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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 193 204
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -33
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 839 710 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 5.29% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 566 522 869
10th Percentile £51,625 £49,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.34% +0.34%

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 23,130 13,434 30,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.99% 34.07% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,477 9,455 24,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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% -10.35%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -41 321 £82,500 -2.94% 182
North of England +86 276 £75,000 +15.38% 71
Yorkshire +39 148 £75,000 +25.00% 18
North West +38 117 £75,000 +11.11% 42
Midlands +7 108 £55,000 - 27
East Midlands +32 72 £55,000 - 9
South East -49 65 £66,250 +10.42% 49
South West -57 48 £62,500 +4.17% 31
West Midlands -35 36 £52,500 -8.70% 18
East of England -34 20 £60,050 -29.35% 9
North East -37 11 £62,500 - 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 28 (3.34%) Apache
2 25 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.31%) Confluence
6 10 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.95%) SAS
8 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.48%) JBoss
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.83%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 603 (71.87%) AWS
2 411 (48.99%) AWS Lambda
3 299 (35.64%) Amazon S3
4 282 (33.61%) Azure
5 197 (23.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
7 137 (16.33%) Azure Functions
8 120 (14.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 117 (13.95%) GitHub
10 96 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 94 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (10.61%) Amazon SQS
13 82 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
14 80 (9.54%) SaaS
15 79 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
16 75 (8.94%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (8.46%) GCP
19 63 (7.51%) Power Platform
20 57 (6.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.50%) Firewall
2 15 (1.79%) Network Security
3 13 (1.55%) DSL
4 8 (0.95%) AMQP
5 7 (0.83%) VPN
6 6 (0.72%) Internet
6 6 (0.72%) MQTT
6 6 (0.72%) VoIP
7 5 (0.60%) DNS
8 4 (0.48%) Broadband
8 4 (0.48%) IPv4
8 4 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) DHCP
10 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (20.86%) DynamoDB
2 83 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 77 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (7.75%) SQL Server
6 46 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.77%) Power BI
9 37 (4.41%) Relational Database
10 36 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (3.22%) MySQL
12 26 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.74%) Big Data
14 18 (2.15%) Data Lake
15 17 (2.03%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.79%) Spark SQL
17 12 (1.43%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (1.31%) Metadata
19 10 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 168 (20.02%) Jenkins
2 146 (17.40%) Git
3 107 (12.75%) GitLab
4 44 (5.24%) SonarQube
5 42 (5.01%) Maven
6 38 (4.53%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.10%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.98%) Snyk
9 24 (2.86%) JIRA
10 14 (1.67%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.67%) XCTest
11 12 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.19%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.95%) JUnit
14 7 (0.83%) JMeter
14 7 (0.83%) MLflow
14 7 (0.83%) Mockito
15 6 (0.72%) Selenium
15 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 200 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.78%) Finance
3 62 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.69%) Banking
7 15 (1.79%) Law
8 13 (1.55%) Advertising
9 10 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.07%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.07%) Publishing
11 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.95%) Legal
12 7 (0.83%) Billing
12 7 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.72%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
15 4 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 285 (33.97%) Developer
2 259 (30.87%) Senior
3 109 (12.99%) Architect
4 100 (11.92%) Lead
5 97 (11.56%) Java Developer
6 94 (11.20%) Senior Developer
7 77 (9.18%) Software Engineer
8 71 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (6.56%) AWS Developer
11 50 (5.96%) Data Engineer
12 49 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (5.36%) Senior Architect
14 42 (5.01%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
15 41 (4.89%) Security Architect
16 39 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
17 37 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
17 37 (4.41%) Software Developer
18 35 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (20.74%) Node.js
2 173 (20.62%) React
3 126 (15.02%) .NET
4 111 (13.23%) REST
5 110 (13.11%) Spring Boot
6 107 (12.75%) AngularJS
7 87 (10.37%) Spring
8 74 (8.82%) Kafka
9 68 (8.10%) RESTful
10 55 (6.56%) AWS CDK
11 52 (6.20%) HTML
12 42 (5.01%) .NET Core
13 40 (4.77%) Gherkin
13 40 (4.77%) Jest
14 39 (4.65%) CSS
15 38 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
16 37 (4.41%) PySpark
17 34 (4.05%) JSON
18 29 (3.46%) YAML
19 27 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 180 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.03%) Blockchain
6 17 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.03%) Web3
7 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.31%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.19%) IoT
10 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.44%) Linux
2 20 (2.38%) Windows
3 15 (1.79%) VMS
4 14 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.60%) CentOS
7 5 (0.60%) Debian
7 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (59.71%) CI/CD
2 395 (47.08%) DevOps
3 307 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 288 (34.33%) Agile
5 196 (23.36%) Microservices
6 193 (23.00%) Mentoring
7 176 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (20.38%) Software Engineering
9 166 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 161 (19.19%) Test Automation
11 157 (18.71%) Containerisation
12 140 (16.69%) AI
13 139 (16.57%) Observability
14 126 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (13.59%) Analytics
16 113 (13.47%) Event-Driven
17 90 (10.73%) DevSecOps
18 88 (10.49%) Cloud Security
19 84 (10.01%) SDLC
20 81 (9.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 325 (38.74%) Python
2 233 (27.77%) SQL
3 218 (25.98%) TypeScript
4 182 (21.69%) Java
5 169 (20.14%) JavaScript
6 125 (14.90%) C#
7 82 (9.77%) Bash
8 48 (5.72%) Groovy
8 48 (5.72%) Kotlin
9 42 (5.01%) Go
10 38 (4.53%) PowerShell
11 26 (3.10%) Bicep
12 21 (2.50%) Rust
13 16 (1.91%) PHP
14 15 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (1.67%) Swift
16 12 (1.43%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.72%) C++
19 5 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.80%) Degree
3 78 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 76 (9.06%) SC Cleared
5 54 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (2.62%) DV Cleared
12 17 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 17 (2.03%) OSCP
13 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.29%) GDPR
2 36 (4.29%) QA
3 25 (2.98%) GRC
4 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.07%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.60%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 251 (29.92%) Docker
2 31 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (2.26%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 4 (0.48%) Squid
5 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 270 (32.18%) Terraform
2 180 (21.45%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.25%) Ansible
4 57 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.20%) Grafana
6 33 (3.93%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.38%) Kibana
8 15 (1.79%) Puppet
9 13 (1.55%) Packer
10 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
11 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.36%) Argo
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.17%) Databricks
3 30 (3.58%) Tenable
4 25 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.98%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.86%) Oracle
6 16 (1.91%) Splunk
7 14 (1.67%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.67%) Braze
8 13 (1.55%) Google
9 11 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.95%) IBM
13 7 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.72%) VMware
15 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
16 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA