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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 218 214
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -64
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 959 669 944
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 4.64% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 595 475 586
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £45,625
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £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 24,775 14,406 23,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.25% 32.96% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16,810 10,216 17,046
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,025 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 15 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 15 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 -32 397 £85,000 +13.33% 452
North of England +97 303 £75,000 +15.38% 103
North West +60 136 £70,000 +3.70% 54
Yorkshire +48 123 £80,000 +33.33% 28
Midlands -2 85 £62,500 -3.85% 40
South East -11 84 £65,000 -7.14% 51
South West -59 66 £61,500 +2.50% 45
East Midlands +23 50 £60,000 +60.00% 15
North East -17 44 £75,000 +3.45% 21
West Midlands -44 35 £62,500 -3.85% 25
East of England -46 18 £59,450 +1.19% 19
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 37 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.02%) Apache
3 18 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.77%) Confluence
5 14 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.15%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.52%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) 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
1 696 (72.58%) AWS
2 455 (47.45%) AWS Lambda
3 343 (35.77%) Azure
4 309 (32.22%) Amazon S3
5 235 (24.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 206 (21.48%) Amazon ECS
7 176 (18.35%) Azure Functions
8 133 (13.87%) GitHub
9 116 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.78%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 99 (10.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 98 (10.22%) SaaS
13 96 (10.01%) GCP
14 94 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
15 85 (8.86%) Power Platform
16 82 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
17 81 (8.45%) Azure Logic Apps
18 74 (7.72%) PaaS
19 73 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.92%) VPN
2 25 (2.61%) Network Security
3 23 (2.40%) Firewall
4 21 (2.19%) 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%) DSL
8 5 (0.52%) VLAN
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
1 172 (17.94%) DynamoDB
2 95 (9.91%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (9.91%) NoSQL
3 69 (7.19%) SQL Server
4 63 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
6 47 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 37 (3.86%) Power BI
10 36 (3.75%) Big Data
11 27 (2.82%) MySQL
12 24 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.29%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.19%) MongoDB
15 19 (1.98%) Metadata
16 18 (1.88%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.56%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 175 (18.25%) Git
2 134 (13.97%) Jenkins
3 84 (8.76%) GitLab
4 36 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.23%) JIRA
6 29 (3.02%) Maven
7 27 (2.82%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.61%) Snyk
9 17 (1.77%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.46%) Crashlytics
11 13 (1.36%) TeamCity
11 13 (1.36%) XCTest
12 12 (1.25%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.04%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.94%) JUnit
15 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.83%) Mockito
15 8 (0.83%) Selenium
16 7 (0.73%) JMeter
General
1 235 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 186 (19.40%) Finance
3 77 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 65 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.21%) Banking
6 50 (5.21%) Law
7 35 (3.65%) Marketing
8 18 (1.88%) Retail
9 16 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.56%) Legal
11 14 (1.46%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Aviation
12 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
14 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.83%) Billing
16 7 (0.73%) Advertising
17 6 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 302 (31.49%) Senior
2 269 (28.05%) Developer
3 139 (14.49%) Lead
4 107 (11.16%) Architect
5 89 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 86 (8.97%) Java Developer
6 86 (8.97%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
9 61 (6.36%) Data Engineer
10 58 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (4.59%) AWS Developer
14 43 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
15 42 (4.38%) Consultant
15 42 (4.38%) Senior Architect
16 41 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
18 39 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (17.73%) Node.js
2 144 (15.02%) React
3 139 (14.49%) .NET
4 119 (12.41%) REST
5 103 (10.74%) AngularJS
6 100 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 84 (8.76%) Spring
8 80 (8.34%) Kafka
9 68 (7.09%) RESTful
10 59 (6.15%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.75%) Jest
11 36 (3.75%) PySpark
12 32 (3.34%) HTML
12 32 (3.34%) OAuth
12 32 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
13 30 (3.13%) Gherkin
13 30 (3.13%) JSON
14 29 (3.02%) OAuth2
15 28 (2.92%) CSS
16 27 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 252 (26.28%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.09%) Onboarding
4 49 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.50%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.09%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.46%) IoT
15 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.36%) Blog
17 12 (1.25%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.30%) Linux
2 35 (3.65%) Windows
3 18 (1.88%) VMS
4 13 (1.36%) 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
1 541 (56.41%) CI/CD
2 450 (46.92%) DevOps
3 352 (36.70%) Agile
4 350 (36.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (26.80%) Mentoring
6 248 (25.86%) AI
7 211 (22.00%) Microservices
8 210 (21.90%) Software Engineering
9 191 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (17.73%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.31%) Containerisation
12 162 (16.89%) Observability
13 158 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 157 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 148 (15.43%) Analytics
16 136 (14.18%) Cloud Security
16 136 (14.18%) Event-Driven
17 117 (12.20%) Roadmaps
18 106 (11.05%) Migration
19 102 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 379 (39.52%) Python
2 272 (28.36%) SQL
3 197 (20.54%) TypeScript
4 196 (20.44%) Java
5 155 (16.16%) C#
6 151 (15.75%) JavaScript
7 101 (10.53%) Bash
8 49 (5.11%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.38%) Bicep
11 38 (3.96%) Groovy
12 35 (3.65%) Go
13 32 (3.34%) PHP
14 29 (3.02%) Ruby
15 19 (1.98%) Perl
16 18 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (1.56%) Rust
18 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.36%) Swift
19 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 109 (11.37%) Degree
2 109 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.76%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.38%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.71%) Master's Degree
10 21 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.94%) OSCP
15 8 (0.83%) PhD
16 6 (0.63%) MBA
17 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.47%) GDPR
2 56 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.42%) QA
4 26 (2.71%) GRC
5 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.83%) 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 (27.32%) Docker
2 36 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.67%) vSphere
6 12 (1.25%) 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
1 348 (36.29%) Terraform
2 196 (20.44%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.26%) Ansible
4 43 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.17%) Grafana
6 21 (2.19%) HP Fortify
6 21 (2.19%) 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
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) SCCM
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 160 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.38%) Databricks
3 35 (3.65%) Oracle
4 31 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.23%) Tenable
5 25 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.61%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.29%) VMware
7 21 (2.19%) Google
7 21 (2.19%) Splunk
8 18 (1.88%) IBM
9 17 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.56%) SAP
11 14 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.36%) Amplitude
12 13 (1.36%) Braze
13 12 (1.25%) HP
13 12 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.15%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.04%) Salesforce