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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 181 190
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 -26
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 793 738 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 1.89% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 5.38% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 523 571 889
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 23,920 13,726 29,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.55% 35.23% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,662 9,766 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,750 £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 £83,500 £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% -11.54%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -54 313 £82,500 -8.33% 139
North of England +83 262 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +36 152 £75,000 +27.66% 24
North West +44 103 £75,000 - 37
Midlands -1 102 £55,000 - 22
East Midlands +35 72 £57,500 +4.55% 9
South East -67 57 £62,500 +4.17% 59
South West -66 42 £63,750 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -52 30 £50,000 -9.09% 13
East of England -23 20 £60,050 -29.35% 7
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 8
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 29 (3.66%) Apache
2 25 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.64%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.01%) SAS
6 6 (0.76%) Confluence
7 4 (0.50%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.50%) JBoss
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.76%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 577 (72.76%) AWS
2 390 (49.18%) AWS Lambda
3 288 (36.32%) Amazon S3
4 264 (33.29%) Azure
5 191 (24.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 151 (19.04%) Amazon ECS
7 118 (14.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 118 (14.88%) Azure Functions
8 114 (14.38%) GitHub
9 96 (12.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 91 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
11 86 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
12 84 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (9.46%) SaaS
14 73 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
15 72 (9.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 69 (8.70%) GCP
17 68 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
18 57 (7.19%) Datadog
19 56 (7.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.40%) Firewall
2 16 (2.02%) Network Security
3 13 (1.64%) DSL
4 10 (1.26%) AMQP
5 7 (0.88%) VPN
6 5 (0.63%) DNS
6 5 (0.63%) Internet
6 5 (0.63%) MQTT
6 5 (0.63%) VoIP
6 5 (0.63%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) 4G
8 2 (0.25%) 5G
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) LTE
8 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.25%) VLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (21.94%) DynamoDB
2 79 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 76 (9.58%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (7.57%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
7 38 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (4.79%) Power BI
8 36 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (4.16%) Relational Database
10 27 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.65%) Big Data
11 21 (2.65%) MySQL
12 20 (2.52%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.77%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.77%) Spark SQL
14 13 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.51%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.26%) Metadata
17 9 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 167 (21.06%) Jenkins
2 130 (16.39%) Git
3 110 (13.87%) GitLab
4 52 (6.56%) SonarQube
5 50 (6.31%) Maven
6 46 (5.80%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.28%) CircleCI
8 24 (3.03%) Snyk
9 17 (2.14%) JIRA
10 13 (1.64%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.64%) XCTest
11 10 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.26%) JUnit
12 7 (0.88%) JMeter
12 7 (0.88%) MLflow
12 7 (0.88%) Mockito
13 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.63%) Gradle
15 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 195 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 113 (14.25%) Finance
3 56 (7.06%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.40%) Banking
7 15 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (1.89%) Publishing
8 14 (1.77%) Advertising
8 14 (1.77%) Health Technology
9 12 (1.51%) Law
10 11 (1.39%) Legal
10 11 (1.39%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.88%) Billing
11 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.76%) Retail
13 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 273 (34.43%) Developer
2 240 (30.26%) Senior
3 112 (14.12%) Architect
4 108 (13.62%) Lead
5 95 (11.98%) Java Developer
6 87 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 67 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 65 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (7.94%) AWS Developer
10 60 (7.57%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (6.18%) Data Engineer
12 48 (6.05%) Senior Architect
13 43 (5.42%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 40 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (5.04%) Security Architect
16 37 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
17 36 (4.54%) Software Developer
18 35 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
18 35 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (22.07%) React
2 161 (20.30%) Node.js
3 117 (14.75%) Spring Boot
4 115 (14.50%) .NET
5 105 (13.24%) REST
6 104 (13.11%) AngularJS
7 90 (11.35%) Spring
8 75 (9.46%) RESTful
9 70 (8.83%) Kafka
10 56 (7.06%) AWS CDK
11 51 (6.43%) HTML
12 45 (5.67%) Jest
13 44 (5.55%) .NET Core
14 43 (5.42%) Gherkin
15 41 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (4.54%) CSS
17 33 (4.16%) JSON
17 33 (4.16%) PySpark
18 31 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
19 29 (3.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 24 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.14%) Blockchain
6 17 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.14%) Web3
7 16 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.88%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.76%) IoT
11 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.67%) Linux
2 16 (2.02%) Windows
3 15 (1.89%) VMS
4 13 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.63%) CentOS
6 5 (0.63%) Debian
6 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (59.27%) CI/CD
2 375 (47.29%) DevOps
3 286 (36.07%) Agile
4 279 (35.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 197 (24.84%) Microservices
6 192 (24.21%) Mentoring
7 170 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (19.67%) Software Engineering
9 155 (19.55%) Containerisation
10 154 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 141 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 131 (16.52%) Observability
13 125 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (14.88%) AI
15 107 (13.49%) Analytics
16 97 (12.23%) Event-Driven
17 89 (11.22%) TDD
18 87 (10.97%) SDLC
19 82 (10.34%) DevSecOps
20 77 (9.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 307 (38.71%) Python
2 219 (27.62%) SQL
3 214 (26.99%) TypeScript
4 183 (23.08%) Java
5 160 (20.18%) JavaScript
6 117 (14.75%) C#
7 76 (9.58%) Bash
8 50 (6.31%) Groovy
9 43 (5.42%) Kotlin
10 41 (5.17%) Go
11 31 (3.91%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.52%) Rust
13 18 (2.27%) Bicep
14 15 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.64%) Swift
16 12 (1.51%) PHP
16 12 (1.51%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.76%) C++
18 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 99 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 96 (12.11%) Degree
3 85 (10.72%) AWS Certification
4 72 (9.08%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.40%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (2.02%) DV Cleared
13 14 (1.77%) OSCP
14 13 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.51%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.04%) QA
3 35 (4.41%) GDPR
4 24 (3.03%) GRC
5 16 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.51%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.50%) NIST
9 4 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 250 (31.53%) Docker
2 33 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.50%) iptables
5 3 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 241 (30.39%) Terraform
2 179 (22.57%) Kubernetes
3 81 (10.21%) Ansible
4 53 (6.68%) Prometheus
5 48 (6.05%) Grafana
6 41 (5.17%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.65%) Kibana
8 15 (1.89%) Puppet
9 8 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.88%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Podman
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.38%) Nagios
12 3 (0.38%) Scalr
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.54%) Databricks
3 29 (3.66%) Tenable
4 27 (3.40%) Palo Alto
5 24 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (2.40%) Oracle
7 13 (1.64%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.64%) Braze
8 11 (1.39%) Google
8 11 (1.39%) Splunk
9 9 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.01%) IBM
10 8 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.76%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.63%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.50%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.38%) Zscaler