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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 217 202
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 968 631 950
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.97% 1.45% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.94% 4.45% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 609 436 513
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.35% +3.21% -

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 24,596 14,167 22,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.55% 32.60% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17,090 9,871 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%
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 11 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 11 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 -33 390 £84,500 +12.67% 250
North of England +104 313 £75,000 +15.38% 58
North West +60 140 £68,750 +5.77% 38
Yorkshire +26 120 £80,000 +13.48% 14
South East -19 85 £65,000 -10.34% 42
Midlands -12 84 £62,500 +4.17% 23
South West -56 69 £60,500 +0.83% 33
North East -6 53 £65,000 -10.34% 6
West Midlands -35 43 £62,500 +4.17% 12
East Midlands +6 41 £65,000 +73.33% 11
East of England -59 15 £59,450 +1.19% 16
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 38 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.58%) Apache
4 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.76%) Confluence
6 12 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.72%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (1.65%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 681 (70.35%) AWS
2 462 (47.73%) AWS Lambda
3 358 (36.98%) Azure
4 303 (31.30%) Amazon S3
5 225 (23.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (20.87%) Amazon ECS
7 191 (19.73%) Azure Functions
8 130 (13.43%) Amazon EC2
8 130 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (13.22%) GitHub
10 102 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (9.81%) SaaS
12 94 (9.71%) Power Platform
13 92 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 92 (9.50%) GCP
14 84 (8.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
16 75 (7.75%) PaaS
17 70 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.20%) Firewall
1 31 (3.20%) VPN
2 24 (2.48%) Network Security
3 22 (2.27%) DNS
3 22 (2.27%) Internet
4 16 (1.65%) VoIP
5 13 (1.34%) DHCP
5 13 (1.34%) VLAN
6 9 (0.93%) MQTT
6 9 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.72%) AMQP
8 6 (0.62%) BGP
8 6 (0.62%) IPsec
8 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.41%) IPv4
9 4 (0.41%) SAN
9 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.31%) Broadband
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (16.53%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.12%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (9.19%) NoSQL
4 84 (8.68%) SQL Server
5 67 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (4.75%) Relational Database
8 39 (4.03%) Power BI
9 34 (3.51%) Big Data
10 32 (3.31%) Spark SQL
11 27 (2.79%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.58%) MongoDB
13 24 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (2.48%) MySQL
14 20 (2.07%) Hadoop
15 18 (1.86%) Metadata
16 13 (1.34%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 193 (19.94%) Git
2 125 (12.91%) Jenkins
3 71 (7.33%) GitLab
4 34 (3.51%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.31%) JIRA
6 25 (2.58%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.58%) Maven
6 25 (2.58%) Snyk
7 13 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.24%) JMeter
8 12 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.14%) JUnit
10 10 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.03%) Crashlytics
10 10 (1.03%) Mockito
11 9 (0.93%) Postman
11 9 (0.93%) XCTest
12 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 231 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 194 (20.04%) Finance
3 99 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 86 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.79%) Law
7 52 (5.37%) Banking
8 38 (3.93%) Marketing
9 24 (2.48%) Retail
10 17 (1.76%) Legal
11 15 (1.55%) Aviation
11 15 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.45%) Military
13 13 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.14%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.93%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.72%) Advertising
18 7 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 284 (29.34%) Senior
2 262 (27.07%) Developer
3 137 (14.15%) Lead
4 102 (10.54%) Architect
5 86 (8.88%) Software Engineer
6 84 (8.68%) Senior Developer
7 80 (8.26%) Data Engineer
8 78 (8.06%) Java Developer
9 71 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 41 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (4.13%) AWS Developer
14 40 (4.13%) Consultant
14 40 (4.13%) Senior Architect
15 39 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
16 38 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (36.47%) Terraform
2 163 (16.84%) Node.js
3 151 (15.60%) .NET
4 135 (13.95%) React
5 121 (12.50%) REST
6 99 (10.23%) AngularJS
7 97 (10.02%) Spring Boot
8 87 (8.99%) Spring
9 78 (8.06%) Kafka
10 74 (7.64%) RESTful
11 55 (5.68%) AWS CDK
11 55 (5.68%) PySpark
12 40 (4.13%) JSON
13 33 (3.41%) Jest
13 33 (3.41%) OAuth
14 32 (3.31%) HTML
15 30 (3.10%) OAuth2
15 30 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (3.00%) Swagger
17 28 (2.89%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 252 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (7.54%) Onboarding
4 46 (4.75%) Product Ownership
5 38 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 38 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (3.72%) AI Agents
8 31 (3.20%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.07%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.86%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.55%) Blog
13 15 (1.55%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.45%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.24%) IoT
15 12 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.33%) Linux
2 43 (4.44%) Windows
3 15 (1.55%) VMS
4 14 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.62%) CentOS
7 6 (0.62%) Debian
7 6 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (58.26%) CI/CD
2 455 (47.00%) DevOps
3 371 (38.33%) Agile
4 346 (35.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (27.58%) Mentoring
6 266 (27.48%) AI
7 208 (21.49%) Software Engineering
8 207 (21.38%) Microservices
9 189 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
10 178 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 176 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 166 (17.15%) Observability
13 161 (16.63%) Analytics
13 161 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 152 (15.70%) Containerisation
15 150 (15.50%) Event-Driven
16 135 (13.95%) Cloud Security
17 127 (13.12%) Roadmaps
18 113 (11.67%) Decision-Making
18 113 (11.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 368 (38.02%) Python
2 286 (29.55%) SQL
3 209 (21.59%) Java
4 193 (19.94%) TypeScript
5 177 (18.29%) C#
6 175 (18.08%) JavaScript
7 103 (10.64%) Bash
8 45 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 42 (4.34%) Bicep
9 42 (4.34%) Kotlin
10 37 (3.82%) Groovy
11 30 (3.10%) Ruby
12 29 (3.00%) PHP
13 23 (2.38%) C++
13 23 (2.38%) Go
14 19 (1.96%) Perl
15 15 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.55%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.24%) Rust
17 11 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 174 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 103 (10.64%) Degree
4 83 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 50 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 48 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 46 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.62%) CISM
15 6 (0.62%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) MBA
15 6 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.71%) GDPR
3 55 (5.68%) QA
4 27 (2.79%) GRC
5 24 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.72%) NIST
9 6 (0.62%) WCAG
10 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.10%) NCSC
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 254 (26.24%) Docker
2 43 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.65%) vSphere
6 12 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 185 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 103 (10.64%) Ansible
3 41 (4.24%) Grafana
4 40 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.38%) Puppet
6 20 (2.07%) Packer
7 16 (1.65%) HP Fortify
8 14 (1.45%) Kibana
9 12 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.41%) Rancher
13 4 (0.41%) SCCM
13 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.31%) Scalr
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 186 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.86%) Databricks
3 36 (3.72%) Oracle
4 33 (3.41%) Tenable
5 31 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.58%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.48%) VMware
8 22 (2.27%) Google
8 22 (2.27%) Splunk
9 18 (1.86%) IBM
10 17 (1.76%) SAP
11 15 (1.55%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.34%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.24%) HP
13 12 (1.24%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.14%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.93%) Amplitude
15 9 (0.93%) Braze