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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 96 187
Rank change year-on-year -108 +91 -18
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 702 1,142 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 3.12% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 8.27% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 455 603 912
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.04% +1.38%

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 22,996 13,803 28,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.65% 37.77% 36.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,418 10,138 23,913
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -96 281 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +41 243 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +42 167 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -24 79 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West +1 73 £75,000 +8.30% 47
East Midlands -5 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -119 45 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -172 39 £70,000 +16.67% 61
West Midlands -46 24 £51,875 -5.68% 18
East of England -74 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
North East -32 3 £51,000 -18.40% 11
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 27 (3.85%) Apache
1 27 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.14%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.28%) SAS
6 6 (0.85%) Confluence
7 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.57%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 555 (79.06%) AWS
2 367 (52.28%) AWS Lambda
3 281 (40.03%) Amazon S3
4 250 (35.61%) Azure
5 170 (24.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 135 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
7 129 (18.38%) GitHub
8 105 (14.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 104 (14.81%) Azure Functions
10 91 (12.96%) Amazon SQS
11 89 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
14 77 (10.97%) Amazon EKS
15 74 (10.54%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
16 67 (9.54%) GCP
17 60 (8.55%) SaaS
18 58 (8.26%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.26%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.14%) Firewall
2 13 (1.85%) DSL
3 11 (1.57%) AMQP
3 11 (1.57%) Network Security
4 8 (1.14%) VPN
5 6 (0.85%) Broadband
6 5 (0.71%) WAN
7 4 (0.57%) DNS
8 3 (0.43%) SSL
9 2 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.14%) 4G
10 1 (0.14%) 5G
10 1 (0.14%) DHCP
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.14%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (20.94%) DynamoDB
2 86 (12.25%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (5.13%) Power BI
8 35 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (4.70%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (3.70%) MySQL
13 21 (2.99%) Big Data
13 21 (2.99%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.99%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.42%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.42%) Metadata
15 9 (1.28%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (21.94%) Jenkins
2 105 (14.96%) Git
3 102 (14.53%) GitLab
4 46 (6.55%) SonarQube
5 44 (6.27%) Cypress.io
6 43 (6.13%) Maven
7 23 (3.28%) CircleCI
8 18 (2.56%) JIRA
9 10 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.28%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.28%) MLflow
10 9 (1.28%) XCTest
11 8 (1.14%) JUnit
12 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.71%) git-flow
14 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.57%) JMeter
14 4 (0.57%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 188 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 97 (13.82%) Finance
3 57 (8.12%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.13%) Banking
6 19 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.71%) Publishing
7 17 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.28%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.28%) Tech for Good
9 14 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.85%) Advertising
11 10 (1.42%) Law
11 10 (1.42%) Legal
12 8 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.71%) Retail
14 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.57%) Billing
14 4 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 283 (40.31%) Developer
2 171 (24.36%) Senior
3 93 (13.25%) Lead
4 89 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.25%) Architect
6 78 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 69 (9.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (9.54%) AWS Developer
9 59 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (7.83%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.84%) Python Developer
12 39 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.41%) Data Engineer
14 35 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 33 (4.70%) React Developer
15 33 (4.70%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.42%) .NET Developer
16 31 (4.42%) AWS Architect
16 31 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (25.21%) React
2 150 (21.37%) Node.js
3 109 (15.53%) Spring Boot
4 107 (15.24%) .NET
5 96 (13.68%) AngularJS
6 85 (12.11%) REST
7 83 (11.82%) Spring
8 73 (10.40%) RESTful
9 70 (9.97%) HTML
10 60 (8.55%) CSS
11 55 (7.83%) AWS CDK
12 52 (7.41%) Kafka
13 49 (6.98%) .NET Core
14 44 (6.27%) Jest
15 40 (5.70%) Gherkin
16 38 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.85%) Flask
19 26 (3.70%) Vue
20 25 (3.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 147 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.85%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.85%) Web3
9 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.27%) Linux
2 17 (2.42%) Windows
3 16 (2.28%) VMS
4 9 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.71%) CentOS
5 5 (0.71%) Debian
5 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.71%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (58.69%) CI/CD
2 347 (49.43%) DevOps
3 284 (40.46%) Agile
4 245 (34.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (27.07%) Microservices
6 184 (26.21%) Mentoring
7 166 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (22.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (20.09%) Containerisation
10 133 (18.95%) Software Engineering
11 124 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (15.10%) Observability
13 101 (14.39%) Test Automation
14 92 (13.11%) Analytics
15 82 (11.68%) AI
16 81 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
17 80 (11.40%) TDD
18 74 (10.54%) Scrum
19 71 (10.11%) Data Modelling
19 71 (10.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 286 (40.74%) Python
2 197 (28.06%) SQL
3 194 (27.64%) TypeScript
4 187 (26.64%) JavaScript
5 181 (25.78%) Java
6 106 (15.10%) C#
7 74 (10.54%) Bash
8 45 (6.41%) Groovy
9 37 (5.27%) Go
10 35 (4.99%) Kotlin
11 33 (4.70%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.99%) Rust
14 10 (1.42%) Bicep
14 10 (1.42%) PHP
15 9 (1.28%) Swift
16 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.85%) C++
17 6 (0.85%) Scala
18 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 103 (14.67%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.82%) Degree
3 84 (11.97%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (8.26%) SC Cleared
5 35 (4.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (4.84%) Azure Certification
7 32 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.99%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.99%) OSCP
13 13 (1.85%) DBS Check
14 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.55%) QA
2 34 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.42%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.99%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (34.47%) Docker
2 16 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) iptables
5 3 (0.43%) Firmware
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 222 (31.62%) Terraform
2 166 (23.65%) Kubernetes
3 73 (10.40%) Ansible
4 44 (6.27%) Grafana
4 44 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.70%) HP Fortify
6 19 (2.71%) Kibana
7 10 (1.42%) Puppet
8 8 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.85%) Packer
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.43%) Nagios
12 2 (0.28%) Scalr
13 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.27%) Databricks
3 12 (1.71%) Oracle
4 11 (1.57%) Google
5 9 (1.28%) Amplitude
5 9 (1.28%) IBM
5 9 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.14%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.00%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.85%) Pega
8 6 (0.85%) Splunk
8 6 (0.85%) WSO2
9 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.57%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.57%) Zscaler