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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 100 187
Rank change year-on-year -99 +87 -44
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 627 1,274 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.08% 2.85% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 7.64% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 407 572 867
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +6.29% -4.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +8.57% -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 19,789 16,683 25,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.97% 37.28% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,970 10,052 21,501
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -77 276 £80,000 -15.79% 167
North of England +57 188 £75,000 +20.00% 78
Yorkshire +49 131 £75,000 +36.36% 32
Midlands +4 66 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North West +18 53 £75,000 +22.45% 40
South West -107 41 £62,500 -3.85% 45
South East -149 38 £67,500 +12.50% 68
East Midlands -4 36 £60,000 +4.35% 11
West Midlands -4 30 £55,625 +1.14% 12
East of England -50 16 £62,500 -5.66% 19
North East -11 4 £68,500 +9.60% 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 36 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 26 (4.15%) Apache
3 17 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.23%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.28%) Confluence
6 6 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.32%) nginx
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 488 (77.83%) AWS
2 329 (52.47%) AWS Lambda
3 247 (39.39%) Azure
4 241 (38.44%) Amazon S3
5 134 (21.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 107 (17.07%) GitHub
7 102 (16.27%) Amazon ECS
8 100 (15.95%) Azure Functions
9 86 (13.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 77 (12.28%) Amazon SQS
11 76 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (11.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 69 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (10.21%) GCP
15 63 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
16 59 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
17 57 (9.09%) SaaS
18 52 (8.29%) Power Platform
19 34 (5.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.75%) AMQP
2 10 (1.59%) Firewall
3 9 (1.44%) Network Security
4 8 (1.28%) DSL
5 6 (0.96%) Broadband
5 6 (0.96%) Internet
5 6 (0.96%) VPN
6 5 (0.80%) SSL
7 4 (0.64%) WAN
8 2 (0.32%) Wireless
9 1 (0.16%) DNS
9 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (18.02%) DynamoDB
2 76 (12.12%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (11.16%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.34%) SQL Server
7 45 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (5.10%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.99%) Power BI
10 23 (3.67%) Big Data
11 22 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (3.35%) MySQL
13 20 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (3.03%) Data Lake
14 19 (3.03%) MongoDB
15 16 (2.55%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.23%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
19 8 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 87 (13.88%) Git
3 68 (10.85%) GitLab
4 35 (5.58%) Cypress.io
5 26 (4.15%) Maven
5 26 (4.15%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.87%) JIRA
7 14 (2.23%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.07%) JUnit
9 11 (1.75%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.59%) JMeter
11 9 (1.44%) Mockito
12 7 (1.12%) MLflow
13 5 (0.80%) git-flow
13 5 (0.80%) Vite
14 4 (0.64%) Mocha
14 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.64%) webpack
15 3 (0.48%) ESLint
16 2 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 176 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 86 (13.72%) Finance
3 52 (8.29%) Public Sector
4 49 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.51%) Publishing
6 21 (3.35%) Tech for Good
7 20 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.87%) Health Technology
9 17 (2.71%) Banking
9 17 (2.71%) Law
10 15 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.75%) Advertising
13 10 (1.59%) Legal
14 9 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.80%) Retail
17 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (39.39%) Developer
2 149 (23.76%) Senior
3 96 (15.31%) Architect
4 84 (13.40%) Lead
5 70 (11.16%) Senior Developer
6 62 (9.89%) AWS Developer
7 61 (9.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
9 57 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 51 (8.13%) Software Engineer
11 49 (7.81%) Python Developer
12 43 (6.86%) Data Engineer
13 39 (6.22%) Lead Developer
14 35 (5.58%) Software Developer
15 34 (5.42%) .NET Developer
15 34 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (5.26%) React Developer
17 27 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 27 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (3.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (27.59%) React
2 125 (19.94%) Node.js
3 104 (16.59%) .NET
4 91 (14.51%) Spring Boot
5 78 (12.44%) HTML
5 78 (12.44%) Spring
6 74 (11.80%) AngularJS
7 71 (11.32%) REST
8 69 (11.00%) RESTful
9 62 (9.89%) CSS
10 48 (7.66%) Kafka
11 46 (7.34%) .NET Core
12 45 (7.18%) AWS CDK
13 34 (5.42%) Jest
14 29 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
15 27 (4.31%) Vue
16 25 (3.99%) FastAPI
16 25 (3.99%) Gherkin
16 25 (3.99%) Web Services
17 22 (3.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 146 (23.29%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 21 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.28%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.28%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.28%) Web3
12 7 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.10%) Linux
2 15 (2.39%) Windows
3 12 (1.91%) Unix
4 10 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.59%) VMS
5 5 (0.80%) CentOS
5 5 (0.80%) Debian
5 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (58.21%) CI/CD
2 292 (46.57%) DevOps
3 248 (39.55%) Agile
4 193 (30.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 186 (29.67%) Microservices
6 168 (26.79%) Mentoring
7 150 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (19.94%) Software Engineering
10 118 (18.82%) Containerisation
11 102 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 85 (13.56%) AI
13 80 (12.76%) Observability
14 78 (12.44%) Data Modelling
15 74 (11.80%) SDLC
16 73 (11.64%) TDD
17 72 (11.48%) Analytics
17 72 (11.48%) Computer Science
18 71 (11.32%) Scrum
19 67 (10.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 263 (41.95%) Python
2 198 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 173 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 160 (25.52%) SQL
5 158 (25.20%) Java
6 113 (18.02%) C#
7 50 (7.97%) Bash
8 26 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.83%) Groovy
10 23 (3.67%) Go
11 14 (2.23%) Scala
12 11 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.44%) Rust
15 8 (1.28%) Bicep
16 6 (0.96%) PHP
16 6 (0.96%) R
17 5 (0.80%) C++
17 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 89 (14.19%) Degree
3 70 (11.16%) Security Cleared
4 60 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (7.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 43 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 43 (6.86%) SC Cleared
7 34 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (4.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (3.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.23%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.44%) OSCP
14 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
18 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.50%) QA
2 25 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.99%) GDPR
3 12 (1.91%) SLA
4 11 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.48%) WCAG
8 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.16%) GAAP
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.16%) MiFID
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 190 (30.30%) Docker
2 16 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.28%) HDFS
3 8 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.32%) iptables
5 1 (0.16%) vCloud
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (27.91%) Terraform
2 135 (21.53%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.66%) Ansible
4 31 (4.94%) Grafana
4 31 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 25 (3.99%) HP Fortify
6 19 (3.03%) Kibana
7 8 (1.28%) Puppet
8 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.32%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.83%) Databricks
3 16 (2.55%) Google
4 13 (2.07%) Oracle
4 13 (2.07%) Splunk
5 11 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.59%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 6 (0.96%) IBM
8 6 (0.96%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.80%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.64%) Pega
10 4 (0.64%) WSO2
10 4 (0.64%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.32%) Foundry
11 2 (0.32%) ServiceNow