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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 129 189
Rank change year-on-year -82 +60 -19
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 737 892 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 2.43% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 6.48% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 478 614 909
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £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 £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 24,091 13,758 29,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 37.41% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12,897 10,236 24,118
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £83,500 £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 14 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 14 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 -87 288 £82,500 -13.16% 134
North of England +62 260 £75,000 +20.00% 89
Yorkshire +34 163 £75,000 +30.43% 23
North West +14 91 £75,000 +8.30% 57
Midlands -18 90 £55,000 - 18
East Midlands -6 62 £60,000 +4.35% 9
South West -62 44 £62,500 +4.17% 27
South East -154 39 £82,500 +37.50% 43
West Midlands -41 28 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England -55 19 £60,100 -29.29% 19
North East -33 6 £92,500 +48.00% 10
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 (3.66%) Apache
1 27 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.22%) SAS
6 5 (0.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) JBoss
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.68%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 564 (76.53%) AWS
2 381 (51.70%) AWS Lambda
3 288 (39.08%) Amazon S3
4 255 (34.60%) Azure
5 172 (23.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 139 (18.86%) Amazon ECS
7 129 (17.50%) GitHub
8 111 (15.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 104 (14.11%) Azure Functions
10 98 (13.30%) Amazon SQS
11 93 (12.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 84 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (10.72%) Amazon EC2
14 74 (10.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 71 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
15 71 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
16 70 (9.50%) GCP
17 64 (8.68%) SaaS
18 55 (7.46%) Power Platform
19 53 (7.19%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.31%) Firewall
2 13 (1.76%) DSL
3 12 (1.63%) AMQP
3 12 (1.63%) Network Security
4 8 (1.09%) VPN
5 6 (0.81%) WAN
6 5 (0.68%) Broadband
6 5 (0.68%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) 4G
8 1 (0.14%) 5G
8 1 (0.14%) Internet
8 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.85%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.53%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (7.06%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (4.75%) Power BI
9 29 (3.93%) Relational Database
10 28 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.39%) MySQL
12 23 (3.12%) Big Data
13 20 (2.71%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.71%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.49%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.36%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.36%) Metadata
16 9 (1.22%) Spark SQL
17 8 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 150 (20.35%) Jenkins
2 104 (14.11%) Git
3 101 (13.70%) GitLab
4 47 (6.38%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.97%) Maven
6 43 (5.83%) Cypress.io
7 23 (3.12%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.17%) JIRA
9 11 (1.49%) Snyk
10 10 (1.36%) Crashlytics
10 10 (1.36%) XCTest
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.22%) MLflow
12 7 (0.95%) JUnit
13 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.54%) git-flow
14 4 (0.54%) JMeter
14 4 (0.54%) Mockito
General
1 194 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.25%) Finance
3 55 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.12%) Banking
7 20 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.58%) Publishing
9 17 (2.31%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.04%) Tech for Good
11 13 (1.76%) Advertising
12 11 (1.49%) Legal
13 9 (1.22%) Law
14 8 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.95%) Retail
16 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.68%) Billing
16 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 277 (37.58%) Developer
2 201 (27.27%) Senior
3 104 (14.11%) Architect
4 99 (13.43%) Lead
5 86 (11.67%) Java Developer
6 82 (11.13%) Senior Developer
7 67 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 67 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 61 (8.28%) Software Engineer
9 59 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
10 44 (5.97%) Python Developer
11 41 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 41 (5.56%) Lead Developer
12 38 (5.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
14 34 (4.61%) Senior Architect
15 32 (4.34%) .NET Developer
15 32 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (4.34%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (24.42%) React
2 151 (20.49%) Node.js
3 109 (14.79%) .NET
4 106 (14.38%) Spring Boot
5 97 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 90 (12.21%) REST
7 81 (10.99%) Spring
8 77 (10.45%) RESTful
9 63 (8.55%) HTML
10 59 (8.01%) Kafka
11 55 (7.46%) AWS CDK
12 52 (7.06%) CSS
13 47 (6.38%) .NET Core
14 44 (5.97%) Jest
15 42 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (5.43%) Gherkin
17 30 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.66%) PySpark
19 23 (3.12%) Flask
19 23 (3.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 157 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.12%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.90%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.90%) Web3
9 12 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.68%) IoT
15 5 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.61%) Linux
2 16 (2.17%) VMS
3 15 (2.04%) Windows
4 10 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) CentOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (58.89%) CI/CD
2 360 (48.85%) DevOps
3 286 (38.81%) Agile
4 257 (34.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (26.46%) Microservices
6 187 (25.37%) Mentoring
7 170 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 153 (20.76%) Containerisation
10 142 (19.27%) Software Engineering
11 122 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (15.88%) Observability
13 113 (15.33%) Test Automation
14 100 (13.57%) Analytics
15 98 (13.30%) AI
16 83 (11.26%) TDD
17 82 (11.13%) Event-Driven
18 80 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
19 73 (9.91%) Data Modelling
20 71 (9.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 296 (40.16%) Python
2 204 (27.68%) TypeScript
3 203 (27.54%) SQL
4 179 (24.29%) Java
5 178 (24.15%) JavaScript
6 108 (14.65%) C#
7 73 (9.91%) Bash
8 46 (6.24%) Groovy
9 38 (5.16%) Go
10 36 (4.88%) Kotlin
11 33 (4.48%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.90%) Rust
14 13 (1.76%) Bicep
15 10 (1.36%) PHP
15 10 (1.36%) Swift
16 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.81%) C++
18 5 (0.68%) Perl
18 5 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (13.43%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.21%) Degree
3 85 (11.53%) Security Cleared
4 64 (8.68%) SC Cleared
5 60 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (5.02%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 23 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.90%) OSCP
13 13 (1.76%) DBS Check
13 13 (1.76%) DV Cleared
14 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.24%) QA
2 39 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.26%) GDPR
4 16 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.49%) GRC
7 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.54%) NIST
9 4 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 248 (33.65%) Docker
2 23 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.54%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 228 (30.94%) Terraform
2 175 (23.74%) Kubernetes
3 72 (9.77%) Ansible
4 46 (6.24%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.11%) Grafana
6 40 (5.43%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.58%) Kibana
8 11 (1.49%) Puppet
9 8 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.81%) Packer
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.41%) Nagios
12 3 (0.41%) Scalr
13 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.34%) Databricks
3 18 (2.44%) Palo Alto
4 14 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (1.76%) Google
6 12 (1.63%) Tenable
7 10 (1.36%) Amplitude
7 10 (1.36%) Braze
7 10 (1.36%) Oracle
8 9 (1.22%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.09%) IBM
9 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.81%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.68%) Splunk
13 4 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.54%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.41%) Foundry