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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 201 211
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 836 702 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.77% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 5.18% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 569 510 862
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,450 £46,250
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% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 22,555 13,551 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.07% 34.17% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 14,999 9,606 24,909
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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% -9.45%

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 18 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 18 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 -58 316 £82,500 -2.94% 106
North of England +78 270 £75,000 +15.38% 49
Yorkshire +39 134 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +61 120 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Midlands +19 106 £55,000 - 14
East Midlands +35 72 £55,000 +2.33% 5
South East -37 67 £67,500 +12.50% 43
South West -55 55 £62,500 +4.17% 25
West Midlands -33 34 £52,500 -6.67% 9
East of England -31 21 £60,000 -28.36% 6
North East -35 16 £75,000 +20.00% 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 28 (3.35%) Apache
2 25 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.44%) Confluence
6 8 (0.96%) SAS
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.48%) JBoss
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.84%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 594 (71.05%) AWS
2 409 (48.92%) AWS Lambda
3 295 (35.29%) Amazon S3
4 289 (34.57%) Azure
5 190 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 163 (19.50%) Amazon ECS
7 149 (17.82%) Azure Functions
8 118 (14.11%) GitHub
9 114 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 100 (11.96%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (11.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 86 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
14 79 (9.45%) Azure Logic Apps
14 79 (9.45%) SaaS
15 74 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
16 72 (8.61%) GCP
17 67 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
17 67 (8.01%) Power Platform
18 59 (7.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.51%) Firewall
2 15 (1.79%) Network Security
3 12 (1.44%) DSL
3 12 (1.44%) VPN
4 9 (1.08%) AMQP
5 7 (0.84%) VoIP
6 6 (0.72%) DNS
6 6 (0.72%) Internet
6 6 (0.72%) MQTT
7 5 (0.60%) Broadband
8 4 (0.48%) IPv4
8 4 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
9 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.36%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (20.69%) DynamoDB
2 82 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (9.81%) NoSQL
3 64 (7.66%) SQL Server
4 62 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
6 44 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (4.78%) Power BI
8 37 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.95%) Relational Database
10 32 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (3.35%) MySQL
12 23 (2.75%) Big Data
13 18 (2.15%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.91%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.79%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.32%) Delta Lake
18 10 (1.20%) Metadata
19 9 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (19.02%) Jenkins
2 147 (17.58%) Git
3 99 (11.84%) GitLab
4 39 (4.67%) SonarQube
5 37 (4.43%) Maven
6 33 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.23%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.99%) JIRA
8 25 (2.99%) Snyk
9 14 (1.67%) Crashlytics
9 14 (1.67%) XCTest
10 13 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.96%) JUnit
14 7 (0.84%) JMeter
14 7 (0.84%) MLflow
14 7 (0.84%) Mockito
14 7 (0.84%) Selenium
15 6 (0.72%) Postman
General
1 206 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 128 (15.31%) Finance
3 60 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 41 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.71%) Banking
7 19 (2.27%) Law
8 11 (1.32%) Advertising
9 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.08%) Publishing
11 8 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.96%) Legal
11 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.84%) Billing
13 6 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
14 5 (0.60%) Retail
15 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 278 (33.25%) Developer
2 264 (31.58%) Senior
3 106 (12.68%) Lead
4 104 (12.44%) Architect
5 98 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 96 (11.48%) Java Developer
7 78 (9.33%) Software Engineer
8 74 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
10 52 (6.22%) AWS Developer
11 51 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (5.98%) Data Engineer
13 43 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
13 43 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (5.02%) Senior Architect
15 41 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 40 (4.78%) Security Architect
17 38 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
17 38 (4.55%) Software Developer
18 36 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (20.33%) Node.js
2 169 (20.22%) React
3 125 (14.95%) .NET
4 107 (12.80%) AngularJS
4 107 (12.80%) REST
5 106 (12.68%) Spring Boot
6 84 (10.05%) Spring
7 73 (8.73%) Kafka
8 64 (7.66%) RESTful
9 50 (5.98%) HTML
10 48 (5.74%) AWS CDK
11 39 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (4.43%) CSS
12 37 (4.43%) Gherkin
13 35 (4.19%) .NET Core
13 35 (4.19%) PySpark
14 34 (4.07%) Jest
15 32 (3.83%) JSON
16 29 (3.47%) YAML
17 26 (3.11%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 190 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 67 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.15%) Blockchain
6 18 (2.15%) Web3
7 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.32%) IoT
11 11 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.82%) Linux
2 25 (2.99%) Windows
3 18 (2.15%) VMS
4 14 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) 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
1 504 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 393 (47.01%) DevOps
3 308 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 292 (34.93%) Agile
5 195 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 191 (22.85%) Microservices
7 175 (20.93%) Software Engineering
8 173 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (20.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 164 (19.62%) Test Automation
11 155 (18.54%) Containerisation
12 145 (17.34%) Observability
13 144 (17.22%) AI
14 125 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 120 (14.35%) Event-Driven
16 119 (14.23%) Analytics
17 95 (11.36%) Cloud Security
18 91 (10.89%) DevSecOps
19 84 (10.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 83 (9.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 327 (39.11%) Python
2 240 (28.71%) SQL
3 210 (25.12%) TypeScript
4 178 (21.29%) Java
5 160 (19.14%) JavaScript
6 130 (15.55%) C#
7 83 (9.93%) Bash
8 51 (6.10%) Kotlin
9 45 (5.38%) Groovy
10 44 (5.26%) Go
11 43 (5.14%) PowerShell
12 33 (3.95%) Bicep
13 20 (2.39%) Rust
14 18 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.79%) PHP
16 14 (1.67%) Swift
17 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.84%) Scala
20 6 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.36%) Degree
3 75 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 68 (8.13%) AWS Certification
5 49 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.43%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 23 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (2.15%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.91%) OSCP
14 12 (1.44%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.78%) GDPR
3 35 (4.19%) QA
4 25 (2.99%) GRC
5 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.08%) 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
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 242 (28.95%) Docker
2 32 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.20%) vSphere
5 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.48%) iptables
6 4 (0.48%) Squid
6 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.36%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 272 (32.54%) Terraform
2 178 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.29%) Ansible
4 56 (6.70%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.86%) Grafana
6 28 (3.35%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.27%) Kibana
8 17 (2.03%) Packer
9 15 (1.79%) Puppet
10 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.60%) Argo
12 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.36%) Scalr
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
15 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.07%) Databricks
3 30 (3.59%) Tenable
4 25 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.87%) Oracle
6 17 (2.03%) Splunk
7 14 (1.67%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.67%) Braze
8 13 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.44%) Google
10 11 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.20%) VMware
12 9 (1.08%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.96%) IBM
14 7 (0.84%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.72%) ScienceLogic
16 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
17 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA