%) FastAPI
15 25 (3.69%) Flask
16 23 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 146 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.83%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.92%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.92%) Web3
9 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.88%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.72%) Linux
2 16 (2.36%) VMS
3 15 (2.21%) Windows
4 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.88%) Unix
7 5 (0.74%) CentOS
7 5 (0.74%) Debian
7 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (56.78%) CI/CD
2 320 (47.20%) DevOps
3 276 (40.71%) Agile
4 230 (33.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (27.58%) Mentoring
6 184 (27.14%) Microservices
7 164 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 140 (20.65%) Containerisation
10 132 (19.47%) Software Engineering
11 117 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (15.04%) Observability
13 92 (13.57%) Analytics
14 91 (13.42%) Test Automation
15 79 (11.65%) AI
16 77 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
17 74 (10.91%) TDD
18 72 (10.62%) Scrum
19 69 (10.18%) Data Modelling
20 68 (10.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 278 (41.00%) Python
2 190 (28.02%) JavaScript
3 182 (26.84%) TypeScript
4 180 (26.55%) SQL
5 166 (24.48%) Java
6 109 (16.08%) C#
7 68 (10.03%) Bash
8 37 (5.46%) Go
9 33 (4.87%) Groovy
9 33 (4.87%) PowerShell
10 29 (4.28%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (2.06%) Rust
13 10 (1.47%) PHP
14 9 (1.33%) Swift
15 8 (1.18%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.03%) Bicep
17 6 (0.88%) C++
17 6 (0.88%) Scala
18 5 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (14.75%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.27%) Degree
3 71 (10.47%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (6.34%) SC Cleared
6 38 (5.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.46%) Azure Certification
8 34 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 22 (3.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
11 20 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (2.21%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.06%) OSCP
14 13 (1.92%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.77%) DBS Check
16 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.19%) QA
2 34 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.39%) GDPR
4 14 (2.06%) SOC 2
5 13 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.88%) SLA
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 225 (33.19%) Docker
2 17 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) iptables
5 3 (0.44%) Firmware
5 3 (0.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 203 (29.94%) Terraform
2 157 (23.16%) Kubernetes
3 63 (9.29%) Ansible
4 46 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 44 (6.49%) Grafana
6 34 (5.01%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.65%) Kibana
8 10 (1.47%) Puppet
9 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.44%) Nagios
11 2 (0.29%) Packer
11 2 (0.29%) Scalr
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.83%) Databricks
3 11 (1.62%) Oracle
4 10 (1.47%) Google
5 9 (1.33%) Amplitude
5 9 (1.33%) Splunk
6 8 (1.18%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.03%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.74%) Pega
8 5 (0.74%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.74%) WSO2
9 4 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.59%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.59%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.44%) IBM
11 2 (0.29%) Apple