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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 110 176
Rank change year-on-year -90 +66 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 612 1,263 950
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.14% 2.65% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 7.25% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 391 549 751
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,300 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +8.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.58% +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 18,758 17,431 21,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.85% 36.61% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,417 10,292 17,946
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
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 £100,000
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 20 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 20 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 -62 274 £76,000 -20.00% 118
North of England +67 180 £75,000 +20.00% 119
Yorkshire +55 121 £75,000 +41.51% 48
Midlands +3 56 £60,000 +9.09% 49
North West +17 55 £75,000 +20.00% 57
South West -88 45 £62,500 -10.71% 58
South East -132 41 £65,000 +6.12% 141
West Midlands +9 30 £58,750 +6.82% 24
East Midlands -10 26 £65,000 +18.18% 23
East of England -41 16 £60,100 -7.54% 73
North East +4 4 £68,500 +9.60% 14
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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.08%) Apache
3 20 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.29%) Confluence
4 14 (2.29%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.47%) WebSphere
7 7 (1.14%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.33%) nginx
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 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 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 468 (76.47%) AWS
2 315 (51.47%) AWS Lambda
3 250 (40.85%) Azure
4 226 (36.93%) Amazon S3
5 118 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 104 (16.99%) GitHub
7 100 (16.34%) Amazon ECS
7 100 (16.34%) Azure Functions
8 81 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
9 79 (12.91%) Amazon EC2
10 77 (12.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 74 (12.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 70 (11.44%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (9.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (9.31%) SaaS
16 54 (8.82%) GCP
16 54 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (8.50%) Power Platform
18 38 (6.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.96%) AMQP
2 10 (1.63%) Firewall
3 9 (1.47%) Internet
4 8 (1.31%) Broadband
4 8 (1.31%) Network Security
5 7 (1.14%) SSL
5 7 (1.14%) VPN
6 5 (0.82%) Wireless
7 4 (0.65%) DSL
7 4 (0.65%) WAN
8 3 (0.49%) DNS
9 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.33%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (17.48%) DynamoDB
2 77 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (10.95%) NoSQL
5 50 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 48 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (7.52%) SQL Server
8 40 (6.54%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.76%) Big Data
9 23 (3.76%) Data Lake
10 22 (3.59%) MongoDB
10 22 (3.59%) Power BI
11 20 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (3.27%) MySQL
12 18 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.61%) Hadoop
14 16 (2.61%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (1.31%) DB2
Development Applications
1 104 (16.99%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.22%) Git
3 53 (8.66%) GitLab
4 32 (5.23%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.59%) JIRA
5 22 (3.59%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.43%) Maven
7 17 (2.78%) JUnit
8 16 (2.61%) JMeter
9 13 (2.12%) Mockito
10 12 (1.96%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.14%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.14%) MLflow
12 5 (0.82%) git-flow
12 5 (0.82%) Vite
13 4 (0.65%) Mocha
13 4 (0.65%) Postman
13 4 (0.65%) Selenium
13 4 (0.65%) webpack
14 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 169 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.56%) Finance
3 55 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.58%) Publishing
5 28 (4.58%) Tech for Good
6 24 (3.92%) Health Technology
7 20 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.61%) Banking
9 15 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.45%) Law
10 14 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.96%) Legal
12 9 (1.47%) Advertising
12 9 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.47%) Retail
13 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.82%) Automotive
14 5 (0.82%) Billing
14 5 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (40.03%) Developer
2 147 (24.02%) Senior
3 91 (14.87%) Architect
4 87 (14.22%) Lead
5 73 (11.93%) Senior Developer
6 62 (10.13%) AWS Developer
7 56 (9.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (8.66%) Java Developer
9 52 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
9 52 (8.50%) Python Developer
10 47 (7.68%) Software Engineer
11 44 (7.19%) Data Engineer
12 40 (6.54%) Lead Developer
13 38 (6.21%) .NET Developer
14 37 (6.05%) Software Developer
15 36 (5.88%) React Developer
16 28 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
17 24 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
18 23 (3.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 23 (3.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (27.78%) React
2 110 (17.97%) Node.js
3 109 (17.81%) .NET
4 86 (14.05%) Spring Boot
5 83 (13.56%) HTML
6 77 (12.58%) Spring
7 76 (12.42%) REST
8 74 (12.09%) RESTful
9 73 (11.93%) AngularJS
10 65 (10.62%) CSS
11 42 (6.86%) .NET Core
12 41 (6.70%) AWS CDK
13 38 (6.21%) Kafka
14 32 (5.23%) Vue
15 30 (4.90%) Jest
16 27 (4.41%) Web Services
17 26 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
18 25 (4.08%) ASP.NET
18 25 (4.08%) Blazor
19 24 (3.92%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.31%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.37%) Linux
2 17 (2.78%) Windows
3 15 (2.45%) Unix
4 12 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.98%) VMS
6 5 (0.82%) CentOS
6 5 (0.82%) Debian
6 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (57.35%) CI/CD
2 279 (45.59%) DevOps
3 255 (41.67%) Agile
4 179 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 178 (29.08%) Microservices
6 163 (26.63%) Mentoring
7 141 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 110 (17.97%) Software Engineering
10 108 (17.65%) Containerisation
11 104 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (14.87%) TDD
13 87 (14.22%) AI
14 86 (14.05%) Scrum
15 81 (13.24%) SDLC
16 72 (11.76%) Data Modelling
16 72 (11.76%) Observability
17 71 (11.60%) Migration
18 66 (10.78%) Computer Science
19 65 (10.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 260 (42.48%) Python
2 199 (32.52%) JavaScript
3 171 (27.94%) TypeScript
4 152 (24.84%) Java
5 148 (24.18%) SQL
6 119 (19.44%) C#
7 45 (7.35%) Bash
8 27 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.27%) Groovy
10 18 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.78%) Go
12 15 (2.45%) Scala
13 11 (1.80%) Bicep
14 6 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.82%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.65%) C++
16 4 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.65%) PHP
16 4 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 115 (18.79%) AWS Certification
2 81 (13.24%) Degree
3 73 (11.93%) Security Cleared
4 54 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 43 (7.03%) Azure Certification
7 42 (6.86%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (5.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 21 (3.43%) DV Cleared
12 14 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.14%) MCP
15 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.82%) OSCP
16 5 (0.82%) SnowPro
17 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.99%) QA
2 22 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.94%) GDPR
4 14 (2.29%) SLA
5 12 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.14%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.82%) WCAG
9 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.33%) NIST
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.16%) GAAP
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (29.41%) Docker
2 16 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.31%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) vCloud
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (27.12%) Terraform
2 126 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 42 (6.86%) Ansible
4 31 (5.07%) Grafana
5 28 (4.58%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.59%) Kibana
7 21 (3.43%) HP Fortify
8 7 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.14%) Puppet
9 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.49%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.08%) Databricks
3 17 (2.78%) Dynatrace
3 17 (2.78%) Google
3 17 (2.78%) Splunk
4 14 (2.29%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.12%) Oracle
6 11 (1.80%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.47%) IBM
8 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.98%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.82%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.65%) Pega
12 4 (0.65%) WSO2
12 4 (0.65%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.33%) SendGrid
13 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow