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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 108 189
Rank change year-on-year -92 +81 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 626 1,264 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.11% 2.73% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.24% 7.39% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 406 560 868
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +8.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

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 19,330 17,112 25,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.20% 36.93% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,700 10,075 21,551
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,049 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -66 278 £80,000 -15.79% 149
North of England +50 185 £75,000 +20.00% 68
Yorkshire +54 126 £75,000 +38.89% 26
Midlands -2 64 £60,000 +9.09% 30
North West +17 55 £75,000 +25.00% 39
South West -96 41 £62,500 -1.96% 33
South East -135 38 £67,500 +12.50% 55
East Midlands +6 33 £60,000 +6.67% 11
West Midlands +5 31 £60,000 +9.09% 19
East of England -45 17 £61,300 -7.47% 8
North East -7 4 £68,500 +9.60% 3
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 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.99%) Apache
3 18 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.24%) OpenStack
5 13 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.60%) Confluence
7 8 (1.28%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.96%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.32%) nginx
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) JBoss
12 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 486 (77.64%) AWS
2 331 (52.88%) AWS Lambda
3 245 (39.14%) Azure
4 239 (38.18%) Amazon S3
5 128 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 107 (17.09%) GitHub
7 104 (16.61%) Amazon ECS
8 102 (16.29%) Azure Functions
9 83 (13.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 79 (12.62%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (12.30%) Amazon SQS
12 76 (12.14%) Azure Logic Apps
13 74 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
15 60 (9.58%) GCP
16 59 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (9.42%) SaaS
17 52 (8.31%) Power Platform
18 35 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.92%) AMQP
2 10 (1.60%) Firewall
3 9 (1.44%) Network Security
4 7 (1.12%) DSL
4 7 (1.12%) Internet
4 7 (1.12%) VPN
5 6 (0.96%) Broadband
5 6 (0.96%) SSL
6 4 (0.64%) WAN
7 3 (0.48%) Wireless
8 2 (0.32%) DNS
8 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (18.05%) DynamoDB
2 75 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (11.82%) NoSQL
4 73 (11.66%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (7.19%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.43%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.67%) Big Data
9 23 (3.67%) Power BI
10 21 (3.35%) MySQL
11 20 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (3.19%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.19%) MongoDB
12 16 (2.56%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.24%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (1.28%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 108 (17.25%) Jenkins
2 86 (13.74%) Git
3 63 (10.06%) GitLab
4 34 (5.43%) Cypress.io
5 25 (3.99%) Maven
6 24 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.04%) JIRA
8 14 (2.24%) JUnit
9 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.76%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.76%) JMeter
11 10 (1.60%) Mockito
12 7 (1.12%) MLflow
13 5 (0.80%) git-flow
13 5 (0.80%) Vite
14 4 (0.64%) Mocha
14 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.64%) webpack
15 3 (0.48%) ESLint
16 2 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 172 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.22%) Finance
3 53 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.83%) Publishing
6 23 (3.67%) Tech for Good
7 20 (3.19%) Health Technology
7 20 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.56%) Banking
8 16 (2.56%) Law
9 15 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.60%) Legal
12 9 (1.44%) Advertising
12 9 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.80%) Retail
15 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 250 (39.94%) Developer
2 148 (23.64%) Senior
3 94 (15.02%) Architect
4 86 (13.74%) Lead
5 72 (11.50%) Senior Developer
6 63 (10.06%) AWS Developer
7 58 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
7 58 (9.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 57 (9.11%) Java Developer
9 51 (8.15%) Python Developer
9 51 (8.15%) Software Engineer
10 44 (7.03%) Data Engineer
11 39 (6.23%) Lead Developer
12 37 (5.91%) .NET Developer
13 36 (5.75%) Software Developer
14 34 (5.43%) React Developer
15 33 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (3.83%) Support Engineer
18 23 (3.67%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (27.48%) React
2 119 (19.01%) Node.js
3 106 (16.93%) .NET
4 92 (14.70%) Spring Boot
5 80 (12.78%) Spring
6 78 (12.46%) HTML
7 73 (11.66%) AngularJS
7 73 (11.66%) REST
8 70 (11.18%) RESTful
9 61 (9.74%) CSS
10 44 (7.03%) .NET Core
10 44 (7.03%) AWS CDK
10 44 (7.03%) Kafka
11 33 (5.27%) Jest
12 28 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
12 28 (4.47%) Vue
13 25 (3.99%) FastAPI
13 25 (3.99%) Web Services
14 24 (3.83%) Gherkin
15 22 (3.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 145 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.39%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.76%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.28%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.12%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.12%) Web3
13 6 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.43%) Linux
2 16 (2.56%) Windows
3 14 (2.24%) Unix
4 11 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.28%) VMS
6 5 (0.80%) CentOS
6 5 (0.80%) Debian
6 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (58.15%) CI/CD
2 287 (45.85%) DevOps
3 252 (40.26%) Agile
4 190 (30.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 180 (28.75%) Microservices
6 166 (26.52%) Mentoring
7 149 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (20.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (20.13%) Software Engineering
10 115 (18.37%) Containerisation
11 104 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (13.74%) AI
13 81 (12.94%) TDD
14 78 (12.46%) Scrum
15 75 (11.98%) Observability
16 74 (11.82%) Data Modelling
16 74 (11.82%) SDLC
17 71 (11.34%) Computer Science
18 68 (10.86%) Analytics
19 67 (10.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 268 (42.81%) Python
2 198 (31.63%) JavaScript
3 171 (27.32%) TypeScript
4 159 (25.40%) Java
5 157 (25.08%) SQL
6 117 (18.69%) C#
7 51 (8.15%) Bash
8 26 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.67%) Groovy
10 21 (3.35%) Go
11 15 (2.40%) Scala
12 13 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.60%) Bicep
14 8 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.12%) Rust
16 6 (0.96%) PHP
16 6 (0.96%) R
17 5 (0.80%) C++
17 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (18.69%) AWS Certification
2 88 (14.06%) Degree
3 70 (11.18%) Security Cleared
4 59 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 43 (6.87%) Azure Certification
7 41 (6.55%) SC Cleared
8 34 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (4.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (3.99%) AWS Certified Developer
11 18 (2.88%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.28%) OSCP
15 6 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.83%) QA
2 24 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.67%) GDPR
4 14 (2.24%) SLA
5 11 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.44%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.48%) WCAG
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.16%) GAAP
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (29.87%) Docker
2 16 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.28%) HDFS
3 8 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.32%) iptables
5 1 (0.16%) vCloud
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (27.48%) Terraform
2 132 (21.09%) Kubernetes
3 43 (6.87%) Ansible
4 30 (4.79%) Grafana
4 30 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 24 (3.83%) HP Fortify
6 20 (3.19%) Kibana
7 7 (1.12%) Puppet
8 6 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.83%) Databricks
3 16 (2.56%) Google
4 14 (2.24%) Oracle
4 14 (2.24%) Splunk
5 12 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.60%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.28%) IBM
9 6 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.80%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.64%) Pega
11 4 (0.64%) WSO2
11 4 (0.64%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.32%) SendGrid
12 2 (0.32%) ServiceNow