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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 234 179
Rank change year-on-year +26 -55 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 938 580 984
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.90% 1.34% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.97% 4.16% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 600 383 472
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 23,601 13,946 21,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.76% 32.14% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 9,685 13,016
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -17 407 £85,000 +13.33% 571
North of England +74 282 £67,500 +3.85% 155
North West +51 126 £66,124 +1.73% 98
Yorkshire +25 103 £80,000 +13.48% 43
South West -45 76 £67,500 +12.50% 65
South East -34 75 £65,000 -7.14% 59
Midlands -17 70 £62,500 - 62
North East -17 53 £65,000 -5.11% 14
West Midlands -42 40 £62,500 - 28
East Midlands -5 30 £65,000 - 34
East of England -61 10 £57,500 - 33
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 42 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.41%) Apache
2 32 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.81%) Confluence
5 11 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.75%) CMS
6 7 (0.75%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) SAS
9 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) Camunda
10 2 (0.21%) JBoss
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.21%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.11%) Finacle
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 647 (68.98%) AWS
2 431 (45.95%) AWS Lambda
3 371 (39.55%) Azure
4 285 (30.38%) Amazon S3
5 220 (23.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 198 (21.11%) Azure Functions
7 180 (19.19%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
9 132 (14.07%) GitHub
10 124 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
11 104 (11.09%) GCP
12 103 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
13 96 (10.23%) Power Platform
14 94 (10.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 92 (9.81%) SaaS
16 87 (9.28%) PaaS
17 83 (8.85%) AWS Step Functions
18 79 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
19 71 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
20 68 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.62%) VPN
2 29 (3.09%) Firewall
3 26 (2.77%) Network Security
4 23 (2.45%) DNS
5 22 (2.35%) Internet
6 16 (1.71%) VoIP
7 12 (1.28%) DHCP
7 12 (1.28%) VLAN
8 9 (0.96%) AMQP
8 9 (0.96%) MQTT
9 7 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.64%) BGP
10 6 (0.64%) IPsec
11 5 (0.53%) SAN
11 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.43%) IPv4
12 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.32%) HTTP
13 3 (0.32%) LTE
14 2 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (14.07%) DynamoDB
2 103 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (9.70%) NoSQL
4 88 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 66 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
7 50 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 48 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (4.48%) Power BI
12 29 (3.09%) Big Data
13 25 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (2.67%) MongoDB
14 24 (2.56%) Spark SQL
15 23 (2.45%) Metadata
16 22 (2.35%) Hadoop
17 21 (2.24%) Data Lake
18 20 (2.13%) MySQL
19 15 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 189 (20.15%) Git
2 106 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 62 (6.61%) GitLab
4 27 (2.88%) JIRA
5 24 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.35%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.92%) Maven
7 18 (1.92%) Snyk
8 14 (1.49%) JMeter
9 13 (1.39%) Claude Code
10 12 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.28%) JUnit
11 11 (1.17%) Mockito
11 11 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.96%) Postman
13 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.75%) Selenium
15 6 (0.64%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.64%) Crashlytics
15 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
General
1 218 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 185 (19.72%) Finance
3 106 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (6.40%) Law
7 53 (5.65%) Banking
8 38 (4.05%) Marketing
9 25 (2.67%) Retail
10 24 (2.56%) Legal
11 16 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.60%) Aviation
13 14 (1.49%) Military
14 13 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.85%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.75%) Billing
19 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (29.21%) Senior
2 237 (25.27%) Developer
3 118 (12.58%) Lead
4 106 (11.30%) Architect
5 102 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 79 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 74 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 73 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
9 65 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 65 (6.93%) Java Developer
10 60 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 57 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 40 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (4.16%) Consultant
16 38 (4.05%) AWS Developer
17 36 (3.84%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (3.84%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (37.74%) Terraform
2 162 (17.27%) Node.js
3 149 (15.88%) .NET
4 130 (13.86%) React
5 114 (12.15%) REST
6 90 (9.59%) AngularJS
7 88 (9.38%) Spring Boot
8 82 (8.74%) Spring
9 78 (8.32%) RESTful
10 74 (7.89%) Kafka
11 55 (5.86%) AWS CDK
12 48 (5.12%) PySpark
13 36 (3.84%) JSON
14 33 (3.52%) Swagger
15 30 (3.20%) Jest
16 27 (2.88%) OpenAPI
17 26 (2.77%) Next.js
17 26 (2.77%) OAuth
18 25 (2.67%) .NET Framework
18 25 (2.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 268 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.21%) Onboarding
3 71 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (5.33%) AI Agents
5 48 (5.12%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (2.24%) Management Information System
13 20 (2.13%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.92%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.60%) Blog
15 15 (1.60%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
18 12 (1.28%) Data Structures
18 12 (1.28%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 67 (7.14%) Linux
2 42 (4.48%) Windows
3 13 (1.39%) VMS
4 12 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.85%) CentOS
5 8 (0.85%) Debian
5 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 450 (47.97%) DevOps
3 372 (39.66%) Agile
4 352 (37.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 276 (29.42%) AI
6 248 (26.44%) Mentoring
7 241 (25.69%) Software Engineering
8 209 (22.28%) Microservices
9 195 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
11 167 (17.80%) Test Automation
12 157 (16.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 157 (16.74%) Observability
13 154 (16.42%) Analytics
14 148 (15.78%) Event-Driven
15 140 (14.93%) Roadmaps
16 138 (14.71%) Cloud Security
17 133 (14.18%) Containerisation
18 123 (13.11%) Migration
19 117 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 334 (35.61%) Python
2 269 (28.68%) SQL
3 195 (20.79%) Java
4 181 (19.30%) C#
5 179 (19.08%) TypeScript
6 163 (17.38%) JavaScript
7 96 (10.23%) Bash
8 47 (5.01%) Bicep
9 41 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.62%) Kotlin
11 30 (3.20%) Ruby
12 27 (2.88%) Groovy
12 27 (2.88%) PHP
13 25 (2.67%) C++
14 19 (2.03%) Go
15 15 (1.60%) Perl
16 14 (1.49%) Scala
16 14 (1.49%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 183 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 95 (10.13%) Degree
4 78 (8.32%) AWS Certification
5 56 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 56 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 39 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.64%) MBA
15 6 (0.64%) OSCP
16 5 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 69 (7.36%) GDPR
3 47 (5.01%) QA
4 28 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.13%) GRC
6 13 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.96%) NIST
8 8 (0.85%) WCAG
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.53%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 237 (25.27%) Docker
2 41 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.71%) vSphere
6 12 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.43%) Squid
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 177 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 99 (10.55%) Ansible
3 41 (4.37%) Grafana
4 34 (3.62%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.67%) Puppet
6 19 (2.03%) Packer
7 13 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.17%) HP Fortify
9 10 (1.07%) Kibana
9 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.64%) Rancher
11 5 (0.53%) Argo
11 5 (0.53%) Podman
11 5 (0.53%) SCCM
12 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 212 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.16%) Databricks
3 36 (3.84%) Dynatrace
4 35 (3.73%) Oracle
5 29 (3.09%) OpenAI
6 27 (2.88%) Tenable
7 26 (2.77%) Google
8 25 (2.67%) VMware
9 22 (2.35%) SAP
9 22 (2.35%) Splunk
10 18 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
10 18 (1.92%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.28%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (1.07%) HP
13 10 (1.07%) IBM
13 10 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.85%) SaltStack
16 7 (0.75%) Avaya