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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 99 186
Rank change year-on-year -103 +87 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 636 1,283 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.06% 2.90% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 7.72% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 414 577 859
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +6.29% -4.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.58% +8.57% -3.45%

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 20,271 16,622 25,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.86% 37.54% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,237 10,008 21,587
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,919
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -81 278 £80,750 -15.00% 147
North of England +48 195 £73,750 +22.92% 89
Yorkshire +46 135 £75,000 +38.89% 42
Midlands +5 67 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North West +8 55 £75,000 +20.00% 44
South West -99 42 £62,500 +4.17% 39
South East -149 39 £67,500 +12.50% 54
East Midlands -1 38 £60,000 +2.13% 6
West Midlands -4 29 £55,625 +1.14% 17
East of England -51 14 £62,500 -3.85% 7
North East -10 5 £66,750 +6.80% 3
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 35 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.40%) Apache
3 17 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.20%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.26%) Confluence
7 5 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.31%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 495 (77.83%) AWS
2 336 (52.83%) AWS Lambda
3 249 (39.15%) Amazon S3
4 245 (38.52%) Azure
5 143 (22.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 110 (17.30%) GitHub
7 107 (16.82%) Amazon ECS
8 101 (15.88%) Azure Functions
9 91 (14.31%) AWS Step Functions
10 78 (12.26%) Amazon SQS
11 77 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (12.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 74 (11.64%) Amazon EC2
13 67 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
15 63 (9.91%) GCP
16 60 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
17 57 (8.96%) SaaS
18 51 (8.02%) Power Platform
19 37 (5.82%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.73%) AMQP
2 10 (1.57%) Firewall
2 10 (1.57%) Network Security
3 9 (1.42%) DSL
4 6 (0.94%) Broadband
4 6 (0.94%) VPN
5 5 (0.79%) Internet
5 5 (0.79%) SSL
6 4 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) 4G
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.16%) VSAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (18.08%) DynamoDB
2 78 (12.26%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.23%) SQL Server
7 44 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.35%) Relational Database
9 26 (4.09%) Power BI
10 23 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.46%) Big Data
11 22 (3.46%) MySQL
12 20 (3.14%) Data Lake
12 20 (3.14%) MongoDB
13 15 (2.36%) Hadoop
14 14 (2.20%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 118 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.31%) Git
3 73 (11.48%) GitLab
4 37 (5.82%) Cypress.io
5 30 (4.72%) Maven
6 29 (4.56%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.83%) JIRA
8 15 (2.36%) CircleCI
9 13 (2.04%) JUnit
10 12 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.57%) JMeter
12 9 (1.42%) Mockito
13 7 (1.10%) MLflow
14 5 (0.79%) git-flow
14 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.63%) Mocha
15 4 (0.63%) Vite
15 4 (0.63%) webpack
16 3 (0.47%) ESLint
16 3 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 177 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.99%) Finance
3 52 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (3.14%) Publishing
6 19 (2.99%) Tech for Good
7 18 (2.83%) Banking
8 17 (2.67%) Law
9 16 (2.52%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.89%) Advertising
13 11 (1.73%) Legal
14 8 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.94%) Retail
17 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.63%) Billing
17 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (39.31%) Developer
2 151 (23.74%) Senior
3 94 (14.78%) Architect
4 80 (12.58%) Lead
5 70 (11.01%) Senior Developer
6 61 (9.59%) AWS Developer
6 61 (9.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 61 (9.59%) Java Developer
7 59 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
8 53 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 47 (7.39%) Python Developer
10 43 (6.76%) Data Engineer
11 40 (6.29%) Lead Developer
12 36 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 35 (5.50%) Software Developer
14 32 (5.03%) .NET Developer
14 32 (5.03%) React Developer
15 29 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 25 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (3.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (27.04%) React
2 127 (19.97%) Node.js
3 103 (16.19%) .NET
4 95 (14.94%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.74%) Spring
6 77 (12.11%) HTML
7 76 (11.95%) AngularJS
8 70 (11.01%) REST
9 68 (10.69%) RESTful
10 63 (9.91%) CSS
11 50 (7.86%) AWS CDK
12 49 (7.70%) Kafka
13 46 (7.23%) .NET Core
14 36 (5.66%) Jest
15 30 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (4.40%) Gherkin
17 25 (3.93%) FastAPI
17 25 (3.93%) Vue
17 25 (3.93%) Web Services
18 23 (3.62%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 150 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.93%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.36%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.42%) Blockchain
11 9 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.42%) Web3
12 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.10%) e-Learning
13 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.35%) Linux
2 16 (2.52%) Windows
3 11 (1.73%) Unix
3 11 (1.73%) VMS
4 10 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.79%) CentOS
5 5 (0.79%) Debian
5 5 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 302 (47.48%) DevOps
3 251 (39.47%) Agile
4 204 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (29.56%) Microservices
6 173 (27.20%) Mentoring
7 154 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (20.13%) Software Engineering
10 122 (19.18%) Containerisation
11 106 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (13.21%) Observability
13 83 (13.05%) AI
14 77 (12.11%) Analytics
14 77 (12.11%) Data Modelling
15 73 (11.48%) SDLC
16 70 (11.01%) Computer Science
16 70 (11.01%) Scrum
17 69 (10.85%) TDD
18 67 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 264 (41.51%) Python
2 197 (30.97%) JavaScript
3 176 (27.67%) TypeScript
4 164 (25.79%) Java
4 164 (25.79%) SQL
5 112 (17.61%) C#
6 54 (8.49%) Bash
7 28 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.25%) Groovy
9 25 (3.93%) Go
10 13 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.89%) Scala
12 11 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.57%) Rust
14 9 (1.42%) Bicep
15 6 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.94%) R
16 5 (0.79%) C++
17 4 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 116 (18.24%) AWS Certification
2 88 (13.84%) Degree
3 74 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 59 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (7.08%) Azure Certification
7 43 (6.76%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (4.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 17 (2.67%) DV Cleared
11 17 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.57%) OSCP
14 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
18 3 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.92%) QA
2 26 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.77%) GDPR
4 11 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.73%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.57%) SLA
6 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.47%) WCAG
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.16%) GAAP
9 1 (0.16%) MiFID
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 202 (31.76%) Docker
2 17 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.10%) HDFS
5 3 (0.47%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) vCloud
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (28.77%) Terraform
2 146 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 51 (8.02%) Ansible
4 34 (5.35%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.19%) Grafana
6 28 (4.40%) HP Fortify
7 20 (3.14%) Kibana
8 9 (1.42%) Puppet
9 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.47%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.31%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.62%) Databricks
3 16 (2.52%) Google
4 13 (2.04%) Oracle
4 13 (2.04%) Splunk
5 11 (1.73%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.57%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.42%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.79%) IBM
9 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.79%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.63%) Pega
10 4 (0.63%) WSO2
10 4 (0.63%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.31%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow