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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 198 217
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 855 710 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.78% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 5.21% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 579 518 857
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

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 22,884 13,616 31,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.27% 34.15% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,238 9,672 24,926
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,513 £30,363
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.82%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -56 323 £82,500 -1.49% 107
North of England +85 276 £75,000 +15.38% 43
Yorkshire +34 133 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +65 123 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Midlands +22 105 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands +31 72 £55,000 +2.33% 5
South East -45 68 £67,500 +12.50% 45
South West -51 60 £62,500 +4.17% 27
West Midlands -37 33 £52,500 -6.67% 10
East of England -30 21 £60,000 -27.27% 6
North East -31 20 £75,000 +20.00% 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 30 (3.51%) Apache
2 27 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.52%) Confluence
4 13 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.05%) SAS
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.47%) JBoss
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.35%) CMS
9 3 (0.35%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.82%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 613 (71.70%) AWS
2 417 (48.77%) AWS Lambda
3 299 (34.97%) Amazon S3
4 296 (34.62%) Azure
5 192 (22.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 168 (19.65%) Amazon ECS
7 150 (17.54%) Azure Functions
8 120 (14.04%) GitHub
9 114 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 102 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 88 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (9.71%) Amazon SQS
14 81 (9.47%) SaaS
15 78 (9.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 76 (8.89%) GCP
17 74 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
18 71 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
19 68 (7.95%) Power Platform
20 58 (6.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.46%) Firewall
2 18 (2.11%) Network Security
3 15 (1.75%) VPN
4 12 (1.40%) DSL
5 9 (1.05%) AMQP
5 9 (1.05%) Internet
6 7 (0.82%) DNS
6 7 (0.82%) MQTT
6 7 (0.82%) VoIP
7 5 (0.58%) Broadband
8 4 (0.47%) IPv4
8 4 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.35%) DHCP
9 3 (0.35%) LTE
9 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.35%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) 5G
10 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (20.58%) DynamoDB
2 87 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (7.49%) SQL Server
5 62 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 41 (4.80%) Power BI
9 38 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (3.86%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.27%) MySQL
13 26 (3.04%) Big Data
14 19 (2.22%) Data Lake
15 16 (1.87%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.75%) Spark SQL
17 11 (1.29%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.29%) Metadata
18 9 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 152 (17.78%) Git
3 99 (11.58%) GitLab
4 40 (4.68%) SonarQube
5 37 (4.33%) Maven
6 33 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.04%) CircleCI
7 26 (3.04%) JIRA
8 25 (2.92%) Snyk
9 14 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.64%) Crashlytics
9 14 (1.64%) XCTest
10 11 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.94%) JUnit
12 7 (0.82%) JMeter
12 7 (0.82%) MLflow
12 7 (0.82%) Mockito
12 7 (0.82%) Selenium
13 6 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 209 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 135 (15.79%) Finance
3 61 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 41 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.63%) Banking
7 21 (2.46%) Law
8 12 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.29%) Advertising
10 9 (1.05%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.05%) Publishing
10 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.94%) Billing
11 8 (0.94%) Legal
12 7 (0.82%) Marketing
13 6 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.58%) Military
14 5 (0.58%) Retail
15 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 278 (32.51%) Developer
2 271 (31.70%) Senior
3 108 (12.63%) Architect
3 108 (12.63%) Lead
4 98 (11.46%) Senior Developer
5 96 (11.23%) Java Developer
6 81 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 75 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
9 54 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 52 (6.08%) AWS Developer
11 51 (5.96%) Data Engineer
12 45 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
13 44 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
14 42 (4.91%) Senior Architect
15 40 (4.68%) Security Architect
16 39 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (20.47%) Node.js
2 172 (20.12%) React
3 127 (14.85%) .NET
4 110 (12.87%) AngularJS
5 109 (12.75%) Spring Boot
6 107 (12.51%) REST
7 88 (10.29%) Spring
8 74 (8.65%) Kafka
9 67 (7.84%) RESTful
10 49 (5.73%) HTML
11 48 (5.61%) AWS CDK
12 38 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.33%) Gherkin
14 36 (4.21%) .NET Core
14 36 (4.21%) CSS
14 36 (4.21%) PySpark
15 34 (3.98%) Jest
16 31 (3.63%) JSON
17 29 (3.39%) YAML
18 25 (2.92%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 196 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.85%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.99%) Blockchain
7 17 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.99%) Web3
8 16 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.40%) IoT
12 11 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.90%) Linux
2 28 (3.27%) Windows
3 20 (2.34%) VMS
4 14 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.58%) CentOS
7 5 (0.58%) Debian
7 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (59.88%) CI/CD
2 402 (47.02%) DevOps
3 313 (36.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 300 (35.09%) Agile
5 201 (23.51%) Mentoring
6 200 (23.39%) Microservices
7 181 (21.17%) Software Engineering
8 178 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
9 175 (20.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 166 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 160 (18.71%) Containerisation
12 154 (18.01%) AI
13 148 (17.31%) Observability
14 128 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 127 (14.85%) Analytics
16 123 (14.39%) Event-Driven
17 100 (11.70%) Cloud Security
18 94 (10.99%) DevSecOps
19 86 (10.06%) TDD
20 84 (9.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 342 (40.00%) Python
2 248 (29.01%) SQL
3 214 (25.03%) TypeScript
4 188 (21.99%) Java
5 166 (19.42%) JavaScript
6 134 (15.67%) C#
7 88 (10.29%) Bash
8 51 (5.96%) Kotlin
9 46 (5.38%) Go
10 45 (5.26%) Groovy
10 45 (5.26%) PowerShell
11 35 (4.09%) Bicep
12 21 (2.46%) Rust
13 20 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (2.11%) PHP
15 14 (1.64%) Swift
16 11 (1.29%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.82%) Scala
19 6 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 114 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.70%) Degree
3 78 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 71 (8.30%) AWS Certification
5 51 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (4.33%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.16%) DV Cleared
9 26 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 25 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (2.69%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (2.34%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.87%) OSCP
14 12 (1.40%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
19 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.80%) GDPR
3 37 (4.33%) QA
4 25 (2.92%) GRC
5 17 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.70%) NIST
10 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
14 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 244 (28.54%) Docker
2 32 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.40%) vSphere
6 8 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.47%) iptables
7 4 (0.47%) Squid
7 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.35%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 277 (32.40%) Terraform
2 181 (21.17%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.29%) Ansible
4 54 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.73%) Grafana
6 28 (3.27%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.34%) Kibana
8 17 (1.99%) Packer
9 16 (1.87%) Puppet
10 8 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.58%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) Podman
12 4 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.35%) Scalr
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.23%) Nagios
15 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
15 1 (0.12%) logstash
15 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 116 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.09%) Databricks
3 30 (3.51%) Tenable
4 25 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.92%) Oracle
4 25 (2.92%) Palo Alto
5 18 (2.11%) Splunk
6 14 (1.64%) Amplitude
6 14 (1.64%) Braze
6 14 (1.64%) Google
6 14 (1.64%) OpenAI
7 13 (1.52%) VMware
8 11 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.05%) IBM
10 8 (0.94%) ScienceLogic
11 7 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.58%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA