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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 187 195
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 -30
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 827 704 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 1.85% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 5.40% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 554 534 880
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 24,317 13,046 29,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.40% 34.25% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,063 9,124 24,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,216 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +6.46% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 23 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 23 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 -46 318 £82,500 -8.33% 139
North of England +79 277 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +45 157 £75,000 +25.00% 22
North West +53 111 £75,000 - 38
Midlands +7 105 £55,000 - 20
East Midlands +24 71 £55,000 - 9
South East -55 63 £65,000 +8.33% 49
South West -64 45 £62,500 +4.17% 31
West Midlands -48 34 £52,500 -4.55% 11
East of England -20 20 £60,050 -29.35% 6
North East -38 9 £90,000 +44.00% 9
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 (3.51%) Apache
2 25 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.57%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.97%) Confluence
6 8 (0.97%) SAS
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.48%) JBoss
8 3 (0.36%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.85%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 599 (72.43%) AWS
2 409 (49.46%) AWS Lambda
3 304 (36.76%) Amazon S3
4 274 (33.13%) Azure
5 201 (24.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 162 (19.59%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (15.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 125 (15.11%) Azure Functions
8 115 (13.91%) GitHub
9 97 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 94 (11.37%) Amazon EC2
10 94 (11.37%) Amazon SQS
11 83 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
12 79 (9.55%) SaaS
13 74 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
13 74 (8.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 71 (8.59%) GCP
15 70 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
16 59 (7.13%) Datadog
17 58 (7.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.30%) Firewall
2 15 (1.81%) Network Security
3 13 (1.57%) DSL
4 10 (1.21%) AMQP
5 7 (0.85%) VPN
6 6 (0.73%) Internet
6 6 (0.73%) MQTT
6 6 (0.73%) VoIP
7 5 (0.60%) DNS
8 4 (0.48%) WAN
9 3 (0.36%) Broadband
9 3 (0.36%) IPv4
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
9 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) DHCP
10 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (21.89%) DynamoDB
2 82 (9.92%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.98%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 42 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (4.84%) Power BI
9 37 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 26 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (2.78%) Big Data
12 23 (2.78%) MySQL
13 19 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.69%) Spark SQL
15 13 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.45%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.33%) Metadata
18 9 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 177 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 141 (17.05%) Git
3 114 (13.78%) GitLab
4 52 (6.29%) SonarQube
5 50 (6.05%) Maven
6 47 (5.68%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.26%) CircleCI
8 25 (3.02%) Snyk
9 19 (2.30%) JIRA
10 13 (1.57%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.57%) XCTest
11 12 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.21%) JUnit
13 7 (0.85%) JMeter
13 7 (0.85%) MLflow
13 7 (0.85%) Mockito
14 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.60%) Gradle
16 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 200 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 113 (13.66%) Finance
3 59 (7.13%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.51%) Banking
7 14 (1.69%) Advertising
8 13 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.57%) Publishing
9 12 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 12 (1.45%) Law
10 11 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (0.97%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.73%) Billing
13 6 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Retail
14 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 287 (34.70%) Developer
2 249 (30.11%) Senior
3 114 (13.78%) Architect
4 112 (13.54%) Lead
5 100 (12.09%) Java Developer
6 90 (10.88%) Senior Developer
7 75 (9.07%) Software Engineer
8 68 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (7.38%) AWS Developer
11 49 (5.93%) Data Engineer
11 49 (5.93%) Senior Architect
12 43 (5.20%) Cloud Architect
13 42 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 41 (4.96%) Security Architect
15 40 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (4.84%) Software Developer
16 39 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
17 36 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (21.16%) React
2 168 (20.31%) Node.js
3 125 (15.11%) .NET
4 120 (14.51%) Spring Boot
5 110 (13.30%) AngularJS
5 110 (13.30%) REST
6 93 (11.25%) Spring
7 75 (9.07%) Kafka
7 75 (9.07%) RESTful
8 56 (6.77%) AWS CDK
9 50 (6.05%) HTML
10 46 (5.56%) .NET Core
10 46 (5.56%) Gherkin
11 45 (5.44%) Jest
12 42 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (4.35%) CSS
14 35 (4.23%) JSON
15 34 (4.11%) PySpark
16 30 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (3.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.18%) Blockchain
7 18 (2.18%) Web3
8 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.97%) IoT
12 7 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.17%) Linux
2 17 (2.06%) Windows
3 14 (1.69%) VMS
4 13 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) CentOS
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 390 (47.16%) DevOps
3 295 (35.67%) Agile
4 292 (35.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 204 (24.67%) Microservices
6 197 (23.82%) Mentoring
7 172 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (20.19%) Software Engineering
9 160 (19.35%) Containerisation
10 158 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 147 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 132 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (15.72%) Observability
14 125 (15.11%) AI
15 111 (13.42%) Analytics
16 104 (12.58%) Event-Driven
17 91 (11.00%) TDD
18 87 (10.52%) DevSecOps
18 87 (10.52%) SDLC
19 79 (9.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 320 (38.69%) Python
2 227 (27.45%) SQL
3 219 (26.48%) TypeScript
4 193 (23.34%) Java
5 167 (20.19%) JavaScript
6 127 (15.36%) C#
7 80 (9.67%) Bash
8 53 (6.41%) Groovy
9 45 (5.44%) Kotlin
10 41 (4.96%) Go
11 34 (4.11%) PowerShell
12 21 (2.54%) Rust
13 20 (2.42%) Bicep
14 15 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.57%) PHP
15 13 (1.57%) Swift
16 12 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.73%) C++
17 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.97%) Degree
3 87 (10.52%) AWS Certification
4 75 (9.07%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 39 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (2.30%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.93%) OSCP
13 13 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (1.45%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.44%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.59%) QA
3 36 (4.35%) GDPR
4 25 (3.02%) GRC
5 16 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.48%) NIST
8 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) WCAG
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 260 (31.44%) Docker
2 33 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 3 (0.36%) Firmware
5 3 (0.36%) Squid
5 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 254 (30.71%) Terraform
2 183 (22.13%) Kubernetes
3 84 (10.16%) Ansible
4 56 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.93%) Grafana
6 41 (4.96%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.54%) Kibana
8 15 (1.81%) Puppet
9 10 (1.21%) Packer
10 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.36%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Scalr
12 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.12%) Argo
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 101 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.35%) Databricks
3 30 (3.63%) Tenable
4 27 (3.26%) Palo Alto
5 25 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
6 23 (2.78%) Oracle
7 13 (1.57%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.57%) Braze
7 13 (1.57%) Splunk
8 12 (1.45%) Google
9 10 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.09%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.97%) IBM
11 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.85%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
15 3 (0.36%) VMware