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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 97 187
Rank change year-on-year -105 +90 -43
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 638 1,285 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.06% 2.92% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 7.78% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 416 582 851
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,875 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £76,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.29% -1.38%

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 20,334 16,522 25,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.76% 37.54% 38.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 10,078 21,495
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 February 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 February 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 -83 276 £81,500 -14.21% 144
North of England +49 199 £72,500 +20.83% 85
Yorkshire +47 139 £75,000 +38.89% 38
Midlands -9 67 £60,000 +6.67% 25
North West -2 55 £75,000 +20.00% 43
South West -108 42 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South East -158 39 £67,500 +12.50% 56
East Midlands -6 38 £60,000 +2.13% 6
West Midlands -6 29 £55,625 +1.14% 19
East of England -54 14 £62,500 -3.85% 6
North East -11 5 £66,750 +6.80% 4
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 35 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.39%) Apache
3 17 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.19%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.25%) Confluence
7 5 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.31%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 497 (77.90%) AWS
2 336 (52.66%) AWS Lambda
3 250 (39.18%) Amazon S3
4 247 (38.71%) Azure
5 144 (22.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 111 (17.40%) GitHub
7 108 (16.93%) Amazon ECS
8 101 (15.83%) Azure Functions
9 91 (14.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 79 (12.38%) Amazon SQS
11 77 (12.07%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (12.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 74 (11.60%) Amazon EC2
13 68 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 65 (10.19%) GCP
15 64 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
16 60 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
17 57 (8.93%) SaaS
18 51 (7.99%) Power Platform
19 38 (5.96%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) AMQP
2 10 (1.57%) Firewall
2 10 (1.57%) Network Security
3 9 (1.41%) DSL
4 6 (0.94%) VPN
5 5 (0.78%) Broadband
5 5 (0.78%) Internet
5 5 (0.78%) SSL
6 4 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) 4G
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.16%) VSAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (18.03%) DynamoDB
2 79 (12.38%) NoSQL
3 72 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (11.13%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (7.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.21%) SQL Server
7 43 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (5.33%) Relational Database
9 26 (4.08%) Power BI
10 24 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.45%) Big Data
11 22 (3.45%) MySQL
12 20 (3.13%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.98%) MongoDB
14 15 (2.35%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.19%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.25%) Metadata
18 7 (1.10%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 118 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.26%) Git
3 73 (11.44%) GitLab
4 38 (5.96%) Cypress.io
5 31 (4.86%) Maven
6 30 (4.70%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.98%) JIRA
8 16 (2.51%) CircleCI
9 13 (2.04%) JUnit
10 12 (1.88%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.57%) JMeter
12 9 (1.41%) Mockito
13 7 (1.10%) MLflow
14 5 (0.78%) git-flow
14 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.78%) webpack
15 4 (0.63%) Mocha
15 4 (0.63%) Vite
16 3 (0.47%) ESLint
16 3 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 178 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.95%) Finance
3 52 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 51 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.29%) Publishing
6 20 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.98%) Tech for Good
8 18 (2.82%) Banking
9 17 (2.66%) Law
10 16 (2.51%) Health Technology
11 15 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.88%) Advertising
14 11 (1.72%) Legal
15 8 (1.25%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.94%) Retail
18 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.63%) Billing
18 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (39.18%) Developer
2 151 (23.67%) Senior
3 94 (14.73%) Architect
4 81 (12.70%) Lead
5 69 (10.82%) Senior Developer
6 63 (9.87%) Java Developer
7 61 (9.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (9.40%) AWS Developer
9 59 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (8.31%) Software Engineer
11 47 (7.37%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.58%) Data Engineer
13 40 (6.27%) Lead Developer
14 36 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (5.49%) Software Developer
16 32 (5.02%) .NET Developer
16 32 (5.02%) React Developer
17 29 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 25 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (27.27%) React
2 129 (20.22%) Node.js
3 103 (16.14%) .NET
4 96 (15.05%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.70%) Spring
6 78 (12.23%) AngularJS
6 78 (12.23%) HTML
7 71 (11.13%) REST
8 68 (10.66%) RESTful
9 64 (10.03%) CSS
10 49 (7.68%) AWS CDK
10 49 (7.68%) Kafka
11 46 (7.21%) .NET Core
12 37 (5.80%) Jest
13 30 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (4.55%) Gherkin
15 25 (3.92%) Vue
15 25 (3.92%) Web Services
16 24 (3.76%) FastAPI
17 23 (3.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 150 (23.51%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.41%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.41%) Web3
13 8 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
16 5 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.33%) Linux
2 16 (2.51%) Windows
3 11 (1.72%) Unix
3 11 (1.72%) VMS
4 10 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.78%) CentOS
5 5 (0.78%) Debian
5 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (58.31%) CI/CD
2 304 (47.65%) DevOps
3 252 (39.50%) Agile
4 204 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (29.78%) Microservices
6 173 (27.12%) Mentoring
7 154 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 127 (19.91%) Software Engineering
10 123 (19.28%) Containerisation
11 106 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (13.17%) Observability
13 82 (12.85%) AI
14 77 (12.07%) Analytics
15 76 (11.91%) Data Modelling
16 74 (11.60%) SDLC
17 70 (10.97%) Computer Science
18 69 (10.82%) Scrum
18 69 (10.82%) TDD
19 67 (10.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 262 (41.07%) Python
2 198 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 178 (27.90%) TypeScript
4 165 (25.86%) Java
5 164 (25.71%) SQL
6 112 (17.55%) C#
7 56 (8.78%) Bash
8 28 (4.39%) Groovy
8 28 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.92%) Go
10 14 (2.19%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.88%) Scala
12 11 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.57%) Rust
14 9 (1.41%) Bicep
15 7 (1.10%) PHP
16 6 (0.94%) R
17 5 (0.78%) C++
18 4 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 115 (18.03%) AWS Certification
2 88 (13.79%) Degree
3 73 (11.44%) Security Cleared
4 59 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (7.05%) Azure Certification
7 43 (6.74%) SC Cleared
8 35 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 18 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.51%) DV Cleared
14 10 (1.57%) OSCP
15 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
18 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.78%) DBS Check
19 3 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.90%) QA
2 26 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.76%) GDPR
4 11 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.72%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.57%) SLA
6 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.47%) WCAG
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.16%) GAAP
9 1 (0.16%) MiFID
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 205 (32.13%) Docker
2 17 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.10%) HDFS
5 3 (0.47%) iptables
6 1 (0.16%) vCloud
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (28.53%) Terraform
2 147 (23.04%) Kubernetes
3 51 (7.99%) Ansible
4 34 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.17%) Grafana
6 29 (4.55%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.29%) Kibana
8 9 (1.41%) Puppet
9 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.47%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.31%) Nagios
11 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.61%) Databricks
3 16 (2.51%) Google
4 13 (2.04%) Splunk
5 12 (1.88%) Oracle
6 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.94%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.78%) IBM
11 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.78%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.63%) Pega
12 4 (0.63%) WSO2
12 4 (0.63%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.47%) Apple
14 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow