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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 102 189
Rank change year-on-year -103 +87 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 650 1,240 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 2.92% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 7.77% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 428 576 860
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £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 £85,000 £102,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.65% +3.79% -

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 20,668 15,950 25,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.43% 37.52% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,409 10,014 21,842
10th Percentile £29,212 £34,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
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 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 28 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 28 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 -81 278 £82,500 -13.16% 147
North of England +73 211 £72,500 +20.83% 72
Yorkshire +50 146 £72,500 +36.79% 27
Midlands -6 70 £60,000 +9.09% 17
North West +5 60 £75,000 +20.00% 42
East Midlands -7 42 £60,000 +4.35% 5
South West -105 41 £62,500 +4.17% 43
South East -162 38 £67,500 +12.50% 49
West Midlands -12 28 £55,625 +1.14% 12
East of England -56 13 £61,300 -5.69% 8
North East -11 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 34 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.62%) Apache
3 19 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.15%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.08%) Confluence
7 5 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.46%) JBoss
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.62%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 510 (78.46%) AWS
2 342 (52.62%) AWS Lambda
3 260 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 246 (37.85%) Azure
5 154 (23.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
6 114 (17.54%) GitHub
7 101 (15.54%) Azure Functions
8 95 (14.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 82 (12.62%) Amazon SQS
10 76 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (11.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 75 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
12 73 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 67 (10.31%) GCP
14 64 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
15 61 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
16 58 (8.92%) SaaS
17 50 (7.69%) Power Platform
18 41 (6.31%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.69%) AMQP
1 11 (1.69%) DSL
2 10 (1.54%) Firewall
2 10 (1.54%) Network Security
3 6 (0.92%) VPN
4 5 (0.77%) SSL
5 4 (0.62%) Broadband
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
5 4 (0.62%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) 4G
6 1 (0.15%) 5G
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (18.46%) DynamoDB
2 78 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 74 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (7.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 49 (7.54%) SQL Server
6 42 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (5.23%) Relational Database
8 30 (4.62%) Power BI
9 26 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.38%) MySQL
12 21 (3.23%) Big Data
12 21 (3.23%) MongoDB
13 19 (2.92%) Data Lake
14 14 (2.15%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.00%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.23%) Metadata
18 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 125 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 90 (13.85%) Git
3 83 (12.77%) GitLab
4 39 (6.00%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.23%) Maven
6 33 (5.08%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.62%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.46%) JIRA
9 12 (1.85%) JUnit
10 11 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.23%) JMeter
11 8 (1.23%) Mockito
12 7 (1.08%) MLflow
13 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.77%) git-flow
15 4 (0.62%) webpack
16 3 (0.46%) Crashlytics
16 3 (0.46%) ESLint
16 3 (0.46%) Vite
16 3 (0.46%) XCTest
General
1 179 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 93 (14.31%) Finance
3 51 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.92%) Banking
6 19 (2.92%) Publishing
7 17 (2.62%) Tech for Good
8 16 (2.46%) Law
9 15 (2.31%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.85%) Advertising
12 11 (1.69%) Legal
13 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.77%) Retail
16 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.62%) Billing
16 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (39.38%) Developer
2 158 (24.31%) Senior
3 94 (14.46%) Architect
4 79 (12.15%) Lead
5 70 (10.77%) Senior Developer
6 69 (10.62%) Java Developer
7 63 (9.69%) AWS Developer
8 62 (9.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (8.46%) Software Engineer
11 46 (7.08%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.46%) Data Engineer
13 40 (6.15%) Lead Developer
14 35 (5.38%) Software Developer
15 34 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (4.92%) React Developer
17 31 (4.77%) .NET Developer
17 31 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (4.15%) Support Engineer
19 26 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (26.62%) React
2 130 (20.00%) Node.js
3 102 (15.69%) .NET
4 100 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 82 (12.62%) Spring
6 79 (12.15%) AngularJS
7 75 (11.54%) HTML
8 70 (10.77%) REST
9 65 (10.00%) RESTful
10 62 (9.54%) CSS
11 52 (8.00%) AWS CDK
12 49 (7.54%) Kafka
13 47 (7.23%) .NET Core
14 39 (6.00%) Jest
15 32 (4.92%) Gherkin
16 29 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.85%) FastAPI
18 24 (3.69%) Flask
18 24 (3.69%) Vue
18 24 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.54%) Blockchain
9 10 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.54%) Web3
10 7 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.92%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.08%) Linux
2 16 (2.46%) Windows
3 14 (2.15%) VMS
4 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.54%) Unix
5 5 (0.77%) CentOS
5 5 (0.77%) Debian
5 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (58.31%) CI/CD
2 312 (48.00%) DevOps
3 254 (39.08%) Agile
4 213 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (29.23%) Microservices
6 172 (26.46%) Mentoring
7 158 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (20.31%) Software Engineering
10 126 (19.38%) Containerisation
11 111 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (13.23%) Observability
13 80 (12.31%) AI
14 78 (12.00%) Analytics
15 74 (11.38%) Data Modelling
16 69 (10.62%) SDLC
17 68 (10.46%) Computer Science
18 67 (10.31%) Test Automation
19 66 (10.15%) Scrum
19 66 (10.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 266 (40.92%) Python
2 194 (29.85%) JavaScript
3 181 (27.85%) TypeScript
4 168 (25.85%) Java
4 168 (25.85%) SQL
5 109 (16.77%) C#
6 60 (9.23%) Bash
7 31 (4.77%) Groovy
8 29 (4.46%) Go
9 28 (4.31%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.77%) Kotlin
11 14 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.85%) Rust
13 10 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.38%) Scala
15 6 (0.92%) Bicep
15 6 (0.92%) C++
15 6 (0.92%) PHP
16 5 (0.77%) R
17 4 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 112 (17.23%) AWS Certification
2 87 (13.38%) Degree
3 74 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 44 (6.77%) SC Cleared
7 43 (6.62%) Azure Certification
8 34 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 20 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.46%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.85%) OSCP
15 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
18 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.31%) QA
2 29 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.38%) GDPR
4 11 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.38%) SLA
6 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 213 (32.77%) Docker
2 16 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.92%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 192 (29.54%) Terraform
2 154 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 54 (8.31%) Ansible
4 37 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.23%) Grafana
6 32 (4.92%) HP Fortify
7 20 (3.08%) Kibana
8 9 (1.38%) Puppet
9 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.46%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.38%) Databricks
3 15 (2.31%) Google
4 12 (1.85%) Oracle
4 12 (1.85%) Splunk
5 10 (1.54%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.38%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.92%) Fortinet
8 6 (0.92%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.77%) IBM
9 5 (0.77%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.62%) Pega
10 4 (0.62%) WSO2
10 4 (0.62%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.46%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow