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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 114 166
Rank change year-on-year -90 +52 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 592 1,247 875
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.14% 2.51% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 6.89% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 370 542 672
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,025 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,323 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,966 £75,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +11.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% -10.00%

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 18,574 18,091 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.71% 36.48% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,314 10,780 15,807
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,625 £103,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 -70 279 £76,000 -17.84% 348
North of England +74 162 £75,000 +25.00% 317
Yorkshire +63 111 £75,000 +42.86% 143
Midlands -8 50 £60,000 +9.09% 249
North West +16 47 £70,466 +12.75% 156
South East -121 46 £67,500 +8.00% 311
South West -94 38 £62,500 -10.71% 155
West Midlands -2 31 £60,000 +9.09% 134
East Midlands -15 19 £65,000 +18.18% 100
East of England -45 17 £57,500 -6.12% 185
North East +5 4 £68,500 +9.60% 19
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 31 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.38%) Apache
4 17 (2.87%) Confluence
5 14 (2.36%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.52%) WebSphere
7 8 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (1.18%) Tomcat
9 6 (1.01%) Headless CMS
9 6 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.34%) nginx
12 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.17%) CMS
12 1 (0.17%) JBoss
12 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.01%) Shopify
3 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 444 (75.00%) AWS
2 296 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 257 (43.41%) Azure
4 211 (35.64%) Amazon S3
5 102 (17.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 98 (16.55%) GitHub
7 97 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
7 97 (16.39%) Azure Functions
8 77 (13.01%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
10 72 (12.16%) Amazon SQS
11 71 (11.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 67 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
13 64 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
14 60 (10.14%) SaaS
15 52 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 50 (8.45%) Power Platform
17 49 (8.28%) GCP
18 48 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (6.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.20%) Firewall
2 11 (1.86%) Internet
3 10 (1.69%) AMQP
4 9 (1.52%) Network Security
5 8 (1.35%) Broadband
5 8 (1.35%) Wireless
6 7 (1.18%) SSL
6 7 (1.18%) VPN
7 6 (1.01%) WAN
8 5 (0.84%) DNS
8 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.34%) DHCP
9 2 (0.34%) DSL
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.17%) SAN
10 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (16.72%) DynamoDB
2 78 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (11.99%) NoSQL
4 67 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
5 47 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 46 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (7.09%) Relational Database
9 22 (3.72%) Data Lake
9 22 (3.72%) MongoDB
10 21 (3.55%) Big Data
11 20 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (3.38%) MySQL
12 17 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (2.87%) Power BI
12 17 (2.87%) RDBMS
13 16 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (2.36%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 98 (16.55%) Jenkins
2 86 (14.53%) Git
3 49 (8.28%) GitLab
4 34 (5.74%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.22%) JIRA
6 18 (3.04%) JUnit
6 18 (3.04%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.87%) JMeter
7 17 (2.87%) Maven
8 14 (2.36%) Mockito
9 11 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.84%) git-flow
11 5 (0.84%) MLflow
11 5 (0.84%) Vite
12 4 (0.68%) Mocha
12 4 (0.68%) NUnit
12 4 (0.68%) Postman
12 4 (0.68%) Selenium
12 4 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 175 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.85%) Finance
3 57 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 43 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.24%) Tech for Good
6 28 (4.73%) Publishing
7 27 (4.56%) Health Technology
8 18 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.70%) Law
9 16 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.20%) Banking
12 12 (2.03%) Legal
13 9 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.52%) Retail
14 8 (1.35%) Advertising
14 8 (1.35%) Automotive
15 7 (1.18%) Billing
16 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (40.54%) Developer
2 144 (24.32%) Senior
3 89 (15.03%) Architect
4 82 (13.85%) Lead
5 72 (12.16%) Senior Developer
6 59 (9.97%) AWS Developer
7 56 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (9.12%) Python Developer
9 49 (8.28%) Java Developer
10 44 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (7.09%) Software Engineer
12 41 (6.93%) Data Engineer
13 38 (6.42%) Lead Developer
14 36 (6.08%) Software Developer
15 34 (5.74%) .NET Developer
15 34 (5.74%) React Developer
16 25 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 23 (3.89%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (27.53%) React
2 103 (17.40%) .NET
3 102 (17.23%) Node.js
4 86 (14.53%) HTML
5 82 (13.85%) Spring Boot
6 77 (13.01%) RESTful
6 77 (13.01%) Spring
7 74 (12.50%) REST
8 68 (11.49%) CSS
9 66 (11.15%) AngularJS
10 41 (6.93%) .NET Core
11 35 (5.91%) AWS CDK
11 35 (5.91%) Kafka
12 32 (5.41%) Jest
12 32 (5.41%) Vue
13 28 (4.73%) Web Services
14 26 (4.39%) .NET Framework
14 26 (4.39%) FastAPI
15 24 (4.05%) ASP.NET
15 24 (4.05%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.55%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.52%) IoT
9 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.35%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.59%) Linux
2 15 (2.53%) Unix
2 15 (2.53%) Windows
3 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.84%) VMS
5 3 (0.51%) CentOS
5 3 (0.51%) Debian
5 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 266 (44.93%) DevOps
3 257 (43.41%) Agile
4 170 (28.72%) Microservices
5 163 (27.53%) Mentoring
6 154 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 141 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (19.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 108 (18.24%) Containerisation
10 102 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 102 (17.23%) Software Engineering
11 92 (15.54%) TDD
12 89 (15.03%) Scrum
13 87 (14.70%) AI
14 76 (12.84%) SDLC
15 70 (11.82%) Analytics
15 70 (11.82%) Data Modelling
16 69 (11.66%) Migration
17 65 (10.98%) Computer Science
18 62 (10.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 259 (43.75%) Python
2 199 (33.61%) JavaScript
3 168 (28.38%) TypeScript
4 145 (24.49%) Java
5 141 (23.82%) SQL
6 113 (19.09%) C#
7 43 (7.26%) Bash
8 34 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.21%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.70%) Groovy
11 15 (2.53%) Go
11 15 (2.53%) Scala
12 13 (2.20%) Bicep
13 9 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.68%) C++
15 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.68%) PHP
15 4 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (17.23%) AWS Certification
2 79 (13.34%) Degree
3 72 (12.16%) Security Cleared
4 54 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 44 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.59%) SC Cleared
8 32 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (4.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 21 (3.55%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.84%) MCP
13 5 (0.84%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.51%) OSCP
15 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.34%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.14%) QA
2 21 (3.55%) GDPR
3 19 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.36%) SLA
6 12 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) CDISC
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 173 (29.22%) Docker
2 17 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.35%) HDFS
3 8 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.34%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) iptables
5 1 (0.17%) vCloud
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (26.18%) Terraform
2 121 (20.44%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.76%) Ansible
4 26 (4.39%) Grafana
5 25 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.38%) Kibana
7 17 (2.87%) HP Fortify
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.68%) Puppet
10 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.55%) Splunk
3 20 (3.38%) Databricks
4 18 (3.04%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.04%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.70%) Google
6 13 (2.20%) Oracle
7 10 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.52%) IBM
8 9 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.18%) Apple
9 7 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.68%) Pega
11 4 (0.68%) SAP
11 4 (0.68%) WSO2
11 4 (0.68%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.51%) OneLogin