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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 232 153
Rank change year-on-year +21 -79 -5
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 944 582 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.90% 1.36% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 4.19% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 606 381 464
10th Percentile £46,217 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 23,512 13,882 20,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.49% 32.39% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 16,780 9,671 12,758
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,248 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -18 416 £83,750 +11.67% 75
North of England +72 276 £67,500 +3.85% 42
North West +38 122 £65,000 - 26
Yorkshire +19 102 £75,000 +6.38% 13
South West -41 78 £67,500 +12.50% 19
South East -38 75 £65,000 -7.14% 28
Midlands -17 69 £62,500 - 10
North East -17 52 £62,500 -8.76% 3
West Midlands -45 41 £62,500 - 8
East Midlands 0 28 £66,250 - 2
East of England -64 11 £57,500 - 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 43 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 36 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 33 (3.50%) Apache
4 23 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.80%) Confluence
6 14 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.32%) SAS
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Camunda
11 2 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 22 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.11%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.11%) Finacle
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 656 (69.49%) AWS
2 438 (46.40%) AWS Lambda
3 375 (39.72%) Azure
4 293 (31.04%) Amazon S3
5 222 (23.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 203 (21.50%) Azure Functions
7 181 (19.17%) Amazon ECS
8 140 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
9 134 (14.19%) GitHub
10 125 (13.24%) Amazon EC2
11 105 (11.12%) Power Platform
12 104 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
13 102 (10.81%) GCP
14 96 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 89 (9.43%) PaaS
16 88 (9.32%) SaaS
17 83 (8.79%) AWS Step Functions
17 83 (8.79%) Azure Logic Apps
18 71 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (7.31%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.60%) VPN
2 29 (3.07%) Firewall
3 25 (2.65%) Network Security
4 23 (2.44%) DNS
5 22 (2.33%) Internet
6 16 (1.69%) VoIP
7 12 (1.27%) DHCP
7 12 (1.27%) VLAN
8 9 (0.95%) MQTT
9 8 (0.85%) AMQP
10 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.64%) BGP
11 6 (0.64%) IPsec
11 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.53%) SAN
13 4 (0.42%) IPv4
13 4 (0.42%) LTE
13 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.32%) HTTP
15 2 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (13.98%) DynamoDB
2 106 (11.23%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (9.75%) NoSQL
4 87 (9.22%) SQL Server
5 65 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
7 51 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (5.40%) Relational Database
8 50 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (4.98%) Power BI
10 28 (2.97%) Big Data
11 25 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.65%) Metadata
12 24 (2.54%) Spark SQL
13 23 (2.44%) MongoDB
14 21 (2.22%) Data Lake
14 21 (2.22%) Hadoop
15 20 (2.12%) MySQL
16 16 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 192 (20.34%) Git
2 107 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 66 (6.99%) GitLab
4 27 (2.86%) JIRA
5 24 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.91%) Maven
8 15 (1.59%) Claude Code
9 14 (1.48%) JMeter
9 14 (1.48%) Snyk
10 12 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.27%) JUnit
11 11 (1.17%) Mockito
11 11 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.85%) Postman
13 7 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.74%) Selenium
14 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.53%) Crashlytics
General
1 220 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 190 (20.13%) Finance
3 110 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (6.36%) Law
7 53 (5.61%) Banking
8 40 (4.24%) Marketing
9 26 (2.75%) Retail
10 24 (2.54%) Legal
11 17 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.59%) Aviation
13 14 (1.48%) Military
14 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.85%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.74%) Billing
19 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 271 (28.71%) Senior
2 238 (25.21%) Developer
3 116 (12.29%) Lead
4 104 (11.02%) Software Engineer
5 99 (10.49%) Architect
6 88 (9.32%) Data Engineer
7 78 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
8 75 (7.94%) Senior Developer
9 68 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
10 66 (6.99%) Java Developer
11 62 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 58 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
16 40 (4.24%) Consultant
17 39 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
18 38 (4.03%) AWS Developer
19 33 (3.50%) Senior Consultant
20 32 (3.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (38.14%) Terraform
2 161 (17.06%) Node.js
3 153 (16.21%) .NET
4 126 (13.35%) React
5 108 (11.44%) REST
6 86 (9.11%) AngularJS
7 85 (9.00%) Spring Boot
8 79 (8.37%) Spring
9 78 (8.26%) RESTful
10 74 (7.84%) Kafka
11 55 (5.83%) AWS CDK
12 51 (5.40%) PySpark
13 36 (3.81%) JSON
14 32 (3.39%) Swagger
15 30 (3.18%) Jest
16 28 (2.97%) OAuth
17 26 (2.75%) Next.js
17 26 (2.75%) OpenAPI
18 25 (2.65%) Gherkin
18 25 (2.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 267 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.58%) Onboarding
3 72 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (5.72%) AI Agents
5 50 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.24%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.33%) Data Centre
11 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 20 (2.12%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.91%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.69%) Blog
15 15 (1.59%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.27%) Podcast
18 11 (1.17%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.20%) Linux
2 42 (4.45%) Windows
3 13 (1.38%) VMS
4 12 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.74%) CentOS
5 7 (0.74%) Debian
5 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (58.79%) CI/CD
2 457 (48.41%) DevOps
3 371 (39.30%) Agile
4 355 (37.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (30.30%) AI
6 249 (26.38%) Mentoring
7 242 (25.64%) Software Engineering
8 210 (22.25%) Microservices
9 193 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
11 166 (17.58%) Test Automation
12 158 (16.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 155 (16.42%) Observability
14 154 (16.31%) Analytics
15 148 (15.68%) Event-Driven
16 144 (15.25%) Roadmaps
17 133 (14.09%) Cloud Security
18 129 (13.67%) Containerisation
19 125 (13.24%) Migration
20 123 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 341 (36.12%) Python
2 278 (29.45%) SQL
3 193 (20.44%) Java
4 186 (19.70%) C#
5 176 (18.64%) TypeScript
6 163 (17.27%) JavaScript
7 96 (10.17%) Bash
8 50 (5.30%) Bicep
9 41 (4.34%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.50%) Kotlin
11 30 (3.18%) Ruby
12 27 (2.86%) Groovy
12 27 (2.86%) PHP
13 25 (2.65%) C++
14 20 (2.12%) Go
15 15 (1.59%) Perl
15 15 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.48%) Scala
17 13 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (19.60%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.85%) Degree
4 80 (8.47%) AWS Certification
5 60 (6.36%) Azure Certification
6 57 (6.04%) DV Cleared
7 38 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.64%) MBA
14 6 (0.64%) OSCP
15 5 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 68 (7.20%) GDPR
3 49 (5.19%) QA
4 28 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.69%) GRC
6 12 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.85%) NIST
8 8 (0.85%) WCAG
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.53%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 235 (24.89%) Docker
2 43 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.69%) vSphere
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 178 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 100 (10.59%) Ansible
3 42 (4.45%) Grafana
4 34 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.54%) Puppet
6 19 (2.01%) Packer
7 13 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.17%) HP Fortify
9 10 (1.06%) Kibana
9 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (0.64%) Rancher
11 5 (0.53%) Argo
11 5 (0.53%) Podman
11 5 (0.53%) SCCM
12 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.21%) logstash
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 216 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.34%) Databricks
3 36 (3.81%) Dynatrace
4 34 (3.60%) Oracle
5 30 (3.18%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.65%) VMware
7 24 (2.54%) Google
8 23 (2.44%) Tenable
9 22 (2.33%) SAP
9 22 (2.33%) Splunk
10 14 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.06%) HP
12 10 (1.06%) IBM
12 10 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.95%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.74%) Cisco
14 7 (0.74%) SaltStack