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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 221 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 954 638 943
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.95% 1.47% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 4.51% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 598 437 516
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,250 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.14% -

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 24,367 14,157 21,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.34% 32.63% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16,899 9,871 14,523
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -38 385 £83,500 +11.33% 405
North of England +97 313 £73,750 +13.46% 75
North West +64 139 £67,500 +3.85% 49
Yorkshire +33 122 £80,000 +13.48% 18
South East -19 84 £65,000 -8.77% 52
Midlands -24 81 £62,500 +4.17% 22
South West -50 67 £60,500 +0.83% 37
North East -10 52 £65,000 -10.34% 8
West Midlands -44 42 £62,500 +4.17% 11
East Midlands +4 39 £65,000 +73.33% 11
East of England -62 13 £59,450 +1.19% 16
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 37 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 28 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.52%) Apache
4 19 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.78%) Confluence
6 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.63%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 674 (70.65%) AWS
2 460 (48.22%) AWS Lambda
3 350 (36.69%) Azure
4 302 (31.66%) Amazon S3
5 224 (23.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (21.17%) Amazon ECS
7 187 (19.60%) Azure Functions
8 128 (13.42%) Amazon EC2
9 126 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (13.21%) GitHub
10 103 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 102 (10.69%) Amazon EKS
12 95 (9.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 92 (9.64%) GCP
13 92 (9.64%) SaaS
14 88 (9.22%) Power Platform
15 81 (8.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
17 74 (7.76%) PaaS
18 69 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.14%) VPN
2 29 (3.04%) Firewall
3 24 (2.52%) Network Security
4 22 (2.31%) Internet
5 21 (2.20%) DNS
6 16 (1.68%) VoIP
7 13 (1.36%) DHCP
7 13 (1.36%) VLAN
8 9 (0.94%) MQTT
8 9 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.73%) AMQP
10 6 (0.63%) BGP
10 6 (0.63%) IPsec
10 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.42%) IPv4
11 4 (0.42%) SAN
11 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.31%) Broadband
12 3 (0.31%) HTTP
12 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.98%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.06%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (9.33%) NoSQL
4 79 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 64 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (4.72%) Relational Database
9 44 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (3.67%) Power BI
11 32 (3.35%) Big Data
12 31 (3.25%) Spark SQL
13 26 (2.73%) Data Lake
14 25 (2.62%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (2.31%) MySQL
17 20 (2.10%) Hadoop
18 18 (1.89%) Metadata
19 12 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 193 (20.23%) Git
2 124 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 72 (7.55%) GitLab
4 35 (3.67%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.25%) JIRA
6 27 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 26 (2.73%) Maven
8 25 (2.62%) Snyk
9 13 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.36%) JMeter
10 11 (1.15%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.15%) JUnit
10 11 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 10 (1.05%) Mockito
11 10 (1.05%) Postman
12 9 (0.94%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.94%) Crashlytics
13 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.84%) XCTest
General
1 228 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 187 (19.60%) Finance
3 99 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 86 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.87%) Law
7 51 (5.35%) Banking
8 38 (3.98%) Marketing
9 24 (2.52%) Retail
10 16 (1.68%) Legal
11 15 (1.57%) Aviation
11 15 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.47%) Military
13 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.94%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.84%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.73%) Advertising
18 7 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 282 (29.56%) Senior
2 260 (27.25%) Developer
3 133 (13.94%) Lead
4 101 (10.59%) Architect
5 85 (8.91%) Software Engineer
6 81 (8.49%) Senior Developer
7 80 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 80 (8.39%) Java Developer
8 70 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (4.30%) AWS Developer
12 41 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 40 (4.19%) Consultant
13 40 (4.19%) Senior Architect
14 39 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
14 39 (4.09%) Cloud Architect
15 37 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (36.37%) Terraform
2 161 (16.88%) Node.js
3 147 (15.41%) .NET
4 130 (13.63%) React
5 119 (12.47%) REST
6 99 (10.38%) AngularJS
7 95 (9.96%) Spring Boot
8 84 (8.81%) Spring
9 77 (8.07%) Kafka
10 73 (7.65%) RESTful
11 54 (5.66%) AWS CDK
11 54 (5.66%) PySpark
12 40 (4.19%) JSON
13 34 (3.56%) Jest
14 33 (3.46%) OAuth
15 30 (3.14%) Gherkin
15 30 (3.14%) HTML
15 30 (3.14%) OAuth2
15 30 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (3.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 250 (26.21%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.65%) Onboarding
3 72 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 38 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 36 (3.77%) AI Agents
8 35 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (3.25%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.10%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.78%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.68%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.57%) Blog
16 14 (1.47%) Low-Code
17 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
18 12 (1.26%) Podcast
18 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.44%) Linux
2 43 (4.51%) Windows
3 14 (1.47%) VMS
3 14 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.63%) CentOS
6 6 (0.63%) Debian
6 6 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 448 (46.96%) DevOps
3 364 (38.16%) Agile
4 340 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 268 (28.09%) AI
6 260 (27.25%) Mentoring
7 207 (21.70%) Software Engineering
8 205 (21.49%) Microservices
9 188 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 172 (18.03%) Test Automation
12 159 (16.67%) Observability
13 156 (16.35%) Analytics
13 156 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 148 (15.51%) Containerisation
14 148 (15.51%) Event-Driven
15 135 (14.15%) Cloud Security
16 123 (12.89%) Roadmaps
17 112 (11.74%) Migration
18 110 (11.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 362 (37.95%) Python
2 284 (29.77%) SQL
3 211 (22.12%) Java
4 193 (20.23%) TypeScript
5 174 (18.24%) C#
6 169 (17.71%) JavaScript
7 102 (10.69%) Bash
8 43 (4.51%) Kotlin
9 42 (4.40%) Bicep
9 42 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 38 (3.98%) Groovy
11 30 (3.14%) Ruby
12 27 (2.83%) PHP
13 24 (2.52%) C++
14 22 (2.31%) Go
15 19 (1.99%) Perl
16 16 (1.68%) Shell Script
17 14 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.26%) Rust
19 11 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 101 (10.59%) Degree
4 83 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 50 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 49 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 43 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.63%) CISM
16 6 (0.63%) CISSP
16 6 (0.63%) MBA
16 6 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.60%) GDPR
3 55 (5.77%) QA
4 27 (2.83%) GRC
5 24 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.84%) NIST
9 6 (0.63%) WCAG
10 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.42%) SLA
12 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.10%) NCSC
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 252 (26.42%) Docker
2 43 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.68%) vSphere
6 12 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.94%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.42%) Squid
8 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 100 (10.48%) Ansible
3 38 (3.98%) Prometheus
4 37 (3.88%) Grafana
5 23 (2.41%) Puppet
6 20 (2.10%) Packer
7 17 (1.78%) HP Fortify
8 14 (1.47%) Kibana
9 12 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) Rancher
13 4 (0.42%) SCCM
13 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.21%) Scalr
15 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 183 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.72%) Databricks
3 36 (3.77%) Oracle
4 33 (3.46%) Tenable
5 31 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.62%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.62%) Palo Alto
7 24 (2.52%) VMware
8 23 (2.41%) Google
9 22 (2.31%) Splunk
10 18 (1.89%) IBM
11 17 (1.78%) SAP
12 15 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.36%) AppDynamics
14 12 (1.26%) HP
14 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
15 10 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.84%) Braze
16 8 (0.84%) Veeam