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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 223 205
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 971 615 916
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 1.42% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 4.41% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 614 424 492
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% -0.70% +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 24,357 13,960 21,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.54% 32.30% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,060 9,758 13,786
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,901 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%
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 26 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 26 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 -25 406 £81,250 +8.33% 539
North of England +88 304 £70,000 +7.69% 154
North West +52 139 £67,500 +3.85% 101
Yorkshire +24 111 £80,000 +13.48% 37
South East -8 87 £65,000 -8.77% 93
Midlands -16 77 £62,500 -1.96% 59
South West -49 73 £61,500 +2.50% 73
North East -13 54 £67,500 -1.46% 16
West Midlands -38 43 £62,500 -1.96% 32
East Midlands +3 34 £65,000 - 27
East of England -62 10 £57,500 - 28
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 39 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.78%) Apache
4 22 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.75%) Confluence
6 12 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.62%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) SAS
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.06%) 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%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 676 (69.62%) AWS
2 457 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (37.80%) Azure
4 300 (30.90%) Amazon S3
5 219 (22.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 198 (20.39%) Amazon ECS
7 197 (20.29%) Azure Functions
8 132 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (13.18%) Amazon EC2
9 128 (13.18%) GitHub
10 112 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.89%) GCP
13 95 (9.78%) SaaS
14 93 (9.58%) Power Platform
15 89 (9.17%) AWS Step Functions
16 80 (8.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 80 (8.24%) PaaS
17 78 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
18 69 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.30%) Firewall
1 32 (3.30%) VPN
2 25 (2.57%) Network Security
3 23 (2.37%) DNS
4 22 (2.27%) Internet
5 16 (1.65%) VoIP
6 13 (1.34%) DHCP
6 13 (1.34%) VLAN
7 9 (0.93%) MQTT
8 8 (0.82%) AMQP
8 8 (0.82%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.62%) BGP
9 6 (0.62%) IPsec
9 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.51%) SAN
11 4 (0.41%) IPv4
11 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.31%) HTTP
12 3 (0.31%) LTE
13 2 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (15.45%) DynamoDB
2 97 (9.99%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (9.06%) NoSQL
4 86 (8.86%) SQL Server
5 72 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
7 54 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 49 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (4.02%) Power BI
12 30 (3.09%) Big Data
13 28 (2.88%) MongoDB
14 27 (2.78%) Spark SQL
15 25 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (2.47%) Data Lake
17 23 (2.37%) MySQL
18 21 (2.16%) Hadoop
19 20 (2.06%) Metadata
20 15 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 204 (21.01%) Git
2 119 (12.26%) Jenkins
3 70 (7.21%) GitLab
4 32 (3.30%) JIRA
5 31 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 25 (2.57%) Snyk
7 24 (2.47%) Cypress.io
8 21 (2.16%) Maven
9 15 (1.54%) JMeter
10 13 (1.34%) Claude Code
11 12 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.24%) JUnit
12 11 (1.13%) Mockito
12 11 (1.13%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.03%) Postman
14 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.72%) Selenium
16 6 (0.62%) Crashlytics
General
1 226 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 192 (19.77%) Finance
3 111 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.77%) Law
7 54 (5.56%) Banking
8 39 (4.02%) Marketing
9 25 (2.57%) Retail
10 19 (1.96%) Legal
11 16 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.54%) Aviation
13 14 (1.44%) Military
14 13 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.72%) Billing
20 6 (0.62%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 291 (29.97%) Senior
2 254 (26.16%) Developer
3 123 (12.67%) Lead
4 110 (11.33%) Architect
5 97 (9.99%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.44%) Data Engineer
7 80 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 73 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
8 73 (7.52%) Java Developer
9 68 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 67 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 60 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.53%) Senior Architect
13 43 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 43 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
15 40 (4.12%) AWS Developer
15 40 (4.12%) Consultant
16 39 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
16 39 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (37.08%) Terraform
2 164 (16.89%) Node.js
3 149 (15.35%) .NET
4 144 (14.83%) React
5 129 (13.29%) REST
6 99 (10.20%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.58%) Spring Boot
8 86 (8.86%) Spring
9 81 (8.34%) Kafka
9 81 (8.34%) RESTful
10 54 (5.56%) AWS CDK
11 52 (5.36%) PySpark
12 44 (4.53%) JSON
13 32 (3.30%) Jest
14 31 (3.19%) Swagger
15 30 (3.09%) OAuth
15 30 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (2.88%) HTML
17 27 (2.78%) Gherkin
17 27 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 269 (27.70%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (7.93%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 44 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 39 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.30%) Data Centre
9 30 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.16%) Management Information System
12 20 (2.06%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.54%) Blog
13 15 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.54%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.54%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.24%) Podcast
16 11 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.31%) Linux
2 43 (4.43%) Windows
3 13 (1.34%) VMS
3 13 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.72%) CentOS
4 7 (0.72%) Debian
4 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (58.60%) CI/CD
2 460 (47.37%) DevOps
3 376 (38.72%) Agile
4 351 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 282 (29.04%) AI
6 254 (26.16%) Mentoring
7 233 (24.00%) Software Engineering
8 218 (22.45%) Microservices
9 187 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 183 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
11 175 (18.02%) Test Automation
12 165 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 163 (16.79%) Observability
14 157 (16.17%) Analytics
15 154 (15.86%) Event-Driven
16 142 (14.62%) Containerisation
17 140 (14.42%) Cloud Security
18 135 (13.90%) Roadmaps
19 118 (12.15%) Migration
20 111 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 358 (36.87%) Python
2 281 (28.94%) SQL
3 208 (21.42%) Java
4 195 (20.08%) TypeScript
5 182 (18.74%) C#
6 170 (17.51%) JavaScript
7 98 (10.09%) Bash
8 49 (5.05%) Bicep
9 41 (4.22%) PowerShell
10 35 (3.60%) Groovy
10 35 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 30 (3.09%) Ruby
12 27 (2.78%) PHP
13 26 (2.68%) C++
14 20 (2.06%) Go
15 19 (1.96%) Perl
16 17 (1.75%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.24%) Rust
19 11 (1.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 187 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 132 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.09%) Degree
4 80 (8.24%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.87%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.62%) CISM
16 6 (0.62%) CISSP
16 6 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.59%) GDPR
3 56 (5.77%) QA
4 28 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.78%) GRC
6 14 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.93%) NIST
8 8 (0.82%) WCAG
9 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.51%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 250 (25.75%) Docker
2 43 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.65%) vSphere
6 12 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 194 (19.98%) Kubernetes
2 103 (10.61%) Ansible
3 41 (4.22%) Grafana
4 37 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.47%) Puppet
6 22 (2.27%) Packer
7 14 (1.44%) Kibana
8 13 (1.34%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.62%) Rancher
11 5 (0.51%) Argo
11 5 (0.51%) Podman
11 5 (0.51%) SCCM
12 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.10%) Scalr
Vendors
1 201 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.33%) Databricks
3 38 (3.91%) Oracle
4 34 (3.50%) Dynatrace
4 34 (3.50%) Tenable
5 31 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.57%) Palo Alto
6 25 (2.57%) VMware
7 23 (2.37%) Google
7 23 (2.37%) Splunk
8 20 (2.06%) SAP
9 18 (1.85%) IBM
10 14 (1.44%) AppDynamics
10 14 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.24%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.13%) HP
13 10 (1.03%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.72%) SaltStack