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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 200 211
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 886 721 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.73% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 5.16% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 594 520 851
10th Percentile £52,150 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 23,518 13,975 30,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.39% 33.45% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15,706 9,996 24,363
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 3 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 3 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 -43 343 £85,000 +6.25% 177
North of England +86 281 £75,000 +15.38% 68
North West +55 130 £72,500 +11.54% 40
Yorkshire +40 127 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands +15 98 £55,000 - 26
South East -44 69 £67,500 +12.50% 52
South West -53 68 £62,500 +4.17% 39
East Midlands +43 67 £55,000 +4.76% 14
West Midlands -40 31 £57,500 - 12
North East -27 24 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East of England -30 19 £60,000 -20.00% 8
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 (3.72%) Apache
1 33 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.69%) Confluence
4 13 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.02%) SAS
7 4 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.45%) JBoss
7 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) WordPress
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Pig
9 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.79%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 634 (71.56%) AWS
2 425 (47.97%) AWS Lambda
3 315 (35.55%) Azure
4 296 (33.41%) Amazon S3
5 206 (23.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 177 (19.98%) Amazon ECS
7 161 (18.17%) Azure Functions
8 122 (13.77%) GitHub
9 112 (12.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 103 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
12 95 (10.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (9.71%) SaaS
14 85 (9.59%) GCP
15 83 (9.37%) Amazon SQS
16 79 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
16 79 (8.92%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (8.69%) Power Platform
18 72 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
19 61 (6.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.71%) Network Security
2 21 (2.37%) Firewall
2 21 (2.37%) VPN
3 11 (1.24%) DSL
3 11 (1.24%) Internet
4 9 (1.02%) AMQP
4 9 (1.02%) DNS
5 7 (0.79%) MQTT
5 7 (0.79%) VoIP
6 5 (0.56%) Broadband
7 4 (0.45%) IPv4
7 4 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.34%) BGP
8 3 (0.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.34%) IPsec
8 3 (0.34%) LTE
8 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
9 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (19.86%) DynamoDB
2 89 (10.05%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.22%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (4.85%) Power BI
8 41 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 30 (3.39%) Big Data
12 28 (3.16%) MySQL
13 22 (2.48%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.69%) Spark SQL
16 13 (1.47%) Delta Lake
16 13 (1.47%) Metadata
17 12 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 158 (17.83%) Jenkins
2 152 (17.16%) Git
3 101 (11.40%) GitLab
4 42 (4.74%) SonarQube
5 38 (4.29%) Maven
6 34 (3.84%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.16%) JIRA
8 26 (2.93%) CircleCI
9 25 (2.82%) Snyk
10 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.58%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.58%) XCTest
12 11 (1.24%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.90%) JUnit
13 8 (0.90%) Selenium
14 7 (0.79%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.79%) JMeter
14 7 (0.79%) Mockito
14 7 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 224 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 150 (16.93%) Finance
3 66 (7.45%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.61%) Banking
7 25 (2.82%) Law
8 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.24%) Advertising
11 10 (1.13%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.13%) Marketing
12 9 (1.02%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.02%) Legal
13 8 (0.90%) Military
13 8 (0.90%) Publishing
14 7 (0.79%) Billing
15 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.68%) Retail
16 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 289 (32.62%) Senior
2 270 (30.47%) Developer
3 115 (12.98%) Lead
4 104 (11.74%) Architect
5 97 (10.95%) Senior Developer
6 92 (10.38%) Java Developer
7 87 (9.82%) Software Engineer
8 75 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 48 (5.42%) AWS Developer
13 45 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
14 44 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 43 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
16 41 (4.63%) Senior Architect
17 39 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (4.40%) Security Architect
17 39 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (19.64%) Node.js
2 171 (19.30%) React
3 133 (15.01%) .NET
4 110 (12.42%) AngularJS
4 110 (12.42%) Spring Boot
5 108 (12.19%) REST
6 88 (9.93%) Spring
7 78 (8.80%) Kafka
8 68 (7.67%) RESTful
9 54 (6.09%) AWS CDK
10 44 (4.97%) HTML
11 40 (4.51%) PySpark
12 39 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
13 38 (4.29%) Gherkin
14 35 (3.95%) Jest
15 34 (3.84%) .NET Core
16 33 (3.72%) CSS
17 32 (3.61%) JSON
18 29 (3.27%) YAML
19 27 (3.05%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 214 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 74 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 18 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.81%) Blockchain
10 16 (1.81%) Web3
11 14 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.58%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.47%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.35%) IoT
13 12 (1.35%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.11%) Linux
2 31 (3.50%) Windows
3 24 (2.71%) VMS
4 14 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.68%) CentOS
6 6 (0.68%) Debian
6 6 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (59.93%) CI/CD
2 421 (47.52%) DevOps
3 336 (37.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 320 (36.12%) Agile
5 217 (24.49%) Mentoring
6 209 (23.59%) Microservices
7 191 (21.56%) Software Engineering
8 183 (20.65%) AI
9 179 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
10 178 (20.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 174 (19.64%) Test Automation
12 169 (19.07%) Containerisation
13 159 (17.95%) Observability
14 138 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 137 (15.46%) Analytics
16 129 (14.56%) Event-Driven
17 111 (12.53%) Cloud Security
18 91 (10.27%) DevSecOps
19 87 (9.82%) Clean Code
20 86 (9.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 356 (40.18%) Python
2 252 (28.44%) SQL
3 212 (23.93%) TypeScript
4 195 (22.01%) Java
5 158 (17.83%) JavaScript
6 140 (15.80%) C#
7 100 (11.29%) Bash
8 51 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 48 (5.42%) Kotlin
10 47 (5.30%) Go
11 46 (5.19%) Groovy
12 39 (4.40%) Bicep
13 26 (2.93%) PHP
14 24 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (2.26%) Rust
16 14 (1.58%) Swift
17 13 (1.47%) Ruby
18 12 (1.35%) Perl
19 10 (1.13%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 96 (10.84%) Degree
3 86 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 74 (8.35%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 28 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 28 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.71%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (2.48%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.69%) OSCP
13 11 (1.24%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.56%) CISSP
17 5 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.19%) GDPR
3 42 (4.74%) QA
4 25 (2.82%) GRC
5 17 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.68%) NIST
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 254 (28.67%) Docker
2 33 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.81%) vSphere
6 12 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.45%) iptables
7 4 (0.45%) Squid
7 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.34%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 306 (34.54%) Terraform
2 198 (22.35%) Kubernetes
3 96 (10.84%) Ansible
4 54 (6.09%) Prometheus
5 48 (5.42%) Grafana
6 29 (3.27%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.26%) Puppet
8 18 (2.03%) Kibana
8 18 (2.03%) Packer
9 11 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.56%) Argo
11 4 (0.45%) Podman
11 4 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
12 3 (0.34%) Scalr
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.23%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) logstash
14 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 125 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.84%) Databricks
3 30 (3.39%) Tenable
4 27 (3.05%) Oracle
5 25 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (2.82%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.26%) Splunk
7 18 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.92%) VMware
9 14 (1.58%) Amplitude
9 14 (1.58%) Braze
9 14 (1.58%) Google
10 12 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.35%) IBM
10 12 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.35%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.02%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.79%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.68%) HP
13 6 (0.68%) SaltStack