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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 218 210
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 -57
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 973 623 923
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.95% 1.45% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 4.46% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 608 430 501
10th Percentile £46,240 £47,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -0.34% +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 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +1.43% -

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 24,566 13,968 21,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.00% 32.53% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,992 9,762 14,135
10th Percentile £31,504 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%
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 21 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 21 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 -28 400 £80,000 +6.67% 617
North of England +79 313 £72,500 +11.54% 158
North West +44 138 £67,500 +3.85% 104
Yorkshire +34 122 £80,000 +13.48% 34
South East -32 85 £65,000 -8.77% 78
Midlands -22 77 £62,500 - 59
South West -42 73 £60,500 +0.83% 77
North East -9 53 £67,500 -1.82% 20
West Midlands -50 43 £62,500 - 31
East Midlands +1 34 £65,000 - 28
East of England -69 11 £59,450 +3.39% 23
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 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.67%) Apache
4 19 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.75%) Confluence
6 11 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.62%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.41%) SAS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (1.95%) 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
1 679 (69.78%) AWS
2 463 (47.58%) AWS Lambda
3 363 (37.31%) Azure
4 304 (31.24%) Amazon S3
5 225 (23.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 204 (20.97%) Amazon ECS
7 197 (20.25%) Azure Functions
8 132 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (13.46%) Amazon EC2
10 129 (13.26%) GitHub
11 110 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
12 105 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 95 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
13 95 (9.76%) GCP
14 93 (9.56%) SaaS
15 89 (9.15%) Power Platform
16 82 (8.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (8.02%) Amazon SQS
18 76 (7.81%) PaaS
19 70 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.29%) Firewall
2 31 (3.19%) VPN
3 24 (2.47%) Network Security
4 23 (2.36%) DNS
5 22 (2.26%) Internet
6 16 (1.64%) VoIP
7 14 (1.44%) DHCP
7 14 (1.44%) VLAN
8 9 (0.92%) MQTT
8 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) AMQP
10 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.62%) BGP
11 6 (0.62%) IPsec
12 5 (0.51%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) IPv4
13 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.31%) HTTP
14 3 (0.31%) SSL
14 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (16.24%) DynamoDB
2 100 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (9.25%) NoSQL
4 84 (8.63%) SQL Server
5 68 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (4.93%) Relational Database
8 46 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 46 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (3.70%) Power BI
10 31 (3.19%) Big Data
11 29 (2.98%) Spark SQL
12 27 (2.77%) MongoDB
13 25 (2.57%) Data Lake
13 25 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (2.36%) MySQL
15 21 (2.16%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.85%) Metadata
17 13 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 202 (20.76%) Git
2 125 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 72 (7.40%) GitLab
4 35 (3.60%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.29%) JIRA
6 28 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 26 (2.67%) Maven
8 25 (2.57%) Snyk
9 15 (1.54%) JMeter
10 12 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.23%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.23%) JUnit
11 11 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.13%) Mockito
11 11 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.03%) Postman
13 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.82%) Selenium
14 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.62%) Crashlytics
General
1 227 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 191 (19.63%) Finance
3 104 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.76%) Law
7 53 (5.45%) Banking
8 39 (4.01%) Marketing
9 25 (2.57%) Retail
10 18 (1.85%) Legal
11 16 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.54%) Aviation
13 14 (1.44%) Military
14 13 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.72%) Advertising
19 7 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 289 (29.70%) Senior
2 264 (27.13%) Developer
3 127 (13.05%) Lead
4 103 (10.59%) Architect
5 94 (9.66%) Software Engineer
6 81 (8.32%) Data Engineer
6 81 (8.32%) Senior Developer
7 77 (7.91%) Java Developer
8 71 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
8 71 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 41 (4.21%) AWS Developer
13 41 (4.21%) Senior Architect
14 40 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
14 40 (4.11%) Consultant
15 39 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (36.90%) Terraform
2 165 (16.96%) Node.js
3 151 (15.52%) .NET
4 138 (14.18%) React
5 127 (13.05%) REST
6 103 (10.59%) AngularJS
7 95 (9.76%) Spring Boot
8 84 (8.63%) Spring
9 80 (8.22%) RESTful
10 79 (8.12%) Kafka
11 54 (5.55%) AWS CDK
12 53 (5.45%) PySpark
13 43 (4.42%) JSON
14 35 (3.60%) Jest
14 35 (3.60%) OAuth
15 31 (3.19%) Gherkin
15 31 (3.19%) HTML
15 31 (3.19%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 264 (27.13%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.42%) AI Agents
6 38 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (3.19%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.06%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.64%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.54%) Blog
15 14 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.44%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.34%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.23%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.50%) Linux
2 44 (4.52%) Windows
3 14 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.34%) VMS
5 9 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.72%) CentOS
6 7 (0.72%) Debian
6 7 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (58.48%) CI/CD
2 460 (47.28%) DevOps
3 374 (38.44%) Agile
4 350 (35.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 279 (28.67%) AI
6 257 (26.41%) Mentoring
7 223 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 213 (21.89%) Microservices
9 190 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 177 (18.19%) Test Automation
12 166 (17.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 164 (16.86%) Observability
14 153 (15.72%) Analytics
14 153 (15.72%) Event-Driven
15 144 (14.80%) Containerisation
16 135 (13.87%) Cloud Security
17 128 (13.16%) Roadmaps
18 113 (11.61%) Migration
19 112 (11.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 364 (37.41%) Python
2 285 (29.29%) SQL
3 210 (21.58%) Java
4 200 (20.55%) TypeScript
5 182 (18.71%) C#
6 176 (18.09%) JavaScript
7 104 (10.69%) Bash
8 46 (4.73%) Bicep
9 42 (4.32%) PowerShell
10 40 (4.11%) Groovy
11 39 (4.01%) Kotlin
12 30 (3.08%) Ruby
13 27 (2.77%) PHP
14 24 (2.47%) C++
15 20 (2.06%) Go
16 19 (1.95%) Perl
17 17 (1.75%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (1.23%) Rust
20 11 (1.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 188 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 133 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 100 (10.28%) Degree
4 84 (8.63%) AWS Certification
5 54 (5.55%) DV Cleared
6 53 (5.45%) Azure Certification
7 42 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.62%) CISM
15 6 (0.62%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) MBA
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.47%) GDPR
3 56 (5.76%) QA
4 27 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.77%) GRC
5 14 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.82%) NIST
7 8 (0.82%) WCAG
8 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.51%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.21%) PMO
11 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 256 (26.31%) Docker
2 44 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.64%) vSphere
6 12 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 189 (19.42%) Kubernetes
2 103 (10.59%) Ansible
3 38 (3.91%) Grafana
3 38 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.47%) Puppet
5 20 (2.06%) Packer
6 17 (1.75%) HP Fortify
7 14 (1.44%) Kibana
8 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.62%) Rancher
10 5 (0.51%) Argo
10 5 (0.51%) Podman
10 5 (0.51%) SCCM
11 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.21%) Scalr
13 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 196 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.32%) Databricks
3 37 (3.80%) Oracle
4 34 (3.49%) Tenable
5 31 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 29 (2.98%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.57%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.57%) VMware
8 23 (2.36%) Google
8 23 (2.36%) Splunk
9 19 (1.95%) SAP
10 18 (1.85%) IBM
11 16 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.44%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.23%) HP
13 12 (1.23%) ScienceLogic
14 10 (1.03%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.82%) Veeam