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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 219 211
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 -56
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 960 666 945
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 1.52% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.61% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 598 469 587
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
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 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 24,737 14,435 22,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.02% 32.95% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,878 10,208 16,866
10th Percentile £31,425 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,213
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -37 393 £85,000 +13.33% 77
North of England +101 308 £75,000 +15.38% 47
North West +66 136 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Yorkshire +49 125 £80,000 +33.33% 15
Midlands -4 85 £62,500 -3.85% 11
South East -9 84 £65,000 -7.14% 32
South West -50 66 £62,500 +2.04% 26
East Midlands +24 50 £60,000 +60.00% 4
North East -15 47 £71,250 -1.72% 9
West Midlands -42 35 £62,500 -3.85% 7
East of England -56 18 £59,450 +1.19% 7
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 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.81%) Apache
3 17 (1.77%) Confluence
4 16 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.15%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
1 694 (72.29%) AWS
2 452 (47.08%) AWS Lambda
3 346 (36.04%) Azure
4 309 (32.19%) Amazon S3
5 237 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 208 (21.67%) Amazon ECS
7 178 (18.54%) Azure Functions
8 132 (13.75%) GitHub
9 117 (12.19%) Azure DevOps
10 113 (11.77%) Amazon EC2
11 101 (10.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (10.31%) SaaS
13 98 (10.21%) AWS Step Functions
14 97 (10.10%) GCP
15 94 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
16 86 (8.96%) Power Platform
17 82 (8.54%) Amazon SQS
17 82 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 75 (7.81%) PaaS
19 72 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.02%) VPN
2 25 (2.60%) Network Security
3 24 (2.50%) Firewall
4 21 (2.19%) Internet
5 15 (1.56%) DNS
6 9 (0.94%) MQTT
6 9 (0.94%) VoIP
7 6 (0.63%) AMQP
7 6 (0.63%) BGP
7 6 (0.63%) DHCP
7 6 (0.63%) IPsec
7 6 (0.63%) VLAN
8 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.42%) Broadband
9 4 (0.42%) DSL
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
10 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (17.71%) DynamoDB
2 96 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 94 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 70 (7.29%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (4.48%) Relational Database
11 37 (3.85%) Power BI
12 36 (3.75%) Big Data
13 27 (2.81%) MySQL
14 24 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (2.40%) Data Lake
16 22 (2.29%) MongoDB
17 20 (2.08%) Metadata
18 18 (1.88%) Hadoop
19 15 (1.56%) Delta Lake
19 15 (1.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 173 (18.02%) Git
2 134 (13.96%) Jenkins
3 83 (8.65%) GitLab
4 37 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.23%) JIRA
6 28 (2.92%) Maven
7 26 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 25 (2.60%) Snyk
9 16 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.35%) Crashlytics
11 13 (1.35%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.25%) XCTest
13 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.04%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.94%) JUnit
16 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.83%) Mockito
17 7 (0.73%) JMeter
17 7 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 236 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 188 (19.58%) Finance
3 77 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 65 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (5.42%) Banking
6 52 (5.42%) Law
7 36 (3.75%) Marketing
8 18 (1.88%) Retail
9 15 (1.56%) Legal
9 15 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.46%) Military
11 13 (1.35%) Aviation
11 13 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.15%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.73%) Advertising
14 7 (0.73%) Billing
15 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 299 (31.15%) Senior
2 269 (28.02%) Developer
3 140 (14.58%) Lead
4 109 (11.35%) Architect
5 88 (9.17%) Senior Developer
6 86 (8.96%) Java Developer
6 86 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 74 (7.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (6.15%) Data Engineer
11 56 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (4.58%) AWS Developer
14 43 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
15 42 (4.38%) Senior Architect
16 41 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
17 40 (4.17%) Consultant
17 40 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (17.81%) Node.js
2 143 (14.90%) React
3 139 (14.48%) .NET
4 119 (12.40%) REST
5 103 (10.73%) AngularJS
6 100 (10.42%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.85%) Spring
8 78 (8.13%) Kafka
9 67 (6.98%) RESTful
10 56 (5.83%) AWS CDK
11 36 (3.75%) PySpark
12 35 (3.65%) Jest
13 32 (3.33%) HTML
13 32 (3.33%) OAuth
14 31 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (3.13%) JSON
16 29 (3.02%) Gherkin
16 29 (3.02%) OAuth2
17 28 (2.92%) CSS
18 27 (2.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 253 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.08%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 31 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 25 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.08%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.46%) IoT
15 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.35%) Blog
16 13 (1.35%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.25%) Management Information System
17 12 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.29%) Linux
2 36 (3.75%) Windows
3 18 (1.88%) VMS
4 12 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) CentOS
6 5 (0.52%) Debian
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (56.77%) CI/CD
2 456 (47.50%) DevOps
3 354 (36.88%) Agile
4 351 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 255 (26.56%) Mentoring
6 247 (25.73%) AI
7 210 (21.88%) Microservices
8 207 (21.56%) Software Engineering
9 193 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
10 169 (17.60%) Test Automation
11 166 (17.29%) Containerisation
12 160 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 159 (16.56%) Observability
14 156 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (15.21%) Analytics
16 136 (14.17%) Cloud Security
17 135 (14.06%) Event-Driven
18 117 (12.19%) Roadmaps
19 111 (11.56%) Migration
20 103 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 376 (39.17%) Python
2 271 (28.23%) SQL
3 196 (20.42%) TypeScript
4 194 (20.21%) Java
5 156 (16.25%) C#
6 151 (15.73%) JavaScript
7 104 (10.83%) Bash
8 48 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 44 (4.58%) PowerShell
10 42 (4.38%) Bicep
11 37 (3.85%) Groovy
12 33 (3.44%) Go
13 32 (3.33%) PHP
14 29 (3.02%) Ruby
15 19 (1.98%) Perl
16 18 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (1.56%) Rust
18 13 (1.35%) Shell Script
19 12 (1.25%) Swift
20 10 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 108 (11.25%) Degree
4 85 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 48 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 47 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 39 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.71%) Master's Degree
11 21 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.83%) OSCP
16 7 (0.73%) PhD
17 6 (0.63%) MBA
18 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.46%) GDPR
2 55 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.42%) QA
4 26 (2.71%) GRC
5 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.63%) NIST
9 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.31%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 262 (27.29%) Docker
2 37 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.67%) vSphere
6 12 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Squid
7 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 351 (36.56%) Terraform
2 194 (20.21%) Kubernetes
3 110 (11.46%) Ansible
4 42 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.17%) Grafana
6 22 (2.29%) Puppet
7 20 (2.08%) HP Fortify
8 18 (1.88%) Packer
9 14 (1.46%) Kibana
10 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
12 5 (0.52%) Argo
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.52%) Podman
13 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.31%) Scalr
14 3 (0.31%) SCCM
14 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 164 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.58%) Databricks
3 35 (3.65%) Oracle
4 32 (3.33%) Tenable
5 31 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (2.60%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.40%) VMware
8 21 (2.19%) Google
8 21 (2.19%) Splunk
9 18 (1.88%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.88%) IBM
10 15 (1.56%) SAP
11 14 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.25%) Amplitude
12 12 (1.25%) AppDynamics
12 12 (1.25%) Braze
12 12 (1.25%) HP
12 12 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (1.04%) Salesforce