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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 213 210
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -57
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 953 670 950
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.65% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 591 475 591
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +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 24,729 14,400 23,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.25% 32.91% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,742 10,214 17,128
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -35 392 £85,000 +13.33% 449
North of England +90 303 £75,000 +15.38% 105
North West +66 136 £70,000 +3.70% 55
Yorkshire +45 123 £80,000 +33.33% 28
Midlands +2 84 £63,750 -1.92% 38
South East -15 84 £65,000 -7.14% 56
South West -47 66 £61,500 +2.50% 44
East Midlands +20 50 £60,000 +60.00% 14
North East -18 44 £75,000 +3.45% 22
West Midlands -43 34 £66,250 +1.92% 24
East of England -44 18 £59,450 +1.19% 18
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 37 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.04%) Apache
3 18 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.78%) Confluence
5 14 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.15%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.52%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 693 (72.72%) AWS
2 453 (47.53%) AWS Lambda
3 340 (35.68%) Azure
4 307 (32.21%) Amazon S3
5 233 (24.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 205 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
7 173 (18.15%) Azure Functions
8 131 (13.75%) GitHub
9 114 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.86%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 99 (10.39%) AWS Step Functions
12 98 (10.28%) SaaS
13 96 (10.07%) GCP
14 94 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
15 83 (8.71%) Power Platform
16 82 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
17 79 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
18 73 (7.66%) PaaS
19 71 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.83%) VPN
2 25 (2.62%) Network Security
3 23 (2.41%) Firewall
4 21 (2.20%) Internet
5 14 (1.47%) DNS
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
6 9 (0.94%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) AMQP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
8 5 (0.52%) Broadband
8 5 (0.52%) DHCP
8 5 (0.52%) DSL
8 5 (0.52%) VLAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (17.94%) DynamoDB
2 95 (9.97%) NoSQL
3 94 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (7.24%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
7 47 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (4.72%) Relational Database
10 36 (3.78%) Big Data
10 36 (3.78%) Power BI
11 27 (2.83%) MySQL
12 24 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.31%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.20%) MongoDB
15 19 (1.99%) Metadata
16 18 (1.89%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.57%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 172 (18.05%) Git
2 134 (14.06%) Jenkins
3 84 (8.81%) GitLab
4 36 (3.78%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.25%) JIRA
6 29 (3.04%) Maven
7 27 (2.83%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.62%) Snyk
9 17 (1.78%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.47%) Crashlytics
11 13 (1.36%) TeamCity
11 13 (1.36%) XCTest
12 12 (1.26%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.05%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.94%) JUnit
15 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.84%) Mockito
15 8 (0.84%) Selenium
16 7 (0.73%) JMeter
General
1 233 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 186 (19.52%) Finance
3 77 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.25%) Banking
6 50 (5.25%) Law
7 35 (3.67%) Marketing
8 18 (1.89%) Retail
9 16 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.57%) Legal
11 14 (1.47%) Military
12 13 (1.36%) Aviation
12 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
14 10 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.84%) Billing
16 7 (0.73%) Advertising
17 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 300 (31.48%) Senior
2 268 (28.12%) Developer
3 138 (14.48%) Lead
4 107 (11.23%) Architect
5 89 (9.34%) Senior Developer
6 86 (9.02%) Java Developer
7 85 (8.92%) Software Engineer
8 74 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
10 60 (6.30%) Data Engineer
11 57 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 51 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (4.62%) AWS Developer
15 43 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
16 42 (4.41%) Consultant
16 42 (4.41%) Senior Architect
17 41 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
18 40 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
19 38 (3.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (17.73%) Node.js
2 144 (15.11%) React
3 137 (14.38%) .NET
4 119 (12.49%) REST
5 103 (10.81%) AngularJS
6 100 (10.49%) Spring Boot
7 84 (8.81%) Spring
8 80 (8.39%) Kafka
9 66 (6.93%) RESTful
10 57 (5.98%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.78%) PySpark
12 35 (3.67%) Jest
13 32 (3.36%) HTML
13 32 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (3.25%) OAuth
15 30 (3.15%) Gherkin
15 30 (3.15%) JSON
16 28 (2.94%) CSS
16 28 (2.94%) OAuth2
17 27 (2.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 251 (26.34%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 49 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 29 (3.04%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.10%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.47%) IoT
14 14 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.47%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.36%) Blog
16 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.26%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.35%) Linux
2 35 (3.67%) Windows
3 18 (1.89%) VMS
4 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) CentOS
6 5 (0.52%) Debian
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (56.35%) CI/CD
2 447 (46.90%) DevOps
3 350 (36.73%) Agile
4 347 (36.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (26.86%) Mentoring
6 247 (25.92%) AI
7 210 (22.04%) Microservices
8 209 (21.93%) Software Engineering
9 189 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 168 (17.63%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.42%) Containerisation
12 162 (17.00%) Observability
13 158 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 157 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 147 (15.42%) Analytics
16 135 (14.17%) Cloud Security
16 135 (14.17%) Event-Driven
17 116 (12.17%) Roadmaps
18 105 (11.02%) Migration
19 101 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 377 (39.56%) Python
2 270 (28.33%) SQL
3 196 (20.57%) Java
3 196 (20.57%) TypeScript
4 153 (16.05%) C#
5 150 (15.74%) JavaScript
6 100 (10.49%) Bash
7 49 (5.14%) Kotlin
8 42 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 41 (4.30%) Bicep
10 38 (3.99%) Groovy
11 35 (3.67%) Go
12 32 (3.36%) PHP
13 29 (3.04%) Ruby
14 19 (1.99%) Perl
15 18 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (1.57%) Rust
17 13 (1.36%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.36%) Swift
18 10 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.33%) Degree
2 108 (11.33%) SC Cleared
3 84 (8.81%) AWS Certification
4 49 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.73%) Master's Degree
10 21 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.94%) OSCP
15 8 (0.84%) PhD
16 6 (0.63%) MBA
17 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.51%) GDPR
2 55 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.46%) QA
4 26 (2.73%) GRC
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 262 (27.49%) Docker
2 35 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 344 (36.10%) Terraform
2 194 (20.36%) Kubernetes
3 107 (11.23%) Ansible
4 43 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.20%) Grafana
6 21 (2.20%) HP Fortify
6 21 (2.20%) Puppet
7 18 (1.89%) Packer
8 14 (1.47%) Kibana
9 9 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.52%) Argo
11 5 (0.52%) Podman
12 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.31%) Scalr
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) SCCM
14 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 157 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.30%) Databricks
3 35 (3.67%) Oracle
4 31 (3.25%) OpenAI
4 31 (3.25%) Tenable
5 25 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.62%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.31%) VMware
7 21 (2.20%) Google
7 21 (2.20%) Splunk
8 18 (1.89%) IBM
9 17 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.57%) SAP
11 14 (1.47%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.36%) Amplitude
12 13 (1.36%) Braze
13 12 (1.26%) HP
13 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.15%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.05%) Salesforce