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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 221 206
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 964 633 939
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.96% 1.47% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 4.50% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 603 437 499
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +2.11% -0.35% +1.79%

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 24,350 14,058 21,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.19% 32.57% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 16,922 9,812 14,213
10th Percentile £31,522 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,331 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,335 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
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 16 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 16 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 -32 395 £82,500 +10.00% 658
North of England +83 315 £72,500 +11.54% 155
North West +63 140 £68,750 +5.77% 102
Yorkshire +42 123 £80,000 +13.48% 34
South East -32 83 £65,000 -8.77% 80
Midlands 0 78 £62,500 +2.04% 61
South West -49 69 £60,500 +0.83% 76
North East -15 52 £65,000 -5.45% 19
West Midlands -43 42 £62,500 - 31
East Midlands +3 36 £65,000 +73.33% 30
East of England -65 12 £59,450 +1.19% 30
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 38 (3.94%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.70%) Apache
4 19 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.76%) Confluence
6 11 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.52%) SAS
8 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
9 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
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%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 677 (70.23%) AWS
2 461 (47.82%) AWS Lambda
3 361 (37.45%) Azure
4 304 (31.54%) Amazon S3
5 226 (23.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (21.06%) Amazon ECS
7 193 (20.02%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (13.49%) Amazon EC2
9 130 (13.49%) GitHub
10 104 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 104 (10.79%) Amazon EKS
11 96 (9.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 96 (9.96%) GCP
12 92 (9.54%) SaaS
13 89 (9.23%) Power Platform
14 83 (8.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 77 (7.99%) Amazon SQS
16 75 (7.78%) PaaS
17 71 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.22%) Firewall
1 31 (3.22%) VPN
2 24 (2.49%) Network Security
3 23 (2.39%) DNS
4 22 (2.28%) Internet
5 16 (1.66%) VoIP
6 14 (1.45%) DHCP
6 14 (1.45%) VLAN
7 9 (0.93%) MQTT
7 9 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.83%) AMQP
9 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.62%) BGP
10 6 (0.62%) IPsec
11 5 (0.52%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) IPv4
12 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.31%) Broadband
13 3 (0.31%) HTTP
13 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (16.70%) DynamoDB
2 96 (9.96%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (9.44%) NoSQL
4 81 (8.40%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (4.77%) Relational Database
8 36 (3.73%) Power BI
9 32 (3.32%) Big Data
10 30 (3.11%) Spark SQL
11 26 (2.70%) Data Lake
11 26 (2.70%) MongoDB
12 25 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.28%) MySQL
14 21 (2.18%) Hadoop
15 18 (1.87%) Metadata
16 11 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 196 (20.33%) Git
2 126 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 74 (7.68%) GitLab
4 36 (3.73%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.32%) JIRA
6 29 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 27 (2.80%) Maven
8 25 (2.59%) Snyk
9 14 (1.45%) JMeter
10 12 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.14%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.14%) JUnit
11 11 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.04%) Mockito
12 10 (1.04%) Postman
13 9 (0.93%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.73%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 229 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 192 (19.92%) Finance
3 102 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.81%) Law
7 53 (5.50%) Banking
8 38 (3.94%) Marketing
9 25 (2.59%) Retail
10 16 (1.66%) Legal
10 16 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.56%) Aviation
12 14 (1.45%) Military
13 13 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.93%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.73%) Advertising
18 7 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 289 (29.98%) Senior
2 263 (27.28%) Developer
3 131 (13.59%) Lead
4 102 (10.58%) Architect
5 88 (9.13%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.51%) Senior Developer
7 80 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 80 (8.30%) Java Developer
8 70 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (4.25%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.25%) Senior Architect
13 40 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
13 40 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
13 40 (4.15%) Consultant
13 40 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 38 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (36.72%) Terraform
2 162 (16.80%) Node.js
3 151 (15.66%) .NET
4 133 (13.80%) React
5 120 (12.45%) REST
6 102 (10.58%) AngularJS
7 97 (10.06%) Spring Boot
8 85 (8.82%) Spring
9 77 (7.99%) Kafka
9 77 (7.99%) RESTful
10 54 (5.60%) AWS CDK
11 53 (5.50%) PySpark
12 40 (4.15%) JSON
13 35 (3.63%) Jest
14 34 (3.53%) OAuth
15 32 (3.32%) Gherkin
16 31 (3.22%) HTML
16 31 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (3.11%) OAuth2
17 30 (3.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 256 (26.56%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
2 75 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 46 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 38 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.84%) Enterprise Cloud
7 32 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.22%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.56%) Blog
14 15 (1.56%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.45%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.45%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.35%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.57%) Linux
2 44 (4.56%) Windows
3 14 (1.45%) VMS
3 14 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.73%) CentOS
5 7 (0.73%) Debian
5 7 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (58.61%) CI/CD
2 457 (47.41%) DevOps
3 368 (38.17%) Agile
4 347 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 274 (28.42%) AI
6 262 (27.18%) Mentoring
7 214 (22.20%) Software Engineering
8 211 (21.89%) Microservices
9 191 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 173 (17.95%) Test Automation
12 161 (16.70%) Observability
13 158 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 156 (16.18%) Analytics
15 152 (15.77%) Event-Driven
16 148 (15.35%) Containerisation
17 135 (14.00%) Cloud Security
18 124 (12.86%) Roadmaps
19 113 (11.72%) Migration
20 111 (11.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 362 (37.55%) Python
2 286 (29.67%) SQL
3 213 (22.10%) Java
4 197 (20.44%) TypeScript
5 178 (18.46%) C#
6 173 (17.95%) JavaScript
7 104 (10.79%) Bash
8 45 (4.67%) Bicep
9 42 (4.36%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.25%) Kotlin
11 39 (4.05%) Groovy
12 30 (3.11%) Ruby
13 27 (2.80%) PHP
14 24 (2.49%) C++
15 22 (2.28%) Go
16 19 (1.97%) Perl
17 17 (1.76%) Shell Script
18 14 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (1.24%) Rust
20 11 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 126 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 101 (10.48%) Degree
4 84 (8.71%) AWS Certification
5 51 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 51 (5.29%) DV Cleared
6 43 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.62%) CISM
14 6 (0.62%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) MBA
14 6 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 62 (6.43%) GDPR
3 56 (5.81%) QA
4 27 (2.80%) GRC
5 24 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.83%) NIST
9 6 (0.62%) WCAG
10 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.52%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.10%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 254 (26.35%) Docker
2 44 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.66%) vSphere
6 12 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 185 (19.19%) Kubernetes
2 101 (10.48%) Ansible
3 38 (3.94%) Prometheus
4 37 (3.84%) Grafana
5 24 (2.49%) Puppet
6 20 (2.07%) Packer
7 18 (1.87%) HP Fortify
8 14 (1.45%) Kibana
9 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.52%) Argo
11 5 (0.52%) Podman
11 5 (0.52%) SCCM
12 4 (0.41%) Rancher
12 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.21%) Scalr
14 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 188 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.56%) Databricks
3 37 (3.84%) Oracle
4 34 (3.53%) Tenable
5 31 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.59%) VMware
8 24 (2.49%) Google
9 23 (2.39%) Splunk
10 18 (1.87%) IBM
10 18 (1.87%) SAP
11 16 (1.66%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.45%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.24%) HP
13 12 (1.24%) ScienceLogic
14 10 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.83%) Veeam
16 7 (0.73%) Foundry