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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 97 192
Rank change year-on-year -108 +95 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 674 1,187 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 3.08% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.09% 8.15% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 437 592 901
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% 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 21,780 14,561 27,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 37.74% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,919 10,157 23,435
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,651 £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 £81,250 £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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -83 278 £82,500 -13.16% 165
North of England +50 217 £75,000 +25.00% 97
Yorkshire +44 148 £75,000 +33.33% 35
Midlands -18 78 £60,000 +9.09% 26
North West -1 64 £75,000 +9.69% 49
East Midlands -1 53 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South West -108 43 £62,500 +4.17% 39
South East -165 37 £67,500 +12.50% 74
West Midlands -24 25 £51,875 -5.68% 19
East of England -67 17 £60,100 -9.28% 23
North East -27 5 £68,500 +9.60% 15
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 30 (4.45%) Apache
1 30 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.04%) Confluence
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.45%) JBoss
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.59%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 529 (78.49%) AWS
2 351 (52.08%) AWS Lambda
3 266 (39.47%) Amazon S3
4 245 (36.35%) Azure
5 160 (23.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 126 (18.69%) GitHub
7 116 (17.21%) Amazon ECS
8 101 (14.99%) Azure Functions
9 95 (14.09%) AWS Step Functions
10 85 (12.61%) Amazon SQS
11 79 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 77 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (11.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
15 64 (9.50%) GCP
16 62 (9.20%) SaaS
17 61 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
18 57 (8.46%) Power Platform
19 42 (6.23%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.93%) DSL
1 13 (1.93%) Firewall
2 11 (1.63%) AMQP
2 11 (1.63%) Network Security
3 8 (1.19%) VPN
4 5 (0.74%) Broadband
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 3 (0.45%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (18.84%) DynamoDB
2 82 (12.17%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.28%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.86%) SQL Server
6 46 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (5.34%) Power BI
9 32 (4.75%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.71%) MySQL
12 20 (2.97%) MongoDB
13 19 (2.82%) Big Data
13 19 (2.82%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.48%) Metadata
15 10 (1.48%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.34%) Hadoop
17 8 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 137 (20.33%) Jenkins
2 93 (13.80%) Git
3 92 (13.65%) GitLab
4 37 (5.49%) Cypress.io
5 35 (5.19%) Maven
6 34 (5.04%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.12%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.23%) JIRA
9 10 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.48%) JUnit
10 9 (1.34%) MLflow
11 8 (1.19%) Crashlytics
11 8 (1.19%) XCTest
12 6 (0.89%) JMeter
12 6 (0.89%) Mockito
12 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.74%) git-flow
14 4 (0.59%) webpack
15 3 (0.45%) ESLint
15 3 (0.45%) Mocha
General
1 188 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.80%) Finance
3 52 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (7.72%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.12%) Banking
5 19 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (2.82%) Publishing
6 17 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.37%) Health Technology
7 16 (2.37%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.08%) Law
8 14 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.78%) Advertising
10 10 (1.48%) Legal
11 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.74%) Retail
13 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 264 (39.17%) Developer
2 165 (24.48%) Senior
3 91 (13.50%) Architect
4 86 (12.76%) Lead
5 76 (11.28%) Senior Developer
6 73 (10.83%) Java Developer
7 65 (9.64%) AWS Developer
8 63 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (8.01%) Software Engineer
11 48 (7.12%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.23%) Lead Developer
13 41 (6.08%) Data Engineer
14 34 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 33 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (4.90%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.75%) React Developer
17 30 (4.45%) .NET Developer
18 29 (4.30%) AWS Architect
19 26 (3.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (25.67%) React
2 139 (20.62%) Node.js
3 109 (16.17%) .NET
4 97 (14.39%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.02%) AngularJS
6 78 (11.57%) Spring
7 73 (10.83%) HTML
8 71 (10.53%) REST
9 68 (10.09%) RESTful
10 62 (9.20%) CSS
11 56 (8.31%) AWS CDK
12 49 (7.27%) .NET Core
13 48 (7.12%) Kafka
14 37 (5.49%) Jest
15 33 (4.90%) Gherkin
16 30 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (3.71%) FastAPI
17 25 (3.71%) Flask
18 23 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 146 (21.66%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (3.86%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.56%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.78%) Blockchain
8 12 (1.78%) Web3
9 11 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.04%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.75%) Linux
2 15 (2.23%) VMS
2 15 (2.23%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.89%) Unix
5 5 (0.74%) CentOS
5 5 (0.74%) Debian
5 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (57.27%) CI/CD
2 317 (47.03%) DevOps
3 273 (40.50%) Agile
4 232 (34.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 184 (27.30%) Microservices
6 183 (27.15%) Mentoring
7 164 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 140 (20.77%) Containerisation
10 133 (19.73%) Software Engineering
11 116 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (14.84%) Observability
13 89 (13.20%) Analytics
14 87 (12.91%) Test Automation
15 79 (11.72%) AI
16 74 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
16 74 (10.98%) Data Modelling
16 74 (10.98%) TDD
17 70 (10.39%) Computer Science
18 69 (10.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 277 (41.10%) Python
2 191 (28.34%) JavaScript
3 184 (27.30%) TypeScript
4 177 (26.26%) SQL
5 161 (23.89%) Java
6 111 (16.47%) C#
7 66 (9.79%) Bash
8 36 (5.34%) Go
9 32 (4.75%) Groovy
10 31 (4.60%) PowerShell
11 26 (3.86%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (2.08%) Rust
14 10 (1.48%) PHP
15 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.19%) Swift
16 7 (1.04%) Bicep
17 6 (0.89%) C++
17 6 (0.89%) Scala
18 5 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (15.13%) AWS Certification
2 91 (13.50%) Degree
3 71 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 60 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 40 (5.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (5.79%) Azure Certification
8 35 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (3.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (3.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 21 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (2.37%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.08%) OSCP
14 12 (1.78%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.63%) DBS Check
16 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.08%) QA
2 36 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.26%) GDPR
4 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.93%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.89%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) NIST
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 222 (32.94%) Docker
2 17 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) iptables
5 3 (0.45%) Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 204 (30.27%) Terraform
2 155 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 63 (9.35%) Ansible
4 44 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.38%) Grafana
6 33 (4.90%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.67%) Kibana
8 10 (1.48%) Puppet
9 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
11 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Scalr
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.56%) Databricks
3 11 (1.63%) Oracle
4 9 (1.34%) Google
4 9 (1.34%) Palo Alto
4 9 (1.34%) Splunk
5 8 (1.19%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.74%) Pega
7 5 (0.74%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.74%) WSO2
8 4 (0.59%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.45%) IBM
9 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.30%) Apple