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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 215 216
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -55
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 942 662 941
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 1.51% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 4.59% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 582 465 579
10th Percentile £48,029 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,600 14,419 23,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.52% 32.95% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16,894 10,148 16,627
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 26 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 26 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 -42 385 £85,000 +13.33% 111
North of England +90 298 £75,000 +15.38% 45
North West +58 131 £70,000 +3.70% 20
Yorkshire +41 118 £80,000 +33.33% 15
South East -13 84 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Midlands -7 82 £62,500 +4.17% 16
South West -55 69 £60,500 +0.83% 29
North East -15 49 £67,500 -6.90% 10
East Midlands +24 47 £65,000 +73.33% 5
West Midlands -45 35 £62,500 +4.17% 11
East of England -54 17 £59,450 +1.19% 6
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 35 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.55%) Apache
3 16 (1.70%) Confluence
3 16 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.06%) SAS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Pig
8 4 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Finacle
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 676 (71.76%) AWS
2 446 (47.35%) AWS Lambda
3 341 (36.20%) Azure
4 299 (31.74%) Amazon S3
5 230 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (21.44%) Amazon ECS
7 175 (18.58%) Azure Functions
8 130 (13.80%) GitHub
9 119 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (12.42%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (10.19%) SaaS
12 93 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 93 (9.87%) GCP
13 85 (9.02%) Power Platform
14 79 (8.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
16 74 (7.86%) PaaS
17 70 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.18%) VPN
2 27 (2.87%) Firewall
3 25 (2.65%) Network Security
4 21 (2.23%) Internet
5 18 (1.91%) DNS
6 11 (1.17%) VoIP
7 9 (0.96%) DHCP
7 9 (0.96%) MQTT
7 9 (0.96%) VLAN
8 6 (0.64%) AMQP
8 6 (0.64%) BGP
8 6 (0.64%) IPsec
8 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.42%) Broadband
10 4 (0.42%) IPv4
10 4 (0.42%) SAN
10 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.32%) HTTP
11 3 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (17.41%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.19%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (9.87%) NoSQL
4 70 (7.43%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (4.78%) Relational Database
9 44 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (3.82%) Power BI
11 35 (3.72%) Big Data
12 26 (2.76%) MySQL
13 24 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 23 (2.44%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.12%) Spark SQL
16 19 (2.02%) Metadata
17 18 (1.91%) Hadoop
18 15 (1.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 176 (18.68%) Git
2 127 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 75 (7.96%) GitLab
4 35 (3.72%) SonarQube
5 29 (3.08%) JIRA
6 26 (2.76%) Maven
7 25 (2.65%) Snyk
8 23 (2.44%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.38%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.27%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.17%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.17%) XCTest
13 10 (1.06%) JUnit
14 9 (0.96%) Mockito
15 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.74%) JMeter
16 7 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 230 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 191 (20.28%) Finance
3 81 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 69 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (5.73%) Banking
7 51 (5.41%) Law
8 36 (3.82%) Marketing
9 19 (2.02%) Retail
10 15 (1.59%) Legal
10 15 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.49%) Military
12 13 (1.38%) Aviation
12 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.74%) Advertising
14 7 (0.74%) Billing
15 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 286 (30.36%) Senior
2 259 (27.49%) Developer
3 138 (14.65%) Lead
4 108 (11.46%) Architect
5 84 (8.92%) Software Engineer
6 83 (8.81%) Senior Developer
7 81 (8.60%) Java Developer
8 71 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (6.69%) Data Engineer
11 62 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
12 57 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 42 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.46%) Senior Architect
15 40 (4.25%) AWS Developer
15 40 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
16 39 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
17 38 (4.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (36.52%) Terraform
2 166 (17.62%) Node.js
3 142 (15.07%) .NET
4 132 (14.01%) React
5 116 (12.31%) REST
6 100 (10.62%) AngularJS
7 95 (10.08%) Spring Boot
8 83 (8.81%) Spring
9 78 (8.28%) Kafka
10 66 (7.01%) RESTful
11 56 (5.94%) AWS CDK
12 40 (4.25%) PySpark
13 33 (3.50%) Jest
13 33 (3.50%) OAuth
14 31 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.18%) HTML
15 30 (3.18%) OAuth2
16 29 (3.08%) JSON
17 28 (2.97%) Swagger
18 26 (2.76%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 248 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 33 (3.50%) AI Agents
8 31 (3.29%) Data Centre
8 31 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.49%) IoT
13 14 (1.49%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.38%) Blog
14 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.43%) Linux
2 39 (4.14%) Windows
3 16 (1.70%) VMS
4 11 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.53%) CentOS
7 5 (0.53%) Debian
7 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (57.11%) CI/CD
2 444 (47.13%) DevOps
3 350 (37.15%) Agile
4 341 (36.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (26.96%) Mentoring
6 250 (26.54%) AI
7 204 (21.66%) Microservices
8 203 (21.55%) Software Engineering
9 186 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 165 (17.52%) Test Automation
11 161 (17.09%) Containerisation
12 159 (16.88%) Observability
13 158 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 153 (16.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 148 (15.71%) Analytics
16 140 (14.86%) Event-Driven
17 134 (14.23%) Cloud Security
18 117 (12.42%) Roadmaps
19 114 (12.10%) Migration
20 102 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 365 (38.75%) Python
2 270 (28.66%) SQL
3 194 (20.59%) Java
4 190 (20.17%) TypeScript
5 159 (16.88%) C#
6 150 (15.92%) JavaScript
7 99 (10.51%) Bash
8 46 (4.88%) Kotlin
9 43 (4.56%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.46%) Bicep
11 34 (3.61%) Groovy
12 31 (3.29%) PHP
13 29 (3.08%) Go
13 29 (3.08%) Ruby
14 19 (2.02%) Perl
15 16 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.38%) Rust
16 13 (1.38%) Shell Script
17 12 (1.27%) C++
18 11 (1.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 162 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 106 (11.25%) Degree
4 83 (8.81%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 46 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 19 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.74%) PhD
16 6 (0.64%) MBA
16 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.48%) GDPR
2 59 (6.26%) Data Quality
3 51 (5.41%) QA
4 26 (2.76%) GRC
5 17 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.64%) NIST
9 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 253 (26.86%) Docker
2 40 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.70%) vSphere
6 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 185 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 109 (11.57%) Ansible
3 41 (4.35%) Grafana
4 40 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.44%) Puppet
6 18 (1.91%) Packer
7 17 (1.80%) HP Fortify
8 13 (1.38%) Kibana
9 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.53%) Argo
12 5 (0.53%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) SCCM
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
14 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
16 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 168 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.78%) Databricks
3 36 (3.82%) Oracle
4 33 (3.50%) Tenable
5 32 (3.40%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.55%) VMware
8 21 (2.23%) Google
8 21 (2.23%) Splunk
9 19 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.91%) IBM
11 15 (1.59%) SAP
12 14 (1.49%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.38%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.27%) HP
14 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (1.17%) Amplitude
15 11 (1.17%) Braze
15 11 (1.17%) Salesforce