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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 215 208
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 934 695 995
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.60% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.81% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 587 499 632
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £106,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +2.11%

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 24,722 14,453 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.00% 33.19% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16,641 10,326 18,203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,870 £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% - -4.37%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -41 386 £85,000 +13.33% 210
North of England +89 292 £75,000 +15.38% 78
North West +62 129 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire +39 123 £80,000 +33.33% 22
Midlands +3 88 £58,750 -2.08% 25
South East -25 83 £65,000 -3.70% 40
South West -61 64 £61,500 +2.50% 32
East Midlands +22 55 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North East -15 40 £75,000 +15.38% 15
West Midlands -46 33 £62,500 - 18
East of England -43 15 £59,450 +1.19% 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 34 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.00%) Apache
3 18 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.93%) Confluence
4 15 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.18%) SAS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.54%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.75%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 678 (72.59%) AWS
2 438 (46.90%) AWS Lambda
3 332 (35.55%) Azure
4 301 (32.23%) Amazon S3
5 228 (24.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (21.73%) Amazon ECS
7 164 (17.56%) Azure Functions
8 127 (13.60%) GitHub
9 114 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 99 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 94 (10.06%) GCP
14 92 (9.85%) SaaS
15 88 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
16 86 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
17 80 (8.57%) Power Platform
18 78 (8.35%) Azure Logic Apps
19 72 (7.71%) GitHub Actions
19 72 (7.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.89%) Network Security
1 27 (2.89%) VPN
2 22 (2.36%) Firewall
3 19 (2.03%) Internet
4 14 (1.50%) DNS
5 9 (0.96%) MQTT
6 7 (0.75%) DSL
6 7 (0.75%) VoIP
7 6 (0.64%) BGP
7 6 (0.64%) IPsec
8 5 (0.54%) AMQP
8 5 (0.54%) Broadband
9 4 (0.43%) DHCP
9 4 (0.43%) IPv4
9 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.43%) VLAN
10 3 (0.32%) LTE
10 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
10 3 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (18.63%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.49%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.85%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (7.28%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.18%) Power BI
11 38 (4.07%) Relational Database
12 35 (3.75%) Big Data
13 28 (3.00%) MySQL
14 24 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.36%) Data Lake
16 20 (2.14%) MongoDB
17 16 (1.71%) Hadoop
17 16 (1.71%) Metadata
18 15 (1.61%) Spark SQL
19 14 (1.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 165 (17.67%) Git
2 143 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 92 (9.85%) GitLab
4 39 (4.18%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.43%) Maven
6 31 (3.32%) JIRA
7 29 (3.10%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.68%) Snyk
9 20 (2.14%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.61%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.50%) XCTest
12 13 (1.39%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.07%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.86%) JUnit
15 8 (0.86%) Selenium
16 7 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.75%) JMeter
16 7 (0.75%) Mockito
General
1 231 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 172 (18.42%) Finance
3 76 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (4.39%) Law
7 40 (4.28%) Banking
8 26 (2.78%) Marketing
9 15 (1.61%) Military
10 14 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.39%) Legal
12 11 (1.18%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.18%) Retail
13 10 (1.07%) Advertising
14 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.86%) Billing
15 7 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.64%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 306 (32.76%) Senior
2 264 (28.27%) Developer
3 128 (13.70%) Lead
4 108 (11.56%) Architect
5 92 (9.85%) Senior Developer
6 87 (9.31%) Java Developer
7 83 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 78 (8.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (6.32%) Data Engineer
11 57 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (5.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
15 44 (4.71%) Senior Architect
16 42 (4.50%) AWS Developer
16 42 (4.50%) Consultant
17 38 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (18.42%) Node.js
2 150 (16.06%) React
3 133 (14.24%) .NET
4 117 (12.53%) REST
5 105 (11.24%) AngularJS
6 102 (10.92%) Spring Boot
7 85 (9.10%) Spring
8 82 (8.78%) Kafka
9 67 (7.17%) RESTful
10 59 (6.32%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.85%) Jest
11 36 (3.85%) PySpark
12 34 (3.64%) HTML
13 33 (3.53%) Gherkin
14 32 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.21%) JSON
16 29 (3.10%) OAuth
17 28 (3.00%) CSS
17 28 (3.00%) Next.js
17 28 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 238 (25.48%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.07%) Onboarding
4 54 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
8 28 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.50%) IoT
15 13 (1.39%) Low-Code
16 12 (1.28%) Blockchain
16 12 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.28%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.71%) Linux
2 34 (3.64%) Windows
3 21 (2.25%) VMS
4 14 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.43%) CentOS
7 4 (0.43%) Debian
7 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (57.07%) CI/CD
2 441 (47.22%) DevOps
3 347 (37.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 344 (36.83%) Agile
5 250 (26.77%) Mentoring
6 237 (25.37%) AI
7 211 (22.59%) Microservices
8 194 (20.77%) Software Engineering
9 186 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
10 171 (18.31%) Test Automation
11 167 (17.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 164 (17.56%) Containerisation
13 156 (16.70%) Observability
14 151 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 147 (15.74%) Analytics
16 137 (14.67%) Event-Driven
17 129 (13.81%) Cloud Security
18 102 (10.92%) Roadmaps
19 94 (10.06%) Clean Code
19 94 (10.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 371 (39.72%) Python
2 259 (27.73%) SQL
3 204 (21.84%) TypeScript
4 198 (21.20%) Java
5 154 (16.49%) JavaScript
6 144 (15.42%) C#
7 103 (11.03%) Bash
8 47 (5.03%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.93%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.39%) Groovy
11 40 (4.28%) Bicep
11 40 (4.28%) Go
12 34 (3.64%) PHP
13 22 (2.36%) Ruby
14 21 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (2.03%) Perl
16 18 (1.93%) Rust
17 14 (1.50%) Swift
18 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.46%) Degree
3 103 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.21%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 41 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (4.07%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.68%) Master's Degree
10 23 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (1.18%) OSCP
14 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.96%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.86%) PhD
16 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.21%) GDPR
2 50 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.82%) QA
4 25 (2.68%) GRC
5 16 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.64%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
14 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 264 (28.27%) Docker
2 35 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.53%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.71%) vSphere
6 12 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
Systems Management
1 343 (36.72%) Terraform
2 204 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 110 (11.78%) Ansible
4 48 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.71%) Grafana
6 24 (2.57%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.25%) Puppet
8 19 (2.03%) Packer
9 15 (1.61%) Kibana
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.54%) Argo
12 5 (0.54%) Podman
13 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
15 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.07%) Databricks
3 32 (3.43%) Oracle
4 31 (3.32%) Tenable
5 28 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.25%) Splunk
7 21 (2.25%) VMware
8 19 (2.03%) Google
9 18 (1.93%) IBM
10 16 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.61%) SAP
12 14 (1.50%) Amplitude
12 14 (1.50%) Braze
13 12 (1.28%) HP
13 12 (1.28%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.07%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.96%) Salesforce