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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 209 210
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 914 706 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.63% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 4.91% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 579 509 686
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.34% +0.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,000 £109,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 24,339 14,383 25,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 33.22% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 16,298 10,274 19,623
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -43 377 £85,000 +11.11% 140
North of England +100 283 £75,000 +15.38% 57
North West +51 127 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Yorkshire +34 122 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands -3 90 £57,500 -2.13% 22
South East -39 78 £65,000 - 35
South West -59 63 £60,500 +0.83% 26
East Midlands +24 59 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North East -18 34 £75,000 +15.38% 15
West Midlands -43 31 £62,500 +4.17% 15
East of England -36 16 £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 34 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.17%) Apache
3 19 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.20%) SAS
8 5 (0.55%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 663 (72.54%) AWS
2 429 (46.94%) AWS Lambda
3 321 (35.12%) Azure
4 295 (32.28%) Amazon S3
5 221 (24.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 196 (21.44%) Amazon ECS
7 159 (17.40%) Azure Functions
8 122 (13.35%) GitHub
9 114 (12.47%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (11.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 95 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 95 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (9.85%) GCP
13 89 (9.74%) SaaS
14 87 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
15 86 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
16 77 (8.42%) Power Platform
17 76 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
18 70 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
19 68 (7.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.06%) Network Security
2 25 (2.74%) VPN
3 21 (2.30%) Firewall
4 19 (2.08%) Internet
5 13 (1.42%) DNS
6 8 (0.88%) MQTT
7 7 (0.77%) DSL
7 7 (0.77%) VoIP
8 6 (0.66%) AMQP
8 6 (0.66%) BGP
8 6 (0.66%) IPsec
9 5 (0.55%) Broadband
10 4 (0.44%) IPv4
10 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.33%) DHCP
11 3 (0.33%) LTE
11 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) VLAN
12 2 (0.22%) 4G
12 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.93%) DynamoDB
2 101 (11.05%) NoSQL
3 91 (9.96%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.11%) SQL Server
5 64 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (4.16%) Power BI
10 37 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.05%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.83%) Big Data
12 27 (2.95%) MySQL
13 24 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.30%) Data Lake
15 18 (1.97%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.75%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.64%) Metadata
17 15 (1.64%) Spark SQL
18 13 (1.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 160 (17.51%) Git
2 145 (15.86%) Jenkins
3 93 (10.18%) GitLab
4 40 (4.38%) SonarQube
5 34 (3.72%) Maven
6 31 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 29 (3.17%) JIRA
8 25 (2.74%) Snyk
9 22 (2.41%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.64%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.53%) XCTest
12 13 (1.42%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.98%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.88%) JUnit
15 8 (0.88%) Selenium
16 7 (0.77%) JMeter
16 7 (0.77%) Mockito
16 7 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 226 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 159 (17.40%) Finance
3 75 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.72%) Law
7 33 (3.61%) Banking
8 21 (2.30%) Marketing
9 16 (1.75%) Military
10 13 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.20%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.20%) Legal
12 10 (1.09%) Advertising
12 10 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.88%) Billing
13 8 (0.88%) Retail
14 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 305 (33.37%) Senior
2 264 (28.88%) Developer
3 123 (13.46%) Lead
4 109 (11.93%) Architect
5 94 (10.28%) Senior Developer
6 89 (9.74%) Java Developer
7 81 (8.86%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (6.35%) Data Engineer
11 53 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 52 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (5.03%) Cloud Architect
16 45 (4.92%) Senior Architect
17 43 (4.70%) AWS Developer
18 42 (4.60%) Consultant
19 38 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
20 36 (3.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (18.93%) Node.js
2 152 (16.63%) React
3 133 (14.55%) .NET
4 115 (12.58%) REST
5 108 (11.82%) Spring Boot
6 105 (11.49%) AngularJS
7 89 (9.74%) Spring
8 84 (9.19%) Kafka
9 69 (7.55%) RESTful
10 56 (6.13%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.94%) Jest
11 36 (3.94%) PySpark
12 35 (3.83%) Gherkin
12 35 (3.83%) HTML
13 33 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (3.39%) JSON
15 28 (3.06%) OAuth
15 28 (3.06%) YAML
16 27 (2.95%) CSS
16 27 (2.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 228 (24.95%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.22%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.39%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.95%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.74%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.53%) IoT
14 13 (1.42%) Blockchain
14 13 (1.42%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.42%) Web3
15 12 (1.31%) Podcast
15 12 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.55%) Linux
2 32 (3.50%) Windows
3 22 (2.41%) VMS
4 14 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.44%) CentOS
7 4 (0.44%) Debian
7 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (57.77%) CI/CD
2 425 (46.50%) DevOps
3 339 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 334 (36.54%) Agile
5 249 (27.24%) Mentoring
6 226 (24.73%) AI
7 209 (22.87%) Microservices
8 188 (20.57%) Software Engineering
9 182 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
10 171 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 170 (18.60%) Test Automation
12 168 (18.38%) Containerisation
13 151 (16.52%) Observability
14 148 (16.19%) Analytics
14 148 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (14.88%) Event-Driven
16 121 (13.24%) Cloud Security
17 95 (10.39%) Roadmaps
18 90 (9.85%) Computer Science
19 88 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 367 (40.15%) Python
2 252 (27.57%) SQL
3 204 (22.32%) TypeScript
4 200 (21.88%) Java
5 153 (16.74%) JavaScript
6 141 (15.43%) C#
7 105 (11.49%) Bash
8 48 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 46 (5.03%) Kotlin
10 43 (4.70%) Groovy
11 42 (4.60%) Go
12 40 (4.38%) Bicep
13 35 (3.83%) PHP
14 22 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (2.30%) Ruby
16 18 (1.97%) Perl
17 17 (1.86%) Rust
18 14 (1.53%) Swift
19 11 (1.20%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 105 (11.49%) Degree
3 97 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 87 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (4.60%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (3.94%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.84%) Master's Degree
10 24 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.20%) OSCP
13 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.88%) PhD
15 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.02%) GDPR
2 49 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.92%) QA
4 25 (2.74%) GRC
5 17 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.66%) NIST
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 264 (28.88%) Docker
2 35 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.75%) vSphere
6 12 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 331 (36.21%) Terraform
2 205 (22.43%) Kubernetes
3 104 (11.38%) Ansible
4 51 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 46 (5.03%) Grafana
6 26 (2.84%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.19%) Packer
7 20 (2.19%) Puppet
8 15 (1.64%) Kibana
9 13 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.66%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 141 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.05%) Databricks
3 32 (3.50%) Oracle
4 30 (3.28%) Tenable
5 25 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.74%) OpenAI
5 25 (2.74%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.30%) Splunk
7 19 (2.08%) VMware
8 18 (1.97%) IBM
9 17 (1.86%) Google
10 14 (1.53%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.53%) Braze
10 14 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.53%) SAP
11 12 (1.31%) HP
11 12 (1.31%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.98%) AppDynamics
13 9 (0.98%) Salesforce