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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 107 190
Rank change year-on-year -97 +83 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 614 1,261 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.11% 2.68% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% 7.29% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 396 548 813
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,813 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,625 £103,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.61% +8.57% -6.67%

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 19,000 17,299 23,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.36% 36.74% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,568 10,185 20,120
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -67 275 £77,500 -18.42% 137
North of England +75 182 £75,000 +20.00% 93
Yorkshire +59 125 £75,000 +41.51% 35
Midlands -15 59 £60,000 +9.09% 49
North West +21 53 £75,000 +20.00% 45
South West -100 41 £62,500 -7.41% 56
South East -138 40 £65,000 +8.33% 139
West Midlands +5 30 £60,000 +9.09% 26
East Midlands -13 29 £62,500 +13.64% 23
East of England -43 16 £60,100 -9.28% 60
North East -4 4 £68,500 +9.60% 13
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 36 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.07%) Apache
3 18 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.28%) OpenStack
5 13 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.95%) Confluence
7 9 (1.47%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.14%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.33%) nginx
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) JBoss
12 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 476 (77.52%) AWS
2 321 (52.28%) AWS Lambda
3 242 (39.41%) Azure
4 230 (37.46%) Amazon S3
5 124 (20.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 106 (17.26%) GitHub
7 102 (16.61%) Amazon ECS
8 100 (16.29%) Azure Functions
9 82 (13.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 81 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
12 74 (12.05%) Amazon SQS
13 72 (11.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 64 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
15 60 (9.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 59 (9.61%) SaaS
17 57 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
18 55 (8.96%) GCP
19 50 (8.14%) Power Platform
20 35 (5.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.95%) AMQP
2 10 (1.63%) Firewall
3 8 (1.30%) Internet
4 7 (1.14%) Network Security
4 7 (1.14%) SSL
5 6 (0.98%) Broadband
5 6 (0.98%) DSL
5 6 (0.98%) VPN
6 4 (0.65%) WAN
6 4 (0.65%) Wireless
7 2 (0.33%) DNS
7 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (18.24%) DynamoDB
2 76 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (11.73%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (11.56%) NoSQL
5 48 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 47 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (7.33%) SQL Server
8 36 (5.86%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.75%) Big Data
10 22 (3.58%) Power BI
11 21 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (3.26%) Data Lake
12 20 (3.26%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.26%) MySQL
13 16 (2.61%) Hadoop
14 15 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (2.28%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.30%) DB2
Development Applications
1 107 (17.43%) Jenkins
2 88 (14.33%) Git
3 59 (9.61%) GitLab
4 33 (5.37%) Cypress.io
5 24 (3.91%) Maven
5 24 (3.91%) SonarQube
6 20 (3.26%) JIRA
7 16 (2.61%) JUnit
8 14 (2.28%) JMeter
9 12 (1.95%) Mockito
10 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.47%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.14%) MLflow
13 5 (0.81%) git-flow
13 5 (0.81%) Vite
14 4 (0.65%) Mocha
14 4 (0.65%) webpack
15 3 (0.49%) ESLint
15 3 (0.49%) Postman
15 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 170 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 88 (14.33%) Finance
3 52 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.23%) Publishing
6 25 (4.07%) Tech for Good
7 22 (3.58%) Health Technology
8 20 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.61%) Banking
10 15 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.28%) Law
11 14 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.63%) Legal
13 9 (1.47%) Advertising
13 9 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.14%) Retail
15 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 246 (40.07%) Developer
2 143 (23.29%) Senior
3 91 (14.82%) Architect
4 86 (14.01%) Lead
5 69 (11.24%) Senior Developer
6 62 (10.10%) AWS Developer
7 57 (9.28%) Java Developer
8 56 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (8.31%) Python Developer
11 49 (7.98%) Software Engineer
12 44 (7.17%) Data Engineer
13 40 (6.51%) Lead Developer
14 37 (6.03%) .NET Developer
15 36 (5.86%) Software Developer
16 34 (5.54%) React Developer
17 30 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
18 23 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
18 23 (3.75%) Lead Python Developer
18 23 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (27.85%) React
2 115 (18.73%) Node.js
3 105 (17.10%) .NET
4 88 (14.33%) Spring Boot
5 80 (13.03%) HTML
6 77 (12.54%) Spring
7 73 (11.89%) AngularJS
8 72 (11.73%) REST
8 72 (11.73%) RESTful
9 62 (10.10%) CSS
10 43 (7.00%) .NET Core
10 43 (7.00%) AWS CDK
11 40 (6.51%) Kafka
12 32 (5.21%) Jest
13 30 (4.89%) Vue
14 27 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (4.23%) Web Services
16 24 (3.91%) FastAPI
17 23 (3.75%) Blazor
17 23 (3.75%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 141 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 51 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.30%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.98%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.70%) Linux
2 16 (2.61%) Windows
3 15 (2.44%) Unix
4 12 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.14%) VMS
6 5 (0.81%) CentOS
6 5 (0.81%) Debian
6 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (57.98%) CI/CD
2 282 (45.93%) DevOps
3 251 (40.88%) Agile
4 181 (29.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 179 (29.15%) Microservices
6 157 (25.57%) Mentoring
7 145 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (20.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (19.22%) Software Engineering
10 107 (17.43%) Containerisation
11 101 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (14.01%) AI
13 85 (13.84%) TDD
14 82 (13.36%) Scrum
15 78 (12.70%) SDLC
16 74 (12.05%) Observability
17 71 (11.56%) Data Modelling
18 68 (11.07%) Computer Science
18 68 (11.07%) Migration
19 66 (10.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 262 (42.67%) Python
2 198 (32.25%) JavaScript
3 171 (27.85%) TypeScript
4 156 (25.41%) Java
5 154 (25.08%) SQL
6 116 (18.89%) C#
7 47 (7.65%) Bash
8 24 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.58%) Groovy
10 19 (3.09%) Go
11 16 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.44%) Scala
13 10 (1.63%) Bicep
14 8 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.98%) Rust
17 5 (0.81%) C++
17 5 (0.81%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.65%) C
18 4 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 116 (18.89%) AWS Certification
2 85 (13.84%) Degree
3 71 (11.56%) Security Cleared
4 56 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (7.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 43 (7.00%) Azure Certification
7 41 (6.68%) SC Cleared
8 34 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (5.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (4.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (3.09%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (2.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.14%) MCP
14 7 (1.14%) OSCP
15 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.81%) SnowPro
17 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.31%) QA
2 24 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.26%) GDPR
4 15 (2.44%) SLA
5 11 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.65%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (29.32%) Docker
2 16 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.30%) HDFS
3 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) iptables
4 1 (0.16%) vCloud
4 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (27.04%) Terraform
2 127 (20.68%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.68%) Ansible
4 29 (4.72%) Grafana
5 28 (4.56%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.75%) HP Fortify
7 22 (3.58%) Kibana
8 6 (0.98%) Puppet
9 5 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.49%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.07%) Databricks
3 17 (2.77%) Google
4 16 (2.61%) Splunk
5 15 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.12%) Oracle
7 11 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.47%) IBM
9 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.81%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.65%) Pega
13 4 (0.65%) WSO2
13 4 (0.65%) Zscaler
14 2 (0.33%) Foundry
14 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow