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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 101 192
Rank change year-on-year -109 +91 -39
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 673 1,185 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 3.11% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.09% 8.23% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 437 593 899
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 21,758 14,392 27,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.75% 37.76% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,887 10,108 23,435
10th Percentile £29,650 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,651 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -85 277 £82,500 -13.16% 158
North of England +49 219 £75,000 +22.45% 94
Yorkshire +46 147 £75,000 +30.43% 33
Midlands -20 78 £60,000 +9.09% 20
North West +7 67 £72,966 +8.10% 49
East Midlands -11 53 £60,000 +4.35% 1
South West -111 43 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South East -171 36 £67,500 +12.50% 70
West Midlands -35 25 £51,875 -5.68% 19
East of England -67 17 £60,100 -9.28% 18
North East -25 5 £68,500 +9.60% 14
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 28 (4.16%) Apache
1 28 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.04%) Confluence
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.45%) JBoss
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.59%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 531 (78.90%) AWS
2 350 (52.01%) AWS Lambda
3 264 (39.23%) Amazon S3
4 243 (36.11%) Azure
5 159 (23.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (18.57%) GitHub
7 116 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
8 98 (14.56%) Azure Functions
9 93 (13.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 84 (12.48%) Amazon SQS
11 79 (11.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 77 (11.44%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (10.70%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (10.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 65 (9.66%) GCP
15 61 (9.06%) SaaS
16 60 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
17 54 (8.02%) Power Platform
18 43 (6.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.93%) DSL
1 13 (1.93%) Firewall
2 11 (1.63%) AMQP
2 11 (1.63%) Network Security
3 8 (1.19%) VPN
4 6 (0.89%) Broadband
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 3 (0.45%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (19.02%) DynamoDB
2 84 (12.48%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.44%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.88%) SQL Server
6 43 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.05%) Power BI
9 32 (4.75%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.71%) MySQL
12 20 (2.97%) MongoDB
13 19 (2.82%) Big Data
14 17 (2.53%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.49%) Metadata
15 10 (1.49%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.34%) Hadoop
17 8 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 139 (20.65%) Jenkins
2 94 (13.97%) GitLab
3 92 (13.67%) Git
4 37 (5.50%) Cypress.io
5 35 (5.20%) Maven
6 34 (5.05%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.42%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.23%) JIRA
9 10 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.49%) JUnit
10 9 (1.34%) MLflow
11 8 (1.19%) Crashlytics
11 8 (1.19%) XCTest
12 6 (0.89%) JMeter
12 6 (0.89%) Mockito
12 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.74%) git-flow
14 4 (0.59%) webpack
15 3 (0.45%) ESLint
15 3 (0.45%) Mocha
General
1 187 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.26%) Finance
3 52 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 51 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.42%) Banking
6 19 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.82%) Publishing
7 17 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.38%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.38%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.78%) Advertising
11 11 (1.63%) Law
12 9 (1.34%) Legal
13 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.74%) Retail
16 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 263 (39.08%) Developer
2 166 (24.67%) Senior
3 91 (13.52%) Architect
4 88 (13.08%) Lead
5 77 (11.44%) Senior Developer
6 74 (11.00%) Java Developer
7 65 (9.66%) AWS Developer
8 62 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (8.02%) Software Engineer
11 48 (7.13%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.24%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.65%) Data Engineer
14 34 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.75%) React Developer
16 29 (4.31%) .NET Developer
16 29 (4.31%) AWS Architect
17 26 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (25.71%) React
2 139 (20.65%) Node.js
3 107 (15.90%) .NET
4 100 (14.86%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.04%) Spring
6 80 (11.89%) AngularJS
7 72 (10.70%) HTML
8 71 (10.55%) REST
9 69 (10.25%) RESTful
10 61 (9.06%) CSS
11 56 (8.32%) AWS CDK
12 50 (7.43%) Kafka
13 49 (7.28%) .NET Core
14 37 (5.50%) Jest
15 33 (4.90%) Gherkin
16 31 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
18 25 (3.71%) FastAPI
18 25 (3.71%) Flask
19 23 (3.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 147 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (3.86%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.93%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.93%) Web3
9 12 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.75%) Linux
2 15 (2.23%) VMS
2 15 (2.23%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.89%) Unix
5 5 (0.74%) CentOS
5 5 (0.74%) Debian
5 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (57.21%) CI/CD
2 317 (47.10%) DevOps
3 274 (40.71%) Agile
4 232 (34.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 189 (28.08%) Mentoring
6 186 (27.64%) Microservices
7 162 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 141 (20.95%) Containerisation
10 134 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 117 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (15.01%) Observability
13 90 (13.37%) Test Automation
14 89 (13.22%) Analytics
15 78 (11.59%) AI
16 77 (11.44%) Continuous Integration
17 76 (11.29%) TDD
18 71 (10.55%) Scrum
19 70 (10.40%) Data Modelling
20 69 (10.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 277 (41.16%) Python
2 190 (28.23%) JavaScript
3 183 (27.19%) TypeScript
4 175 (26.00%) SQL
5 164 (24.37%) Java
6 109 (16.20%) C#
7 67 (9.96%) Bash
8 38 (5.65%) Go
9 32 (4.75%) Groovy
10 31 (4.61%) PowerShell
11 26 (3.86%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (2.08%) Rust
14 10 (1.49%) PHP
15 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.19%) Swift
16 7 (1.04%) Bicep
17 6 (0.89%) C++
17 6 (0.89%) Scala
18 5 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (15.01%) AWS Certification
2 91 (13.52%) Degree
3 71 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 59 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (6.24%) SC Cleared
6 40 (5.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (5.79%) Azure Certification
8 35 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (3.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 21 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (2.38%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.08%) OSCP
14 12 (1.78%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.63%) DBS Check
16 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 3 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.24%) QA
2 33 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.42%) GDPR
4 14 (2.08%) SOC 2
5 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 224 (33.28%) Docker
2 17 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) iptables
5 3 (0.45%) Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 205 (30.46%) Terraform
2 159 (23.63%) Kubernetes
3 64 (9.51%) Ansible
4 46 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 44 (6.54%) Grafana
6 33 (4.90%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.67%) Kibana
8 10 (1.49%) Puppet
9 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
11 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Scalr
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.57%) Databricks
3 11 (1.63%) Oracle
4 9 (1.34%) Google
4 9 (1.34%) Palo Alto
4 9 (1.34%) Splunk
5 8 (1.19%) Amplitude
6 7 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.74%) Pega
7 5 (0.74%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.74%) WSO2
8 4 (0.59%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.45%) IBM
9 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.30%) Apple