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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 127 192
Rank change year-on-year -81 +65 -20
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 740 894 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 2.43% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 6.51% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 480 616 910
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,313 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 24,347 13,738 29,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.11% 37.36% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12,913 10,213 24,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -82 289 £82,500 -13.16% 132
North of England +48 261 £75,000 +20.00% 79
Yorkshire +38 164 £75,000 +30.43% 22
North West +15 91 £75,000 +8.30% 49
Midlands -20 89 £55,000 -2.22% 15
East Midlands 0 62 £60,000 +4.35% 6
South West -67 44 £62,500 +4.17% 23
South East -139 40 £82,500 +37.50% 50
West Midlands -45 27 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England -50 19 £60,100 -29.29% 19
North East -29 6 £92,500 +48.00% 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 27 (3.65%) Apache
1 27 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.08%) SAS
6 5 (0.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) CMS
7 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.41%) JBoss
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) PlantUML
1 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 563 (76.08%) AWS
2 381 (51.49%) AWS Lambda
3 288 (38.92%) Amazon S3
4 260 (35.14%) Azure
5 172 (23.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 138 (18.65%) Amazon ECS
7 130 (17.57%) GitHub
8 111 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 107 (14.46%) Azure Functions
10 98 (13.24%) Amazon SQS
11 93 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 84 (11.35%) GitHub Actions
13 78 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (10.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
16 70 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
16 70 (9.46%) GCP
17 65 (8.78%) SaaS
18 56 (7.57%) Power Platform
19 53 (7.16%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.30%) Firewall
2 13 (1.76%) DSL
3 12 (1.62%) AMQP
3 12 (1.62%) Network Security
4 8 (1.08%) VPN
5 6 (0.81%) WAN
6 5 (0.68%) Broadband
6 5 (0.68%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) 4G
8 1 (0.14%) 5G
8 1 (0.14%) Internet
8 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.76%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.49%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.16%) SQL Server
6 41 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (4.86%) Power BI
10 28 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (3.78%) Relational Database
11 25 (3.38%) MySQL
12 23 (3.11%) Big Data
13 20 (2.70%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.70%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.49%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.35%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.35%) Metadata
15 10 (1.35%) Spark SQL
16 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 149 (20.14%) Jenkins
2 105 (14.19%) Git
3 101 (13.65%) GitLab
4 47 (6.35%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.95%) Maven
6 43 (5.81%) Cypress.io
7 23 (3.11%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.16%) JIRA
9 11 (1.49%) Snyk
10 10 (1.35%) Crashlytics
10 10 (1.35%) XCTest
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.22%) MLflow
12 6 (0.81%) JUnit
12 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.54%) git-flow
13 4 (0.54%) Postman
13 4 (0.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 195 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.19%) Finance
3 54 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.11%) Banking
7 20 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.57%) Publishing
9 17 (2.30%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.03%) Tech for Good
11 13 (1.76%) Advertising
12 11 (1.49%) Legal
13 9 (1.22%) Law
14 8 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.95%) Retail
16 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.68%) Billing
16 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 277 (37.43%) Developer
2 202 (27.30%) Senior
3 105 (14.19%) Architect
4 101 (13.65%) Lead
5 85 (11.49%) Java Developer
6 82 (11.08%) Senior Developer
7 67 (9.05%) AWS Developer
8 66 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (8.24%) Software Engineer
10 59 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (5.95%) Python Developer
12 41 (5.54%) Data Engineer
12 41 (5.54%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 36 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
15 35 (4.73%) Senior Architect
16 32 (4.32%) .NET Developer
16 32 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (4.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (24.32%) React
2 151 (20.41%) Node.js
3 111 (15.00%) .NET
4 105 (14.19%) Spring Boot
5 98 (13.24%) AngularJS
6 91 (12.30%) REST
7 80 (10.81%) Spring
8 77 (10.41%) RESTful
9 63 (8.51%) HTML
10 59 (7.97%) Kafka
11 55 (7.43%) AWS CDK
12 52 (7.03%) CSS
13 47 (6.35%) .NET Core
14 44 (5.95%) Jest
15 42 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (5.41%) Gherkin
17 30 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
18 27 (3.65%) PySpark
19 23 (3.11%) Flask
19 23 (3.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 158 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.11%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.89%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.89%) Web3
9 12 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.68%) IoT
14 5 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.59%) Linux
2 16 (2.16%) VMS
3 15 (2.03%) Windows
4 10 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) CentOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (59.19%) CI/CD
2 363 (49.05%) DevOps
3 286 (38.65%) Agile
4 259 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (26.35%) Microservices
6 188 (25.41%) Mentoring
7 171 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (20.81%) Containerisation
8 154 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (19.59%) Software Engineering
10 123 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 118 (15.95%) Observability
12 116 (15.68%) Test Automation
13 101 (13.65%) Analytics
14 100 (13.51%) AI
15 83 (11.22%) Event-Driven
15 83 (11.22%) TDD
16 80 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
17 74 (10.00%) Data Modelling
18 73 (9.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 297 (40.14%) Python
2 205 (27.70%) SQL
2 205 (27.70%) TypeScript
3 178 (24.05%) Java
3 178 (24.05%) JavaScript
4 111 (15.00%) C#
5 73 (9.86%) Bash
6 46 (6.22%) Groovy
7 38 (5.14%) Go
8 36 (4.86%) Kotlin
9 33 (4.46%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (1.89%) Rust
12 13 (1.76%) Bicep
13 10 (1.35%) PHP
13 10 (1.35%) Swift
14 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.81%) C++
16 5 (0.68%) Perl
16 5 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (13.38%) AWS Certification
2 92 (12.43%) Degree
3 84 (11.35%) Security Cleared
4 64 (8.65%) SC Cleared
5 61 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 23 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (1.89%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.89%) OSCP
13 13 (1.76%) DBS Check
13 13 (1.76%) DV Cleared
14 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.22%) QA
2 39 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.51%) GDPR
4 16 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.49%) GRC
7 10 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.54%) NIST
9 4 (0.54%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 248 (33.51%) Docker
2 23 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.54%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 230 (31.08%) Terraform
2 175 (23.65%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.86%) Ansible
4 46 (6.22%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.08%) Grafana
6 40 (5.41%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.43%) Kibana
8 11 (1.49%) Puppet
9 8 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.81%) Packer
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.41%) Nagios
12 3 (0.41%) Scalr
13 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.46%) Databricks
3 18 (2.43%) Palo Alto
4 14 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (1.76%) Google
6 12 (1.62%) Tenable
7 11 (1.49%) Oracle
8 10 (1.35%) Amplitude
8 10 (1.35%) Braze
9 9 (1.22%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.08%) IBM
10 8 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.81%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.54%) Splunk
13 4 (0.54%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.41%) HubSpot