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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 98 185
Rank change year-on-year -106 +87 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 641 1,276 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 2.95% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 7.85% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 416 575 858
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,900 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £58,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.90% -1.38%

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 20,390 16,245 25,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.53% 37.52% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,276 9,997 21,794
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £41,875
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 £77,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.12% +12.35% -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 23 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 23 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 -86 274 £82,000 -13.68% 152
North of England +59 204 £72,500 +20.83% 79
Yorkshire +53 145 £73,750 +39.15% 30
Midlands -6 69 £58,750 +6.82% 23
North West +6 54 £75,000 +25.00% 45
East Midlands -2 41 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South West -108 41 £62,500 +4.17% 42
South East -155 39 £67,500 +12.50% 60
West Midlands -14 28 £53,750 -2.27% 16
East of England -54 14 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North East -18 5 £66,750 +6.80% 4
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 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.21%) Apache
3 16 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.18%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.09%) Confluence
7 5 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.47%) JBoss
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.47%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 503 (78.47%) AWS
2 337 (52.57%) AWS Lambda
3 255 (39.78%) Amazon S3
4 245 (38.22%) Azure
5 152 (23.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (17.78%) Amazon ECS
7 113 (17.63%) GitHub
8 99 (15.44%) Azure Functions
9 93 (14.51%) AWS Step Functions
10 81 (12.64%) Amazon SQS
11 77 (12.01%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (11.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 74 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
14 71 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (10.30%) GCP
16 62 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
17 61 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
18 57 (8.89%) SaaS
19 49 (7.64%) Power Platform
20 40 (6.24%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) AMQP
2 10 (1.56%) DSL
2 10 (1.56%) Firewall
2 10 (1.56%) Network Security
3 6 (0.94%) VPN
4 5 (0.78%) Broadband
4 5 (0.78%) SSL
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
5 4 (0.62%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (18.25%) DynamoDB
2 80 (12.48%) NoSQL
3 71 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (10.76%) Amazon RDS
5 47 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.18%) SQL Server
7 41 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.30%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.37%) Power BI
10 26 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (3.28%) Big Data
12 21 (3.28%) MySQL
13 20 (3.12%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.96%) MongoDB
15 14 (2.18%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.18%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (1.09%) Metadata
18 6 (0.94%) DB2
Development Applications
1 123 (19.19%) Jenkins
2 90 (14.04%) Git
3 79 (12.32%) GitLab
4 39 (6.08%) Cypress.io
5 33 (5.15%) Maven
6 32 (4.99%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.65%) CircleCI
7 17 (2.65%) JIRA
8 13 (2.03%) JUnit
9 11 (1.72%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.56%) JMeter
11 9 (1.40%) Mockito
12 7 (1.09%) MLflow
13 6 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.78%) git-flow
14 5 (0.78%) webpack
15 4 (0.62%) Mocha
15 4 (0.62%) Selenium
16 3 (0.47%) Crashlytics
16 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
General
1 183 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.88%) Finance
3 52 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 51 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.96%) Publishing
7 18 (2.81%) Banking
8 17 (2.65%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.34%) Health Technology
9 15 (2.34%) Law
10 14 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.87%) Advertising
12 10 (1.56%) Legal
13 7 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.94%) Retail
15 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 255 (39.78%) Developer
2 152 (23.71%) Senior
3 94 (14.66%) Architect
4 79 (12.32%) Lead
5 70 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 67 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 63 (9.83%) AWS Developer
7 63 (9.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
9 53 (8.27%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.18%) Python Developer
11 40 (6.24%) Lead Developer
12 39 (6.08%) Data Engineer
13 36 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (5.30%) Software Developer
15 33 (5.15%) React Developer
16 32 (4.99%) .NET Developer
17 31 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (4.06%) Support Engineer
19 25 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (27.46%) React
2 131 (20.44%) Node.js
3 102 (15.91%) .NET
4 97 (15.13%) Spring Boot
5 80 (12.48%) Spring
6 79 (12.32%) AngularJS
7 78 (12.17%) HTML
8 70 (10.92%) REST
9 64 (9.98%) CSS
10 63 (9.83%) RESTful
11 51 (7.96%) AWS CDK
12 49 (7.64%) Kafka
13 46 (7.18%) .NET Core
14 38 (5.93%) Jest
15 31 (4.84%) Gherkin
16 30 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (4.06%) Vue
18 25 (3.90%) Web Services
19 24 (3.74%) FastAPI
20 23 (3.59%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 146 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.40%) Blockchain
11 9 (1.40%) Web3
12 8 (1.25%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.94%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.30%) Linux
2 16 (2.50%) Windows
3 13 (2.03%) VMS
4 11 (1.72%) Unix
5 10 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.78%) CentOS
6 5 (0.78%) Debian
6 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (57.88%) CI/CD
2 307 (47.89%) DevOps
3 252 (39.31%) Agile
4 204 (31.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (29.64%) Microservices
6 173 (26.99%) Mentoring
7 158 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (19.66%) Software Engineering
10 124 (19.34%) Containerisation
11 107 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (13.10%) Observability
13 82 (12.79%) AI
14 76 (11.86%) Analytics
15 72 (11.23%) Data Modelling
15 72 (11.23%) SDLC
16 70 (10.92%) Computer Science
17 67 (10.45%) Migration
17 67 (10.45%) Scrum
18 66 (10.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 261 (40.72%) Python
2 198 (30.89%) JavaScript
3 178 (27.77%) TypeScript
4 167 (26.05%) Java
5 165 (25.74%) SQL
6 111 (17.32%) C#
7 58 (9.05%) Bash
8 30 (4.68%) Groovy
9 27 (4.21%) Go
9 27 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.81%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.72%) Rust
12 11 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.56%) Scala
14 7 (1.09%) Bicep
15 6 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.94%) R
16 5 (0.78%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 116 (18.10%) AWS Certification
2 88 (13.73%) Degree
3 73 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 59 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (7.02%) Azure Certification
7 42 (6.55%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (4.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.06%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.50%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.72%) OSCP
15 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
18 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.24%) QA
2 27 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.59%) GDPR
4 12 (1.87%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.56%) SLA
6 9 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.47%) WCAG
9 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 206 (32.14%) Docker
2 17 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.94%) HDFS
5 3 (0.47%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) vCloud
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 185 (28.86%) Terraform
2 149 (23.24%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.27%) Ansible
4 35 (5.46%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.30%) Grafana
6 31 (4.84%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.28%) Kibana
8 9 (1.40%) Puppet
9 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.47%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.31%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.28%) Databricks
3 16 (2.50%) Google
4 13 (2.03%) Splunk
5 12 (1.87%) Oracle
6 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.78%) IBM
12 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.78%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.62%) Pega
13 4 (0.62%) WSO2
13 4 (0.62%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.47%) Amplitude
15 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow