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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 177 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 785 758 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 1.94% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 5.42% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 521 589 898
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,750 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 23,855 13,987 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.64% 35.78% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,656 10,021 24,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -54 311 £82,500 -8.33% 136
North of England +82 261 £75,000 +15.38% 71
Yorkshire +30 151 £75,000 +30.43% 24
North West +42 103 £75,000 - 41
Midlands -4 98 £55,000 - 21
East Midlands +24 68 £60,000 +9.09% 11
South East -64 51 £62,000 +3.33% 48
South West -58 43 £63,750 +6.25% 32
West Midlands -51 30 £50,000 -9.09% 10
East of England -27 20 £60,050 -29.35% 7
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
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 28 (3.57%) Apache
2 24 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.02%) SAS
7 6 (0.76%) Confluence
8 4 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.51%) JBoss
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.76%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 569 (72.48%) AWS
2 389 (49.55%) AWS Lambda
3 291 (37.07%) Amazon S3
4 265 (33.76%) Azure
5 187 (23.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 143 (18.22%) Amazon ECS
7 119 (15.16%) Azure Functions
8 118 (15.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 116 (14.78%) GitHub
10 97 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
12 85 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
14 74 (9.43%) SaaS
15 73 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
16 72 (9.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 67 (8.54%) GCP
18 63 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
19 59 (7.52%) Power Platform
20 57 (7.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.42%) Firewall
2 15 (1.91%) Network Security
3 13 (1.66%) DSL
4 9 (1.15%) AMQP
5 7 (0.89%) VPN
6 5 (0.64%) DNS
6 5 (0.64%) WAN
7 4 (0.51%) Internet
8 3 (0.38%) Broadband
8 3 (0.38%) VoIP
9 2 (0.25%) 4G
9 2 (0.25%) 5G
9 2 (0.25%) DHCP
9 2 (0.25%) LTE
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
9 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (21.78%) DynamoDB
2 84 (10.70%) NoSQL
3 79 (10.06%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (7.77%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
7 40 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (5.10%) Power BI
8 37 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (3.69%) Relational Database
10 27 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.80%) MySQL
12 21 (2.68%) Big Data
12 21 (2.68%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.78%) MongoDB
14 13 (1.66%) Spark SQL
15 12 (1.53%) Delta Lake
15 12 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.27%) Metadata
17 8 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 161 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 127 (16.18%) Git
3 107 (13.63%) GitLab
4 51 (6.50%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.24%) Maven
6 45 (5.73%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.31%) CircleCI
8 24 (3.06%) Snyk
9 17 (2.17%) JIRA
10 12 (1.53%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.53%) XCTest
11 10 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.89%) JUnit
12 7 (0.89%) MLflow
13 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.64%) Gradle
15 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.51%) Mockito
15 4 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 194 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.27%) Finance
3 55 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.44%) Banking
7 17 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (2.17%) Publishing
8 16 (2.04%) Health Technology
9 13 (1.66%) Advertising
9 13 (1.66%) Law
9 13 (1.66%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.40%) Legal
11 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Billing
13 6 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.76%) Retail
14 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 275 (35.03%) Developer
2 239 (30.45%) Senior
3 114 (14.52%) Architect
4 109 (13.89%) Lead
5 92 (11.72%) Java Developer
6 87 (11.08%) Senior Developer
7 65 (8.28%) AWS Developer
8 63 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.90%) Software Engineer
10 61 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (6.37%) Data Engineer
12 48 (6.11%) Senior Architect
13 44 (5.61%) Cloud Architect
14 40 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 40 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 40 (5.10%) Security Architect
15 37 (4.71%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (4.59%) Lead Developer
17 35 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (21.91%) React
2 155 (19.75%) Node.js
3 117 (14.90%) .NET
4 112 (14.27%) Spring Boot
5 102 (12.99%) AngularJS
6 100 (12.74%) REST
7 85 (10.83%) Spring
8 75 (9.55%) RESTful
9 67 (8.54%) Kafka
10 57 (7.26%) AWS CDK
11 50 (6.37%) HTML
12 45 (5.73%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.61%) Jest
14 43 (5.48%) Gherkin
15 41 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.84%) CSS
17 32 (4.08%) PySpark
18 31 (3.95%) JSON
19 30 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
20 28 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.73%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.17%) Blockchain
8 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.17%) Web3
9 14 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.89%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.76%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.10%) Linux
2 16 (2.04%) Windows
3 15 (1.91%) VMS
4 12 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.51%) CentOS
6 4 (0.51%) Debian
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (58.98%) CI/CD
2 370 (47.13%) DevOps
3 280 (35.67%) Agile
4 273 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (24.46%) Microservices
6 189 (24.08%) Mentoring
7 170 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (19.11%) Containerisation
9 149 (18.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 149 (18.98%) Software Engineering
10 137 (17.45%) Test Automation
11 126 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (16.05%) Observability
12 113 (14.39%) AI
13 107 (13.63%) Analytics
14 96 (12.23%) Event-Driven
15 87 (11.08%) TDD
16 82 (10.45%) SDLC
17 80 (10.19%) DevSecOps
18 77 (9.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 305 (38.85%) Python
2 220 (28.03%) SQL
3 211 (26.88%) TypeScript
4 179 (22.80%) Java
5 156 (19.87%) JavaScript
6 120 (15.29%) C#
7 77 (9.81%) Bash
8 49 (6.24%) Groovy
9 42 (5.35%) Kotlin
10 40 (5.10%) Go
11 32 (4.08%) PowerShell
12 18 (2.29%) Bicep
13 17 (2.17%) Rust
14 15 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.53%) Swift
16 11 (1.40%) PHP
17 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.76%) C++
19 5 (0.64%) T-SQL
20 4 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (11.97%) Degree
2 93 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.08%) AWS Certification
4 67 (8.54%) SC Cleared
5 60 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (5.35%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (2.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (1.78%) OSCP
15 13 (1.66%) Master's Degree
16 12 (1.53%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.48%) QA
3 34 (4.33%) GDPR
4 24 (3.06%) GRC
5 16 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.53%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.51%) NIST
9 4 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 244 (31.08%) Docker
2 33 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.51%) iptables
5 3 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 232 (29.55%) Terraform
2 173 (22.04%) Kubernetes
3 77 (9.81%) Ansible
4 52 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 47 (5.99%) Grafana
6 41 (5.22%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.29%) Kibana
8 12 (1.53%) Puppet
9 8 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.89%) Packer
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.38%) Nagios
11 3 (0.38%) Scalr
12 2 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.46%) Databricks
3 28 (3.57%) Tenable
4 27 (3.44%) Palo Alto
5 24 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (2.42%) Oracle
7 12 (1.53%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.53%) Braze
8 10 (1.27%) Google
9 9 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.02%) IBM
10 8 (1.02%) Splunk
11 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.76%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.64%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.51%) SaltStack
15 3 (0.38%) Foundry
15 3 (0.38%) Zscaler