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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 206 206
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 953 683 964
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.57% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 4.73% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 593 489 600
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +0.71% -

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 24,945 14,438 23,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.13% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,846 10,268 17,323
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -33 393 £85,000 +13.33% 267
North of England +90 300 £75,000 +15.38% 63
North West +67 133 £70,000 +3.70% 33
Yorkshire +42 124 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands +5 87 £62,500 - 23
South East -22 83 £65,000 -7.14% 48
South West -55 67 £61,500 +2.50% 32
East Midlands +28 54 £55,000 +46.67% 10
North East -11 43 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -40 33 £62,500 -3.85% 13
East of England -51 17 £59,450 +1.19% 9
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 36 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.94%) Apache
3 18 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.89%) Confluence
4 15 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.52%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.63%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 690 (72.40%) AWS
2 447 (46.90%) AWS Lambda
3 341 (35.78%) Azure
4 306 (32.11%) Amazon S3
5 232 (24.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 206 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
7 171 (17.94%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.75%) GitHub
9 115 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
10 112 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
11 101 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 99 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 97 (10.18%) GCP
13 97 (10.18%) SaaS
14 89 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
15 84 (8.81%) Amazon SQS
16 83 (8.71%) Power Platform
17 78 (8.18%) Azure Logic Apps
18 75 (7.87%) PaaS
19 73 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.94%) VPN
2 26 (2.73%) Network Security
3 24 (2.52%) Firewall
4 21 (2.20%) Internet
5 15 (1.57%) DNS
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
6 9 (0.94%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 5 (0.52%) AMQP
8 5 (0.52%) Broadband
8 5 (0.52%) DHCP
8 5 (0.52%) DSL
8 5 (0.52%) VLAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (18.15%) DynamoDB
2 97 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 93 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (4.41%) Relational Database
9 39 (4.09%) Power BI
10 35 (3.67%) Big Data
11 28 (2.94%) MySQL
12 24 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.31%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.20%) MongoDB
15 17 (1.78%) Hadoop
15 17 (1.78%) Metadata
16 15 (1.57%) Delta Lake
16 15 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 172 (18.05%) Git
2 137 (14.38%) Jenkins
3 85 (8.92%) GitLab
4 37 (3.88%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.36%) JIRA
6 31 (3.25%) Maven
7 29 (3.04%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.62%) Snyk
9 18 (1.89%) CircleCI
10 16 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.57%) Crashlytics
12 14 (1.47%) XCTest
13 13 (1.36%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
15 10 (1.05%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.84%) JUnit
16 8 (0.84%) Selenium
17 7 (0.73%) JMeter
17 7 (0.73%) Mockito
General
1 235 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 180 (18.89%) Finance
3 77 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.72%) Law
7 44 (4.62%) Banking
8 31 (3.25%) Marketing
9 16 (1.68%) Military
9 16 (1.68%) Retail
10 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.05%) Aviation
14 9 (0.94%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.84%) Advertising
15 8 (0.84%) Billing
16 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 303 (31.79%) Senior
2 269 (28.23%) Developer
3 136 (14.27%) Lead
4 107 (11.23%) Architect
5 91 (9.55%) Senior Developer
6 88 (9.23%) Java Developer
7 84 (8.81%) Software Engineer
8 75 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (6.30%) Data Engineer
11 57 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 53 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 52 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
14 44 (4.62%) AWS Developer
14 44 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
14 44 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (4.51%) Senior Architect
16 42 (4.41%) Consultant
17 40 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
17 40 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (18.05%) Node.js
2 151 (15.84%) React
3 138 (14.48%) .NET
4 118 (12.38%) REST
5 105 (11.02%) AngularJS
6 101 (10.60%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.92%) Spring
8 80 (8.39%) Kafka
9 67 (7.03%) RESTful
10 58 (6.09%) AWS CDK
11 37 (3.88%) Jest
12 36 (3.78%) PySpark
13 33 (3.46%) HTML
14 32 (3.36%) Gherkin
15 31 (3.25%) OAuth
16 30 (3.15%) JSON
16 30 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (3.04%) CSS
18 28 (2.94%) OAuth2
19 27 (2.83%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 245 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (7.03%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.94%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.62%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.47%) IoT
14 13 (1.36%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.26%) Blog
15 12 (1.26%) Podcast
15 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.35%) Linux
2 36 (3.78%) Windows
3 20 (2.10%) VMS
4 14 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) CentOS
7 4 (0.42%) Debian
7 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (56.45%) CI/CD
2 451 (47.32%) DevOps
3 351 (36.83%) Agile
4 349 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (26.97%) Mentoring
6 244 (25.60%) AI
7 211 (22.14%) Microservices
8 202 (21.20%) Software Engineering
9 193 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
10 171 (17.94%) Test Automation
11 169 (17.73%) Containerisation
12 165 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 160 (16.79%) Observability
14 159 (16.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 148 (15.53%) Analytics
16 135 (14.17%) Event-Driven
17 131 (13.75%) Cloud Security
18 111 (11.65%) Roadmaps
19 98 (10.28%) Migration
20 97 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 375 (39.35%) Python
2 269 (28.23%) SQL
3 204 (21.41%) TypeScript
4 199 (20.88%) Java
5 154 (16.16%) JavaScript
6 152 (15.95%) C#
7 103 (10.81%) Bash
8 49 (5.14%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.83%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.30%) Bicep
11 40 (4.20%) Groovy
12 36 (3.78%) Go
13 33 (3.46%) PHP
14 28 (2.94%) Ruby
15 20 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (1.99%) Perl
17 15 (1.57%) Rust
18 14 (1.47%) Swift
19 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
20 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.23%) Degree
3 106 (11.12%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.02%) AWS Certification
5 46 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 45 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (4.41%) Azure Certification
8 39 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 22 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 18 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.94%) OSCP
16 8 (0.84%) PhD
17 5 (0.52%) CISSP
17 5 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.40%) GDPR
2 52 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.04%) QA
4 26 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
8 6 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 269 (28.23%) Docker
2 36 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
Systems Management
1 343 (35.99%) Terraform
2 199 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.44%) Ansible
4 45 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.51%) Grafana
6 23 (2.41%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.20%) Puppet
8 19 (1.99%) Packer
9 15 (1.57%) Kibana
10 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.31%) Scalr
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.21%) SCCM
15 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 156 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.20%) Databricks
3 33 (3.46%) Oracle
4 31 (3.25%) Tenable
5 29 (3.04%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.62%) Palo Alto
7 22 (2.31%) VMware
8 21 (2.20%) Splunk
9 20 (2.10%) Google
10 18 (1.89%) IBM
11 17 (1.78%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.57%) SAP
13 14 (1.47%) Amplitude
13 14 (1.47%) Braze
14 13 (1.36%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.26%) HP
15 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (1.15%) AppDynamics
17 10 (1.05%) Salesforce