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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 170 193
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 -31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 760 770 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 2.00% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 5.61% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 502 599 900
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 25,113 13,723 29,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.02% 35.71% 35.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,364 10,131 24,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,899 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -68 302 £82,500 -9.34% 153
North of England +54 258 £75,000 +15.38% 72
Yorkshire +26 152 £75,000 +30.43% 18
North West +23 99 £75,000 - 42
Midlands -10 94 £55,000 - 19
East Midlands +11 68 £60,000 +9.09% 12
South East -98 46 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South West -63 41 £62,500 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -51 26 £50,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -24 19 £60,100 -29.29% 8
North East -30 7 £95,000 +52.00% 12
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 27 (3.55%) Apache
2 25 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.58%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.05%) SAS
7 5 (0.66%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.53%) JBoss
9 3 (0.39%) CMS
9 3 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.79%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 560 (73.68%) AWS
2 382 (50.26%) AWS Lambda
3 287 (37.76%) Amazon S3
4 261 (34.34%) Azure
5 182 (23.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
7 120 (15.79%) GitHub
8 114 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 114 (15.00%) Azure Functions
9 98 (12.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 95 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
11 86 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
12 78 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
14 71 (9.34%) Azure Logic Apps
15 70 (9.21%) SaaS
16 65 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
16 65 (8.55%) GCP
17 58 (7.63%) Power Platform
18 56 (7.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.24%) Firewall
2 15 (1.97%) Network Security
3 13 (1.71%) DSL
4 10 (1.32%) AMQP
5 8 (1.05%) VPN
6 6 (0.79%) WAN
7 5 (0.66%) DNS
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
9 3 (0.39%) Broadband
9 3 (0.39%) VoIP
10 2 (0.26%) 4G
10 2 (0.26%) 5G
10 2 (0.26%) DHCP
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.26%) VLAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.13%) LTE
11 1 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.50%) DynamoDB
2 84 (11.05%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (7.63%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 39 (5.13%) Power BI
8 36 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 28 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.89%) MySQL
12 21 (2.76%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.63%) Big Data
14 15 (1.97%) MongoDB
15 12 (1.58%) Delta Lake
15 12 (1.58%) Spark SQL
16 10 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.32%) Metadata
17 8 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 157 (20.66%) Jenkins
2 118 (15.53%) Git
3 106 (13.95%) GitLab
4 50 (6.58%) SonarQube
5 49 (6.45%) Maven
6 44 (5.79%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.42%) CircleCI
8 18 (2.37%) Snyk
9 17 (2.24%) JIRA
10 12 (1.58%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.58%) XCTest
11 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.92%) JUnit
13 7 (0.92%) MLflow
14 6 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.66%) Gradle
16 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.53%) Selenium
16 4 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 195 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.61%) Finance
3 57 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.55%) Banking
7 18 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (2.37%) Publishing
8 17 (2.24%) Health Technology
9 15 (1.97%) Advertising
10 14 (1.84%) Tech for Good
11 11 (1.45%) Legal
11 11 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.32%) Law
13 7 (0.92%) Billing
13 7 (0.92%) Retail
14 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 266 (35.00%) Developer
2 218 (28.68%) Senior
3 108 (14.21%) Lead
4 107 (14.08%) Architect
5 87 (11.45%) Java Developer
6 83 (10.92%) Senior Developer
7 65 (8.55%) AWS Developer
8 63 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (7.76%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.32%) Data Engineer
12 42 (5.53%) Senior Architect
13 41 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 39 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
15 38 (5.00%) Lead Developer
16 36 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
17 35 (4.61%) Python Developer
18 34 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
18 34 (4.47%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (22.89%) React
2 155 (20.39%) Node.js
3 109 (14.34%) .NET
3 109 (14.34%) Spring Boot
4 100 (13.16%) AngularJS
5 99 (13.03%) REST
6 82 (10.79%) Spring
7 80 (10.53%) RESTful
8 64 (8.42%) Kafka
9 58 (7.63%) AWS CDK
10 52 (6.84%) HTML
11 44 (5.79%) .NET Core
11 44 (5.79%) Jest
12 42 (5.53%) Gherkin
12 42 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
13 40 (5.26%) CSS
14 31 (4.08%) PySpark
15 30 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (3.68%) JSON
17 26 (3.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (19.87%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.24%) Blockchain
8 17 (2.24%) Web3
9 14 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.05%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.92%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.79%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.74%) Linux
2 16 (2.11%) VMS
3 15 (1.97%) Windows
4 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.66%) CentOS
6 5 (0.66%) Debian
6 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 361 (47.50%) DevOps
3 274 (36.05%) Agile
4 265 (34.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 194 (25.53%) Microservices
6 182 (23.95%) Mentoring
7 173 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (19.87%) Containerisation
8 151 (19.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (19.08%) Software Engineering
10 129 (16.97%) Test Automation
11 126 (16.58%) Observability
12 120 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (14.47%) Analytics
14 104 (13.68%) AI
15 93 (12.24%) Event-Driven
16 85 (11.18%) TDD
17 79 (10.39%) Continuous Integration
18 75 (9.87%) Computer Science
19 73 (9.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 298 (39.21%) Python
2 215 (28.29%) SQL
3 211 (27.76%) TypeScript
4 174 (22.89%) Java
5 159 (20.92%) JavaScript
6 112 (14.74%) C#
7 73 (9.61%) Bash
8 48 (6.32%) Groovy
9 40 (5.26%) Go
9 40 (5.26%) Kotlin
10 32 (4.21%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.24%) Bicep
12 16 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (2.11%) Rust
13 12 (1.58%) Swift
14 11 (1.45%) PHP
15 8 (1.05%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.53%) C++
17 4 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (12.24%) Degree
2 90 (11.84%) AWS Certification
3 85 (11.18%) Security Cleared
4 64 (8.42%) SC Cleared
5 61 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (5.39%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.84%) OSCP
14 13 (1.71%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.71%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.58%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.92%) QA
2 44 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.95%) GDPR
4 18 (2.37%) GRC
5 17 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.71%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.53%) NIST
9 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
11 2 (0.26%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (31.84%) Docker
2 29 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.53%) iptables
5 3 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 227 (29.87%) Terraform
2 173 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 76 (10.00%) Ansible
4 50 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.79%) Grafana
6 41 (5.39%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.37%) Kibana
8 12 (1.58%) Puppet
9 8 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.79%) Packer
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.39%) Nagios
11 3 (0.39%) Scalr
12 1 (0.13%) Podman
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.61%) Databricks
3 22 (2.89%) Palo Alto
4 21 (2.76%) Tenable
5 18 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (1.97%) Oracle
7 12 (1.58%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.58%) Braze
8 11 (1.45%) Google
9 9 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.05%) IBM
11 7 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.92%) Splunk
12 6 (0.79%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.66%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.53%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.39%) Atlassian