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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 205 212
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 919 694 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.60% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 4.82% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 579 499 649
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 24,487 14,390 24,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.14% 33.13% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,417 10,271 18,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -34 381 £85,000 +13.33% 152
North of England +93 285 £75,000 +15.38% 67
North West +50 128 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire +41 121 £80,000 +33.33% 15
Midlands -3 87 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South East -25 81 £66,250 -5.36% 36
South West -51 63 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East Midlands +24 55 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North East -18 36 £75,000 +15.38% 20
West Midlands -47 32 £58,750 -6.00% 16
East of England -50 15 £59,450 +1.19% 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 33 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.05%) Apache
3 18 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.96%) Confluence
4 15 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.20%) SAS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.54%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 668 (72.69%) AWS
2 428 (46.57%) AWS Lambda
3 327 (35.58%) Azure
4 293 (31.88%) Amazon S3
5 226 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 198 (21.55%) Amazon ECS
7 160 (17.41%) Azure Functions
8 123 (13.38%) GitHub
9 113 (12.30%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (11.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 98 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
12 95 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (10.01%) GCP
14 91 (9.90%) SaaS
15 87 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
16 85 (9.25%) Amazon SQS
17 76 (8.27%) Power Platform
18 75 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
19 71 (7.73%) PaaS
20 70 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.05%) VPN
2 27 (2.94%) Network Security
3 22 (2.39%) Firewall
4 19 (2.07%) Internet
5 14 (1.52%) DNS
6 8 (0.87%) MQTT
7 7 (0.76%) DSL
7 7 (0.76%) VoIP
8 6 (0.65%) BGP
8 6 (0.65%) IPsec
9 5 (0.54%) AMQP
9 5 (0.54%) Broadband
10 4 (0.44%) DHCP
10 4 (0.44%) IPv4
10 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.44%) VLAN
11 3 (0.33%) LTE
11 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) WAN
11 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.61%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.66%) NoSQL
3 90 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (7.29%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
7 42 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (4.13%) Power BI
10 37 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (4.03%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.81%) Big Data
12 26 (2.83%) MySQL
13 24 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (2.29%) Data Lake
15 18 (1.96%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.74%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.63%) Metadata
17 15 (1.63%) Spark SQL
18 13 (1.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 162 (17.63%) Git
2 142 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 89 (9.68%) GitLab
4 38 (4.13%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.48%) Maven
6 31 (3.37%) JIRA
7 29 (3.16%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.72%) Snyk
9 20 (2.18%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.63%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.52%) XCTest
12 13 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.98%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.87%) JUnit
15 8 (0.87%) Selenium
16 7 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.76%) JMeter
16 7 (0.76%) Mockito
General
1 227 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 165 (17.95%) Finance
3 74 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.03%) Banking
6 37 (4.03%) Law
7 23 (2.50%) Marketing
8 15 (1.63%) Military
9 14 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.41%) Legal
11 11 (1.20%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.09%) Advertising
12 10 (1.09%) Retail
13 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.87%) Billing
14 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 303 (32.97%) Senior
2 258 (28.07%) Developer
3 125 (13.60%) Lead
4 108 (11.75%) Architect
5 92 (10.01%) Senior Developer
6 86 (9.36%) Java Developer
7 82 (8.92%) Software Engineer
8 76 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (6.31%) Data Engineer
11 55 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 46 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
16 44 (4.79%) Senior Architect
17 42 (4.57%) Consultant
18 41 (4.46%) AWS Developer
19 38 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
20 37 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (18.39%) Node.js
2 149 (16.21%) React
3 134 (14.58%) .NET
4 113 (12.30%) REST
5 104 (11.32%) Spring Boot
6 103 (11.21%) AngularJS
7 87 (9.47%) Spring
8 80 (8.71%) Kafka
9 66 (7.18%) RESTful
10 58 (6.31%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.92%) PySpark
12 34 (3.70%) Jest
13 33 (3.59%) Gherkin
13 33 (3.59%) HTML
14 32 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.26%) JSON
16 29 (3.16%) OAuth
17 28 (3.05%) YAML
18 27 (2.94%) CSS
19 26 (2.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 232 (25.24%) Cloud Native
2 75 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.18%) Onboarding
4 52 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.37%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.94%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.72%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.18%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.52%) IoT
14 13 (1.41%) Low-Code
15 12 (1.31%) Blockchain
15 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.31%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.62%) Linux
2 34 (3.70%) Windows
3 22 (2.39%) VMS
4 14 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.44%) CentOS
7 4 (0.44%) Debian
7 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (57.34%) CI/CD
2 432 (47.01%) DevOps
3 343 (37.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (37.00%) Agile
5 249 (27.09%) Mentoring
6 230 (25.03%) AI
7 210 (22.85%) Microservices
8 190 (20.67%) Software Engineering
9 184 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (18.39%) Test Automation
11 166 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
12 165 (17.95%) Containerisation
13 153 (16.65%) Observability
14 149 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 143 (15.56%) Analytics
16 136 (14.80%) Event-Driven
17 126 (13.71%) Cloud Security
18 99 (10.77%) Roadmaps
19 91 (9.90%) Migration
19 91 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 366 (39.83%) Python
2 252 (27.42%) SQL
3 200 (21.76%) TypeScript
4 198 (21.55%) Java
5 151 (16.43%) JavaScript
6 143 (15.56%) C#
7 102 (11.10%) Bash
8 47 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 46 (5.01%) Kotlin
10 41 (4.46%) Groovy
11 40 (4.35%) Bicep
11 40 (4.35%) Go
12 34 (3.70%) PHP
13 22 (2.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 22 (2.39%) Ruby
14 18 (1.96%) Perl
15 17 (1.85%) Rust
16 14 (1.52%) Swift
17 12 (1.31%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 106 (11.53%) Degree
3 101 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.36%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.79%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 41 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (4.13%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.72%) Master's Degree
10 23 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (1.20%) OSCP
14 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.87%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.87%) PhD
16 7 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.20%) GDPR
2 48 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.90%) QA
4 25 (2.72%) GRC
5 16 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 260 (28.29%) Docker
2 35 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.59%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.74%) vSphere
6 12 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) Squid
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.33%) Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 337 (36.67%) Terraform
2 203 (22.09%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.75%) Ansible
4 48 (5.22%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.79%) Grafana
6 24 (2.61%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.18%) Packer
7 20 (2.18%) Puppet
8 15 (1.63%) Kibana
9 12 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.54%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.33%) Scalr
14 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.11%) logstash
14 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.03%) Databricks
3 31 (3.37%) Oracle
3 31 (3.37%) Tenable
4 26 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 25 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.72%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.29%) Splunk
6 21 (2.29%) VMware
7 18 (1.96%) IBM
8 17 (1.85%) Google
9 15 (1.63%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.52%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.52%) Braze
10 14 (1.52%) SAP
11 12 (1.31%) HP
11 12 (1.31%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.09%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.87%) Salesforce