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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 203 213
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 926 696 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.60% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 4.83% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 581 501 644
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +2.84%

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 24,635 14,419 24,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.99% 33.14% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,587 10,300 18,639
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,633 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -40 383 £85,000 +13.33% 177
North of England +94 289 £75,000 +15.38% 72
North West +66 129 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Yorkshire +40 123 £80,000 +33.33% 20
Midlands -8 87 £55,000 -8.33% 22
South East -27 82 £65,000 -3.70% 38
South West -53 64 £61,500 +2.50% 24
East Midlands +27 55 £55,000 +46.67% 6
North East -15 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
West Midlands -39 32 £62,500 - 16
East of England -45 15 £59,450 +1.19% 11
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 34 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.02%) Apache
3 18 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.94%) Confluence
4 15 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.19%) SAS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.54%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 674 (72.79%) AWS
2 435 (46.98%) AWS Lambda
3 328 (35.42%) Azure
4 298 (32.18%) Amazon S3
5 228 (24.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 202 (21.81%) Amazon ECS
7 161 (17.39%) Azure Functions
8 127 (13.71%) GitHub
9 114 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (11.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 101 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
12 98 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (9.94%) GCP
14 91 (9.83%) SaaS
15 87 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
16 85 (9.18%) Amazon SQS
17 77 (8.32%) Power Platform
18 75 (8.10%) Azure Logic Apps
19 72 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
19 72 (7.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.92%) Network Security
1 27 (2.92%) VPN
2 22 (2.38%) Firewall
3 19 (2.05%) Internet
4 14 (1.51%) DNS
5 8 (0.86%) MQTT
6 7 (0.76%) DSL
6 7 (0.76%) VoIP
7 6 (0.65%) BGP
7 6 (0.65%) IPsec
8 5 (0.54%) AMQP
8 5 (0.54%) Broadband
9 4 (0.43%) DHCP
9 4 (0.43%) IPv4
9 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.43%) VLAN
10 3 (0.32%) LTE
10 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.32%) WAN
10 3 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (18.79%) DynamoDB
2 98 (10.58%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.94%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (7.34%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.51%) Amazon Athena
7 43 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (4.21%) Power BI
11 38 (4.10%) Relational Database
12 35 (3.78%) Big Data
13 28 (3.02%) MySQL
14 24 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.38%) Data Lake
16 19 (2.05%) MongoDB
17 16 (1.73%) Hadoop
18 15 (1.62%) Metadata
18 15 (1.62%) Spark SQL
19 14 (1.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 163 (17.60%) Git
2 142 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 89 (9.61%) GitLab
4 38 (4.10%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.46%) Maven
6 31 (3.35%) JIRA
7 29 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.70%) Snyk
9 20 (2.16%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.62%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.62%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.51%) XCTest
12 13 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.08%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.86%) JUnit
15 8 (0.86%) Selenium
16 7 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.76%) JMeter
16 7 (0.76%) Mockito
General
1 230 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 169 (18.25%) Finance
3 74 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.32%) Law
7 39 (4.21%) Banking
8 25 (2.70%) Marketing
9 15 (1.62%) Military
10 14 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.40%) Legal
12 11 (1.19%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.19%) Retail
13 10 (1.08%) Advertising
14 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.86%) Billing
15 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 304 (32.83%) Senior
2 261 (28.19%) Developer
3 126 (13.61%) Lead
4 108 (11.66%) Architect
5 91 (9.83%) Senior Developer
6 87 (9.40%) Java Developer
7 81 (8.75%) Software Engineer
8 78 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 69 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (6.37%) Data Engineer
11 56 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
15 44 (4.75%) Senior Architect
16 42 (4.54%) AWS Developer
16 42 (4.54%) Consultant
17 38 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
18 37 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (18.47%) Node.js
2 150 (16.20%) React
3 133 (14.36%) .NET
4 115 (12.42%) REST
5 104 (11.23%) AngularJS
6 102 (11.02%) Spring Boot
7 85 (9.18%) Spring
8 80 (8.64%) Kafka
9 66 (7.13%) RESTful
10 59 (6.37%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.89%) PySpark
12 35 (3.78%) Jest
13 34 (3.67%) HTML
14 33 (3.56%) Gherkin
15 32 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (3.24%) JSON
17 29 (3.13%) OAuth
18 28 (3.02%) CSS
18 28 (3.02%) Next.js
18 28 (3.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 236 (25.49%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.13%) Onboarding
4 54 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 37 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.35%) Data Centre
8 28 (3.02%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.70%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.16%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.51%) IoT
14 13 (1.40%) Low-Code
15 12 (1.30%) Blockchain
15 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.30%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.56%) Linux
2 34 (3.67%) Windows
3 21 (2.27%) VMS
4 14 (1.51%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.43%) CentOS
7 4 (0.43%) Debian
7 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (57.24%) CI/CD
2 436 (47.08%) DevOps
3 346 (37.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (36.72%) Agile
5 248 (26.78%) Mentoring
6 235 (25.38%) AI
7 209 (22.57%) Microservices
8 191 (20.63%) Software Engineering
9 185 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (18.25%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 164 (17.71%) Containerisation
13 156 (16.85%) Observability
14 150 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 146 (15.77%) Analytics
16 136 (14.69%) Event-Driven
17 129 (13.93%) Cloud Security
18 101 (10.91%) Roadmaps
19 93 (10.04%) Migration
20 92 (9.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 368 (39.74%) Python
2 257 (27.75%) SQL
3 203 (21.92%) TypeScript
4 197 (21.27%) Java
5 152 (16.41%) JavaScript
6 142 (15.33%) C#
7 103 (11.12%) Bash
8 47 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 46 (4.97%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.43%) Groovy
11 40 (4.32%) Bicep
11 40 (4.32%) Go
12 34 (3.67%) PHP
13 22 (2.38%) Ruby
14 21 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (2.05%) Perl
16 17 (1.84%) Rust
17 14 (1.51%) Swift
18 12 (1.30%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 106 (11.45%) Degree
3 100 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 86 (9.29%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 41 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 41 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (4.10%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 23 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (1.19%) OSCP
14 9 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.86%) PhD
16 7 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.16%) GDPR
2 49 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.75%) QA
4 25 (2.70%) GRC
5 16 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
14 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 262 (28.29%) Docker
2 35 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.56%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.73%) vSphere
6 12 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) Squid
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 341 (36.83%) Terraform
2 202 (21.81%) Kubernetes
3 109 (11.77%) Ansible
4 48 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.75%) Grafana
6 24 (2.59%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.16%) Puppet
8 19 (2.05%) Packer
9 15 (1.62%) Kibana
10 11 (1.19%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.54%) Argo
13 4 (0.43%) Podman
13 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.32%) Scalr
15 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.10%) Databricks
3 32 (3.46%) Oracle
4 31 (3.35%) Tenable
5 28 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.27%) Splunk
7 21 (2.27%) VMware
8 18 (1.94%) Google
8 18 (1.94%) IBM
9 15 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.62%) SAP
10 14 (1.51%) Amplitude
10 14 (1.51%) Braze
11 12 (1.30%) HP
11 12 (1.30%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.08%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.97%) Salesforce