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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 203 208
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 877 717 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.75% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 5.20% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 590 520 855
10th Percentile £52,450 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

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 23,450 13,794 30,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.40% 33.57% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,671 9,846 24,336
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -53 335 £85,000 +4.62% 110
North of England +77 281 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire +39 130 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +62 128 £73,750 +13.46% 27
Midlands +4 100 £55,000 - 21
South East -41 70 £67,500 +12.50% 51
East Midlands +32 68 £55,000 +4.76% 7
South West -49 68 £62,500 +4.17% 21
West Midlands -40 32 £52,500 -8.70% 14
North East -28 23 £75,000 +15.38% 9
East of England -37 19 £60,000 -20.00% 6
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 32 (3.65%) Apache
2 31 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.60%) Confluence
5 13 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.03%) SAS
8 5 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.46%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 629 (71.72%) AWS
2 425 (48.46%) AWS Lambda
3 308 (35.12%) Azure
4 299 (34.09%) Amazon S3
5 204 (23.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 176 (20.07%) Amazon ECS
7 158 (18.02%) Azure Functions
8 123 (14.03%) GitHub
9 115 (13.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 102 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (11.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 95 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (9.69%) Amazon SQS
13 85 (9.69%) SaaS
14 80 (9.12%) GCP
15 79 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
16 77 (8.78%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (8.32%) GitHub Actions
18 72 (8.21%) Power Platform
19 60 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.51%) Network Security
2 21 (2.39%) Firewall
3 20 (2.28%) VPN
4 11 (1.25%) DSL
5 10 (1.14%) Internet
6 9 (1.03%) AMQP
7 8 (0.91%) DNS
8 7 (0.80%) MQTT
8 7 (0.80%) VoIP
9 5 (0.57%) Broadband
10 4 (0.46%) IPv4
10 4 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.34%) DHCP
11 3 (0.34%) LTE
11 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.34%) VLAN
12 2 (0.23%) 4G
12 2 (0.23%) BGP
12 2 (0.23%) IPsec
12 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.18%) DynamoDB
2 89 (10.15%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.24%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 50 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 42 (4.79%) Power BI
7 40 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.76%) Relational Database
10 28 (3.19%) Big Data
10 28 (3.19%) MySQL
11 22 (2.51%) Data Lake
12 18 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.71%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.71%) Spark SQL
14 13 (1.48%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.48%) Metadata
15 10 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 160 (18.24%) Jenkins
2 155 (17.67%) Git
3 101 (11.52%) GitLab
4 42 (4.79%) SonarQube
5 38 (4.33%) Maven
6 34 (3.88%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.08%) JIRA
8 26 (2.96%) CircleCI
9 25 (2.85%) Snyk
10 14 (1.60%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.60%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.60%) XCTest
11 11 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.25%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.91%) JUnit
12 8 (0.91%) Selenium
13 7 (0.80%) JMeter
13 7 (0.80%) MLflow
13 7 (0.80%) Mockito
13 7 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 221 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 145 (16.53%) Finance
3 59 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.65%) Banking
7 25 (2.85%) Law
8 13 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.25%) Advertising
9 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.14%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.03%) Legal
11 9 (1.03%) Marketing
12 8 (0.91%) Publishing
13 7 (0.80%) Billing
14 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.68%) Military
15 5 (0.57%) Retail
16 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 281 (32.04%) Senior
2 274 (31.24%) Developer
3 112 (12.77%) Lead
4 105 (11.97%) Architect
5 98 (11.17%) Senior Developer
6 94 (10.72%) Java Developer
7 84 (9.58%) Software Engineer
8 75 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (6.27%) Data Engineer
11 54 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 51 (5.82%) AWS Developer
13 45 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
13 45 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (4.56%) Senior Architect
15 39 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (4.45%) Security Architect
15 39 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (4.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (19.73%) Node.js
2 169 (19.27%) React
3 127 (14.48%) .NET
4 111 (12.66%) AngularJS
5 109 (12.43%) Spring Boot
6 108 (12.31%) REST
7 87 (9.92%) Spring
8 76 (8.67%) Kafka
9 68 (7.75%) RESTful
10 54 (6.16%) AWS CDK
11 45 (5.13%) HTML
12 39 (4.45%) PySpark
12 39 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
13 38 (4.33%) Gherkin
14 35 (3.99%) .NET Core
14 35 (3.99%) Jest
15 34 (3.88%) CSS
16 32 (3.65%) JSON
17 29 (3.31%) YAML
18 27 (3.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 210 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 25 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.82%) Blockchain
9 16 (1.82%) Web3
10 14 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.07%) Linux
2 32 (3.65%) Windows
3 24 (2.74%) VMS
4 14 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.68%) CentOS
6 6 (0.68%) Debian
6 6 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (60.21%) CI/CD
2 417 (47.55%) DevOps
3 332 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 313 (35.69%) Agile
5 207 (23.60%) Mentoring
6 205 (23.38%) Microservices
7 189 (21.55%) Software Engineering
8 179 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
9 178 (20.30%) AI
10 177 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 169 (19.27%) Test Automation
12 165 (18.81%) Containerisation
13 160 (18.24%) Observability
14 135 (15.39%) Analytics
15 133 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 127 (14.48%) Event-Driven
17 109 (12.43%) Cloud Security
18 93 (10.60%) DevSecOps
19 86 (9.81%) TDD
20 85 (9.69%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 349 (39.79%) Python
2 251 (28.62%) SQL
3 215 (24.52%) TypeScript
4 191 (21.78%) Java
5 158 (18.02%) JavaScript
6 134 (15.28%) C#
7 98 (11.17%) Bash
8 51 (5.82%) PowerShell
9 50 (5.70%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.36%) Go
11 46 (5.25%) Groovy
12 39 (4.45%) Bicep
13 24 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (2.62%) PHP
15 20 (2.28%) Rust
16 14 (1.60%) Swift
17 10 (1.14%) Perl
17 10 (1.14%) Ruby
17 10 (1.14%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 94 (10.72%) Degree
3 82 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 72 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 44 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.33%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.53%) DV Cleared
9 28 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (2.39%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.71%) OSCP
14 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.57%) CISSP
17 5 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.13%) GDPR
3 38 (4.33%) QA
4 25 (2.85%) GRC
5 17 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.68%) NIST
10 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 252 (28.73%) Docker
2 32 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.82%) vSphere
5 12 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) iptables
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.34%) Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 301 (34.32%) Terraform
2 192 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 96 (10.95%) Ansible
4 55 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 50 (5.70%) Grafana
6 29 (3.31%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.17%) Kibana
7 19 (2.17%) Puppet
8 18 (2.05%) Packer
9 10 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.57%) Argo
11 4 (0.46%) Podman
11 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.34%) Scalr
13 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.23%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) logstash
14 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 122 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.99%) Databricks
3 30 (3.42%) Tenable
4 25 (2.85%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.85%) Oracle
4 25 (2.85%) Palo Alto
5 19 (2.17%) Splunk
6 18 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.94%) VMware
8 14 (1.60%) Amplitude
8 14 (1.60%) Braze
8 14 (1.60%) Google
9 12 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.37%) ScienceLogic
10 10 (1.14%) IBM
11 9 (1.03%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.68%) SaltStack
14 5 (0.57%) Foundry