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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 206 214
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -48
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 903 706 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.63% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.91% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 577 510 718
10th Percentile £51,720 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 24,148 14,384 26,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.20% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 16,215 10,257 20,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -38 374 £85,000 +9.68% 146
North of England +94 276 £75,000 +15.38% 54
North West +59 126 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Yorkshire +29 121 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands +9 90 £60,000 +4.35% 33
South East -31 77 £65,000 +1.56% 34
South West -62 62 £60,500 +0.83% 33
East Midlands +28 60 £55,000 +15.79% 13
West Midlands -37 30 £62,500 +6.38% 20
North East -25 29 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East of England -29 17 £59,725 -0.46% 6
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 33 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.21%) Apache
3 18 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.77%) Confluence
5 15 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.22%) SAS
8 5 (0.55%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.78%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 653 (72.31%) AWS
2 420 (46.51%) AWS Lambda
3 317 (35.11%) Azure
4 288 (31.89%) Amazon S3
5 216 (23.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 188 (20.82%) Amazon ECS
7 157 (17.39%) Azure Functions
8 121 (13.40%) GitHub
9 112 (12.40%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (11.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 94 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (10.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (9.97%) SaaS
14 86 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
14 86 (9.52%) GCP
15 82 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
16 78 (8.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (8.53%) Power Platform
18 68 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
18 68 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.21%) Network Security
2 25 (2.77%) VPN
3 21 (2.33%) Firewall
4 19 (2.10%) Internet
5 12 (1.33%) DNS
6 8 (0.89%) DSL
6 8 (0.89%) MQTT
7 7 (0.78%) AMQP
7 7 (0.78%) VoIP
8 6 (0.66%) BGP
8 6 (0.66%) IPsec
9 5 (0.55%) Broadband
10 4 (0.44%) IPv4
10 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.33%) DHCP
11 3 (0.33%) LTE
11 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) VLAN
12 2 (0.22%) 4G
12 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (18.83%) DynamoDB
2 103 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 90 (9.97%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.20%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
7 41 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (4.32%) Power BI
9 36 (3.99%) Relational Database
10 35 (3.88%) Big Data
11 34 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (2.88%) MySQL
13 24 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.33%) Data Lake
15 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.77%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.66%) Spark SQL
18 13 (1.44%) Metadata
19 12 (1.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 157 (17.39%) Git
2 144 (15.95%) Jenkins
3 92 (10.19%) GitLab
4 38 (4.21%) SonarQube
5 33 (3.65%) Maven
6 30 (3.32%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.10%) JIRA
8 25 (2.77%) Snyk
9 23 (2.55%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.66%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.66%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.55%) XCTest
12 11 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.22%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.00%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.89%) JUnit
14 8 (0.89%) Selenium
15 7 (0.78%) JMeter
15 7 (0.78%) Mockito
15 7 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 226 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 155 (17.17%) Finance
3 73 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.21%) Banking
6 29 (3.21%) Law
7 17 (1.88%) Marketing
8 16 (1.77%) Military
9 13 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.22%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.22%) Legal
11 10 (1.11%) Advertising
11 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.89%) Billing
13 7 (0.78%) Retail
14 6 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.66%) Public Speaking
15 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 305 (33.78%) Senior
2 262 (29.01%) Developer
3 116 (12.85%) Lead
4 108 (11.96%) Architect
5 94 (10.41%) Senior Developer
6 88 (9.75%) Java Developer
7 82 (9.08%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (6.09%) Data Engineer
11 53 (5.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 49 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
15 45 (4.98%) Senior Architect
16 43 (4.76%) AWS Developer
17 42 (4.65%) Consultant
18 38 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
19 36 (3.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (19.16%) Node.js
2 155 (17.17%) React
3 133 (14.73%) .NET
4 112 (12.40%) REST
5 107 (11.85%) Spring Boot
6 102 (11.30%) AngularJS
7 89 (9.86%) Spring
8 83 (9.19%) Kafka
9 68 (7.53%) RESTful
10 56 (6.20%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.99%) HTML
12 34 (3.77%) Gherkin
12 34 (3.77%) PySpark
12 34 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
13 33 (3.65%) Jest
14 31 (3.43%) JSON
15 28 (3.10%) .NET Core
15 28 (3.10%) CSS
15 28 (3.10%) YAML
16 27 (2.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 224 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (7.09%) Onboarding
4 52 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.43%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.77%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.88%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.55%) IoT
15 13 (1.44%) Blockchain
15 13 (1.44%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.44%) Web3
16 12 (1.33%) Podcast
16 12 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (7.42%) Linux
2 31 (3.43%) Windows
3 23 (2.55%) VMS
4 14 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.44%) CentOS
6 4 (0.44%) Debian
6 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 420 (46.51%) DevOps
3 334 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 326 (36.10%) Agile
5 242 (26.80%) Mentoring
6 224 (24.81%) AI
7 206 (22.81%) Microservices
8 186 (20.60%) Software Engineering
9 183 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 168 (18.60%) Containerisation
12 167 (18.49%) Test Automation
13 147 (16.28%) Observability
14 145 (16.06%) Analytics
15 143 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 137 (15.17%) Event-Driven
17 117 (12.96%) Cloud Security
18 92 (10.19%) Computer Science
19 91 (10.08%) Roadmaps
20 87 (9.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 364 (40.31%) Python
2 250 (27.69%) SQL
3 201 (22.26%) Java
3 201 (22.26%) TypeScript
4 152 (16.83%) JavaScript
5 141 (15.61%) C#
6 102 (11.30%) Bash
7 48 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.09%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.76%) Go
10 42 (4.65%) Groovy
11 40 (4.43%) Bicep
12 35 (3.88%) PHP
13 23 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 22 (2.44%) Ruby
15 18 (1.99%) Perl
15 18 (1.99%) Rust
16 14 (1.55%) Swift
17 11 (1.22%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.89%) C++
Qualifications
1 146 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.96%) Degree
3 95 (10.52%) SC Cleared
4 87 (9.63%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.88%) Master's Degree
10 23 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 20 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.33%) OSCP
13 11 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.89%) PhD
16 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.87%) GDPR
2 45 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.87%) QA
4 25 (2.77%) GRC
5 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.66%) NIST
9 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 260 (28.79%) Docker
2 35 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (3.32%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.77%) vSphere
6 12 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 325 (35.99%) Terraform
2 205 (22.70%) Kubernetes
3 103 (11.41%) Ansible
4 52 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 45 (4.98%) Grafana
6 25 (2.77%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.21%) Packer
7 20 (2.21%) Puppet
8 14 (1.55%) Kibana
9 13 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.66%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.22%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 138 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.65%) Databricks
3 31 (3.43%) Oracle
4 30 (3.32%) Tenable
5 25 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.77%) Palo Alto
6 24 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.33%) Splunk
8 19 (2.10%) VMware
9 18 (1.99%) IBM
10 16 (1.77%) Google
11 14 (1.55%) Amplitude
11 14 (1.55%) Braze
11 14 (1.55%) SAP
12 12 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.33%) HP
12 12 (1.33%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.00%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.89%) Salesforce