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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 99 192
Rank change year-on-year -111 +93 -22
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 706 1,153 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 3.15% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 8.35% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 460 612 907
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 23,106 13,810 28,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.62% 37.78% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,492 10,143 23,941
10th Percentile £30,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -90 282 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +35 245 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +47 167 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -31 78 £57,500 +4.55% 22
North West 0 74 £75,000 +8.30% 47
East Midlands -11 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -117 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -169 42 £82,500 +37.50% 61
West Midlands -51 23 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England -78 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
North East -30 4 £70,500 +12.80% 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 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.68%) Apache
3 23 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.12%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.27%) SAS
7 5 (0.71%) Confluence
8 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.42%) JBoss
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) nginx
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 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 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 559 (79.18%) AWS
2 369 (52.27%) AWS Lambda
3 281 (39.80%) Amazon S3
4 252 (35.69%) Azure
5 171 (24.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 137 (19.41%) Amazon ECS
7 129 (18.27%) GitHub
8 106 (15.01%) AWS Step Functions
9 104 (14.73%) Azure Functions
10 92 (13.03%) Amazon SQS
11 90 (12.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 82 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (11.19%) Amazon EC2
14 78 (11.05%) Amazon EKS
15 74 (10.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 68 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
17 67 (9.49%) GCP
18 62 (8.78%) SaaS
19 57 (8.07%) Power Platform
20 51 (7.22%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.12%) Firewall
2 13 (1.84%) DSL
3 11 (1.56%) AMQP
3 11 (1.56%) Network Security
4 8 (1.13%) VPN
5 6 (0.85%) Broadband
6 5 (0.71%) WAN
7 4 (0.57%) DNS
8 3 (0.42%) 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
1 148 (20.96%) DynamoDB
2 86 (12.18%) NoSQL
3 79 (11.19%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 43 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (4.96%) Power BI
9 34 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (4.67%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (3.82%) MySQL
13 21 (2.97%) Big Data
13 21 (2.97%) Data Lake
14 20 (2.83%) MongoDB
15 10 (1.42%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.42%) Metadata
16 9 (1.27%) Hadoop
17 8 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 156 (22.10%) Jenkins
2 107 (15.16%) Git
3 102 (14.45%) GitLab
4 47 (6.66%) SonarQube
5 44 (6.23%) Cypress.io
6 43 (6.09%) Maven
7 23 (3.26%) CircleCI
8 17 (2.41%) JIRA
9 9 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.27%) Crashlytics
9 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.27%) MLflow
9 9 (1.27%) XCTest
10 7 (0.99%) JUnit
11 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.71%) git-flow
13 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.57%) JMeter
13 4 (0.57%) Selenium
13 4 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 188 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.02%) Finance
3 57 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.12%) Banking
6 19 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.69%) Publishing
7 17 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.27%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.27%) Tech for Good
9 14 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.84%) Advertising
11 10 (1.42%) Law
11 10 (1.42%) Legal
12 8 (1.13%) 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
1 285 (40.37%) Developer
2 173 (24.50%) Senior
3 96 (13.60%) Lead
4 90 (12.75%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.18%) Architect
6 79 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 69 (9.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (9.49%) AWS Developer
9 59 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (7.51%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.80%) Python Developer
12 40 (5.67%) Lead Developer
13 39 (5.52%) Data Engineer
14 35 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.67%) React Developer
16 33 (4.67%) Software Developer
17 32 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
18 31 (4.39%) .NET Developer
18 31 (4.39%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (25.21%) React
2 152 (21.53%) Node.js
3 109 (15.44%) .NET
3 109 (15.44%) Spring Boot
4 98 (13.88%) AngularJS
5 88 (12.46%) REST
6 84 (11.90%) Spring
7 73 (10.34%) RESTful
8 70 (9.92%) HTML
9 60 (8.50%) CSS
10 55 (7.79%) AWS CDK
11 54 (7.65%) Kafka
12 49 (6.94%) .NET Core
13 44 (6.23%) Jest
14 40 (5.67%) Gherkin
15 39 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (3.82%) Flask
18 26 (3.68%) Vue
18 26 (3.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 145 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.82%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.84%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.84%) Web3
9 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.24%) Linux
2 17 (2.41%) Windows
3 16 (2.27%) VMS
4 9 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.27%) 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 (58.36%) CI/CD
2 350 (49.58%) DevOps
3 287 (40.65%) Agile
4 248 (35.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (27.05%) Microservices
6 186 (26.35%) Mentoring
7 167 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (21.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 146 (20.68%) Containerisation
10 131 (18.56%) Software Engineering
11 124 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (15.30%) Observability
13 104 (14.73%) Test Automation
14 94 (13.31%) Analytics
15 83 (11.76%) TDD
16 82 (11.61%) AI
16 82 (11.61%) Continuous Integration
17 75 (10.62%) Scrum
18 74 (10.48%) Event-Driven
19 73 (10.34%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 287 (40.65%) Python
2 199 (28.19%) SQL
3 195 (27.62%) TypeScript
4 186 (26.35%) JavaScript
5 180 (25.50%) Java
6 107 (15.16%) C#
7 74 (10.48%) Bash
8 46 (6.52%) Groovy
9 37 (5.24%) Go
10 35 (4.96%) Kotlin
11 33 (4.67%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.98%) Rust
14 11 (1.56%) Bicep
15 10 (1.42%) PHP
16 9 (1.27%) Swift
17 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.85%) C++
18 6 (0.85%) Scala
19 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 103 (14.59%) AWS Certification
2 89 (12.61%) Degree
3 84 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.22%) SC Cleared
5 57 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 31 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 25 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.98%) DV Cleared
13 14 (1.98%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.98%) OSCP
14 13 (1.84%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.52%) QA
2 34 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.40%) GDPR
4 14 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.98%) 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 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.42%) 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
1 246 (34.84%) Docker
2 16 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) iptables
5 3 (0.42%) Firmware
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 226 (32.01%) Terraform
2 169 (23.94%) Kubernetes
3 75 (10.62%) Ansible
4 44 (6.23%) Grafana
4 44 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.67%) HP Fortify
6 19 (2.69%) Kibana
7 10 (1.42%) Puppet
8 8 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.85%) Packer
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.42%) Nagios
12 2 (0.28%) Scalr
13 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.25%) Databricks
3 12 (1.70%) Oracle
4 11 (1.56%) Google
5 10 (1.42%) IBM
6 9 (1.27%) Amplitude
6 9 (1.27%) AppDynamics
6 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.13%) Palo Alto
8 7 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.85%) Pega
9 6 (0.85%) Splunk
9 6 (0.85%) WSO2
10 5 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.57%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.57%) Zscaler