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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 119 162
Rank change year-on-year -94 +43 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 578 1,263 907
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.12% 2.45% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 6.74% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 364 557 705
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +7.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £95,750
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 18,651 18,748 18,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.21% 36.43% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,425 11,408 15,705
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,440 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -57 278 £76,000 -15.56% 114
North of England +66 154 £75,000 +27.66% 79
Yorkshire +49 97 £75,000 +42.86% 41
North West +25 53 £67,500 +8.00% 34
South East -113 48 £67,500 +8.00% 62
South West -91 42 £62,500 -9.09% 25
Midlands -13 41 £62,500 +13.64% 37
West Midlands +6 30 £62,500 +13.64% 19
East of England -42 17 £57,500 -4.17% 19
East Midlands -15 11 £65,000 +18.18% 18
North East +4 4 £68,500 +3.40% 5
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 33 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 29 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.29%) Apache
3 19 (3.29%) Confluence
4 14 (2.42%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.56%) WebSphere
6 8 (1.38%) Headless CMS
7 7 (1.21%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.38%) Shopify
3 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 426 (73.70%) AWS
2 280 (48.44%) AWS Lambda
3 260 (44.98%) Azure
4 195 (33.74%) Amazon S3
5 103 (17.82%) Azure Functions
6 96 (16.61%) Amazon ECS
7 94 (16.26%) GitHub
8 86 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
9 84 (14.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (13.15%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (12.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 70 (12.11%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
13 61 (10.55%) SaaS
14 60 (10.38%) AWS Step Functions
15 56 (9.69%) Power Platform
16 48 (8.30%) GCP
16 48 (8.30%) GitHub Actions
17 47 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 45 (7.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.77%) Firewall
2 13 (2.25%) Internet
3 10 (1.73%) Wireless
4 9 (1.56%) Network Security
5 8 (1.38%) AMQP
5 8 (1.38%) Broadband
6 7 (1.21%) DNS
6 7 (1.21%) SSL
6 7 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.21%) VPN
7 6 (1.04%) WAN
8 5 (0.87%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.69%) DHCP
9 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.69%) VLAN
9 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.35%) LAN
11 1 (0.17%) DSL
11 1 (0.17%) NAS
11 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (16.78%) DynamoDB
2 80 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (12.11%) NoSQL
4 61 (10.55%) Amazon RDS
5 52 (9.00%) SQL Server
6 46 (7.96%) Relational Database
7 45 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (4.15%) Data Lake
10 23 (3.98%) Big Data
11 21 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (3.63%) MongoDB
11 21 (3.63%) RDBMS
12 20 (3.46%) Power BI
13 18 (3.11%) MySQL
14 16 (2.77%) Hadoop
15 15 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
18 9 (1.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 95 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 77 (13.32%) Git
3 41 (7.09%) GitLab
4 33 (5.71%) Cypress.io
5 28 (4.84%) JIRA
6 22 (3.81%) JUnit
7 21 (3.63%) JMeter
8 18 (3.11%) Mockito
9 15 (2.60%) SonarQube
10 14 (2.42%) Maven
11 11 (1.90%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.87%) git-flow
12 5 (0.87%) Vite
13 4 (0.69%) MLflow
13 4 (0.69%) Mocha
13 4 (0.69%) NUnit
13 4 (0.69%) Postman
13 4 (0.69%) Selenium
13 4 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 167 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.36%) Finance
3 57 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.71%) Tech for Good
6 27 (4.67%) Health Technology
6 27 (4.67%) Publishing
7 19 (3.29%) Law
8 17 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.08%) Legal
9 12 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.90%) Banking
10 11 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.73%) Automotive
12 9 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.56%) Retail
13 7 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.04%) Billing
15 5 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 227 (39.27%) Developer
2 146 (25.26%) Senior
3 81 (14.01%) Architect
4 77 (13.32%) Lead
5 72 (12.46%) Senior Developer
6 54 (9.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (8.82%) AWS Developer
8 50 (8.65%) Python Developer
9 48 (8.30%) Data Engineer
9 48 (8.30%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.92%) Software Engineer
11 38 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (5.71%) .NET Developer
13 32 (5.54%) Lead Developer
13 32 (5.54%) Software Developer
14 28 (4.84%) React Developer
15 26 (4.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (26.99%) React
2 102 (17.65%) .NET
3 88 (15.22%) Node.js
4 83 (14.36%) HTML
5 81 (14.01%) Spring Boot
6 78 (13.49%) Spring
7 76 (13.15%) REST
8 72 (12.46%) RESTful
9 63 (10.90%) CSS
10 58 (10.03%) AngularJS
11 40 (6.92%) .NET Core
12 39 (6.75%) Kafka
13 32 (5.54%) Web Services
14 31 (5.36%) Jest
14 31 (5.36%) Vue
15 28 (4.84%) AWS CDK
16 27 (4.67%) .NET Framework
17 25 (4.33%) JSON
18 24 (4.15%) ASP.NET
18 24 (4.15%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 14 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.08%) IoT
10 12 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.73%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.56%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.40%) Linux
2 15 (2.60%) Unix
2 15 (2.60%) Windows
3 9 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.04%) VMS
5 5 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) CentOS
6 2 (0.35%) Debian
6 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (54.33%) CI/CD
2 269 (46.54%) Agile
3 261 (45.16%) DevOps
4 164 (28.37%) Microservices
5 151 (26.12%) Mentoring
6 147 (25.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 138 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (18.34%) Containerisation
9 104 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 103 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (17.30%) Software Engineering
12 98 (16.96%) TDD
13 87 (15.05%) Scrum
14 83 (14.36%) AI
15 76 (13.15%) SDLC
16 75 (12.98%) Analytics
17 71 (12.28%) Data Modelling
18 60 (10.38%) Machine Learning
18 60 (10.38%) Migration
19 59 (10.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 266 (46.02%) Python
2 192 (33.22%) JavaScript
3 158 (27.34%) TypeScript
4 141 (24.39%) Java
5 133 (23.01%) SQL
6 107 (18.51%) C#
7 42 (7.27%) Bash
7 42 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.11%) Scala
10 15 (2.60%) Bicep
10 15 (2.60%) Go
11 13 (2.25%) Groovy
12 11 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.69%) C++
14 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.69%) PHP
14 4 (0.69%) R
15 3 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 89 (15.40%) AWS Certification
2 72 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 68 (11.76%) Degree
4 45 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (7.61%) Azure Certification
6 38 (6.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (6.23%) SC Cleared
8 33 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (3.29%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.04%) SnowPro
15 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.69%) MCP
17 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
18 2 (0.35%) OSCP
19 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
19 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.90%) QA
2 23 (3.98%) GDPR
3 18 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.60%) SLA
6 14 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.69%) WCAG
10 3 (0.52%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) CDISC
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 169 (29.24%) Docker
2 20 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.38%) HDFS
3 8 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
6 1 (0.17%) vCloud
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (26.99%) Terraform
2 124 (21.45%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.57%) Ansible
4 26 (4.50%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.15%) Grafana
6 23 (3.98%) Kibana
7 14 (2.42%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.52%) Puppet
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 118 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.67%) Splunk
3 22 (3.81%) Databricks
3 22 (3.81%) Dynatrace
4 19 (3.29%) Atlassian
5 16 (2.77%) Google
6 13 (2.25%) Oracle
7 10 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.56%) Apple
8 9 (1.56%) IBM
8 9 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.69%) Aruba
11 4 (0.69%) HP
11 4 (0.69%) Pega
11 4 (0.69%) Veeam
11 4 (0.69%) WSO2