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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 216 208
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 -59
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 956 673 945
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.64% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 595 477 587
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +0.71% -

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 24,804 14,509 22,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.15% 32.99% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16,861 10,286 16,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -43 393 £85,000 +13.33% 84
North of England +90 305 £75,000 +15.38% 47
North West +54 136 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Yorkshire +51 124 £80,000 +33.33% 16
South East -25 84 £65,000 -7.14% 31
Midlands -1 83 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West -58 67 £62,500 +4.17% 27
East Midlands +25 48 £60,000 +60.00% 4
North East -19 45 £75,000 +3.45% 8
West Midlands -35 35 £62,500 -3.85% 6
East of England -46 18 £59,450 +1.19% 7
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 36 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.93%) Apache
3 17 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.78%) Confluence
4 14 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.52%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 692 (72.38%) AWS
2 452 (47.28%) AWS Lambda
3 344 (35.98%) Azure
4 307 (32.11%) Amazon S3
5 234 (24.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 208 (21.76%) Amazon ECS
7 177 (18.51%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.70%) GitHub
9 116 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
11 100 (10.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.25%) SaaS
13 97 (10.15%) AWS Step Functions
14 96 (10.04%) GCP
15 94 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
16 86 (9.00%) Power Platform
17 82 (8.58%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
18 74 (7.74%) PaaS
19 72 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.93%) VPN
2 25 (2.62%) Network Security
3 23 (2.41%) Firewall
4 21 (2.20%) Internet
5 14 (1.46%) DNS
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
6 9 (0.94%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) AMQP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 5 (0.52%) Broadband
8 5 (0.52%) DHCP
8 5 (0.52%) VLAN
9 4 (0.42%) DSL
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) LTE
10 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (17.78%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.04%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (9.73%) NoSQL
4 69 (7.22%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (4.50%) Relational Database
10 37 (3.87%) Power BI
11 36 (3.77%) Big Data
12 27 (2.82%) MySQL
13 24 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.30%) MongoDB
15 21 (2.20%) Data Lake
16 18 (1.88%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.88%) Metadata
17 15 (1.57%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (18.10%) Git
2 132 (13.81%) Jenkins
3 82 (8.58%) GitLab
4 36 (3.77%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.24%) JIRA
6 29 (3.03%) Maven
7 27 (2.82%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.62%) Snyk
9 16 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.36%) Crashlytics
11 13 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.26%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.26%) XCTest
13 10 (1.05%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.94%) JUnit
15 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.84%) Mockito
15 8 (0.84%) Selenium
16 7 (0.73%) JMeter
General
1 234 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 185 (19.35%) Finance
3 77 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 66 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (5.44%) Law
7 49 (5.13%) Banking
8 36 (3.77%) Marketing
9 18 (1.88%) Retail
10 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.46%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Aviation
12 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
14 10 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.73%) Advertising
15 7 (0.73%) Billing
16 6 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 300 (31.38%) Senior
2 269 (28.14%) Developer
3 139 (14.54%) Lead
4 106 (11.09%) Architect
5 88 (9.21%) Senior Developer
6 86 (9.00%) Java Developer
6 86 (9.00%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
9 60 (6.28%) Data Engineer
9 60 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (4.60%) AWS Developer
13 43 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.39%) Senior Architect
15 41 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (4.18%) Consultant
16 40 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (17.78%) Node.js
2 143 (14.96%) React
3 139 (14.54%) .NET
4 119 (12.45%) REST
5 103 (10.77%) AngularJS
6 100 (10.46%) Spring Boot
7 84 (8.79%) Spring
8 78 (8.16%) Kafka
9 67 (7.01%) RESTful
10 55 (5.75%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.77%) Jest
11 36 (3.77%) PySpark
12 32 (3.35%) HTML
12 32 (3.35%) OAuth
13 31 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
14 30 (3.14%) Gherkin
14 30 (3.14%) JSON
15 29 (3.03%) OAuth2
16 28 (2.93%) CSS
17 27 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 250 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.14%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.41%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.09%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.46%) IoT
15 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.36%) Blog
16 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.26%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.32%) Linux
2 35 (3.66%) Windows
3 18 (1.88%) VMS
4 12 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) CentOS
6 5 (0.52%) Debian
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (56.38%) CI/CD
2 450 (47.07%) DevOps
3 351 (36.72%) Agile
4 348 (36.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (26.78%) Mentoring
6 248 (25.94%) AI
7 210 (21.97%) Microservices
8 207 (21.65%) Software Engineering
9 193 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
10 167 (17.47%) Test Automation
11 165 (17.26%) Containerisation
12 160 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 160 (16.74%) Observability
13 156 (16.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 145 (15.17%) Analytics
15 136 (14.23%) Cloud Security
16 135 (14.12%) Event-Driven
17 117 (12.24%) Roadmaps
18 108 (11.30%) Migration
19 102 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 377 (39.44%) Python
2 268 (28.03%) SQL
3 196 (20.50%) TypeScript
4 194 (20.29%) Java
5 156 (16.32%) C#
6 152 (15.90%) JavaScript
7 104 (10.88%) Bash
8 48 (5.02%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.39%) Bicep
11 38 (3.97%) Groovy
12 33 (3.45%) Go
13 32 (3.35%) PHP
14 29 (3.03%) Ruby
15 19 (1.99%) Perl
16 18 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (1.57%) Rust
18 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
19 12 (1.26%) Swift
20 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 108 (11.30%) Degree
4 84 (8.79%) AWS Certification
5 49 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 46 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (4.50%) Azure Certification
8 38 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.72%) Master's Degree
11 21 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.84%) OSCP
16 8 (0.84%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.49%) GDPR
2 55 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.44%) QA
4 26 (2.72%) GRC
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 262 (27.41%) Docker
2 36 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.67%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 349 (36.51%) Terraform
2 194 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.40%) Ansible
4 42 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.18%) Grafana
6 21 (2.20%) HP Fortify
6 21 (2.20%) Puppet
7 18 (1.88%) Packer
8 14 (1.46%) Kibana
9 9 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.52%) Argo
11 5 (0.52%) Podman
12 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.31%) Scalr
13 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) SCCM
15 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 161 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.39%) Databricks
3 35 (3.66%) Oracle
4 31 (3.24%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.24%) Tenable
5 25 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.62%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.30%) VMware
7 21 (2.20%) Google
7 21 (2.20%) Splunk
8 18 (1.88%) IBM
9 17 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.57%) SAP
11 14 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.26%) Amplitude
12 12 (1.26%) Braze
12 12 (1.26%) HP
12 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.15%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.05%) Salesforce