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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 206 153
Rank change year-on-year -16 -53 -73
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 633 939 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.47% 1.37% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.50% 4.30% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 437 499 913
10th Percentile £47,300 £47,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +1.79% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 14,052 21,845 23,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.56% 31.79% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,808 14,211 19,383
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +36 360 £75,000 -11.76% 208
North of England -7 91 £65,000 +18.18% 86
South East -29 62 £71,250 +14.00% 92
North West -24 52 £65,000 +18.18% 52
South West +49 47 £60,000 -17.24% 19
Midlands +13 47 £61,250 +4.70% 19
West Midlands +48 45 £62,500 -7.41% 8
East of England 0 45 £58,750 -2.08% 15
Yorkshire +13 37 £70,500 +25.33% 24
North East +11 2 £68,750 +19.57% 11
East Midlands -5 2 £37,500 -25.00% 6
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (4.90%) Confluence
2 29 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 22 (3.48%) Apache
4 16 (2.53%) Headless CMS
5 10 (1.58%) CMS
6 8 (1.26%) JBoss
7 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.95%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.79%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.16%) Mule
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Shopify
2 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 478 (75.51%) AWS
2 342 (54.03%) AWS Lambda
3 269 (42.50%) Azure
4 173 (27.33%) Amazon S3
5 129 (20.38%) Amazon EC2
6 110 (17.38%) Amazon ECS
7 104 (16.43%) Azure Functions
8 82 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
9 76 (12.01%) GitHub
10 68 (10.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (10.74%) SaaS
11 64 (10.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 61 (9.64%) AWS Step Functions
13 60 (9.48%) GCP
14 55 (8.69%) Amazon SQS
14 55 (8.69%) Power Platform
15 50 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
16 48 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (7.11%) PaaS
18 40 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.69%) Firewall
2 16 (2.53%) Internet
3 14 (2.21%) Wireless
4 11 (1.74%) DNS
4 11 (1.74%) Network Security
4 11 (1.74%) SSL
5 10 (1.58%) Broadband
5 10 (1.58%) VPN
6 8 (1.26%) HTTP
6 8 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.95%) VLAN
8 5 (0.79%) DHCP
8 5 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.79%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.47%) AMQP
10 2 (0.32%) IPv4
10 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 2 (0.32%) SSH
10 2 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (19.43%) DynamoDB
2 84 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 56 (8.85%) SQL Server
6 48 (7.58%) Relational Database
7 45 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (6.64%) Big Data
9 41 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
11 30 (4.74%) MongoDB
12 29 (4.58%) RDBMS
13 28 (4.42%) Data Lake
14 24 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (3.00%) MySQL
16 18 (2.84%) Power BI
17 16 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (2.05%) Hadoop
19 12 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 96 (15.17%) Jenkins
2 71 (11.22%) Git
3 50 (7.90%) JIRA
4 41 (6.48%) JUnit
5 32 (5.06%) Mockito
6 31 (4.90%) JMeter
7 27 (4.27%) GitLab
8 16 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.74%) Selenium
10 9 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.26%) Locust
12 7 (1.11%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.11%) PowerBuilder
13 6 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.79%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.79%) Maven
14 5 (0.79%) Postman
14 5 (0.79%) Storybook
14 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.79%) Vite
General
1 159 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 141 (22.27%) Finance
3 82 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.37%) Law
5 46 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (6.00%) Tech for Good
7 35 (5.53%) Marketing
8 32 (5.06%) Publishing
9 30 (4.74%) Health Technology
10 29 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (4.42%) Banking
12 24 (3.79%) Retail
13 19 (3.00%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.37%) Automotive
15 13 (2.05%) Games
16 12 (1.90%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.42%) Electronics
18 8 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 233 (36.81%) Developer
2 196 (30.96%) Senior
3 117 (18.48%) Senior Developer
4 99 (15.64%) Lead
5 66 (10.43%) Java Developer
6 58 (9.16%) Architect
7 55 (8.69%) Data Engineer
7 55 (8.69%) Software Engineer
8 50 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (6.95%) Python Developer
10 34 (5.37%) AWS Developer
11 31 (4.90%) Senior Python Developer
12 28 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
13 27 (4.27%) Software Developer
14 26 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
14 26 (4.11%) Support Engineer
15 25 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (3.95%) Technical Leader
16 24 (3.79%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (25.43%) React
2 113 (17.85%) REST
3 98 (15.48%) RESTful
4 97 (15.32%) .NET
5 81 (12.80%) HTML
6 78 (12.32%) Spring Boot
7 74 (11.69%) Node.js
8 73 (11.53%) Spring
9 58 (9.16%) GraphQL
9 58 (9.16%) Kafka
10 54 (8.53%) CSS
11 52 (8.21%) AngularJS
12 51 (8.06%) Web Services
13 35 (5.53%) JSON
14 34 (5.37%) Apache Camel
15 33 (5.21%) Vue
16 32 (5.06%) .NET Core
16 32 (5.06%) ActiveMQ
17 31 (4.90%) Swagger
18 29 (4.58%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 112 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 55 (8.69%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.84%) IoT
7 15 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.05%) e-Learning
9 12 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.26%) Reinsurance
14 7 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
16 5 (0.79%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.00%) Linux
2 16 (2.53%) Windows
3 9 (1.42%) Unix
4 6 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.79%) VMS
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (49.45%) CI/CD
2 288 (45.50%) DevOps
3 275 (43.44%) Agile
4 167 (26.38%) Microservices
5 152 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (21.80%) Software Engineering
7 121 (19.12%) Mentoring
8 117 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 114 (18.01%) TDD
10 108 (17.06%) Containerisation
11 105 (16.59%) Analytics
12 102 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 91 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (14.06%) Scrum
15 84 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
16 80 (12.64%) Data Science
17 72 (11.37%) Machine Learning
18 67 (10.58%) Data Modelling
18 67 (10.58%) ETL
19 66 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 294 (46.45%) Python
2 184 (29.07%) Java
3 170 (26.86%) SQL
4 169 (26.70%) JavaScript
5 152 (24.01%) TypeScript
6 103 (16.27%) C#
7 53 (8.37%) PowerShell
8 34 (5.37%) Shell Script
9 29 (4.58%) Bash
10 23 (3.63%) Scala
11 18 (2.84%) Go
12 16 (2.53%) Bicep
13 13 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.42%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.11%) PHP
16 6 (0.95%) Rust
17 5 (0.79%) C++
17 5 (0.79%) R
18 4 (0.63%) Groovy
18 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 82 (12.95%) Degree
3 68 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 52 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 43 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (5.69%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (2.21%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.05%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.11%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.63%) PhD
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.11%) QA
2 35 (5.53%) GDPR
3 23 (3.63%) SLA
4 21 (3.32%) PCI DSS
5 18 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.21%) NIST
6 14 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.90%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.74%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.42%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.47%) WCAG
12 1 (0.16%) CDISC
12 1 (0.16%) DICOM
12 1 (0.16%) GAAP
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 166 (26.22%) Docker
2 16 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.79%) HDFS
5 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.32%) Firmware
6 2 (0.32%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) iptables
7 1 (0.16%) vCloud
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 162 (25.59%) Kubernetes
2 132 (20.85%) Terraform
3 35 (5.53%) Prometheus
4 34 (5.37%) Ansible
5 31 (4.90%) Kibana
6 29 (4.58%) Grafana
7 10 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.63%) Nagios
10 4 (0.63%) Nessus
10 4 (0.63%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.47%) Puppet
12 2 (0.32%) Argo
12 2 (0.32%) logstash
13 1 (0.16%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.16%) Podman
13 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.06%) Splunk
3 31 (4.90%) Databricks
3 31 (4.90%) Google
4 30 (4.74%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.79%) Oracle
6 21 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 19 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.84%) Atlassian
9 15 (2.37%) Informatica
10 14 (2.21%) MuleSoft
11 13 (2.05%) IBM
12 10 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.42%) Apple
14 8 (1.26%) SAP
15 6 (0.95%) Red Hat
16 5 (0.79%) Citrix
16 5 (0.79%) HP
16 5 (0.79%) SimCorp
16 5 (0.79%) Veeam