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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 225 204
Rank change year-on-year +26 -21 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 979 603 907
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 1.40% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.36% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 622 411 472
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,250 £58,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,328 13,842 21,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.42% 32.19% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16,981 9,624 13,281
10th Percentile £31,539 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -31 412 £82,500 +10.00% 475
North of England +87 304 £70,000 +7.69% 155
North West +52 140 £67,500 +3.85% 98
Yorkshire +24 110 £80,000 +13.48% 42
South East -22 89 £65,000 -10.34% 63
Midlands -23 78 £62,500 -1.96% 62
South West -48 73 £61,750 +2.92% 72
North East -17 54 £67,500 -1.46% 15
West Midlands -44 44 £62,500 -1.96% 33
East Midlands -6 34 £65,000 - 29
East of England -62 10 £57,500 - 24
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 39 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.76%) Apache
4 22 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.74%) Confluence
6 12 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.72%) CMS
7 7 (0.72%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) SAS
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.20%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.20%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.10%) Finacle
4 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 677 (69.15%) AWS
2 453 (46.27%) AWS Lambda
3 376 (38.41%) Azure
4 298 (30.44%) Amazon S3
5 222 (22.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 200 (20.43%) Azure Functions
7 196 (20.02%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (13.28%) Amazon EC2
10 128 (13.07%) GitHub
11 114 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
12 101 (10.32%) GCP
13 98 (10.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 95 (9.70%) SaaS
15 94 (9.60%) Power Platform
16 86 (8.78%) AWS Step Functions
17 85 (8.68%) PaaS
18 80 (8.17%) Azure Logic Apps
19 76 (7.76%) Amazon SQS
20 68 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.37%) VPN
2 31 (3.17%) Firewall
3 25 (2.55%) Network Security
4 23 (2.35%) DNS
5 22 (2.25%) Internet
6 16 (1.63%) VoIP
7 13 (1.33%) DHCP
7 13 (1.33%) VLAN
8 9 (0.92%) MQTT
9 8 (0.82%) AMQP
9 8 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.61%) BGP
10 6 (0.61%) IPsec
10 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.51%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) IPv4
12 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.31%) HTTP
13 3 (0.31%) LTE
14 2 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 100 (10.21%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (9.30%) NoSQL
4 88 (8.99%) SQL Server
5 74 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (5.72%) Relational Database
7 53 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
8 51 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (4.09%) Power BI
11 30 (3.06%) Big Data
12 28 (2.86%) MongoDB
13 27 (2.76%) Spark SQL
14 25 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (2.35%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.25%) MySQL
17 21 (2.15%) Hadoop
18 20 (2.04%) Metadata
19 15 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 205 (20.94%) Git
2 119 (12.16%) Jenkins
3 69 (7.05%) GitLab
4 32 (3.27%) JIRA
5 30 (3.06%) SonarQube
6 25 (2.55%) Snyk
7 23 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 20 (2.04%) Maven
9 15 (1.53%) JMeter
10 13 (1.33%) Claude Code
10 13 (1.33%) JUnit
11 12 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.23%) Mockito
12 11 (1.12%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.02%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.02%) Postman
14 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.72%) Selenium
16 6 (0.61%) Crashlytics
General
1 227 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 192 (19.61%) Finance
3 111 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 87 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (5.82%) Law
7 55 (5.62%) Banking
8 39 (3.98%) Marketing
9 25 (2.55%) Retail
10 20 (2.04%) Legal
11 16 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.53%) Aviation
13 14 (1.43%) Military
14 13 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.72%) Billing
20 6 (0.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 294 (30.03%) Senior
2 252 (25.74%) Developer
3 123 (12.56%) Lead
4 111 (11.34%) Architect
5 103 (10.52%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 79 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 74 (7.56%) Java Developer
9 73 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 65 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 59 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 44 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (4.49%) Senior Architect
15 42 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
16 41 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
16 41 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
17 40 (4.09%) Consultant
18 38 (3.88%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (37.59%) Terraform
2 167 (17.06%) Node.js
3 151 (15.42%) .NET
4 143 (14.61%) React
5 130 (13.28%) REST
6 97 (9.91%) AngularJS
7 95 (9.70%) Spring Boot
8 89 (9.09%) Spring
9 82 (8.38%) RESTful
10 81 (8.27%) Kafka
11 54 (5.52%) AWS CDK
12 52 (5.31%) PySpark
13 45 (4.60%) JSON
14 31 (3.17%) Jest
14 31 (3.17%) Swagger
15 30 (3.06%) OAuth
15 30 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (2.86%) Web Services
17 27 (2.76%) HTML
18 26 (2.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 270 (27.58%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (7.97%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 46 (4.70%) AI Agents
6 39 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 30 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 20 (2.04%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.53%) Blog
14 15 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.53%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.23%) Podcast
17 11 (1.12%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.35%) Linux
2 42 (4.29%) Windows
3 13 (1.33%) VMS
3 13 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.72%) CentOS
4 7 (0.72%) Debian
4 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (58.94%) CI/CD
2 467 (47.70%) DevOps
3 385 (39.33%) Agile
4 359 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 284 (29.01%) AI
6 255 (26.05%) Mentoring
7 240 (24.51%) Software Engineering
8 222 (22.68%) Microservices
9 193 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 186 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
11 177 (18.08%) Test Automation
12 166 (16.96%) Observability
13 165 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 157 (16.04%) Analytics
15 155 (15.83%) Event-Driven
16 143 (14.61%) Containerisation
17 142 (14.50%) Cloud Security
18 138 (14.10%) Roadmaps
19 121 (12.36%) Migration
20 113 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 359 (36.67%) Python
2 282 (28.80%) SQL
3 209 (21.35%) Java
4 193 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 184 (18.79%) C#
6 171 (17.47%) JavaScript
7 97 (9.91%) Bash
8 49 (5.01%) Bicep
9 41 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.47%) Groovy
10 34 (3.47%) Kotlin
11 30 (3.06%) Ruby
12 27 (2.76%) PHP
13 26 (2.66%) C++
14 20 (2.04%) Go
15 19 (1.94%) Perl
16 17 (1.74%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.23%) Rust
19 11 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 189 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 134 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.01%) Degree
4 78 (7.97%) AWS Certification
5 58 (5.92%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.61%) CISM
16 6 (0.61%) CISSP
16 6 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 68 (6.95%) GDPR
3 55 (5.62%) QA
4 28 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.76%) GRC
6 14 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.92%) NIST
8 8 (0.82%) WCAG
9 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.51%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 254 (25.94%) Docker
2 43 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.63%) vSphere
6 12 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 199 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 108 (11.03%) Ansible
3 42 (4.29%) Grafana
4 37 (3.78%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.45%) Puppet
6 22 (2.25%) Packer
7 14 (1.43%) Kibana
8 13 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.23%) HP Fortify
10 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (0.61%) Rancher
12 5 (0.51%) Argo
12 5 (0.51%) Podman
12 5 (0.51%) SCCM
13 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 205 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.29%) Databricks
3 39 (3.98%) Oracle
4 35 (3.58%) Dynatrace
5 34 (3.47%) Tenable
6 31 (3.17%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.55%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.55%) VMware
8 23 (2.35%) Google
8 23 (2.35%) Splunk
9 21 (2.15%) SAP
10 18 (1.84%) IBM
11 14 (1.43%) AppDynamics
11 14 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.23%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.12%) HP
14 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.92%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.72%) SaltStack